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• Post #4501836

  yesterday i recertified in First Aid and CPR for adults kids and babies - yay! among other things, we got to rehearse using an AED. we also learned how to MacGyver a tourniquet out of a shoelace and a pencil/twig. 😁

• Post #4418789

  many Canadians definitely need lessons in how to recognize fascism. nobody should be surprised that it has a foothold in this country. > Second Sons' leaders have welcomed neo-Nazis into their ranks, called for mass deportations "at gunpoint" of non-white people from Canada and said Canadian politicians should be executed as traitors. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shell-shocked-residents-of-alberta-town-shaken-by-large-white-supremacist-training-meetup-9.7297070

• Post #4385034

  Canada screws over temporary foreign workers (TFWs). How can it be legal to make farm workers labour in such conditions without being allowed water in the field?! > This summer, Ontarians were warned to stay inside as humidex values climbed to 48 C in parts of the province and wildfire smoke made for some of the worst air quality in the world. But many migrant farm workers were told to keep working. https://thenarwhal.ca/migrant-workers-rally/

• Post #4385033

  > The wise path to energy superpower status is use of solar energy. There are many ways to do this: with more vegetation cover and photosynthesis, with solar panels that use the photovoltaic effect, with hydroelectric power enabled by solar-powered evapotranspiration, or with wind turbines powered by the differential solar heating of the Earth’s surface. https://rabble.ca/columnists/the-sun-is-our-energy-superpower/ #EnergyPolicy #SolarEnergy

• Post #4385032

  > Indigenous communities around the world face mounting, and colliding, impacts from climate change, violence, rising threats from artificial intelligence and many other crises. Their leaders are demanding that the world take action, and they’ve given the United Nations a 12-point plan for what they say it must do. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/04/news/indigenous-leaders-12-point-plan-un #Indigenous #UnitedNations

• Post #4355533

  the Owls in Towels feed's Alt Text game is reliably absolutely superb: https://mas.to/@owlsintowels/117031070330361274

• Post #4337232

  Ontario cabinet minister Stephen Lecce (who has made bad education decisions too!) is who decided to buy new nuclear reactors for Ontario that rely on foreign fabrication and foreign-enriched fuel - leaving 🇨🇦 open to the geopolitical whims of other nations including the U.S.. i thought the entire point of the CANDU reactor design was to avoid this bullshit! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-nuclear-supply-chain-smr-darlington-uranium-enrichment-9.7289297 #EnergyPolicy #Nuclear #OnPoli

• Post #4294719

  still furious about this, all over again. we *knew* that cops and university administrators were surveilling encampment participants, and cooperating secretly with other universities in suppressing pro-Palestinian activism. i just didn't expect to see proof. this is what The Breach's brave reporters have uncovered. https://bird.makeup/users/thebreachmedia/statuses/2082900107373015288

• Post #4290879

  i am tired of cis people (and organizations) who say they're trans allies - until TERFs do transmisogynistic rhetoric and actions - and then they hedge with civility platitudes. to paraphrase Angela Davis: it's not good enough to not be transmisogynistic; one should be actively anti-transmisogyny. #Transmisogyny #AntiTransNonsense

• Post #4286893

  > Human-caused climate change made the hot and dry conditions responsible for Spain's record-sized inferno 20 times more likely to happen and it doubled the chances of extreme fire conditions for the flames in France, scientists at World Weather Attribution calculated in a rapid analysis Thursday, conducted while fires were still burning. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/30/news/human-caused-climate-change-made-spanish-french-fires-much-more-likely-scientists #EnergyPolicy #Foss...

• Post #4224843

  cartoon spotted in the Library of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics artist source: https://www.unshelved.com/2010-9-8

• Post #4224842

  a lot of this carries over to theoretical physics, pretty much verbatim. **Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics** This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research. It is the result of a community initiative and is endorsed by the International Mathematical Union. https://leidendeclaration.ai/ #Mathematics #AI #TheoreticalPhysics

• Post #4224841

  A huge fire in southwest France has generated the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus fire cloud, which are far more common in Canada. Here's why these clouds are special, how they form and how they make wildfires worse 🌩️🔥 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/pyrocumulonimbus-explainer-9.7287545

• Post #4224840

  thanks to the Barbaric Cultural Practices candidate Chris Alexander in the Toronto mayoral race, the vote on the right will get split between him and another racist by the name of Brad Bradford. whether that leaves room for Olivia Chow to win again, idk. #ToPoli

