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@westcoastdawn.bsky.social
Library Technician, armchair traveller, past ESL/EFL Instructor on 2 continents, Reader, Volunteer and Unionist. (she/her)
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The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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The recording from our #PublicDomainDay virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the #publicdomain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ⤵️
archive.org/details/the-...
February 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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Somehow, all the programs that help the majority of Americans are decried as “wasteful spending,” but the ones that help billionaires aren’t…

Funny how that works.
February 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, #LongCovid & #POTS are #Neuroimmune diseases.

Recent paper underscores the importance of educating specialists for all these patient groups.

#Medsky #neurosky

www.dovepress.com/postural-ort...
POTS, ME/CFS and Long COVID as neuroimmune disorders | ITT
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and Long COVID are heterogeneous disorders with overlapping terms.
www.dovepress.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
✊🏻
Roses are red
Kisses have suction
Workers should own
The means of production
February 15, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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💚😂
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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This directly weakens the national security of the United States. Removing words from websites and cutting critical programs simply because they are now considered to not match the dominant political ideology is absolute folly. You can't just wish a threat away.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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Amazon made a choice to partner with Flock and feed data to ICE.

They chose to allow their popular ring cameras to spy on people’s neighbours for the purpose of sending them to camps.

The damage is done.

Don’t buy a Ring camera and don’t support Amazon.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/...
Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.
www.cnbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Carney’s budget cuts leads to workers losing their jobs at the human rights museum in Winnipeg.

www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
Canadian Museum for Human Rights lays off staff amid federal cost-cutting program
Several staff members at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights are being laid off as part of an Ottawa initiative to trim government staff.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 12, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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It is against Canadian law to sell weapons that could be used against civilians. Check out my conversation with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social over her push to cancel the export permits for the armoured carriers that Rochell industries is building for ICE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McF...
CANADA'S LEGAL OBLIGATION TO BLOCK MILITARY SALES TO ICE !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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With headlines that the University of Alberta will "abandon race-based" admissions policies, remember that anti-EDI framing is designed to make it seem like the pre-EDI status quo is somehow 'neutral'. In reality, by abandoning sensible EDI policies, institutions are *doing* race-based admissions.
February 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada.

Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee
No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.
thetyee.ca
February 12, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine
Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence
xtramagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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Rare opportunity to hear Tracey Lindberg read and launch her work in YVR! Only at Massy Books, March 6th at 7 pm

www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-cree-w...
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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I asked my friend
who avoids
getting sick
why she does it,
and she said:
because I believe
humans
are worth protecting.

And I asked my friend
who avoids
artificial intelligence
why she does it,
and she said:
because I believe
humanity
is worth protecting.
February 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Tumbler Ridge public library remains open to support community after tragedy www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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February 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna’s flu vaccine application www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m... via @statnews.com

"Vaccine skepticism is emanating into FDA from the top, as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a known vaccine critic [read: antivaxx zealot]."
Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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If an election were held in the U.K. tomorrow, hard-core climate denier Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would likely win.

This outcome — almost unimaginable a few years ago — can trace its roots back to another once-fringe movement based in Alberta. Mitchell Anderson writes. #abpoli
How Alberta Politics Helped Shape the UK’s Right-Wing Nigel Farage | The Tyee
It turns out oil and gas aren’t Alberta’s only hazardous exports.
thetyee.ca
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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A conservative Canadian broadcast news network is incorporating propaganda from U.S. dark-money-funded think tanks directly into its regular programming.

Christopher Holcroft writes. #canpoli #CdnMedia #uspoli
Dark Money, US Think Tanks and a Canadian TV Network | The Tyee
The News Forum grows while broadcasting a lot of talking heads tied to the libertarian billionaire-backed Atlas Network.
thetyee.ca
February 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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CBC Gem crashes due to Canadians using it
CBC Gem crashes due to Canadians using it
TORONTO – With record numbers of Canadians viewing the Winter Olympic Games on CBC Gem, the streaming platform experienced several outages due to what’s being called “an unprecedented number of people...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM