I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began

I could take it seriously if they were taking steps toward addressing their own behavior that is literally identical to what they claim that the anglophones are doing to them. But they’re not. Because they just want to be able to write their colonial destiny unimpeded. Deeply unserious

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.

I’m going to tell you a secret to fighting fascism, and I learned it from Charlie Angus at his Resistance Tour. Charlie Angus brought the Meidas Resistance Tour to Robert's Creek BC last week

Lessons in fighting fascism from the @meidascanada.ca resistance tour to the Sunshine coast.

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An illustration from Lola Flies Alone. A ballerina with a pink tutu as wide as she is tall, walks away dejectedly. Her tutu is tipped at a 45 degree angle and her black up-do is drooping forwards. Her arms hang limply at her sides.

Sad that Halloween is over? As Lola will show you, so long as you’re considerate of others, it’s always a good time to embrace your inner ballerina (/mermaid/ fairy/ unicorn).

She puts her own ballerina-mermaid-fairy-unicorn skills to good use in LOLA FLIES ALONE.

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#KidLit

Angels of Afghanistan Sometimes, signs come in the most unexpected form.

Sometimes it takes a chance encounter to make you remember why you fight so hard for this idea called Canada.
Six brave young teens from Afghanistan reminded me of the need to fight the hate that is oozing over the border.
Here is my latest.

charlieangus.substack.com/p/angels-of-...

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection | Artnet News Eli Leon's game-changing African American quilt donation stuns in "Routed West" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).

The Incredible Story Behind the Largest African American Quilt Collection 📜
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YouTube video by Charlie Angus RESISTANCE ON THE SUNSHINE COAST

As we watch the disintegration of the rule of law in the US the Canadian resistance must move from the defensive to carving out our place in a changed world.
This is why the @meidascanada.ca town halls are taking place across the country.
@meidastouch.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKKv...

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas Stolen Relations seeks to recover stories of Indigenous slavery in the Americas. The website has a database as well as a map, timeline, interviews, and curricular materials.

(1/3) Stolen Relations has been launched for a month! Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of partners and researchers, stolenrelations.org currently has records of upwards of 7,000 individuals and many pieces of art and storytelling that help to flesh out the stories of unfree Indigenous people.

This is an incredible and utterly necessary project that shines a light on the enslavement of countless indigenous ppl.

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m a former senior aide to Stephen Harper. Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, trustworthy Conservative Party we tried to build Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, serious and credible Conservative Party Stephen Harper worked so hard to lead and bring to power, one of substance, maturity and integrity.

'When thieves and thugs fall out and fight
there's fell arrears to pay;
And soon or late sin meets its fate, and so it fell one day..."
- Robert Service

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YouTube video by RunningtheGoat Urchin audiobook teaser

Kate Story’s URCHIN is full of old Newfoundland words, seamlessly woven into the text, that help create a vivid sense of place for their historical fantasy novel.

Reading URCHIN is a thrill for lovers of interesting language.

Here's a clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kA...

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Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

black text on white background "As you prepare your breakfast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon’s food). As you conduct your wars, think of others (do not forget those who seek peace). As you pay your water bill, think of others (those who are nursed by clouds). As you return home, to your home, think of others (do not forget the people of the camps). As you sleep and count the stars, think of others (those who have nowhere to sleep). As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others (those who have lost the right to speak). As you think of others far away, think of yourself (say: “If only I were a candle in the dark”)."

Mahmoud Darwish trans. by Mohammed Shaheen

“Stubborn Ounces” (To One Who Doubts the Worth of Doing Anything If You Can’t Do Everything) You say the Little efforts that I make will do no good: they never will prevail to tip the hovering scale where Justice hangs in balance. I don’t think I ever thought they would. But I am prejudiced beyond debate in favor of my right to choose which side shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight. Bonaro W Overstreet

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.