Larissa
@purlgurly.bsky.social
She/her/elle. Alto, ADHDer. Interested in politics (esp.TOpoli), stories, disability, food, knitting, geekery, cats. Unrepentant leftie in 🇨🇦
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Larissa
@purlgurly.bsky.social
· May 25
Picked up my Snaraness again this weekend, I’ve done 8 of 12 pattern repeats (although I think I’m going to add some additional repeats to make it a bit bigger than the pattern) #KnitSky
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“The office of federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel declined to comment.”
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“The office of federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel declined to comment.”
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Everything has become confidential under this government. Protected by vague, widely-encompassing exceptions like “advice to government” or “economic and other interests of Ontario.”
The Ford government refuses to release earlier assessments that found “risks to public safety from impacts of the tunnel to Highway 401 such as potential for roadway collapse” globalnews.ca/news/1151718... #onpoli
Ford government refuses to release completed work on Hwy. 401 tunnel idea | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million contract to study it again.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Everything has become confidential under this government. Protected by vague, widely-encompassing exceptions like “advice to government” or “economic and other interests of Ontario.”
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This is absolutely infuriating. There was no reason for this to happen. Pointless illness, disability, and death. I'm so angry and so sad.
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status on Monday, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status
If the country loses its status, public-health researchers say the return of endemic measles would carry serious health consequences
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is absolutely infuriating. There was no reason for this to happen. Pointless illness, disability, and death. I'm so angry and so sad.
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Toronto can go from winter to summer or autumn to winter literally overnight. A pretty city in all the seasons. 🌸☀️🍂❄️
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Toronto can go from winter to summer or autumn to winter literally overnight. A pretty city in all the seasons. 🌸☀️🍂❄️
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The democrats commemorating the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald by also being a sinking ship
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The democrats commemorating the anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald by also being a sinking ship
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Out of an abundance of caution, two Warming Centres will open today at 5 p.m. Walk-ins welcome.
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Out of an abundance of caution, two Warming Centres will open today at 5 p.m. Walk-ins welcome.
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
📍 81 Elizabeth St.
📍 885 Scarborough Golf Club Rd.
➡️ Locations: toronto.ca/warmingcentres
➡️ Daytime drop-in programs are also available across Toronto. Locations: toronto.ca/homelesshelp
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Scenes at the Canadian Premier League final between Atlético Ottawa and Cavalry FC, which is underway in Ottawa. Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham is helping clear snow off the pitch.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Scenes at the Canadian Premier League final between Atlético Ottawa and Cavalry FC, which is underway in Ottawa. Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham is helping clear snow off the pitch.
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Toronto, it's the first snow fall of this season and sidewalk plows will be out soon as the snow reached the 2 cm threshold for sidewalk clearing. Beginning at 7 pm, crews will begin clearing TTC stops ahead of the Monday morning commute.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Toronto, it's the first snow fall of this season and sidewalk plows will be out soon as the snow reached the 2 cm threshold for sidewalk clearing. Beginning at 7 pm, crews will begin clearing TTC stops ahead of the Monday morning commute.
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"the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion."
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion."
The global right has a new push on against the BBC (I had briefly hoped before clicking on the link that this was "serious and systemic" bias against trans people and other folks whose rights have been trampled because I am apparently still foolishly naive/hopeful)
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The global right has a new push on against the BBC (I had briefly hoped before clicking on the link that this was "serious and systemic" bias against trans people and other folks whose rights have been trampled because I am apparently still foolishly naive/hopeful)
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“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).”
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).”
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
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Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009.
Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.
There is nothing that would convince me to buy pistachios or pistachio-containing baked goods right now.
Pistachio products sold at this Scarborough bakery are being recalled amid national salmonella outbreak
Pistachio products sold at this Scarborough bakery are being recalled amid national salmonella outbreak
The Public Health Agency of Canada has reported 117 illnesses and 17 hospitalizations linked to the salmonella outbreak as of Oct. 21.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There is nothing that would convince me to buy pistachios or pistachio-containing baked goods right now.
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UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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i’ve been seeing a lot of people waking up to the denzel washington in much ado about nothing…
it’s never too late to realize in that movie denzel was on demon time. romance is where the real actors are born. this why johnathan bailey is thriving. he gets this.
it’s never too late to realize in that movie denzel was on demon time. romance is where the real actors are born. this why johnathan bailey is thriving. he gets this.
a man with a beard is wearing a white jacket and smiling .
Alt: a man with a beard is wearing a white jacket and smiling .
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November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i’ve been seeing a lot of people waking up to the denzel washington in much ado about nothing…
it’s never too late to realize in that movie denzel was on demon time. romance is where the real actors are born. this why johnathan bailey is thriving. he gets this.
it’s never too late to realize in that movie denzel was on demon time. romance is where the real actors are born. this why johnathan bailey is thriving. he gets this.
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HE WAITED TO COME FORWARD ON PURPOSE:
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
HE WAITED TO COME FORWARD ON PURPOSE:
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”
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But the Toronto Star published a piece last weekend by AI boosters talking about how AI is booming for Microsoft and OpenAI? *Surely* the authors couldn't have been misrepresenting the financial situation?
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
But the Toronto Star published a piece last weekend by AI boosters talking about how AI is booming for Microsoft and OpenAI? *Surely* the authors couldn't have been misrepresenting the financial situation?
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I’ve read Kim Kelly’s work on labor for years. She’s treated her readers, teenagers and professors, with respect, while breaking it all down so it made sense. Thank you. A travesty to end the very thing, writing on politics and labor, that set Teen Vogue apart from all the others.
“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
thisislaborwise.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I’ve read Kim Kelly’s work on labor for years. She’s treated her readers, teenagers and professors, with respect, while breaking it all down so it made sense. Thank you. A travesty to end the very thing, writing on politics and labor, that set Teen Vogue apart from all the others.
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I was told this joke at dinner by a senior physiology professor at Cambridge in the early 2000s…
Never miss an opportunity to tell my favourite old science joke:
What did Crick and Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
What did Crick and Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
Rosalind Franklin, a crystallographer and humanist whose research was crucial to the discovery of the structure of DNA, died #onthisday, 1958. An icon of scientific inquiry whose legacy endures! heritage.humanists.uk/rosalind-fra...
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I was told this joke at dinner by a senior physiology professor at Cambridge in the early 2000s…
I would like to embroider this on a sampler.
there’s not a ~feminism meter~ that goes up when a woman does something that she finds personally hard. feminism is a lens of political analysis.
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I would like to embroider this on a sampler.
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wow!! a trillionaire! every reaction i am having is definitely within both legal and community guidelines!!
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
wow!! a trillionaire! every reaction i am having is definitely within both legal and community guidelines!!