Audiobook narrator: “… the ancestor of Venetian and Hebrew”
Me: wtf?! 🤨
Me (5 seconds later): Phoenician. He said *Phoenecian*.

How settler outposts are seizing new regions of the West Bank After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities, a joint…

The pogroms tearing through the West Bank this past week are enraging and devastating. In the past two years, 76 Palestinian communities expelled. 152 new settler outposts. Soldiers standing aside - or joining in. And, this devastating state-backed violence is spreading into new territories.

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...

Latest from the BMJ www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Sylvia, a middle-aged white lady with short brown hair, smiles at the camera. She’s wearing a black N95 mask, glasses with a chain, and a nice black top for a choir performance.

People at concert: How come you still wear a mask?

Also people at concert: *cough* *sneeze* *loud throat-clearing* *sniffles*

Caveat: If you commissioned the ugly-to-me purse from an artisan in your community, and paid them that life-changing amount of money directly, you have my blessing.

Screenshot from LA Times headline: “Long COVID leaves thousands of L.A. county residents sick, broke and ignored”

New from @latimes.com:

“Yet new COVID infections are producing new #LongCovid patients. People who were healthy and active just a few months ago are still arriving at USC’s clinic with cardiovascular and cognitive problems that have upended their lives.”

And I say this as someone who owns a dozen fountain pens and probably several thousand books and too many (like probably 10) pairs of shoes. I’m not a minimalist! But there’s just something obscene about the idea of spending a literally life-changing amount of money on …

another ugly purse.

And if there are $15k purses & people who collect them, the same presumably applies to other items that a person needs 1 or maaaaybe 2 of and that definitely don’t need to be criminally expensive. Watches. Cars. Winter coats. Dress shoes. Runners.

Houses.

I think I have figured out one of the things that’s wrong with the world: TIL that not only do handbags exist that retail for like US$15k, which is bad enough, but also people exist who COLLECT THEM. I.e., they buy MULTIPLE purses each of which would pay my mortgage for 18 months.

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping.

There is no justification.

Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration.

Full stop.

Fed's Jordan’s Principle funding doesn’t go far enough: Blackstock Cindy Blackstock says the federal government's plan to pay for the Jordan's Principle program doesn't go far enough.

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To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed | CBC News An attempt to preserve files documenting some of the worst harms caused by Indian Residential Schools could soon head to Parliament.

Petition calls on Parliament to save files on residential school abuse before they're destroyed - Petition has over 11,000 signatures asking government to save residential school files
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

One was a doctor. (Grandma was a nurse.) The other seems to have been a bit of a ne’er-do-well and I don’t know what became of him after other grandma caught him stealing from the family business and kicked him out. Then she went to teachers college!

“Massive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again. Donald Trump is repeating George W. Bush's catastrophic mistakes.

"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."

War is hell, mash meme

OK but why is it always “we have to limit immigration so that we don’t overwhelm settlement capacity” and not “we have to allocate resources to ramping up settlement capacity so that we don’t need to limit immigration”?

Cover of the book NOT POUNDED BY THIS T-REX ON THE USA MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT HE’S A MAGA DORK showing a T-Rex in a red USA hockey jersey and a brunette woman making a thumbs-down gesture.

Have you seen Chuck’s latest Tingler?

Headshots of Dr. Avi Friedman, Dr. Marco Raugei, and Dr. Naomi Keena, editors of Circularity in Built Environments journal.

Circularity in Built Environments is launching soon! This new journal will publish research on zero-waste design, smart building technology, green materials, and life cycle assessment. Meet the editorial team and explore the scope ▶️ https://ow.ly/CqUt50XWZL0

#CircularityInBuiltEnvironments

This is SO FUCKED UP.

Very clearly cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

Very possibly! That's definitely one of my top 3 places to learn cool things.

I learned this a few years ago and it is my 100% favourite fact about both Murder, She Wrote and Angela Lansbury (who seems to have generally been a very cool person -- she even wrote a fitness book that doesn't suck?!)

You know I really resent having to root for Jordan Binnington, even indirectly

But OTOH I do get to boo both Tkachuklefuck brothers simultaneously which is a nice feeling

… but at least I don’t live further west where it’s even earlier

This hockey game is too much stress too early on a Sunday morning you guys

Why was that somehow MUCH MUCH WORSE even than I expected

Webinar: U.S. health care comes to Canada: What to know and how to fight it - CCPA Join us for an important webinar: U.S. health care comes to Canada—let’s fight it!

ICYMI: See link below to watch the most recent @policyalternatives.ca webinar: How Alberta is bringing in U.S.-style health care and putting Canada’s universal public health care system at risk—by opening the doors to private, for-profit health care.
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Just tried to watch a documentary about Bryan Johnson and @bobapud.bsky.social turned it off 20 minutes in for the sake of my blood pressure 😂

Having only encountered him in passing on Maintenance Phase, was unprepared for how immensely the guy himself would piss me off

Yup! That’s the wackaloons I was referring to! (Mostly NOT working truckers, FYI.)

Yikessssss