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Mētta Mentat

@emmagoldmansutra.bsky.social
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COVID conscious Canadian on Coast Salish Territories. Posting about leftism, Buddhism, & pop culture detritus.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term. www.wired.com/story/trumps...
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Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked
For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term.
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How about we stop playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes? respiratory-therapy.com/disorders-di...
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Alzheimer's Protein Detected in Long COVID Patients
Patients with neurocognitive difficulties post COVID-19 infection had elevated levels of a protein found in many Alzheimer’s patients.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
I watched the Cambridge Chancellor's announcement about their review and investigation and I guess, with frustration, I see that it's clear that they won't investigate the way academic spaces, especially elite ones, target, harm, and keep out Black *communities* -- not just Black academics.
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selene ⚢ @ms.juneever.green · 04/09/2026
transmisogyny is not an unfortunate blind spot in otherwise radical politics. it’s a critical foundational deficiency that betrays a lack of commitment to radical ideals
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
every millennial child has a different tim curry villain etched into their minds forever and all of them were completely batshit in completely different ways and that is a wonderful legacy to have
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Toxiclove Ferngully: Shadow Creature
ALT: Toxiclove Ferngully: Shadow Creature
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
once the idea of abolishing slavery turned off most voters. what does that mean? abolitionists shouldn't have tried? or fought for slavery-lite?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"On October 2, 2023, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the Nobel Prize...their initial manuscript on the topic was rejected by Nature and Science in 2005 (2), with the reviewers stating that the work was “not novel” and “not of interest to the broad readership.” Reviewer 2 wrecked
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.
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Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan
The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As a desi mom who thinks constantly about the fact that anti-Indian hate is as bad as I remember post 9/11: thank you for saying this and Usha is a monster for subjecting her children to constant hate from their DAD.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
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An Odyssey Through Testimonial Injustice
On reading Dr. Emily Wilson, properly
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“As a lawyer, I'm 99 per cent confident I could get a first-year law student to prevent any possible conviction of anyone investigated with these tools.”
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
to be fair this happens to everyone who wanders into East Vancouver on a Friday
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You can’t reform this
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 19/06/2026
good evening, "Mark Carney" was a 15 month long sociological experiment conducted by the IMF. we are now complete with the study. thank you for your time
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 19/06/2026
NEW: For @autonomynews.co, I spoke with three providers of gender-affirming care about how they're continuing to serve patients in the face of Trump administration attacks:
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Gender-Affirming Care Providers Aren’t Giving Up, But They’re Getting Harder to Find
To keep serving their patients, providers are deleting social media, leaving large hospital systems, and more.
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Mētta Mentat @emmagoldmansutra.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The comments from the centrists & softer conservatives make it clear they were hoping one of the weirder/more reactionary candidates would win so that they can now move to make BC Liberals 2 Electric Boogaloo happen.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Everyone who is or might one day be affected by any public health decision (so...everyone) really needs to read this paper. Public health and infection control leaders have built a pseudotechnocracy of neglect on a foundation of pseudoscience. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Paralysis in public health and policy: when evidence becomes an alibi  Habib Benzian, Matthew P Fox, Sudeshni Naidoo  Public health operates in an era of unprecedented data availability and analytical sophistication, yet action on wellestablished health challenges is frequently delayed. We argue that evidence increasingly functions as an alibi—a means of legitimising deferral of decisions and displacing responsibility onto uncertainty rather than being a guide for decision making. Drawing on recent policy experience, we discuss how expanding evidence requirements can generate analysis paralysis, privileging refinement over implementation. We argue that many contemporary health challenges require timely action under imperfect knowledge and that public health systems should be designed to act, learn, and adapt, rather than wait for unattainable certainty.Together, these dynamics help explain how what began as a movement towards evidence-based policy has, in some contexts, drifted into evidence-dependent policy, where decisions are authorised only once uncertainty has been reduced or eliminated entirely. However, health systems do not operate in controlled environments, but under uncertainty with imperfect information and competing political, social, and economic pressures, making delay safer than action.In such contexts, inaction can be justified not only by the absence of evidence, but also by its abundance. Responsibility of inaction is displaced from decision makers onto uncertainty itself, allowing delay to appear methodologically compelled rather than politically chosen.  Producing uncertainty  This uncertainty is not merely an unintended by-product of complexity but is actively produced. A substantial body of work on the commercial and political determinants of health shows how powerful actors strategically cultivate doubt, contest evidentiary standards, and emphasise scientific complexity to delay regulation or preserve the status quo.4,5 In such contexts, expanding demands for evidence do not reflect caution or epistemic humility, they function as tools of obstruction. Analysis paralysis can then be manufactured rather than be incidental, with uncertainty serving not as a constraint on action, but as a resource in political and commercial struggle.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/05/2026
Sorry y'all but I am going to have to be incessant about this for the next two months because the number one thing I encounter every time I mention it is 'wow I had no idea!'
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Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲 @alexandraphelan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The WHO Director-General has just declared Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This is the first time a PHEIC has been declared without an Emergency Committee first. Very surprising procedurally but makes sense for public health given size, spread & WHA
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
People need to ask Trump why he’s losing the war on measles
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/05/2026
A bunch of engineers spending a couple decades denigrating any field involved with soft squishy feelings has led to the literal inability to craft a narrative the average human wouldn't recoil from in horror.
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
read this article "Canada Strong"
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Devastating
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 14/05/2026
This is medical care, so a failure rate of, like, 3% would still be unacceptable and run the risk of getting people killed, but a failure rate of *seventeen out of 20* (85%) is absolutely fucking outrageous. Ford's government should be excoriated for this but also *what the fuck are we doing here*
The auditor general also examined “AI Scribe,” the AI note-taking software available through government-approved vendors for use by healthcare professionals to summarize patient visits. 

