Maryssa Barras
@mbarrasing.bsky.social
You can find me where archaeology and land management policies meet
Its also strange to me how remembrance day is about grief and commemorating tragedy recognising that conflict and violence is unecessary and deeply harmful, but it has devolved into whatever veterans day is which feels very 'i love military 🥾👅'
Remembrance day makes me deeply uncomfortable with people thanking people who are veterans of recent conflicts where Canada, in support of the US, were/are clear aggressors among other reasons
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Its also strange to me how remembrance day is about grief and commemorating tragedy recognising that conflict and violence is unecessary and deeply harmful, but it has devolved into whatever veterans day is which feels very 'i love military 🥾👅'
Remembrance day makes me deeply uncomfortable with people thanking people who are veterans of recent conflicts where Canada, in support of the US, were/are clear aggressors among other reasons
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Remembrance day makes me deeply uncomfortable with people thanking people who are veterans of recent conflicts where Canada, in support of the US, were/are clear aggressors among other reasons
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Police say a pedestrian suffered critical injuries after being struck by "a vehicle" in Hamilton on Monday evening. Near Barton Street East and Rosslyn Avenue N. HPS seeking witnesses:
www.cp24.com/local/hamilt...
www.cp24.com/local/hamilt...
Pedestrian critically injured in Hamilton collision
Police say a pedestrian suffered critical injuries after being struck by a vehicle in Hamilton on Monday evening.
www.cp24.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Police say a pedestrian suffered critical injuries after being struck by "a vehicle" in Hamilton on Monday evening. Near Barton Street East and Rosslyn Avenue N. HPS seeking witnesses:
www.cp24.com/local/hamilt...
www.cp24.com/local/hamilt...
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The living Israeli hostages have been released as part of a ceasefire deal that also saw about 2000 Palestinian prisoners freed.
Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”?
In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:
Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”?
In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:
October 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The living Israeli hostages have been released as part of a ceasefire deal that also saw about 2000 Palestinian prisoners freed.
Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”?
In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:
Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”?
In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
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The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.
Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...
www.thestar.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?
It should be absolutely illegal for Google maps/Waze or whatever integrated GPS navigator is in a car to suggest a u-turn in directions point blank.
People are doing u-turns in absolutely insane places they never used to do them and it is so dangerous
People are doing u-turns in absolutely insane places they never used to do them and it is so dangerous
August 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It should be absolutely illegal for Google maps/Waze or whatever integrated GPS navigator is in a car to suggest a u-turn in directions point blank.
People are doing u-turns in absolutely insane places they never used to do them and it is so dangerous
People are doing u-turns in absolutely insane places they never used to do them and it is so dangerous
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“If nothing changes, Silicon Valley will keep supplying kids with ever more sophisticated AI “friends” that are always available and will cater to a child’s every whim. But AI will never fulfill children’s deepest desires.”
All this under the watch of AI Minster @evansolomon.bsky.social.
All this under the watch of AI Minster @evansolomon.bsky.social.
"Most of the children in our survey said that they aren’t allowed to be out in public at all without an adult. Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard."
What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“If nothing changes, Silicon Valley will keep supplying kids with ever more sophisticated AI “friends” that are always available and will cater to a child’s every whim. But AI will never fulfill children’s deepest desires.”
All this under the watch of AI Minster @evansolomon.bsky.social.
All this under the watch of AI Minster @evansolomon.bsky.social.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nothing riles me up like when a scripted podcaster reading the script they wrote pauses at a non-english word for a people/place/thing that is culturally important and goes 'oh I don't know how to say this' and then they say it wrong, then say 'if I said that wrong please correct me everyone uwu'
July 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nothing riles me up like when a scripted podcaster reading the script they wrote pauses at a non-english word for a people/place/thing that is culturally important and goes 'oh I don't know how to say this' and then they say it wrong, then say 'if I said that wrong please correct me everyone uwu'
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"Archaeology in its essence does not provide that kind of certainty and purity that ethnocratic right-wing government ministers might want. So they have to invent it."
'It comes with the territory': How Israel's archaeologists legitimize annexation
Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.
www.972mag.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Archaeology in its essence does not provide that kind of certainty and purity that ethnocratic right-wing government ministers might want. So they have to invent it."
Do you think a cis man would be asked half as many times as I have been if this was their first conference at this stage in their career?
June 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Do you think a cis man would be asked half as many times as I have been if this was their first conference at this stage in their career?
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A tale of two Bill 5s
June 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A tale of two Bill 5s
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A First Nation leader from northern Ontario had a warning for the federal government Tuesday at a protest over Bill 5, the federal government’s proposed national project-building legislation.
