Jody (With a Showdy)

"We all have NDPTSD"
@avilewis.ca

Lol, preach

Decent crowd out here in Hamilton on a Monday for @avilewis.ca.

You can vote now. Go vote.

No one, except the ultimate limit of time.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

I would add that it might be possible to replicate the biological process on a different non-meat substrate, but the LLMs that tech oligarchs are marketing as AI are nowhere in the realm of qualifying as such.

"Morality in politics frequently counts in the way states behave.

If we do not make the proper decision [...] not only will we be doing a disservice to moral principles, we will not be sending the kind of practical, moral message which must be sent to the US Government."

We don't have elbows anymore.

My latest for PressProgress. Grocery prices have gone up this past year, and some Canadians are having to make some tough choices.

You should be doing a spot for Gremlins 3, but I will settle for this.

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

This elite project taking place right now to distance Epstein from his friends and allies and try to wipe their slates clean is a way to protect elitism itself in the face of more evidence that it is a house of cards, filled with people who do not deserve to be there.

Discord screenshot. Oddnon says That would be fun Disco slysium dated 1/26/2026 at 7:38pm Oddnon's Avatar is a pixel-art drawing of their face, smiling and slightly blushing with their eyes closed, with a beard longer in the chin and shorter in the mustache. you can't see it in the still, but it was an animated avatar, and the eyes would open with a surprised expression and the image would jiggle a little. it always kept a certain playfulness in conversations, even when talking about heavy stuff.

the last thing Oddnon ever said to me was "Disco slysium"

Oddnon was one of the few people I considered a close friend even though we had never met in person. A true legend, and one of the kindest persons I've known. Rest in power friend.

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

I am voting for Avi, if you would like to, you need to become a member by 12 tomorrow.

This should be a huge story

What an incredible person.

My friend writes important things and you should read them.

it’s important to keep your lib friends in your thoughts today as they are convinced, against the weight of reality and historical precedent, that things are going back to “normal” bc of the temporary ICE changes, as if the entire country didn’t see a city under siege by the feds

And the useless fucking Dems think that ‘more law and oversight’ will change their behavior in the slightest? Fascist enablers the lot of them.

CALL YOUR SENATOR ALL DAY LONG.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The usefulness of police officers is overstated in almost every single way, because they use their own judgement to decide if they think it’s worth helping you or not. If you aren’t in the demographic which makes your suffering worth an investigation, you are already in a copless society.

Thousands of Federal Public Service Layoffs Are Beginning | The Tyee Policy experts warn Canada could be losing vital resources as trade and geopolitics shift.

According to the largest union in Canada’s federal public sector, workers in the government’s health, transportation, foreign affairs and public safety departments have all been told their departments will start to see layoffs.

@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

'This isn't about left or right' I say, while strictly pointing out something evil the right has done.

It is like the liberal pundit class was bonked in the head and completely forgot about the summer of 2020

Bartender just shared a shot with some patrons and instead of saying “Cheers” or “Salut” they all said “Fuck ICE.”

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

From the End of the Myth by Greg Grandin.