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performance designer ][ visual artist ][ IATSE Local ADC659 rep 204/treaty 1/WPG 🍉
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It’s Louis Riel Day in Manitoba

We should nationalize the warehouses Amazon is abandoning in Québec and hand them over to Canada Post. I wrote about how—and other things governments could do to make Amazon pay for it's illegal union-busting.

Thanks for the hospitality Calgary. It's been fun. See you next month

Paragon and Pegasus have both leveraged WhatsApp to silently install spyware onto people's devices -- with no user interaction. Paragon used the ability to send malicious PDF documents in 2024, Pegasus used the call functionality in 2019. www.reuters.com/technology/c...

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

First time working at Vettigo in Calgary. Pretty cool place to spend some time. Designing Lights for A Killing at La Cucina, a new play by Thomas Morgan Jones. Directed by Jack Grinhaus Premiering at PTE in Winnipeg Feb 25 and Vertigo in Calgary March 15. @prairietheatrex.bsky.social

hell yeah

Given recent events relating to the International Relations of the United States and Canada, IATSE International President Matthew D. Loeb made the following comments affirming solidarity amongst our membership:

Blaming the border for overdoses ignores the real crisis: a unregulated drug supply. The reality is that fentanyl meets demand from Americans, but it’s being produced and distributed in ways that make it far more dangerous. Criminalization won’t stop overdoses—public health and regulation will.

Honestly fuck America for making me engage in any hint of nationalism because ew

End of the American empire. End of the Pep Guardiola empire. The 20s started with a harsh bang and here we are mid-way and it’s a vibe eh. As an Italian theatre director once said, “life eez cows”

#Winnipeg City Council approved the budget, cutting Community Connections. While the decision is disappointing, what is more disappointing is how little members of council understood of the value of this service. The lack of caring is shocking. #wpgpoli open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...

Instead of tariffs can we finish switching to the metric system? I'm done with ounces and feet. In this house we use grams and centimeters.

La colorimétrie de #severance 🤍

I spend a lot of time looking at gobos these days

CANADA: CUPE calls out traitors Danielle Smith and Kevin O'Leary cupe.ca/cupe-calls-o...

I'd pay good money for an android gel swatchbook.

Let's recap the timeline for those of you who haven't been following. Friday: a deportation flight containing 88 Brazilians takes off from American soil. The deportees are handcuffed and bound in leg irons, as is standard practice on such flights. The Americans are flying into a trap.

You should go see Universal Language if you have the chance. What a beautiful tribute to the bleakness of winnipeg