K Barn
@karlbarn.bsky.social
Brood mother 🐔, union hoser ✊, ally 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇨🇳 🇨🇩, formo journo, filthy leftist.
F*k capitalism. Go home.
F*k capitalism. Go home.
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K Barn
@karlbarn.bsky.social
· Apr 14
When people say voting strategically is harm reduction my question is:
Harm reduction for who, to what extent, for how long, and at the cost of whose lives and exploitation globally?
Harm reduction for who, to what extent, for how long, and at the cost of whose lives and exploitation globally?
I hope the consumer AI bubble bursts, but what worries me even more than it being used to replace white collar knowledge laborers is AI's role in the military and in state surveillance/fascism
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I hope the consumer AI bubble bursts, but what worries me even more than it being used to replace white collar knowledge laborers is AI's role in the military and in state surveillance/fascism
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Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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halloween is the best holiday because it’s the one that’s the most community focused. also because it’s the horniest
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
halloween is the best holiday because it’s the one that’s the most community focused. also because it’s the horniest
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The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.
Justice for Workers does some fantastic work, btw
Alberto is still waiting for $31,000 his boss owes him. He’s not alone.
Nearly $200 million in wages were stolen from Ontario workers, and most of it was never recovered.
Workers Action Centre
new Wage theft report: workersactioncentre.org/wage-theft/
#StopWageTheft #Justice4Workers
Nearly $200 million in wages were stolen from Ontario workers, and most of it was never recovered.
Workers Action Centre
new Wage theft report: workersactioncentre.org/wage-theft/
#StopWageTheft #Justice4Workers
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Justice for Workers does some fantastic work, btw
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Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.
October 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.
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Canada Post doesn't pay mail carriers to deliver mail if there is no mail to deliver. The letter writer might also want to think about getting real.
Letters: I get maybe a letter a month. Canada Post has to get real
Letters: I get maybe a letter a month. Canada Post has to get real
"Our government should stop letting the tail wag the dog, especially if the dog is on life support."
bit.ly
October 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Canada Post doesn't pay mail carriers to deliver mail if there is no mail to deliver. The letter writer might also want to think about getting real.
Today is the anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood and the acceleration of the decades long occupation and genocide of the Palestinians.
May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊
May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊
October 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Today is the anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood and the acceleration of the decades long occupation and genocide of the Palestinians.
May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊
May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊
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AI SLURS
*ahem*
Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper
*ahem*
Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
AI SLURS
*ahem*
Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper
*ahem*
Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper
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Highly recommend this @upstreampodcast.bsky.social podcast with Chris Gilbert on Venezuela and socialist communes - communal forms of social production that form the basis of a socialist and anti-imperialist national project. And now under direct military threat from the US.
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Highly recommend this @upstreampodcast.bsky.social podcast with Chris Gilbert on Venezuela and socialist communes - communal forms of social production that form the basis of a socialist and anti-imperialist national project. And now under direct military threat from the US.
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"*I* didn't crash the bus, *I* only let go of the steering wheel. If the passengers didn't want to crash, they should've leaned harder into that last turn."
October 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"*I* didn't crash the bus, *I* only let go of the steering wheel. If the passengers didn't want to crash, they should've leaned harder into that last turn."
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Between Tranjan getting a piece in the Star and the recent editorial by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social about postal banking 💰 📮, I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world where good faith discourse on the public good is coming back.
The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.
My latest @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one
Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher
www.thestar.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Between Tranjan getting a piece in the Star and the recent editorial by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social about postal banking 💰 📮, I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world where good faith discourse on the public good is coming back.
Billionaire lobbyists, pressure from American logistics firms, Liberal Party family members who work with Amazon, and of course the gleeful complicity of legacy media - The real story behind why the government is determined to dismantle your public post office
breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach
The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service
breachmedia.ca
October 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Billionaire lobbyists, pressure from American logistics firms, Liberal Party family members who work with Amazon, and of course the gleeful complicity of legacy media - The real story behind why the government is determined to dismantle your public post office
breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
Someone slowly drove by the local postal worker picket line while asking "when's this all gonna be over?"
