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Craig Meadows

@dawnslovenport.bsky.social
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Continuing Status Sessional Faculty, Department of Sociology, UBC. Weirdo Lefty Gen-X. Social & Political Theory. Anti-property curmudgeon who just wants to yell at kids to get off his lawn. He/him

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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I see we're having another one of those election things here in BC. As with previous election-y things, I'll be refusing the ballot. a choice between neoliberalism and neoliberalism with extra hate (note, there is no option without hate, police and violence) is not a choice.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking for #s on job losses in post-secondary. Stumbled across this gem from the business press.Lots of bad writing here, but throwing out a lump sum number regarding funding without looking at per capita funding, its decline, and inflation does a lot of propaganda work. www.biv.com/news/human-r...
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B.C. schools count mounting costs of foreign student decline
B.C. institutions have cut more than 180 programs and dismissed or laid off more than 1,300 faculty and staff
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No thanks, YouTube. I really have no interest in anything Stephen A. Smith has to say, especially as it relates to the contract of Kawhi. Dear me, no.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#TorontotheGood coming out in force to lambaste Vladdy for offending their sensibilities. Sometimes I'm very not sad to have left that place.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All I wanted as a NY Giants fan was for MAGA Jaxson Dart to fail miserably as a QB. I suppose he's destined to always be injured and thus a failure, but it's not the same thing. Also, could we please charge the pedophile owner who's in the Epstein files? And kick out the Koch family minority owner?
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interacting with research publications in AI-junked snippets and prompts means not listening for underlying structures of thought—and their differences. Incidentally, this is also what a claim like „this is the future of scientific papers“ is trying to achieve—make you swallow its presuppositions.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another PD fund haul from @pfbvan.bsky.social Really loving the increased fund the UBC faculty association secured.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCo...
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Fatal Staples Center Collapse Brings Merciful Early End To Clippers Game
YouTube video by The Onion
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just reading a 2006 book that says that the one distinction between a neoliberal and a neoconservative is the former’s willingness to defend basic rights. 😂
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Scarry wasn’t the right book at this time so summer read 15.5: Jan Rehman’s Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There needs to be a widespread campaign of suspending or revoking drivers licenses.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Second PD fund haul of leftwingbooks.net and a couple other books.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Summer read #15 (and probably last before classes start): Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In solidarity with Jason Arday.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Defund the police state. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Peel police get helicopter as part of multimillion-dollar Ontario program
Peel police are taking their fight against crime to the skies with their first police helicopter — part of a multimillion-dollar provincial program to bring air support to several police services acro...
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Spoke to a doc in Sackville, NB about a disc herniation in my neck that my physio said wasn't healing properly. Said Dr. blasted me for being yet another lazy bastard who thinks he can't work because of some neck pain. Had the fucker censured by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in NB.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I used to do rides through the waterfront in Toronto years ago, and harangued every cop I saw for their shit dumped in bike lanes.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Summer read #14: “The Other Adam Smith” by Montag and Hill
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I still think my idea of a cannon to launch these people into low orbit is a good way to improve society and provide Friday night entertainment.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think we can blame Smokey and the Bandit for teaching me that all cops are bastards when I was ten.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Serving PD fund haul from @pfbvan.bsky.social
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Dear gawd. The monopoly of violence by the state is the damn problem. You don’t get to “efficient bureaucracy” your way out of that history with pithy quotes
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Stumble across a text on state formation in Medieval Europe and look up the author (Joseph Strayer) only to find out he was yet another scholar who worked for the CIA.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What's the Venn diagram for people who say this of Indigenous development, and those who lamented the lack of supertall towers in Vancouver's core? I think we know.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A “long tradition” of banning people who are Asian, Black or less wealthy. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Summer read #14: Gillian Rose’s Hegel Contra Sociology.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
One of my better moments: hearing, twenty years after the fact, of the value of sitting to watch Powerpuff Girls with a friend’s seven year old.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
First pd fund haul from @pfbvan.bsky.social
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If so, Russell was wrong. Again. The self-gratification of the so-called "intelligent" is no bulwark against fascism. Far from it.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Heard one person describe city plans to densify 17 areas in Vancouver with low-rise housing and commercial use as a "totalitarianism" of local government. Just so we are clear, if you demand a vision of property that allows totalitarian control over neighborhood characteristics, then you pay for it
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Fodder for Canadian Society this fall. I wish they’d stop trying. I already have too much material
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Most unreadable cover for summer read #13: Lucio Colletti. From Rousseau to Lenin. 1973
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Jason Stanley doing his best to deal with some of the worst journalism imaginable. Viewer beware youtube.com/watch?v=h1I1...
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Jason Stanley: Ethnic Cleansing Is Coming to America | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Arthur🎨 @idreamofentropy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The discord was lit today
The distracted boyfriend meme where Mitch McConnell is the girlfriend, death is the boyfriend, and the other woman is Lindsey Graham
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sometimes you gotta withhold the “RIP” after detailing an atrocity resume.
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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 12/07/2026
The fork between two paths of masculinity
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My favorite era of Cornel West shitposting Obama’s democratic rhetoric and technocratic policy
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Summer reading book #12: Theodor Adorno. Philosophy and Sociology
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
William Friedkin, in an interview about his favorite films, listed Birth of a Nation, citing rampant black criminality in reconstruction era America as the cause for the creation of the KKK. JFC.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
38 minutes of Lowry taking charges. My count has Embiid and Tatum at four each to lead. Wiggins, cp3, Irving, Aaron Gordon, Giannis each have at least three youtube.com/watch?v=HEuO...
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EVERY KYLE LOWRY CHARGE DRAWN
YouTube video by Toronto Raptors
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
First book haul from the prof dev fund in two years. Primarily from left wing books.net
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
so, red states have like what, 1.5 million trans people overall? and an estimate of 400k of these have already fled? that basically means that almost 1/3 of trans people from red states are already internal refugees, or 1/6 of the US trans population
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
And on to book #11: Sonn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour.
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Could do with a little less celebration of David Fincher and Paul Verhoeven as "radical filmmakers."
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Chris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The social determinants of health keep showing up, again and again. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Tracks. 5 years ago our little education technology journal got 300 submissions in a year. Today we passed 900 in 6 months. It's not all LLMs of course, but that is an infuriating part of the problem...
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Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism as summer read #10
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
CANADA: Gutting the right to strike: the latest item on Carney’s corporate checklist breachmedia.ca/gutting-the-...
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Gutting the right to strike: the latest item on Carney’s corporate checklist ⋆ The Breach
Unifor researcher Graham Cox joins Desmond Cole to discuss why Carney is putting the rights of federal-regulated workers in the crosshairs
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