Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
@ethnographer.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
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A feed of & for feminists & women academics:
"Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky.
It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
"Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky.
It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
At this time when 1940s Norwegian anti-Nazi toque patterns are being shared on Ravelry as "Melt Ice" hats, and as Pussy Hats are re-entering the discourse, allow me to share Tove Hermanson's (2012) prescient paper:
digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/696/
#feministsky
digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/696/
#feministsky
Knitting as Dissent: Female Resistance in America Since the Revolutionary War
Primarily a feminine duty or pastime, knitting has a deliciously rich history of political subversion in fiction and life. As a preemptive measure just prior to the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Amer...
digitalcommons.unl.edu
January 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
At this time when 1940s Norwegian anti-Nazi toque patterns are being shared on Ravelry as "Melt Ice" hats, and as Pussy Hats are re-entering the discourse, allow me to share Tove Hermanson's (2012) prescient paper:
digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/696/
#feministsky
digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/696/
#feministsky
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"But a full, internal version of the report, seen by The Times,
goes further, suggesting that the degradation of rainforests in
the Congo & the drying up of rivers fed by the Himalayas
could drive people to flee to Europe, leading to “more polarised
& populist politics in the UK”"
#ClimateEmergency
goes further, suggesting that the degradation of rainforests in
the Congo & the drying up of rivers fed by the Himalayas
could drive people to flee to Europe, leading to “more polarised
& populist politics in the UK”"
#ClimateEmergency
Suppressed climate report warned of mass migration and nuclear war
Unabridged document said disappearing forests and rivers drying up could drive people to Europe and lead to conflict in Asia
www.thetimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:32 AM
"But a full, internal version of the report, seen by The Times,
goes further, suggesting that the degradation of rainforests in
the Congo & the drying up of rivers fed by the Himalayas
could drive people to flee to Europe, leading to “more polarised
& populist politics in the UK”"
#ClimateEmergency
goes further, suggesting that the degradation of rainforests in
the Congo & the drying up of rivers fed by the Himalayas
could drive people to flee to Europe, leading to “more polarised
& populist politics in the UK”"
#ClimateEmergency
All the Trumpists had to do, to make America actually kind of great, was to use that Palantir technology they're using to identify where to find 'illegal migrants', and then *make them all US citizens* as soon as they find them.
That would have been truly great.
That would have been truly great.
January 27, 2026 at 3:29 PM
All the Trumpists had to do, to make America actually kind of great, was to use that Palantir technology they're using to identify where to find 'illegal migrants', and then *make them all US citizens* as soon as they find them.
That would have been truly great.
That would have been truly great.
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The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
www.heise.de
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 AM
The Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs is moving away from Microsoft and switching instead to Linux and LibreOffice
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
www.heise.de/news/Von-Wor...
Hmm. What's the Canadian mood on US equities & bonds? Are we moving $🇨🇦, the way Denmark has, & EU citizens are calling on their gov'ts to do?
"[A more practical option] in any European retaliation, would be a ‘buyer’s strike’ at upcoming Treasury auctions”
fortune.com/2026/01/23/u...
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦
"[A more practical option] in any European retaliation, would be a ‘buyer’s strike’ at upcoming Treasury auctions”
fortune.com/2026/01/23/u...
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦
The U.S. has 'escalation dominance' in a debt war as Europe would face a violent market crash if it dumps Treasuries | Fortune
Europe accounts for about a third of U.S. government bonds held overseas, or roughly 10% of the overall Treasury market.
fortune.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Hmm. What's the Canadian mood on US equities & bonds? Are we moving $🇨🇦, the way Denmark has, & EU citizens are calling on their gov'ts to do?
"[A more practical option] in any European retaliation, would be a ‘buyer’s strike’ at upcoming Treasury auctions”
fortune.com/2026/01/23/u...
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦
"[A more practical option] in any European retaliation, would be a ‘buyer’s strike’ at upcoming Treasury auctions”
fortune.com/2026/01/23/u...
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦
Any ethnographers of "Cossackdom" here?
I'm wondering how this current @bellingcat.com description of Putin's use of Cossack identity to undermine Ukrainian identity and military resolve aligns with anthropological literature re: Cossacks?
#Anthrosky
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
I'm wondering how this current @bellingcat.com description of Putin's use of Cossack identity to undermine Ukrainian identity and military resolve aligns with anthropological literature re: Cossacks?
#Anthrosky
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
From School to Battlefield to Grave: How Russian Cossacks drive young people to war - bellingcat
The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation for...
www.bellingcat.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Any ethnographers of "Cossackdom" here?
I'm wondering how this current @bellingcat.com description of Putin's use of Cossack identity to undermine Ukrainian identity and military resolve aligns with anthropological literature re: Cossacks?