In testing, nine of 20 approved systems fabricated information and suggested treatments that were never discussed. Twelve recorded the wrong medication, and 17 missed important mental health details.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Nearly the entire media parroted Susan Collins' statement that she has a "Benign Essential Tremor." The correct medical term is "Essential Tremor" because it's not benign and coincides with higher rates of dementia www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-sus...
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Why Is Susan Collins Shaking?
It’s not because of the major media coverage
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 11/05/2026
A 53-year-old Surrey resident could be billed close to $400,000 because he has cancer but doesn’t qualify for the provincial Medical Services Plan. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
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Supporters to Hold Rally for Man Fighting Cancer and Deportation | The Tyee
Francisco Barahona, who has lived in Canada for 15 years, is facing nearly $400,000 in medical bills.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 11/05/2026
“I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson” — which runs from May 14 to Oct. 12 at the Museum of Anthropology — showcases a genre-defying body of work by the late Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson. #TyeePresents #Sponsored
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‘History Robes’ Recount the Past Through a Haida Perspective | The Tyee
A new exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology showcases the pioneering work of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A big reason I pushed for us to do a week's worth of stories on B.C. Ferries is that after travelling the world, I realized there's nothing quite like it in terms of diversity of routes, being fully government owned, number of passengers, and expectations for hourly service in so many places.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Washington is allowed to operate with much fewer staff, its main routes are much shorter than our main routes, and is facing more cancellations and disrupted routes than us these todays because of the same issues of aging fleets. It's a common populist comparison that isn't all that helpful.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
i wish more people understood how punishing even a few days of incarceration is. a lot of americans are in overt denial because recognizing it means coming to terms with how our regular jails and prisons resemble concentration camps much more than we would like to admit.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Fascinating bit of Canadian disability history, with a really interesting deliberation on digitization and archives.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Exactly what Bari Weiss was installed for
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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Honestly true for all disciplines but especially for the humanities.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
still haven’t heard more than one or two coal rollers. the absence of noise pollution reminds me of last decade when everyone didn’t do this. thank you mr president donald trumps 🙏🙏🙏
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
this is an emergency and people in Sask. need to step up right now Scott Moe and his government are clearing the land. this is genocide #skpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Involuntary addiction treatment now legal in Sask. despite medical groups' warnings | CBC News
The Compassionate Intervention Act is expected to come into force this fall after regulations are finalized. People forced into treatment will be taken to Saskatchewan Hospital, a psychiatric facility...
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
the B.C. Coroners Service posted two reports on April 24 and I guess nobody noticed? I did just now. it should've been A HUGE SCANDAL #bcpoli Deaths of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in British Columbia (2016-2024) www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/b...
deaths of individuals experiencing homelessness by death year, 2016-2024

2016- 183
2017- 166
2018- 169
2019- 140
2020- 157
2021- 303
2022- 381
2023- 495
2024- 507
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.
Tweets from Jay Bhattacharya in January 2024: Effective pandemic preparedness. Step 1: Fire all the people currently responsible for pandemic preparedness. They likely caused the pandemic, locked you down, kept your kids out of school, demolished economies, and want more power to do it again. There may be more steps needed, but they will need to be devised by people not captured by pharma or the pandemic industrial complex.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This dude is such an evil piece of shit. SSRIs are the only things that actually helped my OCD diagnosis and related panic attacks. This would kill people. He is a monster.
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Exclusive: Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants
U.S. health department ​officials last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of antidepressants as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared to roll out...
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
the same Atlas Network "think tanks" have been advocating against the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada for a long time here is a report from 2019 web.archive.org/web/20190331...
report title:
Atlas Network 

the MacDonald Laurier Institute 
Aboriginal Canada and the natural resource economy project 

MLI: Engaging non-traditional allies to create free market change
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
i rely on these drugs to survive and i honestly don’t believe they’d be able to pull it off. still insane and scary and should be taken seriously
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Petra Schulz @msthpetra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I applaud this MLA for taking a stand and sm tired of provincial NDP positions on drug policy more focused on electability than the evidence and saving lives.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sometimes all it takes is seeing one other person wearing a mask to invite someone else to do so. Reminder - you don't have to mask all the time to benefit from masking whenever you are wearing one! Like when you're boarding a plane (esp before air starts turning over up in the air)
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 08/05/2026
Yeah, if they take away my brain meds, I’m sorry guys, but you’ve read your last T. Kingfisher novel. I will be too busy weeping uncontrollably in bed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.
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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The collective left needs to be more vengeful This isn’t some reactionary statement This is a well researched position They’re beating us by relying on our willingness to follow the intent of the law instead of the letter of it, and to try to be fair Fuck fair Don’t be fair to Nazis Ruin them
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