Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars With AI-generated comedy videos and lego animations of Trump, Iranian content creators are using humour in propaganda battle against US

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Healthcare is a right.

You shouldn’t have to earn it.

It shouldn’t be dependent on employment or economic status.

It shouldn’t be something you have to fight for.

It shouldn’t be something that leaves you in debt for life.

Universal healthcare saves lives.

Hi everyone.

I hope all of you seeing this post will consider clicking “follow” on our new account/initiative, @urbantruth.bsky.social, and maybe share your fav of our many ad posters.

That would help us have the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have.

Thanks for considering!

#UrbanTruth

A really important critique of the flawed @AnnalsofIM masks vs respirators trial. Good on
@bmj_latest for publishing it

www.bmj.com/content/393/...

The regime's attacks on Pope Leo backfire spectacularly They're exposing the broken, cult-like nature of Trumpism.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pope...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

So denser housing subsidizes lower density housing, & keeps taxes artificially low for the same low density home owners that ironically commonly protest against that higher density housing in their neighbourhood.

It’s not surprising that people can be hypocritical. But they should be called on it.

Good morning,

City Council GIC is underway. [List of items in thread]

On Time: 1,2,4,7,8,9,11,12,13,15
On Time (video): 5,10
Not on Time: Mayor,3,6,14

Agenda: pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...
Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMz-...
#yhmcc #HamOnt

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NYC Mayor Mamdani Unveils 1st City-Owned Grocery Store Site With $70M in capital funds, program aims to lower food prices across 5 borough-based sites by 2029

New York Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has revealed the 1st site identified for the city’s municipal grocery store program. Mamdani plans to develop five city-run grocery stores — one in each borough.

Grocery stores aren’t just businesses. They are essential amenities. They’re infrastructure.

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Why any boss on the planet imagines they have the right to direct people to withhold aid is beyond me.

It’s dreadful.

This business of being drilled into submission starts very young.

I had to teach a youngster the other day why it was ok to be late to something if you have to stop and render aid to someone.

That it was in fact our duty to do so, and in some countries, the law to do so.

About to read this with great interest, and you should too. It's about rigor and kindness in peer reviewing and editing.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

3/3
... and should have been flagged by the editors

Our paper on rigor and kindness in peer review and editing (open access)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

2/3 …responsibility to ensure that the reviews are high quality before passing them on, or making a decision based on them.

Thanks for writing this up @chadtopaz.bsky.social

We wrote about reviewers' obligations to be both rigorous and kind (below).

This review was neither...

Pope Leo: "I don't look at my role as being political, I don't want to get into a debate with Trump, I don't think that the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war."

When peer review fails… …and accountability falls short

“When a review contains factual errors, ignores the paper’s stated research question, and engages with none of the methods or results, the appropriate response from an editorial team is to get a new review.”

Absolutely. There is an editorial…

chadtopaz.medium.com/when-peer-re...

Trump calls Pope Leo ‘weak’ and ‘terrible’ in extraordinary broadside President says US-born pope is ‘not doing a very good job’ in unprecedented criticism of leader of Catholic church

Plumbing new depths on a daily basis

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Outdoor statue of stone dancing bear

Outdoor statue of stone dancing bear

Dancing bear? And a hug 🫂

Uh oh! We are all crew! Beautiful! 🔭🚀
#WomanAstro
#WomeninSTEM
#WomeninScience

The Artemis missioun doth show that the thinges that are trulye the most astoundinge yn thys worlde, the thinges that will echo on thrugh historye, are not technologye, howevir marvelous, but common human braverye, wondir, and love. These will be the themes when thys storye ys tolde for centuryes.

Alice Wong, an Asian-American woman in her early 50s, wears a black t-shirt that says “keep masks in health care”. She rocks a rich plum lipstick and cool multicolor sunglasses. She has a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Alice Wong showed us Disability Justice makes our advocacy stronger. By Charlie McCone.”

Alice showed me I can lead a meaningful life — and be cool doing it — while sitting with my pain and limitations. And while we, sick and disabled, channel our rage back at those trying to ignore and erase us.

In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

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You can give directly to humanitarian relief projects in Lebanon here.

Canadian charity, tax receipts given

www.uossm-canada.org/crowdfunding

Every extra centimeter of hood height is another blind spot.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a design choice.

Stop manufacturing, selling, and buying these machines.

Image by @cleancitiescampaign.org & @transportenvironment.org

Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

A white-framed photo of a dark brown log cabin surrounded by bright autumn foliage in yellow, green, red, and orange.

A white-framed photo of a path in the woods. It's the dead of winter; the ground is covered in white snow, and the thin, tall trees have branches covered in snow.

A white-framed photo of a blossoming magnolia tree in the middle of a cemetery, surrounded by tombstones.

A white-framed photo of lush green trees and foliage. The edges of the leaves shine yellow in the setting sun. The foliage frames a soft purple cloud.

Hoping to sell some #Hamilton #Hamont postcards at art crawl tomorrow featuring my nature photography! Let's all hope the rain stays away 🌤️

#photography #naturephotography #forest

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon should not be happening, says Keir Starmer In article for Guardian, PM also calls for Iran conflict to become watershed moment for future UK security

And would not be happening

if Kier Starmer and other leaders had stood against apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide in oPT

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Middle East crisis live: Israel orders people to flee as it warns of further strikes on Lebanon IDF says it is continuing operations in south Beirut as Israel maintains Lebanon not part of US-Iran two-week ceasefire

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