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conanthecontrarian.bsky.social
One thing that gives me anxiety is the hyper speed that people talk at when they’re narrating “content” online. I know attention spans are short but I’lI watch an Instagram video about some persons favourite restaurants in Edinburgh and it feels like I’m doing coke with them in a toilet stall at 4am
August 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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moriartylab.bsky.social
Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025

CANADA

MODERATE (no change)

About 1 in every 120 people infected

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections ~5X higher
-Long COVID ~7X higher
-Hospitalizations ~5X higher
-Deaths ~4X higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is MODERATE (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 4.8 About 1 of every 120 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 230,675-301,825 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 5.1X higher Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 6.5X higher Hospitalizations, ICU: HIGH; 5.1X higher Deaths: MODERATE; 4.4X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
July 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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julespenner.bsky.social
“Get The Story Out” is an incredible program by Christine Fellows, John Samson Fellows and the John Howard Society.

This is how you use art to heal.
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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stateofthecity.bsky.social
Manitoba wildfire evacuations: I just get copied on occasional reports etc, but given the high number of people getting pulled out by air, it's clear from what I'm seeing that most evacuees are coming out with literally nothing in hand. My best update on places to help so far:
May 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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chescaleigh.bsky.social
Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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christibelcourt.com
If you haven’t voted yet and want to know where your polling station, you can call election’s Canada toll free number:

1-800-463-6868
April 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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emilycurates.bsky.social
A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.
April 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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camregier.bsky.social
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dgbassani.bsky.social DGBassani @dgbassani.bsky.social · Apr 15
If you purportedly care about the environment start reading about generative AI's impact on climate. And until you have educated yourself ***STOP USING AI-GENERATED IMAGES***. You may not care about intellectual property theft, but you care about the planet, right?
Generative AI and Climate Change Are on a Collision Course
From energy to resources, data centers have grown too greedy.
www.wired.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
lighthouse13.bsky.social
@amy13walsh.bsky.social Is a Broadscast incoming? @footyprime.bsky.social 🤞🍁⚽️
April 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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lizrenzetti.bsky.social
just CTV collapsing like a wet deck of cards in the face of conservative smear campaign. What's happening to @rachelgilmore.bsky.social looks like a particular strain of media cowardice imported from the States. It's unreal
April 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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pressprogress.ca
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
pressprogress.ca
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
lighthouse13.bsky.social
@winnipegfreepress.com The article about the injury to England's Georgia Stanway is showing a picture of Rachel Daly instead of Stanway...
January 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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akohan.bsky.social
Coming out of hibernation to say you should check out today’s editorial in the Free Press - a scathing indictment of Winnipeg’s funding priorities and approach to safety under Scott Gillingham
EDITORIAL Budget shows city not walking the walk IT is sometimes shocking to see what in Winnipeg gets funding and what doesn't, and how disconnected those decisions seem to be to the city's needs. Last week, this paper reported that the City of Winnipeg is pulling its funding from Community Connections, a space in Winnipeg's Millennium Library serving the city's homeless. The space, which costs about $614,000 a year to run, employed 4.2 full-time equivalent staff, a librarian, a pair of community safety hosts and three part-time library assistants. The community safety hosts were trained in security and trauma crisis work. Community Connections handled more than 24,000 information requests between October 2023 to September this year. That's almost as many as all of the other Millennium service desks combined (29,701). What is getting more money in the budget, however, is the Winnipeg Police Service, which critics say is already overaccounted for in the city's budget. The preliminary 2025 budget will provide the WPS with 36 more general patrol officers, and two new patrol cars. It's only half the number of new officers the WPS requested. The police say they need the extra officers to handle a growing number of calls for service and a growing population. That may well be, but that pill would go down easier if there was more confidence the WPS knew how to handle all the money it receives. Instead, this paper reported recently that the service's robot dog, which cost $257,000, mostly sits in its kennel. Its armoured vehicle is put to use weekly, according to WPS officials but exactly how and why is unclear, or at least not clear enough to make the case for the second armoured vehicle it plans to buy with an influx of provincial funding. Spending on police is to increase $20 million — many times the total operating costs of Community Connections for a year — in 2025. Public frustrations over what is seen as excessive funding of police, here and elsewhere, continue to grow. Advocates cry out for programming which provides help to marginalized communities and staff skilled in, say, trauma crisis work, to handle the problems of those communities instead of armed officers. "It just doesn't make sense and it goes against everything that the city has said that (it is) committed to," Manitoba Library Association program co-ordinator Kirsten Wurmann told the Free Press. Indeed. Politicians at all levels of government have done a good job paying lip service to the need for programming, for transitional housing, for a host of resources which deal with myriad urban crises in a way that helps people out of perilous circumstances. Community Connections was a space which helped to do that — it was the kind of community support the marginalized need, arguably fighting crimes of desperation from the ground up. Next year, it will be gone. Some members of council have cited risks to library patron safety as a reason to close the space. It's a strange claim. The people who are turning to Community Connections do not vanish into the ether once they leave the library — they will remain in downtown Winnipeg, on the streets, or in other neighbourhoods, needing all the same things they currently need. Trying to nudge them out of the space by shutting down a resource they turned to will only exacerbate the problem by shutting down one more port to which they might have sailed in a storm. Some city officials might talk the talk when it comes to curing what ails Winnipeg. But numbers don't lie, and based on its budget priorities, it sure doesn't seem to walk the walk.
December 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:41 PM