Goose
@canuckgoose.bsky.social
I choose democracy, humanity, equity, facts, truth
Resisting right-wing populism & fascism
Make Good Trouble - John Lewis
#NeverPoilievre #IStandWithTrudeau
Resisting right-wing populism & fascism
Make Good Trouble - John Lewis
#NeverPoilievre #IStandWithTrudeau
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@jacindaardern.bsky.social .gives us a righteous #CupOfJoe.
"Empathy has never started a war, never sought to take the dignity of others, and empathy teaches you that power is interchangeable with another word: responsibility."
"Empathy has never started a war, never sought to take the dignity of others, and empathy teaches you that power is interchangeable with another word: responsibility."
May 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@jacindaardern.bsky.social .gives us a righteous #CupOfJoe.
"Empathy has never started a war, never sought to take the dignity of others, and empathy teaches you that power is interchangeable with another word: responsibility."
"Empathy has never started a war, never sought to take the dignity of others, and empathy teaches you that power is interchangeable with another word: responsibility."
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as scott adams also announced he has prostate cancer, there’s going to be an entire generation of gen x that just dies younger due to trusting snake oil salesmen over real doctor practices endorsed by an entire political party designed to lie to them
May 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
as scott adams also announced he has prostate cancer, there’s going to be an entire generation of gen x that just dies younger due to trusting snake oil salesmen over real doctor practices endorsed by an entire political party designed to lie to them
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A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
Black Earth — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet.
bittersoutherner.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
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"Ban fossil fuel advertising. Remove lobbyists from negotiations. End subsidies. The science is clear, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s time to treat fossil fuels like Big Tobacco."
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/01/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/01/o...
We need to treat fossil fuels like Big Tobacco
To reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and stem disinformation that blocks effective climate action, a comprehensive ban on advertising, promotion and sponsorship of fossil fuel products and indust...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:25 PM
"Ban fossil fuel advertising. Remove lobbyists from negotiations. End subsidies. The science is clear, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s time to treat fossil fuels like Big Tobacco."
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/01/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/01/o...
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
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FELLOW CANADIANS, this is the most important thread you may ever read.
PLEASE READ and share with your friends.
NOW is the last chance to stop foreign interference and totalitarianism’s attack on our western democracies.
#cdnpoli #ableg #ONpoli
PLEASE READ and share with your friends.
NOW is the last chance to stop foreign interference and totalitarianism’s attack on our western democracies.
#cdnpoli #ableg #ONpoli
The world has reached its most dangerous point for democracies in decades. What seemed impossible yesterday is now becoming the new normal today. If liberal democracies don’t unite for self-preservation, they risk disappearing sooner than we imagine.
Short and scary 🧵 below
Short and scary 🧵 below
December 5, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers
Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives
pressprogress.ca/media-covera...
Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives
pressprogress.ca/media-covera...
Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers
Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives
pressprogress.ca
November 29, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers
Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives
pressprogress.ca/media-covera...
Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives
pressprogress.ca/media-covera...
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Single payer health care would cost HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS LESS, but the parasites are actively waging a war against it (in congress and through mainstream propaganda) because the savings would result from the elimination of exorbitant administrative costs and private health insurance profits
December 6, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Single payer health care would cost HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS LESS, but the parasites are actively waging a war against it (in congress and through mainstream propaganda) because the savings would result from the elimination of exorbitant administrative costs and private health insurance profits
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The reason private insurance exists on such a massive scale in the US is because the US failed to enact national health insurance in 1915-1919, 1930s, and 1940s.
It exists because doctors and southern politicians blocked the creation of national health insurance.
It grew up in that absence.
It exists because doctors and southern politicians blocked the creation of national health insurance.
It grew up in that absence.
December 6, 2024 at 5:54 AM
The reason private insurance exists on such a massive scale in the US is because the US failed to enact national health insurance in 1915-1919, 1930s, and 1940s.
It exists because doctors and southern politicians blocked the creation of national health insurance.
It grew up in that absence.
It exists because doctors and southern politicians blocked the creation of national health insurance.
It grew up in that absence.
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I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
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When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
December 6, 2024 at 3:38 AM
When I hear people talk about deregulation, what I'm really hearing them say is: "any limitation on harming people is a limitation on profits".
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I didn’t know that being Canadian helped me surmise that nothing on the shooter’s body was cheap. It looked like Mountain Equipment Co-op commissioned this murder
December 5, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I didn’t know that being Canadian helped me surmise that nothing on the shooter’s body was cheap. It looked like Mountain Equipment Co-op commissioned this murder
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United Healthcare CEO was murdered
The bullet casings had the words:
Deny, Defend, Depose
Fucked around found out
People are tired
People are done
#SheShed
The bullet casings had the words:
Deny, Defend, Depose
Fucked around found out
People are tired
People are done
#SheShed
December 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
United Healthcare CEO was murdered
The bullet casings had the words:
Deny, Defend, Depose
Fucked around found out
People are tired
People are done
#SheShed
The bullet casings had the words:
Deny, Defend, Depose
Fucked around found out
People are tired
People are done
#SheShed
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A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.
