Notices by Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca), page 4

Corningware had the best designs. #tattoo

@lupus_blackfur @badken @JoshuaHolland

UN human rights experts have recognized Israel's war crimes and condemned them. I agree that not enough is being done.

The other facet though, is that Americans have a choice between two parties: one which is doing dismally little, and another who literally wants nothing done at all, and even wants more support FOR the genocide, rather than against it.

Only a handful of house Democrats are calling for ceasefire, but literally 0 house Republicans are. 💩

Paint Drying, rated U, is a 2016 film that was produced, directed, and shot by Charlie Shackleton, to protest film censorship in the UK and the cost to independent filmmakers. The film contains 10 hours & 7 minutes of white paint drying on a brick wall, forcing the BBFC to watch all ten hours to give the film an age rating classification. He initially shot 14 hours of 4K footage and opened a Kickstarter to pay the BBFC's per-minute rate for as long as possible. It raised £5,936 from 686 backers.

Also, I should add that I don't think everybody quite understands just how far-reaching this xenophobia linking all Palestinian people to Hamas terrorism to justify their genocide, has gotten.

In Canada, we just had a leftist Member of Parliament disbanded from her own party, for failing to mention the Hamas attack when criticizing the Israeli government for their bombardment of Palestine.

We cannot justify "collective punishment" on Palestinian people because of Hamas. That's war crime. #gaza

Reminder, not mentioning Hamas when criticizing the Israeli government, or even just criticizing the Israeli government at all, is not Antisemitic.

The IDF is committing genocide, period. Zionist Israel does not represent all Jewish people.

If I talk about the genocide of Indigenous people on Turtle Island, does that mean that I'm racist against Whites and spouting hate speech against all people descended from European settler nations?

No, so stop silencing voices to #freepalestine.

#gaza

ZING!

AGZ: "oh you're a feminist? name every woman"

Eric Priuska: "Whitney Houston"

Capitalism kills art. #Union #sagaftra #wga #strike

True story.

Any negative reaction towards hate speech and exploitation is considered "woke" now. #abpoli

'THEY CALL ME THE "RADICAL LEFT."

I BELIEVE IN FULL LGBTQ RIGHTS,
THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER,
THAT WE SHOULD PROTECT THE PLANET,
THAT EVERYBODY DESERVES HEALTHCARE,
THAT THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN AMERICA,
THAT PEOPLE AND PLACES ARE MADE BETTER BY DIVERSITY.

I THINK HUMANITY FEELS RADICAL TO INHUMANE PEOPLE.'

"Have you seen Squid Game? It's this crazy show about people in debt signing up to kill each other to entertain the rich. Anyway, let's get you enlisted..."

#capitalism #war

@coffeegeek @derekbrauders @pilhofer

I have a backpack with travel coffee accessories, including a small hand grinder, and a few portable methods of brewing including a french press mug (stainless, not glass!), phin, tiny moka pot, and handpresso!

This kit is made more for making coffee on the road for everyone, on the bike or at camp, so includes a whisperlite stove and pot for hot water or to heat the moka pot. Just water needed, not even hot water.

Your personal setup is so much smaller!

@coffeegeek @derekbrauders @pilhofer

There is also a guy in town who has a Barista Bike, a cargo bike that operates as a coffee station for #coffeeoutsideyeg which is a popular spot for downtown commuters (I'm out in the 'burbs, so unfortunately never get to attend), especially on the cold days! #coffeeOutside #yegbike

https://yeg.bike/@coffeeoutside/110950589038275669

@inthehands @harold

Yup, that's the worst part. They just go right back to doing it over and over again to new people every time. No accountability, no lessons learned. Maybe next time it might not be the people they drive into, but the children in their own vehicle.

As a parent, the most horrific part of being threatened on the road is not what happened to me, but what could happen next time to my kids. I had one lady recently hit the gas in front of my child because she was taking too long.

@inthehands @harold (Then proceeded to tell me to "go back to where you came from" when I asked her why she couldn't just wait for a little child. Because bigotry and entitlement go hand-in-hand.)

I admit to having an unconscious bias on the road. When I see a pick-up truck I immediately think, "Oh no, they're about to do something insanely stupid!" This is an unfair stereotype, as it's not always the pick-up drivers. Sometimes it's car drivers too, but they catch you by surprise because you don't immediately notice the Audi decals. #yegbike

@harold Yeah, I once had a soccer mom drive me off the road like that, screaming into a traffic circle at full speed speed, tearing around the corner at a tilt, and didn't stop or slow down for one second as she threw me off the curb into the center median. I followed her to get her license plate number and when she stopped I stopped behind her and told her, "Please be careful, you just ran me off the road". She got upset and said, "How dare you call me a careless driver in front of my kids!!"/1

@harold Then she started threatening me, and told me that she has a neighbor friend in the basement who is a police officer. I got off my bike and pulled out my phone so I could take a picture of her license plate, and she called a neighbor over who then pushed his chest up into me (keeping hands at the side so he can't be charged with "asssault") and started whispering death threats in my ear. I got my picture and left, then her cop friend came up behind me in a pickup truck and followed me /2

@harold all around the surrounding neighborhoods. Eventually I got sick of it and pulled off when he was stopped in traffic, and went up to his window to confront him. He tried to tell me that I was "intimidating" her (no need to mention who, we all knew), even though I was the one who was receiving death threats and being stalked and harassed by an off-duty cop, when all I did was take a picture and ask her to be careful. Then he told me that "she was driving into the sun and couldn't see." /3

@harold I was riding on the EXACT same road in the EXACT same direction, and I could see just fine. Funny how that works, huh?

Entitled, privileged people love using police as their own personal army, and the police are so corrupt that they love it too. /4

#gender