Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea is an understudied condition. Please help me get two important studies filled by spreading the word! open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

“HOW ELON MUSK IS BOOSTING THE BRITISH RIGHT: For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.” news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Conservative MP thinking of crossing floor wakes up with severed head of a John A. Macdonald statue in his bed

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (70s?) is laughing as her husband tries to read a menu. She says: "Forgot your glasses didn't you?" "Yep." "Want help?" "Nope." "Good. Because I wasn't gonna offer." He gives her a fierce faux scowl, then stalks off to inspect the cakes. (1)

Meanwhile in Canada, half of the country lives in provinces ruled by people who think solar is Evil and Unmanly, and the federal government is run by a man lacking both imagination and conviction when it comes to energy and climate policy.

Never wonder whether it's COVID or FLU again. ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada. Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab. This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.

NEW POST: No, the Supreme Court is not an obstacle to tougher laws against child porn emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/no-the-sup...

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Here @picardonhealth.bsky.social rightfully takes on Parliament’s attacks on academic research in Canada.

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

Devastating. Teen Vogue has done some of best political reporting over past five years.

The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets. If you like the work we do, come join us! Data: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... Graphics: workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

One of the main things about not strongly & immediately opposing fascism is that normalizing it creates a permission structure for antisemites (racists, xenophobes, misogynists, etc.) to say & do the things they’ve always thought but were once too embarrassed to say & do in public. And here we are.

The policy’s legal interpretation was affirmed by the courts, but especially given this administration’s track record, I’m not sure I’d say that the law is upheld until the funds are actually disbursed. It is no longer a given that judges’ legal interpretations will be respected by the executive.

If the federal Liberals use generative AI in anything having to do with serious governing, this automatically becomes the stupidest government of my lifetime

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

Ford walks back plan to slash tenants rights after spike in guillotine sales

Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

Ex-60 Minutes producer Bill Owens says CBS bosses discouraged him from covering Gaza and Trump The Guardian Show’s leader who resigned in April says he was also pressured to apologize for edit of Kamala Harris interview There's a lot more here in article you should read bit.ly/47kI4ry

The objective was not trade, for Ford.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

In which @susandelacourt.bsky.social makes the point that it was exceedingly odd for Carney to address university students to tell youth to get into the skilled trades.

Still public domain. youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Canada Post is running a deficit. Just like every single other public service. Somehow, we recognise that every other public service costs. chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

Museum of the story of Portugal’s dictatorship and fight for freedom. Among many feelings, I’m struck by how the utter shower of fools, racists, and power-and money-seekers in the US have so perfectly recreated fascism to the letter

Pierre Poilievre specializes in political arson, but with his RCMP-bashing Lock Trudeau Up remarks on a cozy right-wing podcast, he may be the one getting burned. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

OPINION: As the Ford government ushers in rules for special economic zones in Ontario — where laws are lifted in the name of economic development — it is ignoring global examples where this tradeoff went wrong. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Opinion | Susan Riley: How able, and willing, is corporate Canada to disrupt decades-old supply chains, retool its factories, and redirect its efforts away from the United States?

just go to the protests take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

thinking about how in Oryx and Crake one of the symptoms of cultural decay that leads to the protagonist aimlessly help wipe out most of humanity is a digital world where art is merely constantly remixed and nothing new is actually created

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

This is another form of censorship and book banning to my mind: you force an ersatz simplification on young readers while making the original harder & harder to obtain, then tell them the ersatz is better than the real thing (bc it is programmed propaganda pablum).

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

It is good to laugh.

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

One of my fav historical accounts ever is two cousins who were brought to the court of King Bimbisara for punishment(so we're talking like 300 BC) because they would stand at the town square loudly arguing with each other about affairs of the kingdom and disturbing the peace

From a practical perspective you have the problem this means the family will be billionaires for generations, and our current experience shows that means they’ll be among the few most powerful people in the country

It’s a refrain, a strategic frame, and a call for action. Expect the rank and file right to start collecting “evidence” (producing content) to support the “health care for illegal aliens” frame.