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The Overseer Class is now available for pre-order
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You can watch the Artemis II crew 24/7 and listen to whatever they're saying to earth. RN, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is currently taking and answering questions...in French!
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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs
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Jessica Ellis
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Our horse In the middle of our street Our horse It is cake he wants to eat
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University of Minnesota School of Nursing
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After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here:
crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...
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Luke Steuber
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Some other folks have posted resources they made in the comments and quotes, which I am hoovering up. It seems an appropriate time to share this list again, and I super welcome any contributions or help maintaining. It's getting big
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GitHub - lukeslp/awesome-accessibility: Curated list of accessibility resources, tools, and best practices for creating inclusive digital experiences
Curated list of accessibility resources, tools, and best practices for creating inclusive digital experiences - lukeslp/awesome-accessibility
https://github.com/lukeslp/awesome-accessibility
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Jackie Wong
about 19 hours ago
"If you are a person concerned with the best parts of being human, those feelings and that sense of community are hard to put a dollar amount on." Thank you
@colenowicki.com
for this wonderful
@thetyee.ca
essay on the tricky business of sports. 🏀
thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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The Sports Curse | The Tyee
Gambling and financialization is intensifying. But athletic excellence stirs something deep within us.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/04/03/Sports-Curse/
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karen ward
about 2 months ago
Alberta Institute Canada Strong & Free Cdn Constitution Foundation Cdns for Democracy & Prosperity Cdn Taxpayers Federation Frontier Centre for Public Policy Institute for Liberal Studies Macdonald-Laurier Inst Montreal Economic Inst SecondStreet Fraser Inst
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Lucy Hamilton
27 days ago
🇨🇦 🧵A big warm welcome to all the lovely Canadians jumping on the Atlas Network train.
#NZpol
has led the way with the Aus academic
@jeremywalker.bsky.social
showing the history that got them a “think” tank operative as Dep PM. George Monbiot says “junktanks”👌
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Cantinkerous
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I want to point out that this night-side shot was impossible the last time we had people up there. This was taken on a Nikon D5 (arguably the best low-light DSLR...ever) at ISO 51200. Apollo went up there with 160-speed color film. This is a first.
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karen ward
5 months ago
oil & gas industry is so hostile now that they funded most of Project 2025 its not limited to America – the Atlas Network is... what they've named themselves fossil-fuelled, death-powered and life-devouring, its white supremacy
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
1 day ago
What a time to be alive
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
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karen ward
12 months ago
this by
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada
Internal documents explain why oil and gas interests would benefit from a key Indigenous declaration being ‘defeated’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/conservative-us-network-undermined-indigenous-energy-rights-in-canada
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karen ward
about 17 hours ago
a very important thread by
@comicbooksuperhero.ca
from January 31, 2023
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Thread by @kentcclark on Thread Reader App
@kentcclark: Years ago, I warned that the homeless were the next target of the Canadian far-right. In this thread I am going to show the host of people and organizations that are part of this movement...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1620554464871735297.html
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RM
1 day ago
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 17 hours ago
If you’re struggling with drug addiction, know your life is precious.
na.org
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Narcotics Anonymous
What is our message? The message is that an addict, any addict, can stop using drugs, lose the desire to use, and find a new way to live. Our message is hope and the promise is freedom.
https://na.org/
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Luke Steuber
1 day ago
Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here. BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.
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What Color Is That?
No seriously, what color is that? I genuinely cannot tell. Aim your camera at a color — get its name, details, matches, plus colorblind palettes and simulation. Save colors with personal labels.
https://whatcoloristhat.one
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
2 days ago
Parenting time has exploded since the 1990s but the burden has not been shared equally. Working moms are spending more time with kids than stay-at-home moms did in decades past. Dads increased parenting involvement somewhat, but not to the level of moms.
fortune.com/2026/04/01/w...
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The more women earn, the more housework they do: Inside the paradox a Wharton economist calls ‘an existential problem for men’ | Fortune
“I think it is an existential problem for men to learn to step into new roles and to actually pull their weight at home,” Corinne Low told Fortune.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/01/wharton-economist-women-outearning-outworking-men-domestic-labor/
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
2 days ago
“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
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A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall
Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/bacterial-disease-hib-doctors-warn-rising-vaccination-rates-drop-rcna265851
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Katie Mack
2 days ago
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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Matt Cameron
3 days ago
this is my love language
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Eric Muller
3 days ago
Like most everyone else, I see the government losing in today's
#birthright
#citizenship
case. And it's braggy to note this, but this is such a rare thing that I'm going to do it anyway: My amicus curiae brief got *two* call-outs in the courtroom this morning. Kind of a dream come true.
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ProPublica
3 days ago
Though Schwartz pleaded guilty to a $39M tax fraud scheme, prosecutors weren’t able to trace how funds moved through his 200+ accounts. Trump’s pardon then wiped away Schwartz’s sentence — and likely any IRS effort to claw back the stolen taxes. By
@jeremykohler.bsky.social
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1775098807&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Jack Tindale
3 days ago
If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.
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Shannon Stirone
3 days ago
A thing of beauty—Voyager 1 is calling home right now and the Madrid station is also connected to Artemis 2. You can watch the deep space network live anytime you want.
