Please help Jamal if you can. He’s fighting for his life.

Our 'Yes In My Backyard' series is back with a profile of 'Victoria, BC' from recent transplant @tombeedham.bsky.social as he tours the scene from "hazy guitar pop and feral hardcore to experimental sound art, Indigenous hip-hop, and noise at its breaking point." www.newfeeling.ca/yes-in-my-ba...

it's because they all openly hate each other but still work together for their own benefit and can't conceive of why people would want to operate any other way

#newwest has become the FIRST city in Canada to pass a ground-breaking max heat amendment to its landlord licensing bylaw. It is now the landlord’s legal responsibility to ensure that at least one room in every rental unit is kept at or under 26 degrees Celsius between 8:00 PM and 8:00 AM. #bcpoli

anyway, i hope fellow jews who are still onboard with western hegemony and genocide enjoy their conditional whiteness, it's never been more clear that it'll be revoked the second it becomes politically inconvenient

love how everyone now gets to have their own specific brand of antisemitism relative to their chosen spot on the political spectrum, provided they can provide the barest pretense of it being somehow for or against israel. yup yup yup, love it, great stuff all around 🙃

From a Postmedia columnist to the premier of Alberta, rightists have baselessly called Lewis communist. “In the rationale spouted here, communism now has a dangerous presence in Canada and its carrier is an outspoken Jew. This is one of the most dangerous antisemitic conspiracies of the modern era.”

NDP: *elects Jewish leader* Canadian media: "This is antisemitic."

said this on the other site the other month: "it hurts my heart thinking about how medical neglect of people inside may cause longer-term health consequences that are irreversible. disability justice has to include incarcerated disabled people.”

i did not have time to say something about this yesterday but casey goonan is a trans person sentenced to 19 years in federal prison on charges of t3rrorism for actions taken in solidarity with palestine. this is their book request list. #TDOV bookshop.org/wishlists/56...

They are wearing noose pins.

every day i wake up and am confronted with the new worst thing i have ever seen

music consumers actually do have a certain responsibility to compensate the artists

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

I really want people to stop gradually indoctrinating themselves into conspiratorial antisemitism via social media memes and random shit people post on Twitter.

There is no excuse for the latter, but it's painfully clear that it's a direct consequence of the former. And to some extent, a deliberate one, too - Zionists want Jews in diaspora to be unsafe, bc it supports their narrative about the necessity of Israel. Some people are still in denial about this.

I tried to push back on a follower of mine defending using "zio," got accused of being one, and then blocked. So to make it absolutely clear: stop fucking saying that shit. "Zio" was coined by David Duke. The way in which so many of you have so easily slipped into this kind of antisemitism is BAD.

thanks to your generous support the goal has been met and Summer matched it with $420!!

remember this list of services slated to be gutted by the man who knows he only has to make a nice speech when the cameras are on. Elbows up and all that.

Good. Now keep elevating the people, the workers, the women, the movements over individuals. Keep chipping away at that bourgeois “great man” theory.

i asked this question aloud to @babybokchoy.bsky.social and they suggested this without even a second's hesitation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxh...

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

ill just say ive been in radical organizing spaces for 11 years now and they’ve generally been no better on rape culture than wider society. it doesn’t magically go away bc you’re part of a social movement. you have to make countering it a top priority and even then it’s uphill bc it’s so ingrained

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

ffs, i can't believe i got pulled into routinely doing discourse online again. Fuck! ASS!!!

i empathize with this person tremendously, understand how hard it is to phrase things perfectly on the spot, and hate being pedantic, but with all that being said.....that actually *is* just becoming disabled, as per a lot of the disabled folks i already knew pre-pandemic

my dear sweet darling designed this awesome horse

the best ever to do it (constantly get respiratory infections)

lol, oh well. so much for the landissance

hey it would be great if you joined this fundraiser raffle for my friend's cancer treatment! i know you bitches love Heated Rivalry so how about you try your luck and maybe win some beautiful fan art? ☺️

the other half-formed thought i have about this is that future historians might be able to draw a direct line from governments manufacturing consent for teminating the social contract (via the abandonment of public health) to people's increased susceptibility to things like LLM-induced psychosis

also, festivals that only book small or mid-level bands give you way more bang for your buck than all of the big-name fests now

we have not yet experienced a "post-pandemic" era; none of what we've lived through since it started can be considered the "aftermath."

*taps sign* China is a real place with actual people and policies, not somewhere for you to project your feelings about the United States onto.

It's really incredible that this one fundraiser was able to get $50,000 to support displaced people in Lebanon. Lets keep this going cause the needs are huge and the government in Lebanon is non-existent. www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

get his ass

i stopped writing about music professionally for a bit because it felt like i was stuck between mainstream music writing being so toothless and the small contingent of writers who responded with a kind of reactionary hypercriticality, and felt no love for music as a medium emanating from either side

this is not me saying "just let people enjoy things", or saying that negativity killed media jobs. I'm not saying "don't be critical". I'm just saying good critique comes from a grounded place, rooted in understanding what you love. This is also just my opinion, and you don't have to care!

I feel like discussions of "Death of the Author" in this context should mention that Barthes kicks off the essay by arguing that just because the author of a story views a "castrato" as a woman that doesn't mean the reader should necessarily support the character or author's perspective. Seriously.

fuck this nu-disco shit. modern disco sounds so uncannily smooth and sexless it's like someone running a turntable needle over a ken doll's ass. modern disco sounds like the only drug it takes is ozempic.

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setup a barebones gofundme, feel embarassed to even ask, but i can't go on being apart from my spouse anymore or constantly worrying about my future as a queer woman in america. please help share. gofund.me/93a45b185

"What’s baffling to see is factions of leftists determining from their armchairs what uprisings are or aren’t real elsewhere globally, while failing to foment the one needed to topple the empire they reside in."

This too is American (or western) exceptionalism. 'We're so evil, we destroyed the world, I'm so guilty look at me, look at me, no not over there, 2000 dead protesters don't count if they were killed by a government my gross empire hates.'

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

The least we can do is be students of the struggle enough to know that freedom never looks like US bombs falling on a people already under seige. May the Iranian people know liberation from the tyranny of the regime & the violence of the US & apartheid state.