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Christian Stalley
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Christian Stalley @xianstall.bsky.social · Dec 7
It should be a rule when referring to a billionaire to give a relatable ratio;
1 million seconds is 11 days. 1 billion seconds is 31 years 8 months.

I think we would be horrified by billionaires if we could grasp just how much money they have.
People don’t have an intuitive sense of how much bigger one billion is than one million; 1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.
xianstall.bsky.social
This is a truly glorious episode. Everyone will be better for having listened.
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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timbousquet.bsky.social
Exciting news!

Lance Sampson, who is the musician Aquakultre, has filed an Application with the Canadian Minister of Justice to review the conviction of Lance's great-great grandfather, Daniel Sampson.

Yesterday, Aquakultre released the official video of "Gallows," about Daniel Sampson.

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Aquakultre - Gallows (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Aquakultre
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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gregmaceachern.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE - Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3fa2402...
Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign
The collection includes an extremely rare Western Arctic kayak and a two-metre-long wampum belt
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Just in from two SF No Kings events (Ocean Beach and then a colossal march and rally downtown). So many good signs, so much devotion to justice, liberty, human rights, and Jesus lord the one part of the US economy that must be booming right now: INFLATABLE critter costumes.
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Oct 18
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.
constant-tummyache.bsky.social Empathy @constant-tummyache.bsky.social · Oct 19
Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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glenn-florence.bsky.social
As you attended No Fascists (how I brand it) events today, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny. It's outstanding and something you will keep referring to over and over again.
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
The CSIS report declares, “Radicals will argue that peaceful politics will inevitably fail and that only violence will make a difference,” but I have no idea who these radicals are because in my 40 years around direct action organizing, I’ve only encountered theoretical enthusiasm for violence from the sidelines and the occasional young hothead (almost always white and male) in movements whose vast majority and leadership are committed to nonviolence. I do know someone who was part of a violent group in the early ’70s and then became wanted fugitive; he’s since become an ardent advocate of nonviolence. What too often gets described as left-wing violence at protests is property destruction, which can be dangerous and intimidating and is usually opposed by protest organizers, but should be regarded as distinct from harming human life. For example, at the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the Black Bloc, a small cadre among the 50,000 protesters smashed a lot of shop windows quite spectacularly. But there are no reports of activists harming human beings. Police, on the other hand, used tear gas; pepper spray; rubber, plastic, and wooden bullets; concussion grenades; and armored vehicles against protesters bystanders resulting in many injuries. Nonetheless, for years afterward, mainstream media outlets portrayed this event as an occasion of shocking activist violence.
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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nantanreikan.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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lukesteuber.com
“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣
Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up
It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing
www.oregonlive.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
xianstall.bsky.social
The chaos that is our world is important, but this very good boy will help us remember why we need to keep fighting.
minibubbly.bsky.social Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Oct 8
‘Very good boy’: Dog leads police to elderly woman who was injured while walking him
Bodycam footage captured a dog catching the attention of police to lead them to an elderly woman who was injured while walking him.

www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...
‘Very good boy’: Dog leads police to elderly woman who was injured while walking him
Bodycam footage captured a dog catching the attention of police to lead them to an elderly woman who was injured while walking him.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
xianstall.bsky.social
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · Oct 8
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org
A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.19 (lookback time 2.41 billion years) with coordinates (150.70876, 2.66422).

44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy, possibly merging from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 44 volunteers.
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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ninesnowboots.bsky.social
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resistrebelrevolt.net Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · Oct 2
DLMayfield:

"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:

They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.

The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."
Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: 1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror 2). If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war 3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state 4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist 5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming. Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it’s intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!
October 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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theguardian.com
Hoi Polloi review: a mind-boggling display of technical brilliance – with bulbous buttocks a go-go
Hoi Polloi review: a mind-boggling display of technical brilliance – with bulbous buttocks a go-go
This gloriously eccentric personal museum by painter and former Turner nominee Glenn Brown is a mesmerising delight as it cheekily imitates the nearby Wallace Collection
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one
September 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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reuters.com
Kebinatshipi takes 400 gold on great night for Botswana reut.rs/48loPQG
Kebinatshipi takes 400 gold on great night for Botswana
Botswana’s 21-year-old Busang Collen Kebinatshipi won gold in the world 400 metres on Thursday, roaring clear in 43.53 seconds, with compatriot Bayapo Ndori taking bronze on a memorable night for the African nation.
reut.rs
September 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Barcelona's epic Sagrada Familia could be finished in 10 years reut.rs/4mgo66F
Barcelona's epic Sagrada Familia could be finished in 10 years
Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is edging towards completion, with the team behind it hopeful they can put the finishing touches to the modernist basilica in around 10 years, more than a century after the famed architect's death.
reut.rs
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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scalzi.com
Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 13
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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delafina777.bsky.social
So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes
Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease
www.science.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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juliamwright.bsky.social
I'd guess that their metrics don't capture a few imp't items at @dalhousie.bsky.social . E.g.
👉% of staff & faculty who donate to the university (likely high pre-lockout)
👉research publications / # of students (def. high)
👉total faculty pay / # of students (little change in a decade)

#KeepDalStrong
andrewjroger.bsky.social Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 29
Uniforum (Nous Group) has been at Dal since 2022 and they've likely been advising senior administration on creating the crisis narrative since then. Read these articles: circles.eduvation.ca/posts/inviti... and nationalpost.com/feature/how-...
September 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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luccousineau.bsky.social
Do you have questions about why @dalfaculty.bsky.social are still locked out?
#KeepDalStrong
Here are some folks that you can ask:
Dr. Kim Brooks, Pres - president@dal.ca
Dr. Wanda Costen, Provost and VP Academic - provost@dal.ca
Grace Jefferies-Aldridge, VP People & Culture - gjefferi@dal.ca
August 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM