Nostr notes by A-Dub 🥝

Nelson Tenths case update:- 3068 hectares of "Crown" land ...

2025-12-17T19:49:34Z

Nelson Tenths case update:-

3068 hectares of "Crown" land will be returned to descendants of the original Māori owners, including the Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve and part of the Abel Tasman Great Walk, plus $420M compensation for lost earnings and land use

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/582055/south-island-maori-landowners-to-get-more-than-3000-hectares-returned-by-crown

#Aotearoa #NZ

YESSS!! "Indigenous leaders in Manitoba are calling it a ...

2025-12-13T16:14:12Z

YESSS!!

"Indigenous leaders in Manitoba are calling it a major step forward after a federal court ruling confirmed Canada has a legal duty to provide adequate housing on First Nations communities."

https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/anada-legally-obliged-to-provide-first-nations-housing/

#Indigenous #CdnPoli #HousingForAll

it's happening. the conservative coalition government of NZ ...

2025-11-19T19:37:59Z

it's happening. the conservative coalition government of NZ is cutting off access to new prescriptions for puberty blockers for trans youth in Aotearoa. on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance.

PATHA has condemned today's decision, saying it is an ideologically driven ban that will have a "devastating impact on the lives and wellbeing of our transgender and gender diverse young people". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/579385/govt-halts-new-puberty-blockers-prescriptions-for-gender-affirming-care

#AntiTransNonsense #NZpol #ImportedCultureWars #LifeAndDeath

a pilot made a Blue Jays symbol with their flight path over Nova ...

2025-10-29T21:30:26Z

a pilot made a Blue Jays symbol with their flight path over Nova Scotia

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=5111224009102683

sunrise on a window border ...

2025-10-28T12:01:26Z

sunrise on a window border

a few yellow autumn leaves pics looking UP ...

2025-10-24T23:28:43Z

a few yellow autumn leaves pics looking UP

unemployment is almost 33% higher than when Doug Ford got elected ...

2025-10-20T12:00:45Z

unemployment is almost 33% higher than when Doug Ford got elected
— CBC Metro Morning
#ONpoli

just published: new article! “Scholasticide and resilience: The ...

2025-10-09T14:18:45Z

just published: new article!

“Scholasticide and resilience: The Gaza Genocide and the struggle for Palestinian higher education”
— by Chandni Desai, Sundos Hammad, Ahmed Abu Shaban & Abdel Razzaq Takriti.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2025.2558520?src=exp-la#abstract

#Gaza #Genocide #Scholasticide

updated COVID-19 vaccines 💉 are being rolled out across ...

2025-09-29T13:41:39Z

updated COVID-19 vaccines 💉 are being rolled out across Canada. anyone who hasn't had a 💉 (or the 🦠) in the past six months should be eligible.

personal note: as a scientist, i am humbly highly confident that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease, hospitalization, and death — and can decrease the risk of Long Covid (which I have). Moderna vs Pfizer? I mix over time, or just get whichever is most available.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vaccines-fall2025-1.7645267

"Don't worry about getting hit by space debris. This is ...

2025-09-26T16:05:49Z

"Don't worry about getting hit by space debris. This is not something that individuals really need to worry about, but as a society — is this really how we want to be using our orbit? We''re just throwing things away, burning them up in the atmosphere, dropping them on the ground. It's like billionaires dropping their garbage on our head."
— Professor Samantha Lawler

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatoon-space-debris-satelitte-reentry-1.7643516

i have been really enjoying it too 😄

2025-09-19T23:26:05Z

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i have been really enjoying it too 😄

this is how small the landing area was for the pilot ...

2025-09-16T12:31:11Z

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this is how small the landing area was for the pilot

a small plane crash landed in Monarch Park in Toronto and nobody ...

2025-09-16T12:14:30Z

a small plane crash landed in Monarch Park in Toronto and nobody in the plane or on the ground got hurt!! massive kudos to the pilot.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/small-plane-crash-toronto-1.7634799

#Aviation #Toronto

Jordan fucking Peterson got to say anything actually bigoted that ...

2025-09-12T22:45:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…fxxq
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Jordan fucking Peterson got to say anything actually bigoted that he wanted to on his twitter, and the stupid #UofT upper administration DIDN'T DO DIDDLY SQUAT TO HIM. so why is my fascism expert colleague suspended and he never was?

presumably i haven't been called into the principal's ...

2025-09-12T22:05:26Z

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presumably i haven't been called into the principal's office yet because UofT Strat Comm don't even bother reading Mastodon 🙃

for the record: this suspension of one of my #UofT colleagues on ...

2025-09-12T21:53:23Z

for the record: this suspension of one of my #UofT colleagues on the basis of a personal political tweet is a steaming pile of bullshit.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/university-of-toronto-professor-leave-charlie-kirk-tweet-1.7632736

sorry for being so literalistic ... hope the comment gave you a ...

2025-09-06T22:59:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…e4vs
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sorry for being so literalistic ... hope the comment gave you a smile anyway :)

the Quantum part annoys physicist-me - a toothbrush is very much ...

2025-09-06T18:25:22Z

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the Quantum part annoys physicist-me - a toothbrush is very much a classical object

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada should add more ...

2025-08-29T15:33:49Z

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada should add more staff - that would help international students like this one tangled up in the new federal rules to move on to graduate study

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/western-international-student-in-limbo-waiting-for-study-permit-1.7619249

#CdnPSE #CdnPoli

hahaha 😂 #physics https://xkcd.com/3134/

2025-08-28T18:00:04Z

hahaha 😂 #physics

https://xkcd.com/3134/

the actual quote (from freire.org):- "Education either ...

2025-08-23T21:21:30Z

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the actual quote (from freire.org):-

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and therefore bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Te reo is a taonga recognised by law. Under Te Tīriti o ...

2025-08-23T18:36:28Z

"Te reo is a taonga recognised by law. Under Te Tīriti o Waitangi, we have the right and responsibility to protect our language. We do so by exercising our waha to use te reo Māori as much as we can for the benefit of our ākonga. We do this because, as educational philosopher Paulo Freire teaches, education is never neutral. It either dominates or liberates. Choosing to diminish te reo Māori in our schools is choosing to dominate and silence."

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/im-a-teacher-and-i-cant-ignore-this/

#ColonialNonsense #NZpol #TeReoMaori

Montreal cops managed to fire chemical irritants onto *small ...

2025-08-20T16:34:30Z

Montreal cops managed to fire chemical irritants onto *small children* as well as Rad Pride protesters

"Actually, we ended up being hurt by the police. ... I don't know how dangerous the march was, but [the protesters] were definitely not the ones that were attacking us."
- a Dad whose kids got affected

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/parents-baby-tear-gas-montreal-police-1.7612795

#AbolishThePolice #SPVM

passenger attendants?! somehow i doubt an AI can wheel me to an ...

2025-08-11T21:37:08Z

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passenger attendants?! somehow i doubt an AI can wheel me to an airplane or clean and jerk my wheeled carryon into the overhead bin but maybe im super behind on the latest news 🤨

so does any clearly thinking adult paying attention ...

2025-07-08T05:37:49Z

so does any clearly thinking adult paying attention

"Palestinians fear Israel is preparing to annex the West Bank"

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6821076

#Palestine

fancy-pants-class seats on this plane have AIRBAGS ...

2025-07-04T03:57:10Z

fancy-pants-class seats on this plane have AIRBAGS

these First Nations kids played a song to attract grizzly bears ...

2025-06-19T14:56:57Z

these First Nations kids played a song to attract grizzly bears — and it worked

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/squamish-nation-grizzly-bear-song-1.7564142

#IndigenousKnowledge

the U.S. page we're onto now is ... political assassinations ...

2025-06-14T16:10:11Z

the U.S. page we're onto now is ... political assassinations of key Democrats in a state legislature?! *shiver* #USpol

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-1.7561491

"mRNA COVID vaccines are among the most tested & ...

