Kai Muir
@kaimuir.bsky.social
he/him | UVic Masters student, Pacific herring historical ecology | foster cat dad | horse guy | trans & often happy
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Mohamad Alzaqzooq, an extraordinary author in Gaza who has published widely, including in the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, urgently needs to evacuate with his family.
The costs are steep but he is close to covering them. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/from-war-t...
The costs are steep but he is close to covering them. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/from-war-t...
Donate to Help Mohamad's Family: From War to Hope, organized by Mohamad Alzaqzooq
Dear friends,
My name is Mohamad AlZaqzooq, and I am reaching out to you… Mohamad Alzaqzooq needs your support for Help Mohamad's Family: From War to Hope
www.gofundme.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Mohamad Alzaqzooq, an extraordinary author in Gaza who has published widely, including in the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, urgently needs to evacuate with his family.
The costs are steep but he is close to covering them. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/from-war-t...
The costs are steep but he is close to covering them. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/from-war-t...
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Hey, friends and comrades, I want to draw your attention to something important. My friend Alaa is trapped with her family in Gaza and needs assistance. Here's her daughters. Here's the link, but I'm going to talk a little about what happened. (Please boost!) chuffed.org/project/1252...
May 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hey, friends and comrades, I want to draw your attention to something important. My friend Alaa is trapped with her family in Gaza and needs assistance. Here's her daughters. Here's the link, but I'm going to talk a little about what happened. (Please boost!) chuffed.org/project/1252...
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It is not the job of a group being hounded out of public life by media and the state to “extend grace” to the people doing it. This is the essence of the disingenuous “both sides” framing that helped make fascism a mainstream political option, and the Times and others bear a fair share of the blame.
Back on their bullshit I see
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
April 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It is not the job of a group being hounded out of public life by media and the state to “extend grace” to the people doing it. This is the essence of the disingenuous “both sides” framing that helped make fascism a mainstream political option, and the Times and others bear a fair share of the blame.
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We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.
Those Dire Wolves Aren’t an Amazing Scientific Breakthrough. They’re a Disturbing Symbol of Where We’re Heading.
We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.
slate.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.
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Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention—
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention—
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
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By Evan Dyer CBC. This is highly problematic.
April 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
By Evan Dyer CBC. This is highly problematic.
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if there's one thing Evangelical Christians know it's that having the state execute a beloved dissident always stops that dissident's message from spreading so yeah seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione seems smart
April 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
if there's one thing Evangelical Christians know it's that having the state execute a beloved dissident always stops that dissident's message from spreading so yeah seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione seems smart
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NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.
Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins
The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.
Listened to this a few days ago and immediately picked up a copy Stag Dance, which is now sitting in my to-read pile as an end of academic term treat
My chat with @torreypeters.bsky.social is available now wherever you get your YouTubes or podcasts. We discuss her new novel, Stag Dance, and Elon Musk and gender fails and how the trans experience is maybe just an invitation
March 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Listened to this a few days ago and immediately picked up a copy Stag Dance, which is now sitting in my to-read pile as an end of academic term treat
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I woke Papi up from his long nap to answer a letter from a concerned reader who says they feel scared and small in the wake of everything these days johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/what-am-i-...
What Am I Supposed to Do?
On feeling small in turbulent times
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I woke Papi up from his long nap to answer a letter from a concerned reader who says they feel scared and small in the wake of everything these days johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/what-am-i-...
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
A small patch of herring roe on the rocks at Fisgard Lighthouse in Colwood, BC! The first I’ve personally observed in the greater Victoria area.
March 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A small patch of herring roe on the rocks at Fisgard Lighthouse in Colwood, BC! The first I’ve personally observed in the greater Victoria area.
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Truth telling on today’s episode of CBC Front Burner. Omar El Akkad on Gaza. Incredible conversation 👇
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
March 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Truth telling on today’s episode of CBC Front Burner. Omar El Akkad on Gaza. Incredible conversation 👇
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Yay stoked to see you on BSky @mxlauder.bsky.social! this piece brings me so much joy (and also men at the pool who want to talk to me about LOTR)
March 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Yay stoked to see you on BSky @mxlauder.bsky.social! this piece brings me so much joy (and also men at the pool who want to talk to me about LOTR)
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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Looking forward to planting these babies from Satinflower Nursery 🌱
March 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Looking forward to planting these babies from Satinflower Nursery 🌱
I planted this red flowering currant in my front yard last year and every day I check on her to see if more leaves have unfurled
March 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I planted this red flowering currant in my front yard last year and every day I check on her to see if more leaves have unfurled
It was a privilege to learn from knowledge holders and researchers at HELIT TŦE SȽOṈ,ET, the herring advocacy event on Tsawout territory last month. I’m thankful to The Narwhal and @sevawood.bsky.social for their excellent coverage of this event and of the Strait of Georgia fishery more broadly.
It may not be surprising that different parties have varying opinions on how an animal should be harvested, writes @sevawood.bsky.social , but how can First Nations and the feds so drastically disagree on how herring are doing?
Is this fish disappearing from the Georgia Strait? | The Narwhal
First Nations say herring are disappearing, while the feds say they're stable. So what's really going on?
thenarwhal.ca
March 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
It was a privilege to learn from knowledge holders and researchers at HELIT TŦE SȽOṈ,ET, the herring advocacy event on Tsawout territory last month. I’m thankful to The Narwhal and @sevawood.bsky.social for their excellent coverage of this event and of the Strait of Georgia fishery more broadly.
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I know Lia Thomas through her wife Gwen.
She came to my wedding. She's one of the kindest women I've ever gotten to know, and the hate she gets is despicable.
Glad to see Parker cover her.
She came to my wedding. She's one of the kindest women I've ever gotten to know, and the hate she gets is despicable.
Glad to see Parker cover her.
March 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I know Lia Thomas through her wife Gwen.
She came to my wedding. She's one of the kindest women I've ever gotten to know, and the hate she gets is despicable.
Glad to see Parker cover her.
She came to my wedding. She's one of the kindest women I've ever gotten to know, and the hate she gets is despicable.
Glad to see Parker cover her.
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I'm all for dunking on someone for confusing transgenic and transgender - what better way to discredit them as fools. And of course those lines of research should continue.
But let's not lose sight of the fact that transgender research IS being defunded. Right now. And that's not OK either.
But let's not lose sight of the fact that transgender research IS being defunded. Right now. And that's not OK either.
March 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm all for dunking on someone for confusing transgenic and transgender - what better way to discredit them as fools. And of course those lines of research should continue.
But let's not lose sight of the fact that transgender research IS being defunded. Right now. And that's not OK either.
But let's not lose sight of the fact that transgender research IS being defunded. Right now. And that's not OK either.
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Greener. Safer. A better use of subsidies than supporting this guy.
Sign the petition: visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
Sign the petition: visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
March 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Greener. Safer. A better use of subsidies than supporting this guy.
Sign the petition: visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
Sign the petition: visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
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This is what the BC Conservatives were up to at their annual general meeting last week: discrimination towards queer kids, reversing reconciliation, & criminalizing homelessness. This party came dangerously close to forming government. Do not become complacent, fellow Canadians. It can happen here.
March 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is what the BC Conservatives were up to at their annual general meeting last week: discrimination towards queer kids, reversing reconciliation, & criminalizing homelessness. This party came dangerously close to forming government. Do not become complacent, fellow Canadians. It can happen here.