Psarah Psmith 🇨🇦
@smarvsmith.bsky.social
Rogue Naturalist
Science+Art Mash-up Maven
Into Good Trouble, Interesting Facts, & Oxford Commas
Maple syrup runs in my veins.
Science+Art Mash-up Maven
Into Good Trouble, Interesting Facts, & Oxford Commas
Maple syrup runs in my veins.
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I just got my first one of these up and running in my home. And I’ve had LOTS of other filter units etc. This one? Super quiet. Soooo quiet. Two more to come!
@davidelfstrom.bsky.social great article!
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
@davidelfstrom.bsky.social great article!
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
healthydebate.ca
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I just got my first one of these up and running in my home. And I’ve had LOTS of other filter units etc. This one? Super quiet. Soooo quiet. Two more to come!
@davidelfstrom.bsky.social great article!
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
@davidelfstrom.bsky.social great article!
healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
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got to post-Zohran blog @thecut.com — multiple election outcomes on Tuesday showed that refusing to fold on trans people, migrants, Muslims, and marginalized communities while pushing kitchen table issues is a winning strategy. the pundit class’s “Decision to Win”-style arguments can be put to bed
Welcome to Woke 2.0
Democrats won by running on kitchen-table issues and accepting or embracing trans people and immigrants.
www.thecut.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
got to post-Zohran blog @thecut.com — multiple election outcomes on Tuesday showed that refusing to fold on trans people, migrants, Muslims, and marginalized communities while pushing kitchen table issues is a winning strategy. the pundit class’s “Decision to Win”-style arguments can be put to bed
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Brilliant interview with Dr. Maren Aukerman (UCalgary Education) about the new legislated testing/screening the govt is going to inflict on children and teachers and everything that’s wrong with it. 🔥
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...
‘Teachers know this is not good for kids’: professor on new mandated screening tests
The Alberta government plans to mandate screening tests for literacy and numeracy in Kindergarten to Grade 3. School authorities would then be required to report the results to parents and to the educ...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Brilliant interview with Dr. Maren Aukerman (UCalgary Education) about the new legislated testing/screening the govt is going to inflict on children and teachers and everything that’s wrong with it. 🔥
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/alb...
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
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"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool."
Election day with Octavia Butler on how to choose leaders:
www.themarginalian.org/2020/08/23/o...
Please please please let this happen.
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Please please please let this happen.
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The mystery of personal identity – philosopher Rebecca Goldstein on what makes you and your childhood self the "same" person, despite a lifetime of physiological and psychological change www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/07/r...
The Mystery of Personal Identity: What Makes You and Your Childhood Self the Same Person Despite a Lifetime of Change
Dissecting the philosophical conundrum of our “integrity of identity that persists over time, undergoing changes and yet still continuing to be.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The mystery of personal identity – philosopher Rebecca Goldstein on what makes you and your childhood self the "same" person, despite a lifetime of physiological and psychological change www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/07/r...
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Canada is showing global leadership in preventing airborne virus transmission with the CSA's new draft standard for respirator use (especially in healthcare) 🎉
theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...
theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...
The CSA’s revised standard on respirators should help us all breathe easier
New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Canada is showing global leadership in preventing airborne virus transmission with the CSA's new draft standard for respirator use (especially in healthcare) 🎉
theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...
theconversation.com/the-csas-rev...
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Maple MAGA Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith is taking a page straight from Trump’s voter suppression playbook using fear and misinformation to chip away at democratic participation.
#ableg #cdnpoli
#DanielleMustGo
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
#ableg #cdnpoli
#DanielleMustGo
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Maple MAGA: Alberta’s MAGA Premier, Danielle Smith, Just Copied Trump’s Voter Suppression Playbook
They call them “technical updates.” They look like a suppression package that caters to her wealthy donors. And the timing? Classic MAGA—do it when everyone’s looking somewhere else.
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Maple MAGA Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith is taking a page straight from Trump’s voter suppression playbook using fear and misinformation to chip away at democratic participation.
#ableg #cdnpoli
#DanielleMustGo
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
#ableg #cdnpoli
#DanielleMustGo
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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Cincinnati Zoo has panels over their parking lots. Any extra power they produce between the lots and panels at an off-site location goes back to the local community.
South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.
electrek.co
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Cincinnati Zoo has panels over their parking lots. Any extra power they produce between the lots and panels at an off-site location goes back to the local community.
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“a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk pegged the # of excess deaths at 2% above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate…that’s 120K unanticipated dead people per year in North America. That’s roughly 2 fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing & killing everyone aboard each day.”
