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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 15h

Oh crap! Sorry to hear this Amanda! Heal fast.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 17h

OH! I know! If we just build tax payer funded fossil fuel infrastructure that makes it easier & less expensive to annex us then they will for sure be our friends. 🙃

CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 7d

Despite all of Canada's concessions, there has been no indication that Trump will back down on his growing list of tariffs.

Tariff relief tempered as Carney set to have second Oval Office meeting with Trump

Despite all of Canada's concessions, there has been no indication that Trump will back down on his growing list of tariffs.

cheknews.ca

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 17h

I have an idea!!! Maybe promote clean air & masking! Whatever, enjoy your sickness folks.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 17h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣So there is an early & large flu season & the conclusion is that people just haven't been infected enough. This is top tier science in the plaguescene.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Japan declares a flu epidemic — what this means for other nations

Researchers say that the number of infections for this time of year is unusual.

www.nature.com

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 18h

These kinds of studies & articles are endlessly frustrating. If there was a study that showed that if you gave someone 1/10 of a dose of a vaccine it was not tied to protection, would you conclude that vaccines don't work? No? Then why do it with other things?

CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 1d

HEPA purifiers not tied to less #viral exposure in elementary classrooms, analysis finds

#HEPA purifiers were associated with a 33% decrease in viral diversity, but the reduction wasn't linked to fewer school absences.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 18h

These kinds of studies & articles are endlessly frustrating. If there was a study that showed that if you gave someone 1/10 of a dose of a vaccine they were not tied to protection, would you conclude that vaccines don't work? No? Then why do it with other things?

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 19h

that has many similar responses. But even more interesting is that because of regular childhood vaccinations there is going to be a whole generation of people who are maybe 30 now, that won't face this risk. Another chapter in viruses aren't our friends.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 19h

Now it's becoming increasingly clear that viruses like this actually cause other problems due to neuroinflammatory and vascular injury responses. This is super relevant right at this moment in time because we are normalizing yearly or more infections with a new virus

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 19h

These studies are incredibly fascinating. The chickenpox virus infects the nerves and stays dormant in the body for life. Before outside of later life shingles presentation, people thought it didn't present problems.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Article https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03972-5
Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the
risk of dementia

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 1d

Must read here for all Albertans via @ximenaka.bsky.social.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

People like Carney can trade their credibility for harm far more effectively that someone like PP could.

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

He will be FAR more successful at creating harm than PP would be because of it. I've been mentally calling this legitimacy-based harm amplification. The "Bad" guy isn't always the one to fear when both the "bad" guy & the "good" guy have the same goals.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Even those statements I don't really agree with. Someone like PP is a populist fool & would quickly & correctly be attacked for doing something like building new fossil fuel infrastructure during a climate crisis. However when someone like Carney does it, people, against reason, rush to defend him.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 1d

"Poilievre would be worse" and "Average citizens couldn't do better" are just about the strongest arguments I've seen from Carney partisans -- and those are absurdly terrible arguments.

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

🤣 Yes violent fascists are known for respecting contracts & international laws. It's absolutely safer to spend our time making close relationships with them & building extensive infrastructure that they can take over, that way they don't have to do it later.

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

That's really the only thing being talked about, how badly do we want to screw up our children's future. Their future WILL NOT be with fossil fuels.

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

People that are talking about long term fossil fuel reliance are totally & completely delusional. There IS NO FUTURE with fossil fuels, but we can sure screw up our future with them.
www.iea.org/news/decline...?

Declines in output from existing oil and gas fields have gathered speed, with implications for markets and energy security - News - IEA

Declines in output from existing oil and gas fields have gathered speed, with implications for markets and energy security - News from the International Energy Agency

www.iea.org

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

Here are my red lines if you want my vote:
1) Don't support genocide
2) Don't be a bigot
3) Don't propagate climate change
4) Don't gaslight victims of a pandemic
5) Don't create victims of a pandemic
6) Don't deny basic science
I'm not going to "strategic vote" for any of that.

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

If you support genocide, propagating climate change, gaslighting victims of a pandemic, creating victims in a pandemic & you lose an election as a result ... that's a YOU problem, not a voter problem. Be a better candidate & party.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 3d

That little bit is 100% more than most people. Way to go.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 3d

and by making that choice, he has likely destroyed yet another company that he has invested vast sums of money into. Maybe special K isn't such a wonder drug after all.

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 3d

It's pretty interesting that Musk, a man who' entire fortune lies in electric cars has decided to promote fossil fuel propaganda that directly hurts his "fortune". Unless of course he knows he's already destroyed yet another company.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Drew Yewchuk @drewyewchuk.bsky.social · 3d

The need for metallurgical coal is coming to an end, and everyone knew that at the last hearing for Grassy Mountain.
I really hope they don't force me to go to another hearing about that mine...

CBC Bot posting select CBC RSS Feeds @scrubfire84.bsky.social · 4d

How Canadian steelmakers are 'greening' their steel amid tariffs, global challenges

Steelmaker Algoma says U.S. tariffs on steel are pushing it to more quickly transition to electric steelmaking. Here's why decarbonizing steel is such a big deal, ho...

#cbc #cbc-top-stories #Canada

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

“Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.”

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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