M Wall
@margaretwall.bsky.social
Academic librarian, Ontario, Canada. Still coviding.
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HELP‼️
PLEASE REPOST!
5 people need a Fan. PLEASE it’s so hot😭$80 a fan
8 Ppl asking for $25 for take out it’s too hot to cook
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP with $25 tonight🙏
-$410 Eviction
🚨$78 Medication
-4 people need Grocery help
$50 each
-$457.72 for rent arrears
PLEASE REPOST!
5 people need a Fan. PLEASE it’s so hot😭$80 a fan
8 Ppl asking for $25 for take out it’s too hot to cook
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP with $25 tonight🙏
-$410 Eviction
🚨$78 Medication
-4 people need Grocery help
$50 each
-$457.72 for rent arrears
June 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
HELP‼️
PLEASE REPOST!
5 people need a Fan. PLEASE it’s so hot😭$80 a fan
8 Ppl asking for $25 for take out it’s too hot to cook
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP with $25 tonight🙏
-$410 Eviction
🚨$78 Medication
-4 people need Grocery help
$50 each
-$457.72 for rent arrears
PLEASE REPOST!
5 people need a Fan. PLEASE it’s so hot😭$80 a fan
8 Ppl asking for $25 for take out it’s too hot to cook
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP with $25 tonight🙏
-$410 Eviction
🚨$78 Medication
-4 people need Grocery help
$50 each
-$457.72 for rent arrears
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“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”
And it has kept growing from there.
Leadership. #Paris
And it has kept growing from there.
Leadership. #Paris
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”
And it has kept growing from there.
Leadership. #Paris
And it has kept growing from there.
Leadership. #Paris
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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Repeat COVID Infections & Dementia
A time bomb no one wants to talk about 🧵
A time bomb no one wants to talk about 🧵
May 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Repeat COVID Infections & Dementia
A time bomb no one wants to talk about 🧵
A time bomb no one wants to talk about 🧵
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If you’re in line when the polls close, stay in line. You can still cast your ballot. Your vote matters.
April 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If you’re in line when the polls close, stay in line. You can still cast your ballot. Your vote matters.
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Letter to a longtime friend upon being floored to learn of their intent to vote Conservative.
I could not live with myself if I didn't write it.
It's long, but may be useful to others.
For context his main reasons were "woke ideology", housing, affordability, tough on crime.
I expanded.
I could not live with myself if I didn't write it.
It's long, but may be useful to others.
For context his main reasons were "woke ideology", housing, affordability, tough on crime.
I expanded.
April 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Letter to a longtime friend upon being floored to learn of their intent to vote Conservative.
I could not live with myself if I didn't write it.
It's long, but may be useful to others.
For context his main reasons were "woke ideology", housing, affordability, tough on crime.
I expanded.
I could not live with myself if I didn't write it.
It's long, but may be useful to others.
For context his main reasons were "woke ideology", housing, affordability, tough on crime.
I expanded.
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Remember, folks - you can vote early at any Elections Canada office until April 22nd.
All you need is your voter card and photo ID (It can be done with ID + proof of address).
Beat the rush! The polls could be very busy this year.
#cdnpoli #elxn45
www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
All you need is your voter card and photo ID (It can be done with ID + proof of address).
Beat the rush! The polls could be very busy this year.
#cdnpoli #elxn45
www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Remember, folks - you can vote early at any Elections Canada office until April 22nd.
All you need is your voter card and photo ID (It can be done with ID + proof of address).
Beat the rush! The polls could be very busy this year.
#cdnpoli #elxn45
www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
All you need is your voter card and photo ID (It can be done with ID + proof of address).
Beat the rush! The polls could be very busy this year.
#cdnpoli #elxn45
www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
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This National Public Health Week, I encourage fellow journalists to refer to the Covid-19 pandemic in the present tense. Sure, the government emergency in the US is over, but that means people can be forced to come into work while sick with Covid, which increases the risk of developing Long Covid.
April 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This National Public Health Week, I encourage fellow journalists to refer to the Covid-19 pandemic in the present tense. Sure, the government emergency in the US is over, but that means people can be forced to come into work while sick with Covid, which increases the risk of developing Long Covid.
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Full stop
I like him more all the time
I like him more all the time
🔥🔥🔥 Prime Minister Mark Carney 🇨🇦 takes down a Globe & Mail reporter for spreading misinformation. #cdnpoli
April 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Full stop
I like him more all the time
I like him more all the time
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We are in a very dark time in a lot of ways, but yesterday’s news is extremely bad for authors and libraries. We will see fewer types of books made widely available.
Please, if you value diverse voices, seek out authors writing in their spheres and support them.
Please, if you value diverse voices, seek out authors writing in their spheres and support them.
April 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We are in a very dark time in a lot of ways, but yesterday’s news is extremely bad for authors and libraries. We will see fewer types of books made widely available.
Please, if you value diverse voices, seek out authors writing in their spheres and support them.
Please, if you value diverse voices, seek out authors writing in their spheres and support them.