• Post #4224839

  New York just imposed a moratorium on massive new data centres. Toronto should too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-council-data-centre-moratorium-9.7289753 #NoAI #ClimateEmergency

• Post #4224838

  well this is a wholesome wee story https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-subway-announcements-uncle-crawfy-9.7288021

• Post #4224837

  the Indonesian government is systematically silencing environmental activists in West Papua, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/836225/human-rights-watch-report-says-indonesia-is-silencing-environmental-activists-in-papua #FreeWestPapua #ColonialistNonsense

• Post #4224836

  Nauru has officially changed its name to 'Naoero', the Micronesian Island nation's government announced in a statement on Wednesday night. Nauru is the world's smallest independent republic, with a population of approximately 12,000 and a land area of 21 square kilometres. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/836342/nauru-officially-changes-name-to-naoero-after-thoughtful-deliberation-bypassing-referendum #Pasifika #Naoero

• Post #4224835

  fuck. the conservative coalition government of New Zealand is planning on cutting Jobseeker benefits from 2700 young people with a health condition, injury, or disability. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/829799/jobseeker-benefit-cuts-could-affect-2700-young-people-with-health-condition-injury-or-disability #NzPol #AbleistNonsense

• Post #4224834

  i fucking hate how austerity policies of right-wing governments are causing so much carnage in public hospitals in New Zealand & elsewhere. > Christchurch Hospital has emergency plans to **pitch a tent outside** as corridors fill up with patients in beds, according to one doctor. & in some cases, beds are already being angled in corridors in order to fit more in. 🤦🏼‍♂️ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/837114/patient-beds-angled-in-ed-corridors-hospital-makes-plans-to-pitch...

• Post #4224833

  a great panning of NZ First's extremely foolish definition of women and men bill "If I don’t need protection from trans women, but I wouldn’t mind some help when it comes to cis men, what am I?" a decent cis woman? 😏 https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-07-2026/am-i-still-a-woman-nz-first-has-me-confused-as-all-hell #AntiTransNonsense #Transmisogyny #NzPol

• Post #4224832

  Canada is on fire, underwater and overheating. Here's what we can do about it https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/29/opinion/canada-extreme-weather-disaster-planning #FossilFools #EnergyPolicy

• Post #4221647

  the Allan Gardens plant conservatory in Toronto has been open to the public for free since 1860. the local city councillor and Friends of AG community group are proposing a doubling of its footprint https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/allan-gardens-expansion-city-funding-9.7288401

• Post #4202245

  bored highway photo

• Post #4155209

  reminder for all New Zealanders: so-called age verification for social media or any other online resource is really about company surveillance of and state surveillance of the general public. don't fall for it. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/815594/labour-says-minister-won-t-share-u16-social-media-ban-plans-with-them #Surveillance #Capitalism #Resist #NzPol

• Post #4153393

  this is a really bad idea. the average rich person in Alberta with money to burn is gonna tie up scanner resources with ill-conceived personal missions and in so doing take resources away from people who actually medically need them in the public system. stop this UCP nonsense already! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pay-preventative-diagnostic-tests-alberta-9.7286559 #AbPoli #BrazenPrivatization #HealthCareForAll

• Post #4137909

  the federal and provincial governments need to stop nickel and diming public health care systems yesterday — TAX RICH PEOPLE MORE, YOU MUPPETS > One out of every 10 emergency physicians in Canada have left their specialty while the vast majority of others are reducing their hours or taking time off to manage burnout, ... [according to] a 2025 cross-country survey of hundreds of emergency medicine doctors. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ed-physician-survey-9.7279736 #CdnPoli #OnPoli

• Post #4112280

  imagine **55-60** days/year with temperatures above 30C. (current average: 14 days/year.) that's what climate change will likely bring to southern Ontario by 2080. current tree canopy favours wealthy areas. so planting should be focused in neighbourhoods with few trees. while we're at it: replace that awful Astral street furniture with actual shade at public transit stops. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-hotter-future-trees-9.7282570 #ClimateEmergency #UrbanPlanning #T...

• Post #4013583

  this map has New Zealand in the wrong place. we are not South of Australia :P https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116959012705125415

• Post #3989440

  corrupt politicians rewarding their friends with bags of cash, episode eleventy billion and one. > Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office has awarded a $300,000 government contract to an advertising agency co-founded by her former campaign advisor. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/news/alberta-government-referendum-website-contract #AbPoli #Corruption