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Bilingual Canadian, concerned citizen, practitioner of science & education, lover of hiking, travel & art. I just need coffee, books, puns & some cozy TV.
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ATTENTION, SHOPPERS! We have a Silver Alert! If you’re missing an elderly gentleman, he is in the managers office. He is confused but he is safe.

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease. "Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

Scene at Treasury

submitted 19 days ago • 315 comments

EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic" www.crisesnotes.com/day-five-of-...

submitted 20 days ago • 100 comments

FACT CHECK: Canada has already announced this plan BEFORE Trump announced his tariffs.

submitted 20 days ago • 207 comments

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

submitted 22 days ago • 215 comments

As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

submitted 22 days ago • 51 comments

Highly recommend reading this. It imagines how journalists might cover the situation if it was happening in a smaller, poorer nation than the US. Very sobering read.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Graff, who wrote this, is a former editor of POLITICO.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 23 days ago • 4419 comments

I am always surprised how people don't know that Nazis attacked all sorts of marginalized groups, not only Jewish people. Also, they made sure to destroy movements who could lead a rebellion.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Another rejects pardon. When he mentioned his husband I was angry in Queer. Then when he mentioned he's a recovering alcoholic who wasn't recovering at that time, I went 'Ohhhh'. It's a good read. And for the repentant, this is how you atone. You speak up and out.

submitted 30 days ago • 29 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 32 days ago • 610 comments

And there it is. One of Trump’s billionaire allies Jamie Dimon just admitted that Trump’s tariffs are going to raise prices and Americans should just “get over it.”

submitted 32 days ago • 669 comments

The Reply Guys as a Service network are back out in full force today. Report as "frequently posts unwanted content", and contrary to the instructions in this older thread, you can just put "ChatGPT reply argue bot" in the comments -- the important keyword is "bot".

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

submitted 34 days ago • 766 comments

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

submitted 34 days ago • 157 comments

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 40 days ago • 169 comments

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today. If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening. One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

submitted 47 days ago • 328 comments

😂😂😂

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"Thank you for you're email! I will be OOOO for the Holiday brake and look forward too connection when I return!"

submitted 65 days ago • 18 comments

This whole thread. One of the drums I consistently bang on is the idea that the majority of “civility” requirements is code for “the way we hurt you is polite and therefore allowed and you may not complain; the way you hurt us is rude and boorish and therefore you do not matter.”

submitted 79 days ago • 93 comments

Two words for certain types of people, should you need them: microlipet: one who gets all worked up over nothing. struthonian: the person who buries their head in the sand and says ‘Problem? What problem?’.

submitted 82 days ago • 100 comments

Yes, X demotes link posts; been that way for a while www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu... Huge pain for news orgs. Source told me NYT's X traffic plunged 50% in 1 month www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... X also delays sites Elon dislikes, as we first reported www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 90 days ago • 58 comments