Lone Bacterium 🌻
@lonebacterium.bsky.social
Perennially burnt out internet goblin. Research-adjacent. Anti-hype.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.
Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.
Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.
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Japan Condemns Chinese Diplomat’s Death Threat as Taiwan Deepens Engagement With Europe
www.onestnetwork.com/post/japan-c...
www.onestnetwork.com/post/japan-c...
Japan Condemns Chinese Diplomat’s Death Threat as Taiwan Deepens Engagement With Europe
Escalating tensions in East Asia as China’s Consul General in Osaka threatens to “chop off filthy heads” after Japan warns a Taiwan war would be an existential crisis. Tokyo lodges a formal protest; T...
www.onestnetwork.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Japan Condemns Chinese Diplomat’s Death Threat as Taiwan Deepens Engagement With Europe
www.onestnetwork.com/post/japan-c...
www.onestnetwork.com/post/japan-c...
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Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
UofT didn't have a sexual violence policy until 2017. Given my own experiences there, not surprising they don't support survivors.
thevarsity.ca/2025/01/27/u...
thevarsity.ca/2025/01/27/u...
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
UofT didn't have a sexual violence policy until 2017. Given my own experiences there, not surprising they don't support survivors.
thevarsity.ca/2025/01/27/u...
thevarsity.ca/2025/01/27/u...
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It’s hard not to notice the double standard. Refugees who fled the Cold War are remembered as heroes (and rightly so), but those escaping today’s wars and famines are treated like threats. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Experience: I escaped East Berlin in the boot of a car
‘Tonight or never,’ the men helping me said. ‘Meet us in the alley. Eight-thirty’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It’s hard not to notice the double standard. Refugees who fled the Cold War are remembered as heroes (and rightly so), but those escaping today’s wars and famines are treated like threats. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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"Climate Action: Tackling the #Climate Crisis for a Better World" is an excellent 4 week free online course from @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Follow this link to take part.
www.futurelearn.com/courses/clim...
Follow this link to take part.
www.futurelearn.com/courses/clim...
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"Climate Action: Tackling the #Climate Crisis for a Better World" is an excellent 4 week free online course from @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Follow this link to take part.
www.futurelearn.com/courses/clim...
Follow this link to take part.
www.futurelearn.com/courses/clim...
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Better video of the moment when my band serenaded the newlyweds. This was so joyous and I will cherish it even though I don't know them at all.
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Better video of the moment when my band serenaded the newlyweds. This was so joyous and I will cherish it even though I don't know them at all.
When I was in undergrad about 15 years ago (geez I'm old) one of the most obnoxious pro-Israel commenters in our student newspaper was a Chinese nationalist.
Never mind that China pays token gestures in the direction of Palestine while maintaining extensive economic and technological ties with Israel. But, anyway, I'm very interested in learning about the Chinese nationalists who are pro-Israel
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
When I was in undergrad about 15 years ago (geez I'm old) one of the most obnoxious pro-Israel commenters in our student newspaper was a Chinese nationalist.
This is so over the top that I can't even be mad at it. It's hilarious
Honestly, I thought they would go with "Muppets Take Manhattan".
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is so over the top that I can't even be mad at it. It's hilarious
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"Emails seen by the Guardian show staff grappling with how to manage the relationship with China. In September 2024, the university informed Chinese state security that it would not be publishing a final phase of research on forced labour in China. 'Immediately, relations improved,' an admin wrote."
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Emails seen by the Guardian show staff grappling with how to manage the relationship with China. In September 2024, the university informed Chinese state security that it would not be publishing a final phase of research on forced labour in China. 'Immediately, relations improved,' an admin wrote."
Based on this government's track record, we can just assume that this will benefit land developers and push more species towards extinction.
The province is creating the Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency (OPCA) to "provide centralized leadership, efficient governance, strategic direction and oversight of all conservation authorities." Some conservation authorities will be consolidated, but the province insists no jobs will be lost.
