Andy
@andy47xxy.bsky.social
42, they/them intersex, agender
Just falling apart
Just falling apart
Most of charles street sidewalk was cleared but I think its because of the kids, lots of kids with shovels today
See when the sidewalks and bike lanes you care about should be cleared by here: snowhfx.danp.net
January 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Most of charles street sidewalk was cleared but I think its because of the kids, lots of kids with shovels today
So soes the city consider chebucto lane to be anything they are responsible for?
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
So soes the city consider chebucto lane to be anything they are responsible for?
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As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
‘Buying countries is Stone Age mentality:’ Inuit speak up on Greenland
Indigenous Greenlanders, who endured centuries of colonialism from Denmark, now face a new threat from Donald Trump’s United States
canadiangeographic.ca
January 16, 2026 at 11:22 AM
As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
Its so quiet outside that you can hear ship alarms up in the chebucto neighborhood area
January 19, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Its so quiet outside that you can hear ship alarms up in the chebucto neighborhood area
Here I was thinking potential snow day or delayed work and I still have power (for now) so I can get some warframe in, but also no internet 🙃
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Here I was thinking potential snow day or delayed work and I still have power (for now) so I can get some warframe in, but also no internet 🙃
Took a chance and made scrambled eggs as I still have power but the whole time the light was flickering and I'm like "seriously" lol
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Took a chance and made scrambled eggs as I still have power but the whole time the light was flickering and I'm like "seriously" lol
This nor'easter is pretty light on wind gusts, power is going out because of snow and nova scotia power never upgrading infrastructure (that rate increase will go to shareholders)
January 19, 2026 at 8:36 AM
This nor'easter is pretty light on wind gusts, power is going out because of snow and nova scotia power never upgrading infrastructure (that rate increase will go to shareholders)
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We would all be healthier today if the province had taken the money the Feds gave them for COVID prevention and relief and actually spent it in schools, instead of banking it to pad their surplus.
Important read on schools and transmission of viral illnesses.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The School Engine Behind Flu and COVID — and Why Clean Air for Kids Is the Missing Public Health Tool
Every winter we treat flu season as if it were driven by weather, chance, or holiday travel.
substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:09 PM
We would all be healthier today if the province had taken the money the Feds gave them for COVID prevention and relief and actually spent it in schools, instead of banking it to pad their surplus.
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A thread on how to build suburbs without any car first social engineering
Pull off the highway with me into Spechtenkamp near Utrecht, a little suburban subdivision
The two-lane highway gets a right turn lane (and a left turn lane in the median). This is much safer than having a four lane road the whole way.
🧵 1/6
The two-lane highway gets a right turn lane (and a left turn lane in the median). This is much safer than having a four lane road the whole way.
🧵 1/6
January 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM
A thread on how to build suburbs without any car first social engineering
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If you're wondering how the medical community can ignore a disease that causes all of the damage laid out in the thread below, take note of the fact that continuing medical education processes are so outdated and ineffectual that many can't even recognize #longCOVID when they get it themselves.
January 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
If you're wondering how the medical community can ignore a disease that causes all of the damage laid out in the thread below, take note of the fact that continuing medical education processes are so outdated and ineffectual that many can't even recognize #longCOVID when they get it themselves.
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
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Wanna know what would absolutely tank auto-sector competitiveness? Functional transit and protected bike lanes.
January 16, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Wanna know what would absolutely tank auto-sector competitiveness? Functional transit and protected bike lanes.
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Three motor vehicle collisions where a pedestrian was struck in just 2 days. Halifax Council should be calling our rising rate of road violence an emergency.
Second pedestrian incident, one of three reported today and yesterday
bsky.app/profile/wfmh...
bsky.app/profile/wfmh...
Traffic Advisory via HRP
Please be advised, Police are investigating a vehicle vs pedestrian motor vehicle accident on Portland St at Manor Dr in Dartmouth.
Traffic is closed in both directions at this time.
Please be advised, Police are investigating a vehicle vs pedestrian motor vehicle accident on Portland St at Manor Dr in Dartmouth.
Traffic is closed in both directions at this time.
January 17, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Three motor vehicle collisions where a pedestrian was struck in just 2 days. Halifax Council should be calling our rising rate of road violence an emergency.
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Canada’s AI Minister “has been accused of naively embracing AI rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.”
Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.
Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.
Evan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon? | The Walrus
The journalist-turned-minister says the tech will make us richer and regulation should be “light”
thewalrus.ca
January 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Canada’s AI Minister “has been accused of naively embracing AI rather than working to mitigate its harms, and of listening mostly to voices from the tech sector—those who stand to benefit most from rapid AI adoption.”
Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.
Good article on the issues with Evan Solomon’s approach to tech and AI.
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The mental gymnastics required to believe that state-mandated car dependency is actually "freedom".
January 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
The mental gymnastics required to believe that state-mandated car dependency is actually "freedom".
