For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

NEW: At a UN event today, advocate Violet Affleck gave a short speech on pediatric #LongCOVID. She also talked about how clean air and masking could help address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from the disabling disease. thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

There is no conclusive evidence that taking Acetaminophen during pregnancy harms children, but there is very strong evidence that getting COVID does.

“Try to minimize what you take with you across the border to only the essentials,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social advises international travelers in @wired.com. “If you are taking a vacation, do you really need that work laptop with you?”

"Clean Indoor air is a gap in our public health frameworks. We need to close that gap."

i think america would be a better place if everyone just stopped paying attention to politico til they went out of business. there’s no “autism problem” just like there’s no “trans debate.” both of those things are eugenics. both questions are really “should these subhumans be allowed to exist?”

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

People won't accept that COVID is airborne but cops would have us believe that fentanyl is 🙄

It’s #MythBustingTuesday. Today’s target: “Natural immunity is always better than vaccine-induced immunity.” I hear this all the time. Although it sounds appealing, it’s dangerously misleading. 🧵

It's a really exciting day today. I feel privileged to be able to attend this historic event at the United Nations. This will hopefully be the spark which creates safer, healthier futures for our children. Thanks to those who have worked so hard to make it happen.

There’s a historic indoor clean air high level event at the UN today. @drbronking.bsky.social is of course leading by example wearing a high quality mask while chairing the meeting 👏👏👏

Emotion is incredible and CRJ has only gotten better since its release. She deserves more fame and attention than she gets. Phenomenal pop artist.

This is the actual reason they want everyone back to the office

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

A guy in Winnipeg made a 45-minute fully produced feature-film version of "Steamed Hams" modelled after Louis Malle's My Dinner With Andre, so don't you go saying Canada is broken www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

Chills. Thousands of Alberta high school students walked out of class to the legislature. They’re fighting back against UCP attacks on education. They’re standing up for teachers. They’re our future and I couldn’t be prouder. ✊🩷

Folks with autism: You are not broken, despite what this administration is saying. You don't need a "cure." You should be receiving love, patience and understanding -- something the rest of us should be giving everyone: trans folks, immigrants, refugees, and everyone else under attack right now.

HI CANADIANS ARE YOU ANGRY ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK’S FURNERAL ON CBC? Yeah, me too. The guy who’s helmed CBC during this pivot to the right is [email protected]. Complain to the CRTC, the government division responsible for overseeing the CRTC about what was ostensibly KKK rally: www.crtc.gc.ca

Want some simple ways to resist fascism? Wear a mask. Donate to mutual aid. Go to a local library. Support community fridges and food banks. Plant a garden. Deliver groceries. Provide a ride to and from doctors appts. Participate in neighbourhood ICE watch. Show up for others.

I understand CNN and ABC providing live coverage of the Kirk memorial but I don’t understand why the CBC is providing it in Canada

A healthy public health response would have expanded, rather than narrowed, the tools in our anti-COVID toolkit since 2021. Instead, institutional mitigations like clean air were never implemented, and now the last tool standing is under attack. www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Data from Finland paints a scary picture of what SARS-COV-2 is doing.

The mural in front of the PM's office read: People Peace Planet Not Profit

Free free Palestine! In Vancouver BC . What a turnout! Me and my Muli! 1000’s of people. Fantastic.

The TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative. fair.org/home/as-elli...

If you cannot join #drawtheline today, donate to your local and federal climate/social justice orgs please! (if you can) Thank you. https://drawtheline.world/

#DrawTheLine #bcpoli

one of the less-discussed harms of the housing affordability crisis is how it makes escaping from abusive living situations borderline impossible. i'm not even just talking about teens, i mean folks well into their 20s and 30s who came of age into an impossible job market and can't afford to leave

Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities. www.accessible-social.com

Covid vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c... via @statnews.com "Over & over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine." #VaccinesWork

Age‐Related Changes in the Clinical Picture of Long COVID - Fain - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - Wiley Online Library agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Producing, and packaging, the new COVID vaccine in Canada is the immediate benefit. This is just the beginning. Moderna is/will work with Canadian research universities etc to develop other mRNA treatments for other diseases and possibly cancer. This factory can 1/2 www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

On Saturday, Sept. 20, an unusual coalition of climate, migrant, and Indigenous groups are getting together to draw a line. They're pushing back against @mark-carney.bsky.social's hard right turn against Indigenous Peoples and migrants. I spoke to organizers about what the road ahead looks like:

It is grossly irresponsible for the head of ACIP to make a claim there are 4X as many birth defects following COVID vaccine. That’s a LIE. There have been at least 4 large studies in US, Germany, and Scandinavian countries showing no increase in birth anomalies following 1st trimester vaccines. 🤬

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

"A systematic review and meta-analysis published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases reported a pooled prevalence of long COVID as 36% worldwide." #LongCovid remains common and a public health emergency www.eatg.org/hiv-news/mor...

When Public Health officials and infectious disease experts complain that the public has taken an anti-Science position because of low vaccine uptake, they fail to acknowledge their role in fueling the anti-Science movement by telling people to wash their hands for COVID but not saying “airborne”.

Over the last 5+ years, the COVID-fighting “toolkit” should’ve expanded, not narrowed. Now, RFK Jr's attacks on the COVID vaccines throw into harsh relief the reality that we only have one "tool" left. Where is the institutional mitigation? My latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

Huge scoop from the CP: Canadian Press is reporting that Premier Danielle Smith has directed the justice ministry to use the notwithstanding clause to push through three anti-trans laws that would otherwise be blocked by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Bill of Rights

Nearly 430,000 Quebecers leave emergency rooms without having been treated montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/18/q...

More British Columbians leaving ERs without being treated, report finds | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1143495...

Canada needs to extend this analysis. In the meantime, pay attention to WF smoke warnings and advisories. "Cumulative excess deaths from smoke PM2.5 could reach 1.9 million between 2026-2055. We find evidence for mortality impacts of smoke PM2.5 that last up to three years after exposure."

Many ppl have dealt with some form of abandonment / betrayal in their lives Now, magnify this by a few billion Disabled & #immunocompromised people been abandoned by the gov’t, our society, our community / communities & those closest to us Please wear a mask in public if you want to be an ally

How to be an ally to disabled / #immunocompromised people: Wear a mask in public Don’t minimize the harms of COVID to chronically ill ppl Don’t minimize harms of COVID to yourself / family / friends Don’t refer to COVID in the past tense (e.g don’t say “during COVID” if u mean “during lockdown”)

Eating leftover poutine and drinking Red Bull at 10:30 in the morning as all healthy and stable adults do.

shares on this would be a help and would encourage me to stay on my bullshit