wandering Anabaptist nun

Tankies are rapey racists

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

I'm gonna need NAFO to criticize women's Russism, not their poverty or ethnicity. Russia likes people like you making women traffickable.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

It's been 37 years since the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, when countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters were killed in Beijing.

To this day, the Chinese government has failed to accept responsibility for its crimes. Learn more:

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

The "malice vs stupidity" razor covers up that the truth is often neither of those. Or, it is the particular stupidity that the malicious looking person believes you are not a human and therefore they aren't doing anything offensive. Most razors are only applicable when they are.

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

Antidemocratic Indigenous people are an annoying minority that the CBC can only blow up to spread hate against the group as a whole. It's alarming that the CBC is run by leaders responsive to the worst representations of any minority group instead of the normal working majority.

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

The role of author in Canadian culture is not meant to have the same safety requirements as a movie star, and almost nobody will make the money to meet such requirements. It's antidemocratic for a network as important as the CBC to expose a children's author, however wrong one is

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

CanLeft: "Poland/Ukraine/[insert ACTUAL SOVIET SURVIVOR COUNTRY THAT KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT] is too conservative"

Canada:

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

An absolutely enraging Ontario story 🧵

A disabled man in Cache Bay bought a burned-out lot, cleaned it up, and built a 250 sq ft home he can live in safely with his seizures. He owns the land. Pays his taxes. Harms no one. The town wants him homeless because it's "too small."

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

Also because his work is beautiful!!!

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

OMG IT'S UP BY LAKE NIPISSING EVERYBODY UP THERE DOES STUFF LIKE THIS. He's singled out because a governmental organization has mistreated him before and ONCE YOU POP YOU JUST CAN'T STOP

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

4/ Every level of government says we're in a housing crisis. Can't build affordable homes fast enough. But when a man builds his OWN cheap, safe shelter outside the system — they find the resources to act decisively. Against the shelter. Never for it.

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

They gonna MAiD this guy?

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

7/ The extension held ~3 months. Then in May, by supporters' accounts, police removed him — "dragged him to the ground and cuffed him," boarded the windows, padlocked the door. A man who believes police gave him his condition, removed by police from the home it requires.

[wandering Anabaptist nun @TimeHackerVicki]

@Tori_TLCR @alexxstation You Win The Internet.

[The Lefty Canadian Radical 🇵🇸 @Tori_TLCR]

@alexxstation Sorry but affordable, accessible housing he built for himself is a threat to unrealized gains from real estate and might put a downward pressure on house prices and rent if we allow this if more people do it. Also if people can build their own affordable homes they may work less.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

10/ The objection to Seivwright was "it's public land he doesn't own." John Ridge OWNS his land, and is still forbidden.

It's never about property rights. It's about property RELATIONS. Debt, value, compliance.

The cops don't protect the owner. They protect the arrangement.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

9/ For those who think broke the rules. Toronto showed how this ends in 2023. Carpenter Khaleel Seivwright built 100+ insulated tiny shelters for the unhoused in the pandemic. The city spent ~$2 MILLION tearing them down. 3 months later: 92% of those evicted were still homeless.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

8/ The town then cut his drain and waterline. In his own words "without warning, no letter, explanation, nothing."

"I can't even fill my dogs water bowl."

You can't charge a man for living somewhere with no water. Cutting it is how you make a vacancy without making a headline.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

7/ The extension held ~3 months. Then in May, by supporters' accounts, police removed him — "dragged him to the ground and cuffed him," boarded the windows, padlocked the door. A man who believes police gave him his condition, removed by police from the home it requires.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

5/ The town's CAO was even quoted saying the quiet part out loud. The code, he told CTV, exists "to assist with the liability of the municipality."

There it is. The system is weighing ITS liability. A disabled man's home is just the variable being adjusted to lower it.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

4/ Every level of government says we're in a housing crisis. Can't build affordable homes fast enough. But when a man builds his OWN cheap, safe shelter outside the system — they find the resources to act decisively. Against the shelter. Never for it.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

3/ The town’s excuse? It’s a "shed," not a dwelling. The only "defect" is a drain vent 10" too short. No safety hazard or risk of collapse. The real issue isn’t quality—it’s that the home is "non-conforming" simply because it’s too small. Bureaucracy over housing policy.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

2/ John Ridge has a neurological condition that causes frequent seizures. A small, single-level space is what lets him feel safe. He says the condition started in 2012 — when police tasered him twice while he checked on a suicidal friend. He wasn't resisting.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

An absolutely enraging Ontario story 🧵

A disabled man in Cache Bay bought a burned-out lot, cleaned it up, and built a 250 sq ft home he can live in safely with his seizures. He owns the land. Pays his taxes. Harms no one. The town wants him homeless because it's "too small."

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers.

After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.