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...
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Jennie Coughlin
3 days ago
The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.
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Medical Examiner Rules That a Rohingya Refugee’s Death Was a Homicide
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/nyregion/rohingya-refugee-buffalo-homicide-medical-examiner.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X1A.q0Fg.t-64oZIkykHs&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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John Bistline
3 days ago
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Jessica Ellis
5 days ago
I consider myself a very progressive person. I am totally comfortable with all forms of consensual relationships, unique structures, defining your own commitments, what have you. Ross still cheated on Rachel and there’s nothing you can ever say to convince me otherwise.
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Federico Gueli
4 days ago
In the meanwhile
@ryanhisner.bsky.social
and others discovered some peculiar preference of BA.3.2 toward kids , there is now something new growing apparently fast: it is PQ.16.1.1 with this spike: 22N 59S 184S 253G 417T 420N 435S 456L 478T 493E
nextstrain.org/fetch/genome...
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Ryan Hisner
4 days ago
Always interesting to see S:417T. It was in Gamma &
@solidevidence.bsky.social
has noted that it's ubiquitous in Cryptic wastewater variants. Hasn't done well in circulation other than Gamma & a few early/mid-2022 BA.2 variants. It's definitely does something, but it's not clear what.
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Scott MacFarlane
4 days ago
Election security expert David Becker says Trump new “mail-in voting” executive order is pretty much dead on arrival Becker says if you or I colored on a cocktail napkin with a crayon … we’d have as much of a chance of impacting state mail-in voting laws
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Trevon Logan
4 days ago
I’m alive today because a doctor with more than four decades of experience treating Black patients recognized my symptoms from a very small number of cases he’d seen in his career. This may seem quaint in light of big data and AI, but if it’s your life at stake you’d think (very) differently.
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Sue Gowans
4 days ago
Called Ford's feedback line. Decried Ford's decision to abuse his majority to retroactive change the FOI laws to protect HIMSELF! Also condemned his earlier decision to remove speed cameras given 15 yr old was hit this wk, acr from his school. Want to join me? Ford (open now): 416 325-1941
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Perry Bacon
4 days ago
"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes
@felipedlh.bsky.social
.
newrepublic.com/article/2080...
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This Is a Historic Opportunity for Democrats to Get Immigration Right
As the public turns against Trump and the Republicans on immigration, the Democrats can seize the moment with a new, positive vision. Here’s what that might look like.
https://newrepublic.com/article/208088/democrats-immigration-message-position-historic-opportunity
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Charles Logan
4 days ago
My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL
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Anna Mehler Paperny
4 days ago
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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@jeffreybgray.bsky.social
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FOI changes would make Ontario the country’s most secretive government, advocates say
Battle over access to information prompted by court ruling on Premier’s cellphone records
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-foi-changes-ontario-secretive-government-advocates/
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ
5 days ago
But even if this were useful, custom feeds are absolutely not worth burning the planet down for and stealing water and energy from actual human beings which all AI does with data centers!
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Dick Zoutman
5 days ago
This shocking article chronicles the impacts of private equity owning long term care and retirement homes. Private equity should not be permitted to own long term care or retirement homes. Their goal is profits at any cost. This is incomparable with caring for our vulnerable seniors.
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Dick Zoutman
5 days ago
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/28/the-great-care-home-cash-grab-how-private-equity-turned-vulnerable-elderly-people-into-human-atms
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Shooti
5 days ago
#ResistanceRoots
#WomensHistoryMonth
Anna Sewell was born on this day in 1820 in Great Yarmouth, U.K. She was the author of the children’s classic Black Beauty, which became one of the best-selling novels of all time and helped transform public perception and treatment of horses. /1
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Sonja Drimmer
5 days ago
This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.
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Greer Donley
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Yvette Lindgren & I have a new essay recently accepted by Southern California Law Review! "The Post-Dobbs Abortion Irony" explores how abortion bans only seem to be chilling medically necessary abortions while everyday abortions are increasing everywhere. 1/4
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
5 days ago
No one could have foreseen this.
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If Alex is an AI, I’ll be mad. Hey Alexa, restart the world.
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Protection from heat and also smoke. If windows can be kept closed with cheap cooling, it keeps wildfire smoke out. Will save lives when there's poor air quality for any reason.
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Michael J. Stern
6 days ago
People should do what makes them feel good about themselves. But I will say that older men dying their hair almost always makes them look worse. I'm going gray at my temples, and I'm letting it do its thing. 😗
www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/s...
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Jim Carrey, Leonardo DiCaprio and how the double standard of male aging may be over | CNN
Historically, men in Hollywood have been granted a lot more leniency when it comes to visibly aging. Yet now, the tide appears to be turning.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/style/men-aging-beauty-standards
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Dylan Reid
6 days ago
Also England moving to legalize plug in solar panels, which OPG just asserted was too dangerous and complicated for Ontario despite the Germans somehow pulling off 1.5 million installations.
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Dylan Reid
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England: "from 2028, no new homes will be on the gas network - and will instead be on a heat network or get a heat pump - and they must have solar panels on their roofs covering an area equivalent to 40% of the ground floor space."
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Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive
Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjw7klkjm2o?app-referrer=deep-link
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