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Brood mother 🐔, union hoser, ally 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸, filthy leftist. F*k capitalism. Go home.
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I'll be grilling the CWA's director of organizing about this and much more today at 5pm! schedule.gdconf.com/session/unio...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I transferred to a new mail depot and took a tour around the locker room to enjoy the anti-corporate graffiti. I do love how spicy my grassroots union can be 😆 Context: Doug Ettinger is the CEO of Canada Post Corp. The upper end of his salary is about $590k. He has 0 logistics experience

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

when the west talks about a multiparty democracy they mean a system where different factions of capital represented. when they call socialist states authoritarian they mean a system where capital isn't represented

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Saw some cool tiny sandpiper-ish bird hanging out behind my mail truck

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I say this as someone who phonebanked for him in 2016 and again in 2020: bernie sanders has done more harm than good to the left by harnessing the energy of young radicals and diverting it back into the democratic party where it goes to die

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

So I emailed the Liberals asking if Carney was going to say the words “trans rights”. I got back: “The Prime Minister and Liberal MPs look forward to participating in pride parades this summer. The government recently announced 1.5 million dollars to enhance security at pride parades.”

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

The US intervened in foreign elections at least 128 times between 1946 and 2014, to sway outcomes in its own interests, usually to prevent left-wing parties from coming to power. Link in next post.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Just finished the awesome Cuckoo by author Gretchen Felker-Martin. In trying to sign up for their newsletter I of course noticed they're being review bombed on Goodreads. Why do people use that platform? It's full of awful pretentious people and trolls. It's like the twitter of books.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

western education is a disservice guided by childish idealism. you can regurgitate "mAo kiLLeD 100 miLLiOn peOpLe 🥴" or you can actually learn history from a materialist framework

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Psyched for this. Labor Notes has such well structured and well-organized workshops and lessons for organizers and activists

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

the pattern for the last several decades is that the liberal establishment has built a failing system. the right acknowledges these failures in order to gain popular support and then capitalizes off the failures to enrich themselves while deceiving the public

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Oh yeah? Cool I'm expecting price controls for food, housing and transportation, regulation of the telecoms companies, clean water on all reserves, protection of workers' right to strike... oh no sorry he just means he's gonna make it more expensive to buy products from the US

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Yes this: Canadian culture is three nostalgic feelings in a corporate trenchcoat and it’s cringey af watching supposedly informed commentary about how endangered it *now* is. Come ON.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

"progressive" politics in Ontario in case you were wondering if the bar is in the fucking toilet.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I'll listen to any podcast with Jason Hickel in it. This Upstream podcast on China is great. After the October 7th Al-Aqsa Flood I feel like I can't believe any garbage that comes from the joint efforts of western media and government.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The cat didn't like the cat grass, so decided to give it to the flock to try out. Huge hit!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Stripes, our beta rooster, ripped off a chunk of bread and then handed it over to Chalky, our grey hen. Adorable

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Time to head through the trenches to give the flock their morning treats 🐔

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

All my chickens roosting for the night in the winter. Alloy prefers to sit right on the heater 😆

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

My insta is just full of union/anti-capitalist stuff, posty work stuff, and a bunch of chicken content. Time to catch up over here on Bluesky

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven't received your cheque (of what's actually your money) from Ford yet it's because A) Canada post is intentionally holding back mail as a part of manufacturing a crisis and B) your driveway may be hella icy and unsafe to walk up

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Time to see what's up on this platform! Got tired of all the ad-laden AI garbage and right wing trolls of the metaverse

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments