This is the behavior of a class that knows no legal institution or government will stop them.

If we don't do something they can easily leverage, they'll make something up, lie and say we did, or weaponize something that has nothing to do with us. That's why the respectability policing—and thinking that if everyone moves and talks just so, they won't be able to escalate—is magical thinking.

We really need to talk about the warring definitions of "political violence" There are things that I consider to be political violence that are widely accepted, so posts like this make little sense. If by political violence, you mean hurting republicans is bad, then sure, we've had that consensus

Vancouver homeowners sound like this when they see a tent in one of the public parks that they believe exist purely for their dogs to shit in.

Weird when your pro-landlord, anti-homeless, pro-eviction, trickledown economics rebrand, deregulatory, money-worshipping, faux-progressive movement turns out to be friendly to vicious hateful money grubbing grifters.

your children and grand children and their children too are going to suffer and when they ask you why and how it happened you're going to have to either lie to them, or explain that you burned their future to the ground because you didn't like trans people and you worshiped the rich.

"Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying 'have a nice day.'" "That's how it feels." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing

You're told your whole life that you're a comsumer but really you're the product. Your labour, your time, your health. These things are consumed by your landlord, employer and government. What you think of as consumer choice are the avenues you're offered to give yourself up for extraction.

Did you pay rent today? Did it sting? Join your local tenants union! Vancouver - www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca Los Angeles - latenantsunion.org/en/ Montreal - www.slam-matu.org/en/

paramount making this season of strange new worlds borderline hetero propaganda, alien earth taking a random aside to assert “a baby is made by a physical act between a man and a woman … their bodies fit together” they’re even cutting the queer people out of our sci-fi 😭

The more time goes on the more tenants realize that landlords provide nothing and take everything.

If your boss shorts your paycheque and you call the police they'll tell you its a civil matter and to take it up with small claims court. If you take the difference out of the till your boss will have the police take you away in handcuffs. Police exist to protect wealth, not you.

Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

The way we talk about agribusiness in Canada is similar. Sitting on a tractor watching workers plant and harvest = farming Guy who owns the land and lives in a giant house by the gate = farmer Actually getting in the dirt planting and harvesting = disposable labour, not worth mentioning.

The financial and business press assisted a massive pump and dump scam that took advantage of gullible greedy lazy people's desire to undervalue the labour of people who work and think. The people who undertook this con will be richer than kings. I'm right to hate AI, but will stay broke.

youtu.be/gCV-YMD6oXA Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon

BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.

"Global Affairs Canada confirmed that two military export permits the Liberal government authorized earlier this year are for goods related to Israel's Iron Dome." "Canada is providing a shield for Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians." #Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Iran #Yemen #Genocide

Making fun educational shorts about how Trump low-key made it easier to get away with slavery on farms haha yay youtube.com/shorts/THHLR...

As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US. Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.

Israel is the apotheosis of western empire, the testbed for the ultimate goal of our oligarchs. An ethnostate where the 'ethnicity' can be awarded or stripped with impunity. A population of citizens who are legally obligated to undergo military or religious indoctrination.

The Israeli military has issued a statement saying that they struck Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Anas al-Sharif and accused him of being part of a Hamas cell. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o5rzvs

it’s really bleak that we live in a world where governments would rather spend astronomical amounts of money on tech to censor the internet to “protect children” instead of like… not even half that on proper sexual education that helps children and puts them at significant less risk of CSA

In the future, Corporations have anonymous unrestricted access to all your personal data as citizens right to privacy is eroded. As a bonus its a senate bill so its not even an elected official ensuring that they can police every aspect of your life.

At a vigil in Montreal for the child victims of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, advocates have been reading each of these children’s names — from youngest to oldest. They started at 8:00am. By 9:00pm, they had only reached the names of the nine-year-olds. ❤️‍🩹

I'll just sit.

Nearly half a million Canadian-made bullets, radar and targeting systems, F35 parts – all flowing into Israel despite the Canadian government's denials and obfuscations. Demand a two-way arms embargo now. Read the report: armsembargonow.ca/report/

Hi, you. Yes, you. Remember how I keep telling y’all to stop using AI because it’s ruining the environment? It’s also bout to ruin your pockets.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

Getting rid of PBS is also meant to clear the field for Prager U to be the place for children programming.

An AI "thinks" about as much as a power outlet is smiles at you.

Void Linux developers taking offense to hyprland's developer and community's generally shitty (and in one case pretty blatantly anti-trans) online behaviour and not supporting hyprland was a major contributing factor to me switching to Void.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

I was walking in a hallway at work and saw a tall older fellow. "That guy really looks like Donald Sutherland," I thought. A few minutes later I remembered. I work at a film production office. Donald Sutherland is an actor. He acts in our show. That was Donald Sutherland.

The problem with NIMBYs is they're vicious classist assholes. The problem with YIMBYs is they hope housing prices come down just low enough so they can be NIMBYs one day. Real estate wealth is based on housing scarcity. The developers are not going to build themselves out of a profit.

LAPD firing on a journalist when her back is turned.

Trump ordering the national guard into California between UFC rounds is underlining why I stopped watching. How's ONE fighting league? Have they destabilized any democracies?

To any Canadians tempted to look with superiority at our southern cousins, I urge you to remember that our supposedly anti-trump PM is pushing bill C-2 through. An anti-immigrant, anti-privacy, pro-authoritarian policy package which will take us further down the road towards things like ICE.

If Trump becomes pope, destroying both the Catholic Church and the American Empire in a matter of months, I'm mostly just going to be jealous that he's a better anarchist than I'll ever be.

Happy Hitler Death Day Everyone!

a society that chooses to do this to people who have been dehumanized and abandoned is not helping anyone, certainly not itself. who benefits from throwing people away @nancybepple.bsky.social voted against. #HomesNotJails www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...

This is conservatism in a nutshell. You are told that your policy is cruel, expensive, unconstitutional and ineffective. And you want to do it anyway. The purpose of government for the conservative party is to find someone to dehumanize so they can crush them. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

New post, where I begin to collect my thoughts on anarchy, anarchism and anarchist societies. Starting with, is an anarchist society possible, do we need to be ruled? open.substack.com/pub/ldbegley...

Made this silly video for The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle! If anyone would like to buy either of my books, they're on sale starting from the 4th-7th. Also, it's my birthday this weekend, so would love to sell a book 🤣 Books on Itchio: steve-westenra.itch.io TWoA: books2read.com/u/49dn8Y #SFFChat

If your travelling near lightspeed, time passes slowly for you. History keeps going though, and before you know it you can barely understand another human, separated from them by centuries. What I'm saying is, stay away from home too long and you become the otherworldly being.

For the sacred, Ursula K. Le Guin and Lois McMaster Bujold. Both have a clear and honest understanding of people, and a love of us too, warts and all. For transportation, Iain M. Banks' Culture series. A world of adventure and freedom that a person might actually want to live in.

To most union spacers, incompetence in authority is the evil they most fear, as its what's most likely to get them killed. Their devil is a fool in charge. The good is a bit different in every star system, so the most good would be getting to experience as many of those varied goods as possible.

Humanity's first contact are giant carnivorous spiders (the Kind Eyes). Our surprisingly complementary social structures (they LOVE money) makes us fast partners, though humans are always a little creeped out by Kind Eyes and Kind Eyes are always a little tempted to eat humans.