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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 2h
Information for (or give to) Pharmacists on how to get Nuvaxovid in Canada #Nuvaxovid is a protein-based COVID vaccine approved for ages 12 and older and is back in Canada after 2 years now that Sanofi Canada took ownership of the vaccine. 🧵1/ (formerly #Novavax)
An image showing a white packaging box and a single pre-filled syringe for Sanofi's COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted Nuvaxovid (2026–2027 Formula)
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 14h
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Canada is at risk of missing its emission goals, climate report says
Climate policy changes and focus on major infrastructure development could put goals further out of reach, report co-author says
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
"BIG OIL KNEW" read a banner outside the Supreme Court Monday as justices weighed whether to allow a landmark climate liability case to move forward.
motherjones.com
“They knew, they lied”: Fire survivors bring their fight to the Supreme Court’s steps
As justices weighed the merits of Boulder's case against Big Oil, those who lost everything want accountability.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most Canadians, Americans, and Europeans do not even know this is happening. That is the type of information desert & misinformation big tech shit show we are in now. When it is your community’s turn, who will be there to speak for you? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada continuing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, international tribunal finds | CBC News
An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, following a gruelling week of hearings on intergeneratio...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now." Amidst the AI-pocalypse, we can't lose sight of the climate crisis and the urgency of electrification. Gift link! shorturl.at/On4Jk
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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
People who use AI for "other stuff" are just the "sportsmen and hunters" of the bullshit gun debate. Any money going to this shit is evil.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 28/09/2026
A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers. This week, a federal judge ruled that the state must air-condition all Texas prisons by the end of 2029. This story was first published by @19thnews.org.
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The ‘Lionesses’ Who Sued To Get Air Conditioning in Every Texas Prison — And Won
A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/09/2026
A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet's two major ice sheets, with five-sixths of the melt not coming from hotter air, but from warmer waters eating away at the ice sheets from below and the sides, according to a study in the journal Scientific Data. to.pbs.org/3UN86kP
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Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica in 47 years, satellites show
A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.
scientificamerican.com
How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My new piece with @katharinehayhoe.com is out a TIME, which highlights what we all need to learn from climate communicators: “This summer of disasters has shown us that climate impacts are not political, and it is past time we stopped talking about them as if they were.” time.com/article/2026...
time.com
We Need to Stop Talking Like Climate Change Is Partisan
Climate change should be seen as a shared challenge to solve together, not a political debate, write Katharine Hayhoe and Dana R. Fisher.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf are we even doing
mashable.com
Oregon data centers use almost 25% of the state’s power
And that number is only going up.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!
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Multimodal genomic surveillance for respiratory pathogens at four U.S. international airports: A comparison of air, wastewater, clinical, and national surveillance data
Early detection of outbreaks and emerging pathogens is critical for public health and global biosecurity. Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk s...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 17/09/2026
Leila Turner-Scott’s son, Sam, died after ChatGPT gave him detailed and explicit instructions on how to get high. These AI chatbots are prioritizing engagement and continued use over safety.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great essay. Pick your side -- fighting for life on a habitable planet with a stable climate or aligning with the tech oligarchs who are accelerating an AI apocalypse. @leahstokes.bsky.social
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Pick Your Apocalypse: Climate vs. AI Doom
Some Thoughts On the *Other* Existential Threat
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
“I don’t think they would imagine some contractor somewhere [...] is analyzing the conversations," someone who works with the prompts said when asked if they think ChatGPT users know that humans are reading their chats.
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 14/09/2026
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme | Helen Pilcher
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Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme | Helen Pilcher
The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal, says science writer Helen Pilcher
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The findings, the researchers write, “reinforce the continued importance of public health efforts to prevent infection." www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/rep...
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Repeat COVID infections tied to higher odds of new health conditions
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Victory? Apparently the feds will not exempt major projects from the Species at Risk Act, after many voiced strong concern, including several First Nations. They continue to dismantle federal oversight over pipelines and other environmentally dubious initiatives www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Carney government drops plan to bypass protections for at-risk species
The federal government is dropping a proposal that could have made it easier to green-light projects that jeopardize the survival of at-risk species, the Star has learned.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10/09/2026
Former and current staff at Ontario’s Ministry of Environment tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social that Bill 5, and the death of the Endangered Species Act, left them powerless in protecting at-risk species. “We were essentially silenced.”
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 10/09/2026
Your vote in this Toronto election matters. But with so many local decisions undone by Doug Ford, @alisonmotluk.bsky.social writes, it doesn’t matter as much as it should. thelocal.to/toronto-city...
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Doug Ford vs. Toronto | The Local
Good news: your community elected a councillor and even a mayor who share your vision for the city. Then the province steps in.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026
Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...
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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We destroyed our planet and now the consequences. A grim read. "The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years...and 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded." #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching
Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/09/2026
said it before on here but one of the bleakest moments of my 2020s was asking abled cishet white guys “when was the last time someone told you ‘no’ about something in a way you had to respect” & they all groused about masking, vaccines, or a flavor of what used to be called ‘political correctness.’
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Toronto & most of the GTA are under red‑level severe thunderstorm warnings, with forecasters saying the most dangerous weather of the day is approaching between 5 pm & 7 pm, when conditions will be primed for damaging winds, torrential rain, large hail, & a tornado risk in parts of southern Ontario.
cp24.com
Severe thunderstorm red warning issued for Toronto, parts of GTA. Live updates here.
Dangerous thunderstorms are rolling through southern Ontario and they could produce multiple tornadoes in the region, Environment Canada warns.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/09/2026
To be clear, overshooting 1.5 degrees is not an invitation to give up. It means we have to work even harder to return to a lower baseline. The authors emphasize: “Every fraction of a degree matters, and every year spent in overshoot increases climate risks and the potential for irreversible losses."
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/09/2026
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/09/2026
According to a new UN report, global warming will reach at least 1.8 degrees Celsius, even in the best-case scenario. The authors warn that "there are no good outcomes above 1.5 degrees Celsius."
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 31/08/2026
Parents - if your kids have squishy toys with water beads, be aware...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If we had clean air standards and mandatory respirators in healthcare, this wouldn’t happen. Patients deserve protection. They’re scared. They’re vulnerable. They’re often immune compromised. Infecting a baby in the NICU is a massive infection control failure. people.com/newborn-baby...
people.com
Pa. Mom Says Her Newborn Was Exposed to Measles in Hospital NICU: ‘He’s Already Had to Overcome So Many Battles’
Brittany Nicole Sponenberg’s newborn was exposed to measles while in the NICU at Geisinger Medical Center. The hospital has since updated its visitor screening protocols as measles cases in the U.S. r...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/08/2026
Nothing about how quiet EVs are, nothing about avoiding pollution, nothing about the incredible quality-of-life benefits of being able to charge at home, nothing about the ability to use the battery for backup power or extra revenue. They don't want to make their gas cars look bad in comparison!
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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A great example of how idealistic models of capitalism fail. Car dealerships exploit regulatory monopolies to enforce politics and protect short-run business models, preventing profit-driven strategic moves from big companies from properly responding to legislative incentives.
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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Having bought two EVs and a hybrid, I think a big part of America’s sloth in adopt adopting EVs is car dealerships’ management being heavily Republican, and having a business model that relies on repairs that EV‘s don’t need.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The 20th C liberal critique of socialism was that it limits choice & more substantively the freedom to become a moral actor. Ofc they were describing capitalism as it exists, a system that inverts the relationship btw human & commodity, turning labor into things, machines into ppl
""Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own."
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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 29/08/2026
Doggust day 28: Take the bus! 🚌🐕 Some dog pokemon to celebrate Pokemon Worlds being in town! Kinda biased, but all the dog pokemon are very very good and almost never miss.
A yamper is hopping off a muni bus. A little rockruff and riolu are looking out the window with their paws pressed against it.
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