Iyja
@iyja.bsky.social
just your average urban neechi (bungi/âpihtawikosisâniskwêw/settler) auntie/childless cat lady.
possibly your cousin.
definitely not a bunch of raccoons in a human suit.
possibly your cousin.
definitely not a bunch of raccoons in a human suit.
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Iyja
@iyja.bsky.social
· Jun 7
A street medic handbook for all who might be out and about during these troubling times. mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/u...
mutualaiddisasterrelief.org
A resource ⚡️
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I think the question here is: would the labor of the artisans who make the Birkin bag be so valuable if the bag was not a Veblen good? I imagine many skilled and fastidious craftspeople working on less prestigious products have lost their livelihoods over the years due to automation & obsolescence.
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I think the question here is: would the labor of the artisans who make the Birkin bag be so valuable if the bag was not a Veblen good? I imagine many skilled and fastidious craftspeople working on less prestigious products have lost their livelihoods over the years due to automation & obsolescence.
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I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald had a structural defect in its keel. Sailors on that ship had complained about the ship bending and flexing during storms, especially when it was overloaded, which it usually was. They had also found old keel weld breaks due to structural fatigue, which were never repaired
October 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
SS Edmund Fitzgerald had a structural defect in its keel. Sailors on that ship had complained about the ship bending and flexing during storms, especially when it was overloaded, which it usually was. They had also found old keel weld breaks due to structural fatigue, which were never repaired
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Just out of frame of this cartoon: a full bookshelf mostly containing Joyce Carol Oates books
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just out of frame of this cartoon: a full bookshelf mostly containing Joyce Carol Oates books
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
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I worked on a Canadian freighter at the time, we caught the beginning of that storm and it was bad, we were "light ship" empty going for a load of grain in Duluth and rolled for hours in the big waves! I was a 16 year old working in the galley, I couldn't believe crew were hungry, I was sea sick!
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I worked on a Canadian freighter at the time, we caught the beginning of that storm and it was bad, we were "light ship" empty going for a load of grain in Duluth and rolled for hours in the big waves! I was a 16 year old working in the galley, I couldn't believe crew were hungry, I was sea sick!
The legend lives on from the Anishinaabeg on down / of the great lake they call gichi-gami ✨
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The legend lives on from the Anishinaabeg on down / of the great lake they call gichi-gami ✨
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please share I want to see the flail
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
please share I want to see the flail
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I often read the BOOKS, as a person who enjoys all the typical human activities!
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I often read the BOOKS, as a person who enjoys all the typical human activities!
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Thanos couldn’t snap me up fast enough if she said this about me
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Thanos couldn’t snap me up fast enough if she said this about me
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I feel like that was true last year as well. A lot of Dems spoke of Trump winning as an existential threat to democracy but then treated the election and post election time as somewhat "business as usual". If this is all an existential threat (which I believe it is), then treat it as such.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I feel like that was true last year as well. A lot of Dems spoke of Trump winning as an existential threat to democracy but then treated the election and post election time as somewhat "business as usual". If this is all an existential threat (which I believe it is), then treat it as such.
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It is interesting how whenever I raise Bernie's (frankly terrible) record on immigration, people who call themselves leftists immediately jump into my mentions and start spewing right wing anti-immigrant talking points.
Let me be absolutely clear:
Let me be absolutely clear:
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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watching Predator and i'd never really considered before how funny it is that Arnold is emphatically like "we're a RESCUE team" and there's a guy on the team with a, typically aircraft mounted, six barrel rotary machine gun. for rescuing. you can rescue up to 6000 guys per minute with this thing
June 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
watching Predator and i'd never really considered before how funny it is that Arnold is emphatically like "we're a RESCUE team" and there's a guy on the team with a, typically aircraft mounted, six barrel rotary machine gun. for rescuing. you can rescue up to 6000 guys per minute with this thing
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Le gouvernement fédéral soutient des projets chers à l’industrie des énergies fossiles.
Le Canada, cancre climatique?
www.ledevoir.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Le gouvernement fédéral soutient des projets chers à l’industrie des énergies fossiles.
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If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link)
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thune Plans Test Vote on Shutdown, Saying Deal Is Getting Closer
Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
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satan (trying to get some satanists to leave him alone): if you wish to earn my favor you must kill four hundred uhhh ostriches. all at once. during a full moon. in canada
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
satan (trying to get some satanists to leave him alone): if you wish to earn my favor you must kill four hundred uhhh ostriches. all at once. during a full moon. in canada
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Are you serious? He's got no voice on the national project board from MB First Nations. We've got 30 of the 34 critical minerals and now that he's made them a national security priority, he will absolutely just take it and not GAF about Indigenous People affected. Harper's puppet doing his work.
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Are you serious? He's got no voice on the national project board from MB First Nations. We've got 30 of the 34 critical minerals and now that he's made them a national security priority, he will absolutely just take it and not GAF about Indigenous People affected. Harper's puppet doing his work.
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Mark Carney cut $2.3B from Indigenous programs, undoing a decade of reconciliation work. When Liberals say this is ‘generational change,’ they mean for white rich people only. #cdnpoli
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The economy rests on the backs of the working class, who see no direct benefits from his policies.
Funneling money into the pockets of the rich is exactly what Trump is doing, so I don't see an economic difference between them.
He's just paving the way for PP's maple fascism.
Funneling money into the pockets of the rich is exactly what Trump is doing, so I don't see an economic difference between them.
He's just paving the way for PP's maple fascism.
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The economy rests on the backs of the working class, who see no direct benefits from his policies.
Funneling money into the pockets of the rich is exactly what Trump is doing, so I don't see an economic difference between them.
He's just paving the way for PP's maple fascism.
Funneling money into the pockets of the rich is exactly what Trump is doing, so I don't see an economic difference between them.
He's just paving the way for PP's maple fascism.