Susan formerly ganndart
@sggann.bsky.social
Public schools, politics, poetry, writing, climate, covid, justice, hope
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Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
I've kind of regretted this post since the day after I wrote it.
Alberta teachers have done much better than (mumble) at talking about complexity as very varied complexity and not just stereotypes and one-off stories of badly behaved disabled kids - and I appreciate this. Growth.
Solidarity.
Alberta teachers have done much better than (mumble) at talking about complexity as very varied complexity and not just stereotypes and one-off stories of badly behaved disabled kids - and I appreciate this. Growth.
Solidarity.
Solidarity with Alberta teachers.
And also with the families of disabled students who know the labour dispute rhetoric that sets their children up as the cause of complex system failures is neither accurate nor fair.
And also with the families of disabled students who know the labour dispute rhetoric that sets their children up as the cause of complex system failures is neither accurate nor fair.
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I've kind of regretted this post since the day after I wrote it.
Alberta teachers have done much better than (mumble) at talking about complexity as very varied complexity and not just stereotypes and one-off stories of badly behaved disabled kids - and I appreciate this. Growth.
Solidarity.
Alberta teachers have done much better than (mumble) at talking about complexity as very varied complexity and not just stereotypes and one-off stories of badly behaved disabled kids - and I appreciate this. Growth.
Solidarity.
Solidarity with Alberta teachers.
And also with the families of disabled students who know the labour dispute rhetoric that sets their children up as the cause of complex system failures is neither accurate nor fair.
And also with the families of disabled students who know the labour dispute rhetoric that sets their children up as the cause of complex system failures is neither accurate nor fair.
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Solidarity with Alberta teachers.
And also with the families of disabled students who know the labour dispute rhetoric that sets their children up as the cause of complex system failures is neither accurate nor fair.
And also with the families of disabled students who know the labour dispute rhetoric that sets their children up as the cause of complex system failures is neither accurate nor fair.
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The stage is set for the first exoneration of an executed person in Canadian history
Morning File by me
Morning File by me
The stage is set for the first exoneration of an executed person in Canadian history - Halifax Examiner
Exonerating Daniel Sampson will honour the truths that the Black Nova Scotia community have been telling for centuries.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The stage is set for the first exoneration of an executed person in Canadian history
Morning File by me
Morning File by me
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We’ll be closed on Tuesday in recognition of the 5th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In his new book 52 Ways to Reconcile, David A. Robertson’s second suggestion is to Start an Indigenous Book Club and we’ve shared some suggestions here
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We’ll be closed on Tuesday in recognition of the 5th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In his new book 52 Ways to Reconcile, David A. Robertson’s second suggestion is to Start an Indigenous Book Club and we’ve shared some suggestions here
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"It's not lost upon us that this bill is being rushed through on the eve of Treaty Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....
Crown lands bill would criminalize peaceful protests, critics say | CBC News
The Nova Scotia government's proposed move to make it illegal to block forest access roads on Crown lands is being dismissed as heavy-handed and an attempt to ignore Mi'kmaw rights.
www.cbc.ca
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"It's not lost upon us that this bill is being rushed through on the eve of Treaty Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....
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My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social
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There was a typo on the original poster. The name of the building at Mount Saint Vincent University is the Margaret Norrie McCain Centre - Room 105 / 106.
Please come to this free event on Bill C-2 (the Strong Borders Act) that is pending before Parliament that will have a huge impact on the refugee process and on privacy. October 2, 2025 at MSVU.
Here's the link for more information and registration:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/refugees-d...
Here's the link for more information and registration:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/refugees-d...
Refugees Denied, Privacy Undone: Bill C-2 and the Strong Borders Myth
An urgent conversation on the Strong Borders Act, and what you can do to prevent its harms for refugee rights and civil liberties.
www.eventbrite.ca
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
There was a typo on the original poster. The name of the building at Mount Saint Vincent University is the Margaret Norrie McCain Centre - Room 105 / 106.
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AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
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"Mischief" by Mi'kmaw playwright Lisa Nasson.
"How can a woman whose family lives in a society placed under a microscope of stereotype, carry the resilience of her ancestors to embrace their existence?"
Neptune Theatre until Oct. 12.
🎟️ - www.neptunetheatre.com/box-office/m...
#Halifax #mi'kmaw
"How can a woman whose family lives in a society placed under a microscope of stereotype, carry the resilience of her ancestors to embrace their existence?"
Neptune Theatre until Oct. 12.
🎟️ - www.neptunetheatre.com/box-office/m...