Protest marks beginning of 'long hot summer' if Bill C-5 passes: Fiddler
A protest on Parliament Hill will the first of many says the grand chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation in response to Ottawa's Bill C-5.
www.aptnnews.ca
June 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A First Nation leader from northern Ontario had a warning for the federal government Tuesday at a protest over Bill 5, the federal government’s proposed national project-building legislation.
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As time grows short to debate the Liberal government's contentious Bill C-5, First Nations leaders tell AFN they have "substantive concerns."
www.aptnnews.ca?p=272470
www.aptnnews.ca?p=272470
Chiefs tell AFN they have ‘substantive concerns’ over Bill C-5
Concern over Liberal government's controversial Bill C-5 growing by the day as it moves closer to being passed by Parliament.
www.aptnnews.ca
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
As time grows short to debate the Liberal government's contentious Bill C-5, First Nations leaders tell AFN they have "substantive concerns."
www.aptnnews.ca?p=272470
www.aptnnews.ca?p=272470
Anyone looking for their next read this is a really phenomenal work looking at the TB boats in the arctic/subarctic and how they would remove people (mostly Inuit) from community.
I heard about TB boats when working in NL outports and heard them describe the boats as coming in with a bell, and
I heard about TB boats when working in NL outports and heard them describe the boats as coming in with a bell, and
June 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Anyone looking for their next read this is a really phenomenal work looking at the TB boats in the arctic/subarctic and how they would remove people (mostly Inuit) from community.
I heard about TB boats when working in NL outports and heard them describe the boats as coming in with a bell, and
I heard about TB boats when working in NL outports and heard them describe the boats as coming in with a bell, and
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May 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Moving to discuss Bill 5 in camera while it is at committee is simply diabolical.
Shame on all those MPPs who voted to discuss in camera.
Shame on all those MPPs who voted to discuss in camera.
May 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Moving to discuss Bill 5 in camera while it is at committee is simply diabolical.
Shame on all those MPPs who voted to discuss in camera.
Shame on all those MPPs who voted to discuss in camera.
My partner and I bought a house in February and a few weeks ago we started gardening and found THIS!!!
Thankfully I am in the business of finding weird old things in the ground
Thankfully I am in the business of finding weird old things in the ground
May 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My partner and I bought a house in February and a few weeks ago we started gardening and found THIS!!!
Thankfully I am in the business of finding weird old things in the ground
Thankfully I am in the business of finding weird old things in the ground
I'm just getting through to the end of watching Buffy for the first time and my main takeaway is that Angel is incredibly boring, no imagination. Boring, broody for no reason.
Spike though? Outstanding! He HATES being in love but he just can't stop! Phenomenal tv!
Spike though? Outstanding! He HATES being in love but he just can't stop! Phenomenal tv!
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I'm just getting through to the end of watching Buffy for the first time and my main takeaway is that Angel is incredibly boring, no imagination. Boring, broody for no reason.
Spike though? Outstanding! He HATES being in love but he just can't stop! Phenomenal tv!
Spike though? Outstanding! He HATES being in love but he just can't stop! Phenomenal tv!
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Just because I love being yelled at, I've written about what I think needs to be done to fix the NDP.
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
Saving the NDP in a few simple steps
Party activists need to fight to restore party democracy
open.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just because I love being yelled at, I've written about what I think needs to be done to fix the NDP.
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
open.substack.com/pub/noralore...
Kitchener Center results are a prime example of why 'strategic voting' is harmful rhetoric!
People voted for liberals instead of the Green candidate who has a very strong community presence because they were afraid of the conservatives, and now a conservative has won the riding.
People voted for liberals instead of the Green candidate who has a very strong community presence because they were afraid of the conservatives, and now a conservative has won the riding.
April 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Kitchener Center results are a prime example of why 'strategic voting' is harmful rhetoric!
People voted for liberals instead of the Green candidate who has a very strong community presence because they were afraid of the conservatives, and now a conservative has won the riding.
People voted for liberals instead of the Green candidate who has a very strong community presence because they were afraid of the conservatives, and now a conservative has won the riding.
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Good:
* Poilievre isn't Prime Minister.
* Poilevre lost his own seat.
Bad:
* Everything has shifted substantially rightward.
* 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons.
* Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right.
* Left leaning parties wiped out.
* Poilievre isn't Prime Minister.
* Poilevre lost his own seat.
Bad:
* Everything has shifted substantially rightward.
* 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons.
* Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right.
* Left leaning parties wiped out.
April 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good:
* Poilievre isn't Prime Minister.
* Poilevre lost his own seat.
Bad:
* Everything has shifted substantially rightward.
* 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons.
* Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right.
* Left leaning parties wiped out.
* Poilievre isn't Prime Minister.
* Poilevre lost his own seat.
Bad:
* Everything has shifted substantially rightward.
* 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons.
* Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right.
* Left leaning parties wiped out.