I swear a lot, double space after a period, and use Oxford commas. 1st gen Canadian; Calgary, AB He/him; B.Sc. Geography (geomorph, soils/biogeog, climate); Red Seal Landscaper; husband; cat dad; skier Team Compassion
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Alt: "We cannot survive without forests, but we will thrive without billionaires." Comic panel of Poison Ivy (a red-haired, curvy green woman with vines growing out of her and wrapped around her green bodysuit) smiling while crushing a white man in a suit with her vines (as he screams "ahhhrrgh!").
Notwithstanding that this is a batshit crazy requirement, why does the requirement ONLY apply to girl’s sports, hmm? Every student or parent should submit this form with a big fat X in protest. What are the UCP going to do? Come and force every kid to pull down their shorts?
If your political career depends on waging war on 12-year-olds, you should resign right now Danielle Smith! #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ABpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This trash government is pursuing a hateful, discriminatory future. #ableg #cdnpoli
Again the policing of women and their bodies.
“Make sure this kid gets his horse back. Take it out of my salary if you have to.”
Journey to the stars, Graham Greene - Graham Greene on his horse in 'Dances with Wolves': 'My horse. He and I got on like a house on fire. On the last day I was shooting, this kid came up and told me it had been his—turns out he’d had to sell it. After filming, I went to the producers and said,...
"clearing out homeless encampments" is the dumbest fascism-lite non-solution to homelessness, I can't believe it's treated with any credibility. It treats homelessness as a purely aesthetic problem, those unsightly encampments, without any thought to the people there. it's textbook dehumanization
biopic about a Native American entertainer in the early 20th century. Is it important to you to tell the stories of First Nations people? Not particularly. I’ve played old Jewish men, New York police officers, French soldiers. I’m a fan of diverse casting. I hate that…
phrase, “Graham Greene, Native actor.” You don’t hear people say, “Denzel Washington, black actor,” or “Kevin Costner, white actor.” Photo: Defiance | Universal/Trion Worlds
Graham Greene also pushed against typecasting and believed that Native actors could play any role; that we don't have to be segregated, or limited, to the "Indigenous section." This interview with Readers Digest: You recently appeared in Te Ata, a…
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
In Alberta, for the 2025-26 school year, all girls should try out for the boys teams, and the boys in solidarity should not try out for any teams sports this year. The girls teams have been affected by this UCP BS, not the boys teams. #AbLeg #abed www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It is really not hard to state things plainly. People who twist their sentences into pretzels to say nothing are doing so on purpose
Perfect example of why media is fucked
"What's your source" is a question a lot of you need to start asking before you share things.
A fun thing to remember on Labour Day is that Mark Carney eliminated the Cabinet role Minister of Labour, a position that had existed for more than a century under governments of all stripes, and Canada is currently without a labour minister for the first time since 1909.
Mark Carney celebrates Labour Day by ordering labourers back to work
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
So you end up getting a lot of 'you people' hurled at you when you talk to these types of posters. Do they think I'm stupid? I know what that means.
There is a weird genre of person on both Twitter and here who is 1) progressive, 2) white, and 3) wildly racist towards Arabs but for whatever reason isn't comfortable with being outwardly belligerent when talking to an Arab.
Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English
I mean, he was on the board of Brookfield. I bet they have a few bucks in fossil fuel stocks.
The owners have had almost every PM in my lifetime, but the degree of ownership has really jumped lately.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
This is a lovely thread about everything we owe labour in Canada. Less than a month ago your government tried to order flight attendants back to work, taking away their right to strike. Where was this passion for labour then? Where will it be when the next union has their right to strike denied?
What would great is if everyone just acted like he was dead anyway. Publish obituaries. Just act like he isn’t there anymore. Front it out like they did with the whole “We won the election” thing. Think how furious that would make him.
Albertans, school board trustees, teachers, sports coaches, healthcare providers, and every single one of us. Do not comply in advance. Find small acts of noncompliance. And remind Smith that it's termed "malicious compliance", but we can be "vicious" when we need to.
Still Missing!! Attention #YEG!! There have been no sightings yet. Kind went missing in the Bonnie Doon/Strathearn area. If you're in that area or around the Mill Creek Ravine, please keep your eyes open for a scared black kitty.