"Well," I replied, "we've all gotta die sometime." He didn't hear me. Still, we've had lots of support from the public and local businesses
"Well," I replied, "we've all gotta die sometime." He didn't hear me. Still, we've had lots of support from the public and local businesses
October 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Someone slowly drove by the local postal worker picket line while asking "when's this all gonna be over?"
"Well," I replied, "we've all gotta die sometime." He didn't hear me. Still, we've had lots of support from the public and local businesses
"Well," I replied, "we've all gotta die sometime." He didn't hear me. Still, we've had lots of support from the public and local businesses
We're keeping score of how many people came by supporting the Postal Workers fighting back against privatization vs how many are for service cuts.
Don't listen to legacy media. The public actually like services that serve them and not the 1%
Don't listen to legacy media. The public actually like services that serve them and not the 1%
October 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We're keeping score of how many people came by supporting the Postal Workers fighting back against privatization vs how many are for service cuts.
Don't listen to legacy media. The public actually like services that serve them and not the 1%
Don't listen to legacy media. The public actually like services that serve them and not the 1%
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Here’s something that could make Canada Post profitable — like it did before -- but instead Mark Carney wants to gut our national post office. That’s no way to build a nation. #canlab #cdnpoli #postal #canpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Linda McQuaig: Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again
Providing banking services to rural and low-income Canadians through post offices would be a Canada-first form of nation-building for the people.
www.thestar.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here’s something that could make Canada Post profitable — like it did before -- but instead Mark Carney wants to gut our national post office. That’s no way to build a nation. #canlab #cdnpoli #postal #canpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
The Maple nails it again. You're still welcome to print out mainstream news' coverage of the strike if you're running out of toilet paper
www.readthemaple.com/canada-posts...
www.readthemaple.com/canada-posts...
Canada Post’s Moment Of Reckoning May Finally Be Here
Now is the time to draw inspiration from wherever we can, and stand with workers while they fight the employer-led race to the bottom.
www.readthemaple.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Maple nails it again. You're still welcome to print out mainstream news' coverage of the strike if you're running out of toilet paper
www.readthemaple.com/canada-posts...
www.readthemaple.com/canada-posts...
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The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year.
Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year.
Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.
The propaganda machine is in full swing as usual whenever a strike happens.
Remember, mainstream media including the CBC are not and never have been your friends. This same class of journalists called the postal strike in 1979 for maternity leave for all "greedy and unnecessary."
Remember, mainstream media including the CBC are not and never have been your friends. This same class of journalists called the postal strike in 1979 for maternity leave for all "greedy and unnecessary."
This is what one might call manufacturing consent.
At Issue is a great example of the range of views allowed in Canadian discourse.
Coyne effectively calls for privatization. Hebert says backlash is expected when union not consulted, while Raj criticizes the union. None question whether a public service should need to turn a profit.
Coyne effectively calls for privatization. Hebert says backlash is expected when union not consulted, while Raj criticizes the union. None question whether a public service should need to turn a profit.
September 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The propaganda machine is in full swing as usual whenever a strike happens.
Remember, mainstream media including the CBC are not and never have been your friends. This same class of journalists called the postal strike in 1979 for maternity leave for all "greedy and unnecessary."
Remember, mainstream media including the CBC are not and never have been your friends. This same class of journalists called the postal strike in 1979 for maternity leave for all "greedy and unnecessary."
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from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’
Well that just about sums up the info about the Canada Post debacle you won't hear our incompetent media talk about. This person is a gem 😆
youtu.be/5F-jjAr3YUA
youtu.be/5F-jjAr3YUA
It’s always on the backs of the workers. #canadapost #federalgovernment #cupw #strike
YouTube video by Lisab0923
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Well that just about sums up the info about the Canada Post debacle you won't hear our incompetent media talk about. This person is a gem 😆
youtu.be/5F-jjAr3YUA
youtu.be/5F-jjAr3YUA
My pleasure, neighbour
September 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
My pleasure, neighbour