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Same handle on Twitter. Retired academic. Socialist. Interested in education issues, Canadian politics, the environment, science fiction. No DMs.
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Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social

This has destabilized several South Asian countries for decades and increasingly under the current regime of RSS/BJP (RSS inspired Hitler)

Students, you can vote now on campus, from April 13 to 16. Visit lpc.ca/how2vote to learn more.

Orion Cecropian (Historis odius) 🦋 Not a lepidopterist, but this is one marvelous mariposa I observed in Colombia

The Martians were there in the canal reflected in the water. The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water. Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles.

Ed Broadbent, quoted by Luke Savage: “Socialism not nationalism or liberalism is the sole justification for wrenching Canada free from American domination.” www.lukewsavage.com/p/canadian-s...

Food security is good. Let's keep supporting this industry. "Canada used to produce a lot more fruits & vegetables. But after a free-trade agreement between Canada & the U.S. was signed in the late 1980s, fruit & vegetable processors moved to the U.S. where they could get year-round products"

High cost of eggs force children to decorate Easter tofu blocks www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/high...

I forgot. I’m not allowed to post live news links on meta. There’s a new fake article from a fake server called Canada Insider. See below. META doesn’t give a shit. Report if you want but it does no good. Please send to CBC instead.

On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

On April 17, the one-year anniversary of the Columbia University Gaza encampment, academic workers, students, and activists are calling for a coordinated national direct action to protest the ongoing genocide and escalating repression in the U.S. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/stop... #Palestine #Israel

Art of the Deal!

#OtD 13 Apr 1949 Marie Louise Berneri, anti-war activist and anarchist died aged just 31. She had been a central figure in the UK anarchist movt and helped organise support for Spanish orphans and refugees after the civil war. This is one of her books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/jou...

OTD in 1940 USSR began 2nd mass deportation of civilians from Poland's east borderlands occupied by the Soviets on Sept. 17, 1939. There were 4 waves of deportations from Feb 1940 to June 1941, *before* Nazis invaded us, while we were still allies Imagine this happening today..

Rights activists have created an AI-generated video to shed the light on the importance of boycott of international companies complicit in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians to curb the bloodbath. #Gaza

Under Putin, Russia has become a Terrorist State...Real Americans dont support Terrorist.....AMERICA SUPPORTS UKRAINE..NOT RUSSIA....

Gaza Municipality: Gaza is experiencing a major health and environmental disaster due to the accumulation of approximately 175,000 tons of waste in the heart of the city, and the occupation's destruction of most waste collection vehicles and vital facilities and services.

The Advocates' Society continues to face fallout from its shabby treatment of Tareq Hadhad. The group claims to have apologized but hasn’t spoken with Hadhad.

The CPC and 3rd parties have put BIG money on trying to elect a Poilievre Gov't, going back more than 2 years now. They will want/need results and won't play nice in order to try to get them. #CDNpoli

Canadians coming out to stand up against racism & fascism. Say no to Aaron Gunn #droptheGunn #elbowsup

Times up......

Poilièvre's under the impression, then, that being PM doesn't actually involve WORK... I hope we don't have to endure such a PM...

This has to be against the Hippocratic Oath You have children who need help, you know what the best treatment recommended internationally is, they're already taking it, and you're legally required not to help them at all Really disgusting www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/w...

Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields, study shows theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/22/s...

A federal immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday afternoon that detained Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil — who not been charged with any crime — can be deported, his attorneys confirmed Friday afternoon. www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/11/m...

Two Russian missiles struck the Sumy city center, killing over 20 civilians as they went about their daily lives. "Enemy missiles hit an ordinary city street: homes, educational institutions, cars on the street. And this on a day when people go to churches: Palm Sunday,' wrote Ukrainian President.

Exquisite c. 20,000 year-old laurel-leaf point. Expertly worked and aesthetically beautiful, this Solutrean flint tool is 28 cm long, just 1 cm thick, with edges so thin they’re translucent! From Volgu, France. Musée d'Archéologie nationale Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

Great news!! Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. /1 thread apnews.com/article/ship...

If we renamed Monopoly, Capitalism, added an extra option for the richest players to bomb the poorer players, and the game ended when you starved to death. We would have our current world.

I hope their private armies will eat them.

On April 13, 1919, the Amritsar Massacre took place in northern India when British colonial troops killed 5-600 unarmed civilians. My book, 'Amritsar 1919', is the first in my massacre trilogi - followed by 'Massacre in the Clouds' on Bud Dajo in 1906, and my current project on My Lai...

Albert Einstein refused to see people from Israel from 1948 onwards. He called them 'misled and criminal people'.

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

Nigel Farage thinks it's OK for him to earn £571,585 in six months from 'second jobs', but tells Laura Kuenssberg that public sector staff should not be allowed to work from home. #BBCLauraK

Number one takeaway from the insane turnout at fight the oligarchy rallies, while chuck schumer cancels his little book tour and gretchen whitmer hides her face, is that there is zero constituency for bipartisanship

📢 Online demonstration, day 2️⃣5️⃣8️⃣. #CallForPublicHealthAction Demonstrating outside the 🇸🇪 parliament alongside friends in 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧, for clean air, evidence-based infection control, public education on COVID-19, and care and biomedical research for Long COVID & ME. @sverigesriksdag.bsky.social