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Patient-Oriented Research Communicator | Empowering ADHD Girls & Youth Through Information | Writing about Youth, Culture & Gender ✍️ 🎭 🌈
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jac d.b.
@desiredpaths.bsky.social
· May 9
Vagina dialogues
When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Th...
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"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" Read my feature in @thismagazine.bsky.social, about online reproductive health education, medical advocacy & what second-gen feminists can teach us about fighting for equitable, safer care: this.org/2025/05/05/v...
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“Between 1898 and 1994, Washington effectively acted to change governments in Latin America at least 41 times, a tally that includes neither many unsuccessful efforts at regime change nor the invasions, filibustering, and gunboat diplomacy that took place the previous century.“
Greg Grandin:
Greg Grandin:
The Containment-Liberation Complex
U.S. interventions have had disastrous consequences.
www.bostonreview.net
January 3, 2026 at 4:28 PM
“Between 1898 and 1994, Washington effectively acted to change governments in Latin America at least 41 times, a tally that includes neither many unsuccessful efforts at regime change nor the invasions, filibustering, and gunboat diplomacy that took place the previous century.“
Greg Grandin:
Greg Grandin:
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Flu cases in Canada rise above three-season high. There have been at least 74 flu deaths since August, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Flu cases in Canada rise above three-season high
There have been at least 74 deaths since August
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Flu cases in Canada rise above three-season high. There have been at least 74 flu deaths since August, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
I signed this and if you live in Canada you should too 👇
there’s now a petition for the canadian government to overturn the recent legislation in AB and SK designed to strip trans youth of their rights. please sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I signed this and if you live in Canada you should too 👇
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alberta is hell for this right now, and the use of the notwithstanding clause has been a deep violation with no effective pushback. this province won't stop until it is stopped
there’s now a petition for the canadian government to overturn the recent legislation in AB and SK designed to strip trans youth of their rights. please sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
alberta is hell for this right now, and the use of the notwithstanding clause has been a deep violation with no effective pushback. this province won't stop until it is stopped
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there’s now a petition for the canadian government to overturn the recent legislation in AB and SK designed to strip trans youth of their rights. please sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
there’s now a petition for the canadian government to overturn the recent legislation in AB and SK designed to strip trans youth of their rights. please sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work?
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
archive.is/2025.12.17-0...
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Flu season has hit Canadians hard and early, as cases continues to rise. Between low vaccine uptake and a problematic H3N2 strain, hospitals across the country are seeing a flood of flu cases in the ER, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Flu season has hit Canadians hard and early, as cases continues to rise
Between low vaccine uptake and a problematic strain, hospitals across the country are seeing a flood of flu cases in the ER
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Flu season has hit Canadians hard and early, as cases continues to rise. Between low vaccine uptake and a problematic H3N2 strain, hospitals across the country are seeing a flood of flu cases in the ER, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Flu cases continue to increase in Canada https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canada-saw-highest-percentage-of-positive-flu-cases-in-last-three-seasons-health-agency-report/
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
December 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Flu cases continue to increase in Canada https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canada-saw-highest-percentage-of-positive-flu-cases-in-last-three-seasons-health-agency-report/
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade
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Crossword lovers rejoice!
It's that time of the year again: The Globe and Mail has published its giant holiday crossword puzzle for 2025. Play this brain-twisting assortment of word, logic and number puzzles online or download it to play at home. www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-... via @theglobeandmail.com
The Globe and Mail’s 2025 giant holiday crossword puzzle
Play this brain-twisting assortment of word, logic and number puzzles online or download it to play at home
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Crossword lovers rejoice!
🙅♂️ 🦠 If you haven't done so yet, there's still time to book your free flu shot in Quebec: portal3.clicsante.ca
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🙅♂️ 🦠 If you haven't done so yet, there's still time to book your free flu shot in Quebec: portal3.clicsante.ca
"Flu season is hitting Quebec early and 'with a vengeance,' spurring health officials to counsel citizens to get their free shots as soon as possible as holiday get-togethers loom." via @mtlgazette.bsky.social montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/...
Don't wait. Get your shot soon because flu season is striking 'with a vengeance,' doctor says
Mutated variety of the disease and low rate of vaccination mean influenza can travel like "a burning fire that has unimpeded progress," says Dr. Donald Vinh of the MUHC.
montrealgazette.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Flu season is hitting Quebec early and 'with a vengeance,' spurring health officials to counsel citizens to get their free shots as soon as possible as holiday get-togethers loom." via @mtlgazette.bsky.social montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/...
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Stimulant prescriptions for ADHD up sharply since 2015, especially among women, by @davidmcginn.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Stimulant prescriptions for ADHD up sharply since 2015, especially among women
Advocates say the fact women are getting treatment is good news, but there is concern some people are being misdiagnosed with the condition
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Stimulant prescriptions for ADHD up sharply since 2015, especially among women, by @davidmcginn.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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“Santé Québec’s website is nearly all in French even though the province’s English speakers have the legal right to receive health and social services in their mother tongue — a right that is not being respected when it comes to online communications.”
Santé Québec defends nearly all-French website despite anglo concerns montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
December 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Santé Québec’s website is nearly all in French even though the province’s English speakers have the legal right to receive health and social services in their mother tongue — a right that is not being respected when it comes to online communications.”
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Santé Québec defends nearly all-French website despite anglo concerns montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Santé Québec defends nearly all-French website despite anglo concerns montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
“Even if Bill 2 is being shelved, it has inflicted lasting damage on Quebec’s health-care system” : montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu... via @mtlgazette.bsky.social
Hanes: The bitter pill of a doctor deal at the 11th hour
Did it really have to come to this? Bill 2 has mercifully been shelved but it has inflicted lasting damage on Quebec's health system.
montrealgazette.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“Even if Bill 2 is being shelved, it has inflicted lasting damage on Quebec’s health-care system” : montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu... via @mtlgazette.bsky.social
11 medical specialists withdraw from MUHC over Bill 2: montrealgazette.com/news/montrea...
11 medical specialists withdraw from MUHC over Bill 2
The hospital said it is actively working to get them to reconsider.
montrealgazette.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
11 medical specialists withdraw from MUHC over Bill 2: montrealgazette.com/news/montrea...
Le pic de la saison de la grippe est attendu pendant les Fêtes : ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/221... #health #quebec #canada
Le pic de la saison de la grippe est attendu pour les Fêtes
La saison de la grippe est arrivée hâtivement au Québec et son le pic devrait être atteint pendant le temps des Fêtes, selon les professionnels de la santé.
ici.radio-canada.ca
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Le pic de la saison de la grippe est attendu pendant les Fêtes : ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/221... #health #quebec #canada