Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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. 110
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looking 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...biv.comB.C. schools count mounting costs of foreign student declineB.C. institutions have cut more than 180 programs and dismissed or laid off more than 1,300 faculty and staff 110
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026No 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. 000
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. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 23/09/2026All 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? 020
Reposted by Craig MeadowsDr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Interacting 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. 141
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Another PD fund haul from @pfbvan.bsky.social Really loving the increased fund the UBC faculty association secured. 021
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=coCo...youtube.comFatal Staples Center Collapse Brings Merciful Early End To Clippers GameYouTube video by The Onion 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just 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. 😂 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Scarry wasn’t the right book at this time so summer read 15.5: Jan Rehman’s Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 24/08/2026There needs to be a widespread campaign of suspending or revoking drivers licenses. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Second PD fund haul of leftwingbooks.net and a couple other books. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Summer read #15 (and probably last before classes start): Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Defund the police state. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...cbc.caPeel police get helicopter as part of multimillion-dollar Ontario programPeel 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... 010
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Spoke 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. 100
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I used to do rides through the waterfront in Toronto years ago, and harangued every cop I saw for their shit dumped in bike lanes. 050
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Summer read #14: “The Other Adam Smith” by Montag and Hill 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I 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. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I think we can blame Smokey and the Bandit for teaching me that all cops are bastards when I was ten. 010
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Serving PD fund haul from @pfbvan.bsky.social 121
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Dear 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 100
Reposted by Craig MeadowsDr 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" 519161
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Stumble 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. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What'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. 000
Reposted by Craig MeadowsAlex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026A “long tradition” of banning people who are Asian, Black or less wealthy. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... 418051
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Summer read #14: Gillian Rose’s Hegel Contra Sociology. 041
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 28/07/2026One 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. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 23/07/2026First pd fund haul from @pfbvan.bsky.social 042
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 21/07/2026If so, Russell was wrong. Again. The self-gratification of the so-called "intelligent" is no bulwark against fascism. Far from it. 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Heard 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 110
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Fodder for Canadian Society this fall. I wish they’d stop trying. I already have too much material 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Most unreadable cover for summer read #13: Lucio Colletti. From Rousseau to Lenin. 1973 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Jason Stanley doing his best to deal with some of the worst journalism imaginable. Viewer beware youtube.com/watch?v=h1I1...youtube.comJason Stanley: Ethnic Cleansing Is Coming to America | Amanpour and CompanyYouTube video by Amanpour and Company 120
Reposted by Craig MeadowsArthur🎨 @idreamofentropy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The discord was lit today 174019800
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Sometimes you gotta withhold the “RIP” after detailing an atrocity resume. 010
Reposted by Craig MeadowsM. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 12/07/2026The fork between two paths of masculinity 0182
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026My favorite era of Cornel West shitposting Obama’s democratic rhetoric and technocratic policy 031
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Summer reading book #12: Theodor Adorno. Philosophy and Sociology 130
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 10/07/2026William 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. 110
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 09/07/202638 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...youtube.comEVERY KYLE LOWRY CHARGE DRAWNYouTube video by Toronto Raptors 000
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 09/07/2026First book haul from the prof dev fund in two years. Primarily from left wing books.net 010
Reposted by Craig MeadowsCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 08/07/2026so, 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 29332
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 05/07/2026And on to book #11: Sonn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour. 010
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Could do with a little less celebration of David Fincher and Paul Verhoeven as "radical filmmakers." 000
Reposted by Craig MeadowsChris2fur1943 @chris2fur1943.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The social determinants of health keep showing up, again and again. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06... 043
Reposted by Craig MeadowsBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Tracks. 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... 39423
Craig Meadows @dawnslovenport.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Ellen Meiksins Wood’s The Origin of Capitalism as summer read #10 000
Reposted by Craig MeadowsLabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026CANADA: Gutting the right to strike: the latest item on Carney’s corporate checklist breachmedia.ca/gutting-the-...breachmedia.caGutting the right to strike: the latest item on Carney’s corporate checklist ⋆ The BreachUnifor researcher Graham Cox joins Desmond Cole to discuss why Carney is putting the rights of federal-regulated workers in the crosshairs 167