December 4, 2024 at 5:59 PM
A certain healthcare corporation who needs a new chief executive today once laid my dad off at 39.5 years of service so he wouldn’t be entitled to the 40 year pension. His team raised money themselves to give him a watch with “39.5 Years” engraved on it. I think about that watch A LOT.
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I struggle with this but @marisakabas.bsky.social's piece here helps clarify my thoughts (and honestly as a new father I'm trying to be much more conscious about the behavior I model)
December 5, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I struggle with this but @marisakabas.bsky.social's piece here helps clarify my thoughts (and honestly as a new father I'm trying to be much more conscious about the behavior I model)
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Wealth in the U.S. is heavily skewed, with the top 10% holding far more than the bottom 90%. This imbalance stems from tax policies favoring the wealthiest Americans, shaped by the flawed logic of supply-side economics that prioritizes the rich under the guise of economic growth.
December 5, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Wealth in the U.S. is heavily skewed, with the top 10% holding far more than the bottom 90%. This imbalance stems from tax policies favoring the wealthiest Americans, shaped by the flawed logic of supply-side economics that prioritizes the rich under the guise of economic growth.
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
December 5, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1969: Black Panther leader Fred Hampton is killed in a predawn raid by Chicago Police with help from the FBI. More than 90 gunshots were sprayed into the apartment, also killing Panther Mark Clark and seriously wounding several others. /1
Today in history, 1969: Black Panther leader Fred Hampton is killed in a predawn raid by Chicago Police with help from the FBI. More than 90 gunshots were sprayed into the apartment, also killing Panther Mark Clark and seriously wounding several others. /1
December 5, 2024 at 1:48 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1969: Black Panther leader Fred Hampton is killed in a predawn raid by Chicago Police with help from the FBI. More than 90 gunshots were sprayed into the apartment, also killing Panther Mark Clark and seriously wounding several others. /1
Today in history, 1969: Black Panther leader Fred Hampton is killed in a predawn raid by Chicago Police with help from the FBI. More than 90 gunshots were sprayed into the apartment, also killing Panther Mark Clark and seriously wounding several others. /1
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☕😶 & both liberals & conservatives
& many independents
commit & profit from class war violence
even if they don't "see class";
they choose certain identities as less valuable
& worthy of human status,
who they consider acceptable to exploit & harm,,
#TheCivilityOfNormal #MetaGame #LiberationLit
& many independents
commit & profit from class war violence
even if they don't "see class";
they choose certain identities as less valuable
& worthy of human status,
who they consider acceptable to exploit & harm,,
#TheCivilityOfNormal #MetaGame #LiberationLit
July 31, 2024 at 5:42 PM
☕😶 & both liberals & conservatives
& many independents
commit & profit from class war violence
even if they don't "see class";
they choose certain identities as less valuable
& worthy of human status,
who they consider acceptable to exploit & harm,,
#TheCivilityOfNormal #MetaGame #LiberationLit
& many independents
commit & profit from class war violence
even if they don't "see class";
they choose certain identities as less valuable
& worthy of human status,
who they consider acceptable to exploit & harm,,
#TheCivilityOfNormal #MetaGame #LiberationLit
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Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
December 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Today, #KashPatel sent a letter to my counsel @markzaidesq.bsky.social threatening to sue & demanding I retract my MSNBC comments on his unfitness to serve as FBI Director. This follows his threats against media & political opponents, showing how he might act if confirmed. I stand by my statements.
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Poilievre’s new slogan “the border is broken” reminds us that when last in government, his crew slashed border security:
*every agent that tracked child porn
*19 dog-sniffing drug teams
*fully half the intelligence agents who track terrorists and gun & drug traffickers.
Great work, Agent Anschluss.
*every agent that tracked child porn
*19 dog-sniffing drug teams
*fully half the intelligence agents who track terrorists and gun & drug traffickers.
Great work, Agent Anschluss.
December 5, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Poilievre’s new slogan “the border is broken” reminds us that when last in government, his crew slashed border security:
*every agent that tracked child porn
*19 dog-sniffing drug teams
*fully half the intelligence agents who track terrorists and gun & drug traffickers.
Great work, Agent Anschluss.
*every agent that tracked child porn
*19 dog-sniffing drug teams
*fully half the intelligence agents who track terrorists and gun & drug traffickers.
Great work, Agent Anschluss.
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One thing working on AI guardrails has taught me is at some point we gotta talk about whether philosophy is the right field for ethics to be under because boy howdy have I never seen a field other than business studies that seems to attract so many narcissists.
November 28, 2024 at 1:46 AM
One thing working on AI guardrails has taught me is at some point we gotta talk about whether philosophy is the right field for ethics to be under because boy howdy have I never seen a field other than business studies that seems to attract so many narcissists.