Wonderful article about the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library’s awesome work to distribute native seeds! www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/wil...

Same. I am judicious of how and to whom I mention it in medical settings. In general, I am also so sick of all the mental gymnastics we have to do to get help, when all I want to do is curl up in a puddle and have someone help me bc my body can’t make energy anymore.

I generally don’t mention ME, the disease that disabled the fuck out of me & has turned every day into an extreme feat of survival, to most doctors I see. They were taught to not believe in it or that it could be as severe as it is, so telling the truth makes them think you’re a liar.

And this is why I am always going off about people needing to stop thinking of Canada as "benign" peacekeeper or an "unwilling" imperialist partner. Former DHS head Kristi Noem has just been hired by BC mining company, NovaRed Mining headquartered in Vancouver. globalnews.ca/news/1190912...

“I’m ashamed to say that my very first reaction to that diagnosis was, oh my God, I don’t want her to have that because that was a label, a stigma that you are taught in medicine.” @binitakane.bsky.social speaking about her daughter’s diagnosis of #MECFS following Covid.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

I also do a scan on long covid treatment - both are discouraging 😞

So one of the things I do at regular intervals is a literature scan on long covid prevention Basically, no one giving a fuck about preventing this fucking awful disease is getting a bit demoralizing

Paper spotlights high healthcare burden and costs of long COVID People with long COVID use nearly every type of healthcare service more frequently than those who recovered fully from COVID or were never infected. Read more: ow.ly/Sk0F50ZbOc1

3 new papers on Covid boosters today 1. Less major adverse cardiovascular events in US Veterans jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 2. High effectiveness for older adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 3. Improved outcomes across all adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Health Risk Low Except For Those At Risk From Health Risk

Experts Praise Public For Adapting To Constant Illness Without Asking Follow Up Questions

The deaths are almost all young people too—mostly younger than me. Mostly women. And the world simply doesn't care. If the media reports on a #SevereME death at all, it's often in the context of talking about assisted suicide as if it's a mercy—

This. And it could be you.

This thread is just 💔. My god. These poor kids. What have we done 😭 #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDKids (And, FFS, i will pre-emptively remind some of you that we as a society are supposed to protect ALL children, inc ones whose parents don't vaccinate them, you ghouls.)

1/ I have family in 🇿🇦 Cape Town who are ardently anti-vax, deeply religious, & tertiary educated. They are currently pursuing medical help for their severely disabled 11-year old child. They will consider any diagnosis EXCEPT #LongCOVID (because that would mean #COVID wasn't actually a hoax) -

The director-general of the World Health Organization is profoundly worried about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, he told STAT in an interview. www.statnews.com/2026/06/13/w...

I hear *so many* stories like this, including from affected HCW. Misinformation spread by public health and IPC trying to bury their failure on airborne transmission hasn't just wasted an enormous number of lives among those who mistakenly trusted them - it gives license to mistreat others too.

When will #PublicHealth #MedSky learn? When you conclude droplet or 'close contact' transmission, you are (wilfully, now - we see you 🤬) misinterpreting close RANGE and/or long duration aerosol transmission i.e., AIRBORNE transmission.

A thread today about Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies to various pathogens and why they seem to be elevated a lot in people with #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic #lyme/tick- and vector-borne illnesses and other complex chronic illnesses. First, let's start basic: what is IgG? 1/

The prevalence of long covid in Canada is estimated to be 3.5 to 4.6% of the population. The prevalence of cancer in Canada is in the range 1.8% of the population. Yet the media ignore long covid as if it’s not there at all! So shocking! We must talk about long covid and prevent it!

I am flabbergasted that journalists in Canada so obviously and blatantly ignore the massive impacts of Long COVID on the Canadian workforce! This is a consequence of repeated COVID infections in unprotected workplaces. A gigantic mass disabling event!

AI is fossil capital accumulation: One of govt's stated top “public policy benefits” of constructing data centres is creating new markets for Canadian fracked gas producers, w/ build-out of vast electricity-consuming data centres providing markets for Canadian energy. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Thread. I’m also fed up with the “Ebola isn’t airborne” and the “it can’t get out of the respiratory tract” crowd. So many people outing themselves as having not learned a thing since 2020. Meanwhile real people working in an Ebola outbreak right now are being given surgical masks.

New study: more evidence of alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease in people with Long COVID NIH recently launched the second phase of their adult observational study within RECOVER Veteran Affairs is leading a potentially harmful trial of dieting and exercise for LC shorturl.at/d5mco

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

Gift article: big news. Allons-y! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8951e71...

This is a welcome sign of progress!

I don't know how to convince you to take care of your comrades. But Long COVID impacts every fight for justice, every social movement. Honor the energy and integrity of the folks in my latest @thesicktimes.org feature. Be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together.

In which the Chair of Canada's new National Advisory Panel on *Preventive* Health Services walks-the-talk in his airborne infection-preventing N95 🤩

I will do my utmost best. We’ve got a strong team of members and civil servants. We will be laser focused on maximizing the health potential of all 42,000,000 of us in Canada.

Ottawa to announce new panel on preventative care & cancer screening guidelines chaired by @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social - we're in good hands 🙏 www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6f8ae90...

“Infectious illnesses would no longer be viewed as short-term threats that either kill a person or are quickly forgotten. Instead, they could become recognized as key contributors to chronic disease.” Terrific piece!

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nope. No textbooks. And, soon, they won’t have laptops either because there is no money to replace broken computers.

Kids in Ontario schools don’t use textbooks anymore? 👀

The anatomical proximity and direct connection between the olfactory bulb and the orbital prefrontal cortex (OFC) make it a key neuroinvasion route for #COVID in the brain. In patients with #NeuroCovid, we observe thrombotic events, hypometabolism and atrophy in this region.

I've seen lots of posts from covid cautious folks wondering why some of the biggest reputable names in covid research don't mask. I can't speak for all of them obviously, but I have spoken with someone who has a very good understanding of the risk profile of this disease & is a recognized scientific

The Carney government is trialing AI use in prisons to create profile reports of prisoners, because what could go wrong www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Signed ✅

I am extremely pleased to have this essay, on how American fiction has grappled with COVID, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. This is a subject I care deeply about and had been wanting to write about at length for a long time. Please give it a read.

🧵 PM @mark-carney.bsky.social just launched "AI for All”. That’s $2B+ in data centres & a promise of $200B economic growth. But does this hold up over 25–50 years? A thread on what the evidence actually says. 🇨🇦 #AIforAll #CdnPoli 1/10 PM Carney — AI for All Strategy, June 4, 2026

I wish I could direct every eyeball that read the Wired piece to this

WIRED: Long COVID is “psychogenic” and researchers are “baffled” LC Researchers: We identified a causal link showing a subset of people with Long COVID have autoimmunity and it’s been replicated and published in a top science journal thesicktimes.org/2026/06/02/r...

I spoke with doctors on the frontline of Ebola in Congo, and it made my heart race. “We live with fear in our stomachs,” Dr. Furaha told me. “Every day, there are healthcare providers and patients dying.” My latest @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...