Erin Brown-John

I work with researchers who are investigating the potential role of kelp forests in mitigating underwater noise pollution, which is becoming a huge problem for multiple species.

Please sign. The Cubans 🇨🇺 are our friends, many of us have people we care about on the island. They don’t deserve this.

Common sense needs to play a bigger role here. Why would we buy defence equipment from the main threat to our security?

To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...

Palestinian Uncles doing freestyle poetry battles coming with some of the hardest lines I’ve heard in a long time.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Started getting into contemporary French lit via Quebec's (QC) indie bookstores and am noticing a few differences that may be more supportive of a lit ecosystem and readers 🧵

We have a lot of catching-up to do.

It won't be enough to just start building cycling infrastructure again, let's build it faster and cheaper to create connected networks and spread the benefits to every neighbourhood.

Princeton mayor blindsided by B.C.'s decommissioning of Trans Canada Trail section | CBC News The mayor of Princeton, B.C., in the southern Interior, says the province's decision to decommission a section of the historic Kettle Valley Railway Trail came out of nowhere.

This is terribly short-term thinking. The KVR has the potential to be a global destination. Disappointment is not a strong enough word. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan amid ongoing financial struggles The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services ru...

The Liberals clearly want Canada Post to shrivel so private corps can take its place, that's why they won't replace the CEO who's overseen its nosedive over the last 7 years.

But they can't actually let it die, so instead they have to keep doing this.

It's a great system for losing public money.

A wooden drop spindle loaded up with white wool yarn sitting on my desk beside my laptop

New strategy for not falling asleep during Friday afternoon class is spinning

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It is deeply troubling to hear that Fraser Health once again seems to be calling Canada Border Services when patietns without status seek care at their ERs. In 2014-2015 Fraser Health called immigration 500 times to report people.

Police unlawfully blocked media in Vancouver decampment, human rights report finds A new human rights report has found that Vancouver police acted unlawfully and undermined press freedom when they blocked journalists from covering the 2023 Downtown Eastside tent city eviction and ca...

The Vancouver case is part of a broader shift in policing where law enforcement is increasingly working to limit recordings of police conduct and to obscure interactions with marginalized groups www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/05/n...

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Three Aunties and a matriarch called Maslow’s hierarchy of beads.

A multi-faith worship centre called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Creeds

The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage - CCPA Financialization, not demographics, caused the cost of housing to explode

Pieces like cause the left to lose young people. It fails to recognize:

1. Housing needs change as populations age. e.g. A society with a lot of older widowers will need more homes per capita.
2. Shoebox condos house fewer people than larger homes.

A reminder, this guy came to Vancouver and filmed people on the downtown east side, spread misinformation about safe injection sites and lied about crime here.

I still believe this assisted the cancellation of the decriminalization trial - which the NDP cancelled without showing evidence.

Except if you're, I dunno, a scientist who was muzzled & whose research was destroyed by Harper Government.

Ask them how they feel.

Let's not memory-hole what a fucking disaster he was for Canada. Oh, and HARPER killed laws that prevented the USA from owning our print media.

Fuck Stephen Harper.

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

This is another one of the reasons I’m so deeply troubled by the fabulous new plan to just pivot to private philanthropy.

Billionaires will not save science

Apparently Belgians and Swiss say nonante for 90 and I do not accept this. You mean to tell me that I spent les années quatre vingt dix in school memorizing a bunch of stupid French numbers and now there's an easier way? Non we're going to party like it's mille neuf cent quatre vingt dix neuf.

Some Heaney for #Imbolc. 💗

‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the city's ICE resistance MinnPost contributor Jim Walsh compiles a playlist by songwriters who are tapping into their talent, anger, artistry and empathy to support Minnesota.

Some very powerful protest songs coming out of Minnesota. Sarah Streitz's “Get Out of Minnesota Kristi Noem” and Penka Jane's “When Gregory Bovino to Minnesota Went” especially good. Listen to them here:

www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...

There is a deeper politics to rally around Heated Rivalry.

The big American streamers want to stop Canadian Content laws like the Online Streaming Act and Quebec's Bill 109, which are about content discoverability a 5% tax to fund CanCon.

Trump take hockey yaoi. But not without a fight.

Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up.

Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it

How we exist in the world depends on how we describe it. Have I always been firmly in the world? No: I’ve been autumn in the middle of August, I’ve been happiest when my life feels like auto fiction. Alas, the twentieth century never ended. We are all subjects of the twentieth century, I say to a stranger I just met on the internet. It sounds like a riddle for which the answer is the body. There is a blank space inside all natives that history lays claim to. Every winter, I take pictures of the snow because the snow reminds me of my impermanence. Mostly I want to be undone without being ruined. A native truth: the present is as beautiful as it is brutal.

Billy-Ray Belcourt wrecking me from page / poem 1

“How we exist in the world / depends on how we describe it.”

Thinking of how popular it was to sneer about how the Ice Bucket thing like 10 years ago didn't make any difference and then it turned out the money it raised led to the biggest breakthrough for ALS research in years