@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-03-29 17:39:34
Feeling good that @… (red jacket) and my MP Gord Johns (orange tie) are right there behind @….
This is a good speech. Including parts in French delivered with confidence and passion.
There are so many quotes I have wanted to share as he spoke but couldn’t pick one!
How about:
“When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza.”
Yes!
“An economy for the many, not the money”
#ndp #canada #socialism
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-26 18:14:50
A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-03-29 14:19:15
Oh, I see that news.google.com is now re-writing headlines. Or at least synthesizing them from URLs. Whatever the method, what Google shows in its news is not the same as on the article if actually viewed by a reader.
For instance in the following article the actual headline is:
"Iran Claims It Struck American AWACS Aircraft In Saudi Airbase Strike"
But Google news rewrote that to be (or pulled it from the URL):
"Images Show Crucial American E-3 Sentr…
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-02-28 11:36:15
Alfred, Gunthrum & Danelaw The making of England. Dr Toby Purser, University of Northampton takes us on a tour of the Viking invasion of England. FREE Zoom talk https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/fostp 25 Mar 2026, 19.30 GMT. No Guthrum, no Alfred, no Alfred, no England ….
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-26 21:46:48
Hello—this is Ken Burns, reaching out on behalf of Alex Vindman for Senate.
I have dedicated my life to sharing America’s stories through films. They examine crucial moments in our nation’s history and the threats to our democracy. These stories are not easy.
Today, our country is facing its own reckoning, and the stakes have never been higher. That is why I am reaching out.
Alex Vindman––who I first met in 1983 while filming my documentary, the Statue of Liberty, when he w…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-25 20:07:07
As the "last falangista*" dies, fascism is again on the rise.
Just an example from Manchester.
In the nearby parliamentary constituency, a candidate with connections to race pseudoscience organisations, with Nazi pedigree, could win a crucial by-election.
*Falange= Franco's fascist party.
Muere a los 93 años el golpista Antonio Tejero, brazo ejecutor del 23F
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-02-23 00:30:06
Urban Demons IV 👻
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-28 07:51:52
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 14:06:10
In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”:
a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething,
filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have been credited with ringing in the cold war.
Like 007, Peter Sichel also appreciated a fine tipple, and after leaving the US foreign intelligence service it was h…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-27 17:14:24
Some USA Olympic Hockey players playing for Canadian teams are in for a rough ride... and if you know enough about hockey and US players, you'll be able to guess who's on top of the shit list.
But this is the part that is actually important:
“We know how this story ends,” said the writer Jennifer Weiner. “The male athletes are flying private, back to their seven-figure NHL paycheques and a White House rolling out the red carpet. The women are flying coach, back to the grind, to a league that barely pays them to play. The men, celebrated. The women, mocked.”
I'm glad the #Canucks traded Hughes, if only because it would have been extremely awkward, and possibly downright hostile.
#Hockey #NHL #HNOM #Toronto #Ottawa #Winnipeg
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/hockey-inside-out/u-s-olympic-mens-team-leaves-icy-stain-on-hockey-that-wont-go-away?utm_source=Mastodon