trc 🇨🇦 🏴 🏴 🇦🇲
@covell.ca
Writer, editor, film classification researcher (censorship, children's rights). Recent romance novel: Ocean's Lure http://bit.ly/3llHbIV Nova Scotian by choice. he/him
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My first romance novel. Another is in editing, and more are drafted. Available in eBook or paperback from online retailers, or order from any bookstore. More at this link: somewhatgrumpypress.com/oceans-lure-...
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
Is enforcement a long-term solution to bad driving? Nope. Is it a quick and easy to implement fix that will have immediate results reducing crashes and the severity of crashes, thus saving lives, reducing injuries, and improving the flow of traffic? Yes.
Yes. In addition to long-term street redesigns, we need to enforce traffic laws.
We currently have a culture that doesn’t consider road rules (like speed limits) to be legitimate or real.
Some jurisdictions — Ontario, Alberta — have banned/restricted automated speed enforcement. That’s bonkers.
We currently have a culture that doesn’t consider road rules (like speed limits) to be legitimate or real.
Some jurisdictions — Ontario, Alberta — have banned/restricted automated speed enforcement. That’s bonkers.
Is enforcement the answer to a deadly year on Calgary roads?
YouTube video by CBC News Alberta
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Is enforcement a long-term solution to bad driving? Nope. Is it a quick and easy to implement fix that will have immediate results reducing crashes and the severity of crashes, thus saving lives, reducing injuries, and improving the flow of traffic? Yes.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.
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it took me a minute to put together that she’s being homophobic, not making a genuinely helpful suggestion about birth control
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
it took me a minute to put together that she’s being homophobic, not making a genuinely helpful suggestion about birth control
"We have always been at war with Canada."
From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"
December 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"We have always been at war with Canada."
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The City Bar has released a report examining a broad pattern of conduct by President Trump and his Administration that reflects an ongoing abuse of presidential power and a grave breach of the public trust, and calls on Congress to reclaim its power as a co-equal branch: bit.ly/49jfeKj
The Abuse of Presidential Power and Breach of Public Trust | New York City Bar Association
Read how the NYC Bar Association examines the pattern of conduct by President Trump and his administration.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The City Bar has released a report examining a broad pattern of conduct by President Trump and his Administration that reflects an ongoing abuse of presidential power and a grave breach of the public trust, and calls on Congress to reclaim its power as a co-equal branch: bit.ly/49jfeKj
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Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
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catch a snowflake, watch it melt
on your fingertip
seconds: the time in which we live
#senryu #haiku #HaikuSaturday #snowflake #seconds #vss365
on your fingertip
seconds: the time in which we live
#senryu #haiku #HaikuSaturday #snowflake #seconds #vss365
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
catch a snowflake, watch it melt
on your fingertip
seconds: the time in which we live
#senryu #haiku #HaikuSaturday #snowflake #seconds #vss365
on your fingertip
seconds: the time in which we live
#senryu #haiku #HaikuSaturday #snowflake #seconds #vss365
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
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Society is failing these children.
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
abcnews.go.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Society is failing these children.
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New: Here is my report on Waco judge Dianne Hensley's Friday lawsuit in which her lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, says their goal is to get to SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas judge files suit with intent to overturn gay marriage ruling
It's the latest attempt out of Texas to overturn the 2015 decision.
www.chron.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New: Here is my report on Waco judge Dianne Hensley's Friday lawsuit in which her lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, says their goal is to get to SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell.
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Almost like companies are more concerned about popularity than human rights. Kudos to Apple for bucking the trend.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride
Guardian analysis of 20 major companies in UK and US shows mentions of Pride on social media have fallen substantially in past two years
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Almost like companies are more concerned about popularity than human rights. Kudos to Apple for bucking the trend.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Masks on.
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections up.
Masks on.
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections…
If I didn’t know any better, I would swear there was a pattern here.
#maskingsaveslives
#masksinhealthcare
#commonsenseinhealthcare
#HAIs #donoharm #stopthespread #normalizingsickness
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections up.
Masks on.
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections…
If I didn’t know any better, I would swear there was a pattern here.
#maskingsaveslives
#masksinhealthcare
#commonsenseinhealthcare
#HAIs #donoharm #stopthespread #normalizingsickness
Effective December 18, Nova Scotia Health is requiring everyone to wear a mask in their facilities. 👏👏👏
Please protect yourselves and others during this season of illness by wearing a mask, staying home when sick, getting vaccinated, and increasing ventilation & filtration.
Please protect yourselves and others during this season of illness by wearing a mask, staying home when sick, getting vaccinated, and increasing ventilation & filtration.
December 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Masks on.
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections up.
Masks on.
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections…
If I didn’t know any better, I would swear there was a pattern here.
#maskingsaveslives
#masksinhealthcare
#commonsenseinhealthcare
#HAIs #donoharm #stopthespread #normalizingsickness
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections up.
Masks on.
Infections down.
Masks off.
Infections…
If I didn’t know any better, I would swear there was a pattern here.
#maskingsaveslives
#masksinhealthcare
#commonsenseinhealthcare
#HAIs #donoharm #stopthespread #normalizingsickness
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Santa Is Now Using AI
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Santa Is Now Using AI
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What are your #FestiveTraditions? Do you sing carols like the nurses in this picture from Whipps Cross? Do you bring in the Yule Log every year, like these nursing students?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistMed #HistNursing #YuleLog #Carols
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistMed #HistNursing #YuleLog #Carols
December 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
What are your #FestiveTraditions? Do you sing carols like the nurses in this picture from Whipps Cross? Do you bring in the Yule Log every year, like these nursing students?
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistMed #HistNursing #YuleLog #Carols
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #HistMed #HistNursing #YuleLog #Carols
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I like that mistletoe increases the odds of being kissed. More plants should offer temporary environmental status. Brawling under lingonberries. The soft yearning of a love that dare not speak its name beneath the nightshade.
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I like that mistletoe increases the odds of being kissed. More plants should offer temporary environmental status. Brawling under lingonberries. The soft yearning of a love that dare not speak its name beneath the nightshade.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda.
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published
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President Trump at that party with Jeffrey Epstein, dancing, kissing and slapping the bum of young women
Inset: NIcki Minaj, "I have the upmost respect and admiration for our President. He's given so many people hope, that there's a chance to beat the bad guys"
Inset: NIcki Minaj, "I have the upmost respect and admiration for our President. He's given so many people hope, that there's a chance to beat the bad guys"
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
President Trump at that party with Jeffrey Epstein, dancing, kissing and slapping the bum of young women
Inset: NIcki Minaj, "I have the upmost respect and admiration for our President. He's given so many people hope, that there's a chance to beat the bad guys"
Inset: NIcki Minaj, "I have the upmost respect and admiration for our President. He's given so many people hope, that there's a chance to beat the bad guys"
Consider how often murder cases are wrongful convictions, and then think about how many lesser offenses must also be wrongful convictions (probably more) - but don't come to light because the people serve their time and can't afford review.
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Consider how often murder cases are wrongful convictions, and then think about how many lesser offenses must also be wrongful convictions (probably more) - but don't come to light because the people serve their time and can't afford review.