LibTechie
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Finder of information. Solver of mysteries. Fixer of staplers. Patron saints: Bunny Watson and Nancy Drew. Academic library. Former essential caregiver.
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On our election day, Trump is telling Canadians to elect.....Trump.
Fucking pathetic, dude.
Fucking pathetic, dude.
April 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
On our election day, Trump is telling Canadians to elect.....Trump.
Fucking pathetic, dude.
Fucking pathetic, dude.
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Same thing happened in Fall 2024, when the feds released a report on Long Covid that explicitly state that repeat infections are dangerous, the risk of developing LC is cumulative, and that 1 in 5 Canadians adults had Long Covid. Not a word from Canadian media.
tinyurl.com/hahbhcy9
tinyurl.com/hahbhcy9
Dealing with the fallout: Post-COVID Condition and its continued impact on individuals and society
tinyurl.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Same thing happened in Fall 2024, when the feds released a report on Long Covid that explicitly state that repeat infections are dangerous, the risk of developing LC is cumulative, and that 1 in 5 Canadians adults had Long Covid. Not a word from Canadian media.
tinyurl.com/hahbhcy9
tinyurl.com/hahbhcy9
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Oh fuck off. It's bad enough AI is sucking the soul out of art, putting millions out of work, and super-charging misinformation. Now you're asking us to rip away that last veneer of human politeness, however performative? Fuck right off. Please and thank you.
April 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh fuck off. It's bad enough AI is sucking the soul out of art, putting millions out of work, and super-charging misinformation. Now you're asking us to rip away that last veneer of human politeness, however performative? Fuck right off. Please and thank you.
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“Crowd size is the new phallic symbol. The red-pilling of Canadian politics is complete”
My column is out!
“Conservative politics and its embrace of populism have merged with toxic masculinity for validation in the mainstream”
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
“Conservative politics and its embrace of populism have merged with toxic masculinity for validation in the mainstream”
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Red-pill populism
Conservative politics and its embrace of populism have merged with toxic masculinity for validation in the mainstream.
www.hilltimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“Crowd size is the new phallic symbol. The red-pilling of Canadian politics is complete”
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"I would say to every Canadian who is listening to this: You should be looking up the voting records of whoever you're voting for in the upcoming election and see how they have voted on bills related to reproductive rights."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Author, gynecologist Jen Gunter says she's moving back to Canada as reproductive rights erode in U.S. | CBC News
Jen Gunter, a Winnipeg-born gynecologist and bestselling author, says she's had enough with the United States, but she’s also prescribing a stark warning for Canadian voters concerned about the future...
www.cbc.ca
April 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"I would say to every Canadian who is listening to this: You should be looking up the voting records of whoever you're voting for in the upcoming election and see how they have voted on bills related to reproductive rights."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
According to the email containing this survey I received it because I'm a verify Conservative supporter which comes as news to me. Could only submit is if I checked how I'd support the Conservatives leading up to the election. I selected share social media posts - so sharing this nonsense survey,
April 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
According to the email containing this survey I received it because I'm a verify Conservative supporter which comes as news to me. Could only submit is if I checked how I'd support the Conservatives leading up to the election. I selected share social media posts - so sharing this nonsense survey,
Not only is Pierre Poilievre and his team using slogans constantly in an attempt to get votes they are adding emojis to them in emails to show how serious they are.
Next up they will be using gifs.
Next up they will be using gifs.
April 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Not only is Pierre Poilievre and his team using slogans constantly in an attempt to get votes they are adding emojis to them in emails to show how serious they are.
Next up they will be using gifs.
Next up they will be using gifs.
Just got a phone call inviting me to the next Pierre Poilievre rally with a robo call voiced by none other than J. D. Vance's BFF Jamil Jivani. The number of worn out PP slogans used in the call tripled it in length.
No, I will not be going.
No, I will not be going.
April 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Just got a phone call inviting me to the next Pierre Poilievre rally with a robo call voiced by none other than J. D. Vance's BFF Jamil Jivani. The number of worn out PP slogans used in the call tripled it in length.
No, I will not be going.
No, I will not be going.
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Yesterday, Poilievre was posting about how the Canadian Pacific Railway might not even be able to be built today.
Um, there’s a pretty good reason for that: the abuse and deaths of Chinese workers who built the railroad.
Um, there’s a pretty good reason for that: the abuse and deaths of Chinese workers who built the railroad.
April 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Yesterday, Poilievre was posting about how the Canadian Pacific Railway might not even be able to be built today.
Um, there’s a pretty good reason for that: the abuse and deaths of Chinese workers who built the railroad.
Um, there’s a pretty good reason for that: the abuse and deaths of Chinese workers who built the railroad.
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Academics in the US & Canada: reflect on leadership at your institutions.
Has management been kowtowing to political and corporate demands?
Does your Board of Directors hide its work?
Have hires in admin outpaced hires in faculty & staff?
Then you have a problem.
#ElbowsUp #Gleichschaltung
Has management been kowtowing to political and corporate demands?
Does your Board of Directors hide its work?
Have hires in admin outpaced hires in faculty & staff?
Then you have a problem.
#ElbowsUp #Gleichschaltung
On CBC Radio MetroMorning, a US academic from Yale is moving to the University of Toronto ("the Crown Jewel" of Canada, he says).
Why? Because of US ideology and the moves that the fascist Trump regime is taking against universities. The word being used is "harbinger".
#Gleichschaltung
Why? Because of US ideology and the moves that the fascist Trump regime is taking against universities. The word being used is "harbinger".
#Gleichschaltung
While so many continue to pretend that it’s not fascism that we’re seeing in the US, here’s Trump continuing his policies of Gleichschaltung. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
March 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Academics in the US & Canada: reflect on leadership at your institutions.
Has management been kowtowing to political and corporate demands?
Does your Board of Directors hide its work?
Have hires in admin outpaced hires in faculty & staff?
Then you have a problem.
#ElbowsUp #Gleichschaltung
Has management been kowtowing to political and corporate demands?
Does your Board of Directors hide its work?
Have hires in admin outpaced hires in faculty & staff?
Then you have a problem.
#ElbowsUp #Gleichschaltung
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This, so much this. People mean well, but the pressure to be well, or at least on the improve, is huge.
March 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This, so much this. People mean well, but the pressure to be well, or at least on the improve, is huge.
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Danielle Smith is on the Quisling 2025 tour with Ben Shapiro.
He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico."
He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator."
She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...
He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico."
He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator."
She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...
Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro discuss Canada electing ‘solid allies’ to Trump at Florida event
On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, said, 'I come in peace.'
www.nationalobserver.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Danielle Smith is on the Quisling 2025 tour with Ben Shapiro.
He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico."
He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator."
She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...
He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico."
He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator."
She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...
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To those who feel this way, you might not know if you are “vulnerable”. Many illnesses that could leave you more open to long term consequences can sneak by undetected UNTIL something pushes them over the edge and then BOOM!! Ask me how I know!
“Covid is only a risk to the vulnerable”.
The comfortable lie that allowed most of the world to rush back to normal. To ignore a global pandemic that’s killing and disabling millions.
Tossing the “vulnerable” aside for comfort paved the way for fascism.
Wear a mask. Stand with disabled people.
The comfortable lie that allowed most of the world to rush back to normal. To ignore a global pandemic that’s killing and disabling millions.
Tossing the “vulnerable” aside for comfort paved the way for fascism.
Wear a mask. Stand with disabled people.
March 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
To those who feel this way, you might not know if you are “vulnerable”. Many illnesses that could leave you more open to long term consequences can sneak by undetected UNTIL something pushes them over the edge and then BOOM!! Ask me how I know!
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“Create a ruckus” = co-write a (not even particularly strident) op-ed for a student newspaper.
Americans, you need to fight like hell, because they’re coming for everyone who dissents.
Americans, you need to fight like hell, because they’re coming for everyone who dissents.
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Create a ruckus” = co-write a (not even particularly strident) op-ed for a student newspaper.
Americans, you need to fight like hell, because they’re coming for everyone who dissents.
Americans, you need to fight like hell, because they’re coming for everyone who dissents.
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Just a reminder that the higher ed system in Canada is in total crisis and part of pur productivity problem comes from there. And that this approach isn't actually fixing anything. It needa to be accompanied by massive public investments.
One less-noticed success in the Canadian counteroffensive: The most famous thinkers at Yale — specifically writers on fascism — are being serially scooped up by the U of T’s Munk School as they express a desire to flee the Trump assaults on universities
March 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just a reminder that the higher ed system in Canada is in total crisis and part of pur productivity problem comes from there. And that this approach isn't actually fixing anything. It needa to be accompanied by massive public investments.
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Matt Strauss, one of the worst quacks of the pandemic. Now running as one pf Poilievre's Conservative candidates in Kitchener Ontario. Canada, we can do better than this.
"He previously said on social media he'd sooner give his children COVID-19 over a Happy Meal"
#canpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"He previously said on social media he'd sooner give his children COVID-19 over a Happy Meal"
#canpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
March 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Matt Strauss, one of the worst quacks of the pandemic. Now running as one pf Poilievre's Conservative candidates in Kitchener Ontario. Canada, we can do better than this.
"He previously said on social media he'd sooner give his children COVID-19 over a Happy Meal"
#canpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"He previously said on social media he'd sooner give his children COVID-19 over a Happy Meal"
#canpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why did I put off something for 3 months that painlessly took me 20 minutes to do?
March 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Why did I put off something for 3 months that painlessly took me 20 minutes to do?
Talking to someone and they mentioned possibly moving to Alberta to be with family. I responded with "might be a good idea to wait and see what happens" They responded with "I hope they separate. I'm serious they need to protect their oil."
Me:
Me:
a close up of a man 's face with a serious expression .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a serious expression .
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March 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Talking to someone and they mentioned possibly moving to Alberta to be with family. I responded with "might be a good idea to wait and see what happens" They responded with "I hope they separate. I'm serious they need to protect their oil."
Me:
Me: