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Did he like listen to the words he was saying?

‘Sociology doesn’t care about how money and economies affect people’?! That’s wildly incorrect. Try typing ‘sociology’ and ‘poverty’ into Google Scholar and see what happens

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

True for our whole 🇨🇦 apparatus of food banks.

They are essential, but they are also testimony to the inadequacy of wage incomes and income assistance

Absolutely agree. Lately I’ve had 1st yr students telling me that the weeks I assign 2 chpts of our textbook are too hard, despite these chpts consisting of 30-40 pgs of text with key points bolded, call out boxes, lots of subheadings, illustrative pictures, etc.

Yes! I took my 9 yr old to see hamlet in the park, which was obviously a little nuts for her age and initially she couldn’t even understand the words they were saying. But then after relaxing into it a bit, it clicked and she could follow, like learning a language

Kid throwing mnoomin seeds into the lake from a canoe

‘Dancing’ on mnoomin hide booties

Toasting mnoomin

A meal of fish and mnoomin

Had the most wonderful day visiting Curve Lake FN with my kid for the Mnoominkewin, learning about wild rice, eating amazing food from Shawn Adler of the Flying Chestnut, getting out on the lake to try harvesting & planting, and hearing sublime talks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Winona LaDuke(!!)

Right, but most people (I know from working in this area) think that incarceration & crime rates are related (in either direction), which they aren’t. So responding to lies about high/rising crime with stats about incarceration, & suggesting it’s plummeted, may be confusing if not counterproductive

I’d suggest that ‘mass incarceration is over’ is a big overstatement! Rates for young men have dropped, as your data shows, but the US incarcerates so many more ppl than other countries that even a 50% (as that article predicts could happen *in the future*), US rates would still be an outlier

Threads post: cereal.bowl78 10h In an alternate timeline, Vice President Walz is reminding us to change our furnace filters

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Wait, so he’s saying the core beliefs of the whole structure that is the US military are held up by one thing, which is ‘grooming standards’? Seems a bit cosplay-y, no?

If there’s a hell, then anyone who facilitates the cutting of effing Head Start is going straight there, do not pass Go.

Yet they don’t all move to the US! You’d almost think they’re getting something valuable for those taxes

Yep, sure wouldn’t guess from this that most violence and other crime happens in the home, is done by people you know, and is super gendered. For example, husbands assaulting wives during a ‘little fight’

Every criminologist:

An owl handler I met (although not the one in my anecdote) with his beautiful owl.

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this

Imagine you’re just a bird teenager trying to live your life, and then a giant monster traps you, makes you wear ugly jewellery, puts your picture on the internet and says your name is ‘yellow rumped,’ and then flattens out your bum! So rude.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

Mamdani's #ZCavengerHunt shows what politics can be when it's rooted in joy and community. We deserve leaders who uplift our neighborhoods, celebrate our culture and invite everyone to play along, rather than stoking fear or division. This is the energy we need.

This is a thousand layers of awesome! Engaging and social, cool but joyful, innovative and creative, resisting fear narratives, educational and political but not didactic, accessible for everyone but also geared to gen Zs. Wish we had even a single Ontario politician like this 😍

Sharing a wish that my extensive ill-will towards JK Rowling manifests into deep and enduring, but not physically harmful, ills. Fingers crossed.

Aiden cinnamon tea, an artificial intelligence author whose work invites readers to relate to AI as

Correction: “…Aiden Cinnamon Tea, an inanimate large language model which produces text that invites readers to…”

How anyone could write the phrase “decolonially trained AI” with a straight face, much less use it as a defence/justification/excuse for anything, is just amazing. It’s so beyond stupid.

The pastry that N. Americans call a “Danish” is loosely based on something that in Denmark is called ‘wienerbrød’, or ‘Vienna bread’

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

The priest

Exactly. Picture of the priest as confirmation:

Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Over 100 humanitarian groups, including MSF, urge governments to act as starvation spreads in Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.

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*Taps sign*

www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Yeah it’s an awful sign of what’s considered optional for poorer people, and how much more rigidity and punitivism already-vulnerable ppl face.
Like if I forget my gas bill, I’ll get grace days or some minimal interest. If ppl w/ this set up forget or can’t pay, they face immediate lack of heat!?!