Shama
@fritzlechat.bsky.social
I ponder, profess, and play music and video games
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Shama
@fritzlechat.bsky.social
· Mar 27
My students just called me "the people's professor" — the highest compliment 🥰
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did you know I do a daily livestream? it's true and you should watch it: www.twitch.tv/robrousseau
October 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
did you know I do a daily livestream? it's true and you should watch it: www.twitch.tv/robrousseau
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On ep82 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show we bury the NDP w/ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social + @robrousseau.bsky.social at @unrigged.bsky.social media's June 13 Progressive Publics conference in Calgary.
www.spreaker.com/episode/ep82... 🔶
www.spreaker.com/episode/ep82... 🔶
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
On ep82 of the💫HARBINGER SHOWCASE💫 syndicated radio show we bury the NDP w/ @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social + @robrousseau.bsky.social at @unrigged.bsky.social media's June 13 Progressive Publics conference in Calgary.
www.spreaker.com/episode/ep82... 🔶
www.spreaker.com/episode/ep82... 🔶
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I’d repeat my “hey academics are you reconsidering research trips and conferences in the US now” but I think we have already consolidated into “yikes yes” and “lol I have nothing to fear” camps.
August 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I’d repeat my “hey academics are you reconsidering research trips and conferences in the US now” but I think we have already consolidated into “yikes yes” and “lol I have nothing to fear” camps.
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I talked to author and investigative journalist Seth Harp about his new book The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces. it is an absolutely insane story you should listen and also read the book www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-400-hum...
Ep. 400: Humble Bragg ft. Seth Harp
Seth Harp's explosive new book explores drug trafficking and murder in the elite Special Forces wing of the US military
www.insurgentspod.com
August 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I talked to author and investigative journalist Seth Harp about his new book The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces. it is an absolutely insane story you should listen and also read the book www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-400-hum...
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Join the 6/13🌾@albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾live show as @robertalexier.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @joelaf.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @iosegun.bsky.social + @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social celebrate 'The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism'
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
August 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Join the 6/13🌾@albertaadvantage.bsky.social🌾live show as @robertalexier.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @joelaf.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @iosegun.bsky.social + @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social celebrate 'The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism'
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
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NEW EP: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
August 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
NEW EP: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
feat. @robrousseau.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @andremarrgoulet.bsky.social @robertalexier.bsky.social
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/08/14/t...
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Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
July 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
Happy to share that as of today I’m an Associate Professor with tenure! Will continue to work in my own small way towards collective liberation and justice for all, from Palestine to Kashmir to Congo to Turtle Island.
July 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Happy to share that as of today I’m an Associate Professor with tenure! Will continue to work in my own small way towards collective liberation and justice for all, from Palestine to Kashmir to Congo to Turtle Island.
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TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca + more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
June 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca + more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
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TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca + more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
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Progressive Publics: A Symposium Connecting Scholarship & Independent Media
Day two of a June 13th + 14th academic symposium featuring panels exploring Alberta history, social democracy, independent journalism & more
www.eventbrite.ca
June 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca + more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
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TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca @briarpatchmag.bsky.social
+ more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
+ more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
June 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
TODAY from 12-5 at Mount-Royal University don't miss Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 Calgary symposium w/ @pressprogress.ca @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @fritzlechat.bsky.social @theprogressreport.ca @briarpatchmag.bsky.social
+ more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
+ more!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... 🔶
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Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 symposium this Saturday in Calgary w/
@briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @fritzlechat.bsky.social + more plus a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social recording on Friday!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/signin/?refe... 🔶
@briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @fritzlechat.bsky.social + more plus a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social recording on Friday!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/signin/?refe... 🔶
June 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 symposium this Saturday in Calgary w/
@briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @fritzlechat.bsky.social + more plus a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social recording on Friday!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/signin/?refe... 🔶
@briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @fritzlechat.bsky.social + more plus a special live @albertaadvantage.bsky.social recording on Friday!
RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/signin/?refe... 🔶
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I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one.
