Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.
People are being arrested for wearing a medical mask in Savannah, Georgia #NoKings
This is bunker logic.
Let the floods come—as long as the wealthy are sealed in.
Naomi Klein calls it End Times Fascism:
Governance by abandonment.
Collapse as strategy.
Relief dismantled, suffering privatized.
#EndTimesFascism #DisasterCapitalism #NaomiKlein
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happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about
🚨 New Paper 🚨
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
An excellent reflection on our societal response to climate change mirroring our response to COVID.
"We can “follow the science” even when it scares us, instead of insisting that “we have to live our lives” until those lives go up in flames.”
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
When someone dies of a disease like Covid or measles, the first question is often “did they have any pre-existing conditions?”
People want to blame the victim. They want to believe they were vulnerable & therefore expendable.
No one is expendable. Demand better from governments & public health.
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
1. Absolutely outstanding article on the increasing prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) diagnoses amongst patients with Long Covid.
This possibility is the primary reason I avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2.
www.wsj.com/health/welln...
Thank you for sharing, I love reviews of Hadestown 🫡
A few other places- in the Glebe, Beandigen (www.beandigen.ca) and if in Hintonburg, Bread by Us (www.breadbyus.com) and Little Jo Berrys (www.littlejoberrys.com)
Besides museums, if you’re at Carleton University you’re by the Ottawa River and Rideau canal, and near the arboretum/wildlife garden. The Glebe, Hintonburg, and Little Italy are fun neighbourhoods and also close & walkable! Umbrella Bar at Dows lake is very good
only caring about your own rights is exactly how you lose them
h/t @earthlyeducation.bsky.social
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.
Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.
No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
Grateful to everyone who helped coordinate our Long COVID awareness event at #UWaterloo today and to the Faculty of Health Dean's Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism for supporting us! It was so nice gathering with everyone on campus.
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/vi...
Scorpion and frog "the scorpion won't sting me if i grovel and beg enough"
He gets the dust jacket so he can feel included when I read
A grey cat looks back at the camera, one paw on the dust jacket of The River Has Roots.
The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com was everything I’d hoped for. Brimming with love, it felt like a story that’d been passed down for generations before landing in my lap.
And the acknowledgments - “…I am here to tell you they made a difference to me” - that call us to act with that love
I feel like a huge majority of academics are waiting for some magical time when their career is settled and they can afford to make statements and stand up for their students. But that time will never come.
Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
I tried to bribe the good folks at Perfect Books yesterday to give me a copy early and they just laughed and laughed. Can't wait to read it!!
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm)
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
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no the fuck we are NOT making “LGBQ+” a thing and if I see any of you motherfuckers using that acronym it’s on sight
Marsha P. Johnson did not smash in the windshield of a police car for this
a blessing
adriennemareebrown.net/2025/02/12/a...
