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WornRagged🇨🇦
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Dare-devil. Spy. Noted kook. Writes things down. Albertan in Canada.
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When the election is long past and you still don't know who your councillor is, please remember it's because Danielle Smith's base doesn't like electronic vote tabulators (which are accurate, have been used for decades, and saved time and money).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The long count: Alberta communities prepare to tally ballots by hand | CBC News
Alberta municipalities are in for a long night — and in many cases, days — to complete the more complicated process of counting every ballot on election day by hand, rather than machine.
www.cbc.ca
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The next Calgary mayor, Farkas or Sharp, stands to win with about 26 per cent of the vote.
Undecided City
Only 1 in 5 Calgary voters stuck with Jyoti Gondek.
A distant third place.
In a city that hasn’t rejected a sitting mayor since 1980 and Ralph Klein
Frustrated by your experience with Alberta's vaccine an polling "systems"? So is Lisa Young. I'd like to speak to the manager! open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
I'd like to speak to the manager!
Go ahead.
open.substack.com
That's what I told the slightly pissed off lady behind me in line today: Thank Danielle. Tell all your friends.
Those of you standing in long lines for municipal elections in Alberta today:

1) stay in line; your voice matters
2) the long lines are a direct consequence of the conspiracy-driven policy changes brought forward by the UCP government (and not your beleaguered election workers); be kind
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Should he…leave office early, for whatever reason…we should preserve the unfinished wreckage of this stupid project and turn it into an educational exhibit about American fascism; leave it a scar on the White House facade, a permanent reminder of how bad it can get and how long the damage lasts.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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History shows us what happens when corrupt Kings destroy palaces and temples to rebuild for their golden visions and it often ends in flames and looting and razing when they die, just speaking as an archaeologist here, nothing whatsoever to do with anything modern *clutches pearls*
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It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

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Friendly one hour+ lineup to vote at Louis Riel in Oakridge. Never seen anything remotely like it. Something’s afoot in the leafy suburbs.
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To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).

To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.
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I have two books coming out tomorrow, Children of Chicago and The Shoemaker’s Magician — together they’re called The Chicago Saga. I’d love if you could preorder them, or pick them up tomorrow at your local bookstore.

You can preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/series/cynth...
The Chicago Saga | Hachette Book Group
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Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...
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This is all part of a neo-con view of health care (and education) as contract rather than health care as a basic social right.
Contractual approaches favour (and replicate) those who have the resources to contract.
Others live in poverty.
And it's generational.
Wealth begets wealth
#abpoli #cdnpoli
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Let’s make #goodtrouble, Canada.

Send a letter to the Minister of Education in your province, urging them to get oil and gas influence out of classrooms.

#abed #bced #sasked #manitoba #onted
#education
@stand.earth @350canada.bsky.social

Take action here: www.forourkids.ca/parent_minis...
Send a letter to your Minister of Education
www.forourkids.ca
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Great thread 👇
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Every public health expert - “We need to reduce barriers to entry for vaccines and increase availability!”

UCP - “So you’re saying we should open up a month and a half window to rebook vaccines for a year from now?”

Experts - *Sob uncontrollably*

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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“So it looks like you’re flying a fighter jet and wearing a crown, but it turns out it’s really a bomber and the bombs are poops. You’re up there pooping on all the cities in America because you’re the king of America, and so of course you shit on it when it doesn’t behave. It’s high concept, sir.”
You make me laugh almost every day. xo
I loved the first and will put the second on my TBR list. Thanks for the recommendation!
Thank you for this. I miss her voice.
I recently read and loved We Speak Through the Mountain by @premeemohamed.com, Never Say You Can't Survive by @charliejane.bsky.social, and The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. Make your life better and read them all.
Absolutely right. This is why we constantly say that if you love a book/author please please please tell people about it.
I’ve said this before, a lot, but when you’re an author and your book doesn’t sell your feelings can default to the premise, “Everyone in the world was offered my book and they all personally rejected it.” The truth is most people don’t know it exists. Awareness is the problem, not you or your book.