Mira Nair:
“Even to say ‘it makes us look bad’ implies that you’ve got the point of view of the outsider […] looking at you. I don’t do that.”
“I never was here to become a part of an A list that was heading to Hollywood. I’m here to do what I want to do as an artist.”
🔥🔥 Ousmane Sembène energy
Reminder: Ken Sim wants to make your Evo more expensive
My full story on the “people’s filibuster:” how Ken Sim and the ABC councillors got an earful this week from people opposed to their zero tax increase budget. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Good Morning! Happy 1st of October!
CBC's The Early Edition is on the air.
Great show for you this morning. Talking elder's health, best bird pic of the year, FSA testing, Van City Budget & cutting DEI office, involuntary care & more.
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Highly recommend. I was one of 500 in the pilot this summer, and it was worth every $. So much so, I have registered for the 102 course.
I learned so much in 101 and can’t wait for 102. So many different people with different sets of knowledge and experience of the world coming together. And the guests speakers!
Sign up, join us, learn, resist.
Morning Bluesky.
Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837.
Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.
"everything here was pretty chill today, not sure what all the fuss was about, we don't particularly see any need for escalation" --literally the LAPD
Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.
If you have an unread copy of Let This Radicalize You lying around, this would be an excellent time to read Chapter 6: “Violence” in Social Movements. It's also a good time to share that chapter with others.
The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.
“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”
Canada Post wants to create a new class of flexible, part-time worker that will better compete with Amazon and implement “dynamic routing” so delivery routes can be changed on the fly.
It’s a good example of how Amazon degrades workers’ rights even beyond its walls. Workers are right to push back.
Hi so the City of Vancouver is apparently underfunding arborists so several street tree had significant branches blown down from the wind because earlier falls weren’t reported; yesterday one in my neighbourhood apparently almost killed someone.
#VanPoli @seanorr.bsky.social
its critical right now to keep reasserting our actual values so that we don’t forget that the baseline of humanity we are currently fighting for isn’t the actual end goal
i’m not fighting for a world where people don’t get snatched up by ICE. i’m fighting for a world with no borders.
a whole lot of people have no idea what a luxury it is to simply Walk To The Store
The way AI is being forced on us is quite unhinged because it really is just popping up like a bad fart everywhere. No thanks, Word, I don’t want to use co-pilot. Please leave me alone, Meta AI. Fuck off Google and take Gemini with you.
I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
Happy May Day!
To all who labour - in factories, farms, sweatshops; in formal & informal economies, waged & unwaged & underwaged; sex workers, Palestinian workers; land defenders; those labouring to grow communities. For a world w/o bosses & precarity and where all labour is valued & life affirming
Starvation. They are facing starvation. Malnutrition and hunger are soft euphemisms that people in Gaza are starving to death and the world is letting them
Trade analyst Stuart Trew from @policyalternatives.ca says Carney will need to be pushed to spend on the right things—not east-to-west pipelines but green electricity grids, not handouts to billionaires but support for workers.
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Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
