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Lindsay Brown

@lidsville.bsky.social

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Be a lover and a fighter Writer. Upcoming book on Habitat ‘76: http://habitat76.ca Lidsville was a surrealist 70s kids show about cartoon autocrats in an alternate reality, & here we are. Comms/strategy on environment, energy, housing speculation

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 6h

It's interesting that this same post on X has attracted a bunch of TERFs

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 15h

This isn’t how science works obvs

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 15h

The pile-on on Parks Board Commissioner Tom Digby over cancelling the Harry Potter thing—which BTW funnelled money to JK Rowling—is international & vicious

TERFs & YIMBYs are strikingly similar online: personal, vicious, organized brigading. Can't win on logic? Try terror!

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lchristophersmith.bsky.social @lchristophersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Recalls the absurdist Dutch Provo protests of the late 60s—which, as it happened, led to the resignations of various police officials.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

It's embarrassing the number of times I tried to explain this on Twitter to people who were assuming incompetence x.com/search?q=han...

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

They think we're idiots. But on that note, it's so frustrating that people fall for it.

The number of people who've argued with me that "it's just incompetence" when it's clearly an agenda wearing incompetence as a cape. Don't collude with it, people

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. And people's whole concept of "failing upwards" - that's not failing, that's being rewarded for strategic failing and wearing it.

Hanlon's razor doesn't even work in the personal/private realm. Look at men's weaponized incompetence re: housework, to get out of labour year after year

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I dislike Hanlon's razor—"never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence/stupidity."

Not so in politics. Incompetence is too often the alibi for terrible agendas. Grift, graft and worse

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

Failing party in opposition gets brainwave, thinks "let's bluster like Trump! And freeze out the journalists we actually need to get our message out... oh wait"

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

Mayor Ken Sim's "Zero Means Zero" austerity directive is just Canadian for DOGE or "Big Beautiful Bill"

#vanpoli

Ken Sim, in neon tank and sorts and visor, runs through wood-panelled Vancouver city council chamber with an open shopping bag in front of a fellow ABC Vancouver council member dressed as a pirate

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

(I finally blocked that guy - I'd had enough.)

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

I think we're done here.

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windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thrilled "Let's heal the divide" is gone but it's so jarring walking up Keefer--a street that is swept constantly--towards a mural that gives government failures yet another Live Laugh Love treatment.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you - I seem to be battling someone in this thread who wants to downplay that very obvious fact

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help you if you don’t understand the meaning that site holds for the community

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

Why does every public art piece at that site seem to aggressively ignore what is really going on at a key location in Chinatown, which is a meeting place featuring the memorial statue honouring Chinese Canadian soldiers, now dominated instead by a mural with odd, generic messaging.

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

Furthermore, this is the same contested site where we endured the previous public art, a neon text piece that said "Let's heal the divide"—as if that's done with feelings instead of the kind of redistribution that would halt widening inequality. Say, via social not luxury housing at 105 Keefer

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

"'We are all held together' — as we fall out of the sky, in the DTES and at #105Keefer where the community is fighting a development by a billionaire oligarch who's part of the real estate cartel that is causing people to fall out of the bottom of the economy and right onto the street"

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 1d

You're making a lot of false assumptions & straw man arguments, & I'm not sure why I'm still responding. My background is visual art, I taught visual communication for years, I like public art, & many friends are involved in it.

This is a weak, overbearing piece on a sensitive, contested site.

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not inclined to continue this exchange given your repeat rudeness. And this overlooks 105 Keefer, and I suspect you don’t know this neighbourhood or what’s appropriate here.

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 2d

UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.

Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 2d

2 years into the [genocide], these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza

2 years into the war, these figures illustrate the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza | CBC News

For two years, Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have faced unrelenting bombardment, mass hunger and recurring displacement as Israeli fighting continues in the desolate territory.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 2d

1. This is whataboutism 2. Who said I supported Obama? He had some brutal policies, but pushed them under a different complex of structures than Trump's authoritarian version. Learn your terms

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 2d

You're contradicting your own point here. If "art is subjective" (& I think that's very reductive) then you wouldn't criticize my subjective response nor to impugn (incorrect btw) ulterior motives to it, as you did. Again, my subjective response: it's artistically weak & insensitive to context

Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 2d

You are absolutely right.