@grantzero.bsky.social
😷 Social & environmental justice. Software development (apps & web systems, Swift, Ruby, accessibility, data modeling, workflow). Treaty 7 resident in Mohkinstis (territory which the settler nation “Canada” claims). he/they https://linktr.ee/grantzero
Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them.
HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...
"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn't want to do this in the first place and we don't care if it's done well."
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It was on this day
six years ago
that the WHO
officially declared
COVID-19
a global pandemic.
So it is on this day
six years later
that all of us
officially enter
the seventh year
of this pandemic.
The Beginning Comes After The End
Don’t miss @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in conversation with
@billmckibben.bsky.social, hosted by @thirdactorg.bsky.social
Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: actionnetwork.org/events/topic...
Given the current state of the world, i felt a bit silly writing about windrows, but then i overheard the ladies at the pool discuss this very subject, so here you go:
Calgary is a city hostile towards pedestrians, especially in winter, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Same. We have a knitting group in Calgary call Les Tricoteuses (à la Madame Defarge). I've been rage knitting so much that I've developed tennis elbow.
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
(Mis)Anthropic have decided to overtly support genocide. If there are survivors of this new era, all traces of these corporations, governments, and their death machines, must be utterly obliterated. And anyone who was part of these murderous organizations must be held to account.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Malcolm X: “I’m a real bug for poetry.”
Elham Shirin traces the poets who shaped him—from prison reading and “Music” to the lyric power of his speeches—and the art his words set in motion across Black radical tradition and global solidarity.
“What is past is prologue.”
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
We are not powerless in the face of rising hate. We can learn the tenets of community care and show up for each other in ways big and small.
Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you 5 concrete ways you can safely de-escalate harassment in public spaces!
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "One group member admitted that she followed ICE vehicles while honking loudly so often that her car horn broke."
Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.
One wording quibble: the mega/rich don’t “make” (or “earn”) money—they “take” (and hoard) money/wealth.
I'm asking that we all raise our political expectations. We deserve good things.
Learn how to make media to amplify grassroots liberation movements at our Feb. 27 virtual Intro to #MovementJournalism training w/ @studyhall.bsky.social! Facilitated by @tinavasquez.bsky.social. Request a free slot by Feb. 23 @ bit.ly/introtomj, or pay the full cost ($99) @ bit.ly/introtomj2.
231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Police 9.6
The full report and resources can be found here:
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca
#MMIWG2S #MMIP #231CallsforJustice #Indigenous
What smarter investment could Albertans make that to educate the children who live here? Why would we want to grow a permanent underclass of illiterate, innumerate youth? Our economy needs educated workers - not children cut off from hope.
A U.N. fact-finding mission said it collected evidence of deliberate starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance, as well as mass killings, rape, torture and forced disappearances carried about by RSF forces in Sudan.
I had an English teacher in high school who loathed the word “interesting” and would go on extensive rants as to why. It really is an empty word that fails to communicate anything of value.
Migration and Racial Capitalism
Vital new convo with the amazing @harshawalia.bsky.social on the connections between migration, racial capitalism, and the role of sports mega events in normalizing surveillance and militarization.
open.spotify.com/episode/1p6J... @harbingermedia.bsky.social
Thank-you!
Yes! Foundational—back to the founding rapists, and before that back to the invading rapists from Europe who “discovered” and stole the lands.
Watching this crisis over the years and the international inertia has been harrowing, and remains so
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And, of course, the extensive work done by generations of feminists and queer folk in challenging the patriarchal and other oppressive structures & ideologies that define, impose, and benefit from “traditional monogamy”.
We, as societies & cultures, would do well to reconsider how we define, structure, constrain, and support, intimate relationships.
I am encouraged by the work being done by those exploring aromantic & asexual identities in relationships, and those exploring consensual, non-hierarchical, polyamory.
If monogamous pair-bonding were innate for humans, we wouldn’t have had to build up all sorts of social constraints and rules to enforce it.
(This is not to excuse or condone adultery and other forms of non-consensual non-monogomy. Nor to endorse detachment of physical from emotional intimacy.)
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