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@mothpockets.bsky.social
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science & history nerd, public health fan, acute care nurse, nature enjoyer, library patron, public transit user, unlikely Appalachian in Canada

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Workers in the Soledad area are harvesting celery. These workers often develop chronic back pain due to the repetitive motion. "Raul" shares, "We don't have time to rest or stand for more than two or three seconds." #WeFeedYou
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Not wrong
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Get your shots, folks. It won't prevent you from getting infected, but it could lessen the severity and keep you out of the hospital.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing."

John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
#OnPoli
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Matt Jelly @mattjelly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If you're a renter in Ontario, you should know Doug Ford is trying to make it easier for your landlord to raise your rent or end your tenancy. #HamOnt #OnPoli acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...
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Doug Ford Moves to End Rent Control
Doug Ford announced proposed changes to the LTB that would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This new #OnPoli legislation about ending automatic lease renewal seems like a great way to end rent stabilization. That would likely destroy my family's life. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes housing proposal: advocates | CBC News
Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government...
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand

"Ayn Rand

Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars

1st Argentinian Edition"
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Autumn Moose Holly Cheverie ~ Anishinaabe n.d.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
After seeing the enshitification and fallout from Uber, Facebook, Twitter, the "gig economy," rent fixing software, Elon Musk generally - and what they have done to San Francisco specifically - I'm pretty sure I'd pay to never have to hear anything ever again from any tech leaders.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just saw a subway ad selling tickets to some event with "tech's most innovative leaders".
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Dr Oz speaks from looooong experience here
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
👏🔥👏
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Library Rob Gonsalves 1995
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Doctors say the death of a baby born prematurely due to measles is a stark reminder that the ongoing measles outbreak was preventable. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Alberta doctors say first measles death a ‘stark’ reminder outbreak was preventable
Alberta doctors say the death of a baby born prematurely due to measles is a “stark” reminder that the ongoing measles outbreak in Alberta was preventable.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
The repeal of the ACA is going to destroy healthcare. Prior to its passage people would get divorced to avoid the government seizing their assets for their healthcare. People used to cede custody of kids to relatives so they could have healthcare. You could be denied CHEMO b/c you had acne at 16
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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cars are parked on the side of the road in front of houses
ALT: cars are parked on the side of the road in front of houses
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
After years of reading articles like this, contagious illness like Norovirus is one of the first things I associate when I hear about cruise ships.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2025
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theatre applauding .
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The Scoop Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2018
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Every Child is a Universe Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2025
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Despite everything, Toronto lives:
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨"The organization representing Ohio emergency doctors has warned that the losses in revenue and increased costs will affect all patients.” In other words, cuts to Medicaid, the ACA & other health care programs mean higher costs for everyone. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/23/o...
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Ohio's rural and safety-net hospitals will lose big under new Medicaid rules, analysis says • Ohio Capital Journal
New Medicaid work requirements will cost millions care. For many hospitals, that will decrease revenue and increase costs, a new report says.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Huntington's is an incredibly cruel disease. I'll never forget seeing what it did to a patient and family I worked with. This sounds amazing!
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Autumn Moose Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Two babies have died of Whooping cough in Louisiana, a vaccine preventable disease. All pregnant patients and their families should be vaccinated to protect the newborn. This is Louisiana's worst Whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak in 30 years. buff.ly/pez25q3 #medsky #pedsky🛟😷
baby in a striped shirt coughing.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hoppers in Jasper Barbara Pratt 2017
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 18/09/2025
My Charlie Kirk video went live for patrons earlier but I'm sitting here so MUCH ANGRIER and I'm wondering how badly the YouTube algorithm will punish me if I change the title from "Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Paradox" to "Charlie Kirk was a Nazi and Now He's Dead." www.patreon.com/posts/charli...
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Charlie Kirk and the Empathy Paradox | Rebecca Watson
Get more from Rebecca Watson on Patreon
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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/09/2025
The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Every year, right wing politicians and activists give me new reasons to feel sorry for everyone trying to work in higher education in the US.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
So who inherited the title of oldest surviving queer bookstore in North America now?
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
RIP Glad Day. Was the oldest surviving queer bookstore in North America, until it closed recently. Sad to see an important LGBTQ space and another independent bookstore bite the dust. But I appreciate the people who spent years trying to keep it going.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
As the administration of DeSantis prepares to make Florida the first state to remove school vaccine mandates, deep concern is spreading among doctors, parents and public health workers for the safety of children and others who might be vulnerable in a disease outbreak. apnews.com/article/flor...
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Florida's vaccine mandate removal: What it means for public health
Florida is set to become the first state in the nation to remove vaccine mandates. The move is deeply concerning to many parents, doctors and other public health workers.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 05/09/2025
Kentucky Educational Television — which operates nearly all of the state’s PBS station network — announced Thursday that it’s cutting nearly a quarter of its staff due to its federal funding being clawed back by Congress this summer. From @justinhicks.lpm.org of KPR:
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Layoffs at Kentucky PBS member station KET follow federal budget cuts
Kentucky Educational Television — which operates nearly all of the state’s PBS station network — announced Thursday that it’s cutting nearly a quarter of its staff.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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AMA statement on Florida ending all vaccine mandates
AMA strongly opposes Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates, including those required for school attendance, and urges Florida to reconsider.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Being a deeply working class person in Toronto in 2025 can feel pretty weird and lonely. And it gets a little more that way every year. That's it.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Oh... putting this in the "thing that came from the British I will never understand" pile...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A little sad I didn't watch more of the monster movies in August. It's hard for me to stay inside at the end of the summer in Canada!
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
ah yes
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
As right-wing oligarchs were buying up mainstream and social media, the mistake everyone else made was thinking that these purchases were based on a normal assessment of value. Remember when Elon Musk “overpayed” for Twitter? They understood that controlling the message and narrative is priceless.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
So painfully dumb. After caring for countless hospitalized COVID pneumonia patients, I literally cannot think of any evidence based reason for this. Benefits outweigh harm.
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rhubarb and sassafras @mothpockets.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Honestly I still think about this bit. So true! And it gets deeper, the more I think about it! www.thebeaverton.com/2019/02/repo...
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Report: There are a bunch of cities outside Toronto with their own streets and buildings and stuff
TORONTO - In a recent report released by the Canadian Geographical Society, there appear to be upwards of 10 cities outside of Toronto that not only have a bunch of buildings and houses within their m...
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