@matthewbecker.ca.bsky.social
Queer Canadian composer (he/him), copyist, and recording artist. #LGBTQ
“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold
15.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 845 🔁 338 💬 32 📌 28
Two pie charts comparing Ontario’s 2025 provincial election results. The left chart, labeled “How Ontario Voted,” shows PCs 43%, Liberals 31%, NDP 23%, Greens 2%, Others 1%. The right chart, labeled “What Ontario Got,” shows PCs 65%, Liberals 20%, NDP 15%, Greens 0%, Others 0%. Title reads “How First Past the Post gives Doug Ford total control” with call to action “Learn more at fairvote.ca.” Background image is Doug Ford’s face.
Ontario’s last election showed how millions of votes went unrepresented, letting one party govern without majority support.
With proportional representation, every vote helps shape the government and fake majorities become a thing of the past.
Finding out a musician I've admired for over 20 years pushed out a single with AI-generated artwork and an accompanying AI-slop music video was not how I expected to start my day.
29.07.2025 15:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Damning.
A new report is exposing hundreds of Canadian arms shipments to Israel.
I’ll be covering this today. The press conference should be starting any minute now.
armsembargonow.ca/report/
When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.
19.05.2025 12:40 — 👍 430 🔁 101 💬 8 📌 13The case for proportional representation is undeniable.
CTV reports on how our democracy distorting voting system fuels regional divisions, and how proportional representation can fix it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social, will you champion a system where every vote truly counts?
#cdnpoli
I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing
06.05.2025 06:15 — 👍 11535 🔁 3811 💬 149 📌 90Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
15.04.2025 02:56 — 👍 10534 🔁 3388 💬 105 📌 270I promise I'll do more with this account than just repost things (probably).
21.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An informational image from the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) that has a pair of hands over a smudge bowl wafting the smoke. Over the bottom half of the image is a white box with the text "Call to Action TWO-SPIRIT AND INDIGENOUS LGBTQQIA+ CELEBRATION AND AWARENESS DAY 2025 Join us in the proclamation and celebration of this day on March 20, 2025" Below the text are logos for the Two-Spirit Program and cbrc.
An info graphic about Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day. Over top of an orange background are the following: In the top left corner is a black circle with the heading information (the day being celebrated) written in white. Below that to the right is the Two Spirit pride flag. In the bottom left corner is the text "Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day, celebrated annually on March 20th, the spring equinox, is a day to recognize and celebrate the diversity of Two-Spirit identities, expression, and experience, advocating for visibility, spaces, and achievements" written in white and outlined in black. The bottom right corner has the Aeolian Pride Choruses logo.
March 20th is the 4th annual Two-Spirit & Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ Awareness Day, a time to honour the diversity, beauty, and resurgence of Two-Spirit and Indigenous queer and trans identities across Turtle Island. #2SpiritDay #TwoSpirit2025 #SpringEquinox
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CBC is now predicting an early election call on Sunday, but we’re ready. Pierre Poilievre is an enemy to the climate and our communities, and we won’t get played 😎 dontgetplayed.ca
20.03.2025 19:35 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Call on PM Carney to champion a transformative, nation-building project that takes the climate emergency seriously: a publicly owned, renewable powered east-west electricity grid that provides the country with secure electricity, while lowering electricity bills.
allofustogether.ca/peoples-powe...
Soliloquia No. 2, feat. Chantal Lemire (viola)
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