Printed out some COVID mitigation zines today! Zines are "What's up with COVID and what we can do about it 2026 edition" by @newlevant.bsky.social: newlevant.com/COVIDzine & "Clean air in your school and everywhere" by @porkpie.ca : www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...

Your zine inspired me to make a similar one a while back for an ongoing action to improve indoor air quality in schools. Download link here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aoq13...

Posting this again because I'm printing it today and it's a really good zine and you should check it out/compensate Hazel if you can afford to do so.

I'm sure my students would LOVE your positive and constructive feedback. They would love to know that they're not screaming into the void, that people read their stuff and think it's cool, too! So I'm going to start posting my Medium blog, created specifically for this course, here. My first post:

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

🇨🇦 Canadians, in case you missed it: there's a petition collecting signatures to ask that the federal government intervene to protect access to healthcare for trans people in provinces who have restricted it (eg Alberta's egregious use of the notwithstanding clause): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:

Also, if you'd like to assist with the archive's goal of preserving Nova Scotia video game and interactive digital arts history I have a Gofundme page. All funds go towards acquiring games and artifacts, as well as items to preserve them with. gofund.me/11c2641e5 #NovaScotia #HRM #Halifax

Adam's work curating and archiving the Nova Scotian game dev scene, past and present, is admirable. Check out all these new games!

This is incredible: CCC #39C3 (hacker conference in Germany) is doing CO2 room monitoring this year just like @kawaiicon.bsky.social so attendees can assess risk! - Dashboard link: datagnome.de/sensors/#__t... - Image/alt via @itgrrl.com - Previously @wired.com - www.wired.com/story/this-h...

I love winter solstice. Not because it is the beginning of winter or the darkest day of the year but because from this day on, the light slowly starts to come back.

We've done it! Ubisoft Halifax has voted yes to unionize with @cwacanada1.bsky.social

One of the most difficult things you will navigate if you develop a serious illness/disability (before you're retirement home aged) is every corner of society is telling you to "just go away". Everyone--government and even many folks you counted as friends--wants you to be someone else's problem.

COVID shot reduces risk of severe illness, premature birth in pregnancy, study says The Canadian Press December 15, 2025 By Nicole Ireland stillcoviding.ca/en/news/covi... #COVID #CdnPoli #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver

This will result in more effective infection control! If you're looking for respirator masks, you can reach out to PoPNS or Mask Bloc HFX, or pick-up at: ▫️Venus Envy ▫️Cape & Cowl Comics ▫️HFX Community Fridge ▫️Dartmouth Community Fridge ▫️Cole Harbour Community Fridge

I'm thinking of trying Vivaldi vivaldi.com across platforms and maybe Gnome Web welcome.gnome.org/app/Epiphany/ on my Linux machine.

Bummed to hear Larian is not cool™️

My zoomer spouse informed me that scene is making a comeback just as my wide leg maternity jeans arrived.

I will say that I find it very shady and mildly undemocratic that the Liberals are trying to obtain a majority they weren’t elected on through floor crossings That and minority governments are better for democracy due to the compromise they necessitate OH WELL

CHAIR is offering to fund facility-wide installation of Upper Air UV disinfection to a select number of acute care & long-term care facilities in 🇨🇦 as part of the world’s first large-scale UV pilot project for healthcare. chaircoalition.org

also it’s tiresome and we’re all busy but this is another reminder why in this low-info, AI-poisoned, high-bullshit social media ecosystem we all are unfortunately in now, it’s CRITICAL to check up on primary sources even/especially if the conclusions are something that “seems right”.

Got flu problems? Try this.

If you work in a Canadian healthcare setting (or other workplace) where COVID-19 or other pathogens *might* be present, and want to determine what the proper standards-compliant PPE is for your workplace, the CSA provides an interactive tool that will identify that and generate a printable report.

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

Phew, if you're using the YourHealthNS app, the patient summary is worth a little check... Mine reads like it's AI-generated, including hallucinations.

CAVI launched a new initiative today to expand our impact beyond public libraries. Please share!

Hi all! After our initial round of hirings, we are now opening applications for the Creative Circle! We're looking for any creatives who earn money through their work and who want to have a say in our collective. Sound like you? Sign up with this form:

@conjured.ink is a collective building a network and community of ecommerce tools that will allow for cheap or even free self-hosting of online shops by anyone, while providing maximal freedom when it comes to payment processors. opencollective.com/conjured-ink...

If you’re in Nova Scotia, ask me about our mask bloc or @calhrm.bsky.social !!!!

i knew this part of using linux would be different intellectually, but i cannot express how nice it feels to not have my OS nagging me about anything, trying to get me to use AI, or trying to upsell me on cloud storage every three seconds.

Started to peruse the government of Canada’s AI projects register and folks…it’s not great. You can take a look at the data yourself here: open.canada.ca/data/en/data... I’m still digging into it and reserving most of my comments until I’ve looked more closely and not on Bluesky but 1/2

Anyone local need cookware?

Up now! @jeanketterling.bsky.social and I submitted a brief to Senate re: S-209, Canada's porn age verification bill. Aside from the many privacy and implementation issues, we focus on the bogus ideological assumptions underpinning the Bill's rationale. Read it here: sencanada.ca/Content/Sen/...

i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

I'm seeking recommendations for a podcast listening app! Send em if you got em! I used overcast AGES ago, then got embedded into Appleland and am slowly chipping my way out now...curious what people are enjoying out there and not corporate, ideally FOSS/made by cool people, and private?

This @thesicktimes.org article really captures why I continue to care and take action around the ongoing COVID19 pandemic: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...

Support your local devs! It's Creator Day on itch.io where the devs receive most of the funds from purchases. I have been keeping a games list of Atlantic Canadian developed games at the link below. itch.io/c/3613272/at... #novascotia #newbrunswick #pei #nfld #gamedev

If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…

GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc! come say hi? 😀 diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...

I posted about a lost cat earlier; the post is taken down because she's been found and is safe & sound at home 😻

"you should produce material assuming it will not be used to communicate anything to another person" is a recipe for wasting everyone's life

HaliSky, the magnificent @lanrickbennett.bsky.social is giving the final Dal College of Sustainability lecture of the year next week! You can attend in person or email for the Zoom link. Thurs, Nov 27 7:15-8:30pm in the Potter auditorium of the Rowe building.

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

‘I do it for my children and my grandchildren’: Mi’kmaq land defenders and supporters rally to protect Nova Scotia Story by @mmughees.bsky.social I love to see this. People are getting together to say, "enough." www.halifaxexaminer.ca/indigenous-n...

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

(Online) Sundays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. PT: The Little Zoom Writers Room, "a weekly co-writing space open to all COVID realists." Free. Registration/more info: linktr.ee/thelittlezoo...