British colonialism continues unabated.
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza apnews.com/article/geno...
I am horrified by the Alberta’s government’s book stance. But I do content audits for websites as a job so I find humour in schools pointing out what it takes to list every book in a library to these numpties. Full content audits usually don’t happen when the real level of effort is costed out.
Alberta’s climate plan is to light a match, throw it in some crude oil and walk away yelling WE GOT ETHICAL OIL MOTHERFUCKERS while laughing maniacally as the province and world burns.
"Alberta book bans target LGBTQ+ titles... It’s a major initiative right now that grows out of this notion that 'our kids are our property'. It’s a very backward-looking, reactionary way of understanding how children learn." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Okay. Yes and, following Corey's pattern, I'll do this: PAID MATERNITY LEAVE In 1981 CUPW, had a 41 day long strike, the outcome of which was paid maternity benefits for postal workers which eventually became paid maternity, paternity, and adoptive leave for parents. www.cupw.ca/en/june-30-1...
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
“I kissed a dead bird I found on the side of the road once and got chirpes, which is a canarial disease.”
Someone please kill me right now.
This is a painful read. I mean seriously painful. But it’s also a must-read, and must-share, for everyone.
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war. The total number of journalists and media workers killed in this conflict since October 2023 is at least 189, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @theguardian.com @pressfreedom.bsky.social #journalism
Chumbawamba have always been on the correct side. youtu.be/PJqtxFdx-rA?...
Like… in 2000, they did this Live, *In Düsseldorf*, three days after 4/20. I mean GOD DAMN. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...
Canada is for the owners, the shareholders, and everyone else can get fucked. If you live off wages or a salary, die mad. You don't matter. The owners can do whatever the fuck they want not only without consequences, but with increased dividends.
Deliberate and exactly what DOGE wanted to achieve.
Well, who reads at school anyway? I mean, that sounds woke. Like education. And kindness. And knowledge. Reading leads to thinking, creativity, imagination, and understanding. Can’t have that kind of learning happening in schools.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
if we pick candidates with strong policies in defense of trans people who ALSO have great policies in support of whatever your thing is - housing, the economy, immigration, defense spending, healthcare (all of which affect trans people!) - then there’s no reason for trans rights to cost them voters!
Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵
What's fascinating to me is they're of course never actually concerned with the actual smutty books. They don't even know what they are. Trust me, I work in a library. There is no smut in the kids or even teen sections. (Though I do have a story for that). "Think of the children" is always a ruse!
If only she didn't deny the freedom of Alberta's trans kids by stomping on their authenticity & removing their ability to have gender affirming healthcare. Freedom for me, but not for thee... If only she wasn't using my tax dollars to appeal the court decision on the constitutionality of Bill26.
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Finance Minister Nate Horner thinks 12% increase - over 4 years for teachers is too much. But he voted in favour of a ln immediate 14% living allowance increase for MLAs. Just sayin’…
This is why the UCP spend so much time trying to convince their base that unions are bad. If more of their base were union members, more of them would be taking home a fair wage for a day's work, to support their families. A vote for UCP is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face!
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
These people in 1933: "don't be so single issue about Jewish rights"
Dangit! Sounds Tweedy-esque...
Saw them on Friday, and I have to say $100 a ticket to see Wilco at the Jubilee with those acoustics for three hours was an absolute steal.
Edmonton #YEG Highlands! Keep your eyes peeled for a long-haired grey cat. Fiasco is still on the loose. He's been chipped but he's not wearing his collar. More info here! edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
We had one of these in Toronto, he was the Mayor and his name was Rob Ford
ceo caught on video stealing a hat from a kid at a tennis match. ceo caught on video cheating on his wife at a coldplay concert. guys i’m starting to worry cameras make ceos turn evil
CDC in 2020: wash your hands in boiling water CDC today: cure the flu by sucking on nickels
www.thestar.com/politics/the... I am quoted extensively, summarizing a presentation that I gave on Tuesday about the Smith govt and COVID.