2025-06-03T22:16:43Z

"mRNA COVID vaccines are among the most tested & scrutinized medical products in human history. More than 13B doses have been given globally, with 650M given in the U.S. alone, demonstrating a remarkably safe profile. Despite constant surveillance & endless accusations from antivaxxers, no U.S. deaths have been shown to have been causally linked to an mRNA vaccine."

https://zeroes.ca/@EricCarroll/114621725166324192

#CovidIsNotOver #VaccinesWork #AutismCausesVaccines #ActuallyAutistic

this article is top notch medical leadership from The Spinny - ...

2025-06-03T00:01:35Z

this article is top notch medical leadership from The Spinny - you should read it!

"ME/CFS patient estimates have doubled – but the disease is still ignored"

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/02-06-2025/me-cfs-patient-estimates-have-doubled-but-the-disease-is-still-ignored

#NZ #ME #CFS #LongCovid

yesterday at Gibraltar Point Beach - note how the dark coloured ...

2025-05-17T22:40:38Z

yesterday at Gibraltar Point Beach - note how the dark coloured sand is **steaming** from earlier rainfall!

big gay double rainbow over the Hwy 401 just now 🌈 ...

2025-04-29T22:20:38Z

big gay double rainbow over the Hwy 401 just now 🌈

"My friend Sarah Kendzior, who has spent many years studying ...

2025-04-25T16:58:17Z

"My friend Sarah Kendzior, who has spent many years studying authoritarian governments, recently told me that compassion, imagination and tenacity can’t be taken away from a person. They can only be surrendered. Our task, in this moment, above all else, is to refuse to surrender."

— Kelly M Hayes, U.S.-based organizer

https://organizingmythoughts.org/r/d3e133d2

How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of ...

2025-04-22T13:26:06Z

How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction, by Melissa Dancy and Apriel Hodari:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03522

#Physics #Racism #Sexism

why are right-wingers so obsessed with trans people? just leave ...

2025-04-11T15:55:10Z

why are right-wingers so obsessed with trans people?

just leave us the fuck alone and quit trying to restrict our access to health care, education, housing, food, sports, and other necessities of life

https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/right-obsesssion-trans-people-election-272578

#CdnPoli #AntiTransNonsense

in which xkcd explains Trump's tariffs ...

2025-04-08T01:59:47Z

in which xkcd explains Trump's tariffs 😂https://xkcd.com/3073/

visitors to the US from majority-white former-ally countries are ...

2025-03-22T14:44:53Z

visitors to the US from majority-white former-ally countries are discovering to their surprise that the Trump2 administration will also put them in immigration detention if it feels like doing so:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-travel-detentions-1.7489525

#FascistNonsense #USpol

Ontario roller derby teams cancel US trips because of the Trump2 ...

2025-03-21T13:06:35Z

Ontario roller derby teams cancel US trips because of the Trump2 administration's discriminatory two-genders rule: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/ontario-roller-derby-teams-cancel-u-s-trips-2-gender-rule-trump-1.7487621

#AntiTransNonsense #FascistNonsense #USpol

This week, the NZ government scrapped the Māori and Pacific age ...

2025-03-08T18:58:39Z

This week, the NZ government scrapped the Māori and Pacific age extension in the national bowel cancer screening programme.

Doctors who fought for the targeted extension say it’s a decision that will knowingly increase cancer deaths, and reduce life expectancy, in Māori and Pacific populations.

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/bowel-screening-change-totally-unethical/

#NZpol #AntiMāoriRacism #AntiPasifikaRacism

Early Voting in the Ontario provincial election begins **right ...

2025-02-20T15:00:14Z

Early Voting in the Ontario provincial election begins **right now**. Polling Stations are open 10am-8pm—and only for the next three days.

Head on over to Elections Ontario and plug in your postal code to figure out where to cast your ballot before election day:
https://voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/search?mode=postalCode

#OnPoli #OnElxn

a lovely interview with co-founders of Brown Town, an Ōtautahi ...

