I have been browbeaten by many people as to my decision to leave twitter months ago. "Sensible people must stay and debate!" Wonder if any of those folks have updated their understanding. Is your life better when you spend it arguing with a bot farm?

There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues. @cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄

See what's happening again? 'The public' excludes people with underlying conditions.

New research proves that Drax is sourcing BC old growth to burn—and the BC government is signing off on it Drax is the UK fuel pellet manufacturer. Sign act.stand.earth/page/89926/a... #bcpoli

The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.” Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

This is an excellent primer on the importance of cleaning indoor air as well as how it can be done.

Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

The solution isn't a for-profit system, but like Thompson says there's no use pretending that BC's healthcare system is working or ok.

Alice Wong died of an infection 💔 Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

It is pretty fucked up that disabled people can't even have one day of mourning one of our advocates without random condescension from people who are oh so tired of hearing us correctly state COVID isn't over bc "you've gotta live your lives." Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.

An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity. Icebergs. My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.

i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.

All happy social networks are alike; each unhappy social network is unhappy in its own way. I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.

Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region. Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...

this could be a horrible winter as the flu vaccine is not a match for an emerging strain, and getting a Covid and flu shot at the same time is now shown to reduce effectiveness for both #Covid #Flu www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

Still one of the best articles I've read on this topic and sad i still have to share it with people who ask "why didn't you just leave?" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

🎯🧵 You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax. Pro-infection messaging - Hooray for hybrid immunity! Get infected regularly to avoid that immunity debt! Infection is just as good as vax, except for 'the vulnerable'! - 💯 undermines vaccines. Can't believe we are here.

As usual, those with zero agency are being hit the hardest by our society's callous public health decisions.

It's important to remember that Eby only became premier because the party executives put their thumbs on the scale so hard they broke it. It's embarrassing. He should never stop being embarrassed by it.

What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai. She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

May the ghosts of the one million Iraqis he slaughtered mock and curse him before casting him into eternal torment in hell. May his wife and Liz hear it all. May his agony haunt their dreams. #CheneyDead

#DecaebonizeBC Only thing I'd add is the rate of change now exceeds the rate back then

Whatever people think about the outcome, that entire playoffs was one of the best I’ve ever seen. What an incredible month.

It got me. I'm not even 12-fucking-hours into November 1 and Mariah Carey's Christmas song got me. A woman can't even get a bagel in peace on a Saturday morning...

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

Great work from Rachel Fairbank on the winding story of metformin for #LongCOVID at @thesicktimes.org. Quotes from @jencurtinmd.bsky.social, Rachel Hall Clifford, @chromatowski.bsky.social, Carolyn Bramante, Ed Mills, Melissa Mazur & myself. thesicktimes.org/2025/10/28/m... #MedSky

I hope the tips are for drivers to stop hitting children 🤞🏻

When "what is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment?" become an essential piece of political knowledge, you might be living in a gerontocracy

The skinny white luxury tower at 432 Park Avenue is disintegrating due to the developer's insistence that the concrete be pure white, which weakens it (strengthening elements add colour) This feels so historically fitting right now: insist on pure white, & your whole edifice cracks archive.ph/MiSkE

Trump ending trade talks with Canada because he's a toddler, Carney needs to learn you don't fucking coddle that behaviour - counter tariff right back, hit hard, make a deal with China for soy/wheat and EVs Let him stew in international obscurity #CDNpoli #USpoli apnews.com/article/trum...

It's still bizarre that we can't get Novavax in Canada. Cheaper, fewer side effects, at least as effective (if not moreso), provides an alternative for people who are averse to mRNA for any reason

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

The reason I post a lot about toxic masculinity and masking is because many of us have lived it - and it’s quite terrifying to feel physically unsafe because someone is that angry at you for protecting yourself

The minimum voting age should be WAY lower. Any argument that kids are easy to influence, not competent, or not independent can also be applied to at least some adults who are eligible to vote

A rational assessment of the threat environment for COVID would entail monitoring it properly - including not fudging death statistics, informing the public of the dangers of Long COVID, air filtration in all public buildings and mandatory masking in hospitals.

Kabas is right: access journalism isn't journalism.

RIP Diane Keaton — the news of her death sent me looking for this excellent piece about her and her serious interest in photography by her friend Larry McMurty www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

Oh ho! Up to 312 measles cases in BC today ... Just eyeball that on @tjradcliffe.bsky.social chart 🍿

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40813533/ 🧐

UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.

Here’s the thing I wish everyone could hold in their minds about writers—we love em dashes. We use em dashes. We are humans and not AI. We will not be deleting our em dashes just because AI uses them too. We were here first. You can pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands. F*ck AI.

Children are our future, and we’re letting them down by letting Covid run rampant. Covid reinfection doubles Long Covid risk in kids, Damages their brains & hearts, Hurts their futures, and more open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...

The solution to both the lack of a stable social media site for me to post my little sentences and the financial difficulties of the Canadian post office is for the Canadian post office to create a social media site where I can post my little sentences.