Corey Tomsons
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‘There is a lot about what is going on here that I don’t understand. But I am participating anyway.’ Martha Wells, Network Effect
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Guess what Bill C-16 includes?
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Guess what Bill C-16 includes?
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
Dr. Offit gives a master class in public health communication with this video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUR...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Dr. Offit gives a master class in public health communication with this video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUR...
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
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Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Been covering DULF's constitutional challenge for @thetyee.ca this week. Crown prosecutors have tried to poke lots of small holes in what founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were doing. Nyx and Kalicum have largely defended themselves saying they were doing the best they knew how at the time.
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
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Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
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ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
ICYMI: get 25% off your Whimsy Station order with code: SaleSeason!
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
Runs through 11/30, and you also get a free baby sea monster with every order over $25.
I've added 80(!) items to the shop this week, so please look around! Also, there are a lot of magical sea creatures! #bsnm 🧶
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Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10
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No! No, no, no! Certainly not, ha ha. LAUGHABLE thought. No, I wouldn't worry about it one bit. CERTAINLY not something that would keep me up at night fretting. Or indeed, scheming as to how I could make it hit a nemesis instead. Nope!
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
No! No, no, no! Certainly not, ha ha. LAUGHABLE thought. No, I wouldn't worry about it one bit. CERTAINLY not something that would keep me up at night fretting. Or indeed, scheming as to how I could make it hit a nemesis instead. Nope!
Opening Bluesky in the morning and going, “What’s the fascism today?” like it’s the weather.
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Opening Bluesky in the morning and going, “What’s the fascism today?” like it’s the weather.
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As you can see from the graph, it began to be "a time to be alive" during the interwar period. And then again in the 90s, presumably due to britpop. But the 2020s are easily the most "what a time to be alive" era of all time.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
As you can see from the graph, it began to be "a time to be alive" during the interwar period. And then again in the 90s, presumably due to britpop. But the 2020s are easily the most "what a time to be alive" era of all time.
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I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
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November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Making waves:
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
🧪
You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini)
🧪
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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The last eight words explain why not everybody can, in fact, write books.
"I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say."
—Beryl Bainbridge
—Beryl Bainbridge
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The last eight words explain why not everybody can, in fact, write books.
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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who hasn’t
brought themselves to harm because
they thought they had to? The dead can be kinder
than the living, if you are not related to them.
From ‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie, published in her collecton ‘Wellwater’, joint winner of this year’s Forward Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
brought themselves to harm because
they thought they had to? The dead can be kinder
than the living, if you are not related to them.
From ‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie, published in her collecton ‘Wellwater’, joint winner of this year’s Forward Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Karen Solie · Poem: ‘Orion’
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October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
who hasn’t
brought themselves to harm because
they thought they had to? The dead can be kinder
than the living, if you are not related to them.
From ‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie, published in her collecton ‘Wellwater’, joint winner of this year’s Forward Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
brought themselves to harm because
they thought they had to? The dead can be kinder
than the living, if you are not related to them.
From ‘Orion’, a poem by Karen Solie, published in her collecton ‘Wellwater’, joint winner of this year’s Forward Prize.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Beep boop still working on secret things. Here's some money I designed for the Canadian Mint last year.
October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Beep boop still working on secret things. Here's some money I designed for the Canadian Mint last year.
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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.
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So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
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He tells me he’s stopped
paying attention to the news
about the virus,
there’s so much information,
so many worrying details,
and when he reads it all
he feels there’s nothing
there’s nothing he can really do,
so I handed him a mask
and said:
here’s something you can do.
paying attention to the news
about the virus,
there’s so much information,
so many worrying details,
and when he reads it all
he feels there’s nothing
there’s nothing he can really do,
so I handed him a mask
and said:
here’s something you can do.
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
He tells me he’s stopped
paying attention to the news
about the virus,
there’s so much information,
so many worrying details,
and when he reads it all
he feels there’s nothing
there’s nothing he can really do,
so I handed him a mask
and said:
here’s something you can do.
paying attention to the news
about the virus,
there’s so much information,
so many worrying details,
and when he reads it all
he feels there’s nothing
there’s nothing he can really do,
so I handed him a mask
and said:
here’s something you can do.