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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump didn't make America racist... He made the racists comfortable enough to show their faces in public.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The good news: Chemotherapy drugs are very effective at killing off fast-growing cancer cells. The bad news: These drugs are also very effective at killing off our fast-growing healthy cells. What about that 'First Do No Harm' rule? myheartsisters.org/2026/03/22/a...

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A patient’s dilemma: to cry or not to cry

by Carolyn Thomas ♥ Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky) Crying is a natural and effective way to relieve stress by releasing stress hormones like cortisol, triggering feel-good endorphins and oxytocin, ac…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Post-Traumatic Growth: how a crisis makes life better - or does it? #BrenéBrown argues that we live in 'a Gilded Age of Failure,' where we fetishize recovery stories for redemptive endings, glossing over large swaths of darkness and struggle preceding it..." myheartsisters.org/2015/03/15/p...

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Post-Traumatic Growth: how a crisis makes life better – or NOT

There’s an ancient tradition that claims great good can come from great suffering – or does it? Here’s why I just don’t buy it . . .

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Daughter & I were just talking last night about how car centric cities ruin so much community. Cities that are rideable & walkable create vibrant areas with lots of things to do.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis myheartsisters.org/2024/11/17/k... Karen Salmansohn is the author of many books, including (2nd best title ever!) “HOW TO BE HAPPY, DAMMIT!”

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Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis

The ebbs and flows of diagnosis: ‘Learning you have a serious medical condition might qualify as an immediate crushing ebb, but oddly enough, I felt instead an overwhelming flow of relief&#82…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis: myheartsisters.org/2024/11/17/k...

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026

This is so bizarre. A politician telling you her vision for America is that you’ll have to work when you’re sick and die young, orphaning your kids. Please vote for @drannieandrews.com

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis myheartsisters.org/2025/03/16/c... Aren’t we supposed to keep smiling and think positive and just get over it? “NO!” advises Dr. Tina Gilbertson in her Psychology Today column called "Three Good Reasons to Wallow in Despair"

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Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis

“There is one thing even worse than wallowing in despair – and that is NOT wallowing in it ” – Dr. Tina Gilbertson

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The giant white sturgeon of the Fraser River in Canada

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/07/2026

The C.D.C.’s parasite-surveillance team, which was instrumental in tracing the origin of the 2013 cyclospora outbreak, had 11 scientists before DOGE began gutting federal agencies. Now it has three. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea

The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Constructive wallowing after a serious diagnosis

“There is one thing even worse than wallowing in despair – and that is NOT wallowing in it ” – Dr. Tina Gilbertson

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JAMA @jama.com · 22/07/2026

📝 JAMA Patient Page: #Cyclosporiasis is an infection of the small bowel caused by the #parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, primarily acquired by ingesting #contaminated food or water—most often fresh produce with crevices, such as leafy #greens, #herbs, and #berries. 🔗 ja.ma/4b69SCM

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It was a moment for #Spain’s #WorldCup football team to receive accolades well earned. As players crossed the stage for trophies and medals, they received congratulatory hand shakes and applause from #PMCarney, #PresidentScheinbaum, #PresidentTrump. Some more enthusiastic than others. #cdnpoli

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ups, downs, and going with the flow of diagnosis: myheartsisters.org/2024/11/17/k...

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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A patient’s dilemma: to cry or not to cry

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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Jeff Spencer @revjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Graphic offering advice on “How to survive the global heatwave.” It says:
Stay hydrated.
Treat yourself to an ice cream.
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class.
Loose fitting clothing.

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yesterday was my final Chemotherapy Day, so I brought some treats into the Chemo Room with this note for my nurses: "Lovely to meet all of you this past year - but I hope I'll never meet you again!"💕 P.S. my total bill to cover medical procedures/tests/scans/surgeries was zero. Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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Post-Traumatic Growth: how a crisis makes life better – or NOT

There’s an ancient tradition that claims great good can come from great suffering – or does it? Here’s why I just don’t buy it . . .

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Reasons to be Cheerful @reasonstobecheerful.world · 28/06/2026

Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories.⁠ Read the story behind this stat here: reasonstobecheerful.world/yellow-me…

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Thank you to our Prime Minister Mark Carney

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I thought that medical journal editorials were written by professional journal editors (not patients) - until the #BMJ asked me to write this one: "Heart 'FAILURE': It's time to finally change the F-word" openheart.bmj.com/content/open...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

A portion of the Strøget street in central Copenhagen, Denmark, that widens out into a central “square” that often gets used for events or markets.

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

In Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴, the bicycle paths have sensors to trigger the traffic light the lights to change. That means no stopping to press the beg button. Amazing! 🤩🚲 #yycBike #Stavanger #Norway

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Good morning Stephen! I woke up this morning to nonstop chatty F-bombs on CBC radio 5-5:30 a.m. between two of your CBC colleagues (one named Bill, didn't catch the broadcast venue or his full name or the name of his female colleagues- like drunks at a bar. Sheeesh...

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Why has Trump delayed opening the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a Canadian-financed infrastructure project connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan? Could it be lobbying by the owner of the competing Ambassador Bridge? www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Sr...

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Why is Trump blocking the Gordie Howe International Bridge?

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Dental hygiene students in Vancouver provide care to unhoused people. Outreach program delivers free oral health services to an underserved population and hands-on training for future hygienists, by Emma Bolzner www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Dental hygiene students in Vancouver provide care to unhoused people

Outreach program delivers free oral health services to an underserved population and hands-on training for future hygienists

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Improving Diagnosis in Health Care: Three dramatic examples of how easily diagnostic error can happen. . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStB...

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Improving Diagnosis in Health Care

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Carolyn Thomas 🇨🇦 @heart-sisters.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Male Allyship: This toolkit was developed by the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health. We hope to empower men wishing to be good mentors and sponsors of women colleagues with proven tools and strategies to do so. globalhealth.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My first takeaway here is that most major news outlets in Canada still enjoy decently high levels of trust. www.pollara.com/wp-content/u...

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