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…
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!
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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NEW: Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles was kicked out of the chamber for calling the Ford government "corrupt" on Wednesday.
She repeated the claim outside the chamber and challenged the premier to sue her. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153329...
She repeated the claim outside the chamber and challenged the premier to sue her. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153329...
Marit Stiles kicked out of legislature for calling Ford government ‘corrupt’ | Globalnews.ca
'It is the endless grift of an anti-democratic, and yes, corrupt, government,' Stiles said, to shouts from the government benches and some cheers from her colleagues.
globalnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
NEW: Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles was kicked out of the chamber for calling the Ford government "corrupt" on Wednesday.
She repeated the claim outside the chamber and challenged the premier to sue her. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153329...
She repeated the claim outside the chamber and challenged the premier to sue her. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153329...
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kind of reminds me of doing matrix decision charts in eng undergrad... everybody knows you can cook the results to get the solution you want even though there's this guise of objectivity because numbers
(no, numbers are not inherently objective!)
(no, numbers are not inherently objective!)
Can I get an amen?
Ritual as costume is a beautiful descriptor.
The rating scale assignment is immensely subjective and arbitrary by the researcher. It could be done well but can also introduce a scientific biases.
Case in point: declaring all mechanistic respirator studies low quality
Ritual as costume is a beautiful descriptor.
The rating scale assignment is immensely subjective and arbitrary by the researcher. It could be done well but can also introduce a scientific biases.
Case in point: declaring all mechanistic respirator studies low quality
“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
kind of reminds me of doing matrix decision charts in eng undergrad... everybody knows you can cook the results to get the solution you want even though there's this guise of objectivity because numbers
(no, numbers are not inherently objective!)
(no, numbers are not inherently objective!)
Have you guys read Carney’s book? It’s super long and dense so I get that many people haven’t (full transparency I haven’t read the whole thing). I encourage you to pick it up and read a section that you know a lot about. I found errors in his reasoning on Covid mitigations for example.
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Have you guys read Carney’s book? It’s super long and dense so I get that many people haven’t (full transparency I haven’t read the whole thing). I encourage you to pick it up and read a section that you know a lot about. I found errors in his reasoning on Covid mitigations for example.
I wonder if Dr Evans reflects on his refusal to adopt airborne transmission mitigations and how if every care home and hospital used ventilation and filtration to protect residents, patients and staff that the low vaccination rate might not be as big of a deal.
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wonder if Dr Evans reflects on his refusal to adopt airborne transmission mitigations and how if every care home and hospital used ventilation and filtration to protect residents, patients and staff that the low vaccination rate might not be as big of a deal.
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“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”🎯
In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
The myth of an apolitical science — Jessica Kant
What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously i...
jessk.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“While the EBM movement has indeed contributed greatly to the push for better evidence and ever more rigorous standards for research, it has also created a plausible mechanism for opponents of scientific progress to discount enormous volumes of data using scientific language and ritual as costume.”🎯
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Anne Hidalgo is one of the most courageous mayors in history. They sued her. Said she was attacking Parisian heritage. Said she would make traffic worse.
And yet she persisted. She seized an opportunity and delivered.
And yet she persisted. She seized an opportunity and delivered.
Ridership on Paris region transit systems is now generally at or higher than pre-pandemic levels. Bike use is much higher than pre-pandemic.
At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
At the same time, car traffic in Paris and on its ring highway is substantially lower than it was pre-pandemic. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Anne Hidalgo is one of the most courageous mayors in history. They sued her. Said she was attacking Parisian heritage. Said she would make traffic worse.
And yet she persisted. She seized an opportunity and delivered.
And yet she persisted. She seized an opportunity and delivered.
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If a worker is killed using manufacturing equipment, they don't just clean it up and get back to using it immediately. But that's what happens at road intersections.
Motonormativity is a dangerous disease.
Motonormativity is a dangerous disease.
what we should do now is of course close the intersection until it is redesigned. but we won't we will do nothing and wait for the next tragedy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If a worker is killed using manufacturing equipment, they don't just clean it up and get back to using it immediately. But that's what happens at road intersections.
