Mark Libin
@marklibin.bsky.social
Professor, Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at University of Manitoba. Union thug. Fighting commodity fetishism one class at a time.
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There’s an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter.
Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.
What are we doing.
Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.
What are we doing.
January 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
There’s an epidemic of people using Grok to do sexual violence to women on Twitter.
Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.
What are we doing.
Yet Canadian politicians, media etc have failed to adopt another platform en masse, making it near-impossible to fully disengage and be tapped in to vital conversations and information.
What are we doing.
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It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.
January 2, 2026 at 2:07 PM
It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
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We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We can live without billionaires but billionaires cannot live without us, in the same way that a body can live without cancer, but cancer cannot live without a body.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.
People acting shocked at Chomsky's questionable loyalties seem to forget he used to enthusiastically endorse the Khmer Rouge...
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
People acting shocked at Chomsky's questionable loyalties seem to forget he used to enthusiastically endorse the Khmer Rouge...
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
Those eyes are terrifying....
December 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Those eyes are terrifying....
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"Tomorrow belongs to me" 🎵
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Tomorrow belongs to me" 🎵
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
I assume the "Lady's" portions will cost more, as well...
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I assume the "Lady's" portions will cost more, as well...
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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Show some love to our striking baristas in Columbia, Missouri!
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Show some love to our striking baristas in Columbia, Missouri!
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
We're TWENTY-ONE DAYS into our national ULP strike, and only getting stronger. In fact, the best is yet to come 😎 #nocontractnocoffee
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UMFA Members: Check your inboxes for information on how to opt-out of sharing Winter 2025 and Summer 2025 SRI Results.
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
UMFA Members: Check your inboxes for information on how to opt-out of sharing Winter 2025 and Summer 2025 SRI Results.
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Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...
ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb...
share.google
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Why is the Freep's first reporting on this important exhibit framed almost entirely through the negative lens of Zionist organizations? Palestinians have been advocating for 10 years for an exhibit like this. It's a triumph, and should be reported that way.
A national Jewish organization has launched a campaign targeting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit about the 1948 forced displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians in what is now Israel.
National Jewish organization takes human rights museum to task over Palestinian exhibit
A national Jewish organization has launched a campaign targeting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit about the 1948 forced displacement of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians in what is now Israel.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Why is the Freep's first reporting on this important exhibit framed almost entirely through the negative lens of Zionist organizations? Palestinians have been advocating for 10 years for an exhibit like this. It's a triumph, and should be reported that way.
You think I'm dead but I'm at the sale today ay ay ay ay.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
You think I'm dead but I'm at the sale today ay ay ay ay.
Gonna hit those Black Francis Friday sales. Hope they don't cease to exist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Gonna hit those Black Francis Friday sales. Hope they don't cease to exist.
Have now added SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN by @lalouverouge.bsky.social to the syllabus for my Honours/Graduate seminar on "The Family in Capitalism," coming up in January. Looking forward to the discussion!
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November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Have now added SOLIDARITY WITH CHILDREN by @lalouverouge.bsky.social to the syllabus for my Honours/Graduate seminar on "The Family in Capitalism," coming up in January. Looking forward to the discussion!
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