2025-01-18T14:20:05Z

a lovely interview with co-founders of Brown Town, an Ōtautahi community collective carving space for Tangata Moana to thrive: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-01-2025/pacific-profiles-meet-the-friends-behind-otautahi-collective-brown-town #Aotearoa #Ōtautahi

UBC faculty members speak out in support of instructor who says ...

2024-12-15T21:00:36Z

UBC faculty members speak out in support of instructor who says he was let go for pro-Palestine activism.

UBC faculty say the instructor's dismissal demonstrates an “alarming erosion of free expression at UBC.”

https://pressprogress.ca/hundreds-of-ubc-faculty-members-speak-out-in-support-of-instructor-who-says-he-was-let-go-for-pro-palestine-activism/

#CdnPSE #AcademicFreedom #FreeExpression #Gaza #Genocide 🍉

oh great. Ontario is going to put its big nuclear waste dump ...

2024-11-28T19:04:45Z

oh great. Ontario is going to put its big nuclear waste dump under *Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation* and the township of Ignace. [CBC]

#Environment #Colonialism #NuclearWaste

Please join me and over 122,000 others in urgently signing this ...

2024-11-17T23:40:32Z

Please join me and over 122,000 others in urgently signing this e-petition:

To: The Parliament of Aotearoa/New Zealand:

Stop the Treaty Principles Bill
- TOITŪ TE TIRITI!!

https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/kati-stop-the-introduction-of-the-treaty-principles-bill

#ToitūTeTiriti #TogetherForTeTiriti #NZpol

separated bike lanes help a big group of people - people with ...

2024-11-17T14:44:58Z

separated bike lanes help a big group of people - people with disabilities who use wheels to get around and can go faster than pedestrians.

here’s one person speaking out against Doug Ford’s spiteful bill authorizing ripping out separated bike lanes in Toronto:

“… I feel like my safety is not being taken into consideration as a citizen, a person with a disability. … It makes me feel dispensable, like they don't care."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bike-lanes-wheelchair-user-1.7365991

#BikeTO #ONpoli #TOpoli #BikeLanesSaveLives #VisionZero

Human Rights Watch: the "massive" and ...

2024-11-15T14:00:21Z

Human Rights Watch: the "massive" and "deliberate" forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity…[specifically] "the war crime of forcible transfer." It described the Israeli force's actions as "a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/human-rights-watch-gaza-displacement-1.7383031 #Gaza 🍉

woah. “few people know that a considerable chunk of the VPN ...

2024-10-20T13:07:10Z

woah.

“few people know that a considerable chunk of the VPN market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

those 3 VPNs are: ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, and Private Internet Access.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/exposed-how-israeli-spies-control-your-vpn/

motion made to the U. of Windsor Board of Governors to **welch on ...

2024-10-12T15:20:16Z

motion made to the U. of Windsor Board of Governors to **welch on the deal** the Administration made with student protest encampment participants. >:[

i seriously fail to comprehend the ethical code of supposedly educated people who think a university is morally tainted by **divesting** from what most of the world knows is a genocide in progress.

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/caused-some-harm-uwindsor-governors-to-consider-pausing-controversial-encampment-deal

#StudentProtests #Gaza 🍉

it’s absolutely inhumane that there are over 10,000 homes ...

2024-10-01T11:56:45Z

it’s absolutely inhumane that there are over 10,000 homes sitting vacant in Toronto while unhoused people die on the streets.

raise the vacant home tax even higher than 3%/year. heck, why not take it even further and expropriate the home if it sits vacant for three years.

a goat named Joshua living in Newfoundland saw a marathon going ...

2024-10-01T11:52:10Z

a goat named Joshua living in Newfoundland saw a marathon going by. he decided to join the runners, did his longest run ever, and won a medal! 🏅🐐 #GOAT

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cbs-marathon-joshua-goat-1.7337676

the world has got to develop the courage to stop the state of ...

