Amina
@ayasinvan.bsky.social
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urban planner•🏹•anti-imperialist Pan-African•BAP•former Vancouver City Planning Commissioner #newwest 🏗️cities are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle, and yet, I love public housing, parks, trains, safe bike lanes, and benches when we get them.
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ayasinvan.bsky.social
Life is 1/3 exciting, 1/3 boring, 1/3 a nightmare, do with that what you can.
ayasinvan.bsky.social
Dope! This looks like a great tool. We could have used it when we were working to pull public hearing data across B.C. municipalities on the public hearing reform work we conducted.

Looking forward to testing out the tool when it’s available.
jameswsthomson.com
Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!
Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation
Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...
www.nationalobserver.com
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rjjago.bsky.social
Of the 2500 or so Palestinian people Israel released, they determined that 150 were so dangerous they would only be released in another country. Which means that the other 2300 or so weren't actually dangerous, and were in fact hostages that were traded for IDF pows. The news should reflect that.
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kwardvancouver.bsky.social
oh hells. this is an emergency, I've been trying to sort things out and now I'm facing a housing problem. I need to ask for some help, if you can chip in, I so appreciate it.

etransfer: [email protected]
a pixel art of a monkey giving a fist bump
Alt: side-eye meme monkey is freaking out because here comes the Imperial snowwalkers on ice planet Hoth
media.tenor.com
ayasinvan.bsky.social
Amazing! This is precisely what incorruptible Black self-determination, liberation and futurism looks like, outside of liberal state control and influence.
kamaufranklin.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the Love, Land & Liberation Project! CMB has purchased 14 acres of land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, husbandry, mutual-aid, coop projects, organizing retreats & trainings. Our land will be used to grow movement.
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kamaufranklin.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the Love, Land & Liberation Project! CMB has purchased 14 acres of land 20 minutes outside of Atlanta as a space for food production, husbandry, mutual-aid, coop projects, organizing retreats & trainings. Our land will be used to grow movement.
ayasinvan.bsky.social
Since Israeli society is primarily made up of a non-Indigenous Amero -European class, that constantly harkens to dog whistles about “western civilization” and Euro-Atlantic connections they should be made to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, as the EU is calling on Russia to do with Ukraine.
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dropsitenews.com
FIFA president Gianni Infantino was confronted in New York by the Black Alliance for Peace (@Blacks4Peace on X), demanding Israel’s expulsion from international football and denouncing the U.S. as a “genocide-complicit” World Cup host.

The action connects to the wider #GameOverIsrael campaign…
ayasinvan.bsky.social
The Black Flea Market was incredible this weekend, an event through the Black therapy foundation. There was a great mix of vendors. I got some Kenyan tea, a great repurposed and restyled dyed orange vest and delighted in the Black creativity around me.

vancouverblacktherapyfoundation.com/staff
A purple standing banner, at the front of the flea market entrance reads: 

VBT&AF
VANCOUVER BLACK THERAPY
& ADVOCACY FOUNDATION
OUR MISSION
Our survival is rooted in healing, and our healing is rooted in revolution."
- Angela Davis
WHAT WE DO
Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Foundation is a black- led and black-serving organization that connects Black individuals and families facing barriers to mental healthcare to our free counselling services, low-cost counselling services, patient navigation services and advocacy.

Someone is standing to the right of the banner wearing a green jacket, blue jeans and a mask you see them from the back of their head. 


An image of the inside of the market approximately 15 people in view, with people at booths selling different items. Image of a table with black table cloth and a post-it that reads: “Pick a card.
Write your truth+ leave it in the bowl!
Take a pic + juurnal
it later. Instructions + use notepad →”

The card game is green and on one side it says “intrigued” and has an illustration of “star people” on it. Two cards are flipped over on the first card the prompt asks “What's a topic you nerd out on?” On the second card the prompt reads “What's the last list you wrote?” The image shows a person sitting at a table looking at their phone l, they have long curly solved l/grey hair and they’re wearing an orange embroidered jersey. On the table there are knotting items and on the clothing rack displayed are creative fashion items that include repurposed and dyed jeans jackets turned into jean vests and other items include knitted sweaters in a soft turquoise, a purple and lilac and orange colour.
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abesilbe.bsky.social
Pro-Israelists will not like this answer, even though it basically says nothing. They don't want nothing. They want a firm rejection of this charge. Anything less is a demonstration of their weakened position.
diplomatofnight.com
On MSNBC, Kamala Harris was asked if she agreed that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

“I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed [...] the refusal to give aid, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah.”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris held back from labeling Israel's actions in Gaza a "genocide" on Sunday but said it was an appropriate question.
"A lot of folks in your party have called what's happening in Gaza a genocide. Do you agree with that?" correspondent Eugene Daniels asked Harris during an interview on MSNBC's "The Weekend."
"Listen, it is a term of law that a court will decide," Harris responded. "But I will tell you that when you look at the number of children that have been killed, the number of innocent civilians that have been
killed, the refusal to give aid and support, we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah."
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okwonga.bsky.social
It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
ayasinvan.bsky.social
“Peace in the middle-east”: they murdered Journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi a day after the ceasefire, his 4.5 mil account on instagram was removed. The archive of his page on the way back machine is wiped. Israel is colluding with techfeudalists to remove evidence of their war crimes from the Internet.
atrupar.com
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
ayasinvan.bsky.social
Something interesting I’m noticing in my apartment is that we have a lot more Americans - from NY, Cali, Texas etc - who’ve moved out to #newwest. Some moved the last time Trump was elected while a few folks came through recently. Not the “new immigrants” most think of when they see NW pop increase.
ayasinvan.bsky.social
Exactly! Walking is what we do and more people are getting back to cycling, which was massive before “urbanism” and “active transportation” was even a thing. I remember growing up & visiting Thika where it was clear that the primary modes were cycling and walking and the original uber was a bicycle.
www.kenyanews.go.ke
ayasinvan.bsky.social
This man is incredibly ignorant about global majority cities, mobility, climate and how people adapt. He’s also clearly never traveled to mild-climate global south cities:

Nairobi, Arusha, Durban, Capetown, San José, Marrakech, Bogotá etc.

Re: x.com/noahpinion/s...

A video of Nairobi pedestrians.
ayasinvan.bsky.social
A sheep’s Batty: When Karen on RHOL discovers what haggis is.

This show is such a guilty pleasure at this time.
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ivacheung.com
#NewWest! I put a hardcover of #AfterTheFeast in the Little Free Library on 4th St. between Regina and 5th.
A hand inserting a copy of the book *After the Feast* into a Little Free Library. A Little Free Library with the book *After the Feast* visible through the window.
ayasinvan.bsky.social
This has me cackling.

Trump looking directly at Starmer with the confidence of a man who knows two things for certain:

1. Canada is somewhere in the room
2. He is looking at the President of Canada, Kier Starmer.

A stunning display of the entire collapsing house of cards inside this fools head!
atrupar.com
Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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Also, all the people he tortured, raped, enslaved and mutilated were also people of their time. I suspect if anything they felt rather *more* strongly that Columbus was a bad person than even the most fingerwagging person on Bluesky does.

Always worth thinking who we count as "of their time".
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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mcsweeneys.net
"While your proposal to increase the bed availability in your shelter from 80 to 140 by purchasing accessory dwelling units was a surprisingly resourceful plan, the budget and governance committees have identified pickleball as the issue that voters care about most."
Thank You for Submitting Your Homeless Shelter Application, but We’ve Decided to Use City Funds for Thirty-Five New Pickleball Courts Instead
Thank you for submitting your grant application for a homelessness shelter expansion. We received many competitive proposals, including yours. With...
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dropsitenews.com
Brother of journalist Saleh al-Jaafrawi is freed from Israeli detention one day after his murder. Scenes of him returning to Gaza 👇🏼
🚨BREAKING | Martyr Saleh al-Jaafarawi’s brother, Naji al-Jaafarawi, was just released from Israeli torture camps and transferred to Nasser Medical Complex, one day after his brother Saleh was shot and killed by Israeli occupation-backed gangs in Gaza City. Naji, who spent a long time in Israeli occupation captivity under severe conditions, returned weakened and scarred.

97salah_ib (IG)
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dropsitenews.com
Video: Translating Falasteen (Palestine) via X (@translatingpal)
ayasinvan.bsky.social
You’re likely AI but I’ll respond regardless, do you see the line that reads “without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators?” Israel used hunger and the colonial divide & conquer tactic to recruit an Israeli backed militia, that murdered Saleh.
THE NAT
ZONAL
THE NEWSPAPER THAT SUPPORTS AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND
HOW GENOCIDE HAPPENED
"No Arab will remain in Gaza"
"Noone must inhabit this land if it is not the Jewish people"
"Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz museum"
"I am for war crimes, I don't care if l'm criticised"
"Aid trucks continue to enter Gaza... enough!"
"We are too humanitarian. We have to burn Gaza now"
"It's not Hamas that should be eliminated. Raze Gaza"
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators"
"It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being involved"
FOUR-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT
As Israel continues to deny genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words - from the country's own prime minister, press and more - that show how atrocity came to pass
ayasinvan.bsky.social
Israel has lost its narrative war.
scotnational.bsky.social
A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened
ayasinvan.bsky.social
May Allah widen his grave, fill it with light & grant him Jannatul firdaus. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

The murder of Saleh Al Jafarawi is a gut wrenchingly sad reminder that Israel will never uphold a ceasefire when their mission is to fully genocide Palestinians.