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“a global insurance firm that analyzes mortality risk pegged the # of excess deaths at 2% above the pre-pandemic annual mortality rate…that’s 120K unanticipated dead people per year in North America. That’s roughly 2 fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing & killing everyone aboard each day.”
Unbelievable incompetence.
Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Alberta #abpoli
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Alberta #abpoli
Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee
Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.
thetyee.ca
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Unbelievable incompetence.
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It should be the first question asked of Poilievre by media in every single interview, every time. And his ridiculous, illogical excuses should be challenged vigorously. Unless Poilievre submits to the standard, normal security check, Canadians should assume the worst about why he refuses to.
PM Carney takes a jab at PoiLIEvre: “You know, one of the advantages of having your security clearance is you’re better informed about some of the threats [facing Canada], and I highly recommend that anyone either in a position of responsibility—or seeking it—has their security clearance.”
😂
😂
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It should be the first question asked of Poilievre by media in every single interview, every time. And his ridiculous, illogical excuses should be challenged vigorously. Unless Poilievre submits to the standard, normal security check, Canadians should assume the worst about why he refuses to.
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Two 12-yo girls trick-or-treating at my door tonight.
Me: "You're Katniss! Sweet."
Her (deep long-suffering sigh): Thank you.
Her friend: Everyone thinks she's Robin Hood.
We all share a look of understanding and exasperation.
1/
Me: "You're Katniss! Sweet."
Her (deep long-suffering sigh): Thank you.
Her friend: Everyone thinks she's Robin Hood.
We all share a look of understanding and exasperation.
1/
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Two 12-yo girls trick-or-treating at my door tonight.
Me: "You're Katniss! Sweet."
Her (deep long-suffering sigh): Thank you.
Her friend: Everyone thinks she's Robin Hood.
We all share a look of understanding and exasperation.
1/
Me: "You're Katniss! Sweet."
Her (deep long-suffering sigh): Thank you.
Her friend: Everyone thinks she's Robin Hood.
We all share a look of understanding and exasperation.
1/
This is the sign I think my city needs. Looking at all you roll-on-thru types.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is the sign I think my city needs. Looking at all you roll-on-thru types.
This museum is not playing.
Freaky creepy haunted doll for the win.
(shudder)
Freaky creepy haunted doll for the win.
(shudder)
Thanks for joining us on a tour of Stranger Things from the Nova Scotia Museum collections.
We’re excited for #Halloween 👻Wishing you a spooky day filled with tricks and treats (and creepy dolls who will never stop staring at you).
We’re excited for #Halloween 👻Wishing you a spooky day filled with tricks and treats (and creepy dolls who will never stop staring at you).
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This museum is not playing.
Freaky creepy haunted doll for the win.
(shudder)
Freaky creepy haunted doll for the win.
(shudder)
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📒 NEW STUDY: “Permanent Daylight Saving Time hinders the stability of circadian rhythms, posing public health risks, especially for adolescents and evening chronotypes.” 👉 Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
📒 NEW STUDY: “Permanent Daylight Saving Time hinders the stability of circadian rhythms, posing public health risks, especially for adolescents and evening chronotypes.” 👉 Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!
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So as you may know, we bought Ren as a mature spood. We tried to pair him with Ember after he'd settled in and it was unsuccessful. He wouldn't dance, and seemed scared by her. Well... Now we know why 😅
He was actually subadult. 4 days ago, he moulted with us! 😮 🧵 (1/2) #cutespider
He was actually subadult. 4 days ago, he moulted with us! 😮 🧵 (1/2) #cutespider
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So as you may know, we bought Ren as a mature spood. We tried to pair him with Ember after he'd settled in and it was unsuccessful. He wouldn't dance, and seemed scared by her. Well... Now we know why 😅
He was actually subadult. 4 days ago, he moulted with us! 😮 🧵 (1/2) #cutespider
He was actually subadult. 4 days ago, he moulted with us! 😮 🧵 (1/2) #cutespider
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I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.
Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.
Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀
#PublicHealth
Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.
Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀
#PublicHealth
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.
Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.
Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀
#PublicHealth
Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.
Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀
#PublicHealth
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🧪 Another Halloween, another batch of highly inaccurate and horrifying plastic skeleton decorations to look at in this year’s seasonally spooky blogpost.
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
The (Entirely Inaccurate, Completely Nonsensical) Plastic Skeleton Wars Continue
Let’s be real – you know exactly what this blog post is about. I’ve been writing about these cursed plastic objects for years now. After doing an overview of the worst iterations …
animalarchaeology.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🧪 Another Halloween, another batch of highly inaccurate and horrifying plastic skeleton decorations to look at in this year’s seasonally spooky blogpost.
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...
And yes, the snail skeleton is addressed. Kinda. Ugh.
animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/30/t...