Tim

Geek, Producer of @Queer_Lodgings, Steward for Mythopoeic Conferences at @mythsoc, PhD Biochemist, Amateur Mixologist, Foodie, etc. Thoughts my own.

[Tim @DRD_Tim]

As this place seems to be becoming a ghost town among people I actually know (understandably so). I am in the other place too.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Canadians can’t afford rent. Food bank use is at a record high. Wages are stagnant while the rich are getting richer than ever before.

Of all the people who could use this kind of federal support right now, venture capitalists are at the bottom of that list.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

One day people will realize right wing politics being synonymous with fiscal prudence is one of the most successful lies the ultra rich have sold the public on, convincing normal people to vote against their best interests.

One day!!!!!

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

"AIPAC announced on Wednesday that, after three cycles of direct political involvement through its political action committee AIPAC PAC, it will no longer issue endorsements or directly earmark contributions to candidates, but said it will remain involved in political organizing and fundraising in other ways, including with its influential super PAC."

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.
ISRAEL IS STILL BOMBING GAZA.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

As you watch Elon Musk burn through 300 million dollars plus in these midterms, like it’s nothing (it is nothing to him!), on candidates who are crooks like Ken Paxton, remember the case for a wealth tax.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

This is private equity, this is what it does.

Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit.

The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.

And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in.

https://t.co/Aa0dUxM2Ue

[Queer Lodgings: A Tolkien Podcast (Updates Only) @Queer_Lodgings]

New episode alert! Acespec JTR Issue with Editors Clare & Rory: https://t.co/p6WUD464dV We discuss the recently-published special issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research on Asexual and Aromantic readings of Tolkien's works

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

It should be illegal for Israel’s top arms producer to purchase a Canadian company.

Elbit Systems is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians.

Cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, enact sanctions and a two-way arms embargo now.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

In case you were wondering if Larry Ellison would use his partial ownership of TIKTok to shut down the exposure of his billionaire buddies and their weirdness, corruption and grifting … wonder no more. TikTok just shut down the media page of the world renowned, Oscar winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary film “MUSK”. The comprehensive documentary on all things Elon. It’s more f&@&’d then you can imagine. The best thing any of us can do now is to go see it! It will blow your mind. Billionaire broke mind virus. Hear it from the people who have known Elon over the years. #BrokeMindVirus

[Scott Snyder @Ssnyder1835]

people just want healthcare

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

did she consider turning around

[union person @CantEverDie]

from 5 months ago:

[Tim @DRD_Tim]

@LaurieOBAFGKM @DhillonHariGTA

[Tim @DRD_Tim]

Corrupt @FrancesNunziata has been caught in a lie once again, this time attempting to attack the family member of a fellow candidate while leaving out the fact that her "innocent tenant" actually pepper-sprayed an entire floor of the building. https://t.co/1wZLtvyS8C

[Tim @DRD_Tim]

@45inda6 Oh look, another resident from the building just completely eviscerated Nunziata's lying smear ad.
https://t.co/1wZLtvyS8C

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i am not flippant about using the term “mental illness” i’m just not sure what else this could be

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

[Tim @DRD_Tim]

@ezellohars And our new Frenchie puppy Bilbo cuddling with his Highland Cow toy.

[Tim @DRD_Tim]

@ezellohars Freshly-groomed Winston the Westie.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Between Oct 7, 2023 and Oct 7, 2026

Israel killed
74,245+ Palestinians
~22,000 children
12,400+ women
4,813+ elderly people
~36,000 men
175,267+ injured
~588 aid workers-396 UN staff
~300 journalists
Thousands remain under the rubble

Call it what it is: GENOCIDE