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Mark Cherrington @markcherrington.bsky.social · 7h

Please make a tax-deductible donation to support my work with the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights. In 2023, we helped over 1,100 vulnerable people across Alberta.

Select “Outreach and Support” in the drop-down. Your support keeps this work going.

www.coalition4jhr.org/contribute-t...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 8h

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.

I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10h

i am doing a round of WWYTHT where i give out gifts of jewelry to trans people who want a nice thing but can't afford it on saturday and i still have sponsorship slots available. if they don't all get filled i will do the giveaway with what i have. but i would love to sell them out

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

if you want to sponsor a gift for this round go to nora.jewelry/products/spo...

if you submitted in a previous round and did not get a gift card email, it got stuck in spam, message me through the contact form at nora.jewelry and i will get you sorted

Sponsor a Gift

Gifts for the We Want You To Have This project. If you want to sponsor a trans person to get one of these gifts, this will cover one $60 gift card. I'm making the sponsorships $55 to give someone a $6...

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Only 20 years old

A sobering reminder that Covid is still with us, still killing & disabling

You may have gone “back to normal” but repeat infections just increase the risk

It’s a multi system vascular virus & ignoring it has devastating consequences

Get boosted. Wear a respirator. Clean the air

Evergreen Safeway unexpectedly loses two employees

The Evergreen Safeway lost two of its most beloved employees within only a few days this month.

www.canyoncourier.com

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 1d

The 3rd annual Canadian Long COVID symposium wrapped up yesterday. It was a great meeting, and I got some nice news at the end!

PDF of the poster is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8wh6...

MP3 of a 5-minute verbal overview is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ej0lw...

A photo of a projection screen reading "Long COVID Web Impact Poster Awards:
1. Mark Ungrin
2. Kayli Jamieson
3. Kriti Agarwal
4. Jill Cameron

This poster contains too much text to fit in the ALT text box, or to condense to a meaningful summary that would fit. The full text is accessible in the PDF linked directly from the post.

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 1d

People have overwhelmingly moved on and even memory-holed Covid. But there was a time when provincial public health was on everyone’s minds, and their work and their comms affected us daily in a very big way. That power needs to come from facts and reality, not politics. I am so grateful to all.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 1d

This is contextualised within physics in the US but very relevant to all academics and students right now.

A short and highly recommended read about how the learning process is the point, not a means to an end.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

NEW WRITING:

It's aimed at students, with some specific examples for astro/physics folks, but I think other people may find it useful too. 🔭⚛️🧪

"Knowledge is worth your time because of how it shapes your mind. And the authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds."

Knowledge is Worth Your Time

Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...

chanda.bearblog.dev

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Lance @lanceboer.com · 1d

lol

Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · 1d

NEW - The BC Conservative Board of Directors Management Committee has sent a letter to Conservative leader John Rustad calling on him to resign as leader. #bcpoli

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

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Lance @lanceboer.com · 2d

Can think of a lot worse (better) outcomes for someone with a Nazi tattoo than losing support in a primary race.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 2d

The Liberals are a minority government who have been acting not only as if they are a majority government but also as if they are an authoritarian government and Canada is no longer even a democracy. They are now facing the limits of their arrogance.

"We have a minority government, but we believe we have a mandate, and when I see opposition parties ... ruling out the possibility of voting for the budget, that's starting to worry me, but I think it's them that are misreading the mood of Canadians," MacKinnon said. "If an election is necessary, we would obviously reluctantly, because we don't think Canadians want an election, but election there will be. It's the opposition parties who have that decision in their hands."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 12

Choosing not to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 means choosing to enable the uncontrolled spread of a fatal airborne disease.

#COVID19 #respirator

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 2d

Canada vowed to end #poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions. By Jasmine Ramze Rezaee and Leila Sarangi @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Canada set a poverty reduction goal. We’re falling behind. - CCPA

Canada vowed to end poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions.

www.policyalternatives.ca

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 2d

So this is over $600 for a family, for a vaccine. This is obscene.

Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 2d

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to have co-authored this piece with amazing collaborators at the @thewhn.bsky.social.
Let me know what you think.
whn.global/whn-joins-in...

WHN joins in the chorus: Medical masks are not PPE - WHN

Overview Throughout the COVID pandemic, there has been confusion from public health and medical leaders over which masks to wear to prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Inadequate supplies of...

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 2d

What does virtual picketing look like?

@isaacphannay.bsky.social looks at how remote workers are contributing as the #BCgov strike enters its seventh week.
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Remote Strike: How BC Government Workers Take the Picket Online | The Tyee

For about 1,000 BCGEU workers, striking means planning strategy and communications on video calls.

thetyee.ca

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 3d

Researchers studied 100 people 10 months after COVID-19.

Urine tests revealed 195 unique peptides, mostly from collagen, that clearly distinguished those with long COVID.

New marker, called PASC195, may improve diagnosis and guide treatment.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Urinary Peptidomic Profiling in Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Case-Control Study

Background: Post-acute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-infection (PASC) is challenging to diagnose and treat, and its molecular pathophysiology remains unclear. Urinary pep...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

the conversation we should be having is that AI is developing and will certainly displace many workers, and we should develop government programs to even out the losses and gains between workers and capitalists. but instead we argue about whether a trans person was on netflix

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Aug 3

Allowing children to suffer repeated infections of Covid-19 is an unforgivable violation of essential human morality.

#COVID19 #children

Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Aug 2

Saying that children are not damaged by Covid-19 was a deliberate lie, one of many deliberate lies that have been told from the start of the pandemic. Unfortunately, most adults have chosen to accept that lie, and as a result, many millions of children have been surrendered to life-threatening harm.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 3d

I’ve talked to more doctors this year who are thinking about leaving medicine than ever before.

The system is stretched well past its limit, as are those inside.

Latest:

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 3d

The doctors aren't ok canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2... by @nicktsergas.ca

The doctors aren’t ok

Canada’s health systems are exhausted, and those inside are burning out.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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🇨🇦Ian - #RLessThanOne @simpson-ian.bsky.social · 3d

"In a hospital ward, transmission of airborne pathogens can occur in any area where people breathe the same air. These areas include patient rooms and specialised treatment rooms, as well as corridors and common areas."

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Hospital corridors and nurse stations also matter. Li, Morowska, et al. (2025), show that simple ventilation improvements could cut airborne COVID risk significantly. Noting that 'common areas are critical zones'. #VentilationMatters #HAI #PublicHealthAdvocacy
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Mitigating Airborne Infection Transmission in the Common Area of Inpatient Wards—A Case Study | Request PDF

Request PDF | Mitigating Airborne Infection Transmission in the Common Area of Inpatient Wards—A Case Study | In a hospital ward, transmission of airborne pathogens can occur in any area where people ...

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