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Dan Malleck

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Medical historian specializing in alcohol & drug policy @BrockUniversity. Trolls neo-temperance misinformation for laughs. Allergic to acronyms, fyi. And jargon. Posts do not represent my workplace. Often they just represent a current fever dream. .. more

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Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. My "app" is Penny

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

Will Chicago cops be able to arrest them for peeing in public?

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-vaping rhetoric based on unfounded arguments about its harm leads to smokers choosing to continue to smoke. Great example of Illich's specific counter productivity in which something intended to have one effect does the opposite. www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Vaping misperceptions must be challenged

Mahase reports on the increasing number of people in England who smoke both cigarettes and e-cigarettes (vapes).1 Despite substantial evidence that vaping exposes users to much lower levels of toxican...

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

(I know :-) )

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

As a Canadian living near the border I can say this might--but only might--happen when he's gone. There's a lot of emotional scar tissue to heal and trust to repair.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

I hope those aren't generals because generals are not supposed to be fat anymore.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

Is that the Swan?

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that's a big no thank you

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure the orange menace will accept this decision.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it: theonion.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Legal Ruling Forces God To Add Cancer Warning To Earth

THE HEAVENS—Noting unsafe levels of carcinogens in all land, air, and water, a legal ruling handed down by the Celestial Court on Tuesday ordered God, Our Lord and Heavenly Father, to add a cancer war...

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Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social · 5d

Our next online seminar will take place on 6 November at 12.00 midday. Louisa Niesen, European University Institute will speak on 'Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914'. This event is online. More information and how to get the zoom link here:

www.womenandalcohol.net/2025/10/onli...

Online seminar - Alcohol Consumption among Women Tourists, 1880-1914

Project: Between the drunken ‘mother of destruction’ and the sober ‘angel of the house’.

www.womenandalcohol.net

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 8d

Did he just try to write a law on social media?

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 8d

The next time people argue that a business person would run the government better, they should specify they would like a successful business person.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 8d

That's smart. I should try that with my pup

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 8d

Cozy

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 9d

No it was just a bunch of dudes. The whole country didn't land on the moon.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 9d

Oh hey you guys I hope you enjoy Canada. (As long as Alberta hasn't separated)

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 9d

It wasn't luck. It was a willingness to spend too much money to take a friend to a game.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 9d

How many of those generals, listening to little Pete and the Orange menace tell them how to do their job and suggest unconstitutional actions, were thinking that a military coup suddenly makes sense? How many civilians were thinking the same thing?

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 9d

Doesn't matter because I already bought tickets to the first game on Saturday. :-) One of them has to show up in Toronto.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 13d

Let them eat cake

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 14d

I'm so sorry. Take care

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 16d

Seems that our premier has been tagged speeding by a speed camera but couldn't talk his way out if it. Now he is on a campaign.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 16d

Barron is gonna whack his head on that chandelier

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 16d

"Compliments of..."?That suggests he paid for it. I doubt if he did.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 19d

I was raised to believe that hate is a very powerful and corrupting emotion, and brings you closer to satan. So for a politician to admit at an evangelical gathering that he hates his opponents is pretty astounding.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 23d

Definitely in the upside down world now

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks! I remember being at a pub in the deep dark woods of New Brunswick. Trying not to look like a craft beer loving city slicker I asked for a Moosehead. The response was "what color?" Apparently they have several styles. My subterfuge failed. So to this bottle offer I say: "what color?" :-)

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yup. Sadly this is is unfolding almost exactly as it did in the 1930s.

Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social · Sep 11

Wasn't this how Kristallnacht got started? (thanks for the correction, it's been a long day)