myeyesaredim

@myeyesaredim@mstdn.ca

I'm getting older, still trying to see things clearly.

#PostCovid #BrainFog #SomeDaysAreBetterThanOthers

In my dreams humanity has eradicated #Hatred #Inequality #Injustice #Oppression #Trauma and action has been taken to address #ClimateChange

(Don't ask about my nightmares...)

#HousingIsAHumanRight

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myeyesaredim, to random

joins advisory board: “I expect they want his skills and expertise in how to dismantle and damage democracy”

The IDU post is the latest gong for the man who shut down Parliament in order to prevent it voting against his Brexit plans, and who resigned when faced with a potential Commons vote over repeatedly lying to MPs

?

“He should have no further influence on our or anyone else’s politics”

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/18/farcical-disbelief-as-disgraced-former-prime-minister-boris-johnson-is-appointed-as-democracy-adviser/

myeyesaredim,

Background on the

lalahentz, to random

I'm new here

myeyesaredim,

Oh and the wonderful @Yehuda put together a very comprehensive list of hashtags that may be of interest to you - see this post:

(You can click on hashtags to browse through tagged posts @lalahentz and even "follow" a hashtag like you'd follow a person)

myeyesaredim, to LGBTQ

Uh oh 😞 "Nearly half of Canadians say they support their province using the notwithstanding clause to ensure that schools tell parents if their child wishes to use a different name or pronoun, a new [online] poll suggests, and more people support that idea than oppose it."

According to the new results from Leger, Canadians are divided on whether sexual orientation and gender identity should be discussed in schools at all.

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/more-canadians-support-using-notwithstanding-clause-in-parental-rights-debate-poll/article_c5a49273-402e-5d6f-a7de-eb53cebce2b2.html

🎩 @davidakin https://mstdn.ca/@davidakin/111222247992938879

myeyesaredim,

It was an online poll @miki_lou with (IIRC) ~1800 respondents - so maybe anecdata, maybe not 🤷

It's the first reporting I've seen like this though, and so it may reflect the private polling that the premiers trying to take away childrens rights would have done before jumping in.

For example: there was a sentence near the bottom of the article saying that results were more skewed in the prairies and maritimes than elsewhere in Canada...

myeyesaredim,

Thank you! @davidakin

I'm just reading this now https://angusreid.org/canada-schools-pronouns-policy-transgender-saskatchewan-new-brunswick/

@miki_lou

myeyesaredim, to random

'Notwithstanding clause' to be invoked today for 's

's Children's Advocate has criticised the move:

"We agree it's best for parents to be involved in significant decisions of their children. That's a worthy aspect of the policy... However it has to uphold the and not effectively veto their rights, because these are human rights that we all have."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-bill-137-notwithstanding-clause-1.6993335

AnnaAnthro, to random
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    myeyesaredim,

    [The chiefs] denounced court injunctions that stopped Indigenous land defenders from protesting development, and called for the dismantling of the RCMP’s contentious Community-Industry Response Group ()

    Gitxsan Hereditary Chief Clifford Sampare said, “There’s no consideration for our traditional laws, and our law is to protect the land. When we try to go and protect our territories, they call a militia on us.”

    @AnnaAnthro

    LiamEgan, to random
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    Even the is abandoning . 🤣

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/denley-doug-ford-is-politically-done

    myeyesaredim,

    About time! @ScifiPaul @LiamEgan

    raymondpert, to Palestine
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    myeyesaredim, (edited )

    Do you know whether the war cabinet will exclude Ben-Gvir, opening the way for Yair Lapid to join? @raymondpert - this article doesn't say so 🤔

    Some context:

    DaveMWilburn, to random

    This is wild. Education is effective at reducing susceptibility to conspiracy theories in the general population, as one would reasonably expect. However, for narcissists, it actually makes it worse, perhaps by inflating their egos even more.

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1164725/full

    myeyesaredim,

    Interesting read, thanks for sharing this @DaveMWilburn

    Apart from the unexpected finding that more education - without critical reflection - increases susceptibility to conspiracy theories, this sentence really stood out for me:

    individuals with higher levels of grandiosity, vulnerable narcissism, a strive for uniqueness, and a strive for supremacy predicted higher levels of conspiracy endorsement.

    thetyee, to random
    @thetyee@mstdn.ca avatar

    Much forest has been lost the past 100 years. Not lost like your car keys. But taken, almost all of them by humans, and mostly at an industrial scale that imperils our existence.

    Ian Gill’s Q&A with the “Canopy of Titans” authors is in The Tyee.

    https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2023/10/11/Meet-Authors-Canopy-Titans/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

    myeyesaredim,

    “In the past 10,000 years, the Earth has lost about a third of its forest, which wouldn’t be so worrying if it weren’t for the fact that almost all that loss has happened in the past 300 years or so.

    As much forest has been lost in the past 100 years as in the 9,000 before.”

    😮 @thetyee

    https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/canopy-of-titans/

    Industrial companies in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska have been world leaders in savaging forests. They need to stop.

    miki_lou, to random
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    WOW! "The government’s new amendments to the Act will have politicians assess project safety and closure plans, rather than technical experts." https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-mining-act-george-pirie/

    myeyesaredim,

    😠 @miki_lou - not least because

    First Nations say Ontario Mining Act fails to address the duty to consult

    The legislation “just adds to the fear, it adds to the distrust that’s already there,” says Lawrence Martin, director of lands and resources at Mushkegowuk Council, which represents eight Cree communities along the James Bay coast.

