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Air pollution, health, cycling & AT advocate. Healthy environment=healthy people. It's all connected. #OttBike #NotJustAHeadache #ClimateJustice #CleanTheAir #WearAMask

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Di Cleverly @dicleverly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Gotta catch 'em all.
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Christie Bikes (she/her) (⧖) @christiebikes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
OPINION: Why is McGill Fighting to be on the Wrong Side of History? therover.ca/opinion-why-...
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OPINION: Why is McGill Fighting to be on the Wrong Side of History? – The Rover
The university insists on silencing its students as they push McGill to take a stand on genocide.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/03/2026
My fellow Canadians, if you're looking for something to listen to while making dinner or cleaning up after dinner or finishing up your day, you're very welcome to join me + Ottawa climate advocates as we discuss what local climate action looks like! Register here: cafesottawa.ca?ns_url=2601&...
A screenshot of the CAFES Ottawa homepage showing people gathering beside the river and an announcement of my upcoming webinar.
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Alex Amadeo @alexamadeo.com · 19/03/2026
If I wanted to give a succinct example to my family back east why California politics are so cursed, “Sierra Club leader wants more parking” is probably a great start
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
News story tonight on driverless cars suggested that the point of the technology is to “make better cities.” No it isn’t, and no it won’t. The point of the technology is to sell more cars, and more cars have NEVER made better cities.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A strategy I am recommending to people who don’t want to mask all the time is always in healthcare facilities and public transportation, AND if you see someone in a mask, put yours on. The first helps protect spaces high risk people may have no choice but to go, the second shows them support.
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Bottom line from the last 6 years of COVID research : If you’ve got blood vessels, you’d be wise to avoid additional infections. Now is a great time to normalize wearing a respirator. Might feel awkward at first, but every person who does makes it easier for others to follow. Be a leader. 😷
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/03/2026
Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.
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The Infectious Dose Podcast @pathogenscribe.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🎙️New episode of Infectious Dose is live. And this is such an important conversation. I’m joined by biomedical researcher @mark-ungrin.bsky.social to talk about something we don’t discuss enough: What happens when scientific errors become institutional policy. 🧵
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Clash Montréal @clashmtl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
On International Women's Day, the new group Witches Against Power (WAP) carried out coordinated actions against ICE contractor GardaWorld, vandalizing their Montreal headquarters plus the residences of two board members.
GardaWorld headquarters facade vandalized with red paint and acidFUCK ICE graffiti across the door of a residenceRed paint and a tag spelling "Jean-Cul Landry" on a ground floor condo
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
An Iranian ship at a joint Indian naval exercise, where all vessels were required to be unarmed, paraded its sailors along other participants, including the US. The US then withdrew at the last minute, torpedoed the Iranian vessel, and refused to rescue survivors. 87 sailors killed, 60 missing.
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U.S. submarine torpedoes Iranian ship in Indian Ocean, reportedly killing at least 87 sailors
Attack off coast of Galle, Sri Lanka, set off rescue efforts
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Posted: Mar 04, 2026 6:36 AM PST |
Last Updated: March 4
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Workers in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday unload the bodies of Iranian sailors from a vehicle, after they were killed when the IRIS Dena warship sank outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters. (Eranga Jayawardena/The Associated Press)
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 09/03/2026
america and israel proving themselves to be the great evil iran always said they were
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.
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‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed
Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape
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Christie Bikes (she/her) (⧖) @christiebikes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Prof. international law Marieke de Hoon: when Greenland was threatened, Europe emphasised territorial integrity. But when US and Israel started their illegal attack on Iran, many countries, incl. the Netherlands, showed 'understanding'. This hypocrisy is noted in the global South. nos.nl/l/2604943
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade: "We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.
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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/03/2026
Warren Kinsella and Senator Charles Adler are coming to Ben Mulroney's defence and blaming TV producers for Ben sharing video game footage as if it were real air combat videos from Iran on his personal X account (I don't think they understand he is sharing this stuff on X, not on TV)
Warren Kinsella * @kinsellawarren • 1h I've done TV and radio stuff many many times over the years. Graphics, clips, etc. are always the responsibility of producers. Not the on-air talent. I suspect all of Ben's critics know this. • Alexia Wilkinson Naidoo @AlexiaNaidoo • 16h Global News needs to oust @BenMulroney and fast if it wants to maintain any respect for its news programming. His flagrant violations of journalistic standards should no longer be tolerated, no matter whose kid he might be. #Israel #IranWar pressprogress.ca/global-news-be...Charles Adler @charlesadler

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Effective pro bono for Ben from @KinsellaWarren I've hosted decades of shows. Producers were responsible for graphics packages. Every media pro knows this. Anyone with media experience blaming this on Ben Mulroney is either a liar or a squirrel. 2 Warren Kinsella @ @kinsellawarren • 1h I've done TV and radio stuff many many times over the years. Graphics, clips, etc. are always the responsibility of producers. Not the on-air talent. I suspect all of Ben's critics know this. x.com/alexianaidoo/s... 8:03 AM • Mar 3, 2026
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I need you to know that Israel has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon 15,400 times since it was struck in Nov 2024. That is 31 times EVERY DAY on average. This barely gets reported by western media. Why do you think that is? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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Live Updates: War With Iran Escalates as Israel Strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade." So why do it? "A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..." Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran
President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Wherein Smith claims that "newcomers" are costing the province $9 Billion in social programs. In order for that to be true, every single newcomer would have to be accessing social programs that many don't even have access to. These are evil misrepresentations. #abpoli #ableg
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East
Canada’s position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world’s worst human rights records, and must ...
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime. www.ft.com/content/055d...
ft.com
Strike on Iranian primary school kills 108, authorities say
Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/02/2026
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
phys.org
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
The opposition appeared overwhelming: Tens of thousands of emails poured into Southern California's top air pollution authority as its board weighed a June proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The situation in Minneapolis: even though the ICE presence in the city is greatly reduced, and national attention has moved on, a huge portion of our population remains essentially in hiding, devastating the schools and economy. In particular, much of the education system remains in crisis
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Jeff Gray @jeffreybgray.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My confusing day: Government claims the new, smaller proposed building will actually have more "exhibition space" than its shuttered predecessor, despite releasing numbers showing it in fact has less -- and then couldn't explain itself. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Ford government unveils designs for proposed Ontario Science Centre despite opposition
Cost for planned facility on Toronto’s waterfront is about $1-billion, including a 30-year maintenance contract, premier says
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
City doing one more study - hopeful this one will conclude that doing nothing about the car-centric status quo is the best way forward.
City hall building closeup of City Hall

City doing one more study - hopeful this one will conclude that doing nothing about the car-centric status quo is the best way forward.
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 27/02/2026
After delegating at PWIC yesterday, we chatted with Kristy Cameron on CFRA about right turns on reds. As always we appreciate the opportunity, Kristy does a great job of asking important questions that lead to productive dialogue. You can listen to the convo here: drive.google.com/file/d/187FI...
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2026-02-26-markoCFRACallDiscussingRightTurnsOnReds.mp3
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Matt Yake @myake.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
cruising around google earth this morning and this spot near Al Zahra in Gaza, where the different moments in time meet , is horrifying and utterly heartbreaking. that there are people who would order, carry out, cheer on, or justify such a destruction of life is sometimes too much to comprehend
a google earth view of an area of Gaza near Al Zahra. in the lower left of the image there are trees, green fields, roads and houses. life. the rest of the image is aerial pictures from later, after Israel bombed, bulldozed, and buried everything
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"There is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm. Calls for his resignation now number in the thousands." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“Antifa” is a sentiment and an organizing principle. There is no membership. He’d have better luck trying to find people who joined Paw Patrol.
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Jason Gale @jasongale.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thanks, @bhanlon15.bsky.social Here’s a free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain
Researchers keep discovering more about the long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2.
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Nicole Haase @nicolehaase.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Video of Knight's answer, posted by several folks on the other site ...
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 25/02/2026
Hilary Knight got the question re: that phone call and the laughter at the Torrent presser. Her answer:
"I thought the joke was distasteful & unfortunate, & I think the way women are represented, it's a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats. Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior? It's not my responsibility."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
So they’re going to cripple healthcare for the poor in Minnesota to make an example of the state. The warning is “don’t resist.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
All from Minnesota. Love to see it.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A good take on the "men are lonely and angry so we must accommodate them" movement www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...
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Fix Your Hearts or Die
It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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SharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Drugs in paradise: caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas 🦑🌿🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Drugs in paradise: caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas
Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are increasingly recognized as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in marine environments, particularly in areas…
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Rhi Faux @rhifaux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
On Friday, on my way home from a workshop at City Hall on the City’s Vision Zero Action Plan (!!), I was hit by a driver on my own street. I have a badly broken wrist that will likely require surgery, and face a long recovery during which I’ll struggle to fulfil my parenting and work duties. 1/
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/02/2026
Pierre Poilievre has launched a “free speech” petition in support of Barry Neufeld, an anti-LGBTQ+ bigot and antisemitic conspiracy theorists with a history of filing anti-free speech SLAPP lawsuits against his critics www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pierre Poilievre:

“This is insane and Orwellian.

Governments and kangaroo courts now chill freedom of expression instead of fighting crime, censoring people who dare to speak their minds. Just ask the B.C. school board trustee who got slapped with a $750,000 fine for saying there are two genders.
Enough is enough. We must defend the truth and free speech against these mad censors.
Sign here to support free speech”

NATIONAL POST
The Canadians being punished by the state for not believing in gender ideology
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/02/2026
Here are some of former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld’s other problematic ideas and views, which Pierre Poilievre is apparently hitching his wagon to: pressprogress.ca/this-man-is-...
Barry Neufeld; “One of the most under-rated natural antidepressants for women, that is is male semen. Women who regularly have unprotected sex (married women) are happier and less suicidal than women who have "protected" sex.”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Never gets old.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/02/2026
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Just keeping track of all the stuff that's gonna have to be prosecuted later is exhausting
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Welcome to 2026, where readers of 👉the New York Post👈 get a better education on the science of airborne disease transmission than an MD who just graduated from medical school at the University of British Columbia. This is not hyperbole. People need to go to jail for this. #medsky #scisky #cdnpoli
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How long diseases like measles and the flu linger in the air — after an infected person has left the room
Most of us try to dodge coughs and sneezes, but some viral threats aren’t so obvious.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“We're afraid of walkable distances now? — conspiracies & the 15-minute city.” If you somehow missed the unhinged conspiracy theories about the concept, listen to @brenttoderian.bsky.social’s National Australian Radio interview with @greenj.bsky.social. He called out the lies & tactics. #UrbanTruth
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'We're afraid of walkable distances now?' — conspiracies and the '15-minute city' - ABC listen
The polite world of urban planning has become the latest target of conspiracy theorists. In recent weeks, the 15-minute city concept — where neighbourhoods provide life's essentials in 15 minutes by f...
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