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Human rights & community care Anti-genocide 🇵🇸 & everywhere Still 😷 + to prevent COVID & other airborne disease Curiosity, connection, and community care at our common table @commontable.bsky.social
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This is a cringe level of cope that’s unbecoming of Canada’s national broadcaster. They considered platforming David Frum and Kevin O’Leary as a thoughtful approach to the threat of invasion and annexation by the United States and continue to be unwilling to consider that they erred.

Made my @thenarwhal.ca debut today! In response to all of these conservatives blathering on about "biological reality," I wrote about clownfish, the TV show "Succession," and the uniquely beautiful—and uniquely human—experience of being trans. thenarwhal.ca/clownfish-se...

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Big Announcement! Share Your Story & Be Part of an Exhibit at the Museum of Vancouver! 📸 My team is excited to announce the Fall 2025 launch of “A Day in the Life of a Longhauler,” a Photovoice project and exhibit. Canadian longhaulers, submit by April 30: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/YourPhotos

This is beautiful. A spectrum revealed through the prism of chopping onions. An epic distilled in fourteen paragraphs, and a recipe.

Palestinian rights group Al-Haq calls for "urgent international intervention" as 40,000 Palestinians are forced from their homes in the occupied West Bank since the Gaza ceasefire began. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://aje.io/hi4ilp

Please make sure you and your children are up to date with your measles vaccines. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases and is not always benign. It can lead to long term disability and can even be fatal. Please protect yourselves & the vulnerable. #bced www.vch.ca/en/news/meas...

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Great 🧵 on vaccines in development.

Don't drown in despair at the state of the world. Learn bystander intervention and equip yourself with the skills you need to build a safer world. Open to anyone, anywhere 12+ Cameras/mics muted, so you're never on the spot. Not recorded, so don't miss out! Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Please share with any UBC Vancouver students who support a student strike for divestment in solidarity with Palestine. Link to petition for UBC students to approve an AMS referendum question ⬇️ ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... www.instagram.com/p/DF9z9Wox-I...

SOO click on the ? next to the month & gear settings in your gcal and you can SEND FEEDBACK TO GOOGLE if you would like to share thoughts about their collaboration, erasing holidays & history months and the GULF OF MEXICO from their systems & encourage them to fight back in all the ways they can:

2 more hours!! #ConnectingGaza www.32auctions.com/ArtforEsimsf...

Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🏳️‍⚧️ By @transpainter.bsky.social Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/transpa...

GUNG HEI FAT CHOY SUN NEEN FAI LOCK SUN TAI GEEN HONG Happy Lunar New Year!

A key, indispensible resource now, and always, that centers young people re: sex ed, repro health, gender identity and healthcare, and more: Spread the word about @scarleteen.bsky.social !

This is a great profile of @thriving-w-autism.bsky.social, Heather Brown. “Over and over, I say, ‘This is how weird I am, this is how vulnerable I am. This is how many things have gone wrong in my life. And now I want you to learn from it.’” #WeirdPride www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

Web archiving is an act of resistance.

My friend Ed is a genius and now she’s published a book of poetry and I know this even more

For … reasons… this poem came to mind. It’s called “try to praise the mutilated world” Its by Adam Zagajewsky, translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh It’s devastating/beautiful. It’s from here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57095/...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall due to a possible salmonella contamination of Compliments, Foremost, Golden Valley Eggs, IGA, no name and Western Family eggs. The expiry dates for recalled eggs are Feb. 16, Feb. 22 and March 1.

check out our lunar new year raffle, local to the greater vancity area and canada: www.tumblr.com/kitether/773... #ConnectingGaza

Wow, big surprise. It turns out that getting sick more often does *not* make you stronger, but actually weakens you and makes you more prone to illness. The idea that 'kids just need to be exposed to bugs' needs to die. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“COVID-19 infections weaken our immune systems. This makes us more prone to reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, infections with other viruses (e.g. RSV), reactivation of dormant viral infections (e.g. shingles, Herpes-Zoster virus), bacterial infections (Group A strep,TB) and even rare fungal infections.”

“That this mutation has emerged in more than one severe human case suggests that it is an important mutation to track through genomic surveillance.” Acknowledge importance but could note E190D was in all 4 prior pandemics STILL won't name mutation! www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

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Last week, the three partially functioning hospitals in northern Gaza were all put out of service due to the Israeli attacks on healthcare. Now, three hospitals in southern Gaza are at risk of being put out of service due to lack of fuel, while Israel withholds aid into Gaza.

"Our idea was that #LongCovid looks a lot like post-concussive syndrome... We were wondering, well if it looks this way, can we assess the severity of the condition using the same tools, and then can we use some of the same treatments?” www.du.edu/news/du-stud...

Norovirus is miserable. Dr Prather says it’s airborne, she’s the expert. If you stopped wearing a mask, now would be a really good time to start again!

This is just one of the AI recipe bots that have followed me recently here. It’s not apparent from the BlueSky profile, but is clear on the website.