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Passage from Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park —- Canadian author

Loving this passage from “Oxford Soju Club” by @jinwoo-park.com

Oh, friends. Such a great thread. @banana29.bsky.social

We urge Alberta’s school boards to make public all lists of banned titles.

#CAIABB #abbookban #albertabookban #abpoli #abgov #ableg #abed #bookbans #cankidlit #nobansincanada

The room is not sure what to make of the reality of Louisiana that @librarianjones.com is sharing. The idea of generational underlying festering hate is hard for a room full of Canadians to sit with. #OLASC

Highlights from #olasc #wepersist through a balance of advocacy and self-care

So lucky to be hearing @librarianjones.com talk about her experience as an "accidental activist" when advocating for books. #OLASC

Nice chat with Cory at the @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social #OLASC!

'Seize the means' indeed. Time to take back control of #tech in our lives.

@librarianjones.com was so chatty as she signed my book. Good luck fighting for @dirtbagg.bsky.social next!! #olasc

World Economic Forum: Special Address by PM Mark Carney Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers remarks and participates in a discussion while attending a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Joining the prime minister are Laurenc...

In a sea full of monsters, this speech feels like a lifeboat. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

“Our movement, however, needs nothing of respectability politics. Accepting — conceding, surrendering, submitting to — that will only erode our movement until it crumbles entirely.”
—Lydia X. Z. Brown

stimpunks.org/glossary/res...

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

Judy protesting outside in a line of other individuals with disabilities. Her sign reads "no more negotiations sign 504"

Judy Heumann was known as the Mother of the Disability Rights Movement.

She was a part of almost every major protest, sit in, passing of disability rights legislation, and advocacy group creation.

This 👇

I’m sure author @katebeaton.bsky.social would agree !

In her 2018 paper on the subject, Daggett argues that traditional masculine identity is inherently tied to the fossil fuel economy. “The narrative of righteous fossil democracy is crucial not only to American identity writ large, but to its hegemonic white masculinities,” she writes. When the narrative of righteous fossil fuel democracy is challenged, it thus becomes interpreted as a challenge to those masculinities. “Through the rosy nostalgia afforded by petro-masculine identity,” Daggett writes, “the affront of global warming or environmental regulations appear as insurgents on par with the dangers posed by feminists and queer movements seeking to leach energy and power from the state/traditional family.”

The connection between fossil fuel money and anti-trans groups makes way more sense once you understand the concept of petromasculinity

The Rule of Idiots In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

It’s the degeneration of democratic institutions like public education and objective journalism that really congests my arteries — an excellent read open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

What's a Canadian? It's somewhere between John Candy and the Hanson Brothers

Canada’s non-predatory comedy style is renowned the world over from @charlieangus104.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/charliea... @nobleknits2.bsky.social @tk1ng.bsky.social

Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the fifty-first US state may just be a play for what lies beneath our soil and in our lakes. Journalist Christopher Pollon investigates what the US might want, what Canada stands to lose, and why the stakes keep rising: thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly-nee...

The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them? As China tightens its grip on critical resources, Trump eyes Canada’s riches

Such a good read! uhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thewalrusca/p/the-us-badly-needs-rare-minerals?r=o1inz

Wayne Chan with the University of Manitoba sent me this picture of a project he completed over the holidays.
It is the log cabin from the Laurentien pencil crayon package built with toothpicks!
Very cool!

What a beautiful cover - does it hold significance for Norwich in particular?

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Make Canada's voting system fair and proportional! Canadians are tired of our broken voting system. After Trudeau broke his promise of reforming our electoral system in 2015, apathy and cynicism towards our democracy has grown. If Canada is to weath...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...

Kumquat by Alanna King She said “Just pinch a bit of your belly and inject”This poison into your veins -Once a week - And it will beat the disease back where it belongs”You’ll battle that voice in your head that wonders:“Why does feeling better require hurting myself?”But you’ll find out that pain is relevant to the treatmentThe treatment is relevant to the cost…

Teaching Spoken Word this week and I've been working on my own expression about onset disability.

A moody raspberry cider

From a friend “Seeing Kieran and Downey together was like a dude version of The Substance” 🤣 #Oscars

The winners for Animated Short Film said that their plane arrived three hours ago, and almost didn't make it because they didn't have their visa yesterday, and they just won an Oscar, that's definitely a miracle. So happy they made it. #Oscars

Stop-motion triumph - TVBEurope Colourist Deidre (Dee) McClelland details how she helped shape the distinct look and feel of whimsical Oscar-nominated stop-motion film, Memoir of a Snail

Colourist Deidre (Dee) McClelland details how she helped shape the distinct look and feel of whimsical Oscar-nominated stop-motion film, Memoir of a Snail #Oscars #Oscars2025

Yes friend.

One of the reasons I left Meta… Meta bending the knee so low, he’s kissing his feet. Reported originally in the WSJ.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Absolutely