Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
oh no, not something that would have upset the famously cheerful Brontës
Oh I love this so much! Yes!
Vancouverites! There are a few spots left for the Climate Wayfinding program I'm facilitating at Trout Lake Community Centre. Please join us!
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just added another 25 crowd-sourced locations to this passion project of mine, mapping change tables in Vancouver! if you have friends with babies or toddlers, please pass it on: vancouverchangetables.com
Apparently we're going to surveillance our way to learning. Anyone who doubts that AI is inextricably bound up with intensive monitoring of student behaviors need only look at how those who genuinely believe this technology is a help are positioning it.
Hey! If you like what Cory Booker is doing right now, call your senators and ask them to do the same (now and in the future). Find their info at ☎️ reps.fyi!
In my intro-level creative writing courses, I've been starting with AI on day one:
"You don't have to write anything ever again if you don't want to. So let's talk about why you're here and what you do want to do."
I learned so much from this & especially loved the interview with @biblioracle.bsky.social. The university would like us to police AI usage. But this reiterates what a waste of time and energy that is.
We were very grateful to be included in Mandy's @thenarwhal.ca article alongside our colleagues at Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, where she wrote about the importance of knowing our neighbours, particularly so we can help each other out in times of disaster.
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We love this article from @mandylen.bsky.social so much - as well as her resource spreadsheet! Small, joyful things to hold onto, for those moments when we may be feeling "occasionally bereft or despairing about The State of Things." (Which we recognize may be *more* than occasionally right now.) 💙
This is the official journal of the Converse low-res MFA program. I'm the editor and our team of enthusiastic and smart readers would love to consider your fiction/poetry/CNF/flash. Deadline: 3/10/25
Hey writers who can envision June 2025 🫤 I’m teaching a one week nonfiction writing workshop. Idyllwild, if you don’t know it, is high altitude (+5k ft), beautiful, and Idyllwild Arts is like FUN adult summer camp idyllwildarts.org/program/type...
Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won!
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This should be my new byline! Mandy Len Catron is in love and chasing toddlers.
Vancouverites, I made a thing! Please contribute--and share!
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Spending this Family Day weekend working on my new project: How to give your three-year-old eye drops in 112 easy steps.
Dear Elon, we’re out.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
My mom called me from a thrift shop once and told me that a book I'd signed to a co-worker was there. I asked her to buy it, and then I snuck it back into his house at the company Christmas party and never mentioned it again.
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
In lonely cities, stronger neighbourhood connections are essential for preparing for climate change disasters, writes
@mandylen.bsky.social
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I loved hanging out with @mandylen.bsky.social recently for one of the interviews that fueled her beautiful, thoughtful piece. Thanks for being interested in @heyneighbourcollective.ca's work Mandy and for your beautiful writing about #socialresilience, #socialconnection etc.
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The Guardian asked me to write about new studies showing high interest in non-monogamy. What does it all mean?
One answer is that the nuclear family is just not enough.
At MacDowell, there are no residency fees, and to defray expenses that accrue during an artist’s stay, we provide need-based stipends to cover rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income from taking time off from employment, as well as grants to travel to and from the residency.
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