Mike 🍁
@thewarrenisempty.bsky.social
Trade unionist & troublemaker
Queer, AuDHD & CPTSD
Perpetually exhausted
Educate. Agitate. Organize.
Queer, AuDHD & CPTSD
Perpetually exhausted
Educate. Agitate. Organize.
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Mike 🍁
@thewarrenisempty.bsky.social
· May 5
Let's talk about the elephant in the room regarding the current fascist US regime and Alberta seperatism: Christian Nationalism.
Long🧵 ahead
#canpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #turtleisland #Indigenous #mbpoli #skpoli #DanielleSmith
Long🧵 ahead
#canpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #turtleisland #Indigenous #mbpoli #skpoli #DanielleSmith
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Struggling to make sense of polarization and your role as a leader? This is the most important thing you'll read today.
Polarization is not just ideological. It is emotional. It grows when people feel unsafe, unseen, or left behind.
My latest piece explains how leaders can reduce zero sum thinking and rebuild trust in an age of precarity.
abacusdata.ca/leading-in-...
My latest piece explains how leaders can reduce zero sum thinking and rebuild trust in an age of precarity.
abacusdata.ca/leading-in-...
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Struggling to make sense of polarization and your role as a leader? This is the most important thing you'll read today.
If you're in any kind of leadership position, you need to read this. It hits the nail on the head.
Polarization is not just ideological. It is emotional. It grows when people feel unsafe, unseen, or left behind.
My latest piece explains how leaders can reduce zero sum thinking and rebuild trust in an age of precarity.
abacusdata.ca/leading-in-...
My latest piece explains how leaders can reduce zero sum thinking and rebuild trust in an age of precarity.
abacusdata.ca/leading-in-...
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you're in any kind of leadership position, you need to read this. It hits the nail on the head.
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We treat corporate media mergers like weather events but they are actually *weapons* aimed at all of us 😡
alice wong's last post before dying:
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We treat corporate media mergers like weather events but they are actually *weapons* aimed at all of us 😡
I mean change "mom would be sad" to "who would take care of my cat" and yeah pretty much
two-phase grand strategy for total psychic and moral victory in any situation whatsoever:
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I mean change "mom would be sad" to "who would take care of my cat" and yeah pretty much
Can we somehow preserve Bill Clinton's wang in case we ever need to end a third presidency?
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Can we somehow preserve Bill Clinton's wang in case we ever need to end a third presidency?
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this is your regular reminder that the city owns multiple PARKING LOTS and GOLF COURSES
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
this is your regular reminder that the city owns multiple PARKING LOTS and GOLF COURSES
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I'm not saying it will happen. I'm just saying that the absolute funniest result of this is Trump being taken out by a sex act with Clinton through a leaked email. Top level humor from the universe.
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm not saying it will happen. I'm just saying that the absolute funniest result of this is Trump being taken out by a sex act with Clinton through a leaked email. Top level humor from the universe.
"[I]t is our obligation to bring in a minimum of two people: one to replace us when we retire into our well-deserved rest and another to help us grow our organization."
Amen 🙌
Amen 🙌
Read the latest commentary from #Boilermakers International President, Timothy Simmons. https://ow.ly/Em2y50X2tMt
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"[I]t is our obligation to bring in a minimum of two people: one to replace us when we retire into our well-deserved rest and another to help us grow our organization."
Amen 🙌
Amen 🙌
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me waking up to see that Bluesky suspended Patton Oswalt @patton.oswalt.bsky.social for saying that it’s evil to sexually assault children:
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
me waking up to see that Bluesky suspended Patton Oswalt @patton.oswalt.bsky.social for saying that it’s evil to sexually assault children:
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It’s too bad that those of us on the research and academic side who’ve been correctly saying that the goal for the Republicans was global ethnic cleansing and mass murder have been getting smeared by liberals and others on this site as conspiracy theorists or doomers for pointing this out months ago
Ooh, @bigthink.com this exchange between @joscha.bsky.social and Jeffrey Epstein is so eugenics-smeared. Contemplating using climate change and involuntary euthanasia of infirm and elderly to cull the population… I think I’m going to be ill.
From HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026413
From HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026413
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It’s too bad that those of us on the research and academic side who’ve been correctly saying that the goal for the Republicans was global ethnic cleansing and mass murder have been getting smeared by liberals and others on this site as conspiracy theorists or doomers for pointing this out months ago
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I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
The last Republican president who didn't start a new war was Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
"Venezuela's entire military arsenal had been placed on 'full operational readiness,' with President Nicolás Maduro ordering the deployment of nearly 200,000 soldiers."
"US now has about 15,000 troops in the area."
#USA #Venezuela #UK #Colombia #Drugs #Military #Water
"US now has about 15,000 troops in the area."
#USA #Venezuela #UK #Colombia #Drugs #Military #Water
Venezuela Mobilizes Military as US Aircraft Carrier Approaches
White House officials backtrack on Trump's threats against Venezuela, but US military actions escalate tensions. Venezuela mobilizes forces as US aircraft carrier enters region.
www.commondreams.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The last Republican president who didn't start a new war was Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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NEW: The marathon session of Council has resumed after a break for dinner. Speaker #107 of 630+ now up.
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
NEW: The marathon session of Council has resumed after a break for dinner. Speaker #107 of 630+ now up.
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
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unclear how it would even save money to remove these but the vibe of this budget is really just scraping together the barest public amenities, crushing them into fine powder, and handing the VPD a rolled-up $50 million bill
Listening to Vancouver Council budget discussion in the background this morning. In response to a question from @seanorr.bsky.social about where they'll be retracting from the city just said they're planning to REMOVE baby changing tables and menstrual product dispensers to save costs. Shameful.
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
unclear how it would even save money to remove these but the vibe of this budget is really just scraping together the barest public amenities, crushing them into fine powder, and handing the VPD a rolled-up $50 million bill
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Join @onecityvan.bsky.social for a mayor who doesn’t hate you and isn’t a complete shithead
www.onecityvancouver.ca/membership
www.onecityvancouver.ca/membership
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Join @onecityvan.bsky.social for a mayor who doesn’t hate you and isn’t a complete shithead
www.onecityvancouver.ca/membership
www.onecityvancouver.ca/membership
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff.
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff.
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
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ICYMI—@nancyjm.bsky.social wrote about policy & environmentalism on our blog
"Conservatives’ successful politicization of the environmental movement has hampered our societal ability to aggressively protect public health, biodiversity, vital ecosystems, and even the stability of our global climate"
"Conservatives’ successful politicization of the environmental movement has hampered our societal ability to aggressively protect public health, biodiversity, vital ecosystems, and even the stability of our global climate"
Conservation As Patriotism – Stanford University Press Blog
blog.sup.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ICYMI—@nancyjm.bsky.social wrote about policy & environmentalism on our blog
"Conservatives’ successful politicization of the environmental movement has hampered our societal ability to aggressively protect public health, biodiversity, vital ecosystems, and even the stability of our global climate"
"Conservatives’ successful politicization of the environmental movement has hampered our societal ability to aggressively protect public health, biodiversity, vital ecosystems, and even the stability of our global climate"
Late 1800s to early 1900s labour movement history is ridiculously relevant to modern events. It would serve most people to learn about it.
On November 11, 1887, amid the fight for the eight-hour workday, four anarchists were executed as scapegoats for the Haymarket riot—establishing May Day as a day of labor struggle.
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies
The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance
A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-determination.
crimethinc.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Late 1800s to early 1900s labour movement history is ridiculously relevant to modern events. It would serve most people to learn about it.
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On November 11, 1887, amid the fight for the eight-hour workday, four anarchists were executed as scapegoats for the Haymarket riot—establishing May Day as a day of labor struggle.
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies
The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance
A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-determination.
crimethinc.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On November 11, 1887, amid the fight for the eight-hour workday, four anarchists were executed as scapegoats for the Haymarket riot—establishing May Day as a day of labor struggle.
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies
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Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
open.spotify.com/episode/0Xt4...
Very, very strongly encourage people to give this a listen if they want some background on the New York Times and what has historically guided their editorial practices.
Very, very strongly encourage people to give this a listen if they want some background on the New York Times and what has historically guided their editorial practices.
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
open.spotify.com/episode/0Xt4...
Very, very strongly encourage people to give this a listen if they want some background on the New York Times and what has historically guided their editorial practices.
Very, very strongly encourage people to give this a listen if they want some background on the New York Times and what has historically guided their editorial practices.