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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 2d

My first job in undergrad was as the data entry clerk for public health researchers - MMRW was essential reading for everyone working in epidemiology whether studying infectious diseases or chronic conditions. Well over 100 years - and just destroyed without a thought 😢

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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 4d

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 8d

These protesters are getting out of hand, now they're building little huts and shaking branches in a threatening manner

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 12d

Paging @aptshadow.bsky.social

meme of two muscular people locking arms, duplicated 8 times. arms are labeled 'spider' and 'octopus'

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12d

"this is the fast I desire: To unlock the fetters of wickedness, and untie the cords of lawlessness, to let the oppressed go free; to break off every yoke. It is to share your bread with the hungry, And to take the wretched poor into your home."
Isaiah 58:6-7

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 15d

Release the Beartongue files!

Or maybe not - she has good reasons for what she keeps private, and she'll tell us what we need to know.

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 15d

Toronto can send some experts down - we're terrific at taking months (years?) to resurface a small street

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 18d

To be honest, because of Thatcher, the UK schools in the 80s didn't even have craft supplies, so they had a lot of issues

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 19d

Don't know - but ~35 years ago when N emigrated, Ontario teachers and schools were much better than the UK. But, then again, he left Thatcher's Britain, and only later did Harris take over Ontario...

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21d

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 25d

This is the power that the creators have: go on strike

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25d

Asbestos. Silica. Black lung. Lead.

NIOSH is the research agency you've never heard of (and the whole world relies on) to keep workers safe on the job and help businesses create healthier workplaces.

And Trump/DOGE cuts have decimated it.

How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant

Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.

www.bloomberg.com

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 27d

This might have worked better with a better projection. But yes, D is stacked with the best cuisine, at least in the upper half.

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 29d

She does have waterproof shoes - and we always have a change but for different reasons

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · 29d

Awesome! I want to play with those sluice gates :) Would you say that it would be good for a three year old?

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · Sep 11

Infant is dead and 6 more injured because we keep building our communities to prioritize 1-tonne vehicles that go 180km/h, are parked 95% of the time, are mostly empty even when moving, costs thousands a year just to run, kills over a million people each year, and are burning up our planet.
#topoli

Screenshot of Toronto Star article.

'Heartbroken and deeply saddened': In Richmond Hill, toddler dies, six other young children injured after vehicle crashes into daycare

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · Nov 3

CHRISTIANS: this verse in the old testament says X
JEWS: It doesn't say that
CHRISTIAN: maybe. Who knows?
JEWS: we do. That's not in the Hebrew
CHRISTIAN: no one knows what the original language means
JEWS: Yes we do. We can read it.
CHRISTIAN: It's lost forever

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · Sep 5

I just googled it. This is insane. I will need so much time to process this.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Sep 4

Trump DOJ is now looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns. Worth noting that the Nazis did the exact same thing to the Jews. Also worth noting they have no plans to ban right wing white supremacists from owning guns, even though they commit a vast majority of all mass shootings.

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · Sep 4

My 5-year-old was happily biking ahead of us and stopped at a stop sign. We watched from 30 feet behind as an SUV sailed through their stop sign without stopping and without even slowing down or looking up. My son had the right of way. If he had gone - my heart can hardly bear thinking about it.

My son riding his bike on a gravel rail trail

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jb @captcelery.bsky.social · Sep 4

Lower productivity would benefit us all

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call it Anti-Industrial Policy: we need is a suite of policies to nudge Americans to own and operate more little public-facing businesses. Speciality shops. Six-seater bars. Esoteric services. Restaurants serving two or three dishes. It would lower overall productivity and increase quality of life.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · Sep 4

and if those living along these arterials dare speak up to make them safer, install bus or bike lanes in order to easily get around, and install more crosswalks, the privileged in the quiet neighourhoods riot over the seconds added to their car commute. and this is who the american city caters to.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · Sep 4

north american zoning exists to protect wealthier homeowners who live on quiet streets in leafy suburbs from the externalities of the american city, the brunt of which is faced by renters (usually) in denser housing living on surface stroads subject to noise+air pollution, and traffic injuries👇

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Sep 3

it's the same map

map showing single and multifamily zoning in portland

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thandiwe Muriu (b.1990)
Photographer, Kenya

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