Dad, Social worker, co-owner: food co-op, credit union, fc united football club
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@redrebel.bsky.social Canadian author Margaret Atwood takes another shot at Alberta's book ban with satirical story www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Not an Onion headline... Trump says he’s awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom... www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Thanks. SOLIDARITY!!
Climate change deniers: it is 88° on a mountain in Anglemont, BC.
I wonder what the solution could be. Source: www.epi.org/publication/...
September from The Months, Eliot Hodgkin, 1950. A soft orange dahlia takes centrepiece, alongside the first sweetcorn cob and first of the autumn apples. There are delicate trails of Virginia creeper and blackberries, and a sprinkling of mushrooms and nuts.
If anyone missed my long-form explainers, I have great news!
To me, this tree looks like two dinosaurs 🦕🦕 #vancouver #nature #trees
At YVR Vancouver heading to YWG Winnipeg! Can’t wait to thank flight attendants for changing history….I’m pushing the Mark Carney government to abolish sec. 107 of the labour code, end unpaid work, and ensure FULL pay for every minute worked. Join me at the Wpg Labour Day Picnic Memorial Park 3-5pm
An incredible Labour Day in Winnipeg with Premier Kinew and the Manitoba NDP Caucus. Unions stood together to celebrate workers and families. Flight Attendants made history—now PM Carney must repeal Section 107 & ensure pay for every minute on the job. Great speaking with FA’s Melida and Marlene.
Not all workers get today off! While you enjoy your holiday, many agricultural workers are hard at work planting, harvesting, and packaging the food we eat every day. Today lest honor those workers and thank them for their amazing work. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay
Never forget this: Working people outnumber the billionaires and CEOs by a huge margin. If workers stand together, they will win. Solidarity.
Happy Labour Day! Here’s your annual reminder that while big corporations chase profits at any cost and politicians make empty promises, unions deliver real wins for workers 😎
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
As the sun disapears, and night approaches well all make our way home lest we get lost in the dark. #Photography #Clouds #Sunset
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Hey, why are we organizing society based on what makes the most money for the people who already own everything? That seems like it'd lead to a bunch of easily foreseen problems.
My local #Unifor2468 represents 5400 Members In 60 bargaining units employed in health care, education, hospitality, skilled trades, and the private sector. Take a minute to honour all those before us who fought for modern labour rights.
My personal challenge is to post something for the #ArtChallenges from @handcranked.bsky.social everyday this week. So there might be some strange pics this week. Like today #WindowsOnWednesday #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart
With this #ColorADay #OrangeSun pic I made it through a week of #ArtChallenges. Have a nice Sunday you all 😊 #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art
Eastern Parkway always feels like the heartbeat of New York during the West Indian Day Parade — the food, the flags, the dancehall and soca. Caribbean culture makes this city great 🇹🇹🇭🇹🇧🇧🇩🇲🇱🇨🇯🇲🇻🇨🇬🇩🇬🇾
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Trial Islands and one of the transmitter sites that @johnbollwitt.com has been to for work 📻
The Maple, along with hundreds of other news outlets, has joined Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders’ campaign to draw attention to the 220+ Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 2023. Gaza has the bravest journalists in the world. rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...
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Soviet States of America
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Today, in my hellhole home of #Chicago, I walked to the farmers market with my family and bought flowers, cheese, honey, fruit, and tomatoes. Then we went to the local park to enjoy the 70s and breezy weather we have been blessed with.
Apropos of nothing, if our American friends ever need advice on the best ways to embalm a corpse for worshipful public display, we have some literature.
Drove 4 hours thru remote NW Maine to do the Eagle Lake Ghost Train hike yesterday. It was quite the adventure! #maine #newengland #photography #outdoors #outdoorphotography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #hike #hiking #train #ghosttrains #allagash #allagashghosttrains
Friends, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest this Labor Day. Let’s honor the roots of this holiday by standing together to protest the exploitation and oppression of our tinpot dictator. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
Immokalee farmworker dies a week after collapsing in the Florida heat www.wusf.org/local-state/...
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
🎥 ROSSINGTON (A) - HIGHLIGHTS An Adam Le Fondre penalty and Jordan Buckley hat-trick at Rossington Main on Saturday saw us through to the next round of the @emiratesfacup.bsky.social Extended highlights now up on our YouTube channel ⬇️ youtu.be/xLIaEQUvxyY?... #WeAreStrongerUnited
Reminder! There is a nomination info session on Tuesday, September 2nd for the YWCA Metro Vancouver Women of Distinction Awards
Happy Labor Day! Want to build power with your co-workers? Salting, or getting a non-union job & organizing your workplace, is a vital tactic to build the labor movement. Hear about organizing basics, priority industries, & getting a job you can organize.
Shop co-op. We Own It. You buy from yourself
Happy Labor Day.
The ideas march on - on the picket line. A party is not a religion. But rather a loose collection of people with similar interests and ideas.
Listening to @charlieangus104.bsky.social 80s podcast. What better way to spend #LabourDay. Helpful to understand Neoliberalism and its origins. Grateful not be nostalgic for the 80s. No point in living in the past as I often share with my clients
We love you Workers! In BC, Cascadia, Canada, and the world over.
