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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It /sounds/ excessive... But when you factor in living anywhere near DC; the big number looks less impressive.

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 1d

Step 1: stop building AI data centers.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 1d

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority formally kicks off its annual vaccination campaign this week, urging residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza ahead of the respiratory virus season, which typically begins in November.

WRHA launches annual COVID, flu vaccination campaign as respiratory virus season nears

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority formally kicks off its annual vaccination campaign this week, urging residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza ahead of the respiratory virus season, which typically begins in November.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Llyr Kellow 🇨🇦✍️👨🏻‍🦳🦋🌈📚🇨🇦 @llyrkellow.bsky.social · 1d

Get the vax!!

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 1d

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority formally kicks off its annual vaccination campaign this week, urging residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza ahead of the respiratory virus season, which typically begins in November.

WRHA launches annual COVID, flu vaccination campaign as respiratory virus season nears

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority formally kicks off its annual vaccination campaign this week, urging residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and influenza ahead of the respiratory virus season, which typically begins in November.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 3d

While I hope for the best, part of me has the nagging suspicion that like most things surrounding Trump, this is just smoke and mirrors next to a pile of bull shit.

Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 3d

I bet it is one of the VERY few things his mush brain actually remembers wanting. The one thing he doesn't need sycophants to keep his focus on it.

And the one thing they can't completely distract him from in favour of their fascist pet projects.

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 3d

Ok, I'm just gonna say it, if this ceasefire is real, and *holds*... That is a good thing, however it came about.

At the same time, you kinda have to wonder "why now?" And the only thing I can think is that Trump /really/ has a bug up his butt about the Nobel Prizes, and the fact Obama got one.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 3d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 3d

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Southern Violet is Not UNhappy @southernviolet.blackskycomra.de · 3d

Time for this again! To the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It.

rahaeli @rahaeli -06 Jul If he'l drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed
rahaeli @rahaeli-06 Jul If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed If you're running off your mouth And his buddy lives down south If his friend has got the weapons, he's a Fed
rahaeli @rahaeli -06 Jul If he's got a stupid haircut, he's a Fed If he's got a stupid haircut, he's a Fed If his haircut's tight and high And goes with a suit and tie If he's got a stupid haircut, he's a Fed
rahaeli @rahaeli-06 Jul If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed if he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed If he wants you to repeat it Where the chat room won't delete it If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

Utterly disgusting and sadly very indicative of this shameful, current moment in our history.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

Side note: it is very apparent to me that those who are posting here and on reposts that folks need to “realize they have nothing left to lose” do not have children who rely on their parents health insurance to survive.

Think about what you’re suggesting.

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 3d

"I was going to drop this [...]" Sure he was. He was /so/ going to drop this, he /almost/ considered not making yet another alt account to harass you! Maybe even not a deeply problematically named one this time!

But you forced his hand, you see!

Eyes rolled back so far I could nearly see my brain.

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

"Why wait to go to the casino when you can bet your money from wherever you are with this casino app!?"

Fucking ghouls.

Oh but don't worry, there's tiny little text (that you'd need a magnifying glass to read on a 65" TV) warning about problem gambling. You have all of 5 seconds to read it.

Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

Not just sports betting either. For over a year I've been seeing ads with people seeing a wheel-of-fortune wheel in everything from their swirling coffee cup to the wheels on their spin class bikes.

And somehow the message isn't that these people have a problem and should seek help. No! Casino app.

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

They cropped the photo as close as they could ... And there are still clearly two other people not standing.

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Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tv · 4d

Your favorite YouTubers and i will be live streaming a Jackbox party TODAY from Noon to Midnight PST on twitch !!!

www.twitch.tv/lolasebastian

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Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 4d

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

(For Canadians anyway, can't say how things work in other parts of the world)

Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I forgot. Completely and utterly free. No charge.
-Book an appointment with your nearest pharmacy in person, by phone, or online.
-Show up.
-Fill out the standard forms.
-Roll up your sleeve, get the shot.
-Wait around for 10min in the off chance there's a reaction.
-Walk out.

No money needed.

Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

Got my yearly Covid & Flu shots. Quick, easy... I'd say painless but history suggests I'll be quite sore tomorrow. But it is worth it.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 4d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Mirel 🇨🇦 @miralelian.bsky.social · 4d

Got my yearly Covid & Flu shots. Quick, easy... I'd say painless but history suggests I'll be quite sore tomorrow. But it is worth it.

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