Patty Thille

Striking to read this and flip through a number of countries in your head to which it might apply:

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

#Alberta folks who are Canadians and have no desire to play the separation game: make sure to get your name on this!

Democracy requires defending but systems of power don't give up easily.

Wishing everyone immense safety and community care today ✊💛

Leave your phone at home ideally and if not, remove facial recognition passwords and put it on airplane mode!

Tell trusted people where you'll be but tell them to STFU if the cops call them!

Document brutalities but don't post the faces of comrades!

Wear sturdy, closed toe shoes you can run in!

Don't use milk for tear gas!

Only wear safety goggles if they're shatter proof!

Avoid wearing contacts because they make tear gas worse!

Cover up, so you don't need sunscreen because sunscreen also clings to tear gas!

Memorize the # of a lawyer or loyal friend who can bail you out!

Sending solidarity for #NoKings from Canada!

I'm so happy to hear you are getting Nuit Blanche back! It's my absolute favorite city event (and thankfully #Winnipeg keeps going strong).

If anyone needs an example of how corruption can happen in Canada, take a peek at the UCP practices in #alberta #abpoli

They are saying "nothing to see here" because they didn't look (while pretending they did).

Truly the worst kind of politicians: those who refuse transparency & accountability.

Please help amplify this to help us reach as many Indigenous #academic folks as possible!

The new Indigenous Scholars will be connected to a growing community in other departments and health sciences programs.

They can supervise graduate students in more than one program through cross-listing.

Come work with me!

We are hiring two tenure-track #Indigenous Scholars in the Depts of Physical Therapy & Respiratory Therapy at the University of Manitoba. You needn't have a therapy background; lots of possibilities in terms of how to contribute:

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'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.

Incredible, heartbreaking interviews by @reportrix.bsky.social.

Quote: "“You show your love really weird," the girl says of [Premier] Smith." 💔

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-...

The kids, they know what's going down. They're fighting for their actual lives. No bluster. No exaggeration.

🔔🆕 Manitoba’s new climate plan sets net-zero by 2050, with time-bound legislated targets and reporting. We’re excited to see it centre Indigenous collaboration, clean job transitions & #RenewableEnergy.

“This isn’t an obligation – it’s an opportunity.” — Minister Mike Moyes

Have you ever witnessed sexual harassment on the bus & not known what to do? Ever heard a transphobic slur being hurled at someone and worried that stepping in would just make it worse?

Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!

I've got 4 webinars left! Registration links :

I haven't lived in Ottawa for a decade and I immediately remember Paulette. May her memory be a blessing.

Absolutely. This is politics, not good policy.

My gut sense is that she is a separatist, given how much she refuses Canadian identity and her primary identity, and her rhetoric matches that (the feds are always the enemy).

But yes, I think politics is her sport, so to speak.

"It distracts her voters from focusing on her own government’s failures, which range from failing healthcare and education systems and numerous corruption scandals to one of the highest unemployment rates in the country."

"Maybe, for all of her rhetorical crusading, she might actually prefer to see these new pipelines stay on the drawing board.

Being able to blame Ottawa for the lack of progress is a useful political cudgel, one she deploys at almost every available opportunity" #abpoli

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Our world lost one of the great ones today. I'm so thankful for all Jane Goodall brought into our lives. RIP

Excellent way of visualizing and explaining the choices facing each of us collectively: Will #reconcilation move beyond the symbolic or performative to transformative, impactful change? It's up to we non-Indigenous folks here in #Canada to keep doing the hard work and staying on the path.

But thanks to a charity mindset, it wasn't treated as an urgent problem to solve.

Maybe the anger about the new system not running frequently enough & early/late enough will shake us/Council out of it. But I think we need to vote only for people who get why great transit is essential next fall.

I call it the "good enough" attitude, which fosters a deep complacency.

The old transit system was brutal! When I moved here, I lived the first year without a car, as I had for 15 years before (in Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, & Toronto). It was impossible in terms of time demands.

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

For example, that our transit master plan is set to roll out over 25 years rather than 5, 8, or 10 years is a choice. It's a good plan, but Winnipeg is already decades behind in building the transit system a city our size needs, and taking 25 years to catch up to *what we need now* is a problem.

Can you share that? I'm not seeing it in my news scan. Thank you!

#Winnipeg city council needs to stop treating transit as if it is charity. Transit is one of the major responsibilities of any city.