Lindsay Brown
@lidsville.bsky.social
Be a lover and a fighter
Writer. Upcoming book on Habitat ‘76: http://habitat76.ca
Lidsville was a surrealist 70s kids show about cartoon autocrats in an alternate reality, & here we are. Comms/strategy on environment, energy, housing speculation
Writer. Upcoming book on Habitat ‘76: http://habitat76.ca
Lidsville was a surrealist 70s kids show about cartoon autocrats in an alternate reality, & here we are. Comms/strategy on environment, energy, housing speculation
"The Sinister Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power" - dark money behind the UK PM
Ash Sarkar interviews Paul Holden about his book which seems pretty well-researched. I'm glad they touch on Morgan McSweeney, the Grima Wormtongue of Starmer's office www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
Ash Sarkar interviews Paul Holden about his book which seems pretty well-researched. I'm glad they touch on Morgan McSweeney, the Grima Wormtongue of Starmer's office www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
The Sinister Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power | Ash Sarkar Meets Paul Holden
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"The Sinister Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power" - dark money behind the UK PM
Ash Sarkar interviews Paul Holden about his book which seems pretty well-researched. I'm glad they touch on Morgan McSweeney, the Grima Wormtongue of Starmer's office www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
Ash Sarkar interviews Paul Holden about his book which seems pretty well-researched. I'm glad they touch on Morgan McSweeney, the Grima Wormtongue of Starmer's office www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...
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Update: Re.centre has a new post that's less concerning than the first one. But it begs the Q: if they're not down with the deregulatory neoliberal direction we're now calling Abundance, why did they give it air in the first place?
Is the org having an internecine fight over Abundance, or..?
Is the org having an internecine fight over Abundance, or..?
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Update: Re.centre has a new post that's less concerning than the first one. But it begs the Q: if they're not down with the deregulatory neoliberal direction we're now calling Abundance, why did they give it air in the first place?
Is the org having an internecine fight over Abundance, or..?
Is the org having an internecine fight over Abundance, or..?
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You can always get funding and looter largesse if you support the goals of the looter class.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You can always get funding and looter largesse if you support the goals of the looter class.
What on earth is this? Really? Guys, we just spent all year picking apart the whole concept of “abundance” (neoliberal deregulation & trickledown framed as some new source of prizes for us all). Now it’s touted by a group wanting to supply tools & messaging for many enviro groups?
Just say no.
Just say no.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
What on earth is this? Really? Guys, we just spent all year picking apart the whole concept of “abundance” (neoliberal deregulation & trickledown framed as some new source of prizes for us all). Now it’s touted by a group wanting to supply tools & messaging for many enviro groups?
Just say no.
Just say no.
"It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken"
We've been complaining about this in so many of my chats, and Android users are always (rightly) smug about it. Apple keyboard and autocorrect are trash, and getting worse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
We've been complaining about this in so many of my chats, and Android users are always (rightly) smug about it. Apple keyboard and autocorrect are trash, and getting worse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken"
We've been complaining about this in so many of my chats, and Android users are always (rightly) smug about it. Apple keyboard and autocorrect are trash, and getting worse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
We've been complaining about this in so many of my chats, and Android users are always (rightly) smug about it. Apple keyboard and autocorrect are trash, and getting worse.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
When your typeface isn't up to what's actually going on in the world at the hands of your own country—& probably never was
It seems emblematic, @newyorker.com, that you can't visually distinguish between a night at the theatre & deaths you've helped legitimate
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It seems emblematic, @newyorker.com, that you can't visually distinguish between a night at the theatre & deaths you've helped legitimate
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
When your typeface isn't up to what's actually going on in the world at the hands of your own country—& probably never was
It seems emblematic, @newyorker.com, that you can't visually distinguish between a night at the theatre & deaths you've helped legitimate
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It seems emblematic, @newyorker.com, that you can't visually distinguish between a night at the theatre & deaths you've helped legitimate
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Stoked about Mamdani's win and want to build the same energy here in
BC? RSVP for our AGM today -
November 14-16th in Vancouver, link below. We'll dig into strategy, organizing and social media with the best brains in the biz. C’mon out! #bcpoli
bcgreens.ca/event/novemb...
BC? RSVP for our AGM today -
November 14-16th in Vancouver, link below. We'll dig into strategy, organizing and social media with the best brains in the biz. C’mon out! #bcpoli
bcgreens.ca/event/novemb...
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Stoked about Mamdani's win and want to build the same energy here in
BC? RSVP for our AGM today -
November 14-16th in Vancouver, link below. We'll dig into strategy, organizing and social media with the best brains in the biz. C’mon out! #bcpoli
bcgreens.ca/event/novemb...
BC? RSVP for our AGM today -
November 14-16th in Vancouver, link below. We'll dig into strategy, organizing and social media with the best brains in the biz. C’mon out! #bcpoli
bcgreens.ca/event/novemb...
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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If so, it seems what's needed is a more honest reckoning with the fact that capitalist control over production and government ultimately prevents us from ending human deprivation, inequalities, ecological breakdown and war, or at minimum will radically slow our progress toward these goals.
