All of which is a long way to recommend some alternatives to the ole genocide and ICE supporting standbys and to say I’ll probably linger on bluesky without keeping up much of a presence and MOST IMPORTANTLY:
I’d love for you to find me on mastodon if you’re there :)
@so_nault@sunny.garden
This transition makes me feel more optimistic about being online at all. Because it works best for my tech needs, I’m a mac/iphone user and I don’t see that changing but I’ve switched my browsers to Vivaldi; email, calendar, and storage to proton; search to ecosia; and finally joined mastodon!
I’ve lost the will to commit my time to socials that will likely become future corporate sellouts. I’m not leaving and may even post more in the future but it will be because I’ve been working on streamlining my apps and web services as well as transitioning away from supporting google, meta, etc.
More please 😂
I’ll definitely share my contact info for mastodon or whatever our next hope for a Twitter equivalent is, once such an account exists !
Thank you for so thoroughly catching me up! Learning how to use mastodon can move higher up my to-do list, it seems.
Collage of photos include artist, carving, hidetanning, beadwork and weaving done by Adele Arseneau
Tan’si friends, An intro:
I’m a Cree and Métis artist, educator, speaker, and cultural worker rooted in land, story, and ancestral knowledge.
My art practice lives in beadwork, hide tanning, textiles, painting, and public talks-holding space for difficult truths, joy, and cultural resurgence. Tawaw!
The Alberta and Ontario environment ministers sent a letter to the federal government, asking it to 'refrain' from reintroducing Bill C-61/
“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”
Omg!! 😍
"[D]on't lose hope. That's when we lose."
Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)
Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...
Please keep sharing. They really need your help right now. They’re going through a lot. Donate today. Shares are always free.
We stand in solidarity with communities in Las Naves, Ecuador facing violent repression.
Since last month, they have been blocking access to the Domo Curipamba project by 🇨🇦Silvercorp Metals Inc and Salazar Resources
📸 Frente Nacional Antiminero
Northern Ontario First Nation leaders are vowing 'Idle No More 2.0' if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5.
"They’re just making things up on the fly... it's too late in the process to fix this."
NEW from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
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#onpoli #indigenous #IdleNoMore
I use -ai at the end of my searches on Google but it is starting to not always work :(
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
The thing that I am not always good about saying but want people to remember is that whatever you help ChatGPT learn how to do, OpenAI et al are selling to the military as a weapon
That by itself should be an argument for not helping them train *anything*
Special reminder that N95 masks can be used when smoke impacts air quality AND when wanting to avoid airborne illness.
Musk has experienced multiple slights lately (from his perspective) at the hands of the administration, so I don't know how this will end up. But the guy struck a Nazi pose and made cuts that will kill millions. He should never know peace. He should only know scorn and blowback forever.
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Reposting to read later.
Also: surprised substack is still so pervasive given their overt willingness to platform white supremacists
Two pink lily’s in a small green glass vase, on a wooden windowsill. Dried flowers sit on the sill around them, a lilac tree blooms in the yard behind them.
I don’t want the passage of time. I don’t want the future. I don’t want this reality, in which you’re gone. I don’t want the last two flowers from your celebration of life to wilt. Words fall so short. #personal #grieving
I taught functionally illiterate undergrads at an R1 university 15+ years ago.
Tech/LLMs made it much worse very fast, but this did not start with ChatGPT.
This started with standardized testing. It started with high school budgets being slashed. It started with colleges turning into summer camps.
The thing about the birth rate is that there are over eight billion people in the world. That’s actually too many humans. We have a resource crisis.
Every single one of the birth rate worriers is talking about a race war. That is the entire thing. They are worried about dominance in a race war.
People try and act like racism doesn't exist in Canada when there's questions like this in the federal leadership debate
“…outdoor and environmental educators need to remain ever vigilant of the political ramifications of the knowledges of ‘nature’ which inform their pedagogies.” 🙌🏽 #academicsky #higherEd #environmentaljustice #socialecology
Call for papers, due end of April. Queer ecology and the Temporal Imagination
#academicsky
