Demetrius
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Demetrius
@dreametrius.bsky.social
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Registered Social Worker in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Posting about books, drugs, poverty, AOP, and decolonization. Views are my own.
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Should have done some regional brackets. That could have included a few outliers. I see Ogopogo more BCish than Sasquatch (as a White settler tbf).
@jmcelroy.bsky.social

What the heck? Sasquatch but no Ogopogo?

This is a travesty!

#justiceforogopogo
Raven vs Orca is a hard choice.
I would say that this article was a good and foundational read for my Social Work education at UVic.
My 2016 essay "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" is the top read on my website ever since it got picked up as a reading for university courses - I'm hoping people are reading the updated version!

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My 2016 essay "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" is the top read on my website ever since it got picked up as a reading for university courses - I'm hoping people are reading the updated version!

apihtawikosisan.com/2024/11/revi...
apihtawikosisan.com
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Here's my new piece. It's a deep dive into why Millennials have been infantilized and why teenagerness has been extended into young adulthood: it's a tool of social control to render entire generations incapable of organizing to fight back.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing the whiny, entitled Millennial
How avocado toast became a weapon of generational warfare that stripped Millennials of the autonomy and capacity to resist.
noraloreto.substack.com
Especially since the CPC's solutions are just neoliberal business as usual that continues to just benefit the rich.
My partner is pretty annoyed at all the people just on the SkyTrain that don't look up from their phones and watch what's going on in Vancouver. Not watching the scenery is anathema to her.
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I see that Poilievre did an interview with Jordan Peterson that included talking about inflation and house prices. I did an explainer on those talking points a while ago:
thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...
Fact Checking Poilievre’s ‘Housing Hell’ Video | The Tyee
Experts say the Conservative leader understands young people’s anger but isn’t offering any fixes.
thetyee.ca
AITA for blowing up a Romulan ship and lying about it to bring them into the Dominion War?

Asking for a friend.
Yeah. According to the story, they eventually were unable to share any surplus food as they were just surviving themselves.
My wife's grandma tells us a lot of stories of her time in Vancouver. One of my favourite is of her mother who was referred to as False Creek Mom as she fed people during the great depression out of her garden.

She said people still recognized her a long time after. I cry just thinking of it 😥
I've been out of school since April and I'm already missing reading academic social work articles. I think I have a problem.
Muppets Christmas Carol is definitely my top.
Anyone read Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness? What sort of vibe is it? #booksky #canadianlit
A reminder to all the Canadian peeps out there that Conservatives all over the country want to make our healthcare more and more like the American system. #PeopleNotProfits.
Definitely serious. Human development theories have a long way to go and are not much removed from White middle/upper class research at schools like Harvard and Princeton.
We need to decolonize all of human development. Just throw it all out.
Ultimately most conversation on "addiction" ignores the etiology of it. Which is first and foremost colonialism and capitalism and the reduction of human beings into what they provide through their labour. Which in turn causes trauma, and social exclusion. And the lies which is the "war on drugs".
Proponents of involuntary treatment omit the risk of OD and death when people enter it. People take risks in recovery but also can consent to take OAT which can prevent OD. Are you forcing people to take medications? Mental health act detainees can refuse meds.

www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...
Forced into treatment
As involuntary treatment gains political traction in Canada, CBC News goes to Washington state to find out how it can help — and what can go wrong
www.cbc.ca