One thing we should be taking away from the fascist crisis is that careful research on the real world is extremely fucking important. Bare minimum that work needs to be funded & expanded for us to have the information & tools necessary to cast off this regime & create a livable world from its ashes.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
Within this story from @kehyslop.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
Please Carney sycophants please explain to me how this is a grandmaster chess move?
Vancouver’s Chinese community says mayor’s apology isn’t good enough
The social cost of carbon tells policymakers how much climate change is costing humanity. But until now, calculations disregarded the ocean almost entirely.
Dad’s side: carpenter
Mom’s side: demolition, but after a couple too many DUIs: security guard
Oh, I have been waiting for this piece. The BAFTAs generated a whole mess and tons of stigma and hurtful stereotypes about Tourette's. @slooterman.bsky.social interviews Black women with Tourette's around it.
19thnews.org/2026/03/blac...
Someone revoke my cool aunt card because my nephew is sad we didn't take him to Gogol Bordello. My dude, you are six, it's a school night and the Commodore is a 19+ venue.
im doing a crazy thing and starting a tiny press that wants your poetry, maybe a follow, maybe a repost, definitely your submission
Hard not to see this as deliberate political disinformation central to a key wedge issue targeted at a large voting block with potential language limitations early in a municipal election season.
In other words, lying on purpose so you can win.
Twice. #Vancouver
Mark Carney made ‘terrible mistake’ by parroting Donald Trump’s justification for war on Iran, says historian and security expert. albertapolitics.ca/2026/03/mark...
Still working on my friend whose wife is an obstetrician!
A few months ago I sent an American friend a list of small-mid-sized BC cities with maternity ward staff shortages that I thought would be her vibe. She picked one she thought would be good for her kid and applied. Within two days her application was fast-tracked.
This is the Vancouver you get when you vote for Ken Sim.
This October, get your ass out and vote against this fucker who only has time/money for real estate, cops, and cryptocurrency.
I am here to tell you that British Columbia effectively moving to Mountain Time is bad and wrong. The Yukon has already taken this leap and friends, it makes no sense!
Truly dystopic.
"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was skeptical. He said once he got it running, we’d be out of a job, so when the boys started talking about breaking into the factory and smashing the thing, I was on board. Until, that is, I saw the funny tapestries it could make.
Another is around copyright. Whenever a hapless person asks someone to share a pattern for free they are often jumped on by a brigade of people shaming them for violating copyright and not supporting designers.
Not strictly Instagram but I can think of a few examples. One is the Ravelry site redesign that some users felt triggered migraines and vision issues. The discourse became very extreme very quickly and resulted in a mass exodus from the site.
This is the statement the Canadian government releases while Israel and the US bomb schools.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
In Mark Carney’s Davos speech, he admitted that international law has never been equally applied across the world.
He’s proving that through his own words and actions every time the US and Israel violate international law and he backs them up instead of condemning them.
What do we call what Israel has been doing in the region? It is clearly terror against its neighbours.
Do the human rights of Palestinians not count to Mark Carney? Does it not matter to him that Israel is a rogue state, holding nuclear weapons without signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty?
Let’s say for arguments sake that all goes well (I’m praying for that) and there is a counter revolution in Iran
Do you really think that this administration and the current administration in Israel will tolerate a leftist government that is democratically elected and takes the national resources?
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@strombo.bsky.social has a message for Canadians, if you hear arguments that we can’t do better, that "health care budgets are tight. We can't build ideal systems everywhere. Let me tackle the last one first. We certainly can. We're amazing people,"
#CdnPoli #HealthCare #LTC
#Humanity #Dignity
I have little to say tonight beyond expressing horror and grief at America's latest evil act. But Dayal's point here is worth echoing.
I'm old enough to remember that the war in Iraq had a long build up with an attempt to manufacture a case through the UN.
Here, they just bombed.
bolting awake to let people know that the "Zhou" in Lenny Zhou is pronounced joe, people softening the Zh sound is wrong! IMO...
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