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jessadee.bsky.social
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now
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So many people are responding to the contemporary political moment as though it is still 2015. This means adopting the same outdated tactics that failed to yield long lasting results even under the most forgiving conditions. And yet people cling to them like they're our only chance.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Been thinking about this in Canadian context. Many powerful people continue openly supporting Canadian-backed genocide, while others dismantle life-saving harm-reduction measures as they pocket the blood money. Shaming these people after a public inquiry in 2045 does nothing. They count on that.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

I honestly don’t know how any party that accepts this — and not saying the dems have — can ever again be competitive enough to overcome gerrymandering and voter inertia. The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

this!!!! it may be hard for some to accept that the government could be this cruel (especially when they've largely had positive interactions with law enforcement) but federal agents are, in fact, the one terrorizing immigrant communities right now.

submitted 4 hours ago • 36 comments

Jessica Ramos’ deranged endorsement of Cuomo is great news for everyone who was interested in ranking Michael Blake but didn’t know who to bump from their top 5.

submitted 10 hours ago • 34 comments

This, except a regulated supply of drugs

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

submitted 1 day ago • 336 comments

You love to see it

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

Peter Thiel says he prefers Sauron and his kingdom of Mordor out of all Tolkien’s fictional lands, saying that “Outside of Mordor, it’s all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works.” But he’s wrong about Mordor “working.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-the...

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“Gaza became a mirror… became something very clear that this is the future everywhere else.” Foreign policy analyst and author of ‘Genocidio’ Rula Jebreal joined @naomiaklein.bsky.social to discuss how Gaza became a "cemetery for international law”.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

This post really made me realize how "woke" doesn't even just mean "anything non-cishet white," it literally means "anything that I perceive as being different from things I saw when I was 12 years old"

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual. A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke. grist.org/climate/cana... #Wildfire #Smoke #Wildfires #Climate #Air #AQI

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

On the one year anniversary of the great watermelon break this is quite the read! Disaster deep below: Calgary’s feeder-main failure was decades in the making - Calgary Herald apple.news/AOsAr67IhRiW...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The harmful effects of cold plunges among young individuals Even worse among older adults journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/ab... gift link wapo.st/4dMyYXk by @gretchenxreynolds.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Politics: #COVID is over, the pandemic is over, go live and celebrate! Science: Calm down, there is much more that COVID can do to the body.... Scientists: This is bad, I think we can use COVID-19 as a prototypical disease model for ischaemia injury. 🙄🙄

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

My friends in high school used to call it Pacey’s Creek and it is wild how right they turned out to be. (This tweet is for geriatric millennials)

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

former Burnaby Now, New West Record and Tri-City News reporters announcing a campaign to launch a cooperatively owned and run publication covering the communities that have lost their local news publications

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“While some provinces have been experimenting with for-profit delivery, our research shows that central intake referral models and team-based surgical care could reduce waits and improve inequities without incurring the risks of that approach.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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The gutting of US biomedical research with loss of ~2,500 grants affecting research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, infectious disease, global health and much more www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

there's mean like "rude comments" mean and there's mean like "Palmer raids" mean

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

when you think about it, the palmer raids were the mean tweets of their time

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Jonathan Joss' husband Tristan has released another statement saying that donations to their old home GoFundMe are not needed at this time and would ask for everyone to direct their energy towards spreading the message about how he was in fact murdered in a hate crime

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments