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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗

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Certified Professional Editor • cookbook indexer • plain language trainer • mental health researcher • adjunct prof • #AngryJellyDonut • #LyricsPrompt prompter • #ParticipateInResearch booster • author, #AfterTheFeast • she/her • www.ivacheung.com

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 9d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

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After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 6h

#ParticipateInResearch: VIU researchers seek participants for a survey (~25 minutes) on the impact of online experiences on mental health. Must be 18+ and live in Canada

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Online Experiences Survey

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 7h

I think Thunberg would be the funniest possible choice

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 10h

Supper! Blistered shishito peppers with a gochujang sesame sauce and a tomato–egg stir-fry.

White bowl with green and red shishito peppers in a reddish brown sauce and topped with sesame seeds.

A wok with a thick tomato sauce speckled with scrambled egg and topped with green onions.

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 18h

Pre-op done. Bc of my chronic respiratory failure, I'll likely remain intubated in the ICU for a bit after surgery. Also pretty high risk for rebound pulmonary emboli & hemorrhage. But! I need the surgery🤷‍♀️

At $4149/$6K with $1851 remaining. Surgery is Oct. 23rd. Any continued help is appreciated!

brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Apologies, somehow the original was deleted. I'm undergoing my 3rd urgent, non-elective revision spinal fusion this Oct to replace & extend my hardware. I'd appreciate any help in achieving this goal to ensure I have the resources necessary to recover safely & fully.
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Donate to Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund, organized by Lee-Ann SB

Hey folks, my name is Lee-Ann. I'm a thirtysomething living in Ontario, Canada… Lee-Ann SB needs your support for Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 11h

We are seeking a VP Academic and Research!

Search Jobs - University Affairs

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NPR @npr.org · 23h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 11h

Yes. It would be a nightmare to name the ministers in the actual legislation. I just hoped that the online versions would link you somewhere that could tell you who the minister responsible was. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 15h

if 2025 had a scooby doo style van it would be called the misery machine

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🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner @bryangarner.bsky.social · 12h

Take a moment...

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 15h

muppetized works of art: thread

Big Bird in Vincent van Gogh’s series called Sunflowers.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12h

Fucking hell. This sucks.

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Lays Off 25% of HUCTW Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response t...

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 12h

Ah, thank you!

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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 12h

BC doesn’t seem to list it in the act itself, but there’s a separate table where you can look it up (either by act or by minister):

www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/conten...

Laws Publications - Government

Links to B.C. statutes, regulations and other helpful information.

www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 12h

Example: "Minister" is all over the *Employment & Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act* but undefined. In this case, it's the Minister of Social Development & Social Development. But nowhere in the legislation is that made explicit, as far as I know. www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/docume...

Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 13h

the deaths continue.
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BC Coroners Service shares unregulated drug-toxicity data for July, August

According to preliminary data, 153 people in July and 149 people in August 2025 died due to unregulated drug toxicity, as reported by the BC Coroners Service.

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 13h

I'm probably being dense, but is there a simple way, when you look at a piece of provincial legislation, to determine which ministry is responsible for overseeing that legislation?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
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Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 17h

wtaf are you talking about

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

also, to be clear: there is no reason to panic

the FDA says no products that tested positive for cesium-137 have entered the US marketplace, and the levels found in the shrimp and cloves rejected at US ports are too low to cause acute harm

the recalls were made out of an abundance of caution

How Concerned Should You Be About Radioactive Shrimp?
According to Biegalski, consumers in the U.S. have no reason to panic. The activity concentrations found in the shrimp and cloves samples tested by the FDA—68 and 732 becquerels per kilogram, respectively—are well below the FDA’s intervention level for cesium-137 contamination, which is 1,200 becquerels per kg.

“The levels we’re measuring within the United States in these products are very benign,” Biegalski said. “We live with natural radiation all the time. Things like bananas and Brazil nuts have activity concentrations that are comparable, order of magnitude-wise. In fact, bananas are typically much higher than the activity concentrations found in the frozen shrimp.”

That said, cesium-137 is more toxic than potassium-40, the naturally occurring radioisotope found in bananas and Brazil nuts.

There’s no acute risk associated with consuming food that has cesium-137 levels comparable to what was found in the shrimp or the cloves. Still, repeated exposure to even low levels of radioactive material can increase the risk of cancer. In multiple statements, the FDA has explained the recalls by noting that the activity concentration it found in the shrimp “could represent a potential health concern” if someone were exposed to it repeatedly over a long period of time.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

What is Steven Pinker’s expertise on systemic discrimination in the awarding of Canadian federal grants?

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Parliament reviews EDI for research grants - University Affairs

Witnesses testify for and against applying diversity criteria to scientific funding.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 17h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
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What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23h

Nope. NopeNopeNope

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 1d

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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