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Kelly B

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Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · Mar 26

'Do Archives Matter?'

My latest Left Coast Dispatch: buttondown.com/leftcoastdis... #yyj #BChist #CdnHist #BCpoli #archives

Do Archives Matter?

There has been much talk lately of defending BC and Canada. Canadian flags are flying in apartment windows and on lawns. There’s a giant maple leaf pinned to...

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · Sep 15

The least we can do, is make the world a better place
Not just for a few, but the human race
To end wars and quarrels, make John Lennon’s dream come true
To build a new set of morals,
It’s the least we can do

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The Least We Can Do

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

2) For the same class we read Ch. 8 of Robert Paxton's classic The Anatomy of Fascism. I used his definition of fascism in my book Antifa.

I love his argument that a definition of fascism "encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person."

Cover of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. It shows a woman giving a fascist salute.

What Is Fascism?

The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by
obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 10h

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 10h

Nanaimo. Ucluelet. Tsawwassen…

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h

The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

Spain’s parliament formally approves Israel arms embargo

The vote, which passes 178 votes to 169, enshrines into law an embargo that has been in effect since the war began.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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cageyratfish FREE LINK, YOU COWARDS 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 13h

It's just routine kidney stone surgery!! Dolly Parton is Just Fine! i repeat she's FINE (very fine as usual!) 💕💕

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah here’s Dolly on IG cleaning up her sister’s mess. Hair done, makeup done, shooting promos. Alive and well: www.instagram.com/reel/DPjkor7...

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 16h

Please call all Liberal MPs, Minister Anand, and Prime Minister Carney to ensure they know how important it is that these Canadians are protected and released immediately.

As a New Democrat I continue to demand Canada end its complicity in genocide. Sanctions, arms embargo, end trade now.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 1d

"Maybe Dhanraj didn’t do his research and thought Poilievre’s answer was reasonable. Or maybe his version of being uncensored is to actually just Lick Boot. Regardless, it’s quite the start for what is supposed to be The New CBC."

noraloreto.substack.com/p/free-from-...

Free from the shackles of censorship only to lick boot

An assessment of the new podcast Can't Be Censored and how it, and the CBC, have differently fatal problems.

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 1d

I'll just floss tomorrow

Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 2d

I'll just floss tomorrow

Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 3d

I'll just floss tomorrow

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 1d

#2 would have to be the Cheam Slide. I look at it from my window every day. It's hard to see if you don't know about it, though. Around 5000 years old and 3x larger than the Hope Slide, it's one of the biggest ever documented in Canada. The deposits were quarried for marl, then restored as a lake

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 7d

I had an idea, and I don't know if it's necessarily a good idea or not, that I'd do a thread of my favorite 10 landslides from the database. But why not? I'll probably do it next week when I'm back in the office.

Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 9d

Bumping again for the afternoon crowd.

Marc-André Brideau @mabrideau.bsky.social · 9d

Over the last three years, @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social, @geocron.bsky.social, me, and twelve colleagues have been compiling a Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database. Version 12 is now available and contains 25,500 entries.
zenodo.org/records/1721...

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Sarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social · 1d

Covid & flu vaccines are @ BC pharmacies now. Oct 14 is first day they are available to general public. Some folks are using old vaccine invite email links to book appts on the get vaccinated online booking system. You can also call or visit your pharmacy to book, or wait for your invitation email.

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 1d

Me too!

Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 1d

Thrift store find. IYKYK

Colour photo. The cover of a vinyl record. A man’s face on a black background. The record is titled “Relax with Reveen.”

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · Sep 6

Meme with Tobias ans Lindsay from the tv show Arrested Development. Panel 1: LIBERALS. Many governments have tried to reduce spending and promise better services. Panel 2: Well did it work for those people? Panel 3: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might. But… Panel 4: …But it might work for us

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 1d

No one could have predicted this

CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 1d

Despite all of Canada's concessions, there has been no indication that Trump will back down on his growing list of tariffs.

Tariff relief tempered as Carney set to have second Oval Office meeting with Trump

Despite all of Canada's concessions, there has been no indication that Trump will back down on his growing list of tariffs.

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