Shelagh Rowan-Legg

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

I know it is hard to believe, but people stuck in a conflict can be angry at the various sides at the same time and resist any alignment.

So you can be Lebanese, hate Hezbollah and have zero illusions about Israel.

1) high-fructose corn syrup is not useful, it's a profit-driven substance that has wrecked our bodies (asymmetrically)

2) humans are not "question machines", or indeed machines

3) genAI is not an "answer machine", it's a Magic 8-ball frequency algorithm

Framing matters. Language matters.

thanks!

oh that sounds amazing! what is the product name?

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Aerial view of gray ground with rows of tiny black graves and yellow backhoes

Graves.

165 graves.

Each for a little girl killed by the Israeli-American strike that targeted a school on the first day of the Iran War.

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

Morning all, please consider filling this in. I want my kids safe online but I'm against age verification generally and especially for VPNs. better to enforce against the companies creating an environment of harm, radicalisation and enshittification I would think, yes?

www.gov.uk/government/c...

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time | CBC News March 8 will be the last time British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.

NO! I WANT TO STAY ON STANDARD TIME, NOT DAYLIGHT. THIS IS THE WRONG WAY

B.C. to end time changes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

please note @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social 's ongoing racism: she condemns Iran's attack on civilians, but not the USA's or Israel's. So she's fine if children are killed, as long as they are Iranian children

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Remember: If you are a billionaire, a wealth tax and cap are for your *own protection.* The income tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%.

so @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social thinks the USA and Israel are completely justified with starting the attack and killing elementary school children, just fyi.

I hope she never gets a decent nights sleep for the rest of her life

Canadian military members likely involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says Up to 18 Canadian military personnel were on exchange with U.S. in Bahrain and Qatar at time of attack

AKA war criminals

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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:

I had a dream last night that I was one of the few unhived-minds in a PLURIBUS-style takeover of humanity. My companions were Lee Pace and Brendan Fraser, and we set up a homestead in the Galapagos Islands with some other hived and non-hived people. Honestly that sounds pretty good right now.

Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen

The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977)
The Queen of Black Magic (Lilik Sudjio, 1981)
Night Watch (Brian G. Hutton,1973)
The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldritch, 1969)

Israel has closed all the borders and are going to kill as many Palestinians as humanly possibly while the world watches Iran and Mark Carney knows this.

Mark Carney continually supports killing children, take a long look in the mirror if you support him.

"A lie—no matter how powerful the person is—is still a lie. And the truth—no matter how small the person is—is still the truth.”

Give Ryan Coogler all the things.

#NAACPImageAwards

you are a liar, a hypocrite, and I hope the ghosts of the children whose murder you are happy to support will haunt you for the rest of your life

Honestly, you all got waaay too excited by his speech at Davos. I never forgot him saying “Zionist Palestinian state“ not long before that. If that didn’t out him as a shill for the same interests he was supposedly calling out, I don’t know what else would. He’s a fucking fraud.

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years.

Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

Canada condemns Iran's retaliatory attacks Justin Li Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in a statement that Canada "strongly condemns the attacks of the Iranian regime against our partners in the Middle East." Anand further urged Canadians in Iran to shelter in place and said Ottawa will "provide all possible support to Canadians throughout the region." Canada currently has no diplomatic relations with Iran, nor does it have an embassy there.

The United States and Israel have the right to bomb and murder whoever they please.

The countries they attack have no right to fight back.

This is the exact double standard on international law Mark Carney was praised for calling out at Davos, but which he continues to participate in.

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves.

She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.