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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 19h

A poem and drawing for your Saturday

A poem entitled "Someday" above a black and white drawing. The text of the poem reads:

"Some days we are storm-borne on the honest ocean.
Some days we are spat up on the sand.
But someday...
Someday we will meet the far horizon
where the stars are all extinguished in the sea,
and we will find our solace there
within the endless arc of slowly breathing sky.

-- John Wyatt Greenlee"

The drawing is a black and white, and made of abstract shapes and lines, and it looks like it might be something like a jellyfish, with tentacles trailing beneath it. It might also be a tentalted mushroom.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 19h

DO NOT EAT ANYTHING THAT COMES FROM THE US IF YOU CAN AT ALL AVOID IT (reason #437)

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Canada's democracy is being openly attacked. 3 million people had their electoral information stolen. Alberta separatists are cutting deals with the White House. We are awash in foreign bots. I talk with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social on why Parliament is doing nothing. youtu.be/_L-HGocUjEI?...

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MAGA NORTH SHOWDOWN - PARLIAMENT IS MIA !!!

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 18h

So are they going to censure physicians who continue to promulgate the false and pernicious droplet dogma of disease spread? Aerosols, not droplets, are by far the dominant mechanism, but I've seen physicians wrong about that in public statements in the last week.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 18h

I'm an operationalist. A shift in understanding that is not a shift in practice is nothing. If you can find a Canadian hospital that has implemented CSA Z94.4-25 I'll reconsider my view that physicians are still 100 years behind the science.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 18h

I really wish folks would stop pretending this is a legitimate question. Of other dead end of fossil fuels is the wrong course.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 20h

In fairness, the BC NDP is running a disinformation campaign claiming they haven't been in charge of the province for the past decade, which is why all the conservative changes are still with us. Don't take a decade to raise taxes back up, do it?

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 23h

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 20h

I have seen physicians in Canada in the past week promulgating the debunked, false, and pernicious droplet dogma, so they are not past it, and we should not rest until they are.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 21h

If this policy has any teeth it'll come down on droplet dogma hard and fast. If it's nothing but the kind of meaningless anodyne BS we've come to expect from physicians, it won't.

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heads up, BC! Flu A test positivity 11.7% COVID test positivity 7.7% Vaccine booking site finally opened today. It looks like the first available appt anywhere is Oct 13 (FFS). But I saw several appointments available still. And, mask up! #bced #bcpoli reporting.bccdc.ca/respiratory_...

graph showing flu a test positivity at 11.7% as of Sep 26, up 1.4% from last week.

Graph showing COVID (SARS-CoV-2) test positivity at 7.7% as of Sep 26, up 1.6% from week before.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recent photo at the NHS. Over 6 years into #COVID, and we still have “wash your hands” under “AIRBORNE PRECAUTIONS.” We are failing hard to communicate one of the most basic lessons of this pandemic: Airborne means spread through the AIR. Clean air is infection control. #Airborne #PublicHealth #NHS

Photo shows a sign at NHS that says: Airborne precaution
Please wash your hands before entering the training room. Thank you

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Credit to @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP for raising air quality in schools at the UN today. @london.gov.uk 's work is a welcome first step. But *all* children deserve clean air. 1/2

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why should we clean the air in schools? - Reduces pollutants which cause asthma, multiple cancers, and dementia. - More resilient to airborne disease and pandemics We need health-based standards for air quality in schools. Fund ventilation filtration and maintenance. #HIAS2026

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

3. We must turn our commitment into concrete cooperation supporting countries and ensuring. We must be able to ensure environments that protect health, as indoor air must not be a privilege, it must become the norm and this is the challenge that we must take together.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2. We must strengthen our ability to joint define the quality levels we expect from our indoor environments, as well as the means to measure and achieve them based on science, data, and the sharing of best practices.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💨Healthy Indoor Air in Schools France : 3 Priorities 1. We must make indoor air quality a fully integrated component of public health and prevention policies, particularly in schools and facilities serving the most vulnerable populations.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lower business investment is a plague here, but as others have suggested this is not a consequence if taxation, at least as near as I can tell. It's at least in part due to a risk-averse extractive culture among our investment class.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our taxes are on par with the G7. So tax rates are not the problem.

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trc 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇲 @covell.ca · 19/09/2026

"The Times of India claimed that I had quit writing to become a gardener. ... The entire article is fabricated. My secret garden would be hilarious if it didn’t come with real-life consequences."

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Sluggo Smith @sluggosmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Make no mistake...this is taxpayer funded human trafficking. The rape and murder of these children will be future headlines.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Once more for the peanut gallery. 👉Is *anyone* aware of any specific primary evidence that proves Ebola is not, and cannot easily become, airborne?👈 Current WHO guidance is based on the absolute certainty that this is true (just like COVID 🤨) - so why can no one answer this? 🎲🎲 #medsky #polisky

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are reasonable grounds to suspect that Ebola could be at least partially airborne, albeit comparatively inefficiently. For the moment. Whether or not this is the case, public health and infection control appear to be gambling with Ebola the same way they gambled (and lost) with COVID.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We are all just trying to have our morning coffee on the ruins of our lives and towns. We are just trying to keep living in this impossible times.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19/09/2026

All of the EU's 3,000 sanctions against individuals helping Russia's war effort could be extinguished overnight if Brussels, Paris, and Azerbaijan fail to find a compromise by Sept. 21, EU diplomats told the Kyiv Independent.

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All EU sanctions linked to Russia's war may expire as France, Slovakia seek to delist oligarchs

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🎯🧵by @1goodtern.bsky.social on XTwitter: "Ten news story headlines to which the answer is 'partly or wholly because of the ongoing and lasting damage caused by Covid Infections'." 54-tweet🧵 (just a little over 10😉) threadreaderapp.com/thread/21012...

Ten news story headlines to which the answer is "partly or wholly because of the ongoing and lasting damage caused by Covid Infections".

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Canada needs higher taxes to rebuild state capacity and social democracy. We have what the world wants: stability, expertise, and resources. We don't need tax cuts to attract investors. We need healthy, housed, citizens.

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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 19/09/2026

this is a cry for help and also @ceaubin.com’s fault kind of

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

oh...this is bad

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's a rhetorical question, right? You DO know the answer...? (Jesus Christ they genuinely don't know. Hint: It's not Trump. It's what — even now — enables Trump) Next November NOT being a clean sweep by science-abiding, community-minded, anti-corruption politicians is how.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A 7-year-old boy is in intensive care following yesterday's Russian guided aerial bomb strike on a residential building in Sumy. His parents, a 52-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman, were killed on the spot.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whitespace\u00A0is\u00A0not\u00A0actually\u00A0evil,\u00A0it\u00A0is\u00A0just\u00A0misunderstood.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/09/2026

As I said the first time Trump proposed tariffs: this is precisely why he likes them! It makes everyone come to him on bended knee, begging for exemptions. It makes economic survival dependent on his whim. That, not any economic theory, is the whole attraction. Mafia boss thinking.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Building upgrades for safety are routine. You're talking like they are a big deal. You don't know what you're talking about.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You think physicians look at the data and change their behaviour to conform to the science? Do you even Semilweis?

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That statement is false. Not being exposed is the best defense. ASHRAE 241 standard clean indoor public air and CSA Z94.4-25 in health-care can give us that. Vaccination is a backstop, not the best defense.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To all claiming to value kids while not masking b/c we didn’t do it regularly before 2020, when we know better we should do better. ‘post-acute symptom prev (~21 - 24%) comparable across the 3 viruses; symptom profiles were strikingly virus-specific & age-dependent.’ www.ovid.com/jnls/md-jour...

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Post-acute symptom persistence following... : Medicine

Persistent symptoms following acute viral respiratory infections are increasingly recognized in children. While post-acute sequelae of severe acute...

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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The last breath of the aerosol-generating procedure? Scotland's new infection-control guidance and implications for anaesthesia   research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...

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In August 2026, Scotland fundamentally changed its infection control guidance regarding how respiratory disease transmission risk is managed - replacing the droplet–airborne dichotomy with the simpler concept of air transmission, and entirely removing the aerosol-generating procedure (AGP) list. This evidence-informed approach is based largely on the findings of clinical aerosol studies undertaken during COVID-19 which demonstrated that many procedures on the existing AGP lists, such as tracheal intubation, generate little or no respiratory aerosol (substantially less than talking or coughing). Removing the AGP list does not mean less protection; it means precautions are based on the likely pathogen, patient's respiratory activity, practitioner exposure and environment. Scotland’s revised guidance offers a timely opportunity to replace the inherited dogmas in international guidelines with rational and evidence-informed respiratory protection before the next respiratory disease pandemic.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whitespace is not actually evil, it is just misunderstood.

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

cansim v0.5.1 is not on CRAN. This is a minor update that tweaks how the package notifies users when it sanitizes StatCan dimension and member names. Sanitizing labels is needed because raw StatCan data ships with hidden characters that can lead to silent data loss.

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Retrieve and work with public Statistics Canada data tables in R

Searches for, accesses, and retrieves Statistics Canada data tables, as well as individual vectors, as tidy data frames. This package enriches the tables with metadata, deals with encoding issues, all...

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