Canadian Humanist 🍁
@1000wordsinapic.bsky.social
Tavener Welch
Humanist. Artist. Canadian.
Amateur politicist.
Lover and a fighter.
Unable to unsee the big picture.
But some days I wish I could.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤎🖤
Don't wanna be an American Fascist. 🇨🇦
Humanist. Artist. Canadian.
Amateur politicist.
Lover and a fighter.
Unable to unsee the big picture.
But some days I wish I could.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤎🖤
Don't wanna be an American Fascist. 🇨🇦
For chief of staff, Mamdani picked Elle Bisgaard-Church, a fellow 34-year-old Democratic socialist who has held the same title in his Assembly office and served as his campaign manager during the Democratic primary.
Mamdani picks his top 2 City Hall deputies
Dean Fuleihan will return as first deputy mayor and Elle Bisgaard-Church will be chief of staff.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
For chief of staff, Mamdani picked Elle Bisgaard-Church, a fellow 34-year-old Democratic socialist who has held the same title in his Assembly office and served as his campaign manager during the Democratic primary.
Public health and infectious disease experts attribute the return of measles to declining vaccination rates, stemming from misinformation-fuelled vaccine hesitancy and distrust of authority, as well as the disruption of routine immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
The Public Health Agency of Canada says the country has officially lost its measles elimination status that it had held since 1998.
vancouver.citynews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Public health and infectious disease experts attribute the return of measles to declining vaccination rates, stemming from misinformation-fuelled vaccine hesitancy and distrust of authority, as well as the disruption of routine immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The sentiments of a Nation.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The sentiments of a Nation.
You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
- Banksy & Friends
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
- Banksy & Friends
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
- Banksy & Friends
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
- Banksy & Friends
Telegrams founder Pavel Durov.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Telegrams founder Pavel Durov.
With funding from donors and the federal and provincial governments, Kawartha Land Trust has completed the purchase of a 435-acre property in Peterborough County where the land conservation charity has created a protected nature reserve and has plans to offer community hiking trails in the future.
Kawartha Land Trust creates new nature reserve on 435-acre property in Trent Lakes | kawarthaNOW
By Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter. With community support and government funding, the Kawartha Highlands South nature reserve will protect wildlife habitat and feature future p...
kawarthanow.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With funding from donors and the federal and provincial governments, Kawartha Land Trust has completed the purchase of a 435-acre property in Peterborough County where the land conservation charity has created a protected nature reserve and has plans to offer community hiking trails in the future.
It's about small wins with big ramifications. On a Monday, I'll take it. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤎🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's about small wins with big ramifications. On a Monday, I'll take it. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤎🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
The soldiers giving their accounts in Breaking Ranks also confirm consistent reports throughout the two-year conflict of the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, a practice informally known as the “mosquito protocol”.
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The soldiers giving their accounts in Breaking Ranks also confirm consistent reports throughout the two-year conflict of the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, a practice informally known as the “mosquito protocol”.
Absolute worst thing they could do! If you're an American call your rep. Tell them to hold the damn line. You don't roll over for a bully. You don't show weakness to a predator. You certainly don't offer them your throat!
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Absolute worst thing they could do! If you're an American call your rep. Tell them to hold the damn line. You don't roll over for a bully. You don't show weakness to a predator. You certainly don't offer them your throat!
Wtf?
The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024 and into 2025, which were likely to have included trees that were hundreds of years old.
The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024 and into 2025, which were likely to have included trees that were hundreds of years old.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Wtf?
The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024 and into 2025, which were likely to have included trees that were hundreds of years old.
The report, by Stand.earth, a Canadian environmental non-profit, claims that a subsidiary of Drax Group received hundreds of truckloads of whole logs at its biomass pellet sites throughout 2024 and into 2025, which were likely to have included trees that were hundreds of years old.
Translation: the optics of the presidents reaction to, or lack there of, was terrible. Let's have a known liar, Dr. Oz, form a statement that will counter the optic. We think the public are dumb enough to buy it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Translation: the optics of the presidents reaction to, or lack there of, was terrible. Let's have a known liar, Dr. Oz, form a statement that will counter the optic. We think the public are dumb enough to buy it.
By modeling the physical aspects of the phenomenon, the study found that human hands are remarkably sensitive, detecting the presence of buried objects by perceiving minute displacements in the sand surrounding them. This sensitivity approaches the theoretical physical threshold.. 1/2
Humans have remote touch 'seventh sense' like sandpipers, research shows
A study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London has found that humans have a form of remote touch, or the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sen...
techxplore.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
By modeling the physical aspects of the phenomenon, the study found that human hands are remarkably sensitive, detecting the presence of buried objects by perceiving minute displacements in the sand surrounding them. This sensitivity approaches the theoretical physical threshold.. 1/2
That’s how Britain pushed for the end of the slave trade: with a mix of idealism and hard power, with naval patrols and trade sanctions. A global fossil fuel phase out may unfold in a similarly non-ideal way.
What if the path to ending fossil fuels looked like the fight to end slavery?
Paying off slave owners was an imperfect compromise. But it worked.
theconversation.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
That’s how Britain pushed for the end of the slave trade: with a mix of idealism and hard power, with naval patrols and trade sanctions. A global fossil fuel phase out may unfold in a similarly non-ideal way.
Trump says the State Dept will deny visas for work, to students or visitors with diabetes or obesity. Trump says fat people (his words) are a drain on the healthcare system. Look in a mirror dude.
Also people with visas don't qualify on the state level or for federally funded healthcare.
