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Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do. He/him.
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That tracks. futurism.com/openai-inves...
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Satire but... www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/mark...
This video remains undeleted. Watch 2 very powerful officials today discuss their plan for herd immunity via mass infection 5 years ago. (Or skip to minute 11 to hear it). Itβs important to remember. youtu.be/rz_Z7Gf1aRE
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Guys. Look how cool the engineering is behind it. #SewingMachinesArePowerTools youtu.be/RQYuyHNLPTQ?...
It's fascinating engineering. I assume this is the video you're referring to... youtu.be/RQYuyHNLPTQ?...
"Progressivism" vs. "normal people". This guy. π
On the psychology of political partisanship, which we are observing to a painful degree as Liberal partisans rationalize every single thing Carney does, no matter how conservative. open.substack.com/pub/davidcol...
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
We did a study on this! thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Don't think it can't happen in Canada also.
I'm afraid you're still confusing antisemitism, which is very real, with the weaponization of that term in defending what Israel does.
I'm using this in my talks to explain what can go wrong when the most privileged people make decisions & statements about things they know nothing about
Yeah. Nah. Staying away from that fascist shitshow. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Yo!
Antisemitism is weaponized in that way but it is also a real form of bigotry to be fought. Don't confuse those things.
Check this out. I made masks for my family back when we were all using cloth ones, and then I found a different use for them when we switched to proper N95s.
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It's pseudoscience to believe in eugenics now, but it is absolutely the case that legit scientists (including major contributors to my own field) held these views and thought they were valid. See, e.g., Sir Ronald Fisher, Sir Francis Galton, Charles Davenport, etc. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dear non-insecure dudes: sewing machines are power tools. Learn to use them.
Very cool!
I urge folks who follow me to show empathy as well, to stand up against antisemitism, and to reject the equation of the Jewish faith and Jewish people with the actions of the state of Israel (and its complicit supporters in the West).
I also have empathy for those who have not felt able to speak up and are experiencing conflicts in their families or communities, or within themselves, given the extensive effort to conflate Judaism with the state of Israel.
I post a lot about Palestine, but I also want to say that I am very empathetic to how difficult things are for my Jewish friends right now, and that I deeply respect those who have spoken up against the genocide being committed by the state of Israel with US and other western backing.
Oh, that's very clear. It's also clear how many "Liberals" are actually old-school "Progressive Conservatives" and how many other self-described "progressives" are in fact partisans who are fine with conservative policies as long as their party implements them. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Further proof that Canada is just four corporations in a trench coat pretending to be a real countryβ¦
Voices from the European Parliament: "...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States."....
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Reminder of all the things they'd like us to be quiet about. 𧡠bsky.app/profile/trya...
There is always a Liberal partisan in my comments with something like this. Every single time.
WTF are we even doing anymore. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
On water as a human right. Countries that abstained include USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Israel, Japan, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc. press.un.org/en/2010/ga10...
On the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP). Only four countries voted against: USA, UK, Canada, Australia. www.un.org/development/...
A few reminders. Convention on the Rights of the Child "196 countries have become State Parties to the Convention as of October 2015. Only the United States of America has not ratified the Convention." www.unicef.org/child-rights...
Carney may be capitulating in an attempt to restore the status quo, but the rest of us are not. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Also, if you can't recognize a perfectly cromulent Simpsons reference, that's on you. youtu.be/AWbElkaeqVA?...
Yeah, but then we'd have to defy the US and let in Chinese electric vehicles and hooooooboy Carney certainly ain't gonna do that.
Post-COVID? This article must be from the future. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
While we're at it, no more permanent members with veto powers on the security council.
The quotes and comments on this are gold.
I don't know what your point is.
The year is 2025. You're living in one of the most prosperous nations in the history of humanity. You can freely acquire any kind of bread without even leaving your house. Delivery people will bring it right to your door! But you're a conservative and sourdough exists, so you're blind with rage.
Reason #4,832 why it's absurd that the UN headquarters are in the USA. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to early August. Growth of XFG.* "Stratus" appeared to slow, finishing at 58%. The NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" was fairly flat, at 30%. #COVID19 #Global #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #XFG #Stratus π§΅
Israeli strikes killed at least 17 people in Gaza City on Saturday, Palestinian emergency workers said. The attacks came a day after Israel ended a policy of pausing attacks for several hours daily to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Digital tokens. Theyβre gonna put genocide on the blockchain. Crypto grifter-style ethnic cleansing.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. π Marlon on Snoop:
This thread got hijacked by anti-Taylor Lorenz folks who want to make this about themselves, so comments are closed.
