ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)
@zoestodd.bsky.social
Fish nerd. Artist. Storyteller. Proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation.
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present).
https://fishphilosophy.org/
https://thebulltroutshow.buzzsprout.com/
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present).
https://fishphilosophy.org/
https://thebulltroutshow.buzzsprout.com/
Pinned
we are running FISH SCHOOL at the Hollyhock Centre on Cortes Island this October 2-6, 2025. We still have room for six participants.
If you're a prof or organization with funding to sponsor tuition for a student or community member, please get in touch. 🐟 💜
hollyhock.ca/programs/754...
If you're a prof or organization with funding to sponsor tuition for a student or community member, please get in touch. 🐟 💜
hollyhock.ca/programs/754...
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"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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By the time you’ve finished your morning coffee today, chances are Canada’s top-earning CEOs will have earned more than you’ll make all year.
Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs make 248 times more than average Canadian worker
By the time you’ve finished your morning coffee today, chances are Canada’s top-earning CEOs will have earned more than you’ll make all year.
cheknews.ca
January 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
By the time you’ve finished your morning coffee today, chances are Canada’s top-earning CEOs will have earned more than you’ll make all year.
My take on AI is straightforward: the machine learning plagiarism industrial complex is not sentient. But the fish who have lived on earth continuously in one form or another for half a billion years & who are threatened by AI’s water consumption & climate change impacts are. I choose the fish. 🐟
January 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
My take on AI is straightforward: the machine learning plagiarism industrial complex is not sentient. But the fish who have lived on earth continuously in one form or another for half a billion years & who are threatened by AI’s water consumption & climate change impacts are. I choose the fish. 🐟
You can imagine how kindly rich white boomers with a victim complex respond to even the gentlest of questions about their politics 😱
Anyhoo, a local journo should dig into why this group is going after public infrastructure spending & not, say, local government spending on consultants and lawyers.
Anyhoo, a local journo should dig into why this group is going after public infrastructure spending & not, say, local government spending on consultants and lawyers.
This could be verbatim from the local ‘Tax Alliance’ & their attack on parks, transit, protecting wetlands, libraries, protecting pedestrians and cyclists, and joy.
(Their founder lives in a 3.6 million house).
neoliberalism is a heckuva drug.
praying for class consciousness in 2026…
(Their founder lives in a 3.6 million house).
neoliberalism is a heckuva drug.
praying for class consciousness in 2026…
January 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
You can imagine how kindly rich white boomers with a victim complex respond to even the gentlest of questions about their politics 😱
Anyhoo, a local journo should dig into why this group is going after public infrastructure spending & not, say, local government spending on consultants and lawyers.
Anyhoo, a local journo should dig into why this group is going after public infrastructure spending & not, say, local government spending on consultants and lawyers.
This could be verbatim from the local ‘Tax Alliance’ & their attack on parks, transit, protecting wetlands, libraries, protecting pedestrians and cyclists, and joy.
(Their founder lives in a 3.6 million house).
neoliberalism is a heckuva drug.
praying for class consciousness in 2026…
(Their founder lives in a 3.6 million house).
neoliberalism is a heckuva drug.
praying for class consciousness in 2026…
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This could be verbatim from the local ‘Tax Alliance’ & their attack on parks, transit, protecting wetlands, libraries, protecting pedestrians and cyclists, and joy.
(Their founder lives in a 3.6 million house).
neoliberalism is a heckuva drug.
praying for class consciousness in 2026…
(Their founder lives in a 3.6 million house).
neoliberalism is a heckuva drug.
praying for class consciousness in 2026…
this GoFundMe is raising money to help the 36 people displaced by the devastating Value Motel fire on Boxing Day in Nanaimo. Please share widely! www.gofundme.com/f/fire-resid...
Story here: cheknews.ca/they-lost-th...
Story here: cheknews.ca/they-lost-th...
