Ari used to be a Rochester

Totally understand the immense value of doing it in person! Thank you for responding! I will look for resources!!

These look amazing- will any of these be offered online or is there training available so folks in other places can learn enough to offer some of this? So grateful to see this being offered - thank you!!

Communiversity Catalog: “Imprisonment Is an Aspect of Class Struggle”: Understanding Materialism — Interrupting Criminalization

2. “Imprisonment Is an Aspect of Class Struggle”: Understanding MaterialismFacilitated by Autonomous University of Political Education -
This is a 2 session class. Sliding scale from $0 to whatever.
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

This was happening when my sister & I backpacked around Europe in May & June of 1981. The boasting must hide some serious insecurity.

Each of us really can decide to do a little something every day to lessen suffering (including our own).

I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie."

THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.

I discovered Rocky Horror in 1978 (first year at uni) - the audience was a delight, riding the TTC out to the Roxy all dressed up & making normies nervous - FUN!!! 9 years later I was hanging out with John Waters & friends in Baltimore. Neither was setting out to make positive role model movies

I’m sad it’s too foggy to see the iceberg(s) today

A sign over the wall at confed that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

Oh hi, @govnl.bsky.social! It's your 233rd reminder that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

Not hard to believe, but relentlessly angry at the church & its members’ attempts to delay and not be accountable to and just pay survivors what is owed them.

The poetry collection Violet Energy Ingots by Hoa Nguyen (Wave Books) sits nestled in the branches of a blossoming cherry tree. Pink-white blossoms and bright green leaves cluster around the book.

Handwritten transcription of the brief poem "I Am Too" by Hoa Nguyen from the poetry collection Violet Energy Ingots

"I am too much
I am forever
too much"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
I Am Too by Hoa Nguyen (@peacehearty.bsky.social) from Violet Energy Ingots (2016 Wave Books) tinyurl.com/282r9p52

I just went down a rabbit hole about time banks and I’m declaring it a new special interest!

Keeping up with trends is exhausting and that’s a good enough reason to ignore them, if the rampant consumerism is bad isn’t convincing enough.

A sign over the wall at confed that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

Week 232 of reminding @govnl.bsky.social that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

A sign over the wall at confed that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

Week 231 of reminding @govnl.bsky.social that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

Huge reason why oldest daughters end up providing care tbh

Yep - screaming near the ocean is great!

Your grief is a precious testament to your love 💜

A sign over the wall at confed that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible

Week 230 of reminding @govnl.bsky.social that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

We need less "I'm autistic and I work/pay taxes" in response to RFK Jr's comments and more "autistic people are still valuable even if they can't do those things." We can't leave anyone behind in our efforts to "prove" a eugenicist wrong.

A sign over the wall at confed that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible

Hi. Hello. It's us again @govnl.bsky.social!! Here with your 228th reminder that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible even when it's cold and disgusting out.

Here’s the thing - if you stop believing you have the right to force ppl to do things you get much less resistance. There’s a cycle of fear and anger in dementia care and the ones without dementia have to break that cycle.

YouTube video by Sky Hylands Penguin Slaps Penguin

This one is stuck in my head

youtube.com/watch?v=52TL...

Gonna pester my friend Holly- she has parachuted in as an NDP candidate in the past

The language HCPs use when talking about people with complex issues is telling. Just heard the medical director of MAID NLHS refer to very complex cases as train wrecks. Infuriating!!

A sign over the wall that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible

Week 225, @govnl.bsky.social. 225. Over four years of these reminders. Long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible. That is all.

A sign over the wall at confed that reads long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible

Hi, @govnl.bsky.social-- this is your 224th weekly reminder that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible.

Hi @govnl.bsky.social! It's that day of the week again. This is week 223 of reminding you that long term mental healthcare needs to be more accessible!