Ignatius 🇨🇦😷💉
@ign8ius.bsky.social
Just a personal account.
In perpetual search of apricity. Pro-pale blue dot. Physics always wins.
In perpetual search of apricity. Pro-pale blue dot. Physics always wins.
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The decision to not help the homeless was never about cost. It was about the bullshit moral fallacy that, "If you're homeless, you must deserve to be. "
Nobody chooses to be poor.
Nobody chooses to be homeless.
Nobody chooses to be poor.
Nobody chooses to be homeless.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The decision to not help the homeless was never about cost. It was about the bullshit moral fallacy that, "If you're homeless, you must deserve to be. "
Nobody chooses to be poor.
Nobody chooses to be homeless.
Nobody chooses to be poor.
Nobody chooses to be homeless.
Why I mask. Maybe.
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Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025?
a mental health professional’s perspective
misfitmentalhealth.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why I mask. Maybe.
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The world has witnessed the most disgraceful political tantrum of all time. Trump is not the leader of the "free world." He is convicted felon who doesn't deserve to be in the same room as President Zelenskyy.
There is no going along to get along with this thug.
Canada needs to stand with Ukraine.
There is no going along to get along with this thug.
Canada needs to stand with Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The world has witnessed the most disgraceful political tantrum of all time. Trump is not the leader of the "free world." He is convicted felon who doesn't deserve to be in the same room as President Zelenskyy.
There is no going along to get along with this thug.
Canada needs to stand with Ukraine.
There is no going along to get along with this thug.
Canada needs to stand with Ukraine.
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Political dissension getting suppressed in Alberta.
Getting a little dangerous to be an opponent of this gov't.
Feels wrong, for a liberal democracy.
Que pasa?
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Getting a little dangerous to be an opponent of this gov't.
Feels wrong, for a liberal democracy.
Que pasa?
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Alberta political web series temporarily shut down by court order
A judge has ordered an Alberta political web series to temporarily turn off its lights following complaints by a medical supplier embroiled in controversy. MHCare and its Edmonton-based CEO, Sam Mriac...
www.ctvnews.ca
February 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Political dissension getting suppressed in Alberta.
Getting a little dangerous to be an opponent of this gov't.
Feels wrong, for a liberal democracy.
Que pasa?
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Getting a little dangerous to be an opponent of this gov't.
Feels wrong, for a liberal democracy.
Que pasa?
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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NDP Leader Naheed @naheednenshi.bsky.social calling for Smith's resignation today if the allegations published in the Globe are true about her former Chief of Staff Marshall Smith.
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
February 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
NDP Leader Naheed @naheednenshi.bsky.social calling for Smith's resignation today if the allegations published in the Globe are true about her former Chief of Staff Marshall Smith.
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Nenshi says either Smith knew & she's complicit or she didn't know and she's incompetent.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Allegedly, Smith's staff pressured health officials to approve over half a billion dollars in private health care contracts to a businessman who bought them seats in NHL luxury boxes in return for the favour. Then Smith fired a CEO who tried to investigate.
February 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Allegedly, Smith's staff pressured health officials to approve over half a billion dollars in private health care contracts to a businessman who bought them seats in NHL luxury boxes in return for the favour. Then Smith fired a CEO who tried to investigate.
Me as a kid: “Leftovers!? 🤢”
Me as an adult: “Leftovers!? Sweet! No cooking!”
Me as an adult: “Leftovers!? Sweet! No cooking!”
January 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Me as a kid: “Leftovers!? 🤢”
Me as an adult: “Leftovers!? Sweet! No cooking!”
Me as an adult: “Leftovers!? Sweet! No cooking!”
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It would be easier
were this truly
the end of the world,
for in that case
you would be free
to do nothing.
But this is not
the end of the world,
just the end of the world
as you knew it,
and so in this case
you are obligated
to do something.
were this truly
the end of the world,
for in that case
you would be free
to do nothing.
But this is not
the end of the world,
just the end of the world
as you knew it,
and so in this case
you are obligated
to do something.
January 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It would be easier
were this truly
the end of the world,
for in that case
you would be free
to do nothing.
But this is not
the end of the world,
just the end of the world
as you knew it,
and so in this case
you are obligated
to do something.
were this truly
the end of the world,
for in that case
you would be free
to do nothing.
But this is not
the end of the world,
just the end of the world
as you knew it,
and so in this case
you are obligated
to do something.
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A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
November 10, 2024 at 7:47 AM
A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.
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Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean has rescinded the coal mining ban on the Eastern Slopes that was put in place after public outcry.
#ableg #abpoli
www.aer.ca/about-aer/me...
#ableg #abpoli
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January 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean has rescinded the coal mining ban on the Eastern Slopes that was put in place after public outcry.
#ableg #abpoli
www.aer.ca/about-aer/me...
#ableg #abpoli
www.aer.ca/about-aer/me...
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This is why the incompetence and self-serving lies of public health leaders is so deadly. Their echo chamber keeps information out, but spews the misinformation they produce directly into the ears of sycophants in media and politics.
And yet the UK health minister responsible for Covid said this yesterday:
January 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is why the incompetence and self-serving lies of public health leaders is so deadly. Their echo chamber keeps information out, but spews the misinformation they produce directly into the ears of sycophants in media and politics.
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Birds Not Predominantly Airborne Says Health Minister
January 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Birds Not Predominantly Airborne Says Health Minister
Either way, there is a price on carbon.
Choice is whether to be proactive or reactive (limit the cost or not).
#ClimateCatastrophe
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Choice is whether to be proactive or reactive (limit the cost or not).
