Lodzermenel
@lodzermenel.bsky.social
I have come here to chew bubblegum and listen. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
Settler from Łódź to Tkaronto, she/her, geriatric compsci ugrad at tmu, tech skeptic, petty, on adhd time
Settler from Łódź to Tkaronto, she/her, geriatric compsci ugrad at tmu, tech skeptic, petty, on adhd time
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trade war btwn imperialist allies (US & Canada) is means to use economic nationalism to rally behind otherwise status-quo. struggle between 'foreign' & 'domestic' capital maintains capitalism, hurts ppl through price gouging, reinforces racist nationalism & intensifies extraction on Indigenous lands
February 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
trade war btwn imperialist allies (US & Canada) is means to use economic nationalism to rally behind otherwise status-quo. struggle between 'foreign' & 'domestic' capital maintains capitalism, hurts ppl through price gouging, reinforces racist nationalism & intensifies extraction on Indigenous lands
Plz don't encourage me to avoid 🇺🇲 products by buying brands from the Westons and Sobeys, thank you. ✌🏻
February 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Plz don't encourage me to avoid 🇺🇲 products by buying brands from the Westons and Sobeys, thank you. ✌🏻
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Openly, plainly: this is Social Murder.
Donald Trump is murdering HIV+ people, and making that murder the policy of the United States of America.
Understand the magnitude of what is happening here.
Donald Trump is murdering HIV+ people, and making that murder the policy of the United States of America.
Understand the magnitude of what is happening here.
I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
January 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Openly, plainly: this is Social Murder.
Donald Trump is murdering HIV+ people, and making that murder the policy of the United States of America.
Understand the magnitude of what is happening here.
Donald Trump is murdering HIV+ people, and making that murder the policy of the United States of America.
Understand the magnitude of what is happening here.
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i keep telling students they should use grad school to get weirder, to go out as far on their intellectual limbs as they can & trust that their professors will pull them back if they go too far, & they keep sighing + telling me they can't take those risks and it breaks my heart in half every time
January 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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David Lynch passes away at 78 after a battle with emphysema.
He had stated in 2024 that he could no longer leave his home due to the high risk of Covid.
If more people would mask up, we wouldn’t have to isolate. “You do you” policies leave people like Lynch with no choice but to “just stay home”
He had stated in 2024 that he could no longer leave his home due to the high risk of Covid.
If more people would mask up, we wouldn’t have to isolate. “You do you” policies leave people like Lynch with no choice but to “just stay home”
Director David Lynch Gives Health Update, Can No Longer Leave House
The 'Blue Velvet' director says he's now housebound with emphysema, but will "never retire."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
David Lynch passes away at 78 after a battle with emphysema.
He had stated in 2024 that he could no longer leave his home due to the high risk of Covid.
If more people would mask up, we wouldn’t have to isolate. “You do you” policies leave people like Lynch with no choice but to “just stay home”
He had stated in 2024 that he could no longer leave his home due to the high risk of Covid.
If more people would mask up, we wouldn’t have to isolate. “You do you” policies leave people like Lynch with no choice but to “just stay home”
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Thinking a lot about what a big impact you can have by joining or organizing a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Be organized. Know your neighbors. Have a plan. Look out for those who are most vulnerable.
January 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Thinking a lot about what a big impact you can have by joining or organizing a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). Be organized. Know your neighbors. Have a plan. Look out for those who are most vulnerable.
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Trump's Greenland obsession is a very concrete example of why the Mercator projection is bad.
January 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Trump's Greenland obsession is a very concrete example of why the Mercator projection is bad.
Love seeing cop equipment going for a swim.
Why can't the city re-engineer the shape of Parkside Drive to slow drivers down? A camera didn't stop someone from doing 🧐 154kph 🧐, it only punished them after the fact.
toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/30/t...
Why can't the city re-engineer the shape of Parkside Drive to slow drivers down? A camera didn't stop someone from doing 🧐 154kph 🧐, it only punished them after the fact.
toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/30/t...
Parkside Drive speed camera vandalized for 3rd time this year
The Parkside Drive speed camera was installed after two seniors were killed in a multi-vehicle crash on Oct. 12, 2021.
toronto.citynews.ca
December 30, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Love seeing cop equipment going for a swim.
Why can't the city re-engineer the shape of Parkside Drive to slow drivers down? A camera didn't stop someone from doing 🧐 154kph 🧐, it only punished them after the fact.
toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/30/t...
Why can't the city re-engineer the shape of Parkside Drive to slow drivers down? A camera didn't stop someone from doing 🧐 154kph 🧐, it only punished them after the fact.
toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/30/t...
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It is not complicated.
These two recent headlines encapsulate the binary that is colonization: the oppressor and the oppressed. This is what Israel has always been and what it has always done to Palestinians. This is Zionism. There is no peace until this injustice ends.
These two recent headlines encapsulate the binary that is colonization: the oppressor and the oppressed. This is what Israel has always been and what it has always done to Palestinians. This is Zionism. There is no peace until this injustice ends.
December 28, 2024 at 10:39 AM
It is not complicated.
These two recent headlines encapsulate the binary that is colonization: the oppressor and the oppressed. This is what Israel has always been and what it has always done to Palestinians. This is Zionism. There is no peace until this injustice ends.