#Halifax #mi'kmaw
This play will change how you think about Halifax | CBC Arts
Mischief, on until Oct. 12 at the Neptune Theatre, examines how colonialism long-term effects still shape the city
www.cbc.ca
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"Mischief" by Mi'kmaw playwright Lisa Nasson.
"How can a woman whose family lives in a society placed under a microscope of stereotype, carry the resilience of her ancestors to embrace their existence?"
Neptune Theatre until Oct. 12.
🎟️ - www.neptunetheatre.com/box-office/m...
#Halifax #mi'kmaw
"How can a woman whose family lives in a society placed under a microscope of stereotype, carry the resilience of her ancestors to embrace their existence?"
Neptune Theatre until Oct. 12.
🎟️ - www.neptunetheatre.com/box-office/m...
#Halifax #mi'kmaw
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The #NovaScotia government has tabled legislation that could weaken a key section of the province’s transparency law. 🤬
If adopted, the bill would remove what a provincial watchdog described as a crucial portion of the Freedom of Information &
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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
If adopted, the bill would remove what a provincial watchdog described as a crucial portion of the Freedom of Information &
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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
Watchdog says N.S. government bill would remove key sections of transparency law
The Nova Scotia government has tabled legislation that could weaken a key section of the province’s transparency law.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The #NovaScotia government has tabled legislation that could weaken a key section of the province’s transparency law. 🤬
If adopted, the bill would remove what a provincial watchdog described as a crucial portion of the Freedom of Information &
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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
If adopted, the bill would remove what a provincial watchdog described as a crucial portion of the Freedom of Information &
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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
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Today, over 160 global leaders, policymakers, scientists, and health experts (and a lot of our friends) are coming together at the UN General Assembly in New York declare clean air a public right!
Watch the livestream here, starting 3:30 PM ET: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v...
Watch the livestream here, starting 3:30 PM ET: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v...
September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Today, over 160 global leaders, policymakers, scientists, and health experts (and a lot of our friends) are coming together at the UN General Assembly in New York declare clean air a public right!
Watch the livestream here, starting 3:30 PM ET: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v...
Watch the livestream here, starting 3:30 PM ET: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v...
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Make your own DIY air purifier on Monday, Sept 29!
Building materials are provided.
Register through this form: form.jotform.com/252526894774...
Building materials are provided.
Register through this form: form.jotform.com/252526894774...
September 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Make your own DIY air purifier on Monday, Sept 29!
Building materials are provided.
Register through this form: form.jotform.com/252526894774...
Building materials are provided.
Register through this form: form.jotform.com/252526894774...
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The nyt covered groypers and the grotesque trump wh memes in July: (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
Opinion | Trolling Democracy
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The nyt covered groypers and the grotesque trump wh memes in July: (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
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The human face of climate destruction is so hard to bear. We continue to burn fossil fuels & promote overconsumption even as it kills us & everything around us. We need #ClimateActionNow Story from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The human face of climate destruction is so hard to bear. We continue to burn fossil fuels & promote overconsumption even as it kills us & everything around us. We need #ClimateActionNow Story from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.
Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis
Google's goal to be net-zero in carbon emissions by 2030 is still apparently company policy, it's just not broadcasting it anymore
www.tomshardware.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
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I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
September 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.
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It‘s weird that next to nothing is normal yet almost everyone is pretending really, really hard that it is. Climate change, mass extinction, genocides, rising fascism, anti-vaxxers, disinformation, ever-increasing wealth gap, ever-rising costs of living…all if it just normalized.
September 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It‘s weird that next to nothing is normal yet almost everyone is pretending really, really hard that it is. Climate change, mass extinction, genocides, rising fascism, anti-vaxxers, disinformation, ever-increasing wealth gap, ever-rising costs of living…all if it just normalized.
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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Join us.
September 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.
Join us.
Join us.
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Don’t let them get away with scapegoating newcomers
September 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Don’t let them get away with scapegoating newcomers
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gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b49fedf...
The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent
We still aren’t doing enough to mitigate the spread of the virus
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b49fedf...
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Both Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and BC NDP leader David Eby are calling for end to TFW program — blaming migrant worker programs for "filling up" shelters, food banks, schools & housing, and for causing "high youth unemployment".
THIS IS RACIST, SHITTY and TRUMP-IAN argument. Here's why.
THIS IS RACIST, SHITTY and TRUMP-IAN argument. Here's why.
September 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Both Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and BC NDP leader David Eby are calling for end to TFW program — blaming migrant worker programs for "filling up" shelters, food banks, schools & housing, and for causing "high youth unemployment".
THIS IS RACIST, SHITTY and TRUMP-IAN argument. Here's why.
THIS IS RACIST, SHITTY and TRUMP-IAN argument. Here's why.