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Dr Adam J Barker

@adamjb.bsky.social
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Sometime academic, hopeful anarchist, bad settler. Dogs are my friends. Land back and decolonisation are my goals. He/him. Consulting and training via www.stillinmotion.org

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Personally, I think it would be embarrassing to have to acknowledge the use of AI in the production of academic work, particularly at the sentence level.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I saw he sent a reply all hurt and saying it wasn’t his intention, I obviously should have been clearer about what I meant, could I please take the time to explain further, etc. I honestly don’t have the emotional capacity to reply without devolving into non stop profanity.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I lost my status in the UK in 2013 and had to leave the country. Many people said “it’s awful you are being made to leave” - I felt great, until - “when so many of those [fill in blank] just walk in!” It was astonishing that what happened to me was considered unfair solely because of my race.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That game has been equal parts encouraging and infuriating. Like, we see you play dominant hockey for long stretches. Why do you suddenly forget how to make basic passes and skate in straight lines?
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All this. The Alberta separatists are just a front for American fashy bullshit, in the hopes of weakening up Canada towards seizing advantage / forcing hard rightward shifts to placate them / division and absorption (whichever they can get).
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I come back to the book “Anarchists Against the Wall”. An Israeli antizionist anarchist was asked “what if Palestinians are freed and make another state?” They said “then I’ll struggle against that state, but people have to be free to make their choices first so I fight the oppression that exists “.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Those ones aren’t as fun. Maybe the Barracudas.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have students write out and sign a no-AI agreement. They draw my AI policy. I tell them every class not to use it. And STILL I found a student using it in class, fucking hell, it is disheartening to teach these days. Just want to thank our institutions and politicians for abandoning us wholesale
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Somebody pissed me off on Facebook literally as I was about to close my laptop and go to bed, and now I can feel my heartbeat so strongly in my ears and neck that I can’t sleep. Please send advice to help me relax because I can’t take another night of insomnia/wakefulness.
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Panda Rage Angry in Office
Alt: An animated gif of a panda (or person in a panda suit) furiously throwing everything off a desk, including smashing a 1980s computer, while office workers in ties look on in shock.
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katie @focusfronting.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it isn’t carceral to say someone shouldn’t be a wealthy public figure. it doesn’t violate your free speech rights when I say I wish you would shut up. you do not have a legal right to be beloved
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish I knew what this was in reference to, because I definitely remember the Pirates. And the Memphis Mad Dogs, Sacramento Goldminers, Las Vegas Posse, and Baltimore Stallions.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll do it! (If I get a copy of the book.)
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026
We're gonna set fire to everything but don't worry we are also gonna spend money to polish a few fire extinguishers.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today NiCHE New Scholars committee member, @hopelatta.bsky.social, speaks with Historian @kellyblack.ca about The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab project and travelling exhibit - @vilocalhistory.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/10/02/t... #envhist #cdnhist #colonialism
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The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab: Kelly Black on How a 19th-Century Grant Shapes the Present
Historian Kelly Black discusses the E&N Railway land grant’s historical dispossession of Indigenous lands and its ongoing socio-environmental impacts.
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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good thing Liberals are ramming another pipeline through the country with no review and highly criminalized protest!
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let it go, man. He’ll never love you back.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has joined a growing chorus of First Nations voices in denouncing the 'Pacific Link' pipeline-Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is promising a legal fight and possible 'boots on the ground.'
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mark Carney wants us to believe expanding planet killing fossil fuel extraction is somehow noble
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney's first-ever project designated as being in the “national interest" is...a crude oil pipeline. That means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. It can also kill all of Vancouver's orcas. Here's what you need to know:
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day I’m thinking of all residential school survivors - my aunties and uncles and grandparents and in particular but also Phyllis Webstad, the founder of the Orange Shirt Society whose memoir I wrote the foreword for - check it out!
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I wrote up a few thoughts on settler Canadian responsibilities, and put together a list of resources. Please read and/or share. allygned.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/n...
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Responsibilities and Resources
By Adam Barker Note: This post started as a post on social media, but I was asked if I could provide it in a form sharable by people not on social media platforms. It has been lightly edited from t…
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is foul. A reader reached out and told me the first google result when you search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" is residential school denial. I did the search myself, and I found the same thing. The first non-sponsored result is the Fraser Institute's residential school denial.
Google search result for "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" has, as its first non-sponsored post, a publication from the Fraser Institute.

It reads: "No evidence of 'mass graves' or 'genocide' in residential ..."