These two recent headlines encapsulate the binary that is colonization: the oppressor and the oppressed. This is what Israel has always been and what it has always done to Palestinians. This is Zionism. There is no peace until this injustice ends.
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Apparently the officer tried to tell paramedics the cyclist fell off his bike but eyewitnesses confirmed that the officer had in fact doored him.
December 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Apparently the officer tried to tell paramedics the cyclist fell off his bike but eyewitnesses confirmed that the officer had in fact doored him.
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The American Association of University Professors described the PNG orders as tantamount to suspension and “part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses”.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
NYU professors barred from buildings say school is caving to pressure on Gaza
After joining pro-Palestinian sit-in, Andrew Ross and Sonya Posmentier were declared ‘personae non gratae’
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
The American Association of University Professors described the PNG orders as tantamount to suspension and “part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses”.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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btw i’m happy to be a resource for anyone considering making the switch from substack, as someone who’s been through it and has ~a year of experience since switching citationneeded.news to ghost. always happy to share my experience, including as someone for whom this is their primary income.
December 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM
btw i’m happy to be a resource for anyone considering making the switch from substack, as someone who’s been through it and has ~a year of experience since switching citationneeded.news to ghost. always happy to share my experience, including as someone for whom this is their primary income.
Having to get food and toys from a $75K cop car is so grotesque. Thanks BIA.
December 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Having to get food and toys from a $75K cop car is so grotesque. Thanks BIA.
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Talk to your postie about labour solidarity when you see them at your doorstep - forced back to work by a company that doesn't give a shit. This undermines the rights of ALL workers, unionized or not. Start planning solidarity actions for the spring NOW.
December 17, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Talk to your postie about labour solidarity when you see them at your doorstep - forced back to work by a company that doesn't give a shit. This undermines the rights of ALL workers, unionized or not. Start planning solidarity actions for the spring NOW.
In true Elder Millennial fashion, I just quickly took care of 4 school errands by talking to people face to face instead of trying to do it all online. 👵🏻
December 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
In true Elder Millennial fashion, I just quickly took care of 4 school errands by talking to people face to face instead of trying to do it all online. 👵🏻
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Bc the experiences that it's speculated Luigi has gone through due to chronic illness, chronic pain, injury, and disability are also the experiences of that friend you stopped seeing, that coworker you call unreliable, that "overdramatic" family member, that unhoused person you ignore, etc.
December 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Bc the experiences that it's speculated Luigi has gone through due to chronic illness, chronic pain, injury, and disability are also the experiences of that friend you stopped seeing, that coworker you call unreliable, that "overdramatic" family member, that unhoused person you ignore, etc.
The scammers are going scab
December 16, 2024 at 6:06 PM
The scammers are going scab
Alright, I won't pirate it! It'll be bad for the economy.
December 16, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Alright, I won't pirate it! It'll be bad for the economy.
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On #Canadian disability support we are often 2x below the #poverty line, being disabled costs 40% more on average, #affordable housing has collapsed, middle class at our food banks, and #neglect from premiers, so please consider donating this #holiday season.
etransfer mitchelltremblay@live.ca
etransfer mitchelltremblay@live.ca
December 14, 2024 at 4:09 PM
On #Canadian disability support we are often 2x below the #poverty line, being disabled costs 40% more on average, #affordable housing has collapsed, middle class at our food banks, and #neglect from premiers, so please consider donating this #holiday season.
etransfer mitchelltremblay@live.ca
etransfer mitchelltremblay@live.ca
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"... a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together."
Why I resigned as chairman of Amnesty Israel
Israeli human rights groups can’t advocate for Palestinians without Palestinians.
By Daniil Brodsky
forward.com/opinion/6813...
Israeli human rights groups can’t advocate for Palestinians without Palestinians.
By Daniil Brodsky
forward.com/opinion/6813...
Why I resigned as chairman of Amnesty Israel
Amnesty Israel cannot claim to defend human rights in israel without having adequate Palestinian representation among its leadership.
forward.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:56 AM
"... a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together."
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Tl;dr - reward claims work a lot like insurance claims.
December 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Tl;dr - reward claims work a lot like insurance claims.
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Concordia University hired Israeli security firms to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests.
US & Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb pro-Palestinian protests.
Screenshots from @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social live updates from today
Link to archived article w/more details here: archive.ph/qY0kr
@cairnational.bsky.social @dropsitenews.com @taliajane.bsky.social @self.agency
Screenshots from @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social live updates from today
Link to archived article w/more details here: archive.ph/qY0kr
@cairnational.bsky.social @dropsitenews.com @taliajane.bsky.social @self.agency
December 9, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Concordia University hired Israeli security firms to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests.
My kittycat is on my lap, intently watching a video of a truly ugly statue of Assad's pa getting toppled. ✌🏻
December 8, 2024 at 6:35 AM
My kittycat is on my lap, intently watching a video of a truly ugly statue of Assad's pa getting toppled. ✌🏻
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Custom Angled Cup: Black Hole at the Beach 😱
December 8, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Custom Angled Cup: Black Hole at the Beach 😱