And this: bsky.app/profile/bhag...
The Trump administration is explicitly planning to ethnically cleanse all two million Palestinians in Gaza: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This whole thread. Liberal partisans will, of course, defend Carney, but everyone else needs to wake up ASAP.
The tl;dr: Greater military spending without acknowledging that the US is the main threat to Canada, and without transforming governance in this country, will be for naught. We need actually ambitious plans, not recycled conservative ideology.
In short, Carney is acting as if things havenβt changed enough to warrant rethinking fundamental governance questions. He keeps mentioning how geopolitics has made the world more dangerous, but IDs China and Russia, not the US, as our main threats. Which has been the status quo for a decade now.
Carneyβs vaunted nation-building infrastructure plans are also on the conservative side of industrial policy, as defined in this important recent article. Theyβre designed to maintain an extinct status quo, not to deal with a fundamentally changed world. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All of Carneyβs purported transformative activities, even the increased defence spending, amount to more of the same things Canadaβs been doing for 40 years. Smaller government, lower taxes, preference for security spending (when was the last time a police budget was cut in this country?).
Media are complicit.
More than 50 ships are heading to Gaza to challenge Israelβs illegal blockade and deliver urgent humanitarian aid.
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π¨π¦ #Canadasky please share π Parliament is going to return soon and one of the first bills it is going to pass is Bill C2, which will give the police unprecedented powers over the lives of Canadians, including massive surveillance, and the ability to share our data with πΊπΈ.
Yeah. Not great.
Yeah, nah. π
Doesn't mean much in my case. I thought I'd be on far more lists created by jerks.
What could possibly go wrong? It's not like the Trans Mountain pipeline is worth less than it cost to build or that it was pushed through unceded territories without consent or that it's an environmental and climate nightmare... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I wrote about Torontoβs bubble zone bylaw for @canadiandimension.bsky.social TL;DR: itβs bad, but probably not (just) for the reasons you think it is
Lawfare is increasingly being wielded to bolster the stateβs ability to repress and criminalize pro-Palestinian movements. NEW from @irinaceric.bsky.social of @windsorlaw.bsky.social on Torontoβs bubble zone bylaw:
JFC western media are complicit.
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Also, to be clear, I didn't create that list or add myself to any of the lists I described.
We've been aligned on COVID issues. The rest I haven't followed very closely, other than I know the right lose their minds every time she posts something.
* Israel will soon slow or halt the wholly insufficient trickle of performative photo op air drop aid, in keeping with the forced starvation of Palestinian civilians, half of whom are children www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
Nothing to see here. globalnews.ca/news/1135412...
"Told ya." - Me in 6 months when any effort to combat climate change is thrown out the window and Indigenous rights get trampled yet again www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Also, I may be annoying and friendly with Taylor Lorenz, but... Wait, what was the third thing?
The rest of you know, I hope, that I vociferously reject any conflation of the actions of the political leaders or military of the state of Israel (and the equally complicit West) with the Jewish faith or Jewish people. I despise antisemitism but do not accept that opposing genocide is anti-Jewish.
Finally looked at what lists I've been added to on here. Vast majority are SARS-CoV-2, science, public health, Palestine, Canadian politics, etc. One "antisemitic" list. One "Maple MAGA Poilievre supporters" list. One " @taylorlorenz.bsky.social annoying friends" list. π€·
βThese conditions are not humane. If the Canadian public heard that one of our citizens was being held in similar conditions in a foreign prison, especially while presumed innocent of any charges against them, they would be outraged, as they should be.ββJustice Anne Molloy buff.ly/NxSvnoX
No, I suspect they've never read any of those books.
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I dunno. Banning 1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale seems a little on the nose.
So will the Carney Liberals. Border security biases too. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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.
Day 22. Or possibly Day 3. No sign of any blue checks or, actually, any fancy icons of any colour. I wonder if @bsky.app offers any other colours. Purple is nice.
We simply cannot allow this to happen Children deserve better
Hard pass.
JFC thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
Ok but have they tried hiring consultants to tell them what to cut? theconversation.com/universities...
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'Burta gummint seems to really hate edumacation. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
And this too: globalnews.ca/news/1135598...
Because of course. globalnews.ca/news/1135598...
Ottawaβs major projects office to be headed by former Trans Mountain CEO. It will be based in Calgary. globalnews.ca/news/1135598...
Children under 5 should never have been part of the workforce to begin with.
The worst, most ignorant, least responsible use of predictive algorithms. Itβs the opposite of what a government that cared about sound policymaking would do. The Carney governmentβs terrible record on digital policy remains intact. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
