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Hi Folks. I'm finally leaving twitter. I will be filtering and saving my feed, and then deleting my twitter profile completely. I hope we meet again, in another place.

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Hi Folks. I'm finally leaving twitter. I will be filtering and saving my feed, and then deleting my twitter profile completely. I hope we meet again, in another place.

Salmon have returned to Still Creek in Vancouver! 🌊 Still Creek is an urban watercourse with a sensitive ecosystem. We encourage people and their pets to stay above the top of the bank when viewing, and to please not enter the creek.

we got salmon in the streets due to the flooding #bcstorm

New: Just weeks after dam removal on the Klamath River wrapped up, the first salmon is spotted swimming upriver in Oregon, above all four former dam sites sfchronicle.com/california/art…

@SeanCarleton Thank you for your excellent work, Sean!

Remarkable that Angus Reid shared a disinformation video re: church arsons and engaged in residential school denialism - and defended it in the same week as Orange Shirt Day - and no media outlets reported the story. He's deleted his account, but let me connect the dots 🧵

@petercsillag thanks for your clarification. I see what you mean

BC's public sector is adding jobs far faster than the private. 81% of the jobs added. Public sector August ’22: 536.8k August ’24: 594.3k Net gain: 57,500 Private sector August ’22: 1,790k August ’24: 1,803k Net gain: 13,800 The 57.5k represents 80.6% of the 71,300 net new jobs added in the two years between August 2022 and 2024.

81% of net job creation in British Columbia in the last two years has been public sector. The rapid growth of government under the NDP skews monthly job numbers, masking an anemic private sector on life support. This is not a healthy economy. #bcpoli

Erica Cirino, @plasticpollutes Comms Manager says that companies should "help foster values that reduce wastefulness; for example, showing people how to properly care for their reusables, so folks do not feel compelled to repeatedly buy more." #Plastic ow.ly/43f250QxZ3L

Today is the day! Designing Knowledge, is available to download or purchase ! amazon.ca/Designing-Know…

Maybe while people are trapped at Burning Man is a good time to share some of the disturbingly capitalist hellscape stuff I witness each year from the supposedly non-consumption-based event. Short 🧵 from a Tahoe local/Reno shopper who has seen some things…

Thrilled that Smithsonian’s @Folkways gave me the opportunity to dig through their archives and put together a #LaborDay2023 playlist with some of my favorite labor songs, from Aunt Molly Jackson and Paul Robeson to Sturgill Simpson. Which side are you on? folkways.si.edu/fight-like-hel…

The Executive Board of the DRS condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the recent treatment by Elsevier of the Editor-in-Chief and other Editors of Design Studies, the academic journal of the Design Research Society. Read more from the DRS here: designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-f…

@Morgan_C_Ross I’ve never ever heard another person refer to that town! love hearing your stories — thanks for sharing!

@BonneZ No more left there anymore. Some of my mom's friends though. The Welsh community moved from Patagonia to Bredenbury. Cute little town back in the day!

My great uncles, Morgan, Seth and Mer Rees during WWI. All three were born in Patagonia, Argentina in the 1890s in a Welsh colony. All fought for Canada, Morgan, my namesake, dying in Sept 1916. The remaining 13(!) kids returned to their new home in Bredenbury, Sask. Their

@Morgan_C_Ross Do you still have relatives in Bredenbury? My great-grandparents settled there, and my Mom grew up there

And although I am Morgan Ross, my other side was Hughes/Rees. Morgan Rees and Morgan Ross. Oddly enough. His name is on the Vimy Memorial. Proud to see it each time I’m there.

I have no memory of the A-Frame home, which is the best of all of them. As designers, we should have more of these conversations about toys, the life it reflects, and the life it tries to project back on to us. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

good lord, this is hideous!

Day 3 of computer failures + frustrations. If anyone knows how to turn a desktop iMac w/hard drive failure into a simple monitor, pls DM. Apple has cheerfully told me that my 2.5 yr old + expensive computer is "ready to be recycled!" But why recycle if the monitor remains useful?

So many modernist designers represented by MillerKnoll espoused social ideals: democratic design(Eames), design for humanity(Bertoia), respect/awareness(Saarinen). I can't help but think they would be disappointed with their work being perceived as icons of wealth + privilege

How the CBC was formed from the CRBC, a historic thread! The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission was formed through the Canadian Broadcasting Act on May 26, 1932 by the Conservative government of R.B. Bennett. This new network was based on the CNR radio network. 🧵1/5