andrew🌹🍉
@teachrprecarity.bsky.social
PhD | researching teachers w/ precarious labour contracts in a polycrisis. #PublicEducation #PoliticalEconomy #PrecariousWork #FreePalestine 😷 ♑️ 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩 he/they
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Minimizing COVID-19 is maximizing social harm
Governments, in the interest of maintaining the status quo, seem to be misleading people and hoping for the best.
www.thespec.com
"Can we disconnect not caring about a pandemic from a rise in fascist politics, war crimes and genocide in Palestine, and a cost of living and housing crisis amid record private sector profits?" #covid #longcovid
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity” www.madinamerica.com/2024/04/rese...
Researchers: Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity”
Moncrieff et al. write, “There is abundant evidence that it is the context of our lives and not the balance of our chemicals that offer the most insight into depression.”
www.madinamerica.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity” www.madinamerica.com/2024/04/rese...
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Btw, if you're a Carney loyalist who has rationalized everything he's done and told the rest of us to keep quiet, you own what's happening now and what will happen in the next election.
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Btw, if you're a Carney loyalist who has rationalized everything he's done and told the rest of us to keep quiet, you own what's happening now and what will happen in the next election.
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one thing i feel like you’re seeing across nato countries with this new 5% of gdp defense spending goal is an attempt to pull more civilian agencies under the defense umbrella so it counts toward the goal.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
one thing i feel like you’re seeing across nato countries with this new 5% of gdp defense spending goal is an attempt to pull more civilian agencies under the defense umbrella so it counts toward the goal.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
feels like a bad shift to put so much of society effectively on a war footing though.
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we mustn’t forget the meaning of thanksgiving: transmitting highly infectious diseases to your guests
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
we mustn’t forget the meaning of thanksgiving: transmitting highly infectious diseases to your guests
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Desperately clung-to hypothesis: Carney is acting purely in the interest of average Canadians and is a 4D chess playing genius.
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Desperately clung-to hypothesis: Carney is acting purely in the interest of average Canadians and is a 4D chess playing genius.
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
Alternative hypothesis: Carney is a banker and just here to enrich extractive, tech, and defense industries.
Which is consistent with basically all observation to date? 🤔
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Another day, another study that suggests this virus is not good for our kids to keep catching
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Another day, another study that suggests this virus is not good for our kids to keep catching
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
Ehud Barak: U.S. And Canada Can ‘Join Hands’ With Israeli War Industry www.readthemaple.com/ehud-barak-u...
Ehud Barak: U.S. And Canada Can ‘Join Hands’ With Israeli War Industry
The Halifax International Security Forum’s main objective is to entrench faith in military supremacy among America’s allies at any cost.
www.readthemaple.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ehud Barak: U.S. And Canada Can ‘Join Hands’ With Israeli War Industry www.readthemaple.com/ehud-barak-u...
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NEW: Israel's genocide in Gaza is 'not over' despite the announcement of a ceasefire, human rights experts have warned
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
NEW: Israel's genocide in Gaza is 'not over' despite the announcement of a ceasefire, human rights experts have warned
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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The Welfare we spend too much on is billionaires.
Now a person working in London 40 hours a week earning the Minimum Wage £28,392 a year pays 12.4% tax on their total wage.
12,590/28,392*0.28
Yet nearly 25% of people earning £8m or more in the UK pay less than 1% tax.
Now a person working in London 40 hours a week earning the Minimum Wage £28,392 a year pays 12.4% tax on their total wage.
12,590/28,392*0.28
Yet nearly 25% of people earning £8m or more in the UK pay less than 1% tax.
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Welfare we spend too much on is billionaires.
Now a person working in London 40 hours a week earning the Minimum Wage £28,392 a year pays 12.4% tax on their total wage.
12,590/28,392*0.28
Yet nearly 25% of people earning £8m or more in the UK pay less than 1% tax.
Now a person working in London 40 hours a week earning the Minimum Wage £28,392 a year pays 12.4% tax on their total wage.
12,590/28,392*0.28
Yet nearly 25% of people earning £8m or more in the UK pay less than 1% tax.
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The magic of Tax Havens
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The magic of Tax Havens
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Oh really? "they/them" pronouns are woke? Did you know "they/them" comes from Old Norse, whereas "he/she" come from old English? They/them are the pronouns of Vikings.
Would you call Sweyn Forkbeard "woke"? And Eric Bloodaxe? Woke too? And I suppose even Ivar the Boneless was woke. Get real.
Would you call Sweyn Forkbeard "woke"? And Eric Bloodaxe? Woke too? And I suppose even Ivar the Boneless was woke. Get real.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Oh really? "they/them" pronouns are woke? Did you know "they/them" comes from Old Norse, whereas "he/she" come from old English? They/them are the pronouns of Vikings.
Would you call Sweyn Forkbeard "woke"? And Eric Bloodaxe? Woke too? And I suppose even Ivar the Boneless was woke. Get real.
Would you call Sweyn Forkbeard "woke"? And Eric Bloodaxe? Woke too? And I suppose even Ivar the Boneless was woke. Get real.
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What happened about four years ago?
AMERICANS RECEIVING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HIT 1.974 MILLION, THE HIGHEST IN 4 YEARS
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What happened about four years ago?
What happened about four years ago?
AMERICANS RECEIVING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS HIT 1.974 MILLION, THE HIGHEST IN 4 YEARS
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What happened about four years ago?
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
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We announced yesterday that the Black Zine Fair will be back on May 9, 2026. We'll be hosted for the 3rd year by @powerhousearts.bsky.social. Save the Date!
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We announced yesterday that the Black Zine Fair will be back on May 9, 2026. We'll be hosted for the 3rd year by @powerhousearts.bsky.social. Save the Date!
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Strikes work! ✊🏻
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees announced just after 9 a.m. on Saturday that its members will no longer be on strike after a tentative deal was reached for nursing-care workers.
Strike averted for Alberta nursing-care workers after last-minute deal with AHS: AUPE | CBC News
The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees announced just after 9 a.m. on Saturday that its members will no longer be on strike after a tentative deal was reached for nursing-care workers.
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Strikes work! ✊🏻
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War would deliver “not security but a torrent of bloodshed,” said a letter signed by dozens of political leaders.
European Leaders Condemn Trump’s Military Escalation Against Venezuela
War would deliver “not security but a torrent of bloodshed,” said a letter signed by dozens of political leaders.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
War would deliver “not security but a torrent of bloodshed,” said a letter signed by dozens of political leaders.
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I mean, universal healthcare, universal basic income, real disability support that does not come with insane conditions like not being able to have savings etc. would go a long way in making the lives of autistic people better regardless of type or degree of support needs.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I mean, universal healthcare, universal basic income, real disability support that does not come with insane conditions like not being able to have savings etc. would go a long way in making the lives of autistic people better regardless of type or degree of support needs.
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Donald Trump will show his commitment to ordinary working Americans by taking away jobs in health care after he is finished taking away jobs in manufacturing and the rest of the economy.
In Trumpland the September jobs report was great, in the real world it was pretty bad. No sector other than healthcare is creating job cepr.net/publications...
The Economy After the September Jobs Report
The September jobs report shows weak job growth, higher unemployment, and a cooling labor market driven mostly by healthcare gains.
cepr.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Donald Trump will show his commitment to ordinary working Americans by taking away jobs in health care after he is finished taking away jobs in manufacturing and the rest of the economy.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.