So here's the thing, if your goal is to tackle climate change by increasing fossil fuel production or to control disease by ignoring harms or increasing disease prevalence. I'm pretty much going to think that you're either an idiot or a bad actor. You can choose, it doesn't matter to me.

The thing that people that try to manufacture permissible deaths from covid don't talk about is that those other diseases that have manufactured permissible deaths, like influenza, haven't gone away. They are actually killing more now than they have for a long time.

Well it looks like portions of YYC have finally reached the desired level of preventable respiratory disease. "Normal" has been achieved! I'm sure everyone that hasn't died from it so far, is very pleased that we are hopefully on the downslope. Hybrid immunity for the win! /S

So I've been very curious why even though the US is producing record amounts of oil they are absolutely desperate to control heavy oil production (in Canada & Venezuela). Pretty sure I've got it sorted out now & it all goes back to the 1970's oil crisis (like a huge amount of things do). In the 80's

There are numerous well done papers describing the precise physics at play in respiratory viruses. There are numerous animal & human studies showing that physics is real. The answer as to why farm workers have higher standards than healthcare workers is incompetence.

Carney better not cave, again. "Greer said the U.S. will take aim at two major Canadian policies: the Online Streaming Act, which brought online platforms like Netflix, Spotify, & YouTube under Canadian broadcasting rules, & the supply-managed dairy sector, among others." #Sovereignty #CdnPoli

It always blows my mind to read case studies out of Asia & realize that they are probably a decade ahead of public health in the West in terms of actually understanding respiratory disease transmission. Peak public health in the West seem to be don't test, don't tell.

How this isn't actually criminal is amazing to me.

"Senior Alberta government officials stalled the submission of a coal mine pollution study to a scientific journal and prevented the lead researcher from speaking publicly about his work, according to records The Narwhal obtained through a freedom of information request."

I'm constantly amazed that people/corporations/governments/opinion writers think they have the right to destroy the biosphere for all life on earth, for many centuries, because they created a captured market they can exploit & that normal people just go along with it without question or complaint.

Whelp had to fill out the permission slip to allow my teenager to learn about basic human biology. Such a grand place the weirdo's have made Alberta. 🙃

Preventable deaths. Vaccinate, clean indoor air, mask (KN95/N95) in high density/ high transmission settings. We don't need to do this. We don't need to make it easy on viruses.

Just because you’re a professor and you hold the opinion that masks don’t work doesn’t make you a “top scientist”.

I recently watched a good documentary about “toxic tofu” in Indonesia. It explains something bigger than tofu. I'm going to try to capture it in a thread here. Western countries ship plastic waste overseas. It’s so abundant that tofu makers burn it as fuel to cook food.

Very timely, honest & uncomfortable paper.

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

Santa out on the river fly fishing today.

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.

Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads | Center for Climate Integrity climateintegrity.org/projects/big...

WHO expert panel reaffirms no link between #vaccines and #autism The analysis also found no tie between aluminum adjuvants and autism. www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

So lots of people are watching the increasingly bizarre things happening in the US & wondering what is going on? Have they all lost their minds? No. They have not & this is far more chilling than that. What they are doing is called epistemic destabilization & it's a core

So this is pretty bad for all sorts of reasons. The biggest is that this kind of blatant disinformation & propaganda actually destroys the ability to hold real problems accountable. There is simply no credible evidence that the COVID vaccines were not a massive life saving measure. For sure there

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

It's going to be the same here in Canada very soon if it isn't already. We knew this was coming. We had lots of warning, but instead of reacting to it, we once again embrace disease. There should have been massive vaccination campaigns & promotion of masking, indoor air cleaning & ventilation.

Some good links for those struggling to understand why the whole "but pipelines are actually good for the environment & if we don't do it someone else will & think of the economy" argument is not only greenwashing, but propaganda straight from fossil fuel companies.

I really find it quite amazing that "centrists" think they are winning the hearts & minds of Albertans by giving into their irrational demands. I know people that literally sat in that Calgary chamber of conference meeting, gave Carney a standing ovation & then immediately after started laughing

In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy. Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.

You can get into politics to improve lives or you can go after vulnerable children and pick fights with the federal government.

Even North Korea doesn't do this. I'm not aware of any place on earth that does.

I know that the vast majority of people don't follow climate activism, but at this exact moment in time that's a big problem because the "centrists" in power in Canada & those that promote them are literally following a fossil fuel industry designed campaign to delay action on Climate Change.

As @pamelabanting.bsky.social pointed out, the same UCP govt that gutted @athabascau.bsky.social, the online university, in an attempt to force people to move to Athabasca attempted to expedite the Peterson Academy, which has no presence in Canada let alone Alberta. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

There is NOTHING reasonable or rational going on in Alberta. There will NEVER be enough done to satisfy those captured by industry in Alberta. NEVER. They have literally said so. They view ANY attempt at rational actions as hostile to their industry, whether that is paying for abandoned wells or

I won't be going to the US or allow anyone in my family to go, but holy fascist batman. news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

One of my rapidly growing pet peeves from energy bro's is when they discount the reason we need to transition from FF. They compare it to previous transitions, but we've never been in the situation where the actual sustainability of our civilization depends on the transition.

Well done article www.wired.com/story/why-te...

“Hybrid immunity” often functions as a rhetorical device that hides survivorship bias and reframes avoidable infection as a beneficial immune strategy, when the protective effect is overwhelmingly from vaccination.

Great article.

Personally, I think it's absurd that a separatist fascist party gets to claim the term "conservative" & prevent real conservatists from using it. In the before times normal Albertan's of all political stripes would have soundly rejected that.

I tallied the number of court cases or legal challenges Alberta’s government has recently stepped in to block or pre-empt. Was surprised how long the exercise took - they’re at like a one-per-week clip: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The idea that people will widely adopt taking vaccinations for dozens of pathogens (or even 2) yearly is frankly a fantasy. This is why controlling the medium those pathogens spread in is a far more viable solution. It can happen without the buy in of millions of people.

Roughly 90% of CO₂ from fossil fuels comes from consumption, not production (Scope 3). Pretending that federal taxes, which are often side-stepped and only target production, effectively curb emissions is greenwashing.

Let me put this gently: if you’re a health or health-science communicator and you’re not talking about clean indoor air and high-quality masks, you are failing at a core part of your job. Clean air is the public health of the 21st century. Time to catch up.

From an article I read today: "From the villages of Khuzestan to the capital Tehran, Iranians are confronting what psychiatrists now call 'climate anxiety' - a collective dread born from watching their most basic resource disappear."

Holy smokes! You want to make society a whole lots healthier, clean the freaking air & wear N95 masks. Look at the wide range of viruses! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Six-week study of 67 students in four classes, 1047 saliva samples -> "Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact." www.nature.com/articles/s41... HT: Emily Martin

I have to say, I'm continuously shocked by just how low this government can go. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Almost everyone who touts the benefit of private healthcare is hoping to profit from private healthcare.

Had a battery powered vacuum. Battery only lasted a year. Pulled it apart & reverse engineered the board. It was designed to destroy the battery. Rebuilt it with my own circuitry & now it runs off wall voltage. One vacuum saved from the landfill. 👍👍🤣

Oil supply makes demand, not supply fills demand. This is called manufactured demand. It works with lots of things, but with this thing, we need to stop.(really probably need to stop with most things) No more pipelines.