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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 9h

#TalkAboutSudan:

"Children are not spared. Elderly people are not spared. Women are not spared.”

The crisis in #Sudan is catastrophic.

Watch as Michael Lawson, Humanitarian Representative to #Canada, updates Parliament. #cdnpoli

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 3h

Might as well, based on what we are getting from the Liberals, he will feel right at home.

Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 1d

a south park cartoon shows a woman and a boy and the caption he seems to get worse every day

Alt: a south park cartoon shows a woman and a boy and the caption he seems to get worse every day

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

Some of the very best and most important political journalism of late has come from Lex and the team at Teen Vogue. Follow them all wherever they go.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 1d

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee

We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

thetyee.ca

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.

Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...

www.nature.com

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 2d

So many Canadians thinking “it can’t happen here” while it is creeping in from all sides. Power and money, folks. We need class solidarity asap because they sure have it.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Maxime Blanchette-Joncas:
I'm tabling the following motion:
That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 2d

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 3d

“The Doug Ford government is trying to move Ontario toward an ‘evict first, ask questions later’ approach. On top of that, it wants to blacklist evicted tenants, sentencing them to a lifetime of housing insecurity.”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ricardo Tranjan: Think Doug Ford has walked back his war on tenants? There’s more to come. Here’s how it should be fought.

Last week, the Ontario government introduced Bill 60, Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act. It includes many troubling legislative changes, but popular outcry so far has focused on the direct attack

www.thestar.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d

"We live on a planet on the brink of disaster -- This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos" by @brianmchugh.bsky.social for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk:
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...

We live on a planet on the brink of disaster

This year’s State of the Climate Report warns of imminent climate chaos

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Dr. Margrit Talpalaru @memargrit.bsky.social · Jun 8

“OpenAI’s push to A.I.-ify college education amounts to a national experiment on millions of students.

The use of these chatbots in schools is so new that their potential long-term educational benefits, and possible side effects, are not yet established.”

Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · Jun 7

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

www.nytimes.com

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for continuing to write, continuing to share your story, continuing to plant seeds. 🍓

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · 4d

Everyone think of the teachers today, dealing with hyped up kids on Halloween when it’s pouring and recess will be indoors.

Also, drive carefully this afternoon. It will be rainy and dark — remember that the littlest kids start trick or treating as early as 5.

a halloween greeting card with a carved pumpkin and the words happy halloween

ALT: a halloween greeting card with a carved pumpkin and the words happy halloween

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 Ordered!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 5d

What is staggering is how this reality doesn’t seem to be reaching public awareness.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 5d

Canadian provinces are doing this to us, right now, slowly destroying post-secondary education. Carney is about to do it to research too.

James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 5d

It's really incredible that the USA has absolutely wrecked itself on higher education, tourism and scientific research.

So much of American soft power is based on it, and they just keep punching themselves in the balls.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 5d

This year for Halloween, I’m going to go dressed as someone who’s tired and simply wants some precedented times.

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 5d

Wondering where our PM’s elbows are now…

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

Attacks on trans rights are often framed as efforts to "protect women."

But the reality is that such attacks only protect the patriarchy. Because enforcing a strict sex-based gender binary makes it easier to tilt that binary into a hierarchy where women are subordinate to men.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business

Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...

www.cnn.com

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 7d

People in poverty will always suffer the most in climate disasters. Countries like ours that contribute disproportionately to climate change needs to offer support and supplies to Jamaica.

Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 8d

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 8d

Grateful that Ontario is providing free updated flu and updated COVID vaccines to the general public starting today.

Locate your pharmacy:
ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

Please get your vaccinations.

#VaccinesWork

Immunizations for COVID-19 and flu high-risk and priority groups will begin in phases. COVID-19 vaccines will be available starting the week of September 22. Flu vaccines will be available at
pharmacies starting the week of October 14. Starting October 27, free flu and COVID-19 shots will
be available to the general public.
If you are 6 months and older, you can receive the COVID-19 vaccine
at the same time as, or at any time before or after, the flu shot and/or other routine immunizations, as well as RSV.
Children under 2 years old cannot get a flu shot at a pharmacy but can receive a flu shot from a
doctor, nurse practitioner or a local public health unit.

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Live Music Canada 🇨🇦 @livemusiccda.bsky.social · 8d

Mondays are better with Bruce. #TheBluesGotTheWorld #BruceCockburn #LiveForLiveMusic

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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 9d

On my mind tonight.
Tracy Chapman
Talkin’ bout a revolution
youtu.be/Xv8FBjo1Y8I

Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout A Revolution (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Tracy Chapman

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