Allison 😣

I know that some education workers didn’t bother to vote because they “aren’t political”.

Caring about the safety and wellbeing of children is political.

Wanting children to be clothed, fed, and housed is political.

We can’t afford to “not be political”.

Next phase in Big Tech takeover/ rightwing demolition of education: mass hiring of faculty with "expertise in AI" as in-house promoters.

Doug Ford's war on tenants Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back

Doug Ford’s war on tenants: Ontario’s new housing bill is a gift to corporate landlords — and a warning shot at the rent strikers and organizers who dared to fight back.

New from @colewebber.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/justice/hous...

#HousingIsAHumanRight #onpoli

Musk and Trump and all who enabled them own this horrific carnage.

How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment | The Narwhal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back many Trudeau-era environmental programs and creates a youth climate corps

These are the environmental programs to be cut under Carney’s first budget: thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...

I wanted to add something to this but really, what’s to add?

I so appreciated this from @maris.bsky.social and if it means I’m becoming an old woman yelling at clouds, so be it.
Create, question, contribute and create some more. Otherwise, why are we here?

This is part of a pattern: concentrating power, bypassing debate, and weakening public institutions. We can’t just shake our heads; we need to organize, speak up locally, and support people pushing back.

Resisting the AI push into education - Halifax Examiner Technology has long been pushed as a way of revolutionizing and personalizing education. But there are no panaceas.

“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”

Night me is very unreliable. 😔

I love when past me does future me a food related solid!

Budgets aren’t just numbers; they’re a reflection of what we stand for.

And #Budget2025 shows #Canada turning away from the world when humanitarian needs are rising.

Our reaction: https://ow.ly/ISuF50Xnu7o #cdnpoli

The 2025 federal budget just dropped... and it clearly favours corporate profits over the wellbeing of everyday people and the planet. Students across Canada are condemning this budget as a betrayal of our futures.
#Canada2025Budget #Budget2025

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

I’m in Canada and have never visited New York & seeing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win the mayoral election was a big dose of hope.
Democratic socialism is a win for all of us. (That’s why the billionaire class tries to make us afraid of it!)

#TalkAboutSudan:

"Children are not spared. Elderly people are not spared. Women are not spared.”

The crisis in #Sudan is catastrophic.

Watch as Michael Lawson, Humanitarian Representative to #Canada, updates Parliament. #cdnpoli

Might as well, based on what we are getting from the Liberals, he will feel right at home.

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.

Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

So many Canadians thinking “it can’t happen here” while it is creeping in from all sides. Power and money, folks. We need class solidarity asap because they sure have it.

Ricardo Tranjan: Think Doug Ford has walked back his war on tenants? There’s more to come. Here’s how it should be fought. Last week, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act. It includes many troubling legislative changes, but popular outcry so far has focused on the direct attack

“The Doug Ford government is trying to move Ontario toward an ‘evict first, ask questions later’ approach. On top of that, it wants to blacklist evicted tenants, sentencing them to a lifetime of housing insecurity.”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

We live on a planet on the brink of disaster This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos

"We live on a planet on the brink of disaster -- This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos" by @brianmchugh.bsky.social for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk:
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...

“OpenAI’s push to A.I.-ify college education amounts to a national experiment on millions of students.

The use of these chatbots in schools is so new that their potential long-term educational benefits, and possible side effects, are not yet established.”

Thank you for continuing to write, continuing to share your story, continuing to plant seeds. 🍓

a halloween greeting card with a carved pumpkin and the words happy halloween ALT: a halloween greeting card with a carved pumpkin and the words happy halloween

Everyone think of the teachers today, dealing with hyped up kids on Halloween when it’s pouring and recess will be indoors.

Also, drive carefully this afternoon. It will be rainy and dark — remember that the littlest kids start trick or treating as early as 5.

🔥 Ordered!