"Feb 12, 2024 — ... Kamloops narrative are either false or highly exaggerated. No unmarked graves have been discovered at Kamloops or elsewhere-not one. As of ... Read more"Another screenshot shows the only result before the Fraser Institute result is a sponsored post from Angus Reid, affirming that the Fraser Institute result is the first non-sponsored one.Screenshot shows the intial response Google provides to the search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery"

All you can see on this first screenshot is the AI overview (barf) and the sponsored result from Angus Reid. However, as the other screenshots show, that Angus Reid result is followed by the first non-sponsored result: residential school denial from the Fraser Institute.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 29/09/2026
Why is this question ‘*How* are you using AI?’? I AM NOT USING AI. Do not assume that I am using AI! AI sucks. I cannot see any moral or ethical case for using generative AI.
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How are you using Al?
Take part in Museums Journal's new survey
Help us build a picture of AI use, attitudes and impact in the UK museum sector
Find out more
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Worth noting that this means if you message someone who is using Meta Muse, *even if you don't have Muse or any other Meta products installed yourself*, Facebook is reading your private communications.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He just said that Indigenous knowledge will help the government to ensure that the ocean waters “remain safe, sustainable and healthy for future generations and for all the life that lives in them.” WHAT ABOUT THE SOUTHERN RESIDENT ORCAS YOU’RE GETTING POWERS TO DRIVE TO EXTINCTION MARK? MARK???
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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Ontario government has regularly paid private nursing services to fill gaps in coverage. Rather than just hiring more nurses, they would prefer to pay a private company way more money. There is only one reason to do this and it isn't *improved service* or to *reduce wait times*.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Update: environmental groups say yeah, this announcement isn’t sufficient to mitigate the harms of the powers the government is giving itself with respect to endangered species (like the whales!). Soooooo a nice move in general, but insufficient in context. Which means Carney is indeed full of it.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This bold faced lie is actually appalling in its audacity. What he’s saying is NOT true if a project is deemed in the national interest!! Which he applied for the whale-killing port expansion to be!! And if C-39 passes, even the conditions won’t necessarily apply!!!!
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Province to acquire campground near former residential school
A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7.
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Scott Matla @callmescort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Loud cheers for both Babcock and Formenton Burn in hell Edmonton
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That also says a lot. The franchise knew the core would stick with them through whatever heinous shit they did. If I were from Edmonton I’d be hanging my head in shame at the moment - and probably having some very ugly conversations with family at Thanksgiving.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some teams signed shitty guys and got so much push back they released them. Then there’s whatever this is.
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GameTimeArt @gametimeart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Loud cheers for both Babcock and Formenton in Edmonton. Just a reminder that sports fan outrage is performative at best and can be easily shut down if you just drape it in your favorite team's colors and logo.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No Lube, So Rude is a FANTASTIC album.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agreed. Raddysh needs to step up. Roslovic needs to play on the third line. McKenna is a rookie and people need to remember that. Still feels like the defence needs one more personnel upgrade. But Dobish basically out-duelled Bobrovski in a sloppy quasi-preseason game, and that’s the story.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Overreacting. This was practically still a preseason game it was so sloppy. Both teams took turns tilting the ice. Dobish out-duelled Bobrovski. That’s it. Wait two weeks and see.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When I was a student, I knew a person who taught one of my courses who was a graduate of Cornell. He eventually resigned in disgrace after being outed as a sex pest. This is likely not a coincidence.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All I can really say from the other side of the pond about fraternities is that there are severe consequences for your society when you let the ritual pig fucker clubs get away with it.
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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The threat or Trump’s America has enlivened the peace-maker myth to a frightening degree. Canadians will justify any affront to Indigenous and treaty rights under the assertion that anything else is helping the aggressive evil empire. A false dichotomy but one with huge cultural cache.
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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Keep your eyes on Ottawa, on old plans to take Indigenous lands are being dresses up in new clothes. See @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social in the Freep: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Opinion: Opinion: Building Canada Strong Act just another way of sidestepping Indigenous rights
In 1846, Britain faced an emergency influenced by the Irish famine, so leaders repealed the country’s “Corn Laws” and restrictions on imported food and grain, transitioning to a system of free trade.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026
Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026
acab includes fraternities
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GB Metz @notthegiraffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is absolutely criminal and it's long passed time we stopped tolerating this toxic/abusive sports coaching cutlure. Good for the players here sticking up for themselves, just unfortunately too late for Mayich.
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