Ella
@ellaminnow.bsky.social
Former: climber, dancer, teacher
Current: mom, existing with LC, PhD’ing as best as I can after learning to read fluently again.
Current: mom, existing with LC, PhD’ing as best as I can after learning to read fluently again.
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Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Ontario’s Government Claims the Province Isn’t Privatizing Water. Experts Are Not Convinced.
“The way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards privatization”
pressprogress.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water.
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
Experts aren't convinced.
pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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"Graded exercise" is neither supported by evidence nor recommended for people with an illness defined by worsening with exercise. #mecfs #longcovid www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
No Evidence Supports Using Graded Exercise for ME/CFS
Studies examining the effects of activity-based interventions haven’t required post-exertional malaise as a core criterion for the now-termed ‘myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.’
www.medscape.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"Graded exercise" is neither supported by evidence nor recommended for people with an illness defined by worsening with exercise. #mecfs #longcovid www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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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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Saskatchewan scientists screened the entire human genome and found four approved drugs: donepezil, dihydroergocristine, trametinib, and sorafenib that block SARS-CoV-2.
Three also stopped common cold coronaviruses, suggesting broad antiviral potential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Three also stopped common cold coronaviruses, suggesting broad antiviral potential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genome-wide Screening Identifies Unique Host-Directed Drugs and Pro-viral Signalling Pathways for SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense RNA virus and was responsible for the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Although the current disease burden is less severe, there are limited treatment options, significant...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Saskatchewan scientists screened the entire human genome and found four approved drugs: donepezil, dihydroergocristine, trametinib, and sorafenib that block SARS-CoV-2.
Three also stopped common cold coronaviruses, suggesting broad antiviral potential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Three also stopped common cold coronaviruses, suggesting broad antiviral potential.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes.
September 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes.
Folks have been really great about avoiding an emotionally charged tizzy over this one. Before I slip into my “but cameras were overreach” zone- here are some facts to temper that slide.
I listened to Toronto's (TO) infrastructure/environ committee hearing yesterday. I learned:
1. 95% of cameras are in SCHOOL zones, 5% in community SAFETY zones
2. # cameras doubled last yr (now 150) but tickets did NOT ie a deterrent, not a cash grab
3. TO is already using OTHER measures Ford touts
1. 95% of cameras are in SCHOOL zones, 5% in community SAFETY zones
2. # cameras doubled last yr (now 150) but tickets did NOT ie a deterrent, not a cash grab
3. TO is already using OTHER measures Ford touts
September 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Folks have been really great about avoiding an emotionally charged tizzy over this one. Before I slip into my “but cameras were overreach” zone- here are some facts to temper that slide.
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What up Blue Sky!?
✨PAINT MORE FAT FOLKS📷
FatPhotoRef is a free, volunteer-submitted resource meant to inspire the inclusion and non-fetishized depiction of fat people in art. Request access at fatphotoref.com
Responses may take a few days! (It's just me running things.)
✨PAINT MORE FAT FOLKS📷
FatPhotoRef is a free, volunteer-submitted resource meant to inspire the inclusion and non-fetishized depiction of fat people in art. Request access at fatphotoref.com
Responses may take a few days! (It's just me running things.)
June 27, 2023 at 8:12 PM
What up Blue Sky!?
✨PAINT MORE FAT FOLKS📷
FatPhotoRef is a free, volunteer-submitted resource meant to inspire the inclusion and non-fetishized depiction of fat people in art. Request access at fatphotoref.com
Responses may take a few days! (It's just me running things.)
✨PAINT MORE FAT FOLKS📷
FatPhotoRef is a free, volunteer-submitted resource meant to inspire the inclusion and non-fetishized depiction of fat people in art. Request access at fatphotoref.com
Responses may take a few days! (It's just me running things.)
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This was always the plan. You do not raze a city to the ground to make it liveable
September 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This was always the plan. You do not raze a city to the ground to make it liveable
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Why is autism really on the rise? What the science says
Very well explained.
Very well explained.
Why is autism really on the rise? What the science says
Autism is rising. Or at least that’s how it looks. But is it really increasing? And if so, why?
US president Donald Trump has claimed — controversially — that use of acetaminophen, or paracetamol, during pregnancy is linked to autism. But there’s already been decades of research on the condition. S
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Why is autism really on the rise? What the science says
Very well explained.
Very well explained.
Knowing his own staffers determined this was impossible (or astronomically cost prohibitive at best) in 2018, why are we doing this again?
Ford's construction cronies aside, does anyone in ON want this tunnel? Does anyone in Canada (if they've heard of it) think it's a nation-building project? High speed rail will get commuters off the 401 - he should promote that if anything!
#cdnpoli #onpoli
www.torontotoday.ca/local/politi...
#cdnpoli #onpoli
www.torontotoday.ca/local/politi...
Ford believes Carney will designate Highway 401 tunnel as 'national interest' project
Ford says he thinks Carney will help to accelerate building a tunnel under Highway 401, though he did not directly answer if Carney has given any direct assurances
www.torontotoday.ca
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Knowing his own staffers determined this was impossible (or astronomically cost prohibitive at best) in 2018, why are we doing this again?
Still trying to figure out how folk know the no. of spoons they begin with each day. This task feels unnecessarily complicated, or maybe that’s #brainfog?
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Still trying to figure out how folk know the no. of spoons they begin with each day. This task feels unnecessarily complicated, or maybe that’s #brainfog?
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New Feeling: 'COVID Is (STILL) A Working Class Issue'
'Cameron is one of the 3.5 million Canadians who have had long COVID since 2020, one of the many disabled by the disease who have virtually vanished from public life without any collective grief or acknowledgement'
newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...
'Cameron is one of the 3.5 million Canadians who have had long COVID since 2020, one of the many disabled by the disease who have virtually vanished from public life without any collective grief or acknowledgement'
newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...
COVID Is (Still) A Working Class Issue
Michael Rancic goes long on the class-based disparities affecting how musicians navigate COVID in 2025
newfeeling.ca
August 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New Feeling: 'COVID Is (STILL) A Working Class Issue'
'Cameron is one of the 3.5 million Canadians who have had long COVID since 2020, one of the many disabled by the disease who have virtually vanished from public life without any collective grief or acknowledgement'
newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...
'Cameron is one of the 3.5 million Canadians who have had long COVID since 2020, one of the many disabled by the disease who have virtually vanished from public life without any collective grief or acknowledgement'
newfeeling.ca/2025/08/08/c...
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More trash from the RWNJ Fraser Institute! This time, they claim the Ford government should be scrapping school boards instead of taking them over? The bit about giving parents funding if they send kids to independent schools is also a cause for alarm. #ONpoli #onted www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
The Ford government is taking over school boards. It should be dismantling them instead
The Ford government took over the management of several Ontario school boards. But replacing bureaucratic school boards with provincial bureaucracies will not make schools more responsive to community...
www.thestar.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
More trash from the RWNJ Fraser Institute! This time, they claim the Ford government should be scrapping school boards instead of taking them over? The bit about giving parents funding if they send kids to independent schools is also a cause for alarm. #ONpoli #onted www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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"there are an increasing number of children—probably in the thousands—that need to be in the hospital because they can’t eat food. They have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food. And so those kids need to be in intensive care."
“If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen.” One of the world’s leading experts on famine discusses the starvation in Gaza.
How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza
As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.
www.newyorker.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"there are an increasing number of children—probably in the thousands—that need to be in the hospital because they can’t eat food. They have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food. And so those kids need to be in intensive care."
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Canada needs to recognize bike mechanics as a profession (as many other nations already do) in order to support the green economy, says @lanrickbennett.bsky.social thttps://spacing.ca/toronto/2025/08/05/fixing-the-gap/
Fixing the Gap - Spacing Toronto
Last week, Bike Share Toronto reported a record-breaking 980,000 rides in June. The most ever in a single month. Toronto is inching closer to a one-million-ride milestone, and it’s clear: people want ...
spacing.ca
August 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Canada needs to recognize bike mechanics as a profession (as many other nations already do) in order to support the green economy, says @lanrickbennett.bsky.social thttps://spacing.ca/toronto/2025/08/05/fixing-the-gap/
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New research links common air pollution—like traffic fumes and soot—to a significantly higher risk of dementia. With dementia rates soaring globally, this is a wake-up call for urgent climate & health action.
tinyurl.com/42pp4zbk #AirPollution #AirQuality #Dementia #Health #CleanAir #ClimateAction
tinyurl.com/42pp4zbk #AirPollution #AirQuality #Dementia #Health #CleanAir #ClimateAction
Scientists Just Found a Shocking Link Between Dirty Air and Dementia
Polluted air may be quietly hurting your brain. New research links traffic fumes and soot to a greater chance of developing dementia.
tinyurl.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
New research links common air pollution—like traffic fumes and soot—to a significantly higher risk of dementia. With dementia rates soaring globally, this is a wake-up call for urgent climate & health action.
tinyurl.com/42pp4zbk #AirPollution #AirQuality #Dementia #Health #CleanAir #ClimateAction
tinyurl.com/42pp4zbk #AirPollution #AirQuality #Dementia #Health #CleanAir #ClimateAction
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i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
August 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
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Wow quite the read
Thoughtful article on likelihood of global societal collapse, based on analysis of 5,000 years of history.
It is pessimistic, but argues that collapse is usually a precursor to more egalitarian and stable societies that follow.
Trick is to reduce destruction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It is pessimistic, but argues that collapse is usually a precursor to more egalitarian and stable societies that follow.
Trick is to reduce destruction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Wow quite the read
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A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
July 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”