#ClimateCatastrophe
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Canadian insured losses from 2024 weather events reach record C$8.5 billion
Canada recorded insured losses of C$8.5 billion ($5.90 billion) in 2024, the largest annual sum ever recorded, following wildfires in Jasper, a hailstorm in Calgary and flooding in major cities, data from the Insurance Bureau of Canada released on Monday showed.
www.reuters.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Either way, there is a price on carbon.
Choice is whether to be proactive or reactive (limit the cost or not).
#ClimateCatastrophe
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Choice is whether to be proactive or reactive (limit the cost or not).
#ClimateCatastrophe
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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This may be the funniest and yet simultaneously the saddest attempt at historical revisionism I have ever seen. And the way the section snippets fall out is just...👨🍳😙
"None declared..." 🤣
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"None declared..." 🤣
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This may be the funniest and yet simultaneously the saddest attempt at historical revisionism I have ever seen. And the way the section snippets fall out is just...👨🍳😙
"None declared..." 🤣
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"None declared..." 🤣
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Trump is not funny but scary.
To threaten with imperialist land grabs with armed force is the worst any leader can do.
It places Trump in the same category as Saddam Hussein (Kuwait 1990) and Putin.
To threaten with imperialist land grabs with armed force is the worst any leader can do.
It places Trump in the same category as Saddam Hussein (Kuwait 1990) and Putin.
January 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump is not funny but scary.
To threaten with imperialist land grabs with armed force is the worst any leader can do.
It places Trump in the same category as Saddam Hussein (Kuwait 1990) and Putin.
To threaten with imperialist land grabs with armed force is the worst any leader can do.
It places Trump in the same category as Saddam Hussein (Kuwait 1990) and Putin.
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Conservatives in Canada seem to believe that if -- or when -- the carbon tax is removed, food price inflation will disappear.
Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter have shown why that isn't the case with their recent study. Allow me to pile on a bit here.
Thread time.
Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter have shown why that isn't the case with their recent study. Allow me to pile on a bit here.
Thread time.
a man in a suit and tie is jumping in the air in a living room with the words `` it 's go time '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is jumping in the air in a living room with the words `` it 's go time '' .
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January 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Conservatives in Canada seem to believe that if -- or when -- the carbon tax is removed, food price inflation will disappear.
Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter have shown why that isn't the case with their recent study. Allow me to pile on a bit here.
Thread time.
Trevor Tombe and Jennifer Winter have shown why that isn't the case with their recent study. Allow me to pile on a bit here.
Thread time.
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Absolutely batshit that Pierre Poilievre, who will probably be our next PM, is sitting down with present-day far-right grifter Jordan Peterson.
The alarm bells couldn’t blare any louder, folks!!!!!!
The alarm bells couldn’t blare any louder, folks!!!!!!
Pierre Poilievre says Canadians are too obsessed with race because of “wokeism” and agrees with Jordan Peterson that Canada essentially had to invent and import racism because it didn’t exist here before recent decades.
Canada is so fucked if this guy forms government.
Canada is so fucked if this guy forms government.
January 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely batshit that Pierre Poilievre, who will probably be our next PM, is sitting down with present-day far-right grifter Jordan Peterson.
The alarm bells couldn’t blare any louder, folks!!!!!!
The alarm bells couldn’t blare any louder, folks!!!!!!
This is beautiful. Those smiles!
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Birdy, Nobody knows me like you do, Para-olympics homecoming.
YouTube video by ArsenalBirdy1
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December 15, 2024 at 12:11 AM
This is beautiful. Those smiles!
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America threatens Canada with a 25% tariff on all exports, and Alberta's government responds by....defending America?
December 14, 2024 at 3:02 AM
America threatens Canada with a 25% tariff on all exports, and Alberta's government responds by....defending America?
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This paper is interesting for a few reasons. It shows that mask mandates in healthcare protect patients from infections, and removing mask mandates in healthcare harms patients.
A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
![In unadjusted analyses, the mean weekly ratio between hospital-onset and community-onset infections increased from 2.9% prior to Omicron dominance to 7.6% (95% CI, 6.0%-9.1%) during Omicron dominance. After universal masking and testing ended, it increased to 15.5% (95% CI, 13.6%-17.4%), then fell to 8.0% (95% CI, 5.0%-11.0%) following resumption of masking among health care workers. Under the adjusted Poisson model (Figure), cessation of universal masking and testing was associated with a 25% increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections compared with the preceding Omicron-dominant period (rate ratio [RR], 1.25; 95% CI, 1.02-1.53), and resumption of masking among staff was associated with a 33% decrease in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections (RR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.52-0.85).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ou6sjyhswn7s3qyfqhw7mbk6/bafkreidt6unblorj2gvpt3yv5cdnyveps6weacjjtmoz5d4vtrwy7244hu@jpeg)
November 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
This paper is interesting for a few reasons. It shows that mask mandates in healthcare protect patients from infections, and removing mask mandates in healthcare harms patients.
A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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A very broad range of statistics appear to be worsening for reasons that are, or are likely, attributable to COVID infection / PCC: Life expectancy, chronic disease, motor vehicle accidents, etc. Please reply with more, with links to evidence where possible. Ok to list "maybes", we can filter later.
November 30, 2024 at 4:59 PM
A very broad range of statistics appear to be worsening for reasons that are, or are likely, attributable to COVID infection / PCC: Life expectancy, chronic disease, motor vehicle accidents, etc. Please reply with more, with links to evidence where possible. Ok to list "maybes", we can filter later.