Jane Purvis

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We're building a bigger table.

Care about your neighbour? Want a cleaner future with secure, good-paying jobs? Believe in equity, equality, and basic fairness?

There’s a place at the table for you. 🍊🍊

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This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus—by disrespecting immigrants and queer people and feminists and their rights and views. And you reinforce that constituency’s sense that they matter more than other people when you pander like this, and pretty much all the problems we’ve faced over the past four years, to say nothing of the last five hundred, come from this sense of white people being more important than nonwhites, Christians than non-Christians, native-born than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, cis-gender than trans. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained that “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Now it’s considered bigotry.” This is a standard complaint of the right: the real victim is the racist who has been called a racist, not the victim of his racism, the real oppression is to be impeded in your freedom to oppress. And of course Alito is disingenuous; you can say that stuff against marriage equality (and he did). Then other people can call you a bigot, because they get to have opinions too, but in his scheme such dissent is intolerable, which is fun coming from a member of the party whose devotees wore “fuck your feelings” shirts at its rallies and popularized the term “snowflake.”

When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.

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Kakistocracy: government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.

I would like us to work towards a society where people have a reciprocal relationship with nature, good working conditions, & collective ownership of land rather than replacing all forms of labour with robots so we can sit around dissociating on Netflix all day. But we can agree to disagree

if it wasn't a world-destroying atrocity it would be kind of funny how much time and money and energy is being put into convincing everyone to love AI and still the general consensus is like "meh"

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Always incorrectly dressed. Booooo

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

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It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries

Rick Steves' Iran (2009) YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

This is a beautiful portrait from the inimitable @ricksteves.bsky.social of the people who are suffering in Iran, both under its theocracy and from our nation's warmongering.

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Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 on X: "https://t.co/iYAw52kKx5" / X https://t.co/iYAw52kKx5

Foreign interference is already at play. More later this week.

#ableg

x.com/acoyne/statu...

Dennis Modry defrauded his aunt and uncle of more than $1 million. Jeffrey Rath has been reprimanded by the Law Society twice in the last year.

It's nice to be reminded that not only are Alberta separatist leaders comically incompetent, they're also deeply terrible human beings.

This is so cool. Check the 🧵for the article that explains the project

Friday!
03.06
Noon - 1pm EST
FREE bystander intervention training
Cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot

Perfect bird design 10/10 peak A+ no notes #birds 🗺️

never look at your phone when you get up to take a leak. someone might have started an idiot war

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display

“Vera said that?”

Undignified to say the least

Quiet Evening
Holly Dyrland
c. 2024

Oh gross.

Well done, intertubes

The good thing about Canada not winning either gold medal for hockey is that, as a nation, we will be extremely relaxed and chill about this.