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K Barn

@karlbarn.bsky.social

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Brood mother 🐔, union hoser ✊, ally 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇨🇳 🇨🇩, formo journo, filthy leftist. F*k capitalism. Go home.

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · Apr 14

When people say voting strategically is harm reduction my question is:

Harm reduction for who, to what extent, for how long, and at the cost of whose lives and exploitation globally?

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 14h

That CIA manual on disrupting movements doesn't get talked about enough. Honestly it could be brought up at Union GMMs to have better meetings too 😆

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood and the acceleration of the decades long occupation and genocide of the Palestinians.

May I live long enough to see the fall of US empire and a free Palestine. Long live the resistance 🍉 ✊

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 1d

I like Engler's politics but everything I've heard from activist buddies and riding association peeps about their interactions with Engler shows he's not a leader, not an organizer, and is generally kinda rude and transactional.

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 1d

Look up the white paper called "extending Russia"

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome back to the less crazy version!

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to the end of this NATO provoked forever war, where our Ukrainian and Russian fellows are going to war to die so that Blackrock, Lockheed Martin, and other US defense contractors can make a buck and Trump can get rare earth minerals. So needless

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

AI SLURS

*ahem*

Clanker
Slopper
Token tanker
Thought stopper

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

Lol well played. This took me a few minutes too. It's hell is us!

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

True, but defying legislation is the counter to this and always has been.

Every time a union has defied back to work legislation, be it section 107 federally or the notwithstanding clause provincially, in the past 3 years labour has won. Union leaders just need to realize this.

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

Same story here in Canada! A fine read

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

Ngl I'd so be into a non-tariffed BYD car because it'd probably be the only car I can afford once my beater explodes 😅

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

Country whose politicians gave standing ovations to Nazi says Irish rap group hurt their feelings and are therefore terrorists.

The word terrorist still has no internationally agreed upon definition. In function, for the US and its allies, it means "whoever does stuff we don't like"

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 3d

Highly recommend this @upstreampodcast.bsky.social podcast with Chris Gilbert on Venezuela and socialist communes - communal forms of social production that form the basis of a socialist and anti-imperialist national project. And now under direct military threat from the US.

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 2d

This is great. I never thought about it that way - how food in games is always a power up, but in an eating disorder in real life it's the opposite

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 3d

Lol true

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 3d

Lol I appreciate this even as a CUPW member. Appreciate all the support from the public on the picket line! Pictured: our tally of supporters vs detractors at my depot. For those looking for the real story, avoid legacy media and go to The Breach

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with Venezuela ✊. This is so obviously about oil and regime change. @upstreampodcast.bsky.social has a great series on this

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 5d

"*I* didn't crash the bus, *I* only let go of the steering wheel. If the passengers didn't want to crash, they should've leaned harder into that last turn."

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 6d

Yooo. True that! As far as I've seen every depot is picketing, usually just one shift unless it's a processing plant.

They have to have some that are picketing but just aren't on the map.

As for your take on why head office isn't being occupied with a sit in 24/7, I agree

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 6d

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 6d

Well said, McGillucuddy! It's like I say when people talk about how blisteringly fast and convenient Amazon delivery is, "you can do wonders with slavery. It's why the rich fought wars over keeping it."

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 6d

Between Tranjan getting a piece in the Star and the recent editorial by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social about postal banking 💰 📮, I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world where good faith discourse on the public good is coming back.

Ricardo Tranjan @ricardotranjan.bsky.social · 6d

The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?

Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.

My latest @thestar.com

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one

Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher

www.thestar.com

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 6d

Billionaire lobbyists, pressure from American logistics firms, Liberal Party family members who work with Amazon, and of course the gleeful complicity of legacy media - The real story behind why the government is determined to dismantle your public post office

breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach

The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service

breachmedia.ca

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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 7d

I switched to Qobuz and Podcast Addict. Highly recommend either, but especially Podcast Addict

K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 7d

Someone slowly drove by the local postal worker picket line while asking "when's this all gonna be over?"

"Well," I replied, "we've all gotta die sometime." He didn't hear me. Still, we've had lots of support from the public and local businesses