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First Novel "Broken Interstellar" Available now! An epic length Union Worker's Space Opera, $2.99 USD, links to stores here:
http://www.liambegley.ca
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My first novel "Broken Interstellar" is out!

It's a union worker's space odyssey and available as a free ebook this weekend!

If you'd enjoy a sci fi story that
centres workers and cooperation instead of rulers and empires, dm me with your email!

There's also ancap space spiders!
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My first novel "Broken Interstellar" is out!

It's a union worker's space odyssey and available as a free ebook this weekend!

If you'd enjoy a sci fi story that
centres workers and cooperation instead of rulers and empires, dm me with your email!

There's also ancap space spiders!
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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This is the behavior of a class that knows no legal institution or government will stop them.
An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:
September 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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If we don't do something they can easily leverage, they'll make something up, lie and say we did, or weaponize something that has nothing to do with us. That's why the respectability policing—and thinking that if everyone moves and talks just so, they won't be able to escalate—is magical thinking.
September 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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We really need to talk about the warring definitions of "political violence"

There are things that I consider to be political violence that are widely accepted, so posts like this make little sense.

If by political violence, you mean hurting republicans is bad, then sure, we've had that consensus
It's worth mourning the end of a 40ish-year-long broad American consensus that political violence is a bad thing, one that leads to lots of innocent people getting hurt and killed. We've been watching that consensus erode consistently since 2016 at the latest and now it's fully gone.
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Vancouver homeowners sound like this when they see a tent in one of the public parks that they believe exist purely for their dogs to shit in.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Weird when your pro-landlord, anti-homeless, pro-eviction, trickledown economics rebrand, deregulatory, money-worshipping, faux-progressive movement turns out to be friendly to vicious hateful money grubbing grifters.
September 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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your children and grand children and their children too are going to suffer and when they ask you why and how it happened you're going to have to either lie to them, or explain that you burned their future to the ground because you didn't like trans people and you worshiped the rich.
September 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying 'have a nice day.'"

"That's how it feels."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.
themainlander.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You're told your whole life that you're a comsumer but really you're the product.

Your labour, your time, your health.

These things are consumed by your landlord, employer and government.

What you think of as consumer choice are the avenues you're offered to give yourself up for extraction.
September 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Did you pay rent today? Did it sting?

Join your local tenants union!

Vancouver - www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca

Los Angeles - latenantsunion.org/en/

Montreal - www.slam-matu.org/en/
Vancouver Tenants Union
The Vancouver Tenants Union seeks to build a base of tenants throughout the city to establish political power to create change.
www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca
September 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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paramount making this season of strange new worlds borderline hetero propaganda, alien earth taking a random aside to assert “a baby is made by a physical act between a man and a woman … their bodies fit together”

they’re even cutting the queer people out of our sci-fi 😭
August 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The more time goes on the more tenants realize that landlords provide nothing and take everything.
I'm ranking Caleb Hearon #1 for mayor
August 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If your boss shorts your paycheque and you call the police they'll tell you its a civil matter and to take it up with small claims court.

If you take the difference out of the till your boss will have the police take you away in handcuffs.

Police exist to protect wealth, not you.
August 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The way we talk about agribusiness in Canada is similar.

Sitting on a tractor watching workers plant and harvest = farming

Guy who owns the land and lives in a giant house by the gate = farmer

Actually getting in the dirt planting and harvesting = disposable labour, not worth mentioning.
This is more or less the best career path young people in UK agriculture have to look forward to. "If you get really lucky, a nice wealthy landowner might let you run their estate for them!"

And they wonder why UK agriculture is in tatters & young people don't want anything to do with it.
August 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The financial and business press assisted a massive pump and dump scam that took advantage of gullible greedy lazy people's desire to undervalue the labour of people who work and think.

The people who undertook this con will be richer than kings.

I'm right to hate AI, but will stay broke.
Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
youtu.be/gCV-YMD6oXA

Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon
August 20, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles

@lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
August 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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"Global Affairs Canada confirmed that two military export permits the Liberal government authorized earlier this year are for goods related to Israel's Iron Dome."

"Canada is providing a shield for Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians."
#Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Iran #Yemen #Genocide
Liberal Government Authorized New Exports For Israel’s Iron Dome
“By approving exports related to the Iron Dome, Canada is providing a shield for Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians.”
www.readthemaple.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Making fun educational shorts about how Trump low-key made it easier to get away with slavery on farms haha yay

youtube.com/shorts/THHLR...
August 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US.

Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.
August 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Israel is the apotheosis of western empire, the testbed for the ultimate goal of our oligarchs.

An ethnostate where the 'ethnicity' can be awarded or stripped with impunity.

A population of citizens who are legally obligated to undergo military or religious indoctrination.
August 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The Israeli military has issued a statement saying that they struck Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Anas al-Sharif and accused him of being part of a Hamas cell.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o5rzvs
Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
aje.io
August 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM