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Taylor Swift’s Americana aesthetics in wartime

LB — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:42:21 +0000

All art contains politics, no matter how overt or covert or messy or inconsistent they may be. This is inevitable because all expression emanates from a particular world view, and every world view is ultimately political.

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Fairy Creek Old Growth Logging – Livetweet of BC Supreme Court Injunction Hearing

LB — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:03:34 +0000

This is a live-tweet of a 4-day injunction hearing in BC Supreme Court. If you haven’t heard of Fairy Creek, it’s the last area of old-growth ancient forest on Southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

Canadian mining and violence

LB — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 23:41:10 +0000

This Globe and Main article is, regrettably, behind a paywall. I’m for supporting journalism, but the Globe and Mail has explicitly targeted a wealthy readership and a subscription is fabulously expensive.

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First Past the Post: corruption and political disengagement

LB — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:19:39 +0000

British Columbia is in the middle of a referendum on electoral reform. We are deciding whether we should switch to a Proportional Representation (PR or Pro Rep) system from our current First Post the Post (FPTP) system.

Vote-splitting, privilege, BC Green party, “voting conscience” and first-past-the-post elections

LB — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:06:07 +0000

Dear British Columbians, especially youth voters:

I’m an environmentalist, and I have been feeling the need to state that if you vote BC Green in the BC election on May 9, it is very likely you will help re-elect the far-right BC Liberals (unless you are on Southern Vancouver Island).

Brilliant response to that idiot’s wall by Indigenous Psychologists in the U.S.

LB — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:48:41 +0000

Border following the Rio Grande. Image from CNN video

The Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP) Statement on the Proposal to Build a Wall between what is Known as the US and what is Known as México:

Approved by the SIP EC January 27, 2017

The Society of Indian Psychologists strongly opposes President Trump’s proposal to build a wall between what is known as the United States of America and what is known as México.

We’re going to have to organize. Tips for constructive behaviour in a group

LB — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:42:09 +0000

Photo: Ken Cedeno/Greenpeace, via Guardian

We are going to have to organize ourselves in our communities, in the U.S. and beyond. In the face of the rapid rise of right-wing xenophobic populism, orchestrated by Big Money which intends to mop up, we need to respond immediately with defiant solidarity across differences.

Jane Fonda flying to oppose tar sands isn’t hypocrisy; that’s a “tu quoque” logical fallacy

LB — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:46:49 +0000

@JaneSeymourFonda in the Alberta tar sands: with @barbarawilliam_, @UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and ACFN (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Chief Allan Adam on January 11, 2017 (UBCIC Instagram)

This post is about a logical fallacy that for a decade has been popping up all over social media and comment streams on news stories.

The Music Crept By Us

LB — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:22:10 +0000

(Poem #339) The Music Crept By Us

I would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former SS monsters
However since it is
New Year’s Eve
and I have lip cancer
I will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance.

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How to Speak Poetry, by Leonard Cohen

LB — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:24:32 +0000

How to Speak Poetry
by Leonard Cohen

Take the word butterfly. To use this word it is not necessary to make the voice weigh less than an ounce or equip it with small dusty wings.

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