Christian Stalley

An excellent (as usual), frustrating, depressing, & hopeful episode. Thank you! In 1986ish I won a speed reading contest at my high school in Halifax, NS. I won 3 books, & everyone got at least 1. They were all from a banned books list (I only remember Lives of Girls and Women). Was proud of my HS.

Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign The collection includes an extremely rare Western Arctic kayak and a two-metre-long wampum belt

EXCLUSIVE - Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3fa2402...

Just in from two SF No Kings events (Ocean Beach and then a colossal march and rally downtown). So many good signs, so much devotion to justice, liberty, human rights, and Jesus lord the one part of the US economy that must be booming right now: INFLATABLE critter costumes.

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

As you attended No Fascists (how I brand it) events today, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny. It's outstanding and something you will keep referring to over and over again.

The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence. What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.

Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

The chaos that is our world is important, but this very good boy will help us remember why we need to keep fighting.

🤬😤🤯

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 44 volunteers.

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.19 (lookback time 2.41 billion years) with coordinates (150.70876, 2.66422).

44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

🧵

Hoi Polloi review: a mind-boggling display of technical brilliance – with bulbous buttocks a go-go This gloriously eccentric personal museum by painter and former Turner nominee Glenn Brown is a mesmerising delight as it cheekily imitates the nearby Wallace Collection

Hoi Polloi review: a mind-boggling display of technical brilliance – with bulbous buttocks a go-go

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Kebinatshipi takes 400 gold on great night for Botswana Botswana’s 21-year-old Busang Collen Kebinatshipi won gold in the world 400 metres on Thursday, roaring clear in 43.53 seconds, with compatriot Bayapo Ndori taking bronze on a memorable night for the African nation.

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Barcelona's epic Sagrada Familia could be finished in 10 years Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is edging towards completion, with the team behind it hopeful they can put the finishing touches to the modernist basilica in around 10 years, more than a century after the famed architect's death.

Barcelona's epic Sagrada Familia could be finished in 10 years reut.rs/4mgo66F

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

www.science.org/content/arti...

An excellent episode! I love it when favourite podcasts work together.

To let your wife know she’s not alone; I also wore my child’s hats when she was a toddler. I’m an average 5’4”.

I'd guess that their metrics don't capture a few imp't items at @dalhousie.bsky.social . E.g.
👉% of staff & faculty who donate to the university (likely high pre-lockout)
👉research publications / # of students (def. high)
👉total faculty pay / # of students (little change in a decade)

#KeepDalStrong

Do you have questions about why @dalfaculty.bsky.social are still locked out?
#KeepDalStrong
Here are some folks that you can ask:
Dr. Kim Brooks, Pres - president@dal.ca
Dr. Wanda Costen, Provost and VP Academic - provost@dal.ca
Grace Jefferies-Aldridge, VP People & Culture - gjefferi@dal.ca

YouTube video by Josh Johnson Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.

I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.

Give it a watch and share it.

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

The single step that would enable progress on so many different issues. I hope @mark-carney.bsky.social takes an evidence-based approach on this. #ProportionalRepresentation

You shall find there
A man who is th’ abstract of all faults
That all men follow.