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‘Boccaccio has been best remembered – understandably, if unfairly – for his most obscene and ribald tales. In Italian, the adjective 𝘣𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰 means “lascivious”.’ Barbara Newman on Boccaccio and his reputation: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Watching @citybeautiful.nebula.tv’s video about the Seawall Pretty fair review. My notes: - 100% geese are an issue all the time 😆 - just missed a pit stop at Third Beach - the west Yaletown section is an underrated part of Seawall (I say this even as a West Ender #city #cities #cycling #vancouver
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Yes, Israel is killing journalists to cover up their acts of genocide! www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
Throughout the 20th century, labor unions played a crucial role in advocating for workers’ rights. They fought for minimum wage laws, limits on working hours, and the introduction of collective bargaining rights.
Freaky to hear US officials channel unadulterated Ru propaganda. Let's use the right words-- Ukraine and the Europeans are indeed stopping Trump from trying to force Ukrainian surrender while calling it "a deal".
Greetings from Kyiv! Having my warcoffee (and cold lemonade - it’s hot outside) in a cosy bookstore.
“Jobs disappear and the markets cheer.” On Labor Day 30 years ago, I issued a warning the growing divide between workers and the super-rich. Watch. youtu.be/8rW1kkAV-gw
Labor Day @ Vancouver Waterfront Park ✊ Workers Over Billionaires — we win when we stand together! 🗣 Rally 11 AM | 🚶 March Noon IGV + Clark County 50501 + Pasitos Gigantes + NAACP Vancouver + Move On Clark County.
I'll say it again: Libraries are awesome. Vancouver Public Library Canine Library Day September 13th at John Hendry Trout Lake Park 🐶📖 Borrow a St. John Ambulance certified therapy #dog, read them poetry, or join a poetry workshop.
#MagentaMonday Magenta tulips in Skagit Valley, Washington #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Tulips #SkagitValley #ColorADay #PinkMon #ArtYear
History of the Canadian Labour Movement The first labor organizations in Canada began in the early 1800s. They were inspired by the labor movements in Europe and the USA. These early unions were mostly local and craft-based, organizations that represented skilled workers in specific trades.
[théatre] À Zurich, le sud-africain William Kentridge dénonce le néocolonialisme dans « Faustus in Africa ! » ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/iHm
We are so grateful for @bcfed.bsky.social on labour day
Good morning blue sky friends, it's a brand new day!
Morning commuters from Glasgow to Edinburgh will see their fares drop by 48% today. Scottish Greens, trade unions and commuters worked together to demand the removal of peak rail fares. Today, peak rail fares are scrapped for good!
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was forced to land in Bulgaria and use paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled its navigation, the FT reports.
The emergence of Nadine and her impending duel with El Pollo Morado:
Sometimes you rock. Sometimes you roll. Sometimes you take a nap and start over.
No rest for Bluesky's best. Sorry. We look forward daily now. Victim of your own success
August recap 📸 My Lightroom is smoking hot from all the uploads and editing 🔥 I’d take a rest in September but it’s one of Vancouver’s busiest months in terms of events. Glad I got to take a few days off last week. View recap album: www.instagram.com/p/DOCwCqqEQt... #canada #photography
Lane assist has been a boon to drunk drivers everywhere
Dear Canada’s Workforce: Happy Labour Day!
Sunrise on the Cascade Range
Such a great news outlet. Love these folks.
With court win, Quw’utsun Nation sees a ‘spiritual homecoming’ after 150 years After landmark ruling grants ‘Vancouver Island’ First Nations title to Tl’uqtinus summer village and nearby fishing rights, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm see it as a ‘disheartening’ betrayal indiginews.com/news/quwutsu...
We wanted to bring a little fun to close out the summer. We had a back-to-school fair in Parkdale with free school supplies, face painting, games, pizza and ice cream. It was a blast!! Thanks to everyone who came to volunteer and enjoy time together. Here's hoping for a great school year ahead.
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Labour Day is a time to honour workers and to celebrate the victories of the labour movement. The victories that unions have fought for and won benefit us all.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
'... with Reform enjoying the media coverage of a major player and the lack of scrutiny of a nonentity.' Did Labour really think it was a good idea to let Farage hijack the summer headlines? | Frances Ryan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🏆 FA CUP DRAW We were first out of the hat in today’s draw for the @emiratesfacup.bsky.social Second Round Qualifying and we have been drawn at home to Chadderton The tie will be played on Saturday 13th September #WeAreStrongerUnited | #EmiratesFACup
" The United Nations exists precisely to ensure that no nation, however powerful, can silence another. ” — Dag Hammarskjöld UN Secretary-General 1953-1961
Happy Labor Day! I can’t believe it’s September. We had no direct sunrise today but we had several pre-sunrise configurations, including this very nice display to the north. It’s a narrow vertical so definitely tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
86 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful LILY TOMLIN
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. - Sun Tzu
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The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland! Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Somewhere in Iceland.
Happy Labour Day Peeps.
Pub 3318, Good Measure, Redland, Bristol. A real easy lover of a micro, sleepy Sunday afternoon with sun out suits it well. Sober enough not to fall into cellar. Nice bar dude. Guy in dungarees and ironic Talking Heads shirt gives me a stoic nod, very Bristol.
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