    “...every step of the way, this gives them another reason to point out: ‘There we go again, we’re about to get screwed again.’ ”

    thetyee, to random
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    Tony Simon has brought national attention to the “zombie mining companies” of Canada, which are, simply put, companies with no real interest in either mining or paying their bills.

    https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/10/Beware-Zombie-Mining-Companies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

    myeyesaredim,

    From the @thetyee article above ⬆️

    “we are confronted with the sorry environmental, social, political, safety and tax record of the extractive industry hosted by ,” writes Deneault

    “Throughout the world, Parliamentary commissions, courts, UN experts, independent observers, specialists in the economy of the South, and experienced journalists have testified to the injustices — and sometimes crimes — committed or massively supported by Canadian companies”

    cc @asiny

    canayjun, to Ford
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    Doug says mining the Ring of Fire is key to building an end-to-end manufacturing chain in Ontario.
    Neskantaga First Nation who live there need: a high school in the community, clean drinking water, good jobs, a paved airport runway and better access to doctors and nurses.
    and got $28 billion from province and feds to build EV batteries.
    What will our politicians guarantee the people?

    https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/we-want-to-be-able-to-decide-inside-the-battle-over-the-ring-of-fire-1.6595024

    myeyesaredim,

    "The Ring of Fire is a gift from the Creator to the Indian people," he says the elder told him. "But Doug Ford wants all of it now and what will we be left with?"

    Thank you for sharing this @canayjun

    myeyesaredim, to random

    Canadian Council for Civil Liberties rebukes :

    Invoking the notwithstanding clause is an admission the government knows its actions will not withstand Charter scrutiny.

    The notwithstanding clause is the nuclear option. Using it to destroy the rights of students is unconscionable.

    The notwithstanding clause is not a weapon that should be used to strip anyone of their rights, let alone vulnerable and marginalized students.

    https://ccla.org/press-release/ccla-reacts-in-saskatchewan/

    myeyesaredim,

    The loophole exists because:

    • there was prior precedent for parliaments to have supremacy over courts
    • it was the only way to get enough support for the Constitution and Charter
    • no-one expected it would be used by unscrupulous politicians

    @youseeatortoise

    So, for me, the real question is: why do Conservative politicians have so little respect for our rights and freedoms?

    myeyesaredim,

    I thought you were probably being rhetorical @youseeatortoise - I wanted to reply to highlight the original expectation that the notwithstanding clause would only be used in very exceptional circumstances. 🤷

    Why can we no longer make legislation assuming Tories will behave themselves?

    (That may also be a rhetorical question 😉)

    housepanther, to mentalhealth

    Sometimes I wonder if is really the cause of my problems. Or maybe I should say one one of the causes. There are many days I feel as If I have no value, like I have nothing to offer society. I am not suicidal and I definitely don't think about death but I wonder where I fit in. Where does a disabled, person fit in to a world geared totally against them?

    myeyesaredim,

    You haven't the place where you fit in yet @housepanther - your people are out there waiting for you 💛

    Please give yourself a hug from me.

    And fuck capitalism.

    ExtinctionR, to random
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    "If you take the scientific consensus of the 1,000-ton rule seriously, and run the numbers, anthropogenic global warming equates to a billion premature dead bodies over the next century. Obviously, we have to act. And we have to act fast."

    Yes, that's one thousand million people dead.

    https://phys.org/news/2023-08-climate-changing-human-billion-deaths-century.html

    myeyesaredim,

    Even using the uncertainty range that's between 100-million to 10,000-million deaths 😬

    "the human mortality costs of carbon emissions converged on the '1,000-ton rule'... an estimate that one future premature death is caused every time 1,000 tons of fossil carbon are burned."

    "To be clear, predicting the future accurately is hard... The number of caused deaths will likely lie between a tenth of a person and 10 people per 1,000 tons."

    @ExtinctionR

    myeyesaredim, to random

    Postmedia is a national news calamity - a review of "The Postmedia Effect: How Vulture Capitalism Is Wrecking Our News"

    https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2023/10/paper-rout/

    Postmedia has cut costs, harvested revenues, and broken promises to federal regulators

    ...it’s not as if Canadians weren’t warned things would go sideways

    ...there was nothing about Postmedia’s sinking that was sudden. It was the inevitable result of “vulture capitalism”

    (The article is long, and ranges broadly over several news/media topics)

    myeyesaredim,

    🎩 H/T to @davidakin for sharing the article quoted from above ⬆️

    https://mstdn.ca/@davidakin/111188788920140531

    dyckron, to random
    @dyckron@mstdn.ca avatar

    It's not the "glass ceiling" holding women back at work, new analysis finds
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-workforce-promotion-broken-rung-mckinsey-lean-in/

    myeyesaredim,

    I was sceptical of the headline before reading the article @TheresaReason @dyckron - and afterwards I think it's plain misleading.

    It's not the glass ceiling holding women back, because there's a multitude of them 😠

    women are twice as likely as their male colleagues to be interrupted... while they are also more likely than a man to have a coworker take credit for their work.

    women who work remotely say one of the biggest benefits is [less] unpleasant interactions with coworkers.

    Lazarou, to climate
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    Westerners be like "I'm a good person really but couldn't all those awful poor people in the Global South just stay there and choke on our Climate Change? I AM a good person....."

    myeyesaredim,

    Don't make me tap the sign @Lazarou

    “[Eco-fascism] argues [climate change] is God’s will, that there are too many people anyway, so there’s going to be a great purge and perhaps that’s all for the best. It’s environmentalism through genocide.” - Naomi Klein, https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-ecofascism-explainer

    Crispius, to random
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    A question I have, that hasn’t yet been satisfactorily answered for me in any of these articles, is how are these actually using the water, and what happens to it once it’s discarded?

    Can anyone with knowledge break it down for me?

    From: @gerrymcgovern
    https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/111188424085803227

    myeyesaredim,

    That's been my assumption too (that the water is used once then discarded) @Crispius - though it's odd that I couldn't find a search result to confirm or deny that...

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