Calgary Public Library knows where it’s at. 🌈
Northern Ontario #FirstNations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire. Communities along the #Attawapiskat River are reclaiming the land to stop Doug Ford’s massive mining project. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/l... #onpoli #RingOfFire #mining
A few more photos of the site where Neskantaga and Attawapiskat members have been building what they say will be a permanent village to block the road to the Ring of Fire.
Bob is magnificent. Somebody go bring Bob home.
It’s #caturday so let me introduce you to Bob! He’s a handsome FIV+ 9 year old who likes other cats. Avail near Sacramento at Bradshaw animal shelter. SO SQUISHY! Can you share @fishtopher.bsky.social @missybbbobtail.bsky.social @catsofyore.bsky.social
mark carney’s first project of national interest should be the high-speed rail line
a common nazi position on the holocaust, when they’re not busily trying to deny it outright, is roughly that it was the necessary sacrifice of some fraction of the population of europe — an insignificant number to them, of course — in order to save the long-suffering germans they’d been holding back
Yeah, that definitely sounds like a eugenicist thing to say.
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
to say nothing of the whole purge of the sciences because “nuclear physics is a jewish science” thing. so, yeah, there were wholesale attacks on science under the third reich.
always a question of “what science counts to you” but the destruction of the world’s first trans clinic was in 1933 and most of the elimination program borrowed whole cloth from US jim crow pseudoscientific eugenics, so for sure, yeah the literal nazis did RFK shit.
Nazi Germany in fact relaxed and eventually overturned vaccine requirements that had been in place prior to the rise of Hitler, so there's that
Pretty sure this catfish did not enjoy his flight this morning. 🪶
Every day I come on here and see photos of massacred Palestinians who look like my nieces, nephews, cousins, uncles...and in the next moment I have to argue with someone who spends all their energy telling me I should have overlooked genocide instead of telling their candidates to stop the genocide
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.
The camera's only 12 MP and apparently gives everything a slight fish-eyed effect, so you can't even argue these are for people who want to take great photos instantly. They're for pervs who don't care about photo quality. And self-documentarians, but they're likely far outnumbered by the pervs.
If Meta's glasses used AI to blur images of every human form until that human gives them a "I consent to being filmed" signal, I guarantee sales would plummet. They're perv glasses, made by pervs, for pervs.
Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.
Chicago: Buckle up for the invasion. Save this graphic. We’re at your service. 🫡
Vicious compliance, malicious compliance, whatever. This book ban is an affront and the incoherence and lack of justification for its underlying premises have been beautifully exposed. On the eve of Calgary Pride, I say you go, Edmonton school board! #abpoli #ableg 🌈
I hope RFK Jr is ready to perform the Last Rites for him (strapping his leaking carcass to the roof of his car and driving a minimum of 3 states before stuffing it in a chest freezer and forgetting about it)
A paragraph from this MIT study, which I read with my own two eyes, and you should, too.
teachers in Alberta need a groundswell of popular and union support to show the UCP that they're not going to prevail in this fight
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Coincidentally, that's how much water the AI used to take his order.
UCP are scared of teachers, pass it on.
EDMONTON: HELP Mayday mayday SOS: both Fiasco and Franca have gotten out of the house through a busted window screen and the back gate was found open by my catsitter I am VERY FAR AWAY! If you are in the Highlands region can you keep your eye out
So Carney put the former head of trans mountain - a 40+ billion boondoggle- in charge of major projects?! Carney keeps on giving fossil fuel interests exactly what they want, with no hint of a climate plan As the country keeps burning, he's lighting the matches www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
ARE THEY JUST SUPPOSED TO MANIFEST HOMES WITH BOOTSTRAPS AND STERN LOOKS FROM YOU?????????? YOU FUCKING FUCKS. THEY NEED ~HELP~ YOU FUCKING FASCIST. They are not a disease, but a tragic casualty symptom of the larger disease you're perpetuating.
Please stop supporting this guy, asking people to support this guy, or yelling at people who don't for this guy. Stan for walz or moore or furgeson or anybody just, just not this guy. You're just gonna trade red fascism for blue fascism just because you're scared. Please let's not with this guy.
Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means you’re nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.
Joshua J. Friedman 