alex manley

It's just one story, one illustration of all the terrible things that have happened. It's been a week since the very great noise/drone artist Siavash Amini posted this, from where he lives Tehran. There has been no update since. It could be for any number of reasons. We just don't know.

The oil is flowing into the sewers and the streets are on fire in Tehran

they're the boygenius line because there's a really short one, a normal-sized one and a really tall one. and also bc they rock

Because we're consistently in the red & can't pay people back in a timely manner we've had to completely stop sending new eSims. That's devastating for the people of Gaza living through a genocide committed on our dime. #ConnectingGaza

i’m at the looking for a job. i’m at the capitalism is collapsing. i’m at the combination looking for a job capitalism is collapsing.

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

embarrassing typo. should’ve been “toronto will win a first-round series. the only question is when and how many.”

Liberals to cut CBC by $192-million in 2026-27 This year’s estimates include $1.38-billion in funding for the CBC, representing a marked decrease from the $1.58-billion allotted to the public broadcaster during the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Mark Carney campaigning in April 2025:

"When we compare ourselves to the U.K., France or Germany, we see that our public broadcaster is underfunded. That has to change. We expect that in the coming years, we will continue to increase that funding...”

Mark Carney now:

uh with the total siege on gaza... you know what to do

#ConnectingGaza

one of my all-time faves

bit.ly/eSimsRUs <3 #ConnectingGaza

Prediction Marketing The prediction market boom is liquidity extraction before a liquidity crisis.

Ahead of the State of the Union address, I wanted to share my thoughts on the credulous coverage of “prediction markets” and the grim economic structure that coverage has ignored. Prediction market platforms are a pit stop on a crisis…. ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/prediction...

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Cardboard sign on a wooden pole: There is no way to police trans people out of public life without simultaneously creating an apparatus of violence- (the sign is ripped, cutting off the rest of the text)

Gravely disappointing.

periodically feeling animus/distrust towards CGI visuals that i know aren't AI just because my anti-AI sentiment is so strong it's boiling over into adjacent areas

i feel like i've heard about dad strength — combo of being in your 30s+ instead of younger and wirier but also just carrying your kid(s) all the time

call me a bleeding heart but i do not think the state should have the power to invalidate trans people’s identities and effectively imprison them. if you can’t legally drive in KANSAS how the hell are you meant to get anywhere

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

They want to disappear Trans people. We cannot let this happen.

Kansas is doing Nazi stuff to transgender people. This is not about minors having surgery. This is about adults having the most basic civil rights.

A wastewater virus signals chart for Toronto, ON showing a big Covid spike in Feb 2026

#Toronto: we are currently undergoing a big Covid surge.

Get vaxxed, mask, and clean the indoor air.

I get my masks from here: www.masksupplycanada.com

Stay safe out there, everyone! 😷

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The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

Canadian authors, remember to register your books for the PLR program by May 1! For the first time, you are no longer required to mail things in—you can do it online.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

counterpoint: i really like the minimalism. i think they’re sharp.

Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....

funded by automakers

because their cars were killing pedestrians

So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

It has been confirmed by media that the murderer in question is Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old trans woman with far-right ideologies. I've been able to confirm that they had Nazi symbols on their Twitter profile, including racist tweets and death threats towards Indians. Van Rootselaar's behaviour in no way reflects the behavior of trans people as a community, and we unequivocally condemn both her actions and attempts by far-right and right-wing media and social media to blame trans people, as a group, for the fact that this shooting occurred.

Difficult conversations will have to be had in the next few days. We, as a community, stand with Tumbler Ridge, and stand in solidarity with each and every one of the persons injured in this senseless, heinous act, and the families of each and every one of the persons whose lives were cut short. We equally reject any attempts at instrumentalizing this shooting to blame a minority group, already the targets of countless heinous acts and B.C.'S first-and-only ever use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, for this act.

We stand with Tumbler Ridge.

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT

"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality

"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening

START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't