Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Who cares if our fellow humans suffer and the planet burns as long as we get to click from our couch and get stuff quick, right Amazon? 000
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Climate litigation win from Australian High Court: company had to mitigate emissions no matter where coal burnt. 010
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Hey judgmental country folk, cities are often the place of refuge of the children you failed to love.” 022
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The monetization of content + evolutionary attentional bias towards negativity + global economic disparities has created this bizarre phenomenon. Fascinating reporting! 010
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh look, pervert glasses are being used to help men harass women! Waiting on the exposé about their other use case: cheating on exams. 141
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We need to have the right to strike because things get ugly when we don’t. 010
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026*Canadians and Europeans when Donald Trump says we need him and America to accomplish anything and therefore must bow to his demands* 011
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Amazon “has turned hostility to unions into a science” 010
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Somewhere in between skynet and marketing, then… 020
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026McGill Faculty unionization update from @eidlin.bsky.social and me on CKUT! 020
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026CANADA: More than 6,000 University of Toronto staff in position to strike on Tuesday’s first day of classes www.thestar.com/news/gta/mor...thestar.comMore than 6,000 University of Toronto staff in position to strike on Tuesday’s first day of classesThe union said the workers, who include IT employees, undergraduate and graduate program co-ordinators, academic advisers and lab assistants, voted 96 per cent in favour of a strike. 075
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Following closely this strike action over AI protections in higher ed… Also, I just discovered my students have been uploading my recorded lectures into chatbots. 000
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nobody here wants US-style 2-tiered health care. @mark-carney.bsky.social your government needs to enforce the CHA in Alberta. 010
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 01/09/2026American poet, novelist and environmentalist Wendell Berry has passed away. “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” 0125
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...afm.orgAFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly PartonToday, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist… 2667331775
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So sad to hear about the passing of Dolly! While “Jolene” is my favourite, it was moving to sing “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”, the song she wrote after leaving a toxic relationship, while we were in the deep funk of pandemic online choir.youtu.beChorale Musaïque - Light of a Clear Blue MorningYouTube video by Musaïque 010
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026like, by all reports Carney was about to sign on to a deal that was WAY better than the US than it was for Canada and then they were like "oh and also, one more little thing, please tap dance on the third rail of Canadian politics" 223422
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Saturday craft project that possibly only 3 of my moots will clock (2 weeks ahead of the Toronto concert) @blackswanlaura.bsky.social @edelrh7.bsky.social @ladynuala.bsky.social 6130
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The peat is on fire - it spreads underground and is v difficult to control. 😳 141
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Wake up everyone! We need climate action yesterday! What a fucking tragedy. 022
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Well YOU try ending a book. It’s not so easy. 000
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Phew, at least THAT mystery has been solved! 020
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Senior discounts? Sure. Peak demand price rises? Annoying but my bad for not planning ahead. Bulk discounts? At least justifiable even if effectively a poverty tax. But targeting price-gouging algorithmically pinned to someone’s degree of desperation is an outrage. Great article from LPE. 031
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Hero from Kahnawá:ke saved 5 from a house fire! 000
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Lesley faculty are going on strike if something doesn't change at the bargaining table this week. All allies are welcome to sign this letter of support for these determined teachers:act.seiu.orgLong overdue, fair contract for Lesley Core Faculty! 054
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Christie Belcourt’s paintings glow with a life force of their own and this installation looks spectacular! 031
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Surveillance pricing - whether for goods, or wages - is vile and egregious. 000
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026So apparently the reason Montreal’s potholes are so bad lately is that they’re keeping better data? 110
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This pair of essays on Trump-as-symptom are very eye-opening. This one about the nostalgia-fueled resentment of his supporters; 101
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026@apml-ampd.bsky.social and other McGill unions joining the pushback against anti-union creep in Quebec, here the ability to shut down strikes in a broad swathe of sectors. 042
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺plasticscouser.bsky.social @plasticscouser.bsky.social · 19/02/2026My favourite The grand old Duke of York, he had 12 million quid. He gave it to someone he’d never met, for something he never did 326739
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Wow. 13133614716658
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Sitting in train and observing through seats student in front of me copy pasting an essay into a “revised first class version” with chat gpt, incl tips on how to make it sound less “AI” with different “tone” options (eg “more academic” sic) Also checks IG reels every few minutes. Feeling despair. 36312
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 10/02/2026As Bad Bunny’s glorious fiesta exploded in my eyeballs I got the obvious references and overall vibe but this breakdown shows so many more layers upon layers. Stupendous! 000
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Punitive sanctions against Cuba because Rubio wants regime change? Canadians should sign this petition to follow MX example in condemning this. 010
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 08/02/2026What fresh hell is this? Gig nursing apps not only circumvent unions, they also track worker data to calculate lower wages for more financially desperate individuals. Veena Dubal’s term is “algorithmic wage discrimination.” Discussed by Cory Doctorov on Ezra Klein show.rooseveltinstitute.orgUber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt InstituteThrough original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov... 010
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 05/02/2026McGill Spent Over $1 Million Fighting Unionization. That’s at least a few support staff salaries!therover.caMcGill Spent Over $1 Million Fighting Unionization – The RoverUnion organizers at the university say this is part of a broader trend towards corporatization of the public institution. 043
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Matthew nails Carney’s speech. No notes. 👏🏽 010
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“The fiction was useful” sums up a lot of the law 1253
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026How employee unions help push back against the corporatisation of universities: new work from my comrade and colleague Priya Gupta.papers.ssrn.comThe Corporatization of Universities and Unions as Agents of ResistanceCorporate interests, partnerships, values, and rationalities increasingly govern the University. This essay examines the increasing corporatization of the unive 000
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026When my fledgling union went on strike for 3 months, solidarity donations from other unions kept us afloat. I can’t join the Minneapolis Labour Federation general strike on Jan 23 from Canada, but I just supported their strike fund 030
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026*Rare* Academic job postings @ McGill University, Montreal - Canada Impact + Research Chairs (senior academics) - expedited application process! www.mcgill.ca/provost/acad...mcgill.caCanada Impact+ Research Chairs ProgramProgram Description McGill University invites applications for the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (Impact+) Program, open to the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs... 120
Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @kirstenanker.bsky.social · 10/01/2026A little good news story to start the weekend. 020
Reposted by Kirsten Anker 🇨🇦 🇦🇺Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 03/01/2026If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations. Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober 28436