Always let some things go to seed. I had no idea that hummingbirds eat mustard seeds until watching them this morning!

Just a little reminder to everyone that, in a time of surveillance and early fascism, 100 strategically placed small protests are much much harder to suppress and disrupt and turn into a talking point, than one big impressive march.

It's ##nationalpoetrymonth-- here's bpnichol's EASTER POME. Courtesy @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

"A nation starting with free institutions and customs, begins to increase in wealth, and that wealth to accumulate in the hands of a few, and here is the lever by which, eventually and certainly, the liberties gained in a simpler age will be overthrown."

- Frederick Douglass, 1856

Sour puss and a sourpuss.

If you're in your 80's and not sure how to help, distribute protest cookies! Lee has a talent and the dining room table is in full production mode.

Quite chuffed that Canadian food banks are getting a devil's surplus of nice unsold USA produce and foodstuffs. This is how solidarity has knock-on effects.

Leonard Peltier has made it to North Dakota! The temperatures are bitter cold today, but our hearts and spirits are on FIRE for our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard. ❤️‍🔥

Read our press release for more about Leonard's welcome home event tomorrow ndnco.cc/lphomepr

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now:

Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t...

Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

University of Toronto Sociology Prof, who’s an American, posted this to Threads — most gun crimes in Canada occur with American guns.

We’re the ones who suffer with all the toxic shit coming across the border, not Americans. •Less• than 1% of USA fentanyl originates in Canada, too.

buy Canadian.

Noble idea. an one I will pursue.

But I think we need to really consider applying this tactic to perhaps the most important industry.

Media.

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Shopify executives are vocally opposing the Canadian government — and now they’re being openly praised by the Conservative Party leader.

They’re trying to extend Silicon Valley’s right-wing project to Canada — and need to be stopped.

Canadian knitters and crocheters:

Canada has several excellent yarn companies, local yarn shops, and indie dyers. Check labels before you buy so we can support Canadian businesses and yarn producers. 🧶 🇨🇦

#knitting #crocheting #tariffs

As a runner who is currently looking for some new daily trainers. Nike is out. New Balance is out. Hoka is out. Brooks is out. Topo is out. Atreyu is out. It'll be Asics 🇯🇵 I think. And Norda 🇨🇦 for trail shoes
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The older the tree, the more quickly it grows. If we want to use forests to combat climate change, we must allow them to grow old. #oldgrowth

Poster for Wicked just looks like Disney greenwashing their colour-blind casting but still playing to caste.

Just a reminder to the other web developers out there: if I am interrupted by a popup in the middle of reading, or even before I read a damn thing, I bounce. If it's not an instabounce, I mutter 'fuck you' and scroll skeptically to see if it's worth not bouncing.

#ADHD

I'm raising my Sunday morning coffee in a toast to all the Ontario bikesheviks who are struggling with regression and repression in the streets--keep rolling, you'll get the critical mass together to sort this out.