katy anderson
@katyanderson.bsky.social
PhD student researching ecomodernism, degrowth, non-reformist reform & refusal; via digital rights advocacy/activism (OpenMedia, Cybera) & journalism (CBC, Calgary Herald)
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katy anderson
@katyanderson.bsky.social
· Nov 13
was going to just toss my phone in the ocean but it's too far away
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Great day at Mount Royal University supporting progressive media
@readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @katyanderson.bsky.social and others.
@readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @katyanderson.bsky.social and others.
June 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great day at Mount Royal University supporting progressive media
@readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @katyanderson.bsky.social and others.
@readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @katyanderson.bsky.social and others.
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The Progress Report is in a lot of funding trouble this month and at risk of closing shop. If that's all you need to hear, we'll just give you the donation link right up top—it's www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons. But if you'd like to know more about us and the situation, please read this thread 🧵
Become a Progress Report patron
Support the Progress Report podcast by becoming a monthly patron
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June 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The Progress Report is in a lot of funding trouble this month and at risk of closing shop. If that's all you need to hear, we'll just give you the donation link right up top—it's www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons. But if you'd like to know more about us and the situation, please read this thread 🧵
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Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's academia/journalism conference 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 happening next week in Calgary!
Join @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca + more
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June 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's academia/journalism conference 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 happening next week in Calgary!
Join @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca + more
RSVP at
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Join @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca + more
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Absolutely incredible. CityNews and CBC were both present in the media segment, with the Chair offering them question time.
Both declined to ask anything. 3/
Both declined to ask anything. 3/
March 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Absolutely incredible. CityNews and CBC were both present in the media segment, with the Chair offering them question time.
Both declined to ask anything. 3/
Both declined to ask anything. 3/
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Neufeld, who helped launch ASIRT, is now claiming concussions aren't serious injuries in response to @katyanderson.bsky.social, asking about her own concussion & other injuries.
Because Commission keeps delaying its mtg videos, we screen-recorded. Well worth seeing Katy's exchange when it's up. 2/
Because Commission keeps delaying its mtg videos, we screen-recorded. Well worth seeing Katy's exchange when it's up. 2/
March 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Neufeld, who helped launch ASIRT, is now claiming concussions aren't serious injuries in response to @katyanderson.bsky.social, asking about her own concussion & other injuries.
Because Commission keeps delaying its mtg videos, we screen-recorded. Well worth seeing Katy's exchange when it's up. 2/
Because Commission keeps delaying its mtg videos, we screen-recorded. Well worth seeing Katy's exchange when it's up. 2/
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@readtheorchard.org just got lit up by Chief Neufeld at Calgary Police Commission. (Appel was not present to respond.) Neufeld called Appel's story on UCP interference on the ASIRT investigation "an opinion piece, at best."
Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...
Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...
How the UCP covered up police violence against the U of C Palestine encampment
The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part II of II.
www.readtheorchard.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
@readtheorchard.org just got lit up by Chief Neufeld at Calgary Police Commission. (Appel was not present to respond.) Neufeld called Appel's story on UCP interference on the ASIRT investigation "an opinion piece, at best."
Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...
Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...
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Alberta: more fake than Canada? You decide! Plus: separatist slam poetry!
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/03/02/i...
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Imagined Alberta: Western Canadian National Fantasies
WARNING: This episode begins with slam poetry. Team Advantage subjects themselves to some favourite books of UCP ministers and Western Standard columnists in search of the intellectual basis for ju…
albertaadvantagepod.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Alberta: more fake than Canada? You decide! Plus: separatist slam poetry!
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/03/02/i...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/03/02/i...
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a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
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Look, there's no way for us to say what he was trying to do in that moment. It's about calling balls and strikes. Ultimately it's unknowable and we have to be responsible in our reporting
All we know is that when college students protest relentless mass murder of Palestinians, that's antisemitism
All we know is that when college students protest relentless mass murder of Palestinians, that's antisemitism
January 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Look, there's no way for us to say what he was trying to do in that moment. It's about calling balls and strikes. Ultimately it's unknowable and we have to be responsible in our reporting
All we know is that when college students protest relentless mass murder of Palestinians, that's antisemitism
All we know is that when college students protest relentless mass murder of Palestinians, that's antisemitism
prophetic
MANY ARE BUT ESPECIALLY THIS ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN
January 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
prophetic
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NEW EP: James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police
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James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police
The Winnipeg Police Service is 100 years old – a century they’ve used to repress dissent, censor media, bungle investigations and devour city budgets. Author James Wilt joins Team Advan…
albertaadvantagepod.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NEW EP: James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/01/19/j...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/01/19/j...
"This is perhaps the final piece in the slow and inevitable political capture of Facebook -- but really all online speech platforms."
"As Zuck foreshadowed, this is about a global geo-political war across a new frontier of control: tech companies, their platforms, and the internet."