Shocking, despicable:
Shocking, despicable:
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I can’t think of a presidency that has done more open and undeniable damage to this country, and the wider world, in such a short space of time, than this one.
Shocking, despicable:
Shocking, despicable:
I was really into Radiohead as a teenager but I was also really into reading The Economist so anyway that’s a time of life that one can move past
May 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I was really into Radiohead as a teenager but I was also really into reading The Economist so anyway that’s a time of life that one can move past
I did not know that Denise Gough is also Yennefer!!!!
May 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I did not know that Denise Gough is also Yennefer!!!!
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Shameful report that breezes past how Saudi Arabia threatened to do a 9/11 on Canada and how the LAVs it bought from Canada were used in Yemen, potentially in violation of international law, while trotting out the trope that the country is making big strides on women’s rights. Give me a break.
Saudi Arabia is opening up its economy and its society. Why has Canada been so slow to capitalize on that? | CBC News
Donald Trump came to Saudi Arabia earlier this month, with big U.S. business leaders in tow, to embrace Saudi’s young leader, Mohammed bin Salman, and his 2030 plans to reshape its oil economy. As Can...
www.cbc.ca
May 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Shameful report that breezes past how Saudi Arabia threatened to do a 9/11 on Canada and how the LAVs it bought from Canada were used in Yemen, potentially in violation of international law, while trotting out the trope that the country is making big strides on women’s rights. Give me a break.
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So basically BlueSky is treating "being Palestinian" as a violation of their terms and conditions 😒
They’ve now suspended Sakher who was genuinely the model for how Gazans are supposed to behave on this platform accounting to moderation.
He never reply spammed, never random dmed, only posted his link on his own page, made a ton of friends and commented authentically to them.
He never reply spammed, never random dmed, only posted his link on his own page, made a ton of friends and commented authentically to them.
May 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So basically BlueSky is treating "being Palestinian" as a violation of their terms and conditions 😒
Rewatched Rogue One after Andor s2 and cried so much when Andor tells Jyn her dad would be proud of her (also Saw!) bc his last utterance is to comfort someone else, but also himself bc he’s thinking of those who raised them being proud and so thinking of MAARVA 😭😭😭
May 27, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Rewatched Rogue One after Andor s2 and cried so much when Andor tells Jyn her dad would be proud of her (also Saw!) bc his last utterance is to comfort someone else, but also himself bc he’s thinking of those who raised them being proud and so thinking of MAARVA 😭😭😭
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staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...
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i thought the whole point of electing this guy was that he wasn’t an idiot
Canada looking at investments in Golden Dome defense shield, PM Carney says reut.rs/43HSwso
Canada looking at investments in Golden Dome defense shield, PM Carney says
Canada is looking at potential investments in U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed Golden Dome missile defense shield, Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Wednesday.
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May 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
i thought the whole point of electing this guy was that he wasn’t an idiot
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that place should have BEEN burned down. listen to this revisionist ass history.
May 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
that place should have BEEN burned down. listen to this revisionist ass history.
Just learned the Prauf and Rost are the same voice actor ahhh 😭
May 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Just learned the Prauf and Rost are the same voice actor ahhh 😭
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can someone please build software that disables AI across all applications? i’d pay.
The new Google AI functionality in Docs is total mind-ruining shit. Hit enter in docs, it takes over your cursor to offer to help you write. Every. Time. You. Hit. Enter. Do you know how annoying that is when you are writing something? It's someone interrupting you every minute. MAKE IT STOP.
May 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
can someone please build software that disables AI across all applications? i’d pay.
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Liberals have the nerve to utter “reconciliation”with Indigenous people while expressing solidarity with another colonizing state that’s annihilating a group of humans and erasing them from the face of the earth.
Canada could be a much better place but the Liberal supporters won’t call out their party’s support for a violent supremacist ideology even while they’re exterminating human beings over it.
If I wasn’t here the Liberal Party of Canada and their supporters would keep ignoring a genocide and have love fests forever.
May 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Liberals have the nerve to utter “reconciliation”with Indigenous people while expressing solidarity with another colonizing state that’s annihilating a group of humans and erasing them from the face of the earth.