Motonormativity is a dangerous disease.
Motonormativity is a dangerous disease.
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I was approached by a lady outside the gym today while parking my bike. She was likely in her 70s. She had such great questions about the bike and then proceeded to tell me about her ebike.
She told me that she rode over 600 miles on it last year and was so proud of herself. She was so happy.
She told me that she rode over 600 miles on it last year and was so proud of herself. She was so happy.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I was approached by a lady outside the gym today while parking my bike. She was likely in her 70s. She had such great questions about the bike and then proceeded to tell me about her ebike.
She told me that she rode over 600 miles on it last year and was so proud of herself. She was so happy.
She told me that she rode over 600 miles on it last year and was so proud of herself. She was so happy.
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"If you bought packaged bread from one of Canada's major grocery stores between 2001 and 2021 — and the odds are that many Canadians did — then you're eligible to apply for a slice of the settlement .... Claimants have until Dec. 12 to apply." www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
You could get at least $50 from the bread price-fixing settlement. But the deadline is coming up | CBC News
Your chance to get a piece of a $500-million class action settlement, following a years-long bread price fixing scheme will soon expire.
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"If you bought packaged bread from one of Canada's major grocery stores between 2001 and 2021 — and the odds are that many Canadians did — then you're eligible to apply for a slice of the settlement .... Claimants have until Dec. 12 to apply." www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
James Van Der Beek Sells Dawson’s Creek Merch to Pay for Cancer Treatment
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
www.vulture.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
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A worker (crossing guard) was killed on the job at his worksite (road intersection, municipal infrastructure designed by a professional engineer). It should not be any different than an indoor workplace.
If this was a worksite [it is a worksite], provincial authorities would close it until an investigation was completed and corrective actions implemented.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A worker (crossing guard) was killed on the job at his worksite (road intersection, municipal infrastructure designed by a professional engineer). It should not be any different than an indoor workplace.
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As a pedestrian, I was hit by a car on Laird. T-intersection. I had the green light, going north on the east side. Car was turning east at lights. I was using a cane and, I guess, not moving fast enough for the driver, who screamed at me before driving into me. Not fast, but knocked me over. 1/2
In my brief block by block encounters with crossing guards I see how drivers menace them, inching towards. What a whole shift must be like.
The Premier and other politicians, Toronto Police, other forces, have taken the lid of all this. A death drive amid other bs rhetoric of public safety.
The Premier and other politicians, Toronto Police, other forces, have taken the lid of all this. A death drive amid other bs rhetoric of public safety.
A crossing guard was killed by the driver of a dump truck yesterday. absolutely heartbreaking.
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Look at our intersections, look how hostile these are for people/children - this is what we continue to build and defend at all costs. These aren't accidents, these are results. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As a pedestrian, I was hit by a car on Laird. T-intersection. I had the green light, going north on the east side. Car was turning east at lights. I was using a cane and, I guess, not moving fast enough for the driver, who screamed at me before driving into me. Not fast, but knocked me over. 1/2
Deadlifts are different from other exercises. They don’t seem too hard in the moment and frankly I always think I should try lifting heavier but then I’m mentally EXHAUSTED for the next 24h. As if I’m lifting with my brain. 🤷♀️
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Deadlifts are different from other exercises. They don’t seem too hard in the moment and frankly I always think I should try lifting heavier but then I’m mentally EXHAUSTED for the next 24h. As if I’m lifting with my brain. 🤷♀️
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BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
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Do you also sometimes wonder what kind of beauty and possibility our species could achieve if a handful of people didn't sponge up all the surplus we, together, create and spend it on generating "artificial intelligence" and running away, into space?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA...
Strandbeest evolution 2025
YouTube video by theo jansen
m.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Do you also sometimes wonder what kind of beauty and possibility our species could achieve if a handful of people didn't sponge up all the surplus we, together, create and spend it on generating "artificial intelligence" and running away, into space?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA...