Barb from Kingston
@barbfromkingston.bsky.social
Just a bluesky baby, here to see what the future will bring
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The Residential Boulevard Gardening Guide is now available in six languages.
Whether you already have one or want to install one, it’s important that you understand the rules around boulevard gardens, including the potential risks.
Learn more: bit.ly/46lL9c1
Whether you already have one or want to install one, it’s important that you understand the rules around boulevard gardens, including the potential risks.
Learn more: bit.ly/46lL9c1
July 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Residential Boulevard Gardening Guide is now available in six languages.
Whether you already have one or want to install one, it’s important that you understand the rules around boulevard gardens, including the potential risks.
Learn more: bit.ly/46lL9c1
Whether you already have one or want to install one, it’s important that you understand the rules around boulevard gardens, including the potential risks.
Learn more: bit.ly/46lL9c1
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A study using government data finds that if all businesses became 30% employee-owned, the bottom 90% would experience significant gains in wealth, with much of the benefits going to marginalized groups.
If we're serious about addressing wealth inequality, worker ownership must be at the forefront.
If we're serious about addressing wealth inequality, worker ownership must be at the forefront.
Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration
This paper examines the impact of an economy-wide shift to broad-based employee ownership on wealth concentration in the United States. Relying on government da
papers.ssrn.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A study using government data finds that if all businesses became 30% employee-owned, the bottom 90% would experience significant gains in wealth, with much of the benefits going to marginalized groups.
If we're serious about addressing wealth inequality, worker ownership must be at the forefront.
If we're serious about addressing wealth inequality, worker ownership must be at the forefront.
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Now that Ford is premier again, and there's nothing we can do to change that, Ontarians must now put all their energy towards pressuring him to rip up the $100 million contract with StarLink.
Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we should NOT be in business with him!
Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we should NOT be in business with him!
February 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Now that Ford is premier again, and there's nothing we can do to change that, Ontarians must now put all their energy towards pressuring him to rip up the $100 million contract with StarLink.
Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we should NOT be in business with him!
Elon Musk is a threat to democracy and we should NOT be in business with him!
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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has been so overwhelmed by complaints about CBC #CrossCountryFuckUp with Ian Hanomansing, it has had to close the complaints process. @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has been so overwhelmed by complaints about CBC #CrossCountryFuckUp with Ian Hanomansing, it has had to close the complaints process. @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social
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If you live in Ontario, a concrete thing you can do to protect Canadian interests from American encroachment or straight up invasion is to vote out Ford. He is on the record as happy that Trump was elected and has given $100 million contract to Elon Musk.
Vote him out!
Vote him out!
February 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you live in Ontario, a concrete thing you can do to protect Canadian interests from American encroachment or straight up invasion is to vote out Ford. He is on the record as happy that Trump was elected and has given $100 million contract to Elon Musk.
Vote him out!
Vote him out!
Za'atar pizza with labneh for lunch. And maybe dinner too?
February 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Za'atar pizza with labneh for lunch. And maybe dinner too?
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Fabulous defeat for the fascists!
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fabulous defeat for the fascists!
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In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
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“There’s no way to be an ethical billionaire.”
— my 11yo daughter, just now
— my 11yo daughter, just now
February 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“There’s no way to be an ethical billionaire.”
— my 11yo daughter, just now
— my 11yo daughter, just now
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Love as an organizing principle sounds so radical and so necessary right now. Wise words from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social ♥️
January 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Love as an organizing principle sounds so radical and so necessary right now. Wise words from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social ♥️
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January 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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We need to shut down any attempt by Elon Musk to monkey-wrench our election. We must defend Canada's democratic integrity.
Please write to Elections Canada calling on them to shut down interference by Musk's interference in the X algorithm.
Send message here:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
Please write to Elections Canada calling on them to shut down interference by Musk's interference in the X algorithm.
Send message here:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: If Elon Musk is unwilling to respect Canada’s electoral laws, will Elections Canada have the tools to take him on—or shut him down—if necessary? We cannot allow men like Elon Musk, the broligarchy of the United States, to interfere in our country.
January 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
We need to shut down any attempt by Elon Musk to monkey-wrench our election. We must defend Canada's democratic integrity.
Please write to Elections Canada calling on them to shut down interference by Musk's interference in the X algorithm.
Send message here:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
Please write to Elections Canada calling on them to shut down interference by Musk's interference in the X algorithm.
Send message here:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
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I'll be starting up free bystander intervention webinars again soon!
60 mins
Cameras/mics muted
Open to anyone, anywhere 12+
Focused on 5 practical, effective ways you can interrupt hate & harassment in public spaces.
Get on the waitlist by emailing Julie @ righttobe .org
60 mins
Cameras/mics muted
Open to anyone, anywhere 12+
Focused on 5 practical, effective ways you can interrupt hate & harassment in public spaces.
Get on the waitlist by emailing Julie @ righttobe .org
January 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I'll be starting up free bystander intervention webinars again soon!
60 mins
Cameras/mics muted
Open to anyone, anywhere 12+
Focused on 5 practical, effective ways you can interrupt hate & harassment in public spaces.
Get on the waitlist by emailing Julie @ righttobe .org
60 mins
Cameras/mics muted
Open to anyone, anywhere 12+
Focused on 5 practical, effective ways you can interrupt hate & harassment in public spaces.
Get on the waitlist by emailing Julie @ righttobe .org
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Don’t think you don’t make a difference
Every stone dropped in the pond
Sends out ripples
You matter
Every stone dropped in the pond
Sends out ripples
You matter
January 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Don’t think you don’t make a difference
Every stone dropped in the pond
Sends out ripples
You matter
Every stone dropped in the pond
Sends out ripples
You matter
Thanks to the artists making work that speaks to complex emotional states!
Syncopation of Grief and Gladness
oil on paper
21 x 21
sold
Autumn is the season of ambivalence and reconciliation, low-lit chamber for hearing more intimately the syncopation of grief and gladness that scores our improbable and finite lives - THE MARGINALIAN
#art #fantasyart #rabbitart
oil on paper
21 x 21
sold
Autumn is the season of ambivalence and reconciliation, low-lit chamber for hearing more intimately the syncopation of grief and gladness that scores our improbable and finite lives - THE MARGINALIAN
#art #fantasyart #rabbitart
January 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thanks to the artists making work that speaks to complex emotional states!
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The more under resourced we are emotionally, the easier it is to activate us and turn us against each other. The spectacle is a strategy fam. We have to resist with rest, regulation practices and rooting ourselves in our bodies as we fight back
January 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The more under resourced we are emotionally, the easier it is to activate us and turn us against each other. The spectacle is a strategy fam. We have to resist with rest, regulation practices and rooting ourselves in our bodies as we fight back
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“Make good trouble.”
~ John Lewis
~ John Lewis
January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Make good trouble.”
~ John Lewis
~ John Lewis