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âpihtawikosisân

@apihtawikosisan.bsky.social

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Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you're new here, I will never accept that settler colonial nations have any right to exist. Decolonization means Indigenous land and life-ways back, no cops, no landlords, and probably other stuff that might twist up your ginch so beware.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 3d

It's as if there's some sort of weird cognitive algorithm in the minds of settlers that Indigenous Peoples = backwards and savage therefore anything tech related doesn't apply to them.

Ummmm, you do realize all this "Canadian digital sovereignty" stuff requires unfettered access to Indigenous land.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 3d

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 3d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 12d

So the Anthropic settlement, does it just not cover Canadian published works?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

They're terrorizing people to create fascist propaganda content to circulate on social media.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

istanbulshiite.bsky.social @istanbulshiite.bsky.social · 12d

DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 12d

Paige and Steph were invited by Lil'wat and N'Quatqua to see why the temporary park closure matters, not only to the First Nations but to the park itself. A beautiful story to read & witness on the last day of the fall closure.

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 13d

For the last month, Joffre Lakes Park has been closed to the public, as Lil'wat and N'Quatqua members reconnect with their traditional territory. Here's what one of B.C.'s busiest parks looks like at rest. By @sevawood.bsky.social with photos by Paige Taylor White. thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...

What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal

A month-long closure ends Oct. 3. Here’s what Instagram-famous Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw, looks like when it’s quiet and closed to the public

thenarwhal.ca

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 12d

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13d

Gaza death toll rises to 66,225 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-66225

Gaza death toll rises to 66,225

<article data-history-node-id="429551" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-66225" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-66225" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll rises to 66,225</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israeli forces since October 2023 has risen to 66,225, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The majority of those killed are women and children. At least 168,938 others have been wounded during that time.</p> <p>The ministry said that 51 bodies and 222 wounded individuals were brought to hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 12d

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Rossa Palestina | Red Palestine - Italian Song (ENG / ITA LYRICS & VIDEO)

YouTube video by The Astro Theory

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Storm "Rain of Terror" Blakley, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 13d

canada, we have to clean the racist trash out of our communities.

Because this shit's fucking egregious.

Sherwin Arnott @sherwinarnott.org · 13d

A First Nations politician's office was set on fire on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This isn't the first act of violence against Nahanni Fontaine's office. Her windows were smashed last week. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Manitoba Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine's constituency office hit by fire | CBC News

A fire struck Manitoba Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine's West Kildonan constituency office early Tuesday morning, a week after the windows were smashed.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 13d

Students in Milan occupy university, prepare for tomorrow's general strike in solidarity with Palestine

Milano, studenti pro Pal occupano l'Università Statale: "Blocchiamo tutto"

Gli studenti dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, che manifestano a sostegno della Flotilla, hanno occupato l'ateneo e si dichiarano pronti pe…

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 13d

As others, including Ireland, rush to help their citizens involved with the flotilla, here’s what Canada’s government told me of the six Canadians on board:

“The Government of Canada is not able to guarantee the safety of Canadian travelers, or to provide them with security and protection abroad.”

Screenshot of an email.

media@international.gc.ca writes:

Hi Rachel, We will get back to you asap. Thanks,

In a follow up:

Please see our response:
The Government of Canada is not able to guarantee the safety of Canadian travelers, or to provide them with security and protection abroad. The decision to travel is personal, and individuals are responsible for their own safety abroad. Global Affairs Canada (GAC) advises Canadians avoid all travel to Palestine due to the ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip and the unpredictable security situation in the West Bank. More information is available on our travel advice webpage.
While the Goverment of Canada has no plans to accompany the flotilla, this does not in any way detract from Canada's position that humanitarian assistance into Gaza must be immediately scaled-up to address the catastrophic humanitarian situation. We continue to urge Israel to allow the immediate entry of UN-coordinated humanitarian assistance, via land crossings, into and throughout Gaza.
Since October 2023, Canada has committed more than $400 million in international assistance in response to the current crises in Palestine.
The immediate priority must be a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages, and a sustained influx in UN-led humanitarian aid. Canada is committed to continue

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

truthout.org

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 12d

Everything is connected. When you turn away from active genocides abroad, you'll turn away from active genocide in your own backyard. You'll allow your neighbours to be disappeared. You'll believe you're safe when you are taken away.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 13d

Never thought a whole bunch of white Brits would move me to tears...but here we are. In the end it comes down to a very simple good vs evil...nothing else matters

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 13d

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN MY BUTT www.amazon.com/Federal-Gove...

buckaroo park ranger on the right with shirt open and on the left is a unicorn postal worker they are in a national park the title is THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN MY BUTT

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13d

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general.
The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 13d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 12d

How's that sacred second amendment going for you.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 12d

It's interesting to see the non-response to ICE rounding up U.S. citizens, terrorizing citizen-children and separating them from their citizen-parents, zip-tying red-blooded "Americans" and detaining them. It's almost like allowing this to happen to non-citizens desensitized you.

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Sabocat @beedut.bsky.social · 12d

Holy crap USA.

What the hell does it take for you to rise up?

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 12d

It doesn't. I do have a slow cooker and tbh I can't stand the consistency of any of the meals. It also requires me to still buy ingredients and prepare a meal, which is the very thing that has been impossible for the past 2 years. This soup thing is very intermittent.