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Bryn, outside

@tbryn.bsky.social
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Hopefully I'm outside, preferably riding a bike, right now. COVID is still killing and disabling people, mask up! They/them

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LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 05/09/2026
The Reality Fracture Pre-PreRelease is all set for Friday, September 18th at 10:00AM Pacific. Your first chance to see sealed gameplay in action with your friends at LoadingReadyRun, and our two special guests @behravesh.bsky.social and @briamgilbert.bsky.social! #Sponsored
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 14/09/2026
Canada has binding regulations on everything from guns to butter. And none for AI. Are we going to trust people like Elon Musk & Sam Altman to regulate themselves? Or is our government going to stop cheerleading & start regulating in the public interest? It’s literally what government is for.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Billionaires shouldn’t exist. Trillionaires should be in jail. Time to stop the parasitic elites enriching themselves at everyone else’s expense
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
rebranding the 15 min city.
beige poster with blue type in a baseball shirt style
Orange type Don't wanna go far for stuff
15 minute cities no big conspiracy just lazy
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What We Can Learn from Water, a Great Force of Life via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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What We Can Learn from Water, a Great Force of Life | The Tyee
Transformative and resilient, it helps us meet our future. An excerpt from ‘Theory of Water.’
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A lot of people with chronic illness are flaring right now due to the stress of the state of the world. Living through end stage capitalism and escalating fascism takes a tremendous toll. It’s important we all resist at our own pace. Don’t be afraid to rest. Unplug. Recharge.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 24/04/2025
Is Public Health Really Dead? thetyee.ca/News/2025/04... @michellegamage.bsky.social @sharpflower.bsky.social 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Podcaster Daniella Barreto hosts Public Health Is Dead, a podcast she describes as an anti-establishment guide to surviving in the age of pandemics
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
63 studies: women who assert their ideas, make direct requests, and advocate for themselves are liked less. They're also less likely to get hired—and it hasn't improved over time. When will we stop punishing women for violating outdated gender stereotypes?
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
There's no such thing as a self-made man or woman. No one succeeds without support. "I did it on my own" is a sign of insecurity and entitlement. Acknowledging help is a mark of confidence and humility. Giving credit to others doesn't undermine you. It elevates them.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/04/2025
ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This seems really important: The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings. Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO? your turn. www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Can vibe coding increase velocity? Yes, in fact it speeds up the entire product lifecycle, from first deployment to embarrassing hack that steals all your customers' money and leads to the company being shut down for gross negligence.
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The Rise of Slopsquatting: How AI Hallucinations Are Fueling...
Slopsquatting is a new supply chain threat where AI-assisted code generators recommend hallucinated packages that attackers register and weaponize.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/04/2025
Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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A couple of years ago, I co-authored a report on messaging apps. We looked at how secure they really are and how users themselves often defeat security with their own behaviors. We focused on understanding vulnerable communities: journalists, abortion rights activists…
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What is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps | TechPolicy.Press
Results of a technical, design, and policy analysis of encrypted apps from Signal, Telegram, Google, Apple, and Meta.
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DoNoHarm BC @donoharmbc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Stay safe out there: ventilate, vaccinate, educate, mitigate 😷 And join us at donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-hea... to demand that BC keep & strengthen healthcare mask protections. Patients & frontline workers need consistent, evidence-based safety year round - not policies that change with the weather!
Blue, yellow and black graphic with an illustration of a person in an N95, fist raised, holding a sign that reads: Keep (and improve) masks in healthcare. Text at the top reads, Have your say by April 1, and at the bottom it says, Add your voice: www.DoNoHarmBC.ca Email, call, fax, send postcards, share your story, spread the word. In the corner is the DoNoHarm BC logo and a QR code.
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DoNoHarm BC @donoharmbc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Mar 15-28 hazard index from the team at Covid-19 Resources Canada, based on federal wastewater data. COVID hazards are very high in Canada (~1 in 143 people) & high in BC (~1 in 142). While this isn’t the highest in recent memory, COVID is still circulating, & analysis suggests it’s increasing.
Canadian COVID Forecast for Mar 15-28, 2025, produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada's COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 11.3
About 1 of every 142 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 221,575-486,325
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.7X higher
Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 19.0X higher
Hospitalizations, ICU: VERY HIGH; 13.3X higher
Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.3X higher
British Columbia's COVID Forecast for Mar 15-28, 2025, produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Outlook is HIGH (increasing) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 6.6
About 1 in every 143 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 20,650-45,350
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: MODERATE; 4,7X higher
Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 8.2X higher
Hospitalizations, ICU: HIGH; 8.4X higher
Deaths: HIGH; 6.4X higherGauges with the Mar 15-28, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories:
Canada: 11.3 - VERY HIGH
Alberta: 8.1 - HIGH
British Columbia: 6.6 - HIGH
Manitoba: 7.4 - HIGH
New Brunswick: 7.9 - HIGH
Newfoundland and Labrador: 6.7 - HIGH
North: 9.3 - HIGH
Nova Scotia: 7.2 -  HIGH
Ontario: 16.4 - SEVERE
Prince Edward Island: 8.5 - HIGH
Quebec: 10.0 - VERY HIGH
Saskatchewan: 7.6 - HIGH. A graphic shows recommendations from COVID-19 Resources Canada, including:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
AVOID indoor social gatherings
AVOID crowded non-essential places
Below that, text reads, infection increases risks of long-term health damage (Statistics Canada). A Statistics Canada graph shows long term symptoms from one infection (14.6% of people), two infections (25.4%), and for three or more infections (37%).
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My guest article in @healthydebate.bsky.social looks at why we need mandatory masks in healthcare, why surgical masks aren’t enough, and how the mounting threats to public health are putting lives at risk. If you’re a healthcare worker, mask up. Show us you take your oath to “do no harm” seriously
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‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers - Healthy Debate
Let’s start protecting people in health-care settings as that’s where people should have the best understanding of a viral threat.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We to talk have a serious discussion about #cancer screening. Canada’s cancer screening guidelines lag far behind the latest science, and Canadians are paying with their lives, by Dr. Anna Wilkinson canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/10/c... via @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social @nicktsergas.ca
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Canadians need to talk about cancer screening
Canada’s cancer screening guidelines lag far behind the latest science, and Canadians are paying with their lives.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Twice this month, RCMP has been publicly rebuked over how its members treat journalists and activists in environmental protests, @jameswsthomson.com writes. Now the RCMP watchdog CRCC wants to task it with designing an accreditation system for journalists. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/03/o...
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The journalist-arresting RCMP can't be trusted to accredit media
There is possibly no single body worse suited to deciding who is and is not a journalist than the RCMP. I would trust nine strangers at a bar to know what a journalist does, and why, before I trusted ...
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Maddie @madrigal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Great news, you’ve collected enough plastics in your body to start forming an exoskeleton. The universe will always bend toward crab.
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Bryn, outside @tbryn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Super intrigued now by the 3.5 non-"normal" ones...
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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
An overview of dozens of studies on the neurological impacts of COVID. “Our analysis suggests that vascular dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and gut-brain axis disruption create self-sustaining feedback loops that maintain chronic symptoms.” www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
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Frontiers | Neurological sequelae of long COVID: a comprehensive review of diagnostic imaging, underlying mechanisms, and potential therapeutics
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Insidiously, "oh I'll wear a mask around immunocompromised people". But people who say this think nobody with poor immunity needs to actually GO ANYWHERE. If you have said that and you mean it: public transport including planes, gfocery stores, schools, the post office, the bank. Bare minimum.
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Bryn, outside @tbryn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
For the record, I *detest* dealing with fibreglass insulation. It just gets its nasty little fibres EVERYWHERE.
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Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Solid advice for securing your digital footprint, for any reason really. Sure it was written for activists but we can all use a little more privacy. activistchecklist.org
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Digital Security Checklists for Activists
Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.
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Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com · 02/02/2025
New blog post in which I encourage you to take bike parts apart and put them back together. #BikeSky
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When the World is Running Down, Rebuild Bicycle Components.
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LoadingReadyRun @loadingreadyrun.com · 31/01/2025
We are LIVE with today's #MTGAetherdrift Pre-PreRelease! Join the LoadingReadyRun crew, and our lovely special guests @magicnewgirl.bsky.social and @shivambhatt.bsky.social for a full day of Aetherdrift sealed game play! #Sponsored Live on twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun AND youtube.com/loadingreadyrun
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Bryn, outside @tbryn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
LPT: everything bagels are not the ideal food to eat at your desk over the keyboard.
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Bryn, outside @tbryn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Orchids are the birds of the plant world.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
😮👇👇👇
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🎯 "We need to put far less energy into people who don’t want to be in conversation with us at all, and far more into building relationships and trust and social/informational infrastructure for those who do. The truly radical act here is not pushing back but pushing forward."
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Ethan Kent @ethankent.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Helpful starter pack getting the urbanism conversation and community going here: go.bsky.app/G7isZfk Thanks @brenttoderian.bsky.social! Not yet much of a placemaking presence here, but we’re working on that…
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PlacemakingX @placemakingx.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Working link to the placemaking leader starter pack: go.bsky.app/An4K6o9
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Susie Cagle @suze.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We have to do all the home hardening. The vents, the roofs, the zone zero clearances. We have to invest billions to retrofit communities. But we also have to remember that all of us are making our own deals with nature, and that on the right, worst day, fire will always do what it wants.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/01/2025
Worse: the hypocrisy is desired. They love that they don’t care about rules and that we do; they love that we seem helpless to stop them because this system works on shame rather than consequences; they love that they act and we whine. The only way to stop them is to beat them.
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Emily Fagan @thatemfagan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Data shows VicPD disproportionately used force in encounters involving Indigenous and Black people in recent years. Critics say it’s due to inaction on recommendations for police reform. My latest: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Victoria police disproportionately using force against Indigenous and Black people, data shows | CBC News
New data from VicPD, released following an order from the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner, shows Indigenous and Black people were overrepresented in police use-of-force incidents between 2018 and 2023.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Microsoft and Google users trying figure out how to turn off their ‘AI assistants’.
Scene from the movie, Alien, where Dallas and Ash are in the medical bay, discussing how to get the spider-like alien facehugger off Kane’s face.
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Bryn, outside @tbryn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hi Denise! Welcome to Bluesky!
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What exactly is Incandescent Rage Bankruptcy? Click here and find out: open.substack.com/pub/johndupu...
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Why kids are sick all the time, Maskers to the rescue, Winter virus surge, and more
Bonus I declare Incandescent Rage Bankruptcy. Twice.
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KILLY krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 16/01/2025
the spread of misinformation on bluesky is really quite harrowing. always feed your cat every time he meows. he has never been fed. he is starving.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Amen to this. Share what you find useful, constructive, or empowering. It may help others. Hopelessness and powerlessness are what cause us to disengage and stop acting for the good of our communities. Your voice matters. Your actions matter. They give hope to others.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Today we'll post the Jan 4-17 Canadian COVID-19 Forecast. The detailed forecast will be available on our website and Twitter. This Forecast is provisional because input data are still incomplete due to holiday reporting delays. This thread will help/remind followers how to interpret the Forecast.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15/01/2025
The tragedy of folks reading the tragedy of the commons (bad) but not yet having read the tragedy of the tragedy of the commons (good). Anyway- population bomb truthers are wrong on the morals, wrong on the merits, not in the climate movement, byeeeee www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/...
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The Tragedy of "The Tragedy of the Commons"
The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong
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Bryn, outside @tbryn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
And this is why our kitchen has a door.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Instead of joining Chinese apps as an alternative to TikTok, Gen Z users should simply stop dancing and having fun and become mildly depressed 37 year old Bluesky users talking about Star Trek Deep Space 9
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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A new longitudinal cohort study found that children who were sick more often in early childhood were more likely to continue being sick in later childhood with more moderate to severe infections and require more antibiotic therapies. /1
Early childhood infections do NOT strengthen your immune system...they only make you sicker throughout childhood
Data from a new study
unambiquous
SCIENCE
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/01/2025
Goodbye, Instagram.
Over the past 48 hours, Meta (Facebook / Instagram / Threads) has ended their DEI programs, changed their content rules to allow abuse and harassment of LGBTQ people, and deleted their trans and nonbinary messenger themes.  

I’ve loved sharing my photography and my delight in birds with all of you. This makes me really sad, but I can’t be a part of this. I’m done here.

I don’t know quite where to go next. I am on Bluesky as @carlbergstrom.com but I realize it’s not the same thing. 

In any case, I’ll miss you all. Godspeed.
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