One of the reasons I decided to do a PhD was to improve my ability to focus on complex topics for long periods of time. My brain was melting out of my ears from years of COVID and social media, and I desperately wanted to THINK again. So seeing AI everywhere is making me feel crazy.

📢 Hey hey youth climate leaders!! The Enlight Foundation, the Patchwork Collective, and Lever for Change have just launched the Emerging Climate Champions Award, a $25 million global open call for youth-led climate solutions 🌱 Check it out and APPLY 💸: climate.leverforchange.org

Trump bombing Iran without congressional approval was illegal and against international law, and this is what Carney has to say about it? Absolute pandering bullshit. Just embarrassing stuff.

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

Wildfires are having devastating impacts on communities across Canada. But there’s another layer to the story: emissions from the blazes are also major contributors to climate change.⬇️ 440megatonnes.ca/insight/how-...

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Philanthropy can’t claim climate justice while investing in climate destruction. Too many funders are still backing extractive industries with their endowments — even as they claim #ClimateJustice values. Download Part One: bit.ly/4JustReturns #JustReturns #MoveTheMoney

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

The IDF has intercepted and kidnapped the Madleen because they didn't want it to deliver baby formula n other things like that to Palestinians who are experiencing starvation due to the Israeli government refusing to allow aid in. That's the story no matter how you window dress it.

Israeli forces have boarded Madleen - the volunteer-crewed ship trying to break siege to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza - and abducted the crew. If you are a citizen of any country whose citizens are on board (France/Germany/Brazil/Sweden), please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMd...

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📢 New toolkit: Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine. Alliances, strategies & tactics movements can use towards a global energy embargo for Palestine. It's the culmination of a year's work by 20+ organisations & researchers around the world. ➡️ bdsmovement.net/resources/di...

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

being online doesnt matter. what matters is loving my girlfriend and my dog and my friends and making art

ANDOR is without question to me the story of our time. It’s, sadly and urgently, the story of all time. But it’s the story of our time and if you’re not watching it because you think Star Wars is for kids/not for you then you’re missing something extremely vital and impactful.

1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0. Two things come to the fore every time. i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.

Roundup of #ConservationJobs in 🇨🇦 (plus a few cool ones abroad). 💫 All job ads show the salary 💫 Please share www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

In case you missed these: some great papers appeared in the last few days that address the relation between monetary wealth and environmental degradation/protection 🧵👇

this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

🇺🇦 BREAKING: Ukraine has signed a resource deal with the US including access to critical minerals in exchange for US support Standing up for Ukraine in the face of Putin’s aggression should not be contingent on the exploitation of its resources.

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

Hey this is fucked up !! Suppression of research is one of the hallmarks of fascism !! Authoritarians will always come for universities first !! If you thought Poilievre and the Conservatives were in any way better than Trump and the Republicans, think again (and go vote).

J.K. Rowling said asexual people don’t face discrimination. She couldn’t be more wrong. My article for @lgbtqnation.com is out now! I discuss all the various ways that asexual people face discrimination and violence, like corrective rape and conversion therapy. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/jk-r...

There are many reasons I decided to get a PhD, and an incredibly weak job market was one of them. I think this is especially the case for folks looking for jobs that align with their progressive values. Bleak is an understatement.

I would argue that in general, we are forced to reckon with ourselves more deeply & honestly when we LOVED the thing, and it profoundly shaped us, and maybe held great meaning during a formative or vulnerable time, and are now confronting the reality that we could not clock a monster from a distance

I'm really proud of @forestry.ubc.ca for launching the Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship degree and I'm thrilled that the Mastercard Foundation is supporting the program with an $8m grant. Congrats to all the folks involved in making this degree happen! forestry.ubc.ca/news/bachelo...

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

"At the very best, we are seeing innumerable people who are uncritical in their nationalism. Those who are often more scared of foreign aggression than they are focused on domestic policy or their learning to-date" Great new piece by @rileyyesnomaybe.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

The election has just been called for April 28. If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

These attacks on protest and freedoms cannot be fought in isolation or in movement silos. We need broad, brave coalition. Climate, Palestine, labor, migrant, trans and reproductive rights; academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association ... Together we are mighty. Divided we fall.

Judge temporarily blocks effort to deport Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia student protests

“The answer to fascism isn’t more nationalism—it’s deeper democracy, stronger communities, empowered labour movements, and unwavering commitment to justice for all.” @erinblondeau.bsky.social 💯🔥 rabble.ca/columnists/f...

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Honoured to receive this recognition, especially to share it with the brilliant @loridanielsubc.bsky.social! And I am so grateful to @forestry.ubc.ca for putting my name forward for this. No other institution has supported me or equipped me the way UBC Forestry has.

I'm supposed to be gathering berries in a forest but instead every day robots attempt to seduce me to get to one of my credit cards

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

Is four months into a PhD program too early to start feeling salty about the constraints of western academia? asking for me 🫠

BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

I have absorbed the CO2 that you spewed into the atmosphere and which you were probably denying causes climate change Forgive me or don't I will outlast you either way