Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦
@bornat3b.bsky.social
I am interested in justice, including health justice, science and nature (inc funny animal photos), well-designed cities, and technology, especially security. She/her-ish.
I nuked my X. Now you’re stuck with me.
Viewpoints from outside CDA/US very welcome.
I nuked my X. Now you’re stuck with me.
Viewpoints from outside CDA/US very welcome.
Pinned
If the US actively states that they will not follow the rules of engagement, that they will go against every convention to prevent abuse of prisoners, that they will act as street fighters rather than soldiers, can they be trusted in any international military training or operation?
Apropos: youtube.com/shorts/XtWRW...
Gun Control Solved in 3 Minutes
YouTube video by Steve Hofstetter
youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Apropos: youtube.com/shorts/XtWRW...
Aside from all the human “collateral damage“ as Cheney would have called the suffering inflicted on others not even part of the fray, animals in the care of the people ICE is viciously abducting are also cast asunder.
I am glad there are networks to help pets find safety.
I am glad there are networks to help pets find safety.
This is Duncan. I adopted him two weeks ago, he came from eastern Washington state. He was well loved. His family was deported by ICE. He’s now safe with Canadian citizenship. This is just part of the fallout from the crap show in the U.S. 🇨🇦🖕🏻☠️✌🏻
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Aside from all the human “collateral damage“ as Cheney would have called the suffering inflicted on others not even part of the fray, animals in the care of the people ICE is viciously abducting are also cast asunder.
I am glad there are networks to help pets find safety.
I am glad there are networks to help pets find safety.
People should re-watch John Oliver on this: youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ
December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
People should re-watch John Oliver on this: youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ
These maga folk, with their idea of freedom that most of us see as a teeny, tiny box of restrictions.
#ProtectNature
#ProtectNature
December 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
These maga folk, with their idea of freedom that most of us see as a teeny, tiny box of restrictions.
#ProtectNature
#ProtectNature
#CdnPoli as more cities do sweeps, even if saying they are moving people into stable housing, the act of ”sweeping“ is disruptive and traumatizing.
These postcards are heart-breaking. What few assets someone might own or what carefully preserved mementos of another time - tossed as if nothing.
These postcards are heart-breaking. What few assets someone might own or what carefully preserved mementos of another time - tossed as if nothing.
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
#CdnPoli as more cities do sweeps, even if saying they are moving people into stable housing, the act of ”sweeping“ is disruptive and traumatizing.
These postcards are heart-breaking. What few assets someone might own or what carefully preserved mementos of another time - tossed as if nothing.
These postcards are heart-breaking. What few assets someone might own or what carefully preserved mementos of another time - tossed as if nothing.
I’m so glad it is her!
❤️❤️❤️❤️
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’m so glad it is her!
We (I) spend way too much time here decrying the actions of terrible people.
Here is a timeline cleanse with someone who is totally amazing.
If you can donate to the research fund for clinical trials to help John and others who live with this painful condition please do.
youtu.be/WanvuFtrlUI
Here is a timeline cleanse with someone who is totally amazing.
If you can donate to the research fund for clinical trials to help John and others who live with this painful condition please do.
youtu.be/WanvuFtrlUI
John Hudson's Only Wish as His Health Fails
YouTube video by Special Books by Special Kids
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We (I) spend way too much time here decrying the actions of terrible people.
Here is a timeline cleanse with someone who is totally amazing.
If you can donate to the research fund for clinical trials to help John and others who live with this painful condition please do.
youtu.be/WanvuFtrlUI
Here is a timeline cleanse with someone who is totally amazing.
If you can donate to the research fund for clinical trials to help John and others who live with this painful condition please do.
youtu.be/WanvuFtrlUI
Yup. Just like every abuser - prod and harass and even injure until the target has reached their limit.
December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Yup. Just like every abuser - prod and harass and even injure until the target has reached their limit.
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Honored to share my interview with Ambassador Maurizio Massari, Italy’s Permanent Representative to the UN.
A thoughtful conversation on leadership, diplomacy, UN reform, and the pursuit of a just peace.
www.onestnetwork.com/post/a-conve...
A thoughtful conversation on leadership, diplomacy, UN reform, and the pursuit of a just peace.
www.onestnetwork.com/post/a-conve...
