The rise and fall and rise and fall of photo radar in Ontario — by @jbcurio.bsky.social

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

shortened this (grim, awful) headline for you

do you follow the NFL closely? do you have thoughts about the rise of “digital only” games and needing to subscribe to like 12 different streaming services to follow your team, or the league as a whole? drop me a line as I would like to speak with you for an article. (RT plz!)

More Platner/aquaculture content courtesy of a 2021 video from the Maine Aquaculture Association. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ev...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

"It's really frustrating to watch these inquests and see the outcomes be the same over, and over and over again. … I think that there's more hope in speaking out and spreading the word, getting more people to see and understand what's really going on." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt #OnPoli

Well worth reading: “growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis.”

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

“I’m actually quite angry that this [genetic analysis] was not done 15 years ago, just like for every other major disease.” @cgatist.bsky.social talking about DecodeME: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar... Without paywall: archive.ph/BSpnr

This is huge. For years there's been a misconception that it's psychological and all in your head. We can already show changes in blood vessels, muscle tissue, etc. Now we see the genes that show ME/CFS disposition are NOT the same as the genes that show disposition for depression/anxiety/etc.

OPM states that it is OK for federal employees to religiously proselytize their coworkers *or the public* while on duty, or for supervisors to ask their subordinates to join them in prayer in the workplace. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Still trying to find a local GTA doctor willing to help with the first human clinical trials of 150 kHz ultrasound treatment to help break up microclots. The California researchers will provide the ultrasound machine, and I will be the human patient. Any takers?

Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.

Most of my reporting on jail conditions this year has focused on Maplehurst in Milton. But the dysfunction in Ontario's jails is system-wide. Today's story shows how the inhumane conditions across the province impact staff, inmates & the judicial system as a whole. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

A movie that is good at all times but feels especially good right now.

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Just a refresher, my only foray in business writing with the great Christine Dobby who did all the heavy lifting. Seems appropriate to revisit www.thestar.com/business/edw...

Name one thing John Tory accomplished during nine years as mayor of Toronto challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) www.thestar.com/news/gta/joh...

— E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, “What I Believe” (1951)

Properly fitted #N95 #masks can filter out most PM2.5 particles, the ones most commonly linked to health effects. You will still smell #smoke since N95's can't stop gases which cause irritation. P100 for more severe situations. #wildfires healthybuildings.hsph.harvard.edu/wildfireresp....

What happened to Transit City? Why does building transit in Ontario take so long? @spaikin.bsky.social asks former Toronto mayor David Miller, former chief planner @jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social, and @johnlorinc.bsky.social about the past, present & future of moving people in the GTHA. #topoli

while back someone described the Trump admin as "Oops! All Scheming Viziers" and I honestly haven't stopped laughing

For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Do NYT freelancers also get to weigh in on display pre-publication? Not the most critical point here, probably. I'm just wondering whether some writers are reading this and bristling at the "we."

I remembered the name John Morales not because I have any reason to track Floridian weather systems but because I read this last year and thought it was quite something (still do): thebulletin.org/2024/09/hurr...

The Spec: 'He ran marathons and hiked Everest. But after being ravaged by long COVID, this Hamilton man can’t work — he can barely leave home' 'DeRosa..went from running marathons..to falling so ill from long COVID..barely leaves his Hamilton Mountain home' www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

I saw someone post that Gavin Newsom is killing his chances to become President with his proposal for $2,000 in asset limits for Medicaid. Unfortunately, disability issues are not a dealbreaker for a lot of voters. Many don't even know about asset limits for SSI.

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

1984 was a banner year, what with The Dog Who Stopped the War and Iceman. Saw the former at a birthday party. Half the kids were sobbing. The other half were silently trembling.

Why we should care about the measles outbreaks: -In wealthy countries, 0.1%-0.2% of measles cases result in death -In poorer countries or populations, up to 10% of cases will die -15-30% of measles cases will require hospitalization Thread [1/8]

King Features is a subsidiary of Heart Communications, a conglomerate which, among other things, buys up newspapers, dismantles them, & fills the husk with cheap syndicated content, some of which is now produced by its strategic partner, OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT.

Quite disheartening to return from 10 days working with some of the most important and relevant #MECFS and #LongCOVID researchers in the world and to read this drivel being allowed through from @bmj_latest. Let's be unambiguous about this: BMJ has www.bmj.com/content/389/... 1/

There are no longer left-wingers, right-wingers, and centrists. There are only progressives, regressives, and cowards.

It's no coincidence that there's a city in Ohio called Toronto.

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

Eglinton Crosstown LRT (Toronto) construction signage. Yes indeed!!

Hating on rival Canadian hockey teams was once A Part of Our Heritage, and this Leafs fan believes it should be again. For @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Must be a bit weird to have known the new Pope as "Bob."

Vinay Prasad, who made a name for himself throughout the pandemic for casting doubt on clinical trials, is now the director of FDA's CBER (which reviews new vaccines and therapies).

It really is only a light exaggeration to say that every single day policymakers wake up, see a big red button labelled "end the housing crisis by not being stupid", and decide not to push the button

NEW: The president's executive order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. to.pbs.org/44UvK1B