Donate to Supporting Vulnerable Residents after Devastating Motel Fire, organized by Amanda Gangoso
Hi,
My name is Amanda Gangoso, I’m a Nanaimo local, and l… Amanda Gangoso needs your support for Supporting Vulnerable Residents after Devastating Motel Fire
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December 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
this GoFundMe is raising money to help the 36 people displaced by the devastating Value Motel fire on Boxing Day in Nanaimo. Please share widely! www.gofundme.com/f/fire-resid...
Story here: cheknews.ca/they-lost-th...
Story here: cheknews.ca/they-lost-th...
Wayne Emerson Roberts is one of the scientists who raised the alarm on the decline of Alberta species including bull trout and the northern leopard frog in the 1970s and 1980s. I’ve been systematically combing through archives to record his labour and legacy in Alberta.
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wayne Emerson Roberts is one of the scientists who raised the alarm on the decline of Alberta species including bull trout and the northern leopard frog in the 1970s and 1980s. I’ve been systematically combing through archives to record his labour and legacy in Alberta.
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And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
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In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment @sarahjilani.bsky.social and @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social respond to the British imperialists @Policy_Exchange who have slandered #Fanon.
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December 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In the year of his centenary and amid the genocide in #Gaza, Fanon continues to provoke fear within the Western imperialist establishment @sarahjilani.bsky.social and @chineduchukwudinma.bsky.social respond to the British imperialists @Policy_Exchange who have slandered #Fanon.
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but for real.
Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
December 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
but for real.
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A recent meeting named, the “Un-Making of Métis Claims” in Ontario drew a sold-out crowd.
The forum had First Nations claiming several communities represented by the Métis Nation of Ontario are not legitimate.
The forum had First Nations claiming several communities represented by the Métis Nation of Ontario are not legitimate.
Recent meeting in Ontario over alleged illegitimate Métis Nation of Ontario claims | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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December 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A recent meeting named, the “Un-Making of Métis Claims” in Ontario drew a sold-out crowd.
The forum had First Nations claiming several communities represented by the Métis Nation of Ontario are not legitimate.
The forum had First Nations claiming several communities represented by the Métis Nation of Ontario are not legitimate.
Some thoughts on the perils of ego-centric colonial celebrity, & of the power of love, truth, and joy in co-constitutive Indigenous sovereignties after the "Un)Making of Metis Claims in Ontario" conference hosted by Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin. drfishphilosopher.substack.com/p/twitter-is...
"Twitter is destroying humanity" and other things the spirits taught me
or: on learning to be a wave
drfishphilosopher.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Some thoughts on the perils of ego-centric colonial celebrity, & of the power of love, truth, and joy in co-constitutive Indigenous sovereignties after the "Un)Making of Metis Claims in Ontario" conference hosted by Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin. drfishphilosopher.substack.com/p/twitter-is...
happy bi-annual experience of trying to remember what you did in the last two years and putting it down on paper to all who celebrate.
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
happy bi-annual experience of trying to remember what you did in the last two years and putting it down on paper to all who celebrate.
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The ink is hardly dry on this court decision, and yet the folks who unanimously passed the Declaration Act are already threatening to repeal or amend it. How is that good government?
#bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli
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Eby says B.C. may revise DRIPA legislation, worries court is 'in driver's seat' | CBC News
B.C. Premier David Eby says he is open to revising the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). His comments come after B.C.'s Court of Appeal found that the legislation...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The ink is hardly dry on this court decision, and yet the folks who unanimously passed the Declaration Act are already threatening to repeal or amend it. How is that good government?
#bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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"My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I'm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth generation rural Albertan, and I'm just trying to keep the water clean."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Country singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta | CBC News
Alberta singer Corb Lund has been given the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountain...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"My animals drink the water, my mother drinks the water. So I'm not a guy flying in from L.A. on a private jet. I am a sixth generation rural Albertan, and I'm just trying to keep the water clean."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Is dominant society ready to tap out on world ending superficial destructive teleological two-dimensional narcissism (Barad’s ‘metaphysics of individualism’) yet? 😭
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Is dominant society ready to tap out on world ending superficial destructive teleological two-dimensional narcissism (Barad’s ‘metaphysics of individualism’) yet? 😭
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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The through line with white people extractively claiming to be Indigenous for gain in 🇨🇦 is celebrity distorts+overrides our wave-based collective onto-sovereignties. This is why I refuse to reify concept of ‘the one’ speaking ‘for’ a collective. Pretendians and celebrity are two sides of same coin.
