Deanne aka deakat
@deakat.bsky.social
Vaxxed & masked reader (SF&F, horror, and more), gamer, dog behaviour geek in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Wawiiahtanan Ziibii. the traditional lands of the Three Fires Confederacy, made up of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi)
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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
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You don't have to be a bolshevik to support universal healthcare. Or a socialist. Just a decent human being who cares for other people and doesn't think that relieving suffering should depend on your ability to pay.
Michael Bennet: I really am a Bolshevik. I believe we should provide universal healthcare to all Americans as a right. There is no reason not to do it in the richest country in the world, especially if we can do it at half of the cost of care we are providing now.
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
You don't have to be a bolshevik to support universal healthcare. Or a socialist. Just a decent human being who cares for other people and doesn't think that relieving suffering should depend on your ability to pay.
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Public Health officials and infectious disease experts in Canada:
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
Take a bow.
You did it.
You've let #measles come back. Andrew Wakefield must be so proud.
You refused to accept #CleanAir recommendations from experts (and non-experts) from outside your insular little community.
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And it was on this day, this hallowed day, we all, as a people, agreed to never again say the name Kim Davis, so she could slink back to her normal life, living in a candy cottage, cooking and eating children who took the wrong dark, crooked path through the woods.
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Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
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I am interested in what this looks like in practice
Canadian PM Mark Carney: "Large American online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, antisemitism, islamophobia and hate in all its forms... My government will act."
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I am interested in what this looks like in practice
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It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance
“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Nature - Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
go.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance
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Today is a great day to make sure you cancel ANY recurring donation to ANY sitting Democratic senator and especially to ANY of the party committees.
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today is a great day to make sure you cancel ANY recurring donation to ANY sitting Democratic senator and especially to ANY of the party committees.
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
Yes, they will notice. Yes, they should all be afraid. Send a signal that they'll be held collectively responsible for this utter betrayal. 🧵
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
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📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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UK: New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade'
Professor Nicola Lewis, director of the World Influenza Centre, says this year’s flu dynamics are “unusual” and “concerning.”
Flu’s R is estimated at 1.4 vs 1.2 normally, meaning 100 cases could spread to 140 instead of 120.
Professor Nicola Lewis, director of the World Influenza Centre, says this year’s flu dynamics are “unusual” and “concerning.”
Flu’s R is estimated at 1.4 vs 1.2 normally, meaning 100 cases could spread to 140 instead of 120.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
UK: New flu virus mutation could see 'worst season in a decade'
Professor Nicola Lewis, director of the World Influenza Centre, says this year’s flu dynamics are “unusual” and “concerning.”
Flu’s R is estimated at 1.4 vs 1.2 normally, meaning 100 cases could spread to 140 instead of 120.
Professor Nicola Lewis, director of the World Influenza Centre, says this year’s flu dynamics are “unusual” and “concerning.”
Flu’s R is estimated at 1.4 vs 1.2 normally, meaning 100 cases could spread to 140 instead of 120.
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This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social did a fantastic series on that reality recently.
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
acoup.blog
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
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The 3rd Long COVID International Conference 2025 (Nov 19–20, Boston, MA) is nearly here! Join global experts, in person or virtually, to advance long Covid care, research, and public health solutions. Learn more & register: virology.eventsair.com/long-covid-i... #LongCOVIDIntl
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 3rd Long COVID International Conference 2025 (Nov 19–20, Boston, MA) is nearly here! Join global experts, in person or virtually, to advance long Covid care, research, and public health solutions. Learn more & register: virology.eventsair.com/long-covid-i... #LongCOVIDIntl
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Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
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Do you know multiple Jonathan Coulton songs by heart or are you not even close to part of my micro generation and I can’t even talk to you about anything real?
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Do you know multiple Jonathan Coulton songs by heart or are you not even close to part of my micro generation and I can’t even talk to you about anything real?
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Some affable space monsters.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Some affable space monsters.
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I love sex workers and I'm uncomfortable with a lot of the commentary I'm seeing on this that's so shitty to strippers.
NONETHELESS, when for-profit businesses get tax dollars in *any way*, it should be scrutinized. But in this case, $10 million is wiiiiiiild and reeks of cronyism in the worst way.
NONETHELESS, when for-profit businesses get tax dollars in *any way*, it should be scrutinized. But in this case, $10 million is wiiiiiiild and reeks of cronyism in the worst way.
Public money going for a strip club?
Welcome to public interest Doug Ford style.
He should at least tell us which members of his cabinet checked out the joint prior to handing over millions that could have been spent on dealing with the small town hospital crisis.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
Welcome to public interest Doug Ford style.
He should at least tell us which members of his cabinet checked out the joint prior to handing over millions that could have been spent on dealing with the small town hospital crisis.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
‘Can’t make this up!’: Ford government faces questions over nearly $10M going to company with ties to ‘adult entertainment’
Ontario’s opposition parties are questioning the province’s labour minister about the possibility money from the $2.5 billion Skills Development Fund ended up at a company tied to an “adult entertainm...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I love sex workers and I'm uncomfortable with a lot of the commentary I'm seeing on this that's so shitty to strippers.
NONETHELESS, when for-profit businesses get tax dollars in *any way*, it should be scrutinized. But in this case, $10 million is wiiiiiiild and reeks of cronyism in the worst way.
NONETHELESS, when for-profit businesses get tax dollars in *any way*, it should be scrutinized. But in this case, $10 million is wiiiiiiild and reeks of cronyism in the worst way.
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Society only chose option 1 because they were lied to.
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Society only chose option 1 because they were lied to.
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
“It’s just a cold”
“Kids are fine”
“Herd immunity”
"Only the vulnerable are at risk"
Repeat it enough times and people believe there’s no danger.
Denial is easy. Prevention takes effort.
Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...
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1. WOW WTF
2. Trust is earned, and generative AI has done exactly everything exactly the opposite of what would be required for that. It wouldn't need weird-ass culty propaganda if it just were... not evil.
3. This fucking timeline, ugh
2. Trust is earned, and generative AI has done exactly everything exactly the opposite of what would be required for that. It wouldn't need weird-ass culty propaganda if it just were... not evil.
3. This fucking timeline, ugh
My colleague spotted this today and all I have to say is this is a cult. That’s fucking religious propaganda.
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
1. WOW WTF
2. Trust is earned, and generative AI has done exactly everything exactly the opposite of what would be required for that. It wouldn't need weird-ass culty propaganda if it just were... not evil.
3. This fucking timeline, ugh
2. Trust is earned, and generative AI has done exactly everything exactly the opposite of what would be required for that. It wouldn't need weird-ass culty propaganda if it just were... not evil.
3. This fucking timeline, ugh
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UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT!
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT!
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I did a live painting event on Halloween. I was *going* to give the audience a choice between Frankenberry, Count Chocula, and Booberry. In the end I just chose Booberry (because I’m old now and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about).
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I did a live painting event on Halloween. I was *going* to give the audience a choice between Frankenberry, Count Chocula, and Booberry. In the end I just chose Booberry (because I’m old now and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about).