when I joined facebook in the late oughts, the first group I joined was the best I ever did. something like “I turn my pillow over to the cold side”
it was so good because twas the whole group. no politics or flame wars.
I wonder if there’s a group for people posting cool wifi and hotspot names?
The ocean engulfs
Deciduous reverie
In sweater weather
(sad how this haiku couldn’t fit: apple cider brewing on the stove for the next 5 months, balcony hot chocolate in quilt watching hummingbirds drinking)
October 27, Dundarave Beach park, colonial west vancouver, unceded and occupied MST lands.
A windy day, with 1m waves and driftwood.
Deciduous trees in green, yellow, orange and red.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40964 [Orbit 1.2, 1953]
don’t think about every amazing Philip K. Dick story or novel that has been made into a good or bad movie
don’t think about allegory
don’t think about maga and carney and the c/a/n/a/d/a project
don’t think about south africa, or ground penetrating radar or residential “schools” or marked graves or mass graves, or “Indian Day Schools” or the “Indian Land Trust” [which is maybe worth C$600b to C$3t] or the great canadian genocide [ongoing, as well as historical]
don’t think about what “Indians” means
don’t think about Indigenous women making up less than 4% of the population here, but 48% of the federal prison population [it was 24% a decade ago, and 12% two decades ago]
don’t think about how “remigration” is straight out of the nazi playbook
don’t think about Nakba, or October 7 or eight decades of slow or brisk genocide of zionist psychopaths in Palestine, or zionist settler paramilitary death squads, or how canadian settlers are…on someone else’s land
don’t think about Gaza or the manifest destiny of greater israel
don’t think about the flotillas and the beatings and torture and sexual assault, or how the canadian and swedish governments did sweet fuck all to maintain how they are appeasing the zionist psychopaths, so they chose to not support “their” citizens who merely seek an end to genocide, when our elected leaders cavort with those fuckers
don’t think about antifa and how we were all antifa until 80 years ago, and now with most wwii vets dead, we’ve let nazis and fascists exist under cover of civility politics
don’t think about how mairikkkans are afraid to physically stop, let alone shoot or kill masked terrorists in their streets kidnapping people, under the guise of homeland security
don’t think about how naive it is to think that if we protest peacefully the fascists will just stop, but they don’t think like us, and when 80 years ago we had to kill them as fast as possible to stop a global fascist takeover
don’t think about the global fascist takeover happening right now, shhhhh
don’t think about how so many people think antifa is an organization with a leader, whose girlfriend has been taken into custody by ice
don’t think
just, don’t
but do, do read Tony and the Beetles!
It’s early autumn
Freckles fade now, because fog
Cider sweater stars!
s.e~b, 2025.10.04
Harry Bailey, almost at the very end of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. #antifa, through and through.
pssssst, here.
like, everyone I know is antifa
at least if they aren’t, they should fuck off:
I’ve started talking to people about my favorite fictional character who was antifa. Harry Bailey. People generally know who he is. I talk about how he saved so many people’s lives on that transport ship, because George Bailey was there to save him as a child. That’s what anti-fascism means to me on a real empathy level.
The president even gave him a fucking medal for his heroism because he saved other antifa, by killing fascists.
And thennnn they get to badly argue why It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t an antifa film, because is sure fucking is.
And we all watch it every Christmas.
It’s also anti oligarch, and pro community housing and credit unions. Fuck Mr. Potter…
Fascists hate that shit.
This poem is almost 4 years old now (as I empty the content from meta platforms)…
midnight blue darkwind
nine stars still peek among clouds
sleepier autumn
s.e~b
2021.10.30
focussing on Palestine, genocide, climate change, citizenship, slavery and indentured work, broligarchs (25% wealth tax/year, dropping to 5% when they’re down to $78m), neocolonialism and landback and reparations, science is real, disability rights, general fascism and actual democracy. The big details are below.
canada on fire, as of this hour
compare today with 1980-2024 above, so filthy
the Nanaimo rally?
We refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth, gut our public services, fuel climate collapse, attack migrants, exploit Indigenous lands, and prop up a genocide in Palestine.
They think that if they can overwhelm and divide us, we won’t fight back. But climate justice, migrant justice, economic justice, Indigenous rights, and anti-war movements are uniting to prove them wrong.
On Saturday, September 20th, we’re drawing the line – for People. For Peace. For the Planet.
From rallies to strikes, marches to gatherings, this September 20th, communities will mobilize across the country and demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction- or a just and safe future for all of us. Read our full demands below.
let your eyes soak it in:
this boat, contrasted with the foreground Arbutus tree, is grounded, stuck at a king tide line, feeble and impotent and incapable of change. that’s the c/a/n/a/d/a project. OUR job is to intervene!
This is so vile! This sick, racist verbal assault at Coquitlam Centre mall.
The c/a/n/a/d/a project pretends to be friendly and polite. Sometimes we are nice, but we are rarely kind.
We ignore our, and other genocides.
We are steeped in white patriarchy in our systems, culture, institutions and sport (Hockey Canada rapists included here)
The tri-cities used to be predominantly white decades ago, so it’s no surprise the whites are emboldened to spread their racist filth out loud, in public.
But GENERATIONS ago, the tri-cities was Indigenous land, which is mostly lost on white people despite Coquitlam being an actual Indigenous word. Colonialism is a core, unexamined identity here.
White people: our jobbbbb is to intervene and confront racists we encounter. There are no bystanders, but enablers and appeasers.
when they tell you right out that misogyny doesn’t violate the community standards, leave…
because racism, misogyny, fascism and hatred ARE the community standards
join me on Mastodon
from instagram (where I only exist a few times a month now)
regarding the Hockey Canada Rapists…
A light shines on a wall, where there are bumps in the plaster, that combine with the spreading light to look like a young boy is a comet. Is he your inner child?
i love this guy
ok several things happened last night in the chain, linked above:
passive income = getting something for nothing, yet OTHER people are lazy?
nothing…especially when it’s inherited!
does that feel right? either way, here it is, much more eloquently:
Statistics Canada data shows only 36 per cent of police-reported sexual assaults ended in charges between 2015 and 2019, and fewer than half of those ended in a guilty verdict.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sexual-assault-court-process-canada-change-1.7593766
and what percentage of sexual assaults don’t even get reported? someone left that enormous number out of this article, as a testament to failure
too drunk to be credible, but ok to provide consent
5 hockey players know enough to coerce her to “provide” consent on video?
the bar is so insanely high for beyond a reasonable doubt, that it’s no surprise that racist genocidal colonializing upper class white supremacy men a few centuries ago, created our legal system
these 5 hockey players…a pox upon anyone who pays them to wear skates
they are in the stanford rapist circle of hell
let’s make sure they stay there
https://canadianlabour.ca/buy-union/
hey, here’s a list of unionized goods and services for you to prioritize in your spending
you don’t have to be a political economist to know that with threats from #mairikkka (invasion, tariffs), climate breakdown, #BigCarbon, the wicked #CarneyCuts coming up to federal programs…one amazing thing to do, with very little effort, is to buy things made here by union workers
we buy things anyway
we want to improve our economic resilience
we want to support other people in our communities
we want to buy things that benefit workers, which unionized workplaces help accomplish
but it’s hard to do all the research to make sure our money doesn’t help impoverish others or bleed out of the country (the database website doesn’t note foreign ownership, but some of the brands will be obvious to you)
and it’s hard on your own to do all this research and filter by product or service, by city, etc.
luckily the Canadian Labour Congress has done all that for you!
go to there, isolate for your city, get familiar with what you could be buying
and I suspect you’ll also see lots of things you’re already buying that are made here by unionized workers!
the flower in his hair? Yeah…watch:
About 20 years ago, he used to hang out at the Sunday night Thundering Word Heard (created by T.Paul Ste. Marie, 1965-2007) Cafe Montmartre poetry cafe on Main Street for a few months, while filming in Vancouver. He was as normal a guy as everyone else there. Normal, interesting, curious about people all around. Total standup guy. I knew him for those months and really enjoyed his company.
The show he was filming was with Luke Perry. Jeremiah.
They have both died now, both wayyyyy too young.
Luke Perry met lots of film kids at a high school, where they had a great film program, and was a location for many tv and movie shoots. Including Riverdale.
He had alllll the time in the world for them. Extras, kids with speaking lines, whoever who wanted to talk or ask questions.
Those 2 were amazing.
More Malcolm, now he is a part of this legacy:
