Music Monday
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muccamukkSting - "Shape of My Heart" (Live)
I think this is the first Sting song I ever heard. Still sounds good.
I think this is the first Sting song I ever heard. Still sounds good.
Short Links List
Apr. 5th, 2026 03:41 pmmuccamukkIt's getting to the point where stuff I bookmarked to share is now out dated. Whoops! Posted in order saved. Mostly just posting the headline, and either the deck or a pull quote.
The Tyee: The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada.
Literary Hub: What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022.
Feminegra: Media Layoffs Expose the Meghan Sussex Smear Economy.
[I love that the guy they're interviewing is like, "Yeah I fully took money to write misogyny slop about Meghan Sussex!" with zero apparent introspection or regret.]
Momentum: Not In Our Name: Women and Feminists for Trans Rights.
[Canadian campaign against transphobic legislation.]
Meditations in an Emergency/Rebecca Solnit: Eight Million Protestors and No Kings: The Case for Showing Up.
The Discourse: Meet the researcher putting Indigenous knowledge at the heart of ecological restoration.
Transport Canada: Survey: Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night.
[If you're Canadian, it would be helpful to fill out this survey, especially if you drive. It's admittedly not as geared for people who only walk, but I put my two cents in anyway. Down with BLINDING LED HEADLIGHTS!]
The Tyee: The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada.
Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.
Literary Hub: What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022.
What followed became an exercise in thinking through what is lost—and perhaps can never be regained—when transphobes and their enablers rise to prominence as our most powerful cultural gatekeepers.
Feminegra: Media Layoffs Expose the Meghan Sussex Smear Economy.
[I love that the guy they're interviewing is like, "Yeah I fully took money to write misogyny slop about Meghan Sussex!" with zero apparent introspection or regret.]
Momentum: Not In Our Name: Women and Feminists for Trans Rights.
[Canadian campaign against transphobic legislation.]
Meditations in an Emergency/Rebecca Solnit: Eight Million Protestors and No Kings: The Case for Showing Up.
I believe that millions are endeavoring to build a cathedral of democracy and a stronghold against authoritarianism. You build it in private in organizations and networks, and you build it in the streets with direct defense of those under attack and with protests like the monumental one on Saturday.
The Discourse: Meet the researcher putting Indigenous knowledge at the heart of ecological restoration.
For decades, well-intentioned conservationists have been restoring culturally significant Indigenous places without the peoples they belong to. Researcher Jennifer Grenz says that’s exactly why so many of those efforts have failed.
Transport Canada: Survey: Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night.
[If you're Canadian, it would be helpful to fill out this survey, especially if you drive. It's admittedly not as geared for people who only walk, but I put my two cents in anyway. Down with BLINDING LED HEADLIGHTS!]
I think I've discovered colonialism
Apr. 3rd, 2026 02:51 pmmuccamukk(n.b. I'm getting my librarians to sort out the access issue, so this is just a vent.)
I'm going along doing some research, and I think, "oh, it'd be good to have a few articles on the Coast Salish relationship with Camas, especially on Vancouver Island."
So I poke around in my university library, and soon find: "Camas Nullius? How Beacon Hill Park Came to Be Imposed on a Pillar of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples' Food and Inter-National Trade Economy" by Jacquelyn Miller.
Perfect. I click through.
It goes to ProQuest, which is dog shit to read, but usually legible. The article starts with a note that says:
"But what does that mean?" I don't think at all, until I hit the sentence:
So what that means is that it's stripped out every word not written in English. In a paper about Indigenous culture vs. colonialism, it has unnamed the people! cool cool cool
It's literally unreadable:
I tried to download it as a PDF, because sometimes those are just straight up scans of the articles, all original formatting intact. But no! It's just the same thing as a PDF!
EBSCOhost said it also had the article, but then just didn't.
Then I clicked over to the journal itself, which is paywalled, of course (open access in 28 October 2026 🙃). But do look at this very pretty cover art. Worth every penny of whatever they paid the artist.
Then I emailed the library.
Here's a very pretty popular science piece about Garry oak ecosystems. If you just want to look at camas.
I'm going along doing some research, and I think, "oh, it'd be good to have a few articles on the Coast Salish relationship with Camas, especially on Vancouver Island."
So I poke around in my university library, and soon find: "Camas Nullius? How Beacon Hill Park Came to Be Imposed on a Pillar of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples' Food and Inter-National Trade Economy" by Jacquelyn Miller.
Perfect. I click through.
It goes to ProQuest, which is dog shit to read, but usually legible. The article starts with a note that says:
ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.
"But what does that mean?" I don't think at all, until I hit the sentence:
the significance of the lands on which I live to the Indigenous Peoples of this place, the ... Peoples, known today as the Songhees and ... (Esquimalt) Nations, who have lived and governed here for millennia.
So what that means is that it's stripped out every word not written in English. In a paper about Indigenous culture vs. colonialism, it has unnamed the people! cool cool cool
It's literally unreadable:
Over generations now, this appropriation of this major ... "breadbasket" for a public park, and the loss of other important ... ... production sites as a result of settlement and agriculture, have dramatically reduced the abundance of ... and impacted the ... Peoples' ability to avail themselves of this vital source of their rightful food security and wealth. This injustice is even more glaring in light of the treaty promises to, at a minimum, reserve for the ... their enclosed or cultivated fields, which the article contends ... was upon the arrival of Europeans.
I tried to download it as a PDF, because sometimes those are just straight up scans of the articles, all original formatting intact. But no! It's just the same thing as a PDF!
EBSCOhost said it also had the article, but then just didn't.
Then I clicked over to the journal itself, which is paywalled, of course (open access in 28 October 2026 🙃). But do look at this very pretty cover art. Worth every penny of whatever they paid the artist.
Then I emailed the library.
Here's a very pretty popular science piece about Garry oak ecosystems. If you just want to look at camas.