#Anthrosky
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
I'm wondering how this current @bellingcat.com description of Putin's use of Cossack identity to undermine Ukrainian identity and military resolve aligns with anthropological literature re: Cossacks?
#Anthrosky
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
Personally, I think it would be wonderful if the workers of the world united.
But aside from that analogy, the rest of Havel's point, as re-vivified by @mark-carney.bsky.social in Davos, is accurate. I'm happy to be part of the thin edge of the wedge that will splinter the hegemon.
#signsdown
But aside from that analogy, the rest of Havel's point, as re-vivified by @mark-carney.bsky.social in Davos, is accurate. I'm happy to be part of the thin edge of the wedge that will splinter the hegemon.
#signsdown
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Personally, I think it would be wonderful if the workers of the world united.
But aside from that analogy, the rest of Havel's point, as re-vivified by @mark-carney.bsky.social in Davos, is accurate. I'm happy to be part of the thin edge of the wedge that will splinter the hegemon.
#signsdown
But aside from that analogy, the rest of Havel's point, as re-vivified by @mark-carney.bsky.social in Davos, is accurate. I'm happy to be part of the thin edge of the wedge that will splinter the hegemon.
#signsdown
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It's bizarre hearing the exact same arguments, almost word for word, in another country that I heard in ours just years ago. I'm going to keep repeating this, get American tech out of your country. Now. Do what you have to do. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 20, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It's bizarre hearing the exact same arguments, almost word for word, in another country that I heard in ours just years ago. I'm going to keep repeating this, get American tech out of your country. Now. Do what you have to do. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
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If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
January 20, 2026 at 7:45 PM
If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Former #Toronto chief planner lauds #Edmonton's urbanism direction, especially the LRT, bike lanes & rezoning for housing affordability.
Monocle's "The Urbanist" -my fave international urbanism podcast- features Canadian cities in the January 15th episode:
monocle.com/radio/shows/...
#urbanism+
Monocle's "The Urbanist" -my fave international urbanism podcast- features Canadian cities in the January 15th episode:
monocle.com/radio/shows/...
#urbanism+
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Former #Toronto chief planner lauds #Edmonton's urbanism direction, especially the LRT, bike lanes & rezoning for housing affordability.
Monocle's "The Urbanist" -my fave international urbanism podcast- features Canadian cities in the January 15th episode:
monocle.com/radio/shows/...
#urbanism+
Monocle's "The Urbanist" -my fave international urbanism podcast- features Canadian cities in the January 15th episode:
monocle.com/radio/shows/...
#urbanism+
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Tune in to the Monocle Daily all this week for an interesting deviation from our usual programmes.
January 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Tune in to the Monocle Daily all this week for an interesting deviation from our usual programmes.
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The whole speech is worth watching. #Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...
Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The whole speech is worth watching. #Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...
Is the USA menacing Kalaalit Nunaat/Greenland & even NATO as a distraction from the existential threat of Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Is it a feint on behalf of his buddy Putin? Either way, we should mobilize and + join EU exercise, says General (retired) Lawson:
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇱
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇱
NATO exercises in Greenland a 'rebuke' to Trump that Canada should join: retired general
As NATO allies send small deployments to Greenland for joint exercises, Prime Minister Mark Carney is mulling sending Canadian troops to join them. Retired Royal Canadian Air Force general and former ...
www.cbc.ca
January 20, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Is the USA menacing Kalaalit Nunaat/Greenland & even NATO as a distraction from the existential threat of Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Is it a feint on behalf of his buddy Putin? Either way, we should mobilize and + join EU exercise, says General (retired) Lawson:
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇱
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇱
🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇱
@mark-carney.bsky.social I notice HMCS Harry DeWolf is still in the St Lawrence. Shouldn't it be on the way to Nuuk?
#ElbowsUp #KalaalitNunaat
www.cruisingearth.com/ship-tracker...
@mark-carney.bsky.social I notice HMCS Harry DeWolf is still in the St Lawrence. Shouldn't it be on the way to Nuuk?
#ElbowsUp #KalaalitNunaat
www.cruisingearth.com/ship-tracker...
January 19, 2026 at 3:43 PM
🇨🇦🫶🏼🇬🇱
@mark-carney.bsky.social I notice HMCS Harry DeWolf is still in the St Lawrence. Shouldn't it be on the way to Nuuk?
#ElbowsUp #KalaalitNunaat
www.cruisingearth.com/ship-tracker...
@mark-carney.bsky.social I notice HMCS Harry DeWolf is still in the St Lawrence. Shouldn't it be on the way to Nuuk?
#ElbowsUp #KalaalitNunaat
www.cruisingearth.com/ship-tracker...
