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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 1d

Looking to speak with families with young children in Chicago for a story on how the ICE raids are impacting them. Reach out to [email protected], if you're interested.

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · Nov 29

Want to learn more about how to write your own alt text? Check out this thread of resources from my website! bsky.app/profile/vero...

Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · Nov 17

I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)

How To Write Alt Text And Image Descriptions

The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text

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Maple Mama @maplemama20.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a great video from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew who is the first indigenous Premier dancing in his jingle dancer regalia for a every child matters gathering for Truth and reconciliation day 🧡 so powerful #EveryChildMatters

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 3d

[email protected] The 2025 BCNDP Convention is coming in November. There will be resolutions forwarded by party electoral district associations discussed.
The situation of people with disabilities in BC living far below the poverty line is a major subject.
bsky.app/profile/catw...

Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 3d

"Market Basket Measure" poverty line amount in Vancouver is $2,294.25/month.
Monthly BC disability benefit is $1,483.40/month.
People with severe disabilities cannot work part-time & top up their income.
As a result they are struggling to eat!
#bcpoli
www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/en/take-acti...

CDB Clawback Map of Canada | Disability Without Poverty

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 3d

"Market Basket Measure" poverty line amount in Vancouver is $2,294.25/month.
Monthly BC disability benefit is $1,483.40/month.
People with severe disabilities cannot work part-time & top up their income.
As a result they are struggling to eat!
#bcpoli
www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/en/take-acti...

CDB Clawback Map of Canada | Disability Without Poverty

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www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 8d

Let’s talk “efficiencies”:

Mayor Ken Sim campaigned on cutting Kennedy Stewart’s Mayor’s Office budget of $1,137,110.

Sim’s 2024 budget was $1,200,000, and this doesn’t include his ~$450,000 VPD Ford Escalade + security detail.

#VanPoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim railed against his predecessor for 'dumb' spending. Is his own office budget better?

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim blasted his predecessor for the size of his office's budget, but has so far been unable to trim it

vancouversun.com

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 3d

Why are we making people with disabilities starve in Canada?
Unless a person with disabilities can work part-time or has very affordable or social housing, they will literally struggle to eat in this country. Why?
PWD live far below the poverty line!
www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/en/take-acti...

CDB Clawback Map of Canada | Disability Without Poverty

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 7d

Not good enough given the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system with its false majorities along arbitrary geographic boundaries.

Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 7d

I have always preferred Zussmann to Elroy honestly.

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 8d

Der Werdegang der SPD ist schon seltsam.
Die SPD unter Schroeder hatte anscheinend NULL Interesse the Vermögenssteuer, die Deutschland bis 1997 hundert Jahre lang existierte wieder einzuführen.
www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/v...

Reichtum in Deutschland: Warum kommt keine Vermögenssteuer?

Gut 100 Jahre lang gab es in Deutschland eine Vermögensteuer. 1997 wurde sie "ausgesetzt". Wie kam es dazu? Und warum ändert sich daran nichts?

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 8d

Finally makes Bluesky accounts and hastens to find @richardzussman.bsky.social on there, but finds that he's not even half as active on the Butterfly thing as he used to be on the Bird thing.

a close up of a cat 's ear with a tiktok watermark in the corner

ALT: a close up of a cat 's ear with a tiktok watermark in the corner

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 8d

All these old men in power causing so much harm could have a heart attack tomorrow, but they'd just be replaced by younger men with giant egos causing harm with divide & conquer rhetoric.
It's when people stop wanting to sit at the bully's table to feel strong & popular, that we'll have the cure.

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 8d

Anti-fascists in Buchenwald built a united front composed of members from different parties (social democratic, conservative & communist). In 1944, they succeeded in building a German "Popular Front Committee". This was a clandestine organization within the camp.
#Antifa
Photo: after liberation

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Granville Cat @catwithoutahat.bsky.social · 8d

Not morning anymore, but I read this great Op Ed by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social discussing BC's budget challenges in a rather simple and elegant way.
If you could get her and someone from the BC Government concerned with taxation on your show?
#bcpoli
theprovince.com/opinion/op-e...

Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem

Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs

theprovince.com