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Yutaka Dirks

@dirksy.bsky.social
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Tenant organizer/housing policy analyst, parent, PhD student, writer. Likes: literature, feminism, comic books, decolonization, crime fiction. Winnipeg, Treaty 1.

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Heather Wells @heatherwells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Manitoba tenant advocates want immediate government action on rent control www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba tenant advocates want immediate government action on rent control | CBC News
Dozens of organizations have signed an open letter calling on the Manitoba government to take immediate action on rent increases they say are forcing long-term tenants from their homes.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 09/10/2026
The province is amending legislation to allow landlords to be penalized if they breach the confidentiality of tenants who break their lease by obtaining a domestic violence certificate.
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Landlords will face fines for breaching confidentiality
Change aims to protect tenants who break leases because of domestic violence
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Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba @chrrumanitoba.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Join us as we host Dr. Crystal Gail Fraser, co-author of "Talk Treaty to Me" on Friday, October 23rd at 10:30 am in Room 200 Education (University of Manitoba, Fort Garry campus). All are welcome to attend. To learn more, visit: chrr.info/event/talk-t... #Umanitoba #UMStudent
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The ear bug scene in Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan. I was in grade 2 I think.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Inspired by the many tenants who spoke so intelligently, bravely, & eloquently -with real fire!- about the lack of real rent protections at today’s MB Leg Committee Bill 13 hearing. Premier Kinew must keep his promise to end huge rent increases. Every month he delays more renters are made homeless.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes! That would be amazing.
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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One more week to apply! Share with your smart video-forward journalist friends! Part-time hours; queer workplace, horrors (of the news cycle variety) and fun! Must be based in Canada. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/so...
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Xtra Magazine hiring Social Video Producer in Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 11:32:14 PM. Do you want to help make the world better for queer and trans folks through social media?Xtra…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National interest and such
A Walking Eagle News headline reads: pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
West Broadway Tenants Committee and tenants in Wingpsan buildings call on the RTB to freeze rent in renoviction fight. Premier Kinew can’t blame the PCs for this - it’s his problem, his responsibility, and he made the promise to ‘strengthen rent control and end big rent hikes.’
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Tenants slam Alta.-based landlord, protest rent increases
Charlie Medd wasn’t ready for another adventure last October, when she moved out of the Wolseley Avenue apartment she had called home for 15 years.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazing turnout at Wab Kinew’s consistency office in solidarity with Winnipeg tenants facing renoviction by Wingspan.
Protest outside of Manitoba Premier Kinew’s constituency office, with people holding signs calling for a rent freeze abd tenants rights.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Winnipeg! Show up in solidarity with tenants facing renoviction by Wingspan Property Dev. Friday Sept 25 - 565 Osborne at 12pm. Organized by West Broadway Tenants Committee.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In honour of Stephen King’s birthday, what King story should I read today?
A stack of Stephen King story collections.
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Oly Backstrom @olybackstrom.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
River Heights, Earl Grey, Tuxedo
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Re-reading Hell Bent before I crack open my copy of Hell Bent from @whodunit.bsky.social Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House novels are fantastic, exactly the kind of moody-magic-crime-outsider-horror novels I need.
The cover of Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, showing a dedicated white rabbit.
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Folks! I’m looking to interview an Edmonton tenant spending more than a third of their income in rent. HMU via DM for more details.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Celebrating 20 years of advocacy by @r2hmb.bsky.social to end homelessness, support social housing, and protect tenants in Manitoba.
Group of people watch a speaker talk about the right to housing in Manitoba.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 09/09/2026
NEW: Do you live in Canada? Are you impacted by pro-landlord policies? Want to know if your MP is a landlord or invested in real estate in some way? I’ve released the 2026 version of my landlord MP database. Find out if your MP is a landlord now! www.readthemaple.com/mp-landlords/
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Find Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real Estate
The Maple examined and analyzed MPs’ disclosure forms and compiled the results.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every time you assume good faith from people who have done nothing to deserve the benefit of the doubt, you will lose. The project to remove Black people from any position of authority and leadership is an open secret. They’re gloating at your naivety.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want us all to become more intolerant to bullies in our daily lives.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After years of tenant organizing & advocacy, MB is bringing more units into rent regulation (good!). Unfortunately, because they continue to stall the fix for unfair above-guideline rent increases, newly protected tenants could still face huge rent hikes www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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More residential units subject to rent control: minister
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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Always a treat when my (now) home province shows up in fiction. From the crime-y 1970s vampire novel COFFIN MOON by @keithrosson.bsky.social (author of the manic, unhinged & brilliant Fever House/The Devil By Name).