I deactivated my twitter account before the csam stuff came out (if you haven't deactivated yet you should because the new ToS start in 2 days) but I feel like a lot of people have twitter tunnel vision here 1/2
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I deactivated my twitter account before the csam stuff came out (if you haven't deactivated yet you should because the new ToS start in 2 days) but I feel like a lot of people have twitter tunnel vision here 1/2
This is a really good visual, sadly got to take it with a grain of salt (pun intended) when it comes to the city and contractor bothering to follow their own policy
Like last winter the north street sidewalk was a sheet of ice for 2 weeks because they stopped caring after the 3rd storm
Like last winter the north street sidewalk was a sheet of ice for 2 weeks because they stopped caring after the 3rd storm
Just pushed a big update to snowhfx.danp.net, it has a cycling / #BikeHfx mode now!
This was tricky since it involves joining 3 HRM datasets, including the one it has been using for sidewalks.
Added an About bit that hopefully explains why things show up or not.
Feedback welcome.
This was tricky since it involves joining 3 HRM datasets, including the one it has been using for sidewalks.
Added an About bit that hopefully explains why things show up or not.
Feedback welcome.
January 13, 2026 at 10:21 AM
This is a really good visual, sadly got to take it with a grain of salt (pun intended) when it comes to the city and contractor bothering to follow their own policy
Like last winter the north street sidewalk was a sheet of ice for 2 weeks because they stopped caring after the 3rd storm
Like last winter the north street sidewalk was a sheet of ice for 2 weeks because they stopped caring after the 3rd storm
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Many thanks to Andy Marso for sharing his story. Andy was in j school with me at KU when he almost died from meningitis infection, which can spread easily in student housing. Another reason to fully vax teens before heading off to college. Especially meningitis, which can kill so quick. 🩺 #MedSky
Meningococcal disease has been rare. But when it occurs, it is devastating. High death rate. Survivors often lose limbs, as this person did. There's no way to accurately assess who is at risk. And yet meningococcal vaxes are no longer recommended for all children. www.thebulwark.com/p/my-life-sh...
My Life Shows the Horror of RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Guidelines
The Trump administration just yanked the recommendation for a vaccine that can spare people from what I went through.
www.thebulwark.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Many thanks to Andy Marso for sharing his story. Andy was in j school with me at KU when he almost died from meningitis infection, which can spread easily in student housing. Another reason to fully vax teens before heading off to college. Especially meningitis, which can kill so quick. 🩺 #MedSky
Im just assuming at this point that @hfxgov.bsky.social just doesn't allocate salt for sidewalks cause surelu they know that when temps drop water freezes
Anyways its windy as fuck out and the sidewalks are iced
If you walk in Halifax consider getting ice cleats
Anyways its windy as fuck out and the sidewalks are iced
If you walk in Halifax consider getting ice cleats
January 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Im just assuming at this point that @hfxgov.bsky.social just doesn't allocate salt for sidewalks cause surelu they know that when temps drop water freezes
Anyways its windy as fuck out and the sidewalks are iced
If you walk in Halifax consider getting ice cleats
Anyways its windy as fuck out and the sidewalks are iced
If you walk in Halifax consider getting ice cleats
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ICE on ice violence
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
ICE on ice violence
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As the right-wing meme page Canada Proud was posting calls to "DEFUND THE CBC," the same PR firm behind it was being indirectly funded by CBC journalists’ own union dues.
Yeah. And that's not all.
So I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about it:
Yeah. And that's not all.
So I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about it:
January 9, 2026 at 7:50 PM
As the right-wing meme page Canada Proud was posting calls to "DEFUND THE CBC," the same PR firm behind it was being indirectly funded by CBC journalists’ own union dues.
Yeah. And that's not all.
So I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about it:
Yeah. And that's not all.
So I’m teaming up with my friends at @nationalobserver.com to tell you all about it:
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I've been completely mystified by healthcare workers who aren't interested in adopting the best safety protection possible.
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I've been completely mystified by healthcare workers who aren't interested in adopting the best safety protection possible.
Couldn't catch the license plate but was at the crosswalk on Barrington street near artz street and loiked both ways twice abd walked out, and on the left a guy going way to fast didn't bother to slow down or look at me and just barrelled right through
I hope his tires are always blinking less air
I hope his tires are always blinking less air
January 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Couldn't catch the license plate but was at the crosswalk on Barrington street near artz street and loiked both ways twice abd walked out, and on the left a guy going way to fast didn't bother to slow down or look at me and just barrelled right through
I hope his tires are always blinking less air
I hope his tires are always blinking less air
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Municipal government complaining about lack of tax revenue should raise their taxes
Charts in the Toronto budget presentation that drive Damien insane pt. 1: it is not a problem that the federal and provincial governments receive more tax revenue than municipalities, they do way more stuff.
January 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Municipal government complaining about lack of tax revenue should raise their taxes
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"Questions arise"
No @globalnews.ca , they don't. There is zero question they weren't in danger you cowardly shitheads.
No @globalnews.ca , they don't. There is zero question they weren't in danger you cowardly shitheads.
January 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
"Questions arise"
No @globalnews.ca , they don't. There is zero question they weren't in danger you cowardly shitheads.
No @globalnews.ca , they don't. There is zero question they weren't in danger you cowardly shitheads.