ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)

Thank you!

"Deliberate attacks against journalists
during an armed conflict constitute war crimes for which individuals are criminally responsible, and for which they may be held accountable before an international tribunal or before domestic courts" www.osce.org/files/f/docu...

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

new post about the complacency and negligence that has become normalized through the government's response to the unregulated drug deaths emergency

it should upset you

これは貸しです。

Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture.

Learn. Share. Change.

kashi-info.carrd.co

the "Nanaimo cyclist" is Keihachi Ishikawa, 78, and possibly the coolest person in the world

When e-bike/e-scooter rentals descended upon cities, politicians argued for speed governors on safety grounds, and in a number of cases forced companies to install them. That may have been the right call! But it highlights the obvious absurdity of allowing cars in cities without them.

Excellent.

The extreme cost of drought for Manitoba Hydro | The Narwhal Manitoba Hydro lost a record $436 million due to drought conditions in 2003-04. The province is last in line for water sharing on the Prairies

Manitoba is the last in line for water sharing from Prairies rivers stemming from the Rockies. It’s also the province most dependent on that water for electricity generation, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/prairies-dro...

So, as the late Dakota philosopher Vine Deloria told us nearly fifty years ago, the job is not to recuperate colonial liberalism by braiding ourselves to it. The job is to hold western society to account to the radical implications of the quantum revolution. And to bring philosophy back to science.

So the task before us is not to recuperate classical western physics or the liberalism built on those logics. Even the smartest scientists in the world couldn’t recuperate it. The task is to move into an understanding of the indeterminate, intra-acting (Barad 2007) nature of existence.

“ The situation clearly calls for the construction of new theory that encompasses both Newtonian physics and the new discoveries. Although physicists insist that this task calls for new language and immensely complicated theoretical conceptions, in fact the requirement is simply that we banish predetermined ideas about space, time, and the other concepts we have used in science and philosophy. Poetry has once again entered the field as a means of communicating experience, and perceptions of reality demand primacy over conceptions of the mind. Mathematics continues to play an important role in discussing the experiments to be considered, but an adequate explanation of things cannot depend upon the ultimate status of traditional concepts.” Vine Deloria (1979), The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

Einstein himself couldn’t reconcile classical western physics with the emerging ‘weirdness’ of a world operating in probability & phenomena that can be both particle+wave, and oneness. Space is not ‘out there’. Relativity was a prelude to a richer, weirder, more accurate understanding of reality.

“ Most of Western society remained Newtonian in outlook while thinkers and philosophers abandoned the belief that nature existed “out there.” In effect, Western science was having to take into account the perceptions it had earlier eliminated from consideration.” Vine DeLoria (1979), The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

DeLoria (1979) explained: “Most of Western society remained Newtonian in outlook while thinkers and philosophers abandoned the belief that nature existed “out there.” In effect, Western science was having to take into account the perceptions it had earlier eliminated from consideration.”

“ When Newtonian physics established a priori that space, time, matter, energy, and causality were inherent in the structure of the universe, and when Newtonian formulas proved immensely successful in exploring the solar system, Western thinkers forgot that these concepts were definitions generated in Newton’s mind, and they came to believe that they were accurate descriptions of ultimate physical processes.” Vine DeLoria, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence

Quantum mechanics & special relativity disproved teleology that classical physics fomented. But western society still runs on disproven logics of certainty, the separation of space, time, matter & ‘metaphysics of individualism’. The truth is much weirder+richer. The west must match its own science.

You don’t find common ground with fascists. You don’t ‘reconcile’ or ‘braid, bridge, or weave’ to genocidal systems.

Vine DeLoria wrote in 1979: with the advent of quantum mechanics western physics had reached the _starting point_ of non-western thought. The rest of the west must catch up.

Watched a VPD traffic cop on a motorbike pull out from the curb without checking and nearly collide with a cyclist. A man in a Tesla yelled ‘that cop nearly hit someone!’.

Thursday.

UN says over 100 doctors barred from Gaza since March amid worsening crisis The UN on Wednesday said access for medical professionals into the Gaza Strip remains severely restricted, with over 100 health workers, including surgeons and specialized staff, denied entry since…

The UN said access for medical professionals into the Gaza Strip remains severely restricted, with over 100 health workers, including surgeons and specialized staff, denied entry since March.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250806-un-...

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. | MSF MSF's frontline medical testimony on systematic mass casualties from GHF sites in Gaza, Palestine.

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. -Doctors Without Borders
www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

We must, all of us together, dig the grave in which colonialism will finally be entombed.

—Frantz Fanon

Shot of Lorne Fitch’s book ‘Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World’, which features a herd of chocolate brown bison walking towards the viewer across a snowy expanse.

I’m really grateful to the folks who keep fighting for Alberta and its fish, water, lands, places even in the face of such tough odds. Lorne Fitch is one such person and his two books of essays are excellent.

Reading the first book tonight as the sun sets.

The Liberal government knows that recognizing the group "Métis Nation of Ontario" is explosive for moving forward on Indigenous and Métis land rights.
PM Carney is no dumb bunny.
His decision to host this group on talks over major resource projects on treaty lands will burn bridges of trust.

Report cover for Homes for All: Evaluating the Right to Housing in Victoria.

This is the report cover for Homes for All: Evaluating the Right to Housing in Victoria.

You can read this awesome report here:
www.ahomeforall.ca/wp-content/u...

People riding bikes in a protected bike lane in downtown Vancouver

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.

Bike-lanes mean business.

ah, fuck

LIVE: Manitoba Métis Federation holds a news conference in Ottawa YouTube video by APTN News

LIVE: The president of the Manitoba Métis Federation is meeting with media ahead of his planned summit with the prime minister.

The Manitoba Métis Federation is the only Métis government with a Treaty with Canada, yet Conservative Carney is meeting with the two orgs (MNC and MNO) that have been renounced by First Nations, Inuit, and Métis governments as play-acting at Indigenous peoplehood for monetary/land gain.

I almost failed intro physics (particles and waves), but I’ve spent the last two years teaching myself quantum mechanics and again, it wasn’t my lack of intelligence that was at issue.

Imagine if we taught science differently….perhaps even tied it to our lived experiences as Indigenous folks.

As part of a personal pedagogy project, I started re-teaching myself things from classes I failed (or nearly failed) in undergrad, and wow, it turns out that working two jobs, volunteering extensively, and not being able to afford enough food was the issue, not my intelligence.