Laura Fry 🇨🇦
@weaverlaura.bsky.social
Weaver. Teacher. Author. Love to talk threads. Threads of threads. Weaving threads of thread and words. http://laurasloom.blogspot.com
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Hey Toronto: Mask up! Get your vaccines (Covid, Flu, RSV). Big jump in waste water values and that data is 2 weeks old.
Source: @young.me (thanks!)
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Source: @young.me (thanks!)
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Hey Toronto: Mask up! Get your vaccines (Covid, Flu, RSV). Big jump in waste water values and that data is 2 weeks old.
Source: @young.me (thanks!)
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Source: @young.me (thanks!)
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
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Abraham Ulrikab wanted to help his family and agreed to be placed in a human zoo in Europe with seven other Inuit, including his family.
The man who recruited Abraham never vaccinated the Inuit.
Within months they were dead of smallpox.
This is Abraham's story.
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The man who recruited Abraham never vaccinated the Inuit.
Within months they were dead of smallpox.
This is Abraham's story.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Abraham Ulrikab wanted to help his family and agreed to be placed in a human zoo in Europe with seven other Inuit, including his family.
The man who recruited Abraham never vaccinated the Inuit.
Within months they were dead of smallpox.
This is Abraham's story.
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The man who recruited Abraham never vaccinated the Inuit.
Within months they were dead of smallpox.
This is Abraham's story.
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Here are some of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong’s powerful words 💜
Taken from Death Panel podcast with host Beatrice @deathpanel.bsky.social m.soundcloud.com/deathpanel/n...
To the high risk, immunocompromised and disabled people who’ve been ignored, dismissed and thrown under the bus for years, activist Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has this to say to you:
To the high risk, immunocompromised and disabled people who’ve been ignored, dismissed and thrown under the bus for years, activist Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has this to say to you:
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here are some of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong’s powerful words 💜
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A choice, apparently. 🤷🏻♂️
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A choice, apparently. 🤷🏻♂️
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Finished the warp this morning, stripped the loom, started beaming the next. Slow progress but still I will take it. 😊🧶
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Finished the warp this morning, stripped the loom, started beaming the next. Slow progress but still I will take it. 😊🧶
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'Microscopic Structures Found in Long COVID Blood'
'These methods allowed them to accurately differentiate Long COVID patients from healthy individuals and to pinpoint the most informative biomarker combinations.'
www.miragenews.com/microscopic-...
'These methods allowed them to accurately differentiate Long COVID patients from healthy individuals and to pinpoint the most informative biomarker combinations.'
www.miragenews.com/microscopic-...
Microscopic Structures Found in Long COVID Blood
The researchers also incorporated Artificial Intelligence tools, including machine learning, to analyze biomarker patterns. These methods allowed them
www.miragenews.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
'Microscopic Structures Found in Long COVID Blood'
'These methods allowed them to accurately differentiate Long COVID patients from healthy individuals and to pinpoint the most informative biomarker combinations.'
www.miragenews.com/microscopic-...
'These methods allowed them to accurately differentiate Long COVID patients from healthy individuals and to pinpoint the most informative biomarker combinations.'
www.miragenews.com/microscopic-...
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That of course is Hub co-founder @jvipondmd.bsky.social on the megaphone at our protest. He's currently at #COP30 doing the hard. necessary work of getting to what truth there be at the world's only real global climate conference.
Godspeed, Dr Joe. #DebunktionJunction
#yyc #abpoli #ClimateChange
Godspeed, Dr Joe. #DebunktionJunction
#yyc #abpoli #ClimateChange
These days seems like everybody's trying to TURN DOWN the conversation on #ClimateChange.
WE'RE TURNING IT UP & we could use your help to do it.
Consider donating to the Calgary Climate Hub's annual fundraiser today.
You'll be glad you did!
CROWDFUNDER: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser
WE'RE TURNING IT UP & we could use your help to do it.
Consider donating to the Calgary Climate Hub's annual fundraiser today.
You'll be glad you did!
CROWDFUNDER: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
That of course is Hub co-founder @jvipondmd.bsky.social on the megaphone at our protest. He's currently at #COP30 doing the hard. necessary work of getting to what truth there be at the world's only real global climate conference.
Godspeed, Dr Joe. #DebunktionJunction
#yyc #abpoli #ClimateChange
Godspeed, Dr Joe. #DebunktionJunction
#yyc #abpoli #ClimateChange
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🇺🇸Back in 2020, we warned that Palantir risked contributing to human rights violations against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in the US, through its business relationship with ICE, and failing to carry out human rights due diligence (HRDD).
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
USA: Failing to do right: The urgent need for Palantir to respect human rights - Amnesty International
Palantir Technologies, Inc. is a U.S.-based software company known for its work with various U.S. agencies, though it also contracts with private clients. Given Palantir’s increasingly entrenched role...
www.amnesty.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🇺🇸Back in 2020, we warned that Palantir risked contributing to human rights violations against asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in the US, through its business relationship with ICE, and failing to carry out human rights due diligence (HRDD).
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
My social set shrank dramatically because I asked people to mask.
#immuneCompromised
#immuneCompromised
It’s not kindness.
It’s laziness, corporate greed, cruelty…
If we were kind, we would have put in the effort to control disease so that it was actually genuinely safer for toddlers and the elderly to socialise… ->
It’s laziness, corporate greed, cruelty…
If we were kind, we would have put in the effort to control disease so that it was actually genuinely safer for toddlers and the elderly to socialise… ->
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My social set shrank dramatically because I asked people to mask.
#immuneCompromised
#immuneCompromised
Wtf indeed. Kinda like being a little bit pregnant being the same as barely illegal? Either you are or you are not. Sure are a whole lot of grown men deciding they can have sex with children.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Wtf indeed. Kinda like being a little bit pregnant being the same as barely illegal? Either you are or you are not. Sure are a whole lot of grown men deciding they can have sex with children.
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I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
This. The rules are for thee, not me, folk crowd out actual facts with their grievance.
“What we saw, once again, were self-centred claims that public-health measures that protect the larger population somehow oppress individuals who essentially think that laws they don’t like don’t apply to them.”
The ostrich saga was for the birds. The decision to cull the big birds exposed to avian influenza was a good one and the histrionics unhelpful, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This. The rules are for thee, not me, folk crowd out actual facts with their grievance.
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“Come-to-America-spend-your-money-then-get-out” is some next-level, smooth salesmanship. 🤡
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Come-to-America-spend-your-money-then-get-out” is some next-level, smooth salesmanship. 🤡
The apples don’t fall far from the tree. Who do I complain to about the corporate greed?
The three 22-year-old cofounders of Mercor became billionaires last month. Now workers say they canned an AI project that involved thousands of contractors, then offered to rehire workers at a lower hourly rate.
Mercor Contractors Allege The AI Company Slashed Their Wages
Mercor allegedly canned an AI training project with thousands of contractors just weeks after hitting a $10 billion valuation.
www.forbes.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The apples don’t fall far from the tree. Who do I complain to about the corporate greed?
Absolutely!
FFS.
IT'S NOT THE TARIFFS.
IT'S THE FASCISM.
IT'S NOT THE TARIFFS.
IT'S THE FASCISM.
Talk about #elbowsup. 🇨🇦
“.. their absence is driving down international travel spending, which is expected to drop 3.2 percent to $173 billion ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“.. their absence is driving down international travel spending, which is expected to drop 3.2 percent to $173 billion ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Absolutely!
The US admin keeps framing the boycott as pique. Most Canadians chose to start boycotting the second we heard ‘destroy Canadian economy to make it easier to annex you’. That day spouse starting reading labels, choosing Canadian over US. No one told us to.
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#never51
#elbowsUp
#teamCanada
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#never51
#elbowsUp
#teamCanada
It is very weird when US media does not report on the safety concerns, which are top of the list for Canadians I know. Yeah we are also pissed off but we've been pissed off since January, the decline was not gonna keep declining based purely on "elbows up."
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The US admin keeps framing the boycott as pique. Most Canadians chose to start boycotting the second we heard ‘destroy Canadian economy to make it easier to annex you’. That day spouse starting reading labels, choosing Canadian over US. No one told us to.
🤷♀️
#never51
#elbowsUp
#teamCanada
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#never51
#elbowsUp
#teamCanada
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Last night, I witnessed someone nearly get run over in the Market. I used a couple bystander intervention techniques to de-escalate the situation, scold the driver and support the poor pedestrian.
I was able to do this safely and effectively because I'm trained!
I can teach you - it's free! ⬇️
I was able to do this safely and effectively because I'm trained!
I can teach you - it's free! ⬇️
Nov 25 is the UN's Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Dec 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women in commemoration of the Montreal Massacre.
Want to do something tangible to mark the dates? Let me teach you bystander intervention!
Dec 6th is Canada's National Day of Action and Remembrance on Violence against Women in commemoration of the Montreal Massacre.
Want to do something tangible to mark the dates? Let me teach you bystander intervention!
@julieslalonde | Linktree
Come learn bystander intervention with me - It's free!
linktr.ee
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Last night, I witnessed someone nearly get run over in the Market. I used a couple bystander intervention techniques to de-escalate the situation, scold the driver and support the poor pedestrian.
I was able to do this safely and effectively because I'm trained!
I can teach you - it's free! ⬇️
I was able to do this safely and effectively because I'm trained!
I can teach you - it's free! ⬇️
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Within the part of the menswear industry that I operate in, Roopa Knitting Mills is widely regarded as one of the best hoodie manufacturers. Founded in 1991 by an Indian immigrant named Nat Thakkar, they do every production step after yarn spinning in Ontario, Canada.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Within the part of the menswear industry that I operate in, Roopa Knitting Mills is widely regarded as one of the best hoodie manufacturers. Founded in 1991 by an Indian immigrant named Nat Thakkar, they do every production step after yarn spinning in Ontario, Canada.
The only reflection he considers is the one in his mirror.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Poilievre says no reflection on his leadership style following floor crossing and resignation www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The only reflection he considers is the one in his mirror.
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We know what a Trump trade deal looks like and it’s worse than you think #canpoli #uspoli
rabble.ca/economy/we-k...
rabble.ca/economy/we-k...
We know what a Trump trade deal looks like and it’s worse than you think
Trump's tariffs may be causing Canada economic pain, but his recent so-called "trade deals" with other countries show that things an get much worse.
rabble.ca
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We know what a Trump trade deal looks like and it’s worse than you think #canpoli #uspoli
rabble.ca/economy/we-k...
rabble.ca/economy/we-k...
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"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
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"...if they’ve done something significantly egregious"
Things I consider significantly egregious -
Using the Notwithstanding clause to take away teacher's rights
Corrupt care scandal
Clawing back money from disabled folks
Victimizing trans youth & using the notwithstanding clause against them
#ableg
Things I consider significantly egregious -
Using the Notwithstanding clause to take away teacher's rights
Corrupt care scandal
Clawing back money from disabled folks
Victimizing trans youth & using the notwithstanding clause against them
#ableg
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Trying to challenge the UCP government’s misuse of the Charter’s notorious notwithstanding clause may be a waste of time and money, but using the UCP’s ridiculous recall legislation as a strategy against the perpetrators is clearly rattling Premier Smith. #abpoli
Danielle Smith’s Party Conked by Its Own Boomerang | The Tyee
The Recall Act is bad law made for bad reasons. Now the UCP rues its invention.
thetyee.ca
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"...if they’ve done something significantly egregious"
Things I consider significantly egregious -
Using the Notwithstanding clause to take away teacher's rights
Corrupt care scandal
Clawing back money from disabled folks
Victimizing trans youth & using the notwithstanding clause against them
#ableg
Things I consider significantly egregious -
Using the Notwithstanding clause to take away teacher's rights
Corrupt care scandal
Clawing back money from disabled folks
Victimizing trans youth & using the notwithstanding clause against them
#ableg