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Ok. I’m pro-mask and all, but even I can agree with banning some masks in stores.

This week I learned there is a chain of high end hotels called Malmaison—apparently without any conscious irony. Or French literacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmais...

Martha Stewart must be losing her frickin’ mind over this.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

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That “cold” you’ve got? It’s probably Covid. wwater.ca?lang=en#Onta...

Proud to say this is a lesson being applied by Ontario’s psychologists with considerable energy.

This is a good point, about how arguing over Reaganism isn't helpful. But I think it's important: Part of how we got here was because people have lost the ability to distinguish between policies they don't like and a genuine authoritarian threat.

#nbpoli #nbpooli Please share the wwater.ca/New_Brunswic... wastewater site with friends outside of Bluesky. Link to it on your other socials. That link is directly to Sackville which is having a massive COVID surge. Read on for other observations. /1

#medsky Ontario psychologists need your support to prevent rolling back our registration requirements to the lowest common denominator across Canada!

This 💯 This is my lane - only after thousands of clinical hours was I competent enough to diagnose and treat mental illness - if a suicidal patient speaks with someone with little clinical training, they get no proper treatment. This is a patient safety issue. bsky.app/profile/jill...

I posted on this. Many don’t realize that they see psychologists free of charge in hospitals/clinics. They are presently excellently trained to diagnose and treat but not having clinical training will endanger patients. Please input into the consultation (link) bsky.app/profile/mary...

So listen, I knew *nothing* about kids before I had mine. Had never held a baby or changed a diaper. Reading a baby book just before having oldest kid, I read my one favourite ever line. “You are your child’s favourite toy.” You are your child’s favourite toy. You. That line has reassured me. /1

The College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario is compromising safety in the name of access--and in the name of not having unfairly higher standards than other jurisdictions in Canada. Because ON is just like SK and PEI, right?

So no local US official has the power to enforce ICC orders including arrest warrants. Anything else on the internet is just wish-casting, and Mamdani is doing a political pander he knows he won't have to honor.

Keep your babies surrounded by clean, filtered air.

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

Guys I think we’re gonna need more than three ghosts this Christmas Eve

My son's partner, Sydney Brasil, has interviewed David Byrne for Exclaim, which means I'm two degrees removed from David Byrne SUCKERS @deonandan.bsky.social @statfourwork.bsky.social exclaim.ca/music/articl...

Another new one. Taken from a UK protest poster. #halloweentombstones

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“It’s a safety tool” - co-sign 💯!!! All the awful, uncomfortable sounding coughing I’m hearing in the hospital and community- I am so glad to still be masking. I’m breathing well. I’m feeling great. I have a tool that I use daily to stay in the best health I can.

When youth get comprehensive sex ed they wait to have sex longer, have safer and healthier sex and face less sexual and physical violence in relationships. Which is why it's a problem that immigrant teenagers appear to be missing out on Canadian sex ed. Me for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

CUOMO: I'm not used to seeing naked propaganda on a government website. Are you worried about violating the Hatch Act? TURNER: We're not worried at all. This is about letting the American people know what's going on. C: It's not true. That's why I'm bringing it up. That's why it's propaganda.

15,750 years.

That man wearing the respirator, that everyone keeps looking at with the mixture of anxiety and pity? He doesn’t give a damn what others think of him, and he’s also deeply concerned for the vulnerable. No way he’s becoming a Nazi.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Gonna be hard to accuse them of carrying concealed weapons

This happened to so many young people, absolutely heartbreaking. Also some families consisted of whole families at high risk. Many children are also clinically vulnerable themselves due to their existing medical condition. These children are at higher risk of hospitalisation and severe long covid.

To all who observe - I wish you an easy fast and may you be sealed in the Book of Life. G'mar chatima tova.

I asked leftists why they won't wear a mask to the grocery store and I got a lot of comments saying, "I'll only wear one if I'm sick."

You really should be getting better information from your doctor than from some random sick person online. But alas, here we are.

I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes.

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

“They are terrified. There is not a cult member alive that survived it that will tell you that it is easy to get out. It is one of the hardest things that the brain can ever do.”

1/ My Jane Goodall story: I had heard speak when I was a kid; I don't remember if my parents took me up to meet her after the talk. A few years later I was 14 and we were visiting my uncle at his farm on Salisbury plain in Hampshire. One afternoon we were summoned into the sitting room for tea...

I remember first learning of Jane Goodall as a child, and become obsessed with her work. Then, as a university anthropology undergrad, I got to go deep into her world via formal study. She has always been a wise observer and advocate for an ethical world. RIP to a great woman.

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Judging from the time stamp on our OPA discussion group messages, psychologists in Ontario are literally losing sleep over the changes coming to our registration.

It’s hard to describe how creepy and unsettling it is being one of the few people at a medical facility wearing a mask now, who knows a dangerous virus continues to freely circulate in the air. How could public health fail us all so badly? How could we fail each other so spectacularly? #COVID

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Stoicism distilled?

Remembering the bravery and impact of Catherine Galliford, an RCMP officer who stood up against sexual harassment, at great personal cost. She has died of liver cancer. www.msn.com/en-ca/video/...