Mel Fraser, the Doug Ford appointed CEO of HealthPEI finally got her ass booted out the door. Along with her overpaid HR cronie who went around demoting Nurses and telling Doctors to get stuffed. #cdnpoli www.peicanada.com/eastern_grap...

I've been reminded more than once recently of something I think should be part of a start-of-career scientist's training: If you find yourself in disagreement with another school of thought, your job is not to write papers showing why the adherents of that school are all benighted fools. Rather...

An excerpt from Jesse Jackson’s powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention on July 19, 1988. May he rest in peace.

Ready, Set, Collide 💥 The Large Hadron Collider (#LHC) is gearing up to resume proton collisions. In this concluding physics run of #LHCRun3, proton beams will once again be delivered to the LHC experiments.

I found the longer speech, the whole speech is so heartfelt inappropriate now as well. youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?...

#DogsOfBluesky Kernel and his well-loved hedgehog Herman, who has seen better days. I guess I should get my sewing kit out.

How Right-Wing Political Influencers Dodged Election Spending Rules ‘We actually have a worse dark money problem in Canada than they do in the US.’ #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

My latest story is out. Bots get banned on social media. The workaround? Real humans posting AI-generated messages in a gamified system, coordinated by an AI command centre. And it's being offered to your local town councillor. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/i...

OntarioHealthCoal'n - Privatization is not about wait times. It's about dismantling public health care. #cdnpoli

PM Carney 🇨🇦 on Marco Rubio's Munich speech (French): "Mr. Rubio has spoken, and the American administration from time to time talks about, Christian nationalism ... It is not Canadian nationalism. Canadian nationalism is civic nationalism." #cdnpoli

The privatization of Ontarios health care under Doug Ford continues. Don't forget that under all of his Captain Canada/working with Carney bluster is a man who is on a mission to destroy OHIP via US style privatization. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett with the facts. #Pinks 🔥

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

I walked away from the couch for a few minutes and came back to the dog's toy, Björn, controlling the remote.

Nelson Mandela walked free from prison on this day 1990. "I was called a terrorist, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists."

The history of Black Canadians is one of relentless progress, earned through perseverance, and carried forward by opening doors for so many to follow. This week, we celebrated 30 years of Black History Month in Canada.

Thoughts on Kindness 💭

45 years ago today, Toronto police raided four gay bathhouses, arrested nearly 300 people and sparked such fierce backlash and protests from the city's queer community that it resulted in fully consecrating the Pride movement in Canada. A dark and ugly moment that yielded generational change. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

This province will no longer use X after child and youth advocate raises concerns

Every American needs to watch this:

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Well, well, well. Identity theft is no longer offered and has been removed from my home insurance policy. What a world we are living in.

Reporter - "No questions? How about accountability sir!" As he turns and runs like hell, like the petty, cowardly POS that he is. #cdnpoli

Currently sitting just shy of 13k Signatures, petition closes the morning of Feb 3rd. Of course only sign if you are a Canadian Resident, this is a House of Commons petition, not some change dot org rando

Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator Now operational, a new heat exchange system is reusing hot water from part of the Large Hadron Collider’s cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area. Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Today marks eight years that I’ve been melanoma free. There's a good chance skin cancer is curable if caught and treated early (mine was stage zero melanoma). If you haven't seen a dermatologist lately, please make an appointment this year.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Wow! Scientists have reconstructed a century of solar magnetic history using archival photos from a solar observatory in India of the sun’s chromosphere through a narrow Ca II K filter. This “obsolete” analog data is a goldmine for predicting future space weather. ☀️📜➡️🔮 #SolarPhysics #SpaceWeather

Relaxing radiation safety standards could place women and children at higher risks of health issues

Together, we must defend democracy and defeat authoritarianism.

The @nhm-london.bsky.social has a new sparkle on display, & it’s rather nice A Smokey quartz crystal #octopus that took master carver Patrick Dreher 500 hours to craft- only fitting for a creature that’s spent millions of years evolving its complex nervous system & sophisticated behaviours

🌫️ Early pregnancy is a critical window: new research links sulfur dioxide air pollution to higher odds of congenital limb defects like polydactyly and limb shortening. Air quality matters for maternal health! www.news-medical.net/news/2026012... #MaternalHealth #AirPollution

Trump also just posted an image of his meeting with European leaders from August, but edited to feature a map of North America covered in the US flag -- including Canada

Protesters took aim at the World Economic Forum by projecting a giant image of U.S. President Donald Trump onto a Davos ski slope alongside the slogan "Spirit of Plutocracy."

Fossils aren't just bones! It's easy to think of giant sauropod leg bones or a terrifying theropod claw, but what about other kinds of fossils? They can come in the form of sea shells, coprolites, or even footprints! Thanks for joining us for episode 2 of Paleo Bites! 🦴

Qualifiers: I am appalled at what ICE is doing. I am not an American. I know those supporting their actions do not care about logic. But if you do approve of what ICE is doing, why aren't you upset that they are only helping blue states

Worth every second

2025 was the third hottest year ever. Trend is worrying and faster than expected a few years ago. Only when we stop burning coal, oil and gas, temperature will stop rising. www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Ontario power company calls N.S. solar program a 'win-win' for customers, province PowerBank has one solar garden approved and two projects proposed across province #NovaScotia www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Free link https://archive.is/rGGBD https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/i-left-trumps-america-last-year-to-teach-in-canada-i-didnt-expect-this-from/article_5ffdcabb-099a-41b2-a34a-e151a773667f.html

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

Keep at it. I’m hoping they’ll all migrate to gander social when it comes online. Gandersocial.ca

Thank you! 14,000 Canadians have signed this petition calling for banning X/twitter in Canada as well: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

Mother of daughter killed by impaired driver urges drivers to plan safe ride home during holidays