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Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.

USA: "A 10-month-old infant from Enid, Oklahoma is fighting for her life after falling critically ill with the flu and COVID." "Mariela Hulsey, who was previously healthy, is now in the pediatric intensive care unit... receiving life support following a collapsed lung. In the latest update."

Many keep talking about "a broken system" but then they are calling for that exact same system to be used for "justice." Make it make sense, please.

In 2026 let's not forget that Israel is continuing to commit GENOCIDE. Their actions are deliberate and malicious. Our governments are doing nothing or actively supporting it. It is up to us, the people, to do what we can.

Breaking | Israeli occupation forces open fire towards Palestinians southeastern Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Nova Scotia Health brings back mask mandate https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-health-reintroduces-masking-as-flu-season-blows-in-early 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Covid-cautious queers of Halifax – the Mask4Mask New Year's Eve party is starting now! 🎉 see mask4mask_queers_hfx on IG for details.

Mmm yes... mystery indeed...

I’m proud of myself, and of others here, for getting through another year where being Covid-informed has meant being ridiculed, gaslit, dismissed or bullied. We shall keep going

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

Wishing you all a very masked and mitigated new year. #OneOfTheTwo

In 2026: You will at the very least get a flu shot. Pretty much any pharmacy will give you one. If you can, you will get a COVID shot. Many pharmacies in most states will still give you one! You will heroically save lives.

In 2026: If you can get vaccinated, you will. For the sake of the babies who can't be vaccinated yet. For the sake of the children and adults who are immune compromised. For the sake of the people who can't be vaccinated. You will heroically save lives.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

It’s still not too late to wear a mask! Covid and flu are raging. People are traveling for the holidays & getting sick in the process. A well fitted respirator like an N95 protects you and those around you. It’s an investment in your health plus it shows solidarity with the disability community.

So many people doing important work. Opposing genocide, opposing mass death and violence, fighting for an end to prisons and for land back, pushing for access to healthcare. Public talks, no mask. Disavow covid. Building a future that excludes so many. My heart breaks a thousand times each day.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

It is very odd to feel like everyone hates you when you want to protect yourself from sickness and that your long term sickness from that sickness reminds them of “old”sickness times even though the sickness is on going so they hate you for that too.

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 3,800 hospitalizations, 770 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 20,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid. I’m not making this up.

- lock downs - CERB payments - time to breathe - #BLM protests, #metoo, talks of #basicincome, etc. Billionaires: that's it, back to work Government: whatever you say boss Let er rip bio war letting covid kill masses, unreal cost of living and resulting implications, rising fascism, AI slop....

As an ex healthcare professional (hcp), I am regularly baffled at how the majority of hcp blatantly refuse to educate themselves on covid, mock those who mask or are in denial and, by their non masking actions alone, spread inaccurate, health information that causes harm and death. It is astounding.

Remember when mainstream news sources didn't spin propaganda for billionaires? Or didn't minimize genocide or didn't deny an ongoing pandemic, or weren't racist or sexist or classest or hate on the poor or houseless, or didn't feed the fire of fascism and eugenics? Neither do I.

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Researchers, activists, and community members have been calling attention to this issue for a few years but, like other instances of environmental racism, most people outside these groups ignore the problem. This is just one reason it's so important for the NS report to be made public.

It's good that the NS panel on environmental racism report was leaked, which pushed the gov. to respond, because we need to address the past as well as recognize how this continues. For example, genAI data centers are often built in historically marginalized communities (aka environmental racism). 🧵

At the #MaskTogetherAmerica Long COVID Defense Series I, Dr. Angelique Corthals ( @drcorthals.bsky.social ) spoke about the urgent need to allow patients at all stages and severities to be identified and included in #LongCOVID research.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

1. Sometimes, the absurdity of the situation we're all in just hits me. Going forward, ongoing and continuous transmission of SARS-CoV-2 will lead to an ever-increasing percentage of the global population developing chronic illnesses due to sequelae of infection.

Since yesterday, we can’t stay in our tent anymore. It’s flooded with rain, soaked with water, and freezing cold. Children are shivering with no warmth. Odai, injured by a quadcopter, urgently needs treatment and a warm shelter. Please help us find safety and warmth. 💔🙏 gofund.me/77a751af7

In a neoliberal, white supremacist, labour analysis, sure you could say AI can be used 'responsibly'... but thats not the world we live in AI necessitates resource extraction. Colonial, militarized, imperial states are pushing this shit the hardest. Thats your first clue. Anti-AI is land back.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Carney is seeking investors for a pipeline through Wet'suwet'en territory. Without consent of course. He says the oil will power data centres planned for Alberta. We live in a world where power hungry data centres depend on access to fossil fuels and unmitigated water use. Anti-AI is landback.

James Baldwin described American protest novels as being trapped in the "sunlit prison of the American dream". The American dream is a sunlit prison. And it feels like he is describing 'canada' to me.

ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. FACT. PASS IT ON!

Israel’s war on Gaza has made genocide an accepted weapon of war. We’re already seeing it in Sudan.

If you go into hospital, you shouldn’t have to worry about getting more sick. Unwrap a new special episode: “Beyond Baggy Blues—How to Stop COVID in Hospitals” with Dr Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social, Board Chair of the Canadian COVID Society @cancovsoc.bsky.social. Prevention is possible!

Thinking tonight of all the people who, like me, find this the heaviest time of year. The pressure to satisfy expectations - to feel what we’re supposed to feel - is often unbearable. Add in elderly family members, struggling friends and a world gone horrifically mad, it’s hard to be jolly.

“Happy to report that one week after traveling on an 11 hr flight to visit my elderly grandparents during a bad flu season, our masks kept us safe and helped us avoid spreading any airborne viruses to them, and we are able to enjoy Christmas together!”—Sinead O’Brien, @cleanairie.bsky.social

israel is weakened every time you empower a palestinian! if we help them survive and rebuild, we are literally dismantling israel’s delusional regime. you can start by rt-ing this, or donating what you can to these campaigns i run below. thank you and fuck israel! 🔗👇

Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say The Globe and Mail December 23, 2025 By Dave McGinn stillcoviding.ca/en/news/scho... #CdnPoli #CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAirQuality

Want a Christmas service in Calgary that has N95 masks available? Hillhurst United Church is your answer. We’ve made sure to have N95s for everyone who wants one. Please give health to yourself and others this Christmas: wear a mask. #ableg #abpoli hillhurstunited.com

Kids will have very tough questions for the adults in their lives when they grow up and realize they were subjected to repeat Covid infections so we could rush “back to normal”. These kids will live with chronic illness the rest of their lives because society refused to adapt.

“Evictions are implosions on people’s mental and physical health,” he said. “This is why I really don’t see this outside the lane of health care — we are really focused in on people’s health and survival.” As a disabled person currently facing housing insecurity, I’m thrilled to see this.

Love and solidarity to Palestine Action hunger strikers their friends and families.

British Columbia’s housing crisis is severe, but its root causes are familiar: exclusionary zoning, under-building, and chronic neglect of nonmarket housing. Economist Alex Hemingway’s proposals show how governments could reverse course, in BC and elsewhere.

israel continues to kill palestinians during a so-called ceasefire. they continue to choke off access to aid so that exactly the number of calories that will theoretically keep palestinians alive make it into gaza. they they continue to come up with "innovative" terrorist attacks in lebanon & syria.