Andrea Still
@astill73.bsky.social
Humboldt to Ottawa. Mom to 2 including my Coffin-Siris Syndrome son. I seek dead people. Pierogi rule. Posts always my own. Now with extra ADHD.
Skeets before Oct/23 imported from the bad place.
Skeets before Oct/23 imported from the bad place.
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Andrea Still
@astill73.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Welcome to my new followers!
I’m not sure I have any hot takes, but here is what you’ll get by following me:
- Cat content (we have 3)
- Random stuff about being a mom of 2 very busy and funny kids
- Stuff related to Coffin-Siris Syndrome (that’s 9)
- Random funnies my 12 year old says
I’m not sure I have any hot takes, but here is what you’ll get by following me:
- Cat content (we have 3)
- Random stuff about being a mom of 2 very busy and funny kids
- Stuff related to Coffin-Siris Syndrome (that’s 9)
- Random funnies my 12 year old says
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The thing about weaponised interdependence is that other people, including your allies, might try and escape it, even if you don’t actually weaponise it.
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
The thing about weaponised interdependence is that other people, including your allies, might try and escape it, even if you don’t actually weaponise it.
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A really interesting study on pubs here. If data analysis isn't your thing, there are a few paragraphs you can skip, but stick with it. The conclusions are worth it.
My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM
A really interesting study on pubs here. If data analysis isn't your thing, there are a few paragraphs you can skip, but stick with it. The conclusions are worth it.
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Why would all disease related causes of death be growing, within every age group? Doctors are puzzled. Scientists are not. But don't say COVID or you'll be scolded.
Mortality in Sweden: how fast are all disease related causes of death growing within each age group?
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February 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Why would all disease related causes of death be growing, within every age group? Doctors are puzzled. Scientists are not. But don't say COVID or you'll be scolded.
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Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….
February 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….
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"By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week" is an insane sentence.
This AI-loving newspaper editor is teaching young journalists a valuable lesson: editors can be dumbasses
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future: Letter from the Editor
Journalism schools lag in teaching AI, crucial for modern reporting, which aids in efficient news gathering and frees reporters for fieldwork.
www.cleveland.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:19 AM
"By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week" is an insane sentence.
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So this weekend TikTok removed our video about Elon Musk showing up in the Epstein files for "promoting misinformation", which we're sure has nothing at all to do with billionaire Trump megadonor Larry Ellison taking over control of TikTok's algorithm.
February 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
So this weekend TikTok removed our video about Elon Musk showing up in the Epstein files for "promoting misinformation", which we're sure has nothing at all to do with billionaire Trump megadonor Larry Ellison taking over control of TikTok's algorithm.
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If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE.
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
What Measles Did to My Family
My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
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OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
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Well now... HERE'S a lovely article spreading the word about the history and influence of Corner Gas, for anyone who may have missed out. From @movieweb.bsky.social. (***Feel free to repost this to spread it around!) movieweb.com/schitts-cree...
This 2000s Show Paved the Way for 'Schitt's Creek,' and You Can Stream All 100+ Episodes Free
O, Canada!
movieweb.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Well now... HERE'S a lovely article spreading the word about the history and influence of Corner Gas, for anyone who may have missed out. From @movieweb.bsky.social. (***Feel free to repost this to spread it around!) movieweb.com/schitts-cree...
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Lots of interesting folks at Palantir, eh?
It's vertically integrated, you might say...
It's vertically integrated, you might say...
February 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Lots of interesting folks at Palantir, eh?
It's vertically integrated, you might say...
It's vertically integrated, you might say...
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really vivid explanation of the badness of measles
Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.
February 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
really vivid explanation of the badness of measles
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The #EpsteinFiles meet #TheUList.
Universities with ties to #Epstein now revealed daily at academicabuse.com/data
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #FeministSky
Universities with ties to #Epstein now revealed daily at academicabuse.com/data
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #FeministSky
Data | Academic Abuse
Explore real-time data on academic abuse in higher education. Our dashboard aggregates news stories on bullying, harassment, retaliation, and more to support students, faculty, and advocates in…
academicabuse.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
The #EpsteinFiles meet #TheUList.
Universities with ties to #Epstein now revealed daily at academicabuse.com/data
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #FeministSky
Universities with ties to #Epstein now revealed daily at academicabuse.com/data
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #FeministSky
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Silent Tribute
Daphne Odjig ~ Anishinaabe
1982
Daphne Odjig ~ Anishinaabe
1982
February 15, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Silent Tribute
Daphne Odjig ~ Anishinaabe
1982
Daphne Odjig ~ Anishinaabe
1982
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I was reading through some of the Dubin and Ting emails from the Epstein files, and I genuinely became nauseated at how far backward they bent to call in prescriptions for him, help him make appointments for himself and the people he was abusing, and generally fluff him up in exchange for like $50k.
February 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I was reading through some of the Dubin and Ting emails from the Epstein files, and I genuinely became nauseated at how far backward they bent to call in prescriptions for him, help him make appointments for himself and the people he was abusing, and generally fluff him up in exchange for like $50k.
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Another paper about how Covid affects sperm count, yet antivaxxers are still going on and on about the vaccines being what causes it. Nope, like much else, it's the virus itself: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(More on how vaccines don't affect fertility: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lar...)
(More on how vaccines don't affect fertility: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lar...)
February 15, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Another paper about how Covid affects sperm count, yet antivaxxers are still going on and on about the vaccines being what causes it. Nope, like much else, it's the virus itself: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
(More on how vaccines don't affect fertility: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lar...)
(More on how vaccines don't affect fertility: www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lar...)
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Well, this headline and framing rather buries the lede. It's not that two Latvians in the stands held up the flag of Greenland at a US vs Denmark match, in an arena full of US flags. It's that security told them to quit it for "safety reasons, because there could be American aggressive people."
Fans who raised Greenland's flag at US-Denmark Olympic hockey game say it was a pro-European gesture
Two fans who raised a flag of Greenland as the United States played Denmark in men’s hockey at the Winter Olympics say they did so as a gesture of European support for the island and for Denmark.
apnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Well, this headline and framing rather buries the lede. It's not that two Latvians in the stands held up the flag of Greenland at a US vs Denmark match, in an arena full of US flags. It's that security told them to quit it for "safety reasons, because there could be American aggressive people."
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A+ article except for the word “shocking.”
Entirely predictable.
Entirely predictable.
NEW at @thebulwark.com
I wrote about this week’s big RFK Jr. news — his team blocking a cutting edge flu shot — and the chilling implications that decision has for the future of vaccines www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
I wrote about this week’s big RFK Jr. news — his team blocking a cutting edge flu shot — and the chilling implications that decision has for the future of vaccines www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
www.thebulwark.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
A+ article except for the word “shocking.”
Entirely predictable.
Entirely predictable.
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Silicon Valley CEOs personify the utter corrosiveness of being rich in end-game capitalism.
In his keynote, Benioff thanked international employees for traveling to the United States for the meeting, and asked them to stand. Benioff then said that ICE agents were in the building to keep tabs on them. www.404media.co/marc-benioff...
Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
www.404media.co
February 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Silicon Valley CEOs personify the utter corrosiveness of being rich in end-game capitalism.
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The wellness industry has always relied on an invented, polarizing, divisive “us vs them” narrative in order to manipulate, spread propaganda, and ultimately grift.
February 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The wellness industry has always relied on an invented, polarizing, divisive “us vs them” narrative in order to manipulate, spread propaganda, and ultimately grift.
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Also going to point out this exchange I spotted on Reddit. Right now we are losing this battle to the landlord lobby groups.
You can speak to Halifax Council in person or online on Wednesday February 18 or Wednesday March 4.
You can speak to Halifax Council in person or online on Wednesday February 18 or Wednesday March 4.
February 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Also going to point out this exchange I spotted on Reddit. Right now we are losing this battle to the landlord lobby groups.
You can speak to Halifax Council in person or online on Wednesday February 18 or Wednesday March 4.
You can speak to Halifax Council in person or online on Wednesday February 18 or Wednesday March 4.
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If you care at all about the future of Halifax, about transit or about equity, please read this!!
My Council blog from the last two weeks of budgeting. Austerity by surprise? Council will be considering major cuts on March 4. samaustin.ca/council-upda...
Council Update: Austerity or Not? - Sam Austin
Council’s budget deliberations are well underway at City Hall. February is the busiest time of the year for Councillors as budget meetings fill up several additional days each week. So far, Council ha...
samaustin.ca
February 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
If you care at all about the future of Halifax, about transit or about equity, please read this!!
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Marie-Joseph Angélique was an enslaved woman who ran away from her enslaver but was recaptured.
Shortly after, a fire destroyed 25% of Montreal. Angelique was put to death for the disaster.
This is her story.
📸Annie Beaugrand-Champagne
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Shortly after, a fire destroyed 25% of Montreal. Angelique was put to death for the disaster.
This is her story.
📸Annie Beaugrand-Champagne
🧵 1/10
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Marie-Joseph Angélique was an enslaved woman who ran away from her enslaver but was recaptured.
Shortly after, a fire destroyed 25% of Montreal. Angelique was put to death for the disaster.
This is her story.
📸Annie Beaugrand-Champagne
🧵 1/10
Shortly after, a fire destroyed 25% of Montreal. Angelique was put to death for the disaster.
This is her story.
📸Annie Beaugrand-Champagne
🧵 1/10
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Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.