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It’s #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! Celebrate the freedom to read (and write!) by indulging in the numerous great books by BIPOC, queer, disabled (and more) authors.
They want to erase us, but as long as we keep writing and reading, they’ll never succeed.
They want to erase us, but as long as we keep writing and reading, they’ll never succeed.
April 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It’s #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! Celebrate the freedom to read (and write!) by indulging in the numerous great books by BIPOC, queer, disabled (and more) authors.
They want to erase us, but as long as we keep writing and reading, they’ll never succeed.
They want to erase us, but as long as we keep writing and reading, they’ll never succeed.
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They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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It's weird because you keep platforming notorious Covid minimizers like Leana Wen
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling.
And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's weird because you keep platforming notorious Covid minimizers like Leana Wen
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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I am quite sure this doesn't comply with elections laws: perhaps if someone has seen it themselves they can report it? I have a friend just outside of Avonmore. She was at a sports bar with her husband watching the game when a micro second ad flashed across the screen that said Sneaky Carney.
March 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I am quite sure this doesn't comply with elections laws: perhaps if someone has seen it themselves they can report it? I have a friend just outside of Avonmore. She was at a sports bar with her husband watching the game when a micro second ad flashed across the screen that said Sneaky Carney.
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This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
March 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society.
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
(my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)
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The Charlie Angus resistance tour will be in Toronto for a town hall on Monday night. I will join the protest at the American consulate at 4pm. Hope to see people there.
March 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Charlie Angus resistance tour will be in Toronto for a town hall on Monday night. I will join the protest at the American consulate at 4pm. Hope to see people there.
Evil
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Evil
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Lovely basic (free!) sock pattern. Download here: www.yarnspirations.com/products/pat... 🧶
#knit #knitting #knitsky #knitsocks #freepattern #patons #sockpattern #knitpattern #socks #plainsocks #simplepattern
#knit #knitting #knitsky #knitsocks #freepattern #patons #sockpattern #knitpattern #socks #plainsocks #simplepattern
March 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Lovely basic (free!) sock pattern. Download here: www.yarnspirations.com/products/pat... 🧶
#knit #knitting #knitsky #knitsocks #freepattern #patons #sockpattern #knitpattern #socks #plainsocks #simplepattern
#knit #knitting #knitsky #knitsocks #freepattern #patons #sockpattern #knitpattern #socks #plainsocks #simplepattern
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If anyone reading this is wondering why so many people on the pro-science end of the spectrum are so viscerally opposed to letting Dr Henry anywhere near the CMOH job, here's a thread for you. Due to her legacy of failure there are a lot of reasons, so it's fairly long:
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Anyone else noticing the surge of desperate efforts to retroactively manufacture ambiguity from those responsible for basic failures throughout the pandemic?
It's simple. Aerosol transmission was known to be a major and serous risk since day 1, requiring N95s etc.
Dr. Henry failed to convey that.
It's simple. Aerosol transmission was known to be a major and serous risk since day 1, requiring N95s etc.
Dr. Henry failed to convey that.
TFW you give a talk about rewriting history in which you, wait for it, rewrite some history.
Dr. Henry claims she's always been nuanced about value of masks and about how COVID is spread, but the record says otherwise.
Dr. Henry claims she's always been nuanced about value of masks and about how COVID is spread, but the record says otherwise.
March 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If anyone reading this is wondering why so many people on the pro-science end of the spectrum are so viscerally opposed to letting Dr Henry anywhere near the CMOH job, here's a thread for you. Due to her legacy of failure there are a lot of reasons, so it's fairly long:
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Seems like we hit a nerve!
I wonder who's paying for the crisis comms. Telus? (see North Korean style vanity film)
BC taxpayers?
As soon as we find out who Carney's federal health Minister is, we need *everyone* to let them know what you think.
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I wonder who's paying for the crisis comms. Telus? (see North Korean style vanity film)
BC taxpayers?
As soon as we find out who Carney's federal health Minister is, we need *everyone* to let them know what you think.
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I am hearing credible rumblings that Dr. Henry is currently in France for four months, learning French in order to finally qualify to fail upwards and replace Dr. Tam as Canada's CMOH. One of the few people in the world to have botched two different SARS-CoV outbreaks (plus the Seven Oaks thing).
🤦♂️
🤦♂️
On March 11, 2020, when much of the world was screaming for things to be locked down, Dr. Henry, herself no stranger to pandemics, told the country and the world that "we have very low risk."
Time was lost, and because of this so were lives.
There's never been an accounting of these failures.
Time was lost, and because of this so were lives.
There's never been an accounting of these failures.
March 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Seems like we hit a nerve!
I wonder who's paying for the crisis comms. Telus? (see North Korean style vanity film)
BC taxpayers?
As soon as we find out who Carney's federal health Minister is, we need *everyone* to let them know what you think.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
I wonder who's paying for the crisis comms. Telus? (see North Korean style vanity film)
BC taxpayers?
As soon as we find out who Carney's federal health Minister is, we need *everyone* to let them know what you think.
bsky.app/profile/mark...