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Vanmala Subramaniam: Before you declare Canada is not a racist country, do your homework For decades, activists, scholars and historians have been documenting the deep issues in our fight for racial justice and pushing for change

#ubcacam320 @ubcdrbench.bsky.social Thought this was a great article to shed light on the hidden racism we find ourselves living in the midst of; and yet overlook…

Discrimination being out of sight is a far cry from the erasure of it.

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From posting recruitment ads for the HKPF in the recent past, to this ⬇️, to failing to acknowledge and divest from Israeli genocide against Palestinians, UBC has a long way to go to uphold justice and ethical commitments as an educational institution. Too often we have failed those who speak up.

Understandable. The HK government is scared of all three words in ‘independent book fair’

UBC under fire after renting space to Hong Kong | Watch News Videos Online Watch UBC under fire after renting space to Hong Kong Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

I'm not even mad at UBC, just disappointed. First letting HKPF recruit @ UBC amidst the HK protests, now complicit in the administration of the NSL. Some of us are alrdy at risk for speaking up. Grow a spine & take a stand. Thx @jennykwan.bsky.social for this.

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Gov’t strips Hong Kong’s ‘Father of Democracy’ Martin Lee of Justice of the Peace title Founding member of the Democratic Party Martin Lee has been stripped of his title as Justice of the Peace. Martin Lee. File photo: Supplied. Lee’s appointment was revoked by Chief Executive John Le…

An act of petty vindictiveness that shows the government knows deep down it is illegitimate. Rulers who govern with the consent of the governed can afford to be magnanimous. Those who don’t must engage in constant small acts of malice, as a reminder to the majority

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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

Real life is not like science fiction, where the power usage required for processing rarely, if ever, factors into the plot.

I still care very much about the ethics of AI usage but I really think its environmental and infrastructural impact desperately needs more exposure.

"We reiterate our strong rejection to all those groups cooperating with #Burmese military. Such groups do not represent the #Rohingya people or fight for Rohingya people."

New statement on #Arakan calls for independent investigations, aid access, among others ⬇️ www.brouk.org.uk/rohingyas-ca...

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you.

Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

Syrian rebels edge closer to Damascus as US officials say Assad regime could fall soon: Live updates | CNN Syria’s rebel alliance is edging closer to the capital Damascus, after anti-regime forces swept across the country in a lightning offensive. Follow the latest live news updates here.

Syrian rebels say they have taken Damascus and Assad has fled. What a historic night: www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Uniforms of Syrian soldiers from the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s army, abandoned as they fled Damascus. A historic image marking the end of the dictator and his army.

All Canadians should hear this

Screenshot of tweet from Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine If @HouseGOP really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report. 11:45 AM · Nov 19, 2024 · 624 Views"

Rep Jasmine Crockett bringing the fire.

Man during the protests, the local Chinese news would keep showing TVB news clips and they were so ass.

Just incredibly bleak shit. It's meant to instill fear and obtain obedience and compliance in advance.

They absolutely mean it but we must not cave to these sociopaths.

Oof

Ok southern neigubours, please make good choices today. I beg

The Tiger Cub Yale professor Amy Chua’s White supremacist apologia shaped J.D. Vance’s xenophobic politics and sugarcoated nationalism.

As Trump increasingly becomes a rotting pile of flesh, JD Vance gets closer to the presidency.

This is why it’s important to learn what kind of man he is, and for me, the more I learn the more I’m worried.

More is known about Peter Thiel’s influence on him, here’s a piece on another major mentor.

A makeshift wooden shrine to the Kuan Ti with a ceramic statuette of the deity, incense and some oranges presented as offerings in front of it. Below is a sign that reads in Chinese: Whoever removes Kuan Ti and Jesus will be condemned to hell, never to be reborn.

10 years on from the Umbrella Movement, this is one of my favourite images from those 79 days.
Shrines were set up in Mong Kok, including this one for the martial god Kuan Ti and another for Christ. A sign on the Kuan Ti one condemned those that would take them down to eternity in Hell.
Pic by me.

I hate you so much right now

IDK. I DONT KNOW ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE. WHY IS MY ALGORITHM LIKE THIS

Also cats. So many, many cats.

...why is my timeline suddenly anime. Help.

A much-needed reminder of what the 2019 protests in HK were about, what slogans were used, and what they meant. Thank you for preserving this ✊🏻

I had forgotten about this slogan. it goes really fucking hard

Fighting Words

A thread on HK protests slogans in 2019-2020. Everything in *very loose* chronological order - important and interesting to see how the movement and its hopes evolved through the months.

Source: Apple Daily (Sep 27, 2019)

Why must you make life difficult for me? I'm just trying to follow you everywhere you go. You're not making this easy.

Looks like Twitter users are migrating over again. I guess that means i should start posting more here again. Hello hi! 👋🏻