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Writer and culture worker. Lapsed visual artist and performer. FKA Miss de Meaner, Cardinal Sin. Flâneur. Dollar store intellectual. Garden fairy. House goblin. Creature lover. Queer witch. Culture crone. Science nerd. Kindness afficiando.
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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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I just watched NO OTHER LAND and it's one of the most powerful documentaries you will ever see. That no U.S. distributor has found the courage to pick it up is utterly shameful.

Download the CBC News app to stay up-to-date on Canadian news written from a Canadian perspective: #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

They’re coming for your retirement so Elon Musk can keep playing with rockets.

i hope the boycott tesla movement eventually pivots to investing in and pushing cities to implement greener public transit for all instead of just hoping that other EV dealers on the market are seemingly "not" fascist

an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

« Il est maintenant possible d’observer à quel point la plupart des "solutions" néolibérales se sont révélées inefficaces, voire catastrophiques.» www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Are noise-cancelling headphones impairing our hearing skills? Some audiologists are beginning to worry

Elon Musk is a bandit. And Doug Ford just signed $100 million deal with him. Meanwhile he and Trump are trying to crush the people of Ukraine. Doug Ford says it's the "best bang for the buck." No Doug, this is what vichy collaborators do. Slava Ukraini

'In the We Return billboard project, renowned Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer Wanda Nanibush explores common threads, both literal and symbolic, as expressed in Palestinian and Anishinaabe aesthetics and actions.' #palestine #anishinaabekwe #landback #culture

Yet another reason no government should do any business with Musk (looking at you Ontario).

Ce gars quand il parle en public a zéro charisme, parle comme un enfant de 12 ans de ses idées, et sa vision du monde est level les bons contre les méchants. Si Trump a été poussé et mis là par les Russes, on ne serait pas surpris que lui aussi.

onandrah reached out to me for help - she's a refugee in south sudan fleeing queerphobic violence and bigotry in uganda, which aims to kill gay and trans ppl for existing. i was able to verify her story thru personal convos & cross checking public images. send some money her way or boost if u can

In 1975, Jerome Wiesner, then the president of M.I.T., warned that information technology puts “vastly more power into the hands of government and private interests”... risking the rise of an “information tyranny in the innocent pursuit of a more efficient society.”

We need networked resiliency for scientific research. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...

The billionaire class has so far successfully banned basic income pilots in Arkansas, South Dakota, Iowa, and Idaho. They are actively trying to get them banned and may succeed in Texas, West Virginia, Arizona, Montana, and Kansas. They have so far tried and failed in Wisconsin and Mississippi.

Dans le cadre des #consultations prébudgétaires, notre équipe des affaires publiques et juridiques a déposé un #mémoire qui présente le #logement social et communautaire comme solution structurante et pérenne à la crise du logement. #budget #polqc Lisez notre synthèse du document :

📌 Key facts about measles: Recent social media posts claiming "benefits" of natural measles infection are dangerous misinformation. The science is clear: measles is a serious disease that suppresses the immune system for 2-3 years after infection, making people vulnerable to other illnesses.

👉 Et c'est EXACTEMENT pour ça que nous demandons une meilleure évaluation de la pollution atmosphérique dans l'Est de Montréal! 👉 Notre secteur mérite un suivi plus serré qu'ailleurs, puisqu'il est fortement touché par les activités industrialo-portuaires. #santé www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

Toxic drugs lowered life expectancy for B.C. men more than #COVID19 did during the pandemic years: StatsCan. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #ToxicDrugCrisis

OPINION | Il faut voir au-delà des tarifs et prendre en compte l’ensemble de la situation diplomatique mondiale dans la réponse aux délires de la Maison-Blanche. #international #usa #trump La nouvelle chronique de Judith Lefebvre, pour Pivot 📲 pivot.quebec/2025/02...

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Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

you will never see a centrist calling for unity accommodate the left. in their actual demands, you'd almost think this sort of campaign was only ever a push to accommodate the far right.

on Luke Tryl from More In Common the organisation is, literally, right-wingers using "progressive" talk to give cover for Tories and transphobes More In Common want you to work with straight-up fascists because ...

NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan is a coward who betrayed his oath to the Constitution. “If NSF’s top leadership has any dignity, they should resign immediately!” a business operations manager wrote. “At this point, witnessing the cowardliness at the top, NSF is serving no one!”

A reminder of the views of the guy who developed this startup and sold it to Occidental Petroleum bsky.app/profile/keta...

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

I have been pushing Elections Canada to take steps to protect our democracy from American/Musk interference. We have only to look at Germany to see how the Trump machine will undermine democracay to promote the far right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Idrc if protests violent or peaceful are criminalized, in fact the more it puts fear in the heart of these cowards the better. You’re no going to make ppl comply to you by making them see the error of their ways. Things don’t work like that with crooks. mountaintui.substack.com/p/on-guard-f...

theibr.com.au/19-02-2025/1...

Second edition of Climactic out now: The Flames Of Petromasculinity - as men refuse to let go of their fossil fuels, do climate movements need to appeal better to traditional macho norms, or leave them behind completely? open.substack.com/pub/maxopray...

Some people cite her all year. 🙋🏾‍♀️

A First Nation in Quebec celebrated on Wednesday as the federal court partially ruled in favour of the Kebaowek First Nation in their fight to protect their ancestral lands from the risk of nuclear waste contamination.