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Chris Wilton

Chris Wilton

@magnuspim.bsky.social

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🇿🇦🇨🇦 Secret wine agent, college instructor, poetic inhibitor, historic researcher. Immigrant. Arsenal. Springboks. he/him/his

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in Toronto this Sunday, wear blue and come down to our Acid Trip! #LetsGOBlueJays

www.eventbrite.ca/e/acid-trip-...

Acid Trip: Consumer Taste & Buy

Taste through a portfolio of international wines, spirits, and sakes crafted by organic, biodynamic, and sustainable producers.

www.eventbrite.ca

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 4d

Can we run for POTUS? 😆

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 4d

Requiescat in Pace Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies at 54 | CBC News share.google/hZAsuNapPM4N...

Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies at 54 | CBC News

Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday.

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 4d

As fiction tells the truth, this dream arrives at the moment I awake and realize the fundamental truth of why I love to sit and stare out of windows: because I get to see through myself.

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 4d

The gust/guest!

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 4d

This is the one I remember 💙

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 6d

No warnings needed. As it goes, this life, struck to the quick.

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 6d

Oof, thanks for this. Been sitting in those chairs lately.

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 6d

This is crazy and such a Rubicon moment

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 7d

#tdih 1871, a mob of about 500 Anglo & Latino men rioted in LA's Chinatown. They lynched at least 17 Chinese residents. 💔

Perpetrators all went free. Read more (article by @reecejones.bsky.social ) & see 9 min. KCET doc ⬇️about this Reconstruction era massacre.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...

Oct. 24, 1871: Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre

A lynch mob of 500 Anglo and Latino Los Angelinos rioted and murdered at least 17 Chinese residents after a white civilian died in a shootout.

www.zinnedproject.org

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 11d

Jesus, that's grim, Paul, and powerful and moving and true. I see myself there and tremble.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 12d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 13d

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 13d

I found this poem in a birthday text to a dear friend and thought I might give it a second life. My mother emigrated to 🇨🇦, a comet with a tail; her mother had a stroke when mine was 13; her mother emigrated as a teen from 🇮🇳 to 🇿🇦، with her mother, indentured, 2 women alone. I cook to hear them.

My Mothers Echo
for Gabe, on her day March 13, 2023

We are an echo
Of the dreams that send us.

I remember my mother singing
As we drove into the sun
Her voice unbounding my life
Bouncing off the rock face
Of Chapman's Peak
Like a blind person's cane
As she sang her being here.

And her echo, her mother's voice
Calling out from the back room as she fell
Shaking the house down
Bursting the doors open
Sending my mother flying
Like an arrow into the sun.

And her mother's voice, wary amongst the waves
battering the hull of the ship
An abalone shell
sailing her far from home,
Sold into servitude in a scrub land
Whispering her secrets to the ocean,
Dreams like sea-foam.

And her mother's voice,
echoing down these years, lost to the beat of my eardrum, as I stir my spoon, banging the sides of my pot, blind
But breathing in deep
The smell of them.

Making the stew my mother taught me
humming this distant
half-remembered tune.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 14d

With the Voting Rights Act in front of SCOTUS, here are lessons and books for K-12 on the history of voter suppression and the long (ongoing) fight for voting rights.

#TeachOutsideTextbook #TeachTruth ⬇️

www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

Teach the Struggle for Voting Rights

To help students respond to the threats to voter suppression, teach about the long history of the fight for voting rights.

www.zinnedproject.org

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 14d

Yes but Last Exit to Brooklyn

Jennifer Jason Leigh in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 15d

Whenever you see this kind of self-hatred, it's religion.

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, this POoR man

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 15d

My high school friends ('86‐'90) consisted of 3 Chris', 3 Daves, and 1 Darryl. I was the only non-white guy. We knew a couple of Jasons/Jays. In the midst of unfettered greed, there was also a serious creative-naming deficit at the time.

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 16d

Well, I guess Old Hool could also write. Brilliant.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16d

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social · 16d

Amazing work

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org