Milena D
natuaural.bsky.social
Milena D
@natuaural.bsky.social
Person of interest.
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If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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📣 Friends, fans, enemies!
We would love to hear your thoughts on our hard work to #SavetheAI. Please take a few minutes out of your daily scroll to complete our anonymous survey and let us know how we're doing: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

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August 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Speak out against Ken Sim’s budget #vanpoli:

Submit comments to Mayor and Council via vancouver.ca/your-governm...
Share ideas and feedback through www.shapeyourcity.ca.
Contact Mayor and Council
Contact City Council and the mayor as a group.
vancouver.ca
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Writers! Give @TWSSFU a follow & enter into your 2025 calendars the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints
October 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
What did it all mean? A good read below. Watching from Canada, there is a sadness about the Women’s marches, and BLM marches and all the other marches despite which Trump got elected.
I wrote about attending No Kings, opposing visions of America, what hating those visions says about those who hate them, the importance being earnest, and the necessity of finding the next step.

www.the-reframe.com/america-hate...
America Haters
No Kings was a week ago. What did it mean?
www.the-reframe.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Join us in congratulating our graduates at the FCAT Convocation celebration on October 9th!

The Convocation ceremony will be held at Convocation Mall at Burnaby Campus at 9:45am, with a reception to follow at the SW corner of the Reflection Pond.

Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/R5D37FG
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“Gaia-24,” the opera inspired by Russia’s 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir dam in Kherson Oblast, is set to make its return to the Kyiv stage in late November at the Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theater.
Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv
Editor's Note: The Kyiv Independent is a media partner of the "Gaia-24" performance on Nov. 27 in Kyiv. Even in the midst of Russia’s ecocide against Ukraine — where forests are scorched, rivers are ...
kyivindependent.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist.

BUT I believe that people with great influence should use it to do good for nature, life in general, humanity, and the planet.

That's why I think this is a good thing.
October 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My my … look
who got kicked out of their own people
Lindsay Shepherd says she’s now been fired from the Conservative Party of BC after complaining in an X post about having to view National Day for Truth and Reconciliation symbols.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Rustad Fires Lindsay Shepherd for Residential School Comments | The Tyee
The BC Conservative staffer called displays of orange shirts and orange flags ‘a disgrace.’
thetyee.ca
October 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.
September 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.

#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...
Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist
An online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."
www.wbez.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Fire in the hole: Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it.
After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs & cultural history in the Tongass national forest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it
After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Looking to deepen your practice on urban issues?

The Fall 2025 @sfucity.bsky.social courses & workshops are now open and featuring:

Financing Urban Growth
Real Estate Development
Planning and Zoning Law
Drafting Design Guidelines
Transit Oriented Development

www.sfu.ca/continuing-s...
City Program
www.sfu.ca
August 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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echoing this key takeaway, in solidarity against-a-i.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest.

balm for the sundays:

this solidarity guide to back-to-school support against the AI assault

against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!
We're hiring! Postdoctoral position at the SFU School of Communication in the area of Journalism and Platforms. Work with professor Sarah Ganter at the intersection of journalism, policy and platform studies.

Apply by August 15th: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

@sarahsoutlook.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This is the way the World is ending, not with a bang but a whimper

Scientists discover blue whales singing less because they are starving

The Global Climate Crisis is killing off their krill & plankton food

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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"Susanne Calabrese, a lawyer for Ecojustice, argues [David] Yager’s various appointments and roles put him at odds in crafting the [#MAS], which she says furthers industry interests over the public’s."

You too can request an investigation into potential conflicts of interest👉 https://bit.ly/46jfb07
July 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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dystopia: "put resources behind AI while it strips funds for actual public education. invest in AI while it strips funding for scientific research. sponsor creation of vast data center infrastructure but ensure AI will be propped up by energies of the past."
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-...
Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based
youtu.be
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Hear from Daniel Ahadi and Jennesia Pedri about the new course they developed - CMNS 200: Professional & Strategic Communication!

This course invites all students to build their professional communication skills, which are valuable across all industries.

www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
All Students Invited to Build their Professional Communication Skills in New Course
www.sfu.ca
July 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Ontario wants to develop Wasaga Beach Park—home to endangered Piping Plovers—for tourism and housing.

🚨 No Plovers = no healthy beach. 🚨

Speak up before Aug 11 to stop this reckless plan 👉 bit.ly/3ICMYHU

#ProtectWasaga #SaveThePlovers #EndangeredSpecies #Ecojustice 🕊️🌊
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social‬ this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism.
www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...
July 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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A win is a win! 👏

After the Ford government’s attempt to appeal, the court has ruled in favour of upholding a temporary injunction first granted in April 2025.

In other words, Ontario continues to be prevented from removing 3 major bike lanes on Yonge, University, and Bloor in Toronto.
July 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM