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White Supremacy is so strong that even on the edge of a nuclear cliff, leaders fail to act. War crimes and nuclear destruction are not enough of a threat. Everyone asking the question“what will it take?” now knows the answer— there is absolutely no price White Supremacy is unwilling to pay.

Whatever country you’re in, this is as good a time as any to demand a halt to all arms trade with the US. In canada, Liberal MPs just refused the first step of closing the Israeli arms trade via the US. *Call your MP now* Don’t think about it: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...

It’s okay to be outraged and scared and tired and admit we don’t know what to politically do... and to still try to do something.

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

We don't have to treat sexual harassment in public spaces as an inevitability. Bystanders *can* intervene and change the narrative. Join me this Int'l Anti-Street Harassment Week for a FREE training! Open to anyone, anywhere. Cameras/mics off, so very chill! Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Any circumstance (aside from obvious situations like medical emergencies where the subject is incapacitated) where someone is making decisions affecting other people’s lives, without their *meaningful* input and consent, is immoral.

An economy built on killing people and other destruction is not an economy that can be allowed to continue. We can either manage the transition to the end of fossil fuel use now, or there will be no one left to have “an economy”.

Newly declassified RCMP Security Service files of nearly 6,000 pages (!)show how Canada and Liberal govt infiltrated & sought to disrupt Indigenous organizations in 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, wiretapping, informants and countersubversion. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Spring is in the air which for many of us, means a return to being on high alert for street harassment. Help create safer community spaces by getting training in effective bystander intervention! It's FREE and focused on practical skills of de-escalation. Don't miss out! zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Men need to women up and know when to help. This is the domestic violence hand signal.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

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.”

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them. HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn't want to do this in the first place and we don't care if it's done well." 21/

It was on this day six years ago that the WHO officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. So it is on this day six years later that all of us officially enter the seventh year of this pandemic.

The Beginning Comes After The End Don’t miss @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in conversation with @billmckibben.bsky.social, hosted by @thirdactorg.bsky.social Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: actionnetwork.org/events/topic...

Given the current state of the world, i felt a bit silly writing about windrows, but then i overheard the ladies at the pool discuss this very subject, so here you go: Calgary is a city hostile towards pedestrians, especially in winter, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Same. We have a knitting group in Calgary call Les Tricoteuses (à la Madame Defarge). I've been rage knitting so much that I've developed tennis elbow.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Malcolm X: “I’m a real bug for poetry.” Elham Shirin traces the poets who shaped him—from prison reading and “Music” to the lyric power of his speeches—and the art his words set in motion across Black radical tradition and global solidarity.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

We are not powerless in the face of rising hate. We can learn the tenets of community care and show up for each other in ways big and small. Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you 5 concrete ways you can safely de-escalate harassment in public spaces! Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "One group member admitted that she followed ICE vehicles while honking loudly so often that her car horn broke."

Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.

I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.

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231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Police 9.6 The full report and resources can be found here: www.mmiwg-ffada.ca #MMIWG2S #MMIP #231CallsforJustice #Indigenous

What smarter investment could Albertans make that to educate the children who live here? Why would we want to grow a permanent underclass of illiterate, innumerate youth? Our economy needs educated workers - not children cut off from hope.

A U.N. fact-finding mission said it collected evidence of deliberate starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance, as well as mass killings, rape, torture and forced disappearances carried about by RSF forces in Sudan.

Migration and Racial Capitalism Vital new convo with the amazing @harshawalia.bsky.social on the connections between migration, racial capitalism, and the role of sports mega events in normalizing surveillance and militarization. open.spotify.com/episode/1p6J... @harbingermedia.bsky.social

Watching this crisis over the years and the international inertia has been harrowing, and remains so www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is an amazing analysis #Knitting #Crafting #FibreArts youtu.be/VdglSlXsu70

If monogamous pair-bonding were innate for humans, we wouldn’t have had to build up all sorts of social constraints and rules to enforce it. (This is not to excuse or condone adultery and other forms of non-consensual non-monogomy. Nor to endorse detachment of physical from emotional intimacy.) …

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

none of the reasonable and nuanced arguments ever seem to dissuade people who think AI is good so it's time to start being unreasonable and mean! the thing they think is good looks like shit! tell them they suck! tell them they've diminished themselves in your eyes. hurt their feelings about it!

This is still unmet. Please keep sharing and help him if you’re able to.

It’s looking like “cloud computing” may be a trap, designed to take away freedom and independence for our access to knowledge and tools. LLMs being the pinnacle of that, where soon much of our ability to work could be gated—and cut off—through these systems.

Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights: 1 Mutual aid networks 2 Rapid Response actions 3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights 4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement 5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration 6 Status 4 All

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

the Black Panthers were right

sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

Truly sickening. Western civilization is barbarism . www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud