I’ve lost the will to commit my time to socials that will likely become future corporate sellouts. I’m not leaving and may even post more in the future but it will be because I’ve been working on streamlining my apps and web services as well as transitioning away from supporting google, meta, etc.

Tan’si friends, An intro: I’m a Cree and Métis artist, educator, speaker, and cultural worker rooted in land, story, and ancestral knowledge. My art practice lives in beadwork, hide tanning, textiles, painting, and public talks-holding space for difficult truths, joy, and cultural resurgence. Tawaw!

The Alberta and Ontario environment ministers sent a letter to the federal government, asking it to 'refrain' from reintroducing Bill C-61/

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

"[D]on't lose hope. That's when we lose."

Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice) Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice. unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...

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We stand in solidarity with communities in Las Naves, Ecuador facing violent repression. Since last month, they have been blocking access to the Domo Curipamba project by 🇨🇦Silvercorp Metals Inc and Salazar Resources 📸 Frente Nacional Antiminero

Northern Ontario First Nation leaders are vowing 'Idle No More 2.0' if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5. "They’re just making things up on the fly... it's too late in the process to fix this." NEW from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/i... #onpoli #indigenous #IdleNoMore

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

The thing that I am not always good about saying but want people to remember is that whatever you help ChatGPT learn how to do, OpenAI et al are selling to the military as a weapon That by itself should be an argument for not helping them train *anything*

Special reminder that N95 masks can be used when smoke impacts air quality AND when wanting to avoid airborne illness.

Musk has experienced multiple slights lately (from his perspective) at the hands of the administration, so I don't know how this will end up. But the guy struck a Nazi pose and made cuts that will kill millions. He should never know peace. He should only know scorn and blowback forever.

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Reposting to read later. Also: surprised substack is still so pervasive given their overt willingness to platform white supremacists

I don’t want the passage of time. I don’t want the future. I don’t want this reality, in which you’re gone. I don’t want the last two flowers from your celebration of life to wilt. Words fall so short. #personal #grieving

I taught functionally illiterate undergrads at an R1 university 15+ years ago. Tech/LLMs made it much worse very fast, but this did not start with ChatGPT. This started with standardized testing. It started with high school budgets being slashed. It started with colleges turning into summer camps.

The thing about the birth rate is that there are over eight billion people in the world. That’s actually too many humans. We have a resource crisis. Every single one of the birth rate worriers is talking about a race war. That is the entire thing. They are worried about dominance in a race war.

People try and act like racism doesn't exist in Canada when there's questions like this in the federal leadership debate

“…outdoor and environmental educators need to remain ever vigilant of the political ramifications of the knowledges of ‘nature’ which inform their pedagogies.” 🙌🏽 #academicsky #higherEd #environmentaljustice #socialecology

Call for papers, due end of April. Queer ecology and the Temporal Imagination #academicsky

For future reference

Love this simple advice

🌍 Discover the 'Internet of Nature' 🌿 A novel study led by Ulrich Brose (@idiv-research.bsky.social & @uni-jena.de) reveals the hidden networks of information exchange within ecosystems.✨ Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution (@natureecoevo.bsky.social) #iDivResearch www.idiv.de/internet-nat...

his first shift and Robertson decided to hit everything

Highlight of working late to get some documents finished tonight: my partner exclaiming “kitty’s helping!” every time my cat came to wander all over my desk for attention #academicsky

I was honored to have contributed an essay to this book. Just came in the mail today. The series of essays explore the many ways indigenous people in America refuse to disappear.

Butler: "I think we have to be mindful of the importance of translation. Working w/ my translators I saw that the theoretical work in queer or feminist or trans theory has to be multilingual&depends on translation; translation is the condition of possibility of the future of the field."

Ed Zitron on the recent estimated 14% cut in planned data center capacity due to waning demand for gen AI. This is big news. #ai #chatgpt #genai #openai #microsoft #academicchatter Power Cut https://www.wheresyoured.at/power-cut/

Important reminder:

FUN SPACE FACT: the moon is gay

Me to the queer art collective group chat: “I love being in a life phase where I’m like 🥵 for some theory books” #academicsky

We simply do not have to sacrifice the rights of trans people to save rights elsewhere and anybody that tells you otherwise is a fascist

Me: I should take up some kind of regularly scheduled personal essay writing practice Also me: needs to finish a personal-style essay on less seen aspects of my creative practice for an actual publication 👀 thanks brain… #academicsky

music to drown things out and stim with: open.spotify.com/track/5uQXNr...

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Oh we can make it a thing… One day late for #Strataday Some ceramicists out for a geology-of-clay day last month in some Pliocene fluvial deposits at Red Bluff MS

seeing a lot of too-cool-for-it takes pointing out that the US has backed awful dictators before. it's certainly true that this country has blood on its hands, but this is another example of pundits treating trump like a literary foil instead of an actual president who is doing bad things.

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available? It's literally called Library Extension.

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Reposting with alt text because I laughed really loudly at this