"As Zuck foreshadowed, this is about a global geo-political war across a new frontier of control: tech companies, their platforms, and the internet."
A quick hit on my thoughts about the Meta decision around US based content moderation -- each of which is basically getting fleshed out into longer op-eds and posts to come soon.
But to get you started on some takeaways from Zuck's announcement here's a 🧵
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But to get you started on some takeaways from Zuck's announcement here's a 🧵
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January 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"This is perhaps the final piece in the slow and inevitable political capture of Facebook -- but really all online speech platforms."
"As Zuck foreshadowed, this is about a global geo-political war across a new frontier of control: tech companies, their platforms, and the internet."
"As Zuck foreshadowed, this is about a global geo-political war across a new frontier of control: tech companies, their platforms, and the internet."
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Since we’re all talking about Greenland and Canada now would be a good time to remind people that Puerto Rico and Washington, DC actually should be added as the 51st and 52nd states.
January 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Since we’re all talking about Greenland and Canada now would be a good time to remind people that Puerto Rico and Washington, DC actually should be added as the 51st and 52nd states.
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One of my favorites in a while. Some good examples of why cars make your life worse even if you drive
New episode is up! We talk to Derek Guy, @dieworkwear.bsky.social—aka the Menswear Guy—about how dense, walkable cities influence what people wear, what the great fashion capitals of the world have in common, how the housing crisis is affecting style, and much more. thewaroncars.org/2025/01/07/1...
141. Cities and Fashion with Derek Guy, The Menswear Guy
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January 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One of my favorites in a while. Some good examples of why cars make your life worse even if you drive
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It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.
January 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.
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HAPPY SOLSTICK - dashare.zone ADMIN
December 21, 2024 at 3:04 PM
HAPPY SOLSTICK - dashare.zone ADMIN
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Last month to send blog pitches! We are receiving pitches in English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian and Kazakh: degrowth.info/en/blog/move...
Movements for social and environmental justice worldwide: Call for blog pitches!
Degrowth.info is launching a call for blog posts that will constitute a series on movements for social and environmental justice, with a focus on Global South struggles and organising. Do you have a s...
degrowth.info
December 4, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Last month to send blog pitches! We are receiving pitches in English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian and Kazakh: degrowth.info/en/blog/move...
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welp, we had a good run
December 9, 2024 at 11:06 PM
welp, we had a good run
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Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ @mattbors.bsky.social and @benclarkson.bsky.social
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Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson
It’s election season in Bubble City, the ultra-protected enclave that keeps the rich safe from the mutants of the so-called Uninhabited Zone. When veteran officer Swamp Cop embarks on a dangerous u…
albertaadvantagepod.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ @mattbors.bsky.social and @benclarkson.bsky.social
albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/12/07/v...
albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/12/07/v...
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
lol
Canada’s former environment minister believes that the oil and gas sector really wanted to help stop climate change. But she was wrong. And she’s now coming out and saying it.
Good for her!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Good for her!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
As environment minister, I believed the oil sands sector would help us save the planet. I was wrong.
Former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna on what she learned in four years leading Canada’s fight against climate change
www.thestar.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:09 PM
lol
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Big news for people interested in the (mostly non-visual) senses: cfp deadline for Uncommon Senses V, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia, extended until January 20th. Full details in link.
This is always a fun & diverse conf, consider throwing in!
CC @crystaljjlee.com
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
This is always a fun & diverse conf, consider throwing in!
CC @crystaljjlee.com
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
Call for Papers: Uncommon Senses V - Concordia University
www.concordia.ca
December 6, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Big news for people interested in the (mostly non-visual) senses: cfp deadline for Uncommon Senses V, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia, extended until January 20th. Full details in link.
This is always a fun & diverse conf, consider throwing in!
CC @crystaljjlee.com
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
This is always a fun & diverse conf, consider throwing in!
CC @crystaljjlee.com
www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...
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Regarding the Calgary Chief of Police, you don't under any circumstances "gotta hand it to him."
December 3, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Regarding the Calgary Chief of Police, you don't under any circumstances "gotta hand it to him."
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_Bike Battles_ is on the @thewaroncars.bsky.social Bookshop list, bookshop.org/lists/the-wa...? ; purchases benefit TWOC.
Or, of course, I recommend your local public library, always a great choice...
Or, of course, I recommend your local public library, always a great choice...
The War on Cars Reading List
Some of our favorite books on cars and their effects on the world, building better communities for people, the effects of our built environment and other podcast-adjacent subjects. An ever-evolving an...
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December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
_Bike Battles_ is on the @thewaroncars.bsky.social Bookshop list, bookshop.org/lists/the-wa...? ; purchases benefit TWOC.
Or, of course, I recommend your local public library, always a great choice...
Or, of course, I recommend your local public library, always a great choice...