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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New paper: Long COVID exposes a huge blind spot in how governments define “security.” We respond quickly to sudden, visible crises, but seem to accept mass disability as normal, even while it puts growing pressure on healthcare, the workforce, the economy and society. Published: 28 September 2026
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The securitization of global slow-onset risks/threats: long COVID, a case study - Globalization and Health
This paper investigates why Long Covid, despite affecting millions globally and posing a serious threat to public health and economic stability, remains largely absent from contemporary security agend...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#USDA reports that 2 more Texas dairy cow herds have tested positive for #H5N1 #birdflu. That brings the number of declared outbreaks from Texas to 38 and the national tally to 1,177 herds in 19 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Which begs the question, why is Canada's CPHO @jossreimer.bsky.social not issuing any guidance to PREVENT COVID transmission?! #COVIDisAirborne #cdnpoli
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 11/09/2026
We should think of sprouts as very risky, even at the best of times, in terms of food borne illness. Now doesn't seem like a great time to risk it...
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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I picked up a carton of milk from the store this week that had H5N1 influenza in it. >150 million copies/liter! Thankfully, it was safe to drink because the milk was pasteurized, so I’m not saying what brand. Takehome: DON’T DRINK RAW MILK.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Viral infections are bad. Even common ones. Clean the air for FFS.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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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 Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 05/09/2026
Resource extraction sites can introduce transient workforces that heighten sex-trafficking risks for nearby communities. Writer Olivia Bowden breaks down the tension between federal economic priorities and systemic violence against Indigenous women: thewalrus.ca/canada-human-trafficke…
On the left: an image of blue-lit hands holding a phone in the dark. A profile of a woman's face is also blue-lit behind the phone. Text bubbles with lines in them surround these focal points. On the right: text that reads “Canada’s human traffickers are getting away with it. Online sex ads can be used to track criminal activity. But stopping the perpetrators isn’t easy.”
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 05/09/2026
one misconception about football is that you can minimize this through limiting big hits or changing tacking, but the fundamental mechanics of the game, especially at the time of snap when linemen engage each other, involves little head to head collisions that add up over a lifetime
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism Germany is facing the imminent prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the United States. My new piece:
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Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism
Germany is facing the prospect of rightwing extremism in power. Time to push back hard against the narratives that have undermined the democratic response in the U.S.
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/09/2026
The largest contingent in the crowd includes hundreds of supporters of a local anti-fascist group called “Omas Gegen Rechts” (this translates to “Grandmas Against the Right”) They have have been leading the crowd in song
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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I hope my friends in American know how much it takes to anger folks in Gander, some of the kindest of humans you’ll find anywhere. Newfoundlanders will sooner give you the shirt off their backs. Speaks volumes of Hoekstra much more so than our fellow Cdns. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Town of Gander urges calm as Hoekstra’s planned visit for 9/11 anniversary angers locals
U.S. Ambassador says he is returning on Sept. 11 to honour enduring bond with the place that famously welcomed and sheltered American passengers
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It should be unimaginable that in 2025 alone, seven former NFL players under 48 died as a result of suicide. That is an unforgivable figure the football industrial complex is entirely responsible for. And yet, nothing material changes. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
theguardian.com
CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching
A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A new @bmj.com study has found that between a minimum of 24.5% to a maximum of 97.7% of the NFL players who died between 2016-2021 had CTE. This means a huge portion of those who will play this week *already have the disease.* www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
theguardian.com
CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching
A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 05/09/2026
🔴 Guiders Against Trans Exclusion protest - a live thread Today, we are here in London to report on the @guidersfortrans.bsky.social protest against Girlguiding's ban on existing trans girls in Girlguiding coming into effect... tomorrow (Sunday 6 September) 🧵 A thread
The "trans knight" outside Embankment tube station
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Re-upping this in light of reports that many Gander residents are none too pleased about Hoekstra making an appearance at the 9/11 memorial.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 27/08/2026
One of the worst things going on mostly under the radar now: billionaire techbros are setting up a surveillance state in the US more intrusive and omnipotent than even Orwell could have envisioned.
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Long Covid The Answers @longcovidanswers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Seeing Long COVID in the Brain At #ISLCPAIS, neuroscientist Dr. Daniele Beckman shares advanced microscopy research exploring SARS-CoV-2 remnants and neuroinflammation in the brain. #LongCOVID #NeuroCOVID #PAIS
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/08/2026
You see a lot of glib analysts repeating the line that "Americans just don't want EVs" without taking into consideration that the US auto buying experience is dominated by a network of extremely ignorant, Republican car dealers dependent on the kind of maintenance that EVs don't need.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Every back to school season, I remind parents to not post their children's photos online. The downsides of doing so now include the reality that all photos are scraped by AI. Lots of parents get mad at me every year, but maybe this new ruling will smarten them up!
techlicious.com
Judges rule AI child abuse images are protected in your own home
A federal appeals court ruled that privately possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material is protected speech and urged Supreme Court review.
