So we can only meaningfully discuss public health strategies that demand the individual make a personal choice with their own body. We're not interested in engaging with broader discussions about the state's role in infection control. Even in publicly managed spaces like schools.

Not one fucking word from any quoted health expert on cleaning classroom air. Yes, talk about vaccines, ofc that's important. But there's something else we could talk about here: a measure that protects everyone but doesn't trigger endless debates on the choice to vaccinate. Clean classroom air!

This highlighted comment for Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social is true, but him using it here is breathtakingly disingenuous, as it implies his government no longer allows clearcutting in old-growth forests, which it absolutely does. campbellrivermirror.com/2025/12/03/p... #bcpoli

I have seen the non-joke version of this so many, many times.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

It’s #InternationalDisabilitiesDay • I'm a disabled #embroidery artist. My work combines anatomy & symptomatology into #SciArt. Here is body map (2016) in which I stitched my #MECFS symptoms as I felt them. To learn more about my work, Here’s a recent interview: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Canadian products being used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Sudan, and the Caribbean, but stopping this apparently wrong because it would hurt the arms industry and relations with the fascists south of the border. We are governed by ghouls. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...

Just thought I'd give your eyes a little rest from Pantone's 2026 color of the year, since it's apparently everywhere on social media today. Pictured: Norway Lights by Erin Hanson, 2025 #art #artist @bsky.art #womanartist #dailyart #landscapepainting #natureart #oilpainting🎨#colorfulart

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

Related, my Tidal vibe this year was pretty on point :)

Fewer than 50 slots left in this Long Covid trial (down from 1000!) They’re especially hoping to enroll folks from North Dakota, Mississippi and Puerto Rico, as well as more BIPOC participants. To sign up: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online: ✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content ✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online ✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

Full-on Conservative-brained prime minister. The Liberals were hoodwinked.

Clocking in for my daily 15 minutes of “fuck Mark Carney though.”

Another resignation from the Net-Zero Advisory Board -- this time, Catherine Abreu. www.linkedin.com/posts/cather...

Universal basic income would make our communities a lot safer than hiring more police. Building affordable housing for everyone would be a lot more useful than 1000 more police.

Sir, please consult with actual crime experts on what reduces crime.

I'm sure none of these will be showing up to crush First Nation resistance to the pipeline or other favored projects..

As I've been saying since January, Carney's framing of the Trump administration as a bad trading partner instead of a fascist regime would lead to greater entanglement with fascism as we work to restore relations.

Lying in bed wondering why I’m feeling more fatigued after having a good morning. Low blood sugar? Talked to long on the phone? Then I realize I haven’t had my mid morning supplements, including CoQ10. Whoops!

It’s time for the NDP to tell the truth: we must get off fossil fuels fast—with no worker left behind. Today I’m unveiling our Green New Deal: a plan to tackle both the climate and affordability crises by creating 1M good jobs, lowering bills, and building a new economy. Join us: lewisforleader.ca

Looking to ditch Spotify? @janus.bsky.social wrote this up for @fightforthefuture.org and it's an easy step-by-step guide for how to do it in the least painless way possible touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...

Hey what a lovely alternative to supporting the NYT

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

This is an important bit of framing I do for myself on my worst days. I remind myself that my body isn’t attacking me/itself but is *probably* trying to protect me/itself from pathogens on an ongoing basis, in a was that requires it to take systems offline.

They did this through things like eugenic marriage laws, better baby contests, and fitter family contests. Some of this is certainly about preventing disease, but most of it is about preserving & supporting white supremacy. Only white protestant babies, for example, could win a better baby contest.

NOW, it's a pseudoscience because it's been debunked & is no longer mainstream scientific thinking. Calling historical eugenics a pseudoscience lets science & scientists of the past off the hook (Also, PS is more of a modern-day term. We had terms like "quackery" but eugenics was not that)

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.

Elf on a shelf is all about surveillance and controlling kids... so i made this and i'm not sorry

What are your favourite alternatives to Spotify for listening to music? I use it to help me get through task initiation problems but the company stinks. Not too worried about sharing playlists and such.

in practice more like 3 months. (definitely no multiple times a week spam!! Pacing means that's impossible 😆 ). It covers new and significantly updated products, events, website updates (like that we can ship to the USA again!), most recent blog post, and anything else I think needs to be in it.

OK so one of the things I see ppl doing over and over is accepting the premise of weird tech bros Yes, eugenics IS very bad Does this company have the ability to choose the IQ of your kid? Or have any way of manipulating their potential intellect by whatever measure? I mean, no. Absolutely no.

In the current context (ongoing impacts of COVID, ongoing teacher shortages, cuts to EAs and other supports, inadequate infrastructure), increases to scores feel like a minor miracle, actually. Ontario's public school teachers and staff are amazing.

I mean, the negative use cases include supercharged racism, revenge porn, abandonment of critical thought development, AND get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts

Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know

I am once again telling editors that almost everything I post is a pitch, please hire me to work for you

just got an email where someone saw a post I made and asked if I wanted to do some work based on it, and its the first time I've felt like this website has the Old Twitter juice (building a career by tweeting about shit I want to write).

Would be cool to have more vaccinations for more herpesviruses (e.g. EBV and CMV and HSV) because in addition to being implicated in myalgic encephalomyelitis and the first being implicated in MS, I bet they also have a roll to play in dementia as well.

If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...

Seeing a lot of those “sick as a dog, tested negative for covid” type of posts. I always have two trains of thought. 1) Thank you for at least testing. 2) Did you test more than once? And bonus thought: 2b) Do you wear a mask when you’re out in public with not-covid?

Also, if you (not OP) do not see this as part of a systematic attack on disability protections in the US, please go away, read some books and come back better informed

Spending all day in “waiting mode” (people are working on a thing in my house) and I am both not at rest and very eepy at the same time. Le sigh.

A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work and relocate from their homes.

"I trust Carney because he's a man of his word." "Carney doesn't actually want a pipeline, he's just brilliantly playing 4D chess to placate Alberta." Same people.

With Carney it’s heads he wins, tails we lose.

What is lost in a lot of these headlines is the fact that these institutions are vanishing. This is a huge loss for everyone who may ever use a therapeutic medicine in the future. And it isn’t just limited to us unlucky Americans; destroying institutions like the US FDA will have global consequences

I’m actually starting to get concerned that foreign governments aren’t reacting more to the sabotage the US is doing to things like science. Even if they replace what the US does the lost time and resources are going to harm everybody on Earth