Andy Roddick

Andy Roddick

@aroddick.bsky.social

Associate prof @ McMaster; Andean Archaeologist; Bolivia; Dad; Photographer; Cyclist, Music. roddick_a@mstdn.social Opinions mine not of my employer.

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Back from Bolivia with lots of film to develop. La Paz just an incredible street photography city. Leica m2, trix. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

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Environment and Climate Change Canada using tax dollars to promote fossil fuel expansion, such as that depicted in this sponsored ad, is full throttle sociopathic. It's like Health Canada choosing to actively promote putting rat poison in your lunch.

Fuck Trumponaro

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede after losing Brazil's presidential runoff to Lula. "It is impossible to acknowledge the election results. We will ask for the elections to be annulled."

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Replying to @rafiews.com

A reminder: Lula’s politics centre the environment, which he mentioned immediately after, so I’m hopeful he’ll thread this issue carefully and with all needed consideration. His current mandate brought down deforestation levels to its lowest numbers since measurements began being taken in 1988.

This ⬇️

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Nothing says low effort mayor like a low effort ai graphic for her campaign.

Joey Coleman@joeycoleman.ca

The "info-graphic" includes errors from the AI generation. The Hamilton logo is incorrect. The generic "skyline" wasn't all that bad, but the bridge portion has a clear AI error.

Doing some fieldwork with some volcanologists for the next few days, which has brought me to beautiful Sajama area near the border with Chile. Some impressive pre-Inca burial towers scattered across the landscape.

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It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social

Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.

The incredible thing about Bolivian markets is that the vendors develop relationships with you. I’ve been visiting this casera for almost 10’years and despite months of absence she calls me out as I pass by.

Worlds of scholarship destroyed by hard-right-wing clowns and a psychopath leader. “An analysis by Science found more than 30 program areas—including archaeology, anthropology, and sociology, which typically make hundreds of new grants—distributed zero new awards.” www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences researchAgency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

Man *fuck this*.

Andrew Deck@andrewdeck.bsky.social

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

The thing about elbows up….

MondoAB@mondoab.bsky.social

The walk doesn't match the talk! "In its first 16 months in power, the Carney government gave an estimated $7.8 billion in federal contracts to American-controlled corporations. Contracts with Canadian companies over the same period amounted to $14.9 billion." www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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I am excited to be awarded fifth place in the Photographer of the Year category of this year’s Natural Landscape Photo Awards with this portfolio of images. It is a great honor to be recognized among such amazing and inspiring landscape photographers! @natural-landscapes.bsky.social

Ahh travel camera decisions. Two weeks work trip to South America coming up. Work means digital has to come…but what film cameras. Hmmm. Substitute the m2 set up (with a 35mm/90mm) for the GA645 mf camera…or…? #believeinfilm

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Why, it is almost as if this is the sort of blatantly unconstitutional anti-Indigenous horseshit we'd have expected from Pierre Poilievre. Summing up much of Carney's time as PM so far.

CHEK News@cheknews.ca

Indigenous communities along the newly-announced West Coast Oil Pipeline route were given just two months for consultations, and that was still more than the government initially planned. https://cheknews.ca/indigenous-communities-given-just-two-months-to-consult-on-west-coast-pipeline-1350891/

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Carney's first-ever project designated as being in the “national interest" is...a crude oil pipeline. That means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. It can also kill all of Vancouver's orcas. Here's what you need to know: