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caffein3-fiend.bsky.social
painter, educator, and perpetual student. rarely quiet. often in the woods or on the lake. sometimes a public servant. always queer n disabled. šŸ“living in nbisiing territory, robinson-huron treaty 1850
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a photo of totally normal people conducting diplomatic relations with another state, nothing to see here

and these men* have the nuclear codes?

Vance cannot forget that everything is fodder for litigation when you act like this administration has been

How can I be a pain in the ass to Doug Ford and the Ontario PC party this term?

literally watching a post-bacc student sitting in front of me in my GIS course using 5 different LLMs and some other "paraphrasing tool" to write a paper for a different class (with a prof who doesn't permit use of genai) .... sigh

To the Conservatives, Northern Ontario is simply a hinterland to be exploited with an imported labour force from Southern Ontario. The unchecked extractive industries will destroy everything held dear in Northern ON. There is a lack of care for the people, obfuscated by the thirst for resources.

So when the right says ā€œfree speechā€ they just mean ā€œrape and sex traffickingā€?

The morning birbs outside my window are back (or I just heard them for the first time since theyā€™ve been back) and Iā€™m so happy

Canā€™t wait to hear Charlie Angus speak next week aaaaaaa (Followed by seeing my friends in BANDS play MUSIC LIVE in the citaaaaayyyy)

Despite the results, I managed to complete an entire GIS georeferencing lab tonight while watching B99 simultaneously with Globalā€™s coverage šŸ¤“

We are actually just three fur traders in a trench coat

Remember folks, Ontario is Yours To Discover and Open For Business, but Canada is Not For Sale so mind ya business

I canā€™t believe ppl bought the ā€œCanada is not for saleā€ slogan from the guy who changed Ontarioā€™s motto to ā€œopen for businessā€ As @nolore.bsky.social has pointed out, our country has already been stripped for parts & sold off over the course of several decades. Ford just makes it go faster.

Douf Gord really spent 189 million bucks to give the Liberals party status again lol

If you want to stand up to fascists, wear a mask. Itā€™s one of the simplest and easiest things you can do to resist. It protects your health, while also protecting disabled and marginalized people who are in grave danger from fascist policies.

a lot of people go on to develop autoimmune diseases after a covid infection (or two or three). when i urge you to wear a mask iā€™m doing so from a place of enthusiastic discouragementā€” if 18 years of autoimmunity has taught me anything itā€™s that you do not want this.

When youā€™re chronically ill, you have to endure people telling you to ā€œjust try harderā€ or insinuating that you donā€™t want to get better They donā€™t understand that health is temporary. Anyone can become disabled at any time Itā€™s not a moral failing. Itā€™s not about ā€œtrying harderā€. It just happens.

ā€œDonā€™t worry too much.ā€ My mother says to me, after I message her about having ā€˜limited credit availableā€™ and essentially just living on credit right now with no income and justā€¦ expenses! and lots of them!

As a former resident of Toronto who chose to move to North Bayā€¦ (I know, right?!) I had a wonderful time seeing @sugarsammy.bsky.social in North Bay. Posting on the only social media platform not assigned to an age group šŸ¤£ Merci and also come back and do a show bilangue svp!

The instance they're reporting on here has absolutely nothing to do with his sister... it's so unnecessary and lowkey offensive that they gotta ID her as trans here, as if he couldn't possibly support trans justice if he didn't have a sister who is trans šŸ™„šŸ˜’

I started law school in Canada when the Charter had been in force for just over a decade, when it was widely accepted that it would be political suicide for a government to invoke the notwithstanding clause to gut basic human rights. But here we are, and where is the outrage?

When we visualize data, we reorganize the world, grouping and degrouping people and things across categories and time. We remove a certain order as much as we create one. šŸ“Š

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.ā€ØTeens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks ā€ØThe move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

ā€œI am just trying to document each stage of this process so that most people canā€™t pretend they didnā€™t know this was happening. Many of them knew but they found it too painful to look.ā€ one of the most relatable things iā€™ve read in the last five years

I have to remember that not all profs are like that one prof who grades all our exams in the two weeks between writing them and having our first class after reading week Heā€™s a gem but by god heā€™s ā€¦ somethin else lol

Wearing a mask is important for everyone, not just those at high risk. Masks help prevent the spread of viruses, protecting not only your health but also the community. This includes vulnerable individuals you may unknowingly infect.

A loved one who was 84 at the time tested positive for COVID on a fluke by his residenceā€™s door to door testing in early April 2021. Two days later he received results that indicated his latent TB had reactivated.