Lesley Turner (she/her)

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Nov 25 is the UN's Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Dec 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women in commemoration of the Montreal Massacre.

Want to do something tangible to mark the dates? Let me teach you bystander intervention!

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Happy Birthday ‼️🎉‼️

Digital poppy from MyPoppy.ca Red poppy with black centre on a circular silver background with text “Remembrance Day 2025” at the top and my name at the bottom.

#LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers

At the abbaye d'ardenne Kurt Meyer and his SS thugs murdered young Canadian soldiers. But the local people turned it into a shrine.They never forgot their sacrifice.
I was honoured to lay a wreathe to those young men.
We will always remember those who stood up to fascist hate.

thought experiment — substitute in your own family name for “women” here. now try any demographic group you are part of, for example, “balding men.”

In the Canadian war cemetery at Ravenna in Italy there are so many Canadian and Sikh graves. The Sikhs were side by side with the Canadians in the brutal battles through Italy.
They have served with valour in our armed forces.

As I regularly note, "AI" at this point is an umbrella marketing term for a bunch or generative/machine learning/other formerly differently-termed processes that (of course) have no actual intelligence behind them. It means nothing useful for how the underlying computing proceeds. Thus the quotes.

White Nationalism in Canada: Organized, Emboldened, and Growing Canada’s white nationalist movement has consolidated into a network that includes three key branches: Diagolon, the propaganda arm; the Dominion Society of Canada, an incorporated political arm; and S...

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

Why artists are leaving Spotify — and how you can, too Artists and listeners are protesting Spotify's ties to military AI and ICE. If you’re switching platforms, this step-by-step guide will help you transfer your playlists.

How to delete Spotify and transfer your playlists to Apple Music and others https://mashable.com/article/spotify-transfer-apple-music-ice-ads-ai-military

Our Vancouver Island grassroots "healthcare infusion" is paying off. Doctors and nurses are moving here. Now, it's time to make this a NATIONAL movement! 🇨🇦

If you want to host one in YOUR community, go to b.link/infusionhosts for templates, a Discord just for hosts, a video tutorial, and more.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

Besides the rainbow road. What other ways are there to get refugee status to come into Canada first LGBTQ folks wanting to leave their country ?

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

中秋節快樂!
Jung chow jit fai lock!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!

There is a storm of race hatred brewing online.
Blaming refugees. Blaming hard working immigrants.
Don't fall for this kind of shit.
I think of the Syrian families who built the north with passion, hard work.
If your relative spreads hate shit tell them to knock it off.

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

For a project that never came to fruition, I interviewed ordinary people about their pre- & post-Kamloops knowledge of Canada's genocide. One woman who grew up beside the school said, "we ALWAYS knew more children went in than came out." May we never be unhaunted by the past that isn't even past.

Today is #TruthandReconciliation day today.

People often talk as if residential schools are a thing of the past. They aren’t.

They are still causing damage to this day. People who deny that they happened are still causing damage to this day.

Survivors are still alive to this day.

I am an Indian day school survivor. I am the son of a residential school survivor, the nephew and grandchild of residential school survivors. Truth before reconciliation is the upmost importance. It is the duty of all white Canadians to understand that truth, read the final report and pressure your govt to implement the calls to action. But above all, white Canadians needs to be on the front lines of racism and the lies of deniers to protect Indigenous folks on Truth and Reconciliation Day

Since it’s Truth And Reconciliation Day tomorrow it’s important to raise the voices of Indigenous folks on here.

Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian residential school.This a haunted dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2.
The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates.
We remember
#orangeshirtday

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7