Gary
@garyallan.bsky.social
cat lover, retired physics teacher, gardener, liberal values
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That minister is just a digital asbestos hype man and he doesn’t want to regulate because the tech bros told him it will “stifle innovation” and he credulously believes what they tell him.
Canada has a literal Minister of AI in @evansolomon.bsky.social and so far crickets. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister
Liz Kendall calls on X to ‘deal with this urgently’ while expert criticises ‘worryingly slow’ government response
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January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
That minister is just a digital asbestos hype man and he doesn’t want to regulate because the tech bros told him it will “stifle innovation” and he credulously believes what they tell him.
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The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
January 4, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
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Yesterday I was on The Current with @mattgalloway.bsky.social talking about the current flu situation. Nine minutes isn't long enough to get into everything, including that my husband has the flu & I might too. So I wrote more. You should get a flu shot.
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What You Should Do About H3N2 Flu
There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday I was on The Current with @mattgalloway.bsky.social talking about the current flu situation. Nine minutes isn't long enough to get into everything, including that my husband has the flu & I might too. So I wrote more. You should get a flu shot.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-you-s...
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LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe.
Drop-off in demand for LNG just as a wave of new production facilities come online raises questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a fuel that investors have spent huge $ to bring to market.
www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...
Drop-off in demand for LNG just as a wave of new production facilities come online raises questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a fuel that investors have spent huge $ to bring to market.
www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...
LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe as Investors Get Set for Phaseout
A drop-off in Asian and European demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG), just as a wave of new production facilities come online, is raising questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a ...
www.theenergymix.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
LNG Imports Fall in Asia, Europe.
Drop-off in demand for LNG just as a wave of new production facilities come online raises questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a fuel that investors have spent huge $ to bring to market.
www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...
Drop-off in demand for LNG just as a wave of new production facilities come online raises questions about whether demand will ever materialize for a fuel that investors have spent huge $ to bring to market.
www.theenergymix.com/lng-imports-...
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The flu continues to wreak havoc across the northern hemisphere. In Canada, we've had at least two dozen deaths so far, including among small children, over a handful of days. Here are some things you need to know:
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December 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The flu continues to wreak havoc across the northern hemisphere. In Canada, we've had at least two dozen deaths so far, including among small children, over a handful of days. Here are some things you need to know:
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RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that COVID vaccines are deadly? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. In this new extraordinarily large study, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and a 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared to those unvaccinated. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CNN, NYT, AP, and other media orgs literally have interviewed families of people killed in Caribbean boat strikes, including some who say they were just fishermen.
Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.
Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
CNN, NYT, AP, and other media orgs literally have interviewed families of people killed in Caribbean boat strikes, including some who say they were just fishermen.
Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.
Lies nested within lies, all in service of violating the laws of armed combat, for no evident national interest advancement at all.
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Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities fullfact.org/health/amish... via @fullfact.org
Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities – Full Fact
Social media claims that autism is less prevalent among Amish people because they don’t get vaccinated aren’t supported by the evidence.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities fullfact.org/health/amish... via @fullfact.org
Say no to the Golden Dome - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/no...
No Golden Dome for Canada
The Golden Dome purports to defend North America against incoming missiles by placing interceptors in space, but the technical challenges are enormous, the costs astronomical, and the strategic risks ...
you.leadnow.ca
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Say no to the Golden Dome - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/no...
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Mark Carney could remove the emissions cap, the tanker ban, and anything else Danielle Smith demands. Her proposed pipeline still wouldn't get built because the business case for actually filling it gets worse with each passing day.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
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#cdnpoli #abpoli
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Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case
The biggest obstacle standing in the way of another pipeline to the West Coast isn't the tanker ban or federal climate policies. It's oil prices and the nature of the businesses that rely on them for ...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Mark Carney could remove the emissions cap, the tanker ban, and anything else Danielle Smith demands. Her proposed pipeline still wouldn't get built because the business case for actually filling it gets worse with each passing day.
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
#cdnpoli #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
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Trump: “We don’t do wind because wind is a disaster. It’s a very expensive joke, frankly.”
Trump may not like jokes. But if the popularity of this video is any indication, Europeans are having a laugh at him. Americans will laugh, too, as long as comedians are free to make the jokes.
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Trump may not like jokes. But if the popularity of this video is any indication, Europeans are having a laugh at him. Americans will laugh, too, as long as comedians are free to make the jokes.
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Can climate comedy still work? This offshore wind ad suggests it can.
The satirical video starring Samuel L. Jackson pokes fun at offshore wind disinformation right as the Trump administration is targeting both comedy and…
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September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Trump: “We don’t do wind because wind is a disaster. It’s a very expensive joke, frankly.”
Trump may not like jokes. But if the popularity of this video is any indication, Europeans are having a laugh at him. Americans will laugh, too, as long as comedians are free to make the jokes.
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Trump may not like jokes. But if the popularity of this video is any indication, Europeans are having a laugh at him. Americans will laugh, too, as long as comedians are free to make the jokes.
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It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this”
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Giant hammerhead shark reeled in at Corpus Christi beach
It was the third-largest hammerhead shark the Texas fishing guide caught this year.
www.mysanantonio.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this”
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These people will bring suffering and death to Americans.
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Trump links autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, despite decades of evidence it’s safe | CNN
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration will be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy “can be associated with a very increased ri...
www.cnn.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
These people will bring suffering and death to Americans.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/h...
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In the Age of Political Gaslighting, this is a sobering reminder.
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In the Age of Political Gaslighting, this is a sobering reminder.
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist | The Tyee
After the murder of Charlie Kirk, conservatives piled on Rachel Gilmore for expressing a well-founded fear. Then came violent threats.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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John Fugelsang: a Christian who has actually read the Bible!
September 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
John Fugelsang: a Christian who has actually read the Bible!
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#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?
It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...
actionnetwork.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
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Wow, Crown Royal will never sell anything to Canadians ever again, just like that
No more Crown Royal for me. They would rather sell to Americans than keep jobs in Canada. I put them on the same list as Wayne Gretzky wines. Thanks but no thanks.
Btw... there are so many great Canadian whiskies to choose.
Btw... there are so many great Canadian whiskies to choose.
August 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Wow, Crown Royal will never sell anything to Canadians ever again, just like that