Deanne aka deakat

May you be as happy as these ducks today

A People-centric, Vision Transforming Social Protection System in Chile Through GSL, municipalities deliver integrated social assistance, employment, health, and childhood services at national scale.

Chile has rebuilt access to welfare around a municipal “one-stop shop”. Gestión Social Local has reached 10 million poor and vulnerable people across 339 municipalities, trained 10,000+ municipal workers, & processed more than 13 million benefit requests since 2019 buff.ly/GI3jGpI #ShareGoodNewsToo

Premee Mohamed Bookshop Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hug...

Anyway, happy World Book Day! If you had gone back in time and told Young Bugge that she would be a published author one day she probably would have recoiled in horror ("OTHER PEOPLE are reading my stuff?!!?") but anyway, today is a good day to horrify her in some psychotemporal way

China's wetland conservation drive pays off With sustained conservation and restoration efforts, China has added or rejuvenated more than 1 million hectares of wetlands since 2012, solidifying its position as the country with the largest…

China has added or rejuvenated over a million hectares of wetlands since 2012 through 3,800 restoration projects, backed by new national and provincial wetland laws. This includes 903 national wetland parks, large-scale monitoring systems, & 92 km² of new mangroves buff.ly/dlYj3D6
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Wolf Worm

Just in case you missed it, I have a new horror novel out on the 24th! Distract yourself from the horrors with smaller, more controllable horrors?

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Heyyyy…anybody excited about audiobooks? How about the brand new audiobook for The Raven & The Reindeer? Available now!

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Personal Me: “Which we do by letting 🧊 hunt our employees and customers in our stores and use our parking lots to stage operations to terrorize the surrounding neighborhoods. After alienating much of our customer base by walking back every corporate commitment to diversity of the last decade.”🤔

A brief overview of the hit songs of the 1980s will reveal exactly how thoroughly Armageddon was in the zeitgeist.

Why this food rescue charity serving southern Alberta might have to close YouTube video by CBC News Alberta

Heads up Canadians!

An Albertan food rescue charity cannot afford their rent and risk closing. Watch this CBC report on their services, and then please share this post.

Donations can be made here: www.wildrosecommunityconnections.com/food-connect...

CBC report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9P...

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 69, "Kuolonuni" by Broci: A femme-looking figure with blue-green wavy hair and red eyes stands with one hand atop the other, open palmed up, a blue-pedaled flower with yellow stamens floats above centered to their chest. On their head is a pale blue snake with red eyes curled like a circlet. Their sleeves are pink, and their shoulders have wavy, yellow feathers or hair attached to a yellow and pink high collar. Behind them, green lily pads crowd each other out in a black background. The whole image has a hand-drawn look, with the colors textured like watercolors on paper. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "March/April 2026," Issue Sixty-Nine," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

Who needs a dose of joy? Uncanny Magazine Issue 69 Part 1 is LIVE ON YOU INTERNET! buff.ly/VcNzPe8

This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts

Sea of Possibility Along the coast of British Columbia, First Nations lead a bold effort to protect an intact marine ecosystem.

The Great Bear Sea moves from pact to practice in Canada. A decade after a 2014 agreement, the 101,200.0 km² Indigenous-led marine protected area network in the Great Bear Sea is shifting from pledge to implementation. buff.ly/fw4yA9N
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Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

Somehow I just knew that this would be happening.

"Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint"
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They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity.

It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

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:

Co-signed by this anthropologist (who grew up in a different colonial regime). Lives should not be treated as toys or chess pieces to move in an effort to consolidate power and wealth under the guise of “freedom.” Mere weeks ago the same powers were fine with slaughter of thousands seeking democracy

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

"We invoke international law and the 'rules based international order' when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans doing the bombing."

#Opinion from former foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy

Veneration of the military is a cultic practice used to insulate the state from the banal reality that the primary purpose of the army is murdering brown people and smashing leftist political movements.

Careers & Fellowships | The Walrus Jobs, fellowships, and internships at the Walrus Foundation

The Walrus is hiring a TD BIPOC Art & Design Fellow. This paid, one-year position offers mentorship and production experience across print and digital. Open to early career Black, Indigenous, and racialized creatives in Canada. Apply by March 11, 2026. https://thewalrus.ca/about/careers/

I would fund a tiger refuge organization where I could dress up in a tiger suit to cuddle tiger cubs.

Ford government stops reports summarizing child welfare network deaths | Globalnews.ca The government said the 'information continues to be tracked in real time,' but appears to have ended reports summarizing trends and broader patterns.

In response to reporting about deaths, province has decided to no longer produce data related to deaths

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Very excited to get my PLR money (remember, Canadian authors, make sure your books are registered! it is FREE to do therefore it is FREE MONEYS) and spend some on a SPECIAL TREAT (a pair of actual winter boots) (my previous pair fell apart and never got replaced)

Being an adult is stupid

Giving away some books:

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This new blood test could detect cancer before it shows up on scans A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology,…

Chinese scientists have built a highly sensitive blood test that can detect tiny traces of lung cancer long before a tumour shows up on a scan. The convergence of three technologies, DNA nanotechnology, CRISPR, and quantum dots made it possible to spot. buff.ly/Uignyg4?
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I'm going to do a close read of a specific article here, because I think it's a really good example of this problem.

It's an early article, published in the Hollywood Reporter on Dec 22nd.

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Conservatives calling for probe into asylum seekers' access to health… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

A mom seeking refuge from the Ukraine or Sudan war takes her child to the emergency ward and Poilievre wants to make sure her child is turned away.
He's running on the MAGA playbook of making race blaming great again.

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Danielle Smith Is No Separatist. She’s Much Worse | The Tyee The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.

@emmettmacfarlane.com: Albert Premier Danielle Smith’s vision is one that would create a nightmarish, dystopian underclass. It is a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook we have seen play out in the United States. It is anti-Canadian. #abpoli

“Schools are an ideal breeding ground for #measles” on CBC Radio 7pm news.

Of course they wouldn’t have to be if

1. We cleaned the air in schools
2. Sick people wore masks and stayed away
3. Most importantly, kids were vaccinated before coming to school.

FFS. This is NOT hard.

Italy's Lara Naki Gutmann performs in the women's free skate on Day 13 at Milano Cortina 2026 YouTube video by CBC Sports

I'm not really qualified to comment on any aspect of skating other than the vibes, but I really liked Gutmann's program. Women's skate often feels constrained by needing to make the skater look "pretty." This one went "what if I was a fucking shark?"

THAT'S RIGHT