That Bryan Adams song is bad, y'all.

I literally burst into tears. I worked so hard on this petition - so many people worked so hard on this. Corb the most. What a terrible 2 days it’s been for the Alberta environment 😭 #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

setting out a jar of mayonnaise for uncle sam tonight

TOO MANY DAMN BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR Donnie's show will generate between 600 and 1,200 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meter around the Mall. A worst-case scenario would exceed 2,000. That's very hazardous. Stay inside with air purifier. Use N95 masks outdoors. www.foxnews.com/media/washin...

Not gonna lie, the fact that AI data centers are being cooled while Americans die in the street from heat stoke is really pissing me off.

11-year-old child who awoke to find a bat resting on his nose and mouth while visiting an Ontario cottage died of rabies 19 days later: Researchers analyze “exceedingly rare case,” by @leylandcecco.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... via @theguardian.com @cmaj.ca

Things are getting pretty homophobic over on Jamil Jivani’s X page

The anti-vax group formerly led by Robert Kennedy Jr. has been promoting the story of a woman who says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. She’s the lead plaintiff in the group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well, now she’s been charged with suffocating the toddlers.

GLOBULAR

What backronym should I torture my study title into? 🤔

Curious about the demographics of the people playing featured games on LinkedIn.

It's gotten soooo much worse in the last year!! Last summer is when I started noticing a flagrant decline in the quality of Word's spellcheck and grammar check. So frustrating.

English peas are LATE this year. But I'm glad they're here! And so are my guinea pigs, who get the pods.

Tidy piece of work from @liamnewbigging.bsky.social, who found an eight-plex in Edmonton that was built with CMHC affordable housing financing that's being used exclusively as an AirBnB. edmontonjournal.com/news/hotel-e...

CBC’s The National last night: Top story is the government announcing a new oil pipeline from Alberta and how it placated BC Then a story on the massive heatwave, storms and flooding in Ontario and Quebec Then a story on huge Manitoba flooding after they also dealt with tornadoes and rain 🫠

questions, my shirt etc

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

youtu.be/buTnK_wR9Ks?... #CanCon

We are now at the point where right-wing interests are explicitly pushing a US-style private health insurance market for medically necessary care already covered by provincial health plans Literally a US-style mixed-payer health care system #cdnpoli nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

AI is being programmed to espouse the same ableist nonsense we’ve been dealing with since the dawn of time. It’ll be used to help eliminate us … because that’s what those in power want. Don’t use genAI. Listen to disabled voices instead.

gumby was always saying this

I'm told we're going to be competing in the Eurovision song contest next year.

I’m sorry but the Raccoons theme song is now in my head.

Alberta makes disabled folks apply for the Canada Disability Benefit and then claws back the $200/month from their provincial disability income, whereas Newfoundland and Labrador offer people receiving the Canada Disability Benefit another $400/month.

Paying journal articles reviewers results in faster and higher quality reviews 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This pipeline isn’t nation building. It’s nation burning.

GLP-1, the reason why Ozempic & Wegovy work, was discovered in fish (1987) & lizards (1990). Now, under this new rule, decades of basic FOUNDATIONAL research that led to these blockbuster drugs, that we have access to, would be considered as waste. Get my drift? 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

"Maybe people will go for our shitty shit if we make our other shit even shittier" "Have you considered not making shitty shit?" "You're so naïve" ivacheung.com/2026/07/stop...

If you know an older adult in the Lower Mainland with major depression and they might be interested in participating in a study, please send them my way! My colleague's phase 2 clinical trial continues to recruit: www.almanac.clinic/research/cur... #ParticipateInResearch

People Are Living Shorter Lives in the Cariboo via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

Revised June 2026: The Peer Review Meeting: A Guide for (and by) Patient Partners - CIHR cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54762.html

If you know an older adult in the Lower Mainland with major depression and they might be interested in participating in a study, please send them my way! My colleague's phase 2 clinical trial continues to recruit: www.almanac.clinic/research/cur... #ParticipateInResearch

This is the thing that people who are indifferent to sexual freedom need to realize. Literally everything can be labeled as pornography. And it will be, if you don't defend free speech as eagerly as you defend mail ballots. The far right's war on science is directly linked to its war on sex.

The CATHARSIS of closing your tabs after writing your draft.

A dense new working paper argues the web is hitting "Epistemic Heat Death" - content volume exploding while actual informational diversity stagnates. Contested data, honest self-critique, worth a read.

JULY CARTOON ivacheung.com/2026/07/stop... #AmEditing

Fruits of this project are now up! Check out *Good for You, Good for the Earth*, a partnership between the PHC Food Working Group & the Kidney Foundation. We made 5 cooking videos & a recipe booklet for plant-forward dishes that support kidney & planetary health: kidneywellnesshub.ca/resilient-ki...

@sonnetfitz.bsky.social Happy birthday, Sonnet! 🥳

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

As well as new Canadians from war-torn areas. My wife has many of them as students, and their anxiety spikes at fireworks and fighter jet fly-bys at sporting events etc.

#NewWest hosted a drone show rather than fireworks this year. I'm sure hundreds of pets and their owners are relieved.

I'm a healthcare lawyer. The AI threat I actually worry about isn't Skynet launching nukes, it's the algorithm your insurer uses to deny your care. Here's the honest — and deeply fraught — case for fighting it with AI of your own. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

Coincidentally, Cockroach Diving Suit is the name of my ska punk band. www.popsci.com/technology/c...

So many people are using AI to create the product when they forget that the product is not the same as the work. Eg "I'll just have it write the business plan" The process of thinking it through is the important part, not the piece of paper at the end.

Carney’s flight to Edmonton, where he’d hear Danielle Smith’s pipeline plan pitch, is grounded due to extreme weather —which is exacerbated by the climate crisis that pipeline plan would worsen 🤗 WHEEEEEEEEEE WHAT A WORLD

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