Lieffe Wilden

Budding Horticulturalist. Antifa. No one's going to save us. Blame my phone for typos, get a real argument.
@randomlettering.bsky.social

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

Skeletal Triceratops Stag Beetle I recently finished.

Inspiration from @Boycraf19492179

[Independent Jewish Voices @IndJewishVoices]

Today marks a troubling moment for civil liberties in Canada.

Under the guise of combating hate, the federal government has enacted legislation that expands state powers over protest and public assembly.

From the labour movement to Indigenous land defenders, from the fight for queer and trans liberation to the movement for Palestinian freedom, social progress has depended on the ability of ordinary people to organize, protest, and speak out.

A democracy that fears protest is a democracy in decline.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t?

The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding?

Perhaps we could have kept the capital gains rate increase for multi millionaires and billionaires instead of Carney scrapping it? Maybe then we could ~afford~ to save the climate!!

[Jeremy Omand @jeremyomand1]

Hi, I work in real estate development. This is insane.

Yes, most projects are struggling. No, taxpayers should not be used to backstop private developers who misjudged the market.

If government wants more housing, build housing. Build it at cost.

That would be bad for my industry, but good public policy isn’t supposed to protect our profits, it’s supposed to serve Canadians.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @RonDeibert, @OpenMediaOrg and @cancivlib - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22.

They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:

- force companies to keep metadata for up to a year, making a vast trove of personal information vulnerable to leaks and hacks

- make encryption meaningless by creating backdoors in software that allow police and gov. agencies to scoop up our personal data and messages

- give US police and spy agencies direct access to Canadians’ personal data without warning or oversight

So what is the Carney government doing? Ramming C-22 through in the dying hours of the session.

Meanwhile, Minister Solomon offers a retail sales pitch for potential powers of a new regulator that won’t even exist for at least 18 months.

Instead of just banning surveillance pricing and protecting us from other forms of digital spying and extraction.

Bill C-22 is a disaster and should be withdrawn.

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@CentroLeaks Leaving out arguably the best games from the Gameboy and ds eras: crystal, emerald, platinum, and B/W2. Back when they actually tried to finish the games they worked on. Oh how I wish wind/waves will be good. Oh please please please

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@NathanielGivens Rationalize it however you want, the real world outcome is people are going to cut (drive on the shoulder) and others are going to stop when they have no reason to. The solution, as always, is having less people on the road by having other, more preferable alternatives.

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@JHillinNC @RandyEischer @ljmontello Guess they should've followed their own advice and got a job

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

[The Lefty Canadian Radical 🇵🇸 @Tori_TLCR]

No amount of frugal eating habits is going to change that up to sixty percent of people's incomes is going to rent.

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

This is a ludicrous position, Alberta is saying that if we ask for ANY climate action, something necessary in the age of global boiling, they are being "forced" to break apart the country. Separatism for the sake of environmental devastation, this is a threat to the world.

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@JunB17692531 @avilewis Irrelevant. The world is moving away from oil whether you want to admit it or not. We can either adapt or get left behind. I'm so fucking sick of watching our public services decline while the companies destroying the environment make record profits year after year.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

This is laughable, coming from someone who has been winking at the MAGA-aligned separatist movement for years.

People who are losing sleep over climate change are not the ones tearing our country apart: we’re trying to save it. This summer Canada could well be burning faster than we can build it.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

PM Carney’s public service cuts are dismantling food safety in Canada.

From food inspectors to agricultural researchers, the government is abandoning workers and the public interest.

And tech won’t save us: you can’t algorithm your way out of a listeria outbreak!

Thanks to the Agriculture Union for sounding the alarm. It was a pleasure meeting VP Patrick St-Georges last week.

Now tell Prime Minister Carney to reverse the cuts and stop putting profit over our health:

https://t.co/MCrwidhf2g

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@RealpolitikInc @miscbrah3 @FlorioGina You say you dont give a shit and yet you're yelling at strangers on the internet.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Memo to the global community: Canada has officially abandoned climate action.

PM Carney has systematically dismantled all the insufficient policy we had in place.

A clear-eyed and devastating piece by my brother, @SethDKlein.

https://t.co/OOMr0RzBwH

[⧉ ☀ @secondposition]

>go to China to film a concentration camp
>it's just a desolate prison and there's no concentration camp
>nothing happens, leaves the country
>go to the free and democratic USA
>get put in a concentration camp

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry).

The benefits will be real: for a handful of companies with already-bloated profits.

The costs will be real too: a rising tide of economic and ecological disaster that sinks all boats.

https://t.co/c5RovWjEe8

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@SirBadOpinions Everyone dunking on this guy but i really doubt this renting boomer was the cause of our societal problems. Like yeah, generally boomers suck but a 73 year old renter who killed himself is not the punching bag y'all are looking for.

[Lieffe Wilden @randomlettering]

@CTVNews Yeah, sounds bad until you go to buy groceries and then you understand. Fucking price fixing assholes

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Legal experts just confirmed Danielle Smith's private healthcare law breaks the Canada Health Act.

Wealthy patients pay to skip the line. Everyone else waits longer.

Protecting public healthcare is the federal govt's job. So why is PM Carney letting Conservatives dismantle it?