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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ford wants to make it unsafe for this family to bike.

Parents and children biking at bloor and Brunswick

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And he’s doing it very knowingly too, having experienced the safety of a protected bike lanes personally

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Doug Ford’s audacity to forcibly remove Toronto’s key protected bike lanes having tried biking in the city and openly said this:

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Literally all the most transformative bike infrastructures in Toronto will be removed to make traffic worse for everyone

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A reminder Mark Carney said this back in 2019 as the Bank of England's governor. Canada continues to be waist-deep in fossil fuels and way behind on climate action since he took office. It’s time we change that and demand real nation building. #EarthDay

Headlines from the Guardian from 2019 saying: “Firms ignoring climate crisis will go bankrupt, says Mark Carney” and “Bank of England governor warns of financial collapse linked to climate emergency”

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

For context, the hardest climbs in climbing gyms are usually around V7. This rock climber was climbing grades I cannot dream of in 2025 right up to her 3rd covid infection that developed into long-term disabilities. #LongCovidAwarenessDay

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loscharlos @loscharlos.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“You’re not just becoming disabled,” said Elle Seibert, 31, who has dealt with debilitating fatigue and cardiac symptoms since 2020. “You’re realizing how easily society at large and people in your life will abandon you when you cannot offer them things.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

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Long COVID leaves thousands of L.A. county residents sick, broke and ignored

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, doctors are still treating long COVID patients with complex symptoms and unknown futures.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day. One of the best things you can do to support people with Long Covid is wear a mask (ideally a respirator like an N95). Masks break chains of transmission. They prevent infection. The only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid!

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

If Canada does not stand with Europe and NATO against US aggression, how can we expect them to stand with us against US aggression? Where is "No Elbows" Carney FFS? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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‘Fateful moment’ for Denmark amid Trump threats to take over Greenland

Danish prime minister says country is at a crossroads and accuses US of turning its back on Nato

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Now is a good time to advocate for TTC signal priority for not just the LRTs, but also streetcars. Good public transit literally reduces traffic for everyone. Toronto deserves better and can do better.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/11/2025

I was one of the first people to donate to Mamdani's campaign and TBH I thought I was donating to keep a dream alive, even though the dream was not going to become a reality Choose hope. Choose to dream. Choose a just in case we win scenario. Sometimes we do. Go forward knowing that, fam.

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Oof, that is really high. I’d love to see more public spaces with CO2 levels that are 600 ppm or better, which seems exceedingly rare in Canada. I’m also skeptical about the media Canadian home reading being representative of where people actually spend their time, like in bedrooms

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I’ve painfully accepted that our reality is somehow less believable than the Onion

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing” Aw yes. Red envelopes in chip bags, really brings back childhood memories!

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Damn, rogue aunty handing out red envelopes like it’s the Kinder Surprise of potato chips is certainly not on my bingo card

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Fundamentally, yes. And electoral reform is a crucial step towards that goal by reducing structural tools used by the ruling class to disenfranchise voters and suppress representation and progressive ideas. It’s important we advocate for both

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We really need electoral reform. The current system effectively creates a somehow worse version of a two party system… and we’re indeed very much following US’ footsteps

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Want to make something from the past great again? Unions!

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If there’s something from the past to make great again: unions

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This one kind of broke me. I have followed him for years. Anas Al-Sharif was a compassionate and courageous young man and a talented journalist.

Anas Al-Sharif with children on his lap amidst the rubble of Gaza.

Anas Al-Sharif wearing a blue PRESS vest reporting in front of a bombed building on fire.

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I don’t know any specific studies on that, but I’d imagine it’d increase ridership for both. My only concern would be scaling the bike-share logistics to better handle mass flow in and out of mass transit stations (e.g., subway), particularly during rush hours

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

You can still collect deposit and late fees, which is arguably what ensured their returns in the first place

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Totally agreed, and better phrased than what I’ve said. While a very long shot, to circle back to the original post, we can also just make them all free and not worry about transferring at all

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The challenge is that once you realized everything is a simple harmonic oscillator if you think hard enough, you’d start having trouble falling asleep 😅

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Agreed. Public transits should be treated as an integral part of a system. On a related note, I’d love to see bike share normalized as a part of such a system too

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Imagine this, but for the entire night sky, in a decade-long TIME-LAPSE! So stoked about the Rubin Observatory going online and having already given us a sneak peek of what's to come with its first images!

An image taken by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, showing gas and dust clouds that make up the Trifid Nebula and the Lagoon Nebula. Image Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/06/2025

Ranked choice voting means progressives spend more time working together instead of tearing each other apart. Love to see it!

Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani with Stephen Colbert

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

True, and that’s why we have writers like you, Mike! The real world feels like a bad ensemble of poorly-made memes whenever we get to the “cutscenes”

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I’ve been feeling like that since the beginning of the pandemic with Death Stranding 1 😅

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

That’s a good point on what people probably think of when they hear “hallucination.” It’s worth noting what’s “obvious” depends on a person’s knowledge though. For example, it’s obvious to a staff that their hotel doesn’t have a swimming pool, but not so much for most people.

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Probably why “hallucination” seems to describes such a LLM behaviour so well: speaking confidently on a subject with no self-awareness of its knowledge limits

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Which explains why LLMs tend to be terrible at “answering” weird questions that had no recorded responses, like “what does ‘eating like a Jedi’ mean?” — you probably can’t even find an answer online that say this isn’t a thing until now, written in this post

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025

#NoKings protest in Philadelphia

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Agreed, and it’s been happening for a while now bsky.app/profile/dbkr...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

Text card, reads: "Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Can everything just be meerkats? 🥺

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Dr. Mike Chen @mcycee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

And that’s something Hong Kong protesters had adopted in their “do not split” principle — don’t condemn or obstruct fellow protesters, build mutual respect in solidarity knowing you’re fighting for the same thing together

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Considering the continued criminalization of masks, rampant spread of covid & other viruses (amidst erosion of vaccine access), dangerous AQI from wildfires, increasing state surveillance, & persistent use of chemical weapons by cops, now is a great time to commit to masking again if you've stopped.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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