A page from Coffin Moon, by Keith Rosson, in which the vampire character recounts being attacked in Manitoba.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some great books on here (esp French, Abbott, Locke, Price, King, and ofc Cosby!). My own top 10 would add: Hawthorn & Child-K. Ridgway, and several books by authors we’ve lost: The Killing Circle-A. Pyper, Ghostman-R. Hobbs, and the final Parker book(s) by R. Stark.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Every month the MB government delays implementing rent reg changes (which had overwhelming public support in govt consultations) more tenants face huge rent hikes that would be halved under the proposed rules.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This was a great event. @colsonwhitehead.com was sharp, fiery, and hilarious.
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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There Will Come Soft Rains In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft…
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There Will Come Soft Rains
In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just popped in to Other Places books - #YWG latest bookstore, specializing in SFF. Picked up an old one from @margaret.bsky.social and Molly Tanzer @tordotcompub.bsky.social space heist novella. Congrats @didichanoch.northsky.social on the store!
Covers of books by Molly Tanzer and Margaret Killjoy.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/07/2026
Saudi authorities have executed five Ethiopian migrants for nonlethal drug-related offenses this week without due process. At least 79 more remain at imminent risk of execution on similar charges.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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Rad BMX Racing Stunts
Alt: Rad BMX Racing Stunts from Title Card of the film RAD.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Right to Housing is turning 20! Celebrate two decades of advocacy in Manitoba and help us keep pushing for social housing, an end to homelessness, and better protections for renters! RSVP: www.righttohousing.ca/anniversary
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Liz Tufte Art & Design @liztufte.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hope in the Dark = Never Fucking Surrendering #booksky #history #antifa
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. … To hope is to give yourself to the future—and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: 
The Untold History of People Power 
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I haven’t been to or lived in many places outside of Canada and the US, but my list, in alphabetical order, is: Boston Kyoto Los Angeles New York Toronto
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Re: speaking of the dead: it always the right time to speak truth, especially truth to power, and the truths about Lindsey Graham are ugly, and that's his doing, not ours.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
11/22/63 N. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption The Body The Life of Chuck
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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A ghost relaxing on the beach #grickledoodle #ghost #beach
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is an excellent queer horror novel. Legitimately disturbing, surprisingly personal, and beautifully & smartly written. Releasing for the 1st time (I think?) in the US; if you haven’t read it, time to fix that.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This book is a thing of beauty. #sixofcrows Leigh Bardugo with art by E.K. Belsher and music (?!) by E. Aaron Wilson.
The cover of Six Of Crows: Letters from Ketterdam by Leigh Bardugo, showing a boat at sea
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🆕 from me: Landlords in the House: Advocates see a bias in Parliament against renters #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1191847...
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Landlords in the House: Advocates see a bias in Parliament against renters - National | Globalnews.ca
A Global News analysis of the financial disclosures of MPs as well as questions to a select number of politicians has found that every person in Carney's ministry are homeowners.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This one, I think.
Cover of 11/22/63 a novel by Stephen King, showing a newspaper page describing the assassination of JFK.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It is ridiculous having to "counter residential school denialism with truth." That was what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was for. To create a national record of the truth. Now we're debating it? No.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Yutaka Dirks @dirksy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@sarahgailey.bsky.social writes good books. Finished this one last night. Sexy, queer, sci-fi body-horror.
Cover of Spread Me, a novel by Sarah Gailey. Shows a geodesic dome with tentacles growing out of the bottom.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).
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