2024-09-28T21:15:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…g8qd
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the world has got to develop the courage to stop the state of Israel’s blind fury revenge fantasy military onslaughts. letting the IDF do whatever the government wants [in this context] makes nobody safer, including Jewish Israelis

oh no, oh fuck. the IDF taking out the Hezbollah leader and some ...

2024-09-28T14:47:14Z

oh no, oh fuck. the IDF taking out the Hezbollah leader and some other high-ups leaving a crater over 20 metres deep in a residential part of Beirut is the exact opposite of badly needed **de-escalation**. i mean, both Israel and Iran have nuclear weapons!! make it make sense

fuck you, CBC. you post an article about the case against the kid ...

2024-09-27T13:26:03Z

fuck you, CBC. you post an article about the case against the kid who set another kid on fire in a high school and think it’s relevant that the public knows she’s autistic? that has nothing to do with the crime, it just serves to further stigmatize autistic people.

a gay chief justice was appointed in Tonga. he's facing a ...

2024-09-23T13:15:11Z

a gay chief justice was appointed in Tonga. he's facing a rising number of people trying to oust him simply because he's gay, and they're not only lawyers. [Radio NZ] #Pasifika

"We were all hired because of our academic training in ...

2024-09-10T17:49:50Z

"We were all hired because of our academic training in questions of race and racism both in the US and abroad and we are now being targeted for drawing on our expertise to take a stand against militarism and genocide in Gaza, suggesting that our viewpoints are only welcome if administrators agree with us,"
— Prof. Araceli Esparza, one of the Cal State Long Beach professors targeted by their Administration: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/10/cal-state-professors-targeted-for-exposing-schools-ties-to-israels-genocide-in-gaza/ #Gaza #StudentProtests

Demonstrators at U of T condemn 'repressive' protest ...

2024-09-07T13:22:41Z

Demonstrators at U of T condemn 'repressive' protest policies

“Anna Lippman, a student at York University, attended Friday's protest. Over the past 11 months, she said she has experienced antisemitism from counter-protestors while attending pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
"It's my fellow protestors here who have put their arms around me in sympathy when I experience those things," Lippman said.
She said it was difficult to "disentangle [her] Jewish identity from the state of Israel."
"I can't blame other folks who are having difficulty doing that, too," she added.
Lippman said students will continue protesting during the upcoming school year.
"So long as Palestinians in Gaza…are being slaughtered in mass numbers, we cannot remain silent," she said.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/u-of-t-protest-rules-1.7315867

new T-shirt's message #CovidIsNotOver ...

2024-09-07T00:01:43Z

new T-shirt's message #CovidIsNotOver

my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft ...

2024-08-27T12:31:34Z

my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥

“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.

— Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission]

#Enshittification

Canadians: can't afford groceries Supermarket managers: ...

2024-08-18T21:38:21Z

Canadians: *can't afford groceries*

Supermarket managers: *lock up cheeses* 👮‍♂️

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/grocery-prices-1.7295621

The threat of climate change demands something more than ...

2024-08-18T14:03:36Z

The threat of climate change demands something more than thoughts, prayers and excuses

by Aaron Wherry

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/author/aaron-wherry-1.3396423

#Floods #Fires #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Canada

weaksauce from Canada in response to the war crime of destroying ...

2024-08-01T17:36:02Z

weaksauce from Canada in response to the war crime of destroying a civilian water supply in Gaza. our government should be outright condemning the bombing. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-calls-for-probe-into-demolished-canadian-water-treatment-plant-in-gaza-1.7281666 #Gaza

new study: mercury poisoning near Grassy Narrows First Nation ...

2024-05-23T15:10:50Z

new study: mercury poisoning near Grassy Narrows First Nation worsened by ongoing industrial pollution 🤬 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/grassy-narrows-first-nation-methylmercury-study-1.7211750 #GrassyNarrows #Canada #Pollution #Indigenous https://www.freegrassy.net/