Ontario Newsroom
news.ontario.ca
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Based on this government's track record, we can just assume that this will benefit land developers and push more species towards extinction.
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From government policy emphasizing only STEM or trades, to AI, to assholes with MBAs trying to turn every university into fucking McDonald's, it's amazing things aren't even worse. But we're on the edge of a generational downturn in education, and the long-term repercussions might be existential.
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From government policy emphasizing only STEM or trades, to AI, to assholes with MBAs trying to turn every university into fucking McDonald's, it's amazing things aren't even worse. But we're on the edge of a generational downturn in education, and the long-term repercussions might be existential.
"From here in this part of the world, it’s like watching a morality play performed in a language that doesn’t have a word for us." Very well put.
Read every word!
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
a letter to the western left
with frustration, from central eastern europe
dumplingradical.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"From here in this part of the world, it’s like watching a morality play performed in a language that doesn’t have a word for us." Very well put.
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Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
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when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...
Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners
Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
drilled.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...
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Migration congregation underway.. this overwintering grove is alive with fluttering orange monarch butterflies. 🦋✨
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Migration congregation underway.. this overwintering grove is alive with fluttering orange monarch butterflies. 🦋✨
I have definitely found this to be true anecdotally, and I am wondering if it would have been true if search was as good as it was 10 years ago, because the quality of search hits has really degraded in the past few years.
www.theverge.com/23846048/goo...
www.theverge.com/23846048/goo...
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I have definitely found this to be true anecdotally, and I am wondering if it would have been true if search was as good as it was 10 years ago, because the quality of search hits has really degraded in the past few years.
www.theverge.com/23846048/goo...
www.theverge.com/23846048/goo...
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I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.
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I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?
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⚡️ Russia just hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
Officials said it was likely the attack included jet-powered Geran-2 drones.
Officials said it was likely the attack included jet-powered Geran-2 drones.
Russia just hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv
Russia attacked Kharkiv with drones on Oct. 22, damaging a kindergarten and killing one person, injuring at least six, local authorities reported.
kyivindependent.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
⚡️ Russia just hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
Officials said it was likely the attack included jet-powered Geran-2 drones.
Officials said it was likely the attack included jet-powered Geran-2 drones.
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Thé « Russian speakers in Ukraine want to be in Ru» nonsense needs to stop. 11yrs of Ukrainian resistance to Ru across the linguistic spectrum has shown how twisted and wrong this narrative is. Witkoff needs to be removed from the Ru-Ukraine war diplomatic team.
October 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thé « Russian speakers in Ukraine want to be in Ru» nonsense needs to stop. 11yrs of Ukrainian resistance to Ru across the linguistic spectrum has shown how twisted and wrong this narrative is. Witkoff needs to be removed from the Ru-Ukraine war diplomatic team.
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I hear Shadowtail is a little squirrelly at night, but he's not afraid of the dark—it's his natural habitat.
Late evening as the sun sets on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail, Mississauga. Ontario.
#Squirrels 🐿️ #Wildlife 🫎 #Nature 🌿 #PhotoWalk🚶➡️ #Photo📷 #Photog4Hire 🤠🤙📿
Late evening as the sun sets on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail, Mississauga. Ontario.
#Squirrels 🐿️ #Wildlife 🫎 #Nature 🌿 #PhotoWalk🚶➡️ #Photo📷 #Photog4Hire 🤠🤙📿
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I hear Shadowtail is a little squirrelly at night, but he's not afraid of the dark—it's his natural habitat.
Late evening as the sun sets on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail, Mississauga. Ontario.
#Squirrels 🐿️ #Wildlife 🫎 #Nature 🌿 #PhotoWalk🚶➡️ #Photo📷 #Photog4Hire 🤠🤙📿
Late evening as the sun sets on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail, Mississauga. Ontario.
#Squirrels 🐿️ #Wildlife 🫎 #Nature 🌿 #PhotoWalk🚶➡️ #Photo📷 #Photog4Hire 🤠🤙📿
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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seattle No Kings from the monorail