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If so, it seems what's needed is a more honest reckoning with the fact that capitalist control over production and government ultimately prevents us from ending human deprivation, inequalities, ecological breakdown and war, or at minimum will radically slow our progress toward these goals.
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As usual, those with zero agency are being hit the hardest by our society's callous public health decisions.
Infants younger than six months old get hit the hardest with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, making up almost half of all patients hospitalized for the illness in Canada, according to a new study. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
Infants Bear the Brunt of RSV Hospitalizations, UBC Study Finds | The Tyee
Researchers say the province should do more to protect the very small and vulnerable.
thetyee.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As usual, those with zero agency are being hit the hardest by our society's callous public health decisions.
"In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light."
And opening the speech with Eugene Debs...
Barn burner of a speech.
And opening the speech with Eugene Debs...
Barn burner of a speech.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light."
And opening the speech with Eugene Debs...
Barn burner of a speech.
And opening the speech with Eugene Debs...
Barn burner of a speech.
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Zorhan Mamdani challenges the Trump regime directly during his victory speech: “Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Zorhan Mamdani challenges the Trump regime directly during his victory speech: “Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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“We have bowed at the alter of caution and we have paid a mighty price,” says mayor-elect Mamdani during his victory speech. DNC gotta be freaking the hell out rn
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“We have bowed at the alter of caution and we have paid a mighty price,” says mayor-elect Mamdani during his victory speech. DNC gotta be freaking the hell out rn
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Live Updates: Mamdani Wins N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race After Highest Turnout in Decades
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.
I don't know what's going on but I'm constantly being followed by US accounts who say they're Dems & also ex-military, even antifa (but no socialists) - anyone else? This is just weird. I'm a Canadian socialist yall
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I don't know what's going on but I'm constantly being followed by US accounts who say they're Dems & also ex-military, even antifa (but no socialists) - anyone else? This is just weird. I'm a Canadian socialist yall
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Don’t complain, get paid: Kitimat resident offered thousands from LNG Canada : thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-k...
LNG Canada offered Kitimat residents money — if they stay quiet | The Narwhal
Neighbours of LNG Canada’s Kitimat plant were offered thousands to compensate for noise and smoke, if they promise not to complain
thenarwhal.ca
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Don’t complain, get paid: Kitimat resident offered thousands from LNG Canada : thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-k...
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As a former New Yorker on the ground during the Cheney years, and a writer, I endorse this message
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
As a former New Yorker on the ground during the Cheney years, and a writer, I endorse this message
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hug your war criminals a little tighter today
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
hug your war criminals a little tighter today
That’s the end of the courageous political takes from Teen Vogue. It has been such a beacon for many so this is fairly tragic. Looks like they fired ALL the political staffers and removed the politics beat.
Who leaned on Condé Nast? Or what happened?
Who leaned on Condé Nast? Or what happened?
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
That’s the end of the courageous political takes from Teen Vogue. It has been such a beacon for many so this is fairly tragic. Looks like they fired ALL the political staffers and removed the politics beat.
Who leaned on Condé Nast? Or what happened?
Who leaned on Condé Nast? Or what happened?
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
BC has been subsidizing a largely US lumber industry for decades via low stumpage rates (royalties) & more, yet the companies keep closing mills because they've cut virtually all the old growth, & also their plantations in the US grow faster than the firetrap monocultures they replanted here #bcpoli
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
BC has been subsidizing a largely US lumber industry for decades via low stumpage rates (royalties) & more, yet the companies keep closing mills because they've cut virtually all the old growth, & also their plantations in the US grow faster than the firetrap monocultures they replanted here #bcpoli
This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
We'll protect chickens from H5N1 but not kids in schools and patients in clinics from Covid?
Sound about right....
'He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns.'
#BCpoli #H5N1 #Covid #Covid19
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sound about right....
'He pointed to one research project studying air filtration in barns.'
#BCpoli #H5N1 #Covid #Covid19
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Avian flu strikes farms in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, with 7 outbreaks this month | CBC News
Avian flu has broken out in at least seven locations across B.C.’s Fraser Valley this month, with six cases cropping up since Thursday, and local farmers are doing all they can to protect their flocks...
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This is a great point. There's so much resistance to increasing ventilation/air purification in classrooms to lower levels of Covid & other illnesses for kids & staff, & so much resistance to masking in healthcare
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
BUT they'll get busy ventilating chicken barns against avian flu
because profit
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"Treat count results show that rain and Blue Jays didn't damper Metro Vancouver's Halloween spirit"
#treatcount2025 #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#treatcount2025 #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
2025 Treat Count: Halloween spirit not dampened in Metro Vancouver — despite rain and Blue Jays | CBC News
Even through inclement weather and a riveting Toronto Blue Jays game, CBC B.C.'s treat count reveals that the Halloween spirit remained alive and well. Some readers told us they gave out 1,000 pieces ...
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Treat count results show that rain and Blue Jays didn't damper Metro Vancouver's Halloween spirit"
#treatcount2025 #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#treatcount2025 #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...