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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 14h

Alberta’s education system has become the latest front in a growing political and ideological struggle. Journalist @melwoods.me investigates how far-right movements mirroring those found in the US have made their way into classrooms north of the border: thewalrus.ca/the-battle-brewi...

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 12h

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Cassandra @casindc.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s a checklist of the basics to secure your digital devices. activistchecklist.org

Digital Security Checklists for Activists

Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.

activistchecklist.org

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 23h

The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 18h

One of many beetles we saw in the Okanagan, this one is probably Liotrichus umbripennis.

#liotrichus #beetle #insect #arthropod #invertebrate #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #bcparks #inaturalist #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

A close-up, top-down photo of a black beetle with goldish blotches on its elytra, and some tiny hairs on its carapace.

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 18h

Do you mean a central party politburo in a single-party state? Or do you just mean a committee in each company that runs things?

I don't see how the former necessarily follows. The latter for sure, but I'm not sure how different that is from the boards and suites that run businesses now.

Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 19h

Given the power businesses have to provide or deny employment or important services, having our governments be elected and our businesses be mostly not elected feels like we've only half-democratized the power structures of society at best.

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 19h

The more I think about this, the more I think it's a great framing.

What are business profits if not taxes levied on workers by an unelected ruling class?

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 19h

The phrase #NoKings has me musing about a way of looking at corporations.

Profits are taken from the labour of workers and given to the control of employers, who in most companies are not elected by their own employees.

Sure feels like taxation without representation by an unelected ruling class.

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Teabree Shark @nurse.fish · 2d

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 19h

This sounds like very important research! Would following the team here be the best way to stay up to date with progress and results?

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Kelly McGahey @kellymcgahey.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody’s asking me, but since poverty is a significant driver of crime the way I’d like to see our federal government reduce crime is to significantly reduce poverty through adequate basic income and housing.
#CanadaSky #cdnpoli

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 20h

That was an extremely fun sequence to write!

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 2d

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 2d

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 2d

Not the clearest photos, but I was very excited to find this Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus in the field!

#springtail #arthropod #sminthurinus #invertebrate #macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extremely close top-down view of a cute round little black springtail with two white spots on its body and some white on its head.

An extremely close side view of a cute round little black springtail with two white spots on its body and some white on its head.

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 2d

My thoughts exactly. Thomas is about halfway between the two, after all...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

This isn’t the whole story, of course – but if it’s not at the core of your story, you’re on the wrong track.

Add “Once democracy made it possible for women to threaten patriarchal domination and for queer people to publicly affirm their identity” – and we’re already very, very close.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 6d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 4d

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 4d

And the winner of this year’s ✨Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year✨ goes to Andrea Dominizi!

Awarded for their poignant picture of a longhorn beetle seemingly watching the destruction of its own forest. Or maybe the beetle is a symbol of resilience, surviving against all the odds 📸🧪🪲

A longhorn beetle stands on a log in focus at the bottom left corner of the frame, as a logging machinery is pictured blurred in the background.

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 6d

Fun fact, you can answer all of these questions by talking about how much you want the government to protect you *FROM* "AI" rather than how much you want them to fund it. Give it a try!

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 10d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Fnord Borgly @borgly.bsky.social · 7d

Every billionaire should be treated as an existential risk on the level of a loose nuke.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 7d

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence

Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 8d

You haven't already signed the #foreverCanadian petition you can find a signing location at the link below
This would be a great thing to do on Thanksgiving weekend
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...

Forever Canadian Official Campaign Website

Forever Canadian campaign is a grassroots coalition of Canadians aimed at reinforcing Canadian unity. It is a proactive vehicle to secure Alberta's continued place in Canada.

www.forever-canadian.ca

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Guerric @guerrichache.ca · 9d

I got up close and personal with Thalictrum occidentale (the Western meadow-rue).

#flower #plant #macro #macrophotography #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

An extreme close-up of a meadow-rue flower, with many white-fuzzed pink structures growing from pale green bulbs in the middle of the flower. It is a very small flower.

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