Aaron Gunn‘s tribute to Leni Riefenstahl, “Vancouver is Dying” which insists that safe supply flooding streets, premiered (yes that’s what I mean) in Nanaimo and Vancouver ten days before the civic elections, putting many shitheads in municipal office

nobody challenged those lies

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Mayor of Nanaimo comes out in favour of eugenics.

It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy.

Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.

Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist

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I believe in labor unions and am a member. But many romanticize them as if they magically solve things.

In academia, job cuts, restructuring, and political repression are happening at schools with faculty and staff unions. Many union members are racist and anti-leftist. The struggle is constant.

One of the things I’ve learned a lot about this past year is how in many smaller towns, the sheriff, judge, real estate developer and construction company are either the same person, same family or just as good as. It’s all landlords all the way down.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

the fact that BC Housing is NOT measuring the levels of respiratory viruses and CO2 in the air while they're measuring the amount of fentanyl in the air tells us that this is the production of evidence for a decision that's already been made

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Our grandkids are going to be flabbergasted looking back on this. Is a genocide happening? Yes. Are the people carrying it out murdering aid workers and starving children? Yes. Are they being aided by the US? Yes.

And yet all anyone talks about is the motives and tactics of the people opposing it.

the Nazis diagnosed the ease with which you could goad a liberal into a time-wasting and pointless argument as a KEY STRATEGY of their rise.

They want you to waste time and fight like the playing field is level.

Like, I used to say this on the other site, and then it...fell to Nazism!

crap like this "investigation" that refuses to even NAME what's it about, is a perfect reflection of the response to mass death from Canada's comfortable classes (the commentariat, the fake "left", civil society, health professions & our elite): condescending indifference & condolences

murderers

Quilt top is pieced, next step is basting. WFH due to snow most of the week helped with finding time.

I have to join the rows now

I messed around with layouts on graph paper on my lunch breaks and took a vote of friends and colleagues, they chose this one

I cut 28 12x12 squares and used an 8-at-a-time half square triangle method and ended up with 224 individual pieces. They've been assembled into 14 x 16 rows.

I've been working on a giant quilt top. Here are some of the rows laid out on the floor.