A handmade pottery mug that reads FINAL GIRL. The mug is made from speckled white clay and glazed blood red inside with blood red dripping down the outsides.

A handmade pottery mug made from white speckled clay that reads DUMP HIM (INTO THE SEA) and is glazed a layered blue green on the handle, rim, and interior. Drips of glaze are traveling down the outside.

A white speckled clay mug that reads MENTALLY I AM HERE in black letters with a black image of a haunted house. The interior, handle, and rim are glazed glossy black.

My hand holding up a handmade pottery mug made from white speckled clay. The mug reads PEOPLE DISPLEASER and is glazed a thick drippy pink on the rim handle and interior.

I glazed mugs all day. Would you like to adopt one? littleedenpottery.etsy.com
#pottery #art #ceramics #bsnm

High school attendance drops to 40% in Ontario as government considers changes — Global News The Ford government is currently considering giving students in grades 9 to 12 credit on their final marks if they attend class as part of new legislation.

Oh, chronic absenteeism after the pandemic has risen to over 60% for high school students in Ontario?

That’s because IT’S NOT AFTER THE PANDEMIC

Kids are missing school because they are sick, and this is happening on a global scale.

@globalnews.ca

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New piece in BMJ by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, Sam Lovell, @jvipondmd.bsky.social, @mjnabuurs.bsky.social and myself on how poor quality trials can bias evidence against respirator use.

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Screenshot of Lord of the Rings. The main character says "All right, then. Keep your secrets."

This is a major line being crossed by Alberta's UCP government. Throwing out the work of an independent boundaries committee is authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic.

UCP GOVERNMENT REVEALS PLAN TO CHEAT, RIG ELECTION MAPS Engaging Albertans to build an economy for the future.

Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election:

A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public.

This has never been done in Canadian history. /1

U of A taken to court for breaching Palestine encampment protestors' Charter rights The university is accused of violating the freedoms of expression, association and assembly of its faculty and students by ordering police to tear down the People's University for Palestine in 2024.

NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024.

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SCOOP!

Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopolous takes legal action against two podcasters after an alleged campaign of harassment, and intimidation over the course of a year.

This is tied directly to the “Corrupt Care” scandal.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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photo of 4 bookmark designs, arranged diagonally. there's bugs, anatomy, pomegranates/roses, and a steampunk dagger.

I'm so happy with my 4 new bookmark designs!
You can get them here: layaroseart.storenvy.com/collections/1976677-bookmarks

Tony McQuail and NDP leadership candidates at a microphone

The Liberals voted against proportional representation and electoral reform at their Convention today.

A few weeks ago at the @ndp.ca Convention, all five leadership candidates stood together to help us pass a resolution supporting proportional representation.

@fairvotecanada.bsky.social

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

"AI in health care can mean shorter wait times and better service."

TELL ME HOW

US hostile moves have centred around oil: Venezuela, Iran, threats to Canada and notably interference in Alberta. All point to gaining leverage over China via more control over oil.

But this will only accelerate China’s shift.

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So far, I'm seeing a catastrophic failure in leadership at city hall. #Housing

Repeal of the 2024 changes to zoning — and returning to 60%+ of my city being single family homes and *only* single family homes is horrifying.

Banning building homes is not a strategy, #yyccc. #yyc

An eye-popping 0.9% *monthly* rise in the CPI was driven mainly by rising energy prices. Core inflation rose a more sedate 0.2% in March.

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE BUNGALOW IS TORN DOWN AND REPLACED WITH A 2-3 MILLION SINGLE FAMILY HOME

(ALSO HOUSING IS THE ONE THING THAT DOES ACTUALLY TRICKLE DOWN)

Man, I miss when the US wasn’t completely crazy

illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 1891 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicting a woman touching sickly yellow torn wallpaper on a wall while shadowy hands reach toward her. There is another tall shadow of a figure on the wall and both figures look toward the viewer.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

This week we are assessing the section of feeder main running from the Bearspaw Water Treatment plant to the 33 Avenue N.W. pump station with a robotic PipeDiver.

Update for the Calgary regular fuel prices pre-and-post Iran conflict/war.

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

The new highly mutated covid variant BA.3.2 and the impact on children.

I don’t know anything about The Canary, but this single article will be more effective than 10,000 Covid conscious accounts on Bluesky. Spread it far and wide!

@ryanhisner.bsky.social convinced me. It's the Orf7-8 deletion. This is GW.5.1.1 which had a similar deletion compared to HV.1.1, which circulated at the same time.

Gotta pace yourself with squashes that big. Even with a good knife, it is hard work!

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

For a few minutes there, I thought I had completely hallucinated the entire contents of the book.

People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not:

- hospitals out of capacity
- Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died
- bodies stored in freezer trailors
- mass graves in NYC