Since Darren's death, I've been self-medicating heavily with Simple Minds + New Order music videos, especially live or extended remixes. Darren was the Voice Between the Signal and the Noise. @slavocech.bsky.social @fionamattatall.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=gms3...

Here’s the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on what happened today and what we need to do now…. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...

OUR PRESSURE IS WORKING! We spent all last week on the Hill pushing for articles of impeachment of RFK Jr. It's time to crank up the pressure EVEN MORE! You can help us! @standupforscience.bsky.social #impeachthequack

“A report by the CBC revealed that Pierre Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The organization has since been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud.”

Watch: Canada's women's rugby team is set for the World Cup showdown with England, with a squad that features plenty of Alberta talent. Tyler Barrow has more. #yyc #calgary www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/vide...

Big accident a few blocks away. Black Audi weaving in and out of traffic at high speed. Clips a white Audi. White Audi crashes into a tree, needs fire dept extraction. Black Audi jumps curb drops a wheel. Two younger jackasses in the black Audi jump out and run, police helicopter searching.

Ugh is right.

So I’m actually in the ER now with my kid, so few masks, all surgical, often under the chin. For a science based profession it’s astounding how few understand the science on this.

Construction workers have to wear steel toed boots. They’re required. Period.

(this very big mistake that killed an enormous number of people, if anyone's looking for the citation) www.spiegel.de/internationa...

It's hard not to conclude that self-interest played a major role. Once you've made a very big mistake and killed an enormous number of people, it's very difficult to change course without people noticing.

And everyone knows it's not really about the comfort of the staff - it's about sacrificing patients and staff alike to protect a few selfish, egotistical Wakefield-but-for-PPE types from having to admit they made the worst medical error in recorded history and killed an enormous number of people.

Today's essential read for all parents "“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, but immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air."

This is so cool! Wow!

Protect the health of the patient or the comfort of the staff. Unbelievable we’re still debating this.

Hell yes.

Hey, good enough for the Titanic, good enough for salmon farms and,.... ... uhhhhhh

CSA standard Z94-somethingorother 2025 revisions baybeeeee! (IF they get approved and then whenever facilities actually get around to implementing them, so I can go get care I've been putting off for five years)

Whenever someone assert 'we operate in compliance with regulations', let me offer a translation. What that means is, 'our business model is content with meeting the absolute minimum required by law'. It does not mean 'this is safe' or 'there are no harms caused'. www.vicnews.com/news/3-north...

Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.

We had the same experience attempting to get a massively flawed article retracted in a clinical journal. Reviewer #1 in particular produced complete gibberish, but the editor accepted it (presumably as an excuse to shield a fellow clinician from embarrassment). Harm to the public? Who cares? 🧵

There's increasingly an attitude - which I associate with "Evidence Based Medicine" extremists - that suppression of high quality work you disagree with is a legitimate tactic to "win" disagreements over matters of fact. It is anti-scientific, unethical, and an abuse of the peer review process.

Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

You're a single mom making minimum wage, and can't afford a multi-bedroom apartment? Too bad, we're taking your kids. Oh you're having another baby? Surrender your 4-year-old, and we pinky promise we won't bother you about your new baby!

Kids are apprehended daily simply because of poverty, and then foster parents like this are given $8,000-$15,000 a month to neglect and abuse them. www.cbc.ca/1.7640100

The Board of Directors has signed this joint statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, joining more than 20 national medical and health organizations.

You're scared? So what?! Tell that to the 19-21 year old boys lying in graves...who flew one bombing mission after another as German antiaircraft fire destroyed the bombers around them on several missions before eventually slamming them into the same ground. F*ck fear. Show defiance. Call. Write.

My one and (likely) only trip to Maui. We went to a small town back in the highlands and everyone went shopping. I went to the town museum. Two older gents, 70’s, both looked like life long hippies. They’re sitting talking, when I come in one of them asks where I’m from. Canada.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

It should also be noted that when Turkey, a NATO member, downed a Russian jet violating its airspace - world war 3 did not start. Russian violations of Turkish airspace, however, ceased. 18/

A not at all vague or inconclusive action that confirms Trump is directly serving RU interests. One more reason not to purchase F35s. Shouldn’t be supporting a Soviet style satellite state.

The US might as well say: “Go ahead, Putin, invade Europe.” The reaction to a bully like Putin probing NATO’s borders should be a show of strength not utter weakness.

Such a great interview -- Suzanne is awesome. Read her full piece here:

“Let’s look at Pierre Poilievre: Where the fuck is his goddamn security clearance? He doesn’t know the security threats currently because he doesn’t have the clearance!” 🇨🇦 Military veteran and independent conservative Bonnie Critchley raises the alarm on new OShow 🚨 👀 🔗 youtu.be/xOiFVHHrmrs?si…

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Matthew Oliver, PEng handle is @sameo416.bsky.social

Where’s Newton? In the clean sheets, in the drier, preparing a den for winter.

Happy and excited to be spending some time with the #projectEPIC and team working on it @bristoluni.bsky.social. Besides being able to share some of my work, I am grateful for gaining some more insights into the critical topic of epistemic injustice in healthcare. 🤞#bioethics

@ukhadds.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social - Have you seen anything like this before? Useful beyond heating and cooling? @coopspeak.bsky.social: Thanks for sharing! www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Local woman wakes up, moves John Oliver to a secret bunker to film his next episode of Last Week Tonight, makes oatmeal.

Keep at it folks 👏 #canceldisney Kick these a$$h@les where it hurts.

"There are four hate propaganda offences: advocating genocide..." lol o rly www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Lmfaooo soooooooo, that canadian flag or Alberta flag must be symbols that promotes hate then, I mean, it’s almost exclusively what I see when I’m getting called a savage or being told they should have finished us off online.

yeah don't mention what happened in the years following Kamloops, that's supposed to be memory holed bsky.app/profile/dki2...

Alberta to require citizens to carry little picture of Danielle Smith in wallets

Early days to draw causal links imo. I'm sure Transport Canada would be looking with interest LionC's functional safety architecture.

My eldest has spent the year in higher education in a small portable classroom, surrounded by 30 often visibly sick students. Wears an Aura and has not been sick all year; we test with a PlusLife.