The masses of all political stripes tend towards ignorant fools on many issues. Things like human rights, climate change, disease, etc should not be left o up to the popular opinion of fools. The foundations of civilization can not be left to the whims of the most ignorant. Haven't we learned this?

This headline should tell you all you need to know about who will benefit the most from carbon capture & storage (CCS/CCUS). CCS is NOT a climate solution, it's just a scheme to funnel more public money to already-profitable oil companies www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli

"an affirmation that there are proper limits to liberty in medical emergencies, & that we have collective responsibilities to one another… that public health is an integral value in a free & democratic society, & that it constitutes a pressing & substantial objective for government action."

New study showing that the risk of developing long COVID in children more than doubles from first to second infection. Also some specifics about which organ systems are involved. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

I see lots of people are talking about the mild work out routine of PP. I don't really care about a late middle age/early seniors work out routine nearly as much as I do their ability to come up with plans beyond rhyme levels. Say something intelligent. It's far more important than your kettle bell

It's bonkers to me that the same groups that think they have a right to endanger other people with transmissible diseases, hold an entire city hostage & make an entire province deal with a "separation referendum" that no one wants, think they are the oppressed ones.

Turns out that the people breaking the law were the government, not the protestors. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!" Cool, cool.

COVID infection may impair male fertility, but vaccination shows no effect, review suggests No similar link found between infection and impaired fertility in females, new review suggests. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

A new study published Friday by the Canadian Climate Institute says Canada won’t meet its 2026 interim emissions reduction target, the 2030 Paris Agreement commitment, or even the long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

So at the beginning of the pandemic I said it would take about 5-7 years for people to figure stuff out using heuristic learning methods. I am a crystal ball.

Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Winter Olympics for wearing a “helmet of memory” It had the names of coaches and athletes who had been killed in the war with Russia. He stood firm and lost his Olympic dream, but he’s gaining the Order of Freedom from Ukraine.

Just a point of clarification here. This isn't revoking a scientific finding about greenhouse gasses. It's a denial that climate change is a threat to public health. It's exactly the same nonsense that they & much of the world has done with COVID. We'd better all hope this isn't as wildly successful

The idea that incompetent people can save themselves from accountability of that incompetence by simply lying became popular pretty early in the SARS2 pandemic. Now it's the go-to for incompetents. The only path back to some semblance of a reliable system involves accountability. Until then,

"We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying."

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Among the things I will never understand: why this hasn’t been part of ordinary political discourse since 2018, even among non-GOP folks. “At 3-4C, ‘the economy and society will cease to function as we know it’, scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery.”

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So the most evil people in the history of the world are going to use well known, well established propaganda techniques to accelerate the climate crisis that all life on earth will suffer from for the next 500 years. Mass extinctions, wars, civilizational destabilization all because the most evil

thewalrus.ca/alberta-knew... Alberta Knew Measles Was Harming Pregnant Patients — But Stayed Silent By @monicakidd.bsky.social for the @thewalrus.ca .

Eco-vandalism/Ecocide to go along with the other crimes.

We can impact this universally within a society. We can move this from "personal responsibility" to social responsibility. We should learn from what we have experienced.

There is nothing extreme about any of this. There is no morality in a system that engenders obscene wealth gaps. Where some starve and others live lives of grotesque consumption.

Corb Lund's petition for no coal activities on the eastern slopes of the Rockies finally goes live (i.e. actually issued by Elections Alberta) - 120 day window, closes June 10. #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg www.elections.ab.ca/resources/me...

Silver for Canada in the short track!👍

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

🙃😵‍💫 How many years or likely decades will this misinformation take to die?

Fun post about how Google *can* detect fake images generated by Google AI, but only if you know the obscure way to do it. The mainstream Google tools, meanwhile, claim the image is genuine. (TLDR: Within Gemini, upload an image & start your prompt with '@synthid' to use the little-known tool)

They are pretending it's normal because the additional crimes that the felon is involved with extends to the who's who of the rich & powerful & is used as a coercive tool.

Employment in Alberta is NOT about the amount of oil produced. This is a myth fabricated by corrupt governments & industry lobbyists. This has been confirmed over & over & over. Future job growth will only come from renewables, clean up & decarbonization. www.pembina.org/media-releas...

Reasonable.🙃

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (May 20, 2024) www.propublica.org/article/3m-f...

Bike folks, what's the best way to transport a large medium size dog on a bike? I'm going to be getting a long tail cargo bike, is there a solution that works with that? Trailer? Any recommendations?

Whelp another flu season where taking really basic airborne virus precautions prevented me from catching influenza (even though it was actually in my house for a period). Amazing what you can do when you react to reality.

Cardiac sequelae of Cövid doi.org/10.1111/echo...

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

From April 2025. Today, Mark Carney was asked if he’d enforce the CHA .. "Carney avoided condemning Smith’s privatization and refused to commit to enforcing the Canada Health Act. He said only that he’s planning on “working with the provinces” on healthcare." www.ndp.ca/news/carney-...

Monsters.

There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Something tangential that the Epstien files have made clear to me is that the elites that control our society will preferentially consider the opinions of known criminals as long as they are also considered elites over actual published science or even common moral foundations.

Our new paper: Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy #episky #healthpolicy #medsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Long-COVID symptoms persist for years in nonhospitalized adults, study reveals Adults who were physically active before COVID infection still had impairments years later. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

They should invent laws that rich people have to follow.

“Alberta’s chief justice is investigating the conduct of two judges after the Investigative Journalism Foundation uncovered evidence suggesting they gave money to the United Conservative Party after being appointed to the provincial court bench.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...