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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is a good site: european-alternatives.eu
european-alternatives.eu
European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Canadians aren’t just changing their grocery habits for food, buying Canadian, and from other countries, not the US, this was just the tip of the iceberg. Canadians are changing what streaming services they watch, switching to UK services, all Canadian services. /1 thread
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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about how the existing scripts and frames of supremacy are some of the most expensive assets billionaires and bosses have ever crafted, and why that's a good reason to learn how to disrupt them and replace them with better ones. www.the-reframe.com/story-of-me/
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Story of Me
Stories billionaires tell, and how to change the script.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"It will free up time for the things you enjoy" by taking over relationships and hobbies, ie things I enjoy. It will "help you accomplish more than you could otherwise" but I don't want to be more productive. Why do I need to be more productive in my personal life?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Just another tidbit of info, those store packaged salads done up by the grocers, Sobey's, Loblaws, the produce comes in bulk, lettuce, and much of the produce used in those prepackaged salads, veg & fruit are US produce. Do not buy them, I checked at Sobey's and the lettuce, etc. is all US product
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I can't come up with one positive reason for these data centers to even exist.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/08/2026
My heart hurts for all the people being evacuated from towns burning down from wildfires and rages at politicians and shareholders who continue with pipelines and data centres like it’s business as usual.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"What I do know for certain is that failing to talk about #climate change [cedes] to those who would deny its existence, or deny that action must be taken... It is to abdicate our responsibility to prevent the worst versions of the future for which we may be on track, but which can yet be avoided"
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“Don’t say climate change”
France, Spain and England are burning. Where is the climate movement to resist this catastrophe?
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Robb Barnes 🇨🇦 @robb-barnes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This piece on the urgency of climate action is from the mayor of London, UK. Meanwhile, cities across Ontario are heading to the polls in a few short months. Where is the urgency on climate change in, say, Ottawa? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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Forbes @forbes.com · 07/08/2026
In the ruling, the judge notes that Meta created a “public nuisance” by being a significant contributor to the state’s teen mental health crisis.
forbes.com
New Mexico Court Orders Meta To Pay Nearly $1 Billion Over Child Safety Issues
In the ruling, the judge notes that Meta created a “public nuisance” by being a significant contributor to the state’s teen mental health crisis.
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Dave Bath @davebath.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"We traded our privacy for no reason..." you say. "They obtained permanent access to our private details by deception", I say. It was never about giving protection to kids, but taking protections away from all of us, and those drafting the legislation the way they did knew it.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🧵 This piece is really important, because it gets to something that is a prerequisite for and recurring feature of atrocities worldwide: selective empathy. Most people assume that when atrocities happen, it’s bc everyone involved is a sociopath. Some are. But not all. 1/
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Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
truly loved editing this piece from @annaleen.bsky.social on how well-funded public transit systems could transform our lives let’s hear it for journalism that helps us imagine a future that’s not fucking terrible!! www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
coyotemedia.org
A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · 03/08/2026
Details of celebration of life for Mike
Image describing details of celebration of life for Michael Coyle. Sunday August 9, 4-5:30 pm Dogwood Pavilion/Community Centre 1655 Winslow Avenue Coquitlam BC. email mfcmemorial2026@gmail.com for link to livestream. Photos of Mike waring red hat hat, in helicopter looking backward, with his partner and son, and hiking.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I think that we have to admit that post-apocalyptic movies seriously underplayed how much diarrhea and disease are involved in social collapse.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
‘Lifetime event’: Conservation officers help protect pod of beluga whales stranded in Churchill shallow waters - the Beluga whales were saved and the tide rose so they could swim away #Manitoba #Saved www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
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‘Lifetime event’: Conservation officers help protect pod of beluga whales stranded in Churchill shallow waters
A pair of conservation officers in Churchill are sharing a once-in-a-lifetime story after they helped protect a small pod of beluga whales stuck in shallow water.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 23/07/2026
California becomes the second state to pass a ban on octopus farming and first state to prohibit farmed octopus sales
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California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
A picture of a box styled like a little free library but with blockbuster movies
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Reminder that one of the very first things Carney did was get rid of the luxury tax on yachts and private jets. ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/11/08/c...
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Carney is scrapping the luxury tax. Here’s how people are reacting
The Trudeau-era rule rules previously levied a tax on vehicles and aircraft worth more than $100,000 and boats worth more than $250,000.
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