Truly dark things our American friends are being put through

also, we have covid and influenza still causing outbreaks on hospital units. Unforced error! We should have near-zero or zero Hospital-acquired infections. Respiratory infections (including influenza and COVID) are predominantly spread by airborne means 10/

Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

I've posted an update on the campaign @ahmadmaysra22.bsky.social and I have been working on. We're very close and very hopeful about meeting the travel goal for when the Rafah crossing opens. ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1493...

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to this legend who leaned out of his van when he saw the Land Rover in Dublin yesterday 💚🤍🧡

Here’s a thread for anyone who wants to help buy gifts this year for trans kids in need this year Please share!! Every year I use my social media accounts to collect money for kids’ Transanta wishlists When we pool our money it goes far — we’ve bought ~$17,000 worth of gifts since 2022

They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.

An excellent, nuanced read on the differences between queer readers reading queer fiction written by queer people and the straight women who don't always get it.

The miracle of Hanukkah was that against all odds the light endured—it was never extinguished. Hanukkah teaches us to persist, even in the darkest of moments. Inspired by our ancestors and out of a commitment to justice we keep going.

The Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians is not over, it is expanding. With funding and support from the US, the Israeli state is entrenching the long-term illegal control and annexation of territory in Gaza.

A lifelong activist, Shatzi fought for justice as part of the movements for LGBTQ liberation, anti-nuclear weapons, racial justice, and Palestine. In 1986, she marched in Pride carrying a sign with a pink triangle that said Jews for Palestinian Self-Determination.

On the final, eighth night of Hanukkah, we honored the memory of our beloved Shatzi Weisberger (@peoplesbubbie) (1930-2022), Z’’L. Shatzi was a proud anti-Zionist, lesbian, activist, nurse, death educator, New Yorker, and member of JVP.

jfc. mark carney is one slimy ass banker. just entirely full of shit. carbon capture is a fucking scam the mou is a fire sale on canada's future. the "nation building" projects are the wishlist from the oil and gas lobby. this guy is worse than harper by a long shot. #cdnpoli #climatecrisis

Canada’s neo-Nazi movements are growing. The largest and fastest-growing are the Second Sons. Parents, be careful of the media your children are absorbing

“There is desperation among Palestinian villagers and farmers as they watch the takeover of their lands at a pace never seen before… The Israeli onslaught has all but vanquished a free Palestinian existence in the West Bank.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.”

So, in addition to the Cars of it all, we just don't yet have the hardened, sustainable, multiply redundant infrastructure necessary to make automated vehicles work. Also, as the article notes, humans & semi-autonomous networks likely won't respond the same way if & when a facilitating system fails.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

I do not understand how anyone with any sense of moral decency and compassion could continue to defend, support, or engage in any kind of Israel apologia. It's indescribably evil. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

The 90% argument is a lie, of course. Most are white www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6517...

Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them. This is glorious. 🔥

For years I’ve used this activity, created by @rpanchasi.bsky.social, that asks students to reconstruct an entire monograph from the endnotes. It’s a fun and brilliant way to show them that citations are entire scholarly conversations in themselves.

This seems extremely likely. The BC NDP and Bonnie Henry are made for each other: neither cares about facts, both are masters of spin, and all either one cares about is power, influence, and money, not the health and well-being of citizens.

Ooooh. Good catch, @mark-ungrin.bsky.social. What say you, @bcndp.bsky.social ? You cool with casting the immunocompromised, disabled, those with Long COVID or those just wanting to avoid illness as zealots?! Is Bonnie Henry whispering in your ear?

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Wait what? How much are we spending to establish a surveillance city?

1/ A couple of informed rebuttals to your atrocious article, @matthabusby.bsky.social And more coming, no doubt -

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”

Hummingbirds need help this winter in Metro Vancouver. Here's what to do

people will see the frustration and the irritability that comes with being close to a creative vision but not quite executing it, and mistake it for a flaw to be completely steamrolled and sanded away instead of recognizing it as the crucial fuel that leads to the ecstasy of eventually surpassing it

"The first study exploring the problem was published in 2004 by then–high school student Sarah Mims and her father, who used a smoke detector attached to a kite to collect fungal samples and correlate them with smokey days." Wow! Cool start to an important field of study.

Ahlam has been going to dialysis in Gaza this entire time- as you can imagine this is incredibly difficult and she needs to be somewhere better to get treatment. Even a little donation can help towards an evac fund ❤️

🇨🇦"We project Canada’s GDP will grow from 1.5% to at least 56%, provided we can sustain the same amount of growth between Shane & Ilya in the locker room, if you catch my drift,” Carney added, attempting but failing to wink suggestively."

CBC has put together an impressive collection of clips exposing Diagolon and Second Sons in their own words. These are white nationalists and neo-Nazis who want an ethnic cleansing and believe "violence is the answer." Largest group of its kind in Canadian history. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

this is a good battle to pick. the CEO mentioned using "AI" and got so much shit for it immediately that he's rattled and backpedaling. easy win there

UK based insurance company NorthStandard is insuring two vessels currently transporting over 2,000 tonnes of military materiel for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians urgently call supporters globally to mount pressure on NorthStandard. Read more: loom.ly/Yn7PU2E

Good news! We’ve extended the application deadline to exhibit at TCAF 2026 or suggest programming. We know life, art, and admin can be extra hard to juggle before the holidays, and we want to ensure everyone has a little more breathing room. Apply by December 29 at 11:59pm ET www.torontocomics.com

This is the wrong message to be telling parents in the midst of a virulent influenza A H3N2 season. 3 children in Ontario just died of influenza A www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

There are burial sites all along the Attawapiskat River, where Ford plans to build his hwy to Ring of Fire. And a new community inhabited by younger members of the Northern Ontario First Nations. ricochet.media/indigenous/l...

Attended Senior Services Society holiday luncheon-hearing seniors’ housing struggles shows why this work matters. Please donate to Home for the Holidays to help vulnerable seniors secure safe, stable homes and community support this winter. wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblin…

Guess I'll post this again

"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"

"cooking with mom" (1/3) 💚🤍❤️ an excerpt from my new graphic memoir, Talking to My Father's Ghost

If our governments are not going to use our tax dollars to help people - the entire reason we pay taxes - then this sort of thing is going to happen🤷🏻‍♀️🎅✊

I realize this is gonna come off as prickly, but instead of your pinned post being something like, 'this is a safe space for queer people 🥰,' I would feel safer and more supported if your pinned post was, 'the last time I called my rep on behalf of queer rights was (recent date here)'

Amanda Burrows Wants to Be Vancouver's First Renter, and Woman, Mayor via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

@megaphonemagazine.com, based in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, amplifies marginalized voices and creates meaningful work for those experiencing poverty. This winter, you can help them raise funds to continue to invest in the community.

LISTEN: My @ricochetmedia.bsky.social “In Bed with the Elephant” podcast interview with lawyer/activist/author & founder of #BlackLivesMatter Canada #SandyHudson about “#Defunding the #Police: Imagining Possible Futures of Safety & Justice” podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...