If you happen to be in Fredericton tomorrow be sure to check out this fascinating lecture!!
23.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@agentlazero.bsky.social
Prof @UNB. Historian of capitalism and settler colonialism. Book: The Debt of Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State (UBC Press, 2025). Work: Eels + the impacts of racial capital on Treaty in Wəlastəkwey territory. Tamil, eats lentils
If you happen to be in Fredericton tomorrow be sure to check out this fascinating lecture!!
23.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0last time the Bluejays won the World Series it was 1993 and this song played seemingly non-stop on Toronto radio stations, and it's like I'm 11 again www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSg...
21.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Massive internet outages and yet outlook still persists 😔
20.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Media poster advertising talk by Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon titled "Cinematic Ruin: My Bloody Valentine and Industrial Crisis in Cape Breton, 1979-1990." 318 Harriet Irving Library, 4-6pm, Monday November 3rd. All are Welcome!
Join us on Monday Nov 3rd for Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon's talk on industrial crisis in Cape Breton-- a theme highlighted in the film My Bloody Valentine. All are warmly welcome!!
14.10.2025 23:32 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is going to be a fascinating lecture, all are welcome!!
02.10.2025 00:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My book The Debt of a Nation is now available fully open access, simply hit "download" on the UBC Press page. The book looks at Canada's public debt and colonization, and underscores the process of the appropriation and theft of Indigenous lands to produce CND capital www.ubcpress.ca/the-debt-of-...
26.09.2025 21:10 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Great opportunity for a MA Fellowship to start September 2026. The fellowship is $30 000 CAD over twenty months to work on deindustrialization, working-class community and identity, and settler colonialism under the co-supervision of an awesome colleague @fburrill.bsky.social
22.09.2025 20:05 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Finally! Carney actually said Israel's "sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law” now add resources to end it www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
21.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We new to develop new language to describe the hubris of people who think it's OK to kill a hundreds of years old being, an age of existing unfathomable to the human mind. globalnews.ca/news/1143565....
20.09.2025 19:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What the actual F. If they signed your name they used an email
08.09.2025 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0380 ppl signed a letter justifying the murder of 50,000 children with "Hamas allegedly utilizes children as combatants, and that children make up about 50% of Gaza’s population."The use of "allegedly" here is pretty telling, plausible deniability I guess when genocide denial is no longer fashionable
07.09.2025 21:24 — 👍 75 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0sample letter from the Calgary Board of Education
07.09.2025 20:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Alberta's "Fairness and Safety in Sport Act" form notes "athletes aged 12 and older" who join "a female-only sport division" must prove "sex at birth is female": Shocker, girls don't want their genitals policed so they don't play! TERFS setting ALL women back 50 years
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every thought that you outsource to a LLM is a wasted chance to develop your own knowledge and voice. LLMs are sold to us as progress and freedom, and used against us to further labour and resource exploitation for the sake of capital accumulation
07.09.2025 10:18 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Anyone who believes fracking is a "win-win" can prove it to the rest of us by moving themselves+family+ friends to a town near a fracking site and just live there for a few decades. Drink the water, prove all those studies about the harms of fracking wrong www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/f...
06.09.2025 12:30 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Banner featuring the book What Could a University Be? Revolutionary Ideas for the Future by Robert Gibbs. On the right is the book cover with a teal, orange, and pink gradient background. On the right, a quotation from the author, Robert Gibbs, reads: “When we explore the idea of research, we see that an open future is one where our universities can help us make new knowledge, new policies, new medicines, and new ways of grasping the truths about our past.”
Available now in paperback and open access download!
Newest from our On Campus series, “What Could a University Be?” by Robert Gibbs identifies new ideas that can help refocus the university on educating its students and having a greater positive impact in society. bit.ly/4nvWDPJ
folks, we're too entrenched in structural yt supremacy to be doing these kinds of AI shenanigans www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
30.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Stand your ground" alludes to some racialized other enemy who would be a "justifiable" death. Look how well it fits with the "(brown) immigrants are taking over" talk- You get to imagine yourself as a hero in an unlikely situation! To dream a future fuelled by rage! PP was voted out, and yet...
29.08.2025 22:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🍁 Home court. Home crowd. Home soil. Davis Cup World Group I Playoffs are coming to Scotiabank Centre in Halifax September 12–13 🎾 Let's rally for Team Canada and secure your tickets today 🎟️
Tennis Canada is serving up these ads on FB. Note that they do not mention the pesky question of who Canada is playing.
Spoiler: they are playing Israel.
"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines."
27.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really excited for this talk - the first of a brimming and exciting line-up of 2025-6 events at the @acsc-unb.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more, and sign up to come hear Dr. Adjetey speak!
26.08.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Here's my interview on the podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book The Debt of a Nation. Check it out if you're interest in learning about the history of Canada's public debt and the relationship between capitalism and settler colonialism newbooksnetwork.com/the-debt-of-...
22.08.2025 17:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is going to be a good one folks, save the date and please share widely!!
20.08.2025 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0sky's orange, heat warnings, smoke fumes, treaty violations, water's polluted, low-wages, housing crisis, food prices surging= capitalism is working boys, we just need to capitalism harder.
27.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A white handkerchief with lace trim features embroidered flowers and a quote: “We have to create. It’s the only thing louder than destruction. – Andrea Gibson.” The handkerchief sits on a surface with a green and orange floral design. @tinypricksproject
26.07.2025 18:27 — 👍 1349 🔁 422 💬 13 📌 0Kill the fascist within you.
06.07.2025 02:23 — 👍 2545 🔁 554 💬 26 📌 1Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.
This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
29.06.2025 02:42 — 👍 16570 🔁 2499 💬 199 📌 99A selection of book covers with the words National Indigenous History Month
In recognition of National Indigenous History Month we have curated a list of recent titles in Indigenous Studies. WLU Press is exhibiting at NAISA next week. Please stop by the booth and talk with series editor Daniel Heath Justice. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
20.06.2025 23:00 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Why did he apologize to Drake 😭😭😭
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