Send in the HMCS Harry Dewolf @mark-carney.bsky.social, send in Canada's biggest frigate 🇨🇦4🇬🇱
PS: any #Kalaallisut speakers here? How do you say "fascists and oligarchs fuck off" in the official language of Kalaalit Nunaat?
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cjo...
PS: any #Kalaallisut speakers here? How do you say "fascists and oligarchs fuck off" in the official language of Kalaalit Nunaat?
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cjo...
January 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Send in the HMCS Harry Dewolf @mark-carney.bsky.social, send in Canada's biggest frigate 🇨🇦4🇬🇱
PS: any #Kalaallisut speakers here? How do you say "fascists and oligarchs fuck off" in the official language of Kalaalit Nunaat?
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cjo...
PS: any #Kalaallisut speakers here? How do you say "fascists and oligarchs fuck off" in the official language of Kalaalit Nunaat?
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cjo...
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They think they can do anything by lying and calling it a national emergency.
Anything.
The TRUE national emergency is Trump.
Anything.
The TRUE national emergency is Trump.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defends Trump's move to levy tariffs on European allies, calling the push to acquire Greenland a "national emergency."
Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs: 'The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency'
President Donald Trump has said he would impose tariffs on countries that reject his ambitions to control Greenland.
nbcnews.to
January 18, 2026 at 3:49 PM
They think they can do anything by lying and calling it a national emergency.
Anything.
The TRUE national emergency is Trump.
Anything.
The TRUE national emergency is Trump.
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"Do you support or oppose the actions taken by the United States in Venezuela?"
Oppose: 64%
Support: 22%
Neutral: 10%
EKOS / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1012 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
Oppose: 64%
Support: 22%
Neutral: 10%
EKOS / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1012 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 AM
"Do you support or oppose the actions taken by the United States in Venezuela?"
Oppose: 64%
Support: 22%
Neutral: 10%
EKOS / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1012 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
Oppose: 64%
Support: 22%
Neutral: 10%
EKOS / Jan 14, 2026 / n=1012 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
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Pittsburgh 💪
Excited to have you! Here are some Pittsburgh stats, out of the 60 largest US cites:
✅ Despite our infamous hills, we're 12th for # of bike commuters (tied w/ Denver & Miami)
✅ 42% of our workers don’t use a motor vehicle to get to their job
✅ We rank in 6th for # of workers who walk to work
✅ Despite our infamous hills, we're 12th for # of bike commuters (tied w/ Denver & Miami)
✅ 42% of our workers don’t use a motor vehicle to get to their job
✅ We rank in 6th for # of workers who walk to work
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Pittsburgh 💪
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3+ days a week. Commute by bike 3+ days a week for better life satisfaction & mental health. Neighbourhood doesn't matter. Weekend spurts don't cut it.
It's a good study: sample size, design, propensity score methods = ✅✅✅.
Municipalities & provinces take note!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
It's a good study: sample size, design, propensity score methods = ✅✅✅.
Municipalities & provinces take note!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
3+ days a week. Commute by bike 3+ days a week for better life satisfaction & mental health. Neighbourhood doesn't matter. Weekend spurts don't cut it.
It's a good study: sample size, design, propensity score methods = ✅✅✅.
Municipalities & provinces take note!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
It's a good study: sample size, design, propensity score methods = ✅✅✅.
Municipalities & provinces take note!
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Love is love ❤️
Happy Anniversary to all who observe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-se...
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Love is love ❤️
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When big news breaks, misinformation spreads fast. It’s often hard to filter fact from fiction. Our 2024 guide remains relevant today, outlining what to look out for when it comes to misleading analysis. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research - bellingcat
Learning to recognise these widespread mistakes will help you judge the quality of open source analysis — or improve your own.
www.bellingcat.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
When big news breaks, misinformation spreads fast. It’s often hard to filter fact from fiction. Our 2024 guide remains relevant today, outlining what to look out for when it comes to misleading analysis. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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Ryanair rules out equipping planes with Musk's Starlink internet reut.rs/4sGsv7s
Ryanair rules out equipping planes with Musk's Starlink internet
Ryanair on Wednesday ruled out equipping its jets with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, citing the impact of fuel costs from drag caused by the antenna and the short length of its flights.
reut.rs
January 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Ryanair rules out equipping planes with Musk's Starlink internet reut.rs/4sGsv7s
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We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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LIVE: UN press briefing on global humanitarian crises youtube.com/live/TXiF-wZ...
LIVE: UN press briefing on global humanitarian crises
YouTube video by Reuters
youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 AM
LIVE: UN press briefing on global humanitarian crises youtube.com/live/TXiF-wZ...