âpihtawikosisân
@apihtawikosisan.bsky.social
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
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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.
Give me a phone with a slider qwerty keyboard and keep all the "smart options" and I'll be peachy keen.
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Give me a phone with a slider qwerty keyboard and keep all the "smart options" and I'll be peachy keen.
My eldest (now adult) kid's samsung basically got bricked by an update and she fundamentally refuses to be forced into buying a new (expensive!) smartphone every two years, so she bought an old-school flip phone is is honestly the envy of her friend group now. I am actually considering one as well.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My eldest (now adult) kid's samsung basically got bricked by an update and she fundamentally refuses to be forced into buying a new (expensive!) smartphone every two years, so she bought an old-school flip phone is is honestly the envy of her friend group now. I am actually considering one as well.
Omg sometimes things just suck and won't work no matter how hard you try...and sometimes things just come together suddenly and it's like the sun is shining again!
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Omg sometimes things just suck and won't work no matter how hard you try...and sometimes things just come together suddenly and it's like the sun is shining again!
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Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.
apihtawikosisan.com/2020/02/an-o...
Posted a wrong link to this yesterday. Was just pointing out that things remain the same - it's far too easy to get mad at Indigenous Peoples or newcomers than face the fact that this system is trying to kill us all.
Posted a wrong link to this yesterday. Was just pointing out that things remain the same - it's far too easy to get mad at Indigenous Peoples or newcomers than face the fact that this system is trying to kill us all.
apihtawikosisan.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
apihtawikosisan.com/2020/02/an-o...
Posted a wrong link to this yesterday. Was just pointing out that things remain the same - it's far too easy to get mad at Indigenous Peoples or newcomers than face the fact that this system is trying to kill us all.
Posted a wrong link to this yesterday. Was just pointing out that things remain the same - it's far too easy to get mad at Indigenous Peoples or newcomers than face the fact that this system is trying to kill us all.
Anyone else not able to get through to resources at jps.library.utoronto? Like this just will not load for me, and I want to make sure I'm using the most current link to "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor."
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/de...
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/de...
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)
| Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
jps.library.utoronto.ca
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Anyone else not able to get through to resources at jps.library.utoronto? Like this just will not load for me, and I want to make sure I'm using the most current link to "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor."
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/de...
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/de...
Get offline for a day. Create something.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Get offline for a day. Create something.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
I'm serious.
You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.
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Quw’utsun Nation (Cowichan) is reassuring private landowners they have no desire to take homes and is criticizing the mayor of Richmond and province of B.C., among others, for “negative and erroneous messaging.. provoking unnecessary fears.” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Quw’utsun Nation (Cowichan) is reassuring private landowners they have no desire to take homes and is criticizing the mayor of Richmond and province of B.C., among others, for “negative and erroneous messaging.. provoking unnecessary fears.” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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The Prefect of the Paris police at the time was Maurice Papon, who had been a known collaborator with the Nazis during WWII. He committed other crimes as a French official and more unoficcially. He was (later) convicted for crimes against humanity, but never for the Paris Massacre.
#OtD 17 Oct 1961 scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew was ordered for Algerians and Muslims. Over 200 were beaten to death and robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8939...
October 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Prefect of the Paris police at the time was Maurice Papon, who had been a known collaborator with the Nazis during WWII. He committed other crimes as a French official and more unoficcially. He was (later) convicted for crimes against humanity, but never for the Paris Massacre.
Writers, do you have a statement of principles on your use of AI in your work? Because if you don't, it's something you should consider.
One, because it's an important thing to sit down and think about. Do you use spell/grammar check? Do you run paragraphs through Chat GPT for editing/clarity?
One, because it's an important thing to sit down and think about. Do you use spell/grammar check? Do you run paragraphs through Chat GPT for editing/clarity?
October 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Writers, do you have a statement of principles on your use of AI in your work? Because if you don't, it's something you should consider.
One, because it's an important thing to sit down and think about. Do you use spell/grammar check? Do you run paragraphs through Chat GPT for editing/clarity?
One, because it's an important thing to sit down and think about. Do you use spell/grammar check? Do you run paragraphs through Chat GPT for editing/clarity?
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Remember when tech was supposed to invent things to help? I miss those days when I believed it would improve quality of life and health. Humans could be imagining a future where everyone has their needs met, but we're obsessed with death cults instead and tech is no exception.
October 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Remember when tech was supposed to invent things to help? I miss those days when I believed it would improve quality of life and health. Humans could be imagining a future where everyone has their needs met, but we're obsessed with death cults instead and tech is no exception.
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There's something here around the ways that deluding yourself is getting easier as the planet falls apart. Sci fi already warned us but here we go collapsing our own futures instead of solving the problems.
Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.
The Blurred Truths of Sora
Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.
wrd.cm
October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
There's something here around the ways that deluding yourself is getting easier as the planet falls apart. Sci fi already warned us but here we go collapsing our own futures instead of solving the problems.
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Wowwww
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Wowwww
The responses to this...ffs. Clueless fucking people who didn't bother paying attention to how others were treated when they were doing the work looong before this. Cripes.
Why are y'all so bad at operational security?
(rhetorical question)
(rhetorical question)
Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
Print it.
Put it in a frame.
Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 
October 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The responses to this...ffs. Clueless fucking people who didn't bother paying attention to how others were treated when they were doing the work looong before this. Cripes.
I had a self-imposed moratorium on buying new earrings that has lasted about two years? Anyway, it needs to be lifted.
October 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I had a self-imposed moratorium on buying new earrings that has lasted about two years? Anyway, it needs to be lifted.
As an author who has worked with a translator for two of my books, I want to very publicly emphasize that I will never, ever use machine translations for my work. I don't care how sophisticated it might be or get.
When you work with a translator, it's a relationship.
When you work with a translator, it's a relationship.
October 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
As an author who has worked with a translator for two of my books, I want to very publicly emphasize that I will never, ever use machine translations for my work. I don't care how sophisticated it might be or get.
When you work with a translator, it's a relationship.
When you work with a translator, it's a relationship.
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In the past 24 hours, Mark Carney has promised to boost the number of security agents (RCMP + CBSA) by 2000.
Has a single journalist talked with @sandela.bsky.social or Robyn Maynard about what this means for canadian society?
Has a single journalist talked with @sandela.bsky.social or Robyn Maynard about what this means for canadian society?
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In the past 24 hours, Mark Carney has promised to boost the number of security agents (RCMP + CBSA) by 2000.
Has a single journalist talked with @sandela.bsky.social or Robyn Maynard about what this means for canadian society?
Has a single journalist talked with @sandela.bsky.social or Robyn Maynard about what this means for canadian society?
I quite innocently agreed to do a guest lecture because I've done it for that class before and it's a great time - and it went fine and such, but I was back on campus basically for the first time since I quit academia and it LEVELLED ME. I came home with what felt like a fever.
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I quite innocently agreed to do a guest lecture because I've done it for that class before and it's a great time - and it went fine and such, but I was back on campus basically for the first time since I quit academia and it LEVELLED ME. I came home with what felt like a fever.
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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.
Ummmm, you do realize all this "Canadian digital sovereignty" stuff requires unfettered access to Indigenous land.
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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.
Ummmm, you do realize all this "Canadian digital sovereignty" stuff requires unfettered access to Indigenous land.
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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
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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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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".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.
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I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.
October 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.