Botley Smith (he/him)
botley.bsky.social
Botley Smith (he/him)
@botley.bsky.social
stage sound designer, audio engineer, technical production prof. in Treaty 14 (Mississauga)
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Today is a historic setback for climate action in Canada. DSF vehemently opposes this proposed pipeline and calls on @mark-carney.bsky.social to do better. Stand firm on environmental standards and advance Canada’s clean energy transition. Not Danielle Smith's fossil fuel fantasy.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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"We are here because Earth speaks to us.

With every flood, every drought, every wildfire she is saying: ENOUGH."

#COP30
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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To celebrate Neil Young's 80th birthday, a host of stars including R.E.M., Chrissie Hynde, Metallica, Rush and more select his 50 greatest ever songs.
Neil Young’s 50 Greatest Songs Ranked
www.mojo4music.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Here's a list of #MentalHealth 📞resources in 🇨🇦#Canada

Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8

Crisis Services #Canada 1-833-456-4566

Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868

First Nations - Hope for Wellness 1‑855‑242-3310

National IRS 1-866-925-4419

LGBTQ National Hotline 1-888-843-4564
September 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows.

Speak out before Ontario makes its decision.

Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re...

#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
Protect Grassy Narrows: Reject Kinross Gold's Mine - Leadnow
leadnow.ca
August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The time for statements are long gone. We need countries to take ACTION NOW
Britain and 26 others release joint statement calling for end of 'famine' in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/britain-and-26-others-release-joint-statement-calling-end-famine-gaza
Britain and 26 others release joint statement calling for end of 'famine' in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="427061" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/britain-and-26-others-release-joint-statement-calling-end-famine-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/britain-and-26-others-release-joint-statement-calling-end-famine-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Britain and 26 others release joint statement calling for end of 'famine' in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Britain and 26 others - including Australia, Canada, and the European Union - have released a joint statement describing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as having reached "unimaginable levels", adding that "famine is unfolding before our eyes. Urgent action is needed now to halt and reverse starvation".</p> <p>The statement from the foreign ministers of the countries continues:&nbsp;"We call on the government of Israel to provide authorisation for all international NGO aid shipments and to unblock essential humanitarian actors from operating".</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
August 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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No more loopholes! Sign the petition urging Carney and Anand to close the US loophole which currently allows Canada to discreetly transfer weapons to Israel, fuelling its genocide against Palestinians. Add your name: www.cjpme.org/petition_clo...
August 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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if you haven’t already, my recommended Friday reading 👇🏻
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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🌍 A rare bit of climate good news:

92% of all new power added last year came from renewables.

Solar and wind are now the cheapest energy sources.

Let’s build on this momentum.

#ClimateHope
July 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Great news because a non-zero amount of the Battle River–Crowfoot electorate will fuck up the spelling of Poilievre, unintentionally spoiling their ballots.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Write-in ballots to be used in Alberta byelection due to record number of candidates | CBC News
Elections Canada says voters will need to write in their desired candidate during the upcoming byelection in Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot to avoid a massive ballot with more than 200 names.
www.cbc.ca
July 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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So, the u.s. border patrol trespassed into Canadian territory and kidnapped a Canadian citizen. That’s a hostile act by a foreign country. PM Carney should demand that the u.s. patrol officers be extradited to Canada to face charges.
July 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This.
July 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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not to be dramatic but evangelical christianity really is destroying the world
July 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.

Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
July 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Black Sky Over The Projects: Apartment 2025
Public Enemy · Album · 2025 · 12 songs
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July 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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“Never before has a Canadian politician shared so much disinformation unchecked. As Pierre Poilievre tries to weasel his way back into Parliament, our legacy media still refuses to call out his lies, or question his ties to Canada Proud, who ran disinformation campaigns targeting our prime minister”
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
essd.copernicus.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Important study highlighting the complex incentives that fuel spread of bunk.👇

How media competition fuels the spread of misinformation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Creating vulnerability to BS as a market strategy? Yep.

Key: "...hyperpartisan sources spreading the majority of misinformation."
June 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM