Cheryl White
@ladyscorcher.bsky.social
big fan of public libraries and clean air. engineer, jogger & cyclist. cancer survivor and patient partner. co-founder cavi.
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Cheryl White
@ladyscorcher.bsky.social
· May 19
We had a nice time. There were 7 of us on the trip and I was the only one who had ever been to Algonquin before. They loved it and said they will go back.
You miss a lot of the most beautiful photos because you’re busy paddling or enjoying it but here are a few…
You miss a lot of the most beautiful photos because you’re busy paddling or enjoying it but here are a few…
This week's discussion question in my MBA governance class was about organizational resiliency vs the next pandemic. Delighted to get to cite this beauty because when we don't respond to the correct root cause we're all in trouble. www.thelancet.com/article/S014...
Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Heneghan and colleagues' systematic review, funded by WHO, published in March, 2021,
as a preprint, states: “The lack of recoverable viral culture samples of SARS-CoV-2
prevents firm conclusions to be...
www.thelancet.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This week's discussion question in my MBA governance class was about organizational resiliency vs the next pandemic. Delighted to get to cite this beauty because when we don't respond to the correct root cause we're all in trouble. www.thelancet.com/article/S014...
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so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
Unsubscribing from so many mailing lists today. Black Friday is like a video game, gotta keep on your toes to dodge all those marketing calls to action for stuff I don’t need!
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Unsubscribing from so many mailing lists today. Black Friday is like a video game, gotta keep on your toes to dodge all those marketing calls to action for stuff I don’t need!
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If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
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If you've convinced yourself privatization is the solution, you've never been a Rogers, Bell or Loblaws customer.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you've convinced yourself privatization is the solution, you've never been a Rogers, Bell or Loblaws customer.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Blasting past rush hour traffic on the completed portion of Dufferin RapidTO (up to Dundas)
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Blasting past rush hour traffic on the completed portion of Dufferin RapidTO (up to Dundas)
I you, like me, enjoy listening to conversations between people who just really love music you should check out this podcast episode. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Testing Cameron Crowe’s Music Knowledge | The Track Star Podcast
Podcast Episode · The Track Star Podcast · 2025-11-26 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I you, like me, enjoy listening to conversations between people who just really love music you should check out this podcast episode. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
I couldn’t identify the scent but I walked by a guy today who smelled like a 1990s fashion magazine and I really wanted to ask what it was! Are any of the often advertised scents from back then still for sale now?
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I couldn’t identify the scent but I walked by a guy today who smelled like a 1990s fashion magazine and I really wanted to ask what it was! Are any of the often advertised scents from back then still for sale now?
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My ambitious gingerbread house collapsed so dramatically and to such joy amongst the youngest members of the family, that I am required to make a structurally unsound gingerbread building for demolition every year. Fortunately not that difficult.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My ambitious gingerbread house collapsed so dramatically and to such joy amongst the youngest members of the family, that I am required to make a structurally unsound gingerbread building for demolition every year. Fortunately not that difficult.
Imagine if there was a way of reducing daycare illness by half or more? Better for families, better for everyone. Cleaning the air would make a big difference.
For instance, shouldn’t we be requiring, by law, that all daycares and kindergartens have supplementary air cleaners?
Shouldn’t employees be, at minimum, be supplied with and encouraged to use KN95, Q100 or N95 respirators? I’m not even saying to require them to be used. Just supplied.
Shouldn’t employees be, at minimum, be supplied with and encouraged to use KN95, Q100 or N95 respirators? I’m not even saying to require them to be used. Just supplied.
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Imagine if there was a way of reducing daycare illness by half or more? Better for families, better for everyone. Cleaning the air would make a big difference.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
My dog loves going jogging. It works better when we do run/walk intervals and he knows what it means when he hears my garmin beep.
Also he locks into sport mode (ears down) and ignores his crossing guard friends when we’re running. It’s very cute. ☺️
Also he locks into sport mode (ears down) and ignores his crossing guard friends when we’re running. It’s very cute. ☺️
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My dog loves going jogging. It works better when we do run/walk intervals and he knows what it means when he hears my garmin beep.
Also he locks into sport mode (ears down) and ignores his crossing guard friends when we’re running. It’s very cute. ☺️
Also he locks into sport mode (ears down) and ignores his crossing guard friends when we’re running. It’s very cute. ☺️
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Finally got my copy of @hayleygullen.com “this might surprise you” graphic novel about breast cancer.
These are just 3 of my favourite pages from the book but if you have or had breast cancer, or know anyone you does you need to get a copy of this
These are just 3 of my favourite pages from the book but if you have or had breast cancer, or know anyone you does you need to get a copy of this
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Finally got my copy of @hayleygullen.com “this might surprise you” graphic novel about breast cancer.
These are just 3 of my favourite pages from the book but if you have or had breast cancer, or know anyone you does you need to get a copy of this
These are just 3 of my favourite pages from the book but if you have or had breast cancer, or know anyone you does you need to get a copy of this
We went from “you can’t trust anything on Wikipedia” to it being one of the only places on the web that’s likely to be correct and unbiased more often than wrong or driven by private interests.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We went from “you can’t trust anything on Wikipedia” to it being one of the only places on the web that’s likely to be correct and unbiased more often than wrong or driven by private interests.
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
Interesting to see Metrolinx get close to putting up some Ws a year after replacing their CEO. Could the new leader be turning things around?
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Interesting to see Metrolinx get close to putting up some Ws a year after replacing their CEO. Could the new leader be turning things around?
Making dinner, listening to The Stone Roses. 😢
November 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Making dinner, listening to The Stone Roses. 😢
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TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The CPKC Holiday Train will be easier for Torontonians to see this year! Finally, it will be here on a weekend. 🎅🚂🎄
Saturday, Nov. 29
8:30pm-9:00pm
750 Runnymede Rd., Toronto
Info:
www.cpkcr.com/en/community...
#CPKCHolidayTrain #Holidays #events #railway #railroad #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Saturday, Nov. 29
8:30pm-9:00pm
750 Runnymede Rd., Toronto
Info:
www.cpkcr.com/en/community...
#CPKCHolidayTrain #Holidays #events #railway #railroad #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The CPKC Holiday Train will be easier for Torontonians to see this year! Finally, it will be here on a weekend. 🎅🚂🎄
Saturday, Nov. 29
8:30pm-9:00pm
750 Runnymede Rd., Toronto
Info:
www.cpkcr.com/en/community...
#CPKCHolidayTrain #Holidays #events #railway #railroad #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
Saturday, Nov. 29
8:30pm-9:00pm
750 Runnymede Rd., Toronto
Info:
www.cpkcr.com/en/community...
#CPKCHolidayTrain #Holidays #events #railway #railroad #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
This is a good description… also brings in some interesting pandemic and AI themes.
Pluribus is so good?? It’s like if the X-Files and The Good Place had an extremely upsetting but darkly funny baby
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is a good description… also brings in some interesting pandemic and AI themes.
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I’m not watching a show so my TV is cycling through photos of friends, family and trips and my goodness am I ever lucky in life. So many beautiful places and fun adventures!
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I’m not watching a show so my TV is cycling through photos of friends, family and trips and my goodness am I ever lucky in life. So many beautiful places and fun adventures!