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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 21d

Evergreen statement

Apparently

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 24d

Oh no he was far too sick for that! It’s unfortunate but you don’t miss it if it makes you feel like death!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25d

Newsom reacts to Kilmeade’s cold-hearted comments👇🏽

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Do all opinions need to be given a fair hearing by the Premier?

Jack Farrell @jack-farrell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Smith's Alberta Next panel hears cheers for deportation, separation in Lloydminster

From me in the border city tonight:
www.thealbertan.com/alberta-news...

Smith's Alberta Next panel hears cheers for deportation, separation in Lloydminster

LLOYDMINSTER — Loud cheers for mass deportations and Alberta separation were the peaks of an otherwise tame and quiet town hall for Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel in Lloydminster.

www.thealbertan.com

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · Aug 21

The fine folks @pembina.org have done the math on the toll of Alberta's UCP government's open war on clean power. Essentially an entire provincial grid's worth of emissions-free energy projects have been cancelled. Spectacular own goal, well done, Danielle Smith and team!

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

You will eat a lot less gluten. That’s how you support. You can’t really do anything else. Depending on the level of seriousness, but most celiac disease gets worse in the reax as the intestine heals.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

You will have to have a completely difft set of everything, but honestly the easiest thing is to just not have bread, wraps, etc and baking in a sealed container if it is necessary. We are so careful that I don’t even breathe on him if I eat a wrap or something, I go brush my teeth, etc.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

We don’t live together. So I have a set of cast iron, cutting board etc at my house that is GF. His stuff is all GF and there is no gluten in his house, ever. I don’t allow it in my travel trailer either. I eat a lot less of it, but my kids eat bread etc. when he comes down I put the toaster away.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

10. It’s making sure you have road snax always because there are times when there’s nothing you trust. So it reminds me of back in the day with little kids. I travel with way more stuff in my purse or in the car. Partner is bad at remembering this so I do it when I am around

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

7. Some of the baking/sweets can be ok at the dedicated bakeries. We don’t really seek it out but it’s there
8. There’s almost always a freezer shelf somewhere even in a rural grocery store that has the dedicated gf stuff like pizza dough etc
9. It’s actually pretty easy to eat at home.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

5. Most gf bread/wraps are gross. we don’t bother, there’s only a couple of high-end places we bother with baking from, it’s not a priority tho
6. You have to interrogate the resto kitchen setup if you want to eat at a place. Like, to a level of demanding-ness that will make you uncomfortable

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

New cast iron! Sorry, you have to. And of course new colanders and cooking utensils. And blenders etc etc.
4. We don’t just order the GF thing on the menu. We have to be so much more careful than that. Mostly we only eat out at dedicated GF places now. It sux, but that’s his level of sensitivity

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 22

This happened to me! My partner diagnosed at age 56, and he’s not just a little bit celiac. It’s very serious. Was a year ago. We have learned a LOT

1. The reaction to x-contam gets far worse over time
2. You can’t trust buffets and most restos, I’m sorry to report
3. New cutting boards but also

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Aug 21

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’ll do some looking in to it and make sure, if this is the case, what a gift

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 19

I think all houses should be cheaper and there should be more of them, but not my house and I don’t want more neighbours

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Richard Einarson 🇨🇦 @richardeinarson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Wow. That's bonafide courage.

The Carney government is offside from the vast majority of Canadians here. It's time to reverse course here and respect the right to strike.

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Aug 18

CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants

"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"

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Harold Pliszka @hpliszka.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Dr. James Talbot, the province's former chief medical officer of health, said the government appears to be doing everything it can to make this year's immunization campaign a "failure" by making it less available, less accessible and less affordable."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What health experts are saying about Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination program | CBC News

Health experts, advocates and unions are sounding the alarm over Alberta's plan for paid COVID-19 shots, calling it concerning and confusing.

www.cbc.ca

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 17

one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Aug 17

Newsom keeping up a strong troll game:

Governor Newsom Press Office
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"BEAUTIFUL MAPS." THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 17

Great overview of the stakes of the zero-emission vehicle targets set out by Ottawa.

I think the mandate is probably dead man walking. Another related issue is whether the tariffs on Chinese EVs remain in place. A broader question of industrial policy and canola tariffs vs affordable EVs.

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · Aug 16

New from me. On the ZEV mandate fight.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | Can the ZEV mandate survive political pressure and industry objections? | CBC News

With the federal carbon tax dead and gone, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has found a new target among the Liberal government's climate policies — the electric vehicle availability standard, oth...

www.cbc.ca

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Craig Saunders @craigsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 15

Most Canadians Side with Flight Attendants in Dispute with Air Canada - @davidcoletto.bsky.social

abacusdata.ca/most-canadia...

Most Canadians Side with Flight Attendants in Dispute with Air Canada - Abacus Data

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abacusdata.ca

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 16

Even Fox News is reporting Trump is weak and Putin steamrolled him.

Scary.

Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · Aug 16

Confused about what happened at the "very unusual" Trump-Putin summit? Listen to what Fox's Bret Baier, Brian Kilmeade, and Jacqui Heinrich said about it:

"It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled."

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · Aug 15

lol!

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Important new report from Pembina Institute that gets into the details of how employment trends in the oil industry have fundamentally changed, production growth doesn't mean jobs in the way it did during the previous boom/busts and decarbonization isnt a job driver. www.pembina.org/pub/drilling...

Employment figures demonstrate the impact that this has had on workers. Where once the level
of employment in the sector was characterised by periods of 'boom' and 'bust', depending on
fluctuations in the global oil price, after 2012 jobs became decoupled from profits and
production levels. Employment in the sector peaked in 2012, at 38 jobs per thousand barrels of
oil per day produced. By 2023, it was at 22 jobs per thousand barrels - a 43% decrease, despite
the fact that oil and gas production grew 47% during the same period.

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