murderous cowards

we want to honour his achievements for liquid natural gas executives, and ummm flooding

i support naming the evil community destroying dam after john horgan

Carney sucks so bad

In the latest ‘what a time to be alive’ news, we have… a lipstick-inspired mechanical keyboard, complete with a range of yummy lippy shades and a weird little lipstick ESC button:

A thread 🧵 for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone book prize, with a little more of each title on the shortlist 📚 #histSTM 🗃️

Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.

In this interview conducted shortly before his death in 2014, Stuart Hall, one of the seminal figures in cultural studies, talks about his classic work Policing the Crisis. He then turns his attention to the always shifting terrain of race and identity in the United States and Britain. #BHM #Lit

The flotilla activists that Israel kidnapped in international waters have now been released. They are arriving at the airport in Turkey with bruising, burns, abrasions, and other signs of severe physical abuse. Here are a couple of the images emerging:

While the right wing is demonizing harm reduction in the US, the Swiss have had prescription heroin for decades for people who are dependent and they’ve been able to live productive lives with excellent health outcomes. Meanwhile, the US war on heroin only pushed the market into a fentanyl takeover.

This is such a bullshit case. I remember the 1996 “Brothers to the Rescue” shootdown vividly. My officemate Saul Landau worked on that case. If a Cuban plane had buzzed restricted airspace over Washington, DC and ignored warnings, they would have been shot down in a heartbeat.

There is no command structure for the global drug economy. It is driven by market forces, not by political will. Individuals join up to make money. Prohibition makes them richer. Don’t wage “war” against an enemy who is literally incapable of an organized surrender. That’s a recipe for forever war.

the one thing the trump administration has learned from venezuela and iran is that you should probably have the faintest of actual pretexts

*looks at the US record of killing/capturing a castro*

Every now and then I am reminded of the sheer brilliance of Susan Leigh Star: a solid, luminescent thinker that combined feminist pragmatist approaches to scientific issues with unparalleled depth and range of analysis, and clarity of writing. Timeless! #sociology #STS

damn there are very few shows that manage to stay compelling several seasons in without any of their original cast, quite like for all mankind

theres always one more power that cops will want and that thing will solve the problem somehow with the legalization of cannabis they are arresting fewer people (good!) but simultaneously need more money, powers & people, while your libraries & healthcare services starve

the whole of canadian drug policy history could be summed up as police asking for extra powers, apparently necessary to stop drugs, getting them, and yet the drugs never stop wonder why that is?

Dropping this in as tonight is hockey night in Montréal—comparing captains' pay, the highest paid women's player gets five day's pay of the fortieth-highest paid men's player. #pwhl #lphf #nhl #lnh www.instagram.com/p/DYVO3nuDqS...

end drug prohibition

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

just got an email back regarding one of my FOIs to Library and Archives Canada regarding govt records bc of mark carneys cuts to the underresourced institution it won't be ready for 6 more months, because of mark carneys cuts mark carney literally getting in the way of research

most satisfying part of my day was finishing a reel (9 to go)

microfilm is an awful preservation method - there i said it "we're going to put 1000s of pages of text, some of which is repeated & your only means of finding your needle in this haystack is pressing ff & hoping for the best oh and sometimes it'll rewind for kicks"

soon-to-be former Mayor Ken Sim remains determined to kill Vancouverites who use unregulated drugs

lmao

defeated by the microfilm

after having spent the last few weeks doing basically nothing other than my dissertation, i honestly hadn't realized how much of my mental health was tied up with the fact that I had a bunch of different things banging around in my head and it was making it hard to think

Presidential control over the NSF was a major issue during the initial debates about creating a federal science agency. I wrote about the political battle to create the NSF last year. Includes lots of links to great scholarship: 🗃️ #Histsci daily.jstor.org/science-in-w...

I also got a roll developed that I think the film split or something? I ended up getting a lot of pics exposed all on one frame, and some insanely cool pics. Wish they had turned out better, but I'm happy with an interesting turn of events :)

Over 180 activists detained in Israeli attack on Gaza aid flotilla in international waters, organizer says

ive started ending my emails with "all the best," again as a means of asserting my will upon the world

Ford government’s FOI changes block release of 219 Greenbelt 'investment-opportunity meeting' records

i think its indicative of our time that our picture of vice is so innocent, while simultaneously highly destructive

As is the case with virtually every “substance of concern” under the sun, the best way to curtail its use at the population level is probably building healthy communities where people have options, safety, and time for recreation and growth.

Hey you know what else predicts smoking rates and has for some time, even outside of the US? Poverty. People who have to hustle all damn day to keep their head above water predictably turn to accessible stimulants. You don’t have to eat or sleep as much and you get tiny breaks throughout the day.

this is a fun essay pretending to be an angry review websites.umich.edu/~eandersn/ho...

From @msthpetra.bsky.social: edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

i think its indicative of our time that our picture of vice is so innocent, while simultaneously highly destructive

the internets been calling for bringing back the 19th century pharmacopeia & you want to bring back the most boring & deadly licit drug?

look if i could un-go to the US i probably would, but idk i just feel like there have to be some more sympathetic actors to talk to then folks struggling over going to the US or Sciences Po

shouldve thought about this when the deadline still had a year attached to it

there are a shocking number of hello kitty/emo girl from 2010-themed airbnbs in vienna

my supervisor would be so proud of how i keep using my dissertation as a distraction

A Ph.D. student at the University of Windsor is conducting a confidential study on what happens after unwanted sexual experiences, with a focus on any communication or contact with the person involved afterward. To participate or get more info ⬇️

📣New chapter in this brilliant CUP volume with best editorial duo @simonflacks.bsky.social & Kate Seear! The volume explores court cases on judging drugs from across the world. My chapter is on the case of #ShinyFlakes! Check out it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... Book launch tba! 🐝 #STS

“Blaming Down”: A Decade of Overdose Crisis in British Columbia filtermag.org/british-colu...

As a complementary to the excellent piece by Adam, I recommend also for those not familiar with this discussion this essay from 2011 by Palestinian citizen of Israel and founder of the political party BALAD, Azmi Bishara.

my shirts better tho

"this is just nightmare", said every arms manufacturer interviewed, "now we're going to have to make more million dollar missles, at whatever price we want"