A Conversation with Ambassador Maurizio Massari: Diplomacy, Leadership, and Italy’s Vision at the United Nations
An in-depth conversation with Ambassador Maurizio Massari, Italy’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on diplomacy, multilateral reform, gender equality, the UN’s role in Ukraine, and Ita...
www.onestnetwork.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Honored to share my interview with Ambassador Maurizio Massari, Italy’s Permanent Representative to the UN.
A thoughtful conversation on leadership, diplomacy, UN reform, and the pursuit of a just peace.
www.onestnetwork.com/post/a-conve...
A thoughtful conversation on leadership, diplomacy, UN reform, and the pursuit of a just peace.
www.onestnetwork.com/post/a-conve...
I bet the cop’s pardon is being written even before the trial has started.
youtu.be/d1Jm-dPsAKg
Sleeping in a parking lot rather than driving while tired. Eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, injured shoulder, concussion, damaged lip. Cop gets paid vacation for a year, only now charged.
youtu.be/d1Jm-dPsAKg
Sleeping in a parking lot rather than driving while tired. Eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, injured shoulder, concussion, damaged lip. Cop gets paid vacation for a year, only now charged.
UPDATE: Cop Who Beat Grandpa Napping With Pet Cockatoo INDICTED
YouTube video by The Civil Rights Lawyer
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I bet the cop’s pardon is being written even before the trial has started.
youtu.be/d1Jm-dPsAKg
Sleeping in a parking lot rather than driving while tired. Eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, injured shoulder, concussion, damaged lip. Cop gets paid vacation for a year, only now charged.
youtu.be/d1Jm-dPsAKg
Sleeping in a parking lot rather than driving while tired. Eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, injured shoulder, concussion, damaged lip. Cop gets paid vacation for a year, only now charged.
If you are not following @todmaffin.com you are missing out!
How will you celebrate reclamation day? With a teeny British flag?
How will you celebrate reclamation day? With a teeny British flag?
Why Canada's Parliament is flying two flags today. Or, you know, maybe isn't. #fallout
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you are not following @todmaffin.com you are missing out!
How will you celebrate reclamation day? With a teeny British flag?
How will you celebrate reclamation day? With a teeny British flag?
Busted…. 😹😹😹😹
Though, TBH all the cracks emerging in USian systems are really highlighting how much vulnerability is inherent any system based on “honour“.
The political realm attracts narcissists/control freaks who seek money/power.
But judicial review processes in Canada typically would have +
Though, TBH all the cracks emerging in USian systems are really highlighting how much vulnerability is inherent any system based on “honour“.
The political realm attracts narcissists/control freaks who seek money/power.
But judicial review processes in Canada typically would have +
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Busted…. 😹😹😹😹
Though, TBH all the cracks emerging in USian systems are really highlighting how much vulnerability is inherent any system based on “honour“.
The political realm attracts narcissists/control freaks who seek money/power.
But judicial review processes in Canada typically would have +
Though, TBH all the cracks emerging in USian systems are really highlighting how much vulnerability is inherent any system based on “honour“.
The political realm attracts narcissists/control freaks who seek money/power.
But judicial review processes in Canada typically would have +
It’s so interesting that people who did a whole MD and fellowship or whatever in infectious diseases are still talking about immunity debt like it’s a real concept based in science and not something McKinsey made up in 2022 to convince everyone to start spending money again.
December 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Interesting to see the slide into what proponents like think of as “good” social control.
It’s always a horseshoe, not a straight-line continuum.
It’s always a horseshoe, not a straight-line continuum.
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Interesting to see the slide into what proponents like think of as “good” social control.
It’s always a horseshoe, not a straight-line continuum.
It’s always a horseshoe, not a straight-line continuum.
Anyone the least bit surprised?
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Anyone the least bit surprised?
Police forces in Canada were held accountable for deaths that happened to Indigenous men in their custody, when they were abandoned in the cold.
I was wondering when the lawless thugs the USian administration has released in mass would begin similar actions.
gladue.usask.ca/node/2860
I was wondering when the lawless thugs the USian administration has released in mass would begin similar actions.
gladue.usask.ca/node/2860
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Police forces in Canada were held accountable for deaths that happened to Indigenous men in their custody, when they were abandoned in the cold.
I was wondering when the lawless thugs the USian administration has released in mass would begin similar actions.
gladue.usask.ca/node/2860
I was wondering when the lawless thugs the USian administration has released in mass would begin similar actions.
gladue.usask.ca/node/2860
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it is difficult to be in community with people that have been trained to react to anything that serves the public or benefits a community as an unnecessary expense or an outright evil
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
it is difficult to be in community with people that have been trained to react to anything that serves the public or benefits a community as an unnecessary expense or an outright evil
This:
For an industry that only employs 55K workers across Canada, oil and gas sure uses up a lot of oxygen in Canadian discourse.
StatsCan: Energy jobs in Canada, May 2025, per sector:
the job numbers for Sept are almost identical.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t...
StatsCan: Energy jobs in Canada, May 2025, per sector:
the job numbers for Sept are almost identical.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t...
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This:
Reposted by Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦
SOLIDARITY! Today labor is holding a global day of action to show solidarity for the Starbucks baristas ULP strike. Farm workers are proud to support with these brave @sbworkersunited workers who have been fighting for a fair union contract for almost 4 years.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
SOLIDARITY! Today labor is holding a global day of action to show solidarity for the Starbucks baristas ULP strike. Farm workers are proud to support with these brave @sbworkersunited workers who have been fighting for a fair union contract for almost 4 years.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Please consider wearing an #N95 mask BEFORE you get sick, so that you don't have to get sick.
Absurdly, #PublicHealth continues to ask people to wear a mask after they get sick (close the stable door after the horse has bolted) -
Via @violetblue.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absurdly, #PublicHealth continues to ask people to wear a mask after they get sick (close the stable door after the horse has bolted) -
Via @violetblue.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu
NHS Providers boss says those who are ‘coughing and sneezing’ should wear face coverings on public transport
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Please consider wearing an #N95 mask BEFORE you get sick, so that you don't have to get sick.
Absurdly, #PublicHealth continues to ask people to wear a mask after they get sick (close the stable door after the horse has bolted) -
Via @violetblue.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absurdly, #PublicHealth continues to ask people to wear a mask after they get sick (close the stable door after the horse has bolted) -
Via @violetblue.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Oh, wow…
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Oh, wow…
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Opportunity to extract further information about the killing spree at sea.
Including about the origins of the operation, what precisely OLC blessed, and what exactly DoD is targeting both in terms of objects and people.
Including about the origins of the operation, what precisely OLC blessed, and what exactly DoD is targeting both in terms of objects and people.
Potentially a big day on the Hill tomorrow…
Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon
Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.
Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine and SecState Marco Rubio are expected to brief the Gang of 8 tomorrow afternoon
Separately, outgoing Southern Command commander Adm. Alvin Holsey is expected to virtually meet HASC and SASC leaders.
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Opportunity to extract further information about the killing spree at sea.
Including about the origins of the operation, what precisely OLC blessed, and what exactly DoD is targeting both in terms of objects and people.
Including about the origins of the operation, what precisely OLC blessed, and what exactly DoD is targeting both in terms of objects and people.
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This week I share an anniversary with thousands of strangers. My mom died of Covid five yrs ago today; hers was one of 9,744 such deaths that week. That we know of.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
When Our Grief Turns to Despair - Dame Magazine
It’s been a year since I wrote about my bottomless, fathomless, American grief, about my inability to give it shape even as I tried to shape it with words. We’d lost about 220,000 Americans to COVID-1...
www.damemagazine.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This week I share an anniversary with thousands of strangers. My mom died of Covid five yrs ago today; hers was one of 9,744 such deaths that week. That we know of.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
It was a mass death event. It was made much worse by the man now returned to the Oval Office.
This is how I felt; maybe you did too.
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Bonjour à tous.
Les docteurs Tara Moriarty et Stef Christensen animeront une séance particulière de discussion sur les données le 9 décembre.
Les docteurs Tara Moriarty et Stef Christensen animeront une séance particulière de discussion sur les données le 9 décembre.
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bonjour à tous.
Les docteurs Tara Moriarty et Stef Christensen animeront une séance particulière de discussion sur les données le 9 décembre.
Les docteurs Tara Moriarty et Stef Christensen animeront une séance particulière de discussion sur les données le 9 décembre.
This:
I just love how journalism doesn't ask questions like "Yeah Marge interesting that sucks, and how much do you think the vitriol, hostility, and accusations coming directly from your mouth for a decade+ contributed to the overall climate and Trump's power allowing him to issue this alt right fatwa?"
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This: