Maia Foster-Sanchez
@maiapapaya.bsky.social
Sometimes emergency manager, sometimes public historian.
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we need to stop normalizing things
April 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
we need to stop normalizing things
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You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
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@amyshawanda.bsky.social and I just had a report published by the Yellowhead Institute on pretendians in the academy. Many thanks to the Yellowhead team that helped get this out!
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Pinasunniq: Reflections on a Northern Indigenous Economy
What is the relationship between Inuit self-determination and prosperity in the North?
yellowheadinstitute.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@amyshawanda.bsky.social and I just had a report published by the Yellowhead Institute on pretendians in the academy. Many thanks to the Yellowhead team that helped get this out!
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
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Who belongs in Indigenous academia? Amy Shawanda and Gabriel Maracle explore this question in the newest Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research.
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Who belongs in Indigenous academia? Amy Shawanda and Gabriel Maracle explore this question in the newest Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research.
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
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it's wild taking privacy law training while watching this stuff unfold. I know the whole, "laws don't matter, enforcement does" thing but still, damn
NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info:
www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
February 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
it's wild taking privacy law training while watching this stuff unfold. I know the whole, "laws don't matter, enforcement does" thing but still, damn
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When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .
Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the weekend. The cuts, which come in addition to the firing of over 200 last week, target probationary and contract employees.
FEMA is losing scores of employees. That could slow disaster response.
Cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency could affect people across the country who are struggling to rebuild and prepare for disasters.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .
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JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
February 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
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Serious question: Could something like DOGE happen in Canada? We have the "Canadian Digital Service", I know it's not a direct equivalent to the U.S. Digital Service (restructured to "DOGE"), but these bros are getting inspiration from the madness down south and they probably want something simillar
Canada's tech broligarchs have A GROUP CHAT??
Yup, they sure do -- that's according to a great scoop from The Logic: thelogic.co/news/the-big...
But this is just one part of a broader story about Canada's tech bros deciding they want to play (right-wing) politics.
Let's talk about it:
Yup, they sure do -- that's according to a great scoop from The Logic: thelogic.co/news/the-big...
But this is just one part of a broader story about Canada's tech bros deciding they want to play (right-wing) politics.
Let's talk about it:
Canada's tech broligarchs have a GROUP CHAT?
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Serious question: Could something like DOGE happen in Canada? We have the "Canadian Digital Service", I know it's not a direct equivalent to the U.S. Digital Service (restructured to "DOGE"), but these bros are getting inspiration from the madness down south and they probably want something simillar
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Capitalism is eating itself right now and it's horrifying to watch.
February 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Capitalism is eating itself right now and it's horrifying to watch.
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Storytime.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
December 8, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Storytime.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
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Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
Heritage minister says Facebook made ‘room for misinformation’ after turning news off in 2023 as Australia mulls actions that could lead to Meta doing the same
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www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
The Black Hum
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November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Ehníta chiquita
November 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Ehníta chiquita
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Fully 83 percent of the entire contiguous US is currently in some form of drought conditions, and that's *better* than the week before, when it was 88 percent.
November 16, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Fully 83 percent of the entire contiguous US is currently in some form of drought conditions, and that's *better* than the week before, when it was 88 percent.
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
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tired of explaining to people that there are real, tangible, material reasons why bad things happen and most of them have names and addresses
December 4, 2023 at 3:39 PM
tired of explaining to people that there are real, tangible, material reasons why bad things happen and most of them have names and addresses
My sister's reaction to Kissinger kicking the bucket made me fold in half with laughter
November 30, 2023 at 2:38 AM
My sister's reaction to Kissinger kicking the bucket made me fold in half with laughter
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"For our second Seed series, Anthropologica is looking for emerging, spontaneous, creative, multimodal, timely, and ethnographically grounded submissions" responding to the theme: "Sounding the Alarm" (climate crisis, war, health, security, etc) cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
November 25, 2023 at 12:15 AM
"For our second Seed series, Anthropologica is looking for emerging, spontaneous, creative, multimodal, timely, and ethnographically grounded submissions" responding to the theme: "Sounding the Alarm" (climate crisis, war, health, security, etc) cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
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Me and the boys are gonna lie down.
September 30, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Me and the boys are gonna lie down.
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We’re gonna head down to this on Monday, I hope to see ya there south Island families!
November 11, 2023 at 5:24 PM
We’re gonna head down to this on Monday, I hope to see ya there south Island families!
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'Lepidoptera' (1855)
Keisuke Ito
Keisuke Ito
November 11, 2023 at 5:17 PM
'Lepidoptera' (1855)
Keisuke Ito
Keisuke Ito
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Me doing my little posts on Bluesky.
October 25, 2023 at 11:47 AM
Me doing my little posts on Bluesky.