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Mostly posting the breakdown of society, public health & the planet; some art, culture, nature, science. Since Sept 2023. Toronto/Tkaronto, Turtle Island Banner: B&W photo of Johnny Cash, PFP covering his middle finger PFP: DCAP in style of LOVE pop art

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · Apr 26

If you don’t add Alt Text to your images and I want to repost your post because it’s that good, imma just steal it and post it myself, probably with no credit and definitely with no shame. YOINK!

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 9h

Evergreen.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

Current mood

A cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. The woman wears a stylish dress and holds a purse, while the man is in a suit. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

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✧𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔤𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.ruins.party · 13h

how am i supposed to shake my groove thing in these conditions

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 10h

Ah… Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, my old friend…

Sometimes bc I’ve had a shitty day. Most times bc most of my time is for others not me, so I stay up way too late reclaiming my time

DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 10h

“…low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages were actually linked to a higher risk of MASLD [metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, a leading cause of liver cancer] even at…a single can per day”

Might as well go for a carbonated water
It’s better than MASLD, it’s better than cancer

Diet and sugary drinks raise risk of common liver disease by up to 60%, new research finds

Drinking as little as one can of diet soda a day may increase the risk of nonalcohol fatty liver disease by 60%, while drinking a sugary beverage could raise the risk by 50%, a new unpublished study f...

www.ctvnews.ca

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 10h

Dolly Parton started The Imagination Library, free books to kids 5 years old and under, to bring literacy and a love of reading to everyone. Be like Dolly. Dolly would want you to use Alt text.

✨ Get well soon, Dolly! 💖✨

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 12h

with alt text so everyone can read

Dolly Parton's sister Freida is asking for prayers for the country music icon amid the singer's string of health issues.
"Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately," Freida wrote via Facebook alongside a photo of Dolly on Tuesday.
"I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 11h

Hope it goes well ❤️🙏

DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 12h

Covid vaccine never prevented getting Covid. At best, might prevent hospitalization & Long Covid. Takes 2 weeks to kick in, starts to wane after 2 months. It’s a public health failure that most believe they’re protected once vaxxed. Your best protection is an N95 & not taking it off to eat drink etc

DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 23h

Looks fantastic! Looks so much better at an evening event!

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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 1d

Most autistic people think they’re “getting worse”.

You’re not.

You’re burning out - from masking, overthinking, and trying to earn safety in a system that withholds it.

You can recover.

But only by learning how to stop negotiating with a world that keeps asking for your disappearance.

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 1d

Time for my annual Covid/flu Vaccine PSA for Toronto folks:

If you have mobility issues and need a vaccine at home, Toronto Paramedic Services will come to you! You don’t have to be a senior to qualify. (I was referred by a TPH nurse but self-referral is fine)

Spread the word!

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · Jul 11

Deep down, most of you know the threat is still present, but it’s too painful to acknowledge

Don’t be angry at the maskers, be angry at the people in charge who bamboozled you. Don’t let these charlatans get away with taking your power, health & future. Masking is resistance ✊😷 Clean air is a right

Black and white photo of Carl Sagan with his head resting in his hand and a slight smile on his face, on a white background with a quote:
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
Carl Sagan

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Claus Ernst @clausernst.bsky.social · 2d

'Is it really such a mystery that teachers are complaining that “COVID babies” can’t say their names or tie their shoes coming into kindergarten? We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?'

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Phoenix 🏳️‍⚧️ - free hugs 💜 @anyaphenix.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever wondered why covid is killing fewer people while more are experiencing mild or no symptoms and then getting long covid:

Smart pathogens evolve to stop killing their hosts so they can continue to use the body to multiply.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2d

I went off long term sick with Long Covid from Covid I caught at work because they got bored of asking employees with Covid to not come in maybe, and eventually resigned due to ill health, and I didn’t even get a get well / leaving card.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, remember that your employer (and your government) could not care less if you’re repeatedly infected with—and disabled by—an organ- and immune-system damaging virus.

Wear a good mask & protect yourself & others. #COVID

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 2d

We are not imagining things, we are definitely seeing that most people are entitled, selfish and rude, and the pandemic and “you do you” just gave them all permission to be their brazenly rude, entitled selves.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t even spend much time out anymore since 2020 bc I still mask but I see the lack of personal space & rudeness EVERY TIME I’m out. At my 1st concert since 2019 last week, a couple left their spot, I moved up to see better; came back & the guy literally stood on my toes to claim his spot back 😳

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 3d

They don’t. Many also invade personal hearing space with loud TikTok videos blasting wherever they find themselves. A HCW had to ask someone to lower the volume of their phone in a hospital. They’ve also forgotten to sneeze into their sleeve, now just spew into the air, no attempt at social graces 🤬

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 3d

" Don't lose hope" - Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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jordan pumpkin spice [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social · 3d

no because seriously

hands showing manicure with black cat painted on two fingers which are laying on a black cat foot (toe beans)

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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 3d

One or two days per moon cycle I get a chance to improve on my moonfisher photography!

Here’s my latest attempt! She stayed on an awkward shaped perched and I was blocked from getting in position by bush

Ideally I wanted to put the moon lower and out further allowing her to “dive” into it

📷🌿🪶

Kingfisher taking off from a perch into the moon

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Dec 14

The past month I've been chasing the sunrise at the same place because there are feeding birds at short distance.

Occasionally when cormorants or a large fish are underwater the anchovies all leap at the same time.

I've never caught video or stills.

Until today

Twice.

In the sunrise reflection.

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 3d

Another investigation into Premier Ford’s corruption, another big belly laugh from Premier Ford. #ONpoli

Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 15d

Ford's gravy train

▶️Pace Law
Donate $28,000
Receive $3.3M

▶️King animal hospital
Donate $80,000
Receive $1.3M

▶️FGF Brands
Donate $66,000
Receive $1.2M

Ford is using the $2.5 billion Jobs Training Fund as a personal slush fund

Auditor General is investigating

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Critics blast millions in Skills Development Fund grants given to PC-friendly companies

A law firm, a private animal hospital and a large commercial bakery are among the recipients with ties to the PCs

www.thetrillium.ca

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

Toronto on oct 4

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

SkyDome is OPEN

The Yankees are in town.

It’s the playoffs.

And we’re going to the beach.

Peak Toronto the Good.

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