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The through line with white people extractively claiming to be Indigenous for gain in 🇨🇦 is celebrity distorts+overrides our wave-based collective onto-sovereignties. This is why I refuse to reify concept of ‘the one’ speaking ‘for’ a collective. Pretendians and celebrity are two sides of same coin.
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A detailed report from the Abenaki Council of Odanak arguing that prominent historian Lisa Brooks, whose book Our Beloved Kin won the 2019 Bancroft Prize, is almost definitely a pretendian.
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
abenakiheritage.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A detailed report from the Abenaki Council of Odanak arguing that prominent historian Lisa Brooks, whose book Our Beloved Kin won the 2019 Bancroft Prize, is almost definitely a pretendian.
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
The buffalo in the room with the Federal Government's 'braiding, bridging, weaving' mandate for Indigenous science is that the public service itself still operates on a 'self-id' basis for Indigenous verification. That is not a safe space for us to bring our Indigenous ontologies forward.
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The buffalo in the room with the Federal Government's 'braiding, bridging, weaving' mandate for Indigenous science is that the public service itself still operates on a 'self-id' basis for Indigenous verification. That is not a safe space for us to bring our Indigenous ontologies forward.
It's powerful to see Odanak push back against efforts by white settlers to distort+possess Abenaki heritage for white possessive (Moreton-Robinson 2015) enrichment+control.
US and Canadian academe sure loves colonial mirror world white possessive 'indigeneity'.
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
US and Canadian academe sure loves colonial mirror world white possessive 'indigeneity'.
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
abenakiheritage.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's powerful to see Odanak push back against efforts by white settlers to distort+possess Abenaki heritage for white possessive (Moreton-Robinson 2015) enrichment+control.
US and Canadian academe sure loves colonial mirror world white possessive 'indigeneity'.
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
US and Canadian academe sure loves colonial mirror world white possessive 'indigeneity'.
abenakiheritage.org/wp-content/u...
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After the Thomas King revelations, I was also reminded of the situation at Carleton and the impact it has had on Indigenous people there. It still bothers me this prof claimed a "Muskrat" heritage. A lot happened in the region since the early 18th century.
What is the most toxic university for Indigenous students, staff, faculty in Canada? Carleton University is pretty high up there but manages to squeak out of accountability every time it’s scrutinized. Media should analyze faculty turnover, student complaints.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/185...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/185...
Les origines autochtones d’un professeur de l’Université Carleton remises en question
Les prétentions identitaires d'un professeur provoquent la colère d'Autochtones, qui l'accusent d'usurpation.
ici.radio-canada.ca
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
After the Thomas King revelations, I was also reminded of the situation at Carleton and the impact it has had on Indigenous people there. It still bothers me this prof claimed a "Muskrat" heritage. A lot happened in the region since the early 18th century.
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Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
www.mpg.de
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
Three years into my job in Ottawa I had: a chronic inflammatory neurological condition that put me at risk of going blind; been yelled at in meetings; been gaslit ceaselessly.
Three years into my job here: have lovely colleagues, good supports, am doing my dream work with community.
Three years into my job here: have lovely colleagues, good supports, am doing my dream work with community.
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Three years into my job in Ottawa I had: a chronic inflammatory neurological condition that put me at risk of going blind; been yelled at in meetings; been gaslit ceaselessly.
Three years into my job here: have lovely colleagues, good supports, am doing my dream work with community.
Three years into my job here: have lovely colleagues, good supports, am doing my dream work with community.