Chris Wilton
@magnuspim.bsky.social
🇿🇦🇨🇦 Secret wine agent, college instructor, poetic inhibitor, amateur historian. Immigrant. Arsenal. Stormers. Springboks. he/him/his
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers | Ireland | The Guardian share.google/5LwmDMLGU0Tl...
Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers
Two new books analyse what makes the ‘perfect pub’ and both come to a sobering conclusion: Irish pubs are in trouble
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December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers | Ireland | The Guardian share.google/5LwmDMLGU0Tl...
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Adieu Jimmy youtu.be/U7dBMYUyRAQ?...
Jimmy Cliff You Can Get It If You Really Want
YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie
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November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Adieu Jimmy youtu.be/U7dBMYUyRAQ?...
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What does housing as a human right actually mean in a housing crisis that is only getting worse? 🏘️
BC Cities Declared Housing Is a Human Right. Now What? | The Tyee
Some municipalities are still voting against policies that could help end homelessness. Here’s a better way forward.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
What does housing as a human right actually mean in a housing crisis that is only getting worse? 🏘️
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"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton (@rosiehampton.bsky.social)
Where is the left?
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...
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I wrote about where the US's current wave of transphobia comes from, and how both Mamdani and Spanberger have shown useful ways for politicians to reject it and still win.
Stop trans scapegoating
The only more powerful narrative tool than a villain is a hero.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I wrote about where the US's current wave of transphobia comes from, and how both Mamdani and Spanberger have shown useful ways for politicians to reject it and still win.
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A failed UCP candidate is suing @pressprogress.ca for reporting and quoting things she said.
With no anti-SLAPP protection in Alberta, they've been drawn into a long, costly legal battle.
If you believe in accountability and a free press, and can spare it, give them your support.
With no anti-SLAPP protection in Alberta, they've been drawn into a long, costly legal battle.
If you believe in accountability and a free press, and can spare it, give them your support.
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
pressprogress.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A failed UCP candidate is suing @pressprogress.ca for reporting and quoting things she said.
With no anti-SLAPP protection in Alberta, they've been drawn into a long, costly legal battle.
If you believe in accountability and a free press, and can spare it, give them your support.
With no anti-SLAPP protection in Alberta, they've been drawn into a long, costly legal battle.
If you believe in accountability and a free press, and can spare it, give them your support.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
If you're in Toronto this Sunday, wear blue and come down to our Acid Trip! #LetsGOBlueJays
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Acid Trip: Consumer Taste & Buy
Taste through a portfolio of international wines, spirits, and sakes crafted by organic, biodynamic, and sustainable producers.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If you're in Toronto this Sunday, wear blue and come down to our Acid Trip! #LetsGOBlueJays
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Requiescat in Pace Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies at 54 | CBC News share.google/hZAsuNapPM4N...
Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies at 54 | CBC News
Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Requiescat in Pace Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies at 54 | CBC News share.google/hZAsuNapPM4N...
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#tdih 1871, a mob of about 500 Anglo & Latino men rioted in LA's Chinatown. They lynched at least 17 Chinese residents. 💔
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
Oct. 24, 1871: Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre
A lynch mob of 500 Anglo and Latino Los Angelinos rioted and murdered at least 17 Chinese residents after a white civilian died in a shootout.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#tdih 1871, a mob of about 500 Anglo & Latino men rioted in LA's Chinatown. They lynched at least 17 Chinese residents. 💔
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...
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Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”
I found this poem in a birthday text to a dear friend and thought I might give it a second life. My mother emigrated to 🇨🇦, a comet with a tail; her mother had a stroke when mine was 13; her mother emigrated as a teen from 🇮🇳 to 🇿🇦، with her mother, indentured, 2 women alone. I cook to hear them.
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I found this poem in a birthday text to a dear friend and thought I might give it a second life. My mother emigrated to 🇨🇦, a comet with a tail; her mother had a stroke when mine was 13; her mother emigrated as a teen from 🇮🇳 to 🇿🇦، with her mother, indentured, 2 women alone. I cook to hear them.
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With the Voting Rights Act in front of SCOTUS, here are lessons and books for K-12 on the history of voter suppression and the long (ongoing) fight for voting rights.
#TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️
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#TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️
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Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights
To help students respond to the threats to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights.
www.zinnedproject.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
With the Voting Rights Act in front of SCOTUS, here are lessons and books for K-12 on the history of voter suppression and the long (ongoing) fight for voting rights.
#TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
#TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
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“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
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This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Excellent overview of alcohol levels in wine from our leading light
Let's reconsider how we think about alcohol levels - Decanter share.google/sOxGnss9I7Hd...
Let's reconsider how we think about alcohol levels - Decanter share.google/sOxGnss9I7Hd...
Let's reconsider how we think about alcohol levels - Decanter
With climate change causing alcohol levels to climb, it’s time to reassess how we think about the abv of our bottle – wine lovers and winemakers alike.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Excellent overview of alcohol levels in wine from our leading light
Let's reconsider how we think about alcohol levels - Decanter share.google/sOxGnss9I7Hd...
Let's reconsider how we think about alcohol levels - Decanter share.google/sOxGnss9I7Hd...
Adieu Diane la di da
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October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Adieu Diane la di da
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Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.
I ❤️ Portland
I ❤️ Portland
October 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.
I ❤️ Portland
I ❤️ Portland
Oh we definitely need to know who this guy is now
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh we definitely need to know who this guy is now