The peer pressure *not* to mask is real but so is the positive reinforcement of seeing other people masked.

Ford walks back plan to slash tenants rights after spike in guillotine sales

And ultimately what is necessary is upgraded ventilation, filtration, and upper-room UV in all indoor public spaces. That would stop this. We don't need N95s forever in most places, any more than we need to boil water everywhere, anymore. Engineering is enough... if we do it.

Gift from beyond Wonderful new posting of a #TragicallyHip session on a Dutch TV station in 1997. Incredibly tight. Amazing versions of Scared & Springtime in Vienna. Their screaming from the rooftops, "We live to survive our paradoxes." #StillMissGord www.youtube.com/watch?v=djUu...

The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...

It's absolutely disgusting that this sort of hate and bullying is seen as acceptable. And directed at children, no less 🤬 😷😷😷😷😷

Hear Me Roar! 🦌📢🤩 A glorious red stag making himself heard through the morning mist in #RichmondPark, London. (To prevent disturbing the animal and to protect myself, all my deer photographs are taken from a distance of 50m with a long lens and heavily cropped in edit). #nature #wildlife 🦊 #rut

Such a good photo of a bird that never pauses! You can even zoom in&see one of the cool adaptations these birds have. There’s a single feather to cover each nares on the beak, allowing them to minimize heat loss as they breathe. GCKIs can maintain a body temp of 110°F in temps as low as -40°! #birds

Hey Ontario. Please pay attention to this. It's fucking terrifying. As a renter I rely on rent control in order to, you know, LIVE, and this threatens to take it away from me and most people I know. Write to your MPP. Call Ford's office. I don't even know what to think right now. Fuck Ford, man.

Heading down to Long Point on Lake Erie. Always a treat to see the great birds hanging about at @birdscanada.bsky.social headquarters! 🪶

For #SillySaturday, I hope you'll find this video of a #Gull and an #AmericanCoot as funny as I did! #birds #videography #EastCoastKin

GO BLUE JAYS GO!! 💙 #WANTITALL🇨🇦

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"It's Patrick! He got Blue Jays tickets!"

Do Fake Spiderwebs and Halloween Decorations Hurt Birds?

Solastalgia is a reasonable term. It's the weaponization of "anxiety" that's a huge red flag. In the COVID narrative it has been used manipulatively, including by the public health leaders who are responsible for allowing COVID to get out of control, to erase critical examination of consequences.

🥳 #BlueJays 🥳

Squeaky Bum Time!! #BlueJays #Mariners

Health Canada puts out guidelines recommending N95s and clean indoor air! Let’s do this! Yes it’s overdue, and no it doesn’t address every risk factor, but we can significantly curb COVID with respirator use and clean air. www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

Something I've learned from advocating for my children and myself is that a lot of the protections of laws are based on the victims having the energy, money, and time to sue if they're not followed, which is why the law fails us again and again.

A useful way to have this conversation is to talk about clean water. We don't rely on boil-water advisories as our only tool. We clean the water at source. Why wouldn't we do the same with air? Mask mandates are boil water advisories: stop gaps while we upgrade HVAC, upper room UV, etc. Why not?

People like this are dangerous parasites on the world. Caring for one another should be the standard and selfish fucks that don't care about protecting others should be the ones isolating from the world for fear it will harm them.

Hey everybody look at this disgusting piece of trash human who wants disabled people to completely exit society and doesn’t understand how community care works. “Don’t expect the world to take care of you” is a depraved way to exist in society.

#SwanDay 🪶

If you still mask & talk about covid I just want to say thank you. It makes me feel less alone as a disabled person. I know it’s mostly disabled people advocating for themselves but most people either abandoned us lot ago or never stood by us. We have to stand together as we always have. 🤎

Haven't noticed this before! "it's missing accessibility features that I need" given as an option on Steam's refund reason dropdown #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #SkinnyLegs, I have, from this past spring, Wrenold the Winter Wren 🪶

This 👇 They don't want to hear it

"It is not reasonable to place any expectations on the broad back of the majority of society, but it is reasonable to pile everything the majority won’t do on the thin slice of disabled people who are carrying their own weight and attempting to carry everyone else’s as they drown."

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

Written for an Australian audience but much of it applies to birders everywhere, although as a tribe we don’t all reach the lofty heights described 🙂 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Wow, @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social . Posting an advertisement disguised as a news story (without so much as a disclaimer) is gross. 🤬 Do better. In fact, do news.

Attempting to “live with” (aka ignore) airborne viruses circulating at high levels *is a choice*. We could do much better. #MedSky

For today's #BirdOfTheDay I have this one day old Sandhill Crane colt being the cutest ever 🪶

Incredible 🩵 “Toronto’s multibillion-dollar effort to re-naturalize a major river and the surrounding lands, was advertised as one of the “largest waterfront revitalization projects” in the world. … the discoveries have underscored the resilience of ecosystems in the face of human-led destruction.”

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Had a really crummy day yesterday, so I went to talk to my friend. She flew off to grab food, then listened to me while she prepped dinner. She's a good listener, and she looked down and told me chup-chup. I really wish I could speak Peregrine 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🪶

You do not need your uterus to live. We would never force a man to keep a diseased organ in his body because of what a hypothetical future wife might want. The culture must change. We need full autonomy and equality, and we need it now.

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus. We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu. We would all be healthier. I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

People think that when you become disabled, support magically appears That once it’s “official” you will have your basic needs met The truth is people fight for years to get the bare minimum in benefits Caregivers are nearly impossible to find If you’re not rich or very lucky… you’re on your own

I'm reaching back to March for both the #BirdOfTheDay who's not here year round and the alternative #Floofball all in one in this adorable Snowy Owl 🪶

Wish the provincial governments would step up and do their job but apparently that's still to much to ask

"What if you could just let the sights and sounds of a peaceful, friendly forest erase every last annoying or exhausting or terrifying thought in your head?"

It’s never too late to start masking again. It can be daunting to mask back up when no one else is bothering, but your health is worth it. Every Covid infection is a dice roll with disability, and a good respirator like an N95 stops chains of transmission. You’ll also get less colds & flus!

Hospitals will gamble with your life if the alternative is fixing something that requires them to admit they made a mistake. There is zero accountability for even the most egregious failures in the upper tiers of institutional medicine, and this needs to stop.

This is so incredibly cool! #goodnewsonly www.popsci.com/environment/...

The Montreal smoked meat wrap I got was made with honey mustard. Do not serve Montreal smoked meat with honey mustard or any sweet condiment. Montreal smoked meat wants proper mustard: earthy and piquant. Write that down.