My kid got their first job at one of these museums.
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My kid got their first job at one of these museums.
A beautiful article. If youre feeling hopelessness or hate, read this today. This is where our energy needs to go.
In the latest entry in Muppetational, my new column on all things Jim Henson-related, I explore a fascinating but little-discussed topic: The Muppets' disastrous stint on the first season of Saturday Night Live. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Houston unbalanced the books with unwise tax and toll rollbacks, then used massive deficit to rationalize slashing crucial programs and public services
By @joanbaxter.bsky.social
“You can only watch” trolly meme depicting a man watching helplessly as a trolly mows over dozens of people tied to the tracks
checking the news again
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
This morning on Exmoor …
Craftsmanship is going to make a huge comeback in hundreds of different markets, they're making an incredible case for more people becoming a paying client of reliable human labour by workers, contractors etc who actually understand their own product because Clippy didn't make it for them.
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual) and plural (multiple individuals of the same species.) “Fishes” is multiple species.
🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐡🐟 Fishes
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
If anyone couldn’t get here close your eyes, imagine smelling the smudge in the air and listen. #nspoli #treatyrights
Time for collective action here at home.
Lol
Me too, that's the kind of imagery that sticks.
Yeah let's crowd source that and I'll think about who I know who might design
And more suggestions for messaging....
True. So designer (not AI!), printing costs and recruit some allies...
I am not a great organizer, but I do wonder what it would take to do something like this.
Rally for Arts Wed March 4th 12:00 pm / Noon @ N.S. Legislature!
Screencap of an email from me to claudiachender@nsmla.ca and claudiachendermla@gmail.com (she replied from the second email), cc'ed to FinanceMinister@novascotia.ca, MIN_CCTH@novascotia.ca, PREMIER@novascotia.ca, advocacy@nsarts.ca. Dear Claudia Chender, MLA, I am writing to add my voice to the many folks bewildered and angry about the Conservative austerity budget just announced. I know you likely agree with me already, but hope that you can sway your Conservative colleagues. Significant cuts to funding for Arts, Culture & Heritage are included. I think it's important to note that there is no fiscally conservative argument for these cuts. Every time anybody studies arts, culture, and heritage funding, they find that it more than pays for itself: for example, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 report Artworks: The Economic and Social Dividends from Canada’s Arts and Culture Sector found that every $1 invested in the arts generates $29 of economic activity. Arts, Culture & Heritage contributed $2.6 billion in GDP and supported 22,000 jobs in this province in 2023 alone. I urge the government to abandon any cuts to Arts, Culture & Heritage. We can't afford to cut this funding and lose that economic activity. The ripple effect in tourism, hospitality, industry, in the grocery stores and gas stations and restaurants and shops frequented by visitors to Nova Scotia, will be devastating. Cuts to youth-focused arts programming and education will negatively impact our literacy. Especially after the disruptions of Covid, our students don't need to have enrichment opportunities taken away. (Text is too long for alt-text. Will put in replies with the links.)
Shoulder to Shoulder: We Are All Treaty People Nova Scotia Legislature - Kjipuktuk Rally: Tuesday, March 3 - 12:00 pm Meet on Granville Street behind the N.S. Legislature building. Bring your community banners, signs, flags and regalia. Bring your drums, songs and prayers. Together, let's tell Tim Houston to stop selling our futures, and demand that he respect the Treaties, our democratic rights and our community voices!
Oh byes I am pissed. Here's what I wrote to my MLA, the blameless Claudia Chender, and here's where I will be next Tuesday and Wednesday instead of working on my next novel.
Rally images stolen from @ecologyaction.bsky.social and Page 1 Theatre on IG. @timhouston.bsky.social #NSpoli #JesusMurphy
Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.
Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/
I had this marketing concept for rural NS today, where we just go poster communities with simple messaging like "Houston shut your museum and took jobs away from your kids"
Or, like "Make city folks pay bridge tolls"
Just to see if we could get on the same page provincially that Houston is a dick.
It was her singing Before I Met You on YouTube, highly recommend
Tax me, daddy
"Museums, Casario noted, provide rural jobs and draw tourists, but they are also crucial to their communities.
'The province needs to understand that a lot of these museums are community hubs, and they offer programming outside just the museum experience — for seniors, youth, kids,' Casario said."
"Mr. Houston listens only to industries, facilitating their wish to make money by degrading the land and its freshwaters. Those who speak for nature and environmental consequences are labelled “the enemy.”"
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Someone on here told me about Sierra Ferrel, like a year or more ago, and now I feel super cool knowing her before she showed up on SNL. Thank you bsky friend!
I’m really impressed with all the HaliSky folks who’ve come together to advocate for fiscal sustainability in Halifax.
Unlike the astroturf landlord group with their clickbait facebook survey, we now have a website with facts & tools for folks to contact council. Send those emails!
#TaxMeDaddy
“These cuts appear to target the most vulnerable Nova Scotians,” Dr. Aaron Bates writes.
“These harms were preventable. The 1 percentage point cut in the HST will cost Nova Scotia $265 million this year. Reversing this tax cut will nearly negate the chaos caused by this decision.”
The NDP aren't going to magically break through outside of HRM just because it would be nice. Or because at this moment many of your friends & like-minded folks are pissed off with Houston.
A whole lot of other people still think he's doing all the right things. THOSE are the ones you have to reach
