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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Aug 24

SLOCOM members/fans, it has been a busy few months but look forward to more from non-Party non-headquarters!

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Aug 24

Would tracking interest rates help?

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Aug 24

New book by SFU PhD Aaron Goings out now!https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754000/red-harbor/

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 5

#OtD 5 Jul 1777 the word 'scab', meaning 'strikebreaker', was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary! stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · May 18

We’d be stupid to turn down the generous gift of three $150-million catamaran ferrys from the Egyptian government.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 14

nothing spells faculty productivity like spending hours manually inputting pull-down-menu versions of information readily available on a CV into a proprietary Faculty Productivity™ software on which the university spent jillions

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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · May 2

Puppets…

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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · May 1

Warm weather is here! Anyone know of a Canadian maker of Clamsicles?

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · May 1

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers.

When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 29

Exactly. And they know that going in. Thus their private sector experience, they plus pandering to corporate interests while in office.

Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 29

How is political corruption not also private sector experience?

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duncankinney.bsky.social @duncankinney.bsky.social · Apr 28

cannot say enough how much i despise the leaders and the senior leadership of canada's three major political parties. whatever the result tonight we all lose.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · Apr 29

I know you all think you've saved the country but in 4 years the status quo will be untenable and the next Poilievre will be far worse. Enjoy the reprieve

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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · Apr 28

Canadian politics 101: 158 years of Liberal/Conservative horse races. And both parties running on "change."

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · Apr 28

The really messed up thing is, my heart is in my throat about this election but it's going to stay there because even if we keep PP out, we're going to have to fight Carney tooth and nail for 4 years.

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 28

This election forces us to choose between the evil
of two lessers.

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 28

This Canadian election is important, for whoever wins it shifts the "Overton Window"
further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.

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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · Apr 28

An election where the climate was barely mentioned. As the water levels in the Rockies reach record lows, as the forest fire threats accelerate, as glaciers melt at record pace, as extreme weather accelerates...and yet, nothing.

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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · Apr 28

Boat early, boat often

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 28

I fear that "the long march through the institutions" means we have become institutionalized.

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 16

Starting Dan McQuillan's "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence," Bristol University Press, 2020, and there is much good stuff here, including a call for mutual aid and the commons.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · Apr 11

As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate:

Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...

Johnny Cash - Hurt

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

www.youtube.com

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · Apr 9

dear journalists:

if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 9

Well, for some definition of “land,” I guess….

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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · Apr 8

One advantage to SLOCOM typed mail is security services no longer have the capacity or equipment to steam open letters! "Kettle? No, but there's a coffee pod machine in the kitchen. Why?"

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