Also people with visas don't qualify on the state level or for federally funded healthcare.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Trump says the State Dept will deny visas for work, to students or visitors with diabetes or obesity. Trump says fat people (his words) are a drain on the healthcare system. Look in a mirror dude.
Also people with visas don't qualify on the state level or for federally funded healthcare.
Also people with visas don't qualify on the state level or for federally funded healthcare.
450 drones. 54 ballistics missiles. That's what Russia and the war criminal Vladimir Putin rained down on Ukraine last night. Hitting civilian sites and energy infrastructure. Multiple people injured and dead. Power out in alot of locations.
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦🇨🇦
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦🇨🇦
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
450 drones. 54 ballistics missiles. That's what Russia and the war criminal Vladimir Putin rained down on Ukraine last night. Hitting civilian sites and energy infrastructure. Multiple people injured and dead. Power out in alot of locations.
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦🇨🇦
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦🇨🇦
So now it's the insurance companies. Ok.. Keep making posts like this you buffoon. The more enemies you makes the better. It just means more people working to make sure you fail. Even the evil ones.
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So now it's the insurance companies. Ok.. Keep making posts like this you buffoon. The more enemies you makes the better. It just means more people working to make sure you fail. Even the evil ones.
This post is not factual. It was an IDF recruitment event called "Combat on Campus" in Toronto. Put on by two student groups from Toronto Metropolitan University. Israel is trying to recruit Canadians to fight in wars they start. Genocides they perpetrate.. 1/2
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This post is not factual. It was an IDF recruitment event called "Combat on Campus" in Toronto. Put on by two student groups from Toronto Metropolitan University. Israel is trying to recruit Canadians to fight in wars they start. Genocides they perpetrate.. 1/2
Just in, SNAP will be fully funded while they appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Just in, SNAP will be fully funded while they appeal.
Sleepy who now?
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sleepy who now?
Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats put forth a resolution today to reopen the government immediately by extending the ACA benefits for one year only. Positioning the next vote to extend the benefits around the time of the '26 midterms.. 1/2
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats put forth a resolution today to reopen the government immediately by extending the ACA benefits for one year only. Positioning the next vote to extend the benefits around the time of the '26 midterms.. 1/2
“In addition to its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia is also escalating hybrid attacks, waging a battle of influence against Europe,” states the draft seen by the Guardian. “By spreading deceitful narratives, sometimes including the manipulation and falsification of historical.. 1/
EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others
Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social media
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“In addition to its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia is also escalating hybrid attacks, waging a battle of influence against Europe,” states the draft seen by the Guardian. “By spreading deceitful narratives, sometimes including the manipulation and falsification of historical.. 1/
Neighbors sent him videos of settlers damaging the land. He returned to find his home ransacked, solar panels stolen, and water tanks and irrigation pipes destroyed.
“They forced us to leave, and then they used extreme violence to destroy our olives.. 1/2
“They forced us to leave, and then they used extreme violence to destroy our olives.. 1/2
Savage beatings and dying trees: How West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest | CNN
Umm Shukry inspects her olive trees one by one, just as she did every year for a decade. But this olive harvest season is different. Nearly all her trees are damaged; their branches bare and brittle.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Neighbors sent him videos of settlers damaging the land. He returned to find his home ransacked, solar panels stolen, and water tanks and irrigation pipes destroyed.
“They forced us to leave, and then they used extreme violence to destroy our olives.. 1/2
“They forced us to leave, and then they used extreme violence to destroy our olives.. 1/2
So Trump says today should the Supreme Court decide tariffs are illegal and the 90 billion collected returned to american businesses, it could cause the United States "some magor financial problems".
Well that money hasn't been allocated for anything. Assumingly hasn't been spent.. 1/2
Well that money hasn't been allocated for anything. Assumingly hasn't been spent.. 1/2
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
So Trump says today should the Supreme Court decide tariffs are illegal and the 90 billion collected returned to american businesses, it could cause the United States "some magor financial problems".
Well that money hasn't been allocated for anything. Assumingly hasn't been spent.. 1/2
Well that money hasn't been allocated for anything. Assumingly hasn't been spent.. 1/2
This fckn guy. Honestly he has to be the most ridiculous leader our province has ever had. Anyone with even a slice of a functioning brain knows this is a terrible idea. They've done feasibility studies already that show if we attempted to do this the highway itself will likely collapse... 1/2
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This fckn guy. Honestly he has to be the most ridiculous leader our province has ever had. Anyone with even a slice of a functioning brain knows this is a terrible idea. They've done feasibility studies already that show if we attempted to do this the highway itself will likely collapse... 1/2
May he fail miserably while we all watch.
The milestones Musk must achieve over the next decade to maximise his payout include raising Tesla's market value to $8.5tn from $1.4tn at time of writing.
He would also need to get a million self-driving Robotaxi vehicles into commercial operation.
The milestones Musk must achieve over the next decade to maximise his payout include raising Tesla's market value to $8.5tn from $1.4tn at time of writing.
He would also need to get a million self-driving Robotaxi vehicles into commercial operation.
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
May he fail miserably while we all watch.
The milestones Musk must achieve over the next decade to maximise his payout include raising Tesla's market value to $8.5tn from $1.4tn at time of writing.
He would also need to get a million self-driving Robotaxi vehicles into commercial operation.
The milestones Musk must achieve over the next decade to maximise his payout include raising Tesla's market value to $8.5tn from $1.4tn at time of writing.
He would also need to get a million self-driving Robotaxi vehicles into commercial operation.