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Luna 🌙

@headingwest.ca

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Everyone's 🇨🇦 Internet Mom Anti-hate. Love is love. She/her. Funnier in replies. If you wonder if I'm joking, I probably am Crafter, gardening, herbs, bitching about life, shit that makes me laugh and weed Profile pic NOT AI from @riotgrlerin.bsky.social

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · Jan 20

PSA: I have a tremor. Sometimes, my thumb hovers where the follow button is. If it looks like I'm following, unfollowing and refollowing, etc., it's just my fumble fingers.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 3h

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

www.thebeaverton.com

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 1d

If Pedro Pascal played Gomez Addams they'd have to replace all the seats in the theater

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 1h

The new PM can fuck right off into the sun. My husband is a civil servant. This is a time of great worry because of the promise of massive cuts. How he can promise jobs while simultaneously laying off thousands, ruining pensions and security, is beyond me. Layoffs, Harper style? And Canada Post?!

Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 2h

Yes, I agree. I've just noticed a few red flags that concern me.

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know if we can successfully decouple ourselves from the USA.

But I do know I would like us to really try to find out.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also so unnecessary. Literally nobody is talking about universal public masking (even though we desperately need to), so you’re basically inventing a straw man to punch down at.

Which is also dick behavior.

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 2h

Charlie Angus nails it. I have issues with him, in general, but this article is useful. Next time some says "don't call us nazis" I'm gonna have some rebuttals!

Bernadette🍁🍁🇨🇦🇨🇦 @bernadette59.bsky.social · 3h

open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

F Is for Fascism

CBC called the other day for an interview about the apparent rise in swearing in politics.

open.substack.com

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5h

These people insisting covid is no longer as life-threatening are honestly the worst.

It absolutely is still incredibly life-threatening.

Maybe you don't feel as threatened by it, but you've chosen to feel less bad about putting others at risk.

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 2h

Talking helps with people whose rational brain still works. Just basic chatting about what is being said. But if one's brain doesn't do the things? Idk. I'm Canadian, and I'd have that hate speech stopped, but they don't give me a say. :)

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand.

Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 3h

Check this out, from @nancreighton.bsky.social

Pink poster with light yellow text "I have long believed we should be way more vocal about how police and ice constantly murder dogs! Photo of a row of dogs sitting on sidewalk along bottom. Faine Greenwood, poster by nancycreighton.com, photo by Hannah Lim

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 2h

Alt text, please!

Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 2h

Read the article. Don't read the replies. People suck.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 2h

I know a kid* like this. His mother is horrified. She's a hardcore lefty with a heart of gold. The kid is mentally ill, and was radicalized on Reddit. Her other two are not like this. It's not always the parents.
*Omg, I mathed and he's 28. But this shit started when he was 16.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 6h

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 6h

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 17h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 3h

Yes please! It's 50 on my street. There are no sidewalks and only 7 houses. And it deadends. Somehow, in the richer area across the big road, the same neighborhood basically but a smidge newer, it's 30km/h and they have sidewalks.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 3h

25 km/h is the perfect speed for a residential zone. You really don't need to go faster than that.

Luna 🌙 @headingwest.ca · 3h

ACAB. Always.

Medias 🇨🇦 @mediasca.skyfleet.blue · 3h

Woman dies after being shot by RCMP officer in Eastern Passage: police watchdog

Woman dies after being shot by RCMP officer in Eastern Passage: police watchdog - Halifax | Globalnews.ca

A woman has died after being shot by an RCMP officer who was responding to an assault call in Eastern Passage, N.S., according to the province's independent police watchdog.

globalnews.ca

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Yvonne Martin @ymartin.bsky.social · Apr 18

My husband Ayman has withdrawn from Substack and from Bluesky; a profile and sample of his book Palestinian Blues is available here: www.kirkusreviews.com/author/ayman...

Ayman Zanoun | Kirkus Reviews

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 17h

Where is BC public health? Even in the US there were public health campaigns around Covid shots, and much earlier access to them - well before this massive Covid wave hit. This is SO late. Too late for many

And where on earth is Bonnie Henry? Training to replace Theresa Tam as CMOH? That's the fear

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 17h

Covid boosters/vaccines are here. But there's been *zero* public health messaging. You have to be in the know to get one.

I got Moderna & flu shot today. I asked the pharmacy why they had flu shot signs up, but not Covid. They waffled & finally admitted "limited supply" #bcpoli

paper sign at pharmacy, Flu Shots Available Today! Nothing on Covid

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Los 🥑 @los-los.bsky.social · 17h

they’re a 10, but their personality is like listening to Americans narrate a soccer game

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