Miko
@mikomayer.bsky.social
I jumped off the old ship a long time ago, but enjoyed my island so much, I’m quite late to this party and am just dipping my toes at the moment. Hello again, world 👋
She/her, artist in Scotland, human made of Canadian, British, and Japanese components.
She/her, artist in Scotland, human made of Canadian, British, and Japanese components.
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Miko
@mikomayer.bsky.social
· Apr 29
Very proud of the first of my two countries today! Good job, people! I think we picked the right person for the job 😌❤️🇨🇦 So nice to hear a leader speak with ethics, equilibrium, and intelligence about bringing a country together rather than driving people apart. #CanadaStrong
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Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows
Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows
Exercise such as aerobic and resistance training and yoga found to reduce heart and nerve damage and brain fog
Exercise can counter the detrimental effects of cancer treatment, according to the most comprehensive review of its kind.
Several studies have evaluated how physical activity affects the health outcomes of patients with the disease, but significant gaps in the evidence have remained until now. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows
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Last year I replaced Duolingo with actual studying, and you can too.
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
buff.ly
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Last year I replaced Duolingo with actual studying, and you can too.
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Congratulations to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social on his election victory.
Scotland and Canada share deep ties of friendship, values, and cooperation - I look forward to building on that strong relationship in the years ahead. 🇨🇦🏴
Scotland and Canada share deep ties of friendship, values, and cooperation - I look forward to building on that strong relationship in the years ahead. 🇨🇦🏴
April 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Congratulations to Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social on his election victory.
Scotland and Canada share deep ties of friendship, values, and cooperation - I look forward to building on that strong relationship in the years ahead. 🇨🇦🏴
Scotland and Canada share deep ties of friendship, values, and cooperation - I look forward to building on that strong relationship in the years ahead. 🇨🇦🏴
Very proud of the first of my two countries today! Good job, people! I think we picked the right person for the job 😌❤️🇨🇦 So nice to hear a leader speak with ethics, equilibrium, and intelligence about bringing a country together rather than driving people apart. #CanadaStrong
April 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Very proud of the first of my two countries today! Good job, people! I think we picked the right person for the job 😌❤️🇨🇦 So nice to hear a leader speak with ethics, equilibrium, and intelligence about bringing a country together rather than driving people apart. #CanadaStrong
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All rail traffic in Spain has been halted after widespread power outages. Parts of Portugal and southwest France have also been hit with blackouts.
Follow live updates: cnn.it/4cRreTF
Follow live updates: cnn.it/4cRreTF
Live updates: Power outages cause blackouts in Spain, Portugal | CNN
A massive power outage has knocked out electricity across parts of Spain and Portugal, shutting off traffic lights and causing chaos at airports, train stations and on the roads. Follow for live updat...
cnn.it
April 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
All rail traffic in Spain has been halted after widespread power outages. Parts of Portugal and southwest France have also been hit with blackouts.
Follow live updates: cnn.it/4cRreTF
Follow live updates: cnn.it/4cRreTF
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🚨 BREAKING: The mega power outage in Spain and Portugal threatens to last 10 more hours.
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
April 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The mega power outage in Spain and Portugal threatens to last 10 more hours.
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
Read the developing story here: ow.ly/ce9150VIRn9
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Canada is everything.
March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Canada is everything.
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Canadians are gathering at US Consulates across Canada standing in solidarity, against global fascism and The Trump Crime Syndicate on March 24th! Spread the word Canadians! Elbows up Canucks!
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Canadians are gathering at US Consulates across Canada standing in solidarity, against global fascism and The Trump Crime Syndicate on March 24th! Spread the word Canadians! Elbows up Canucks!
Goodbye Netflix. From Forbes, “Netflix’s $9.4 billion in first-quarter revenues and $5.28 profit per share were comfortably above consensus analyst estimates, with Netflix’s top and bottom line marks both the best in its history.” Yet you feel the need to increase prices again? Not here for it.
March 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Goodbye Netflix. From Forbes, “Netflix’s $9.4 billion in first-quarter revenues and $5.28 profit per share were comfortably above consensus analyst estimates, with Netflix’s top and bottom line marks both the best in its history.” Yet you feel the need to increase prices again? Not here for it.
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The United States doesn’t support Ukraine as a favor, but because it serves our security. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky. Putin started the war, not Zelensky. Yelling in the Oval Office and siding with Putin is shameful and a danger to democracy around the world.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The United States doesn’t support Ukraine as a favor, but because it serves our security. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky. Putin started the war, not Zelensky. Yelling in the Oval Office and siding with Putin is shameful and a danger to democracy around the world.
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America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
February 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
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ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
America is over. There is no coming back from this.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.
The rest of the world has to move on from us.
They now know that the American people can't be trusted.
They're right.
February 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs
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February 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
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It's been obvious since January 6 that he was an enemy of the USA, the UK & the whole of the free world. Everybody still in his camp understands this as completely as everybody against it. They just prioritise personal interest over the national & international. And they know it. They all know it.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's been obvious since January 6 that he was an enemy of the USA, the UK & the whole of the free world. Everybody still in his camp understands this as completely as everybody against it. They just prioritise personal interest over the national & international. And they know it. They all know it.
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Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy.
When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all.
When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.
When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all.
When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.
February 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Musk, Vance & Trump all misrepresent democracy.
When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all.
When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.
When they say “democracy”, they mean a free-for-all with no rule of law, where the winner takes all.
When Europe says “democracy”, we mean proportional representation, collaborative politics, citizen rights, and agreed guide rails guaranteed by law.
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First it will be trans people’s rights, then it will be disabled people, then it will be women’s rights at some point your on the list unless your a white facist.
Scotland introducing abortion buffer zones was a good thing and if you ever doubt that just remember that it upset JD Vance.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493749...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493749...
America's vice president criticises Scottish Government over abortion buffer zones
America's vice president has accused the Scottish Government of 'thought crime' over its implementation of abortion buffer zones.
www.heraldscotland.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
First it will be trans people’s rights, then it will be disabled people, then it will be women’s rights at some point your on the list unless your a white facist.
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More women and less Broligarchy please.
Von der Leyen is giving a properly powerful and defiant speech at the Munich conference. Call to action and arms for the European States and says that Ukraine's accession to EU will be sped up. A definite broadside against US appeasement of Putin, too.
She's knocking it out of the park.
She's knocking it out of the park.
February 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
More women and less Broligarchy please.
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This is what very welcome European co-operation and co-ordination looks like. If we cannot rely on the US (and after that MSC speech I don’t see anyone can pretend we can) we need a lot more of this.
Nordic-Baltic joint statement on Ukraine just published.
Good to see that coordination has been swift and unhesitant.
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/n...
Good to see that coordination has been swift and unhesitant.
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/n...
February 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is what very welcome European co-operation and co-ordination looks like. If we cannot rely on the US (and after that MSC speech I don’t see anyone can pretend we can) we need a lot more of this.
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When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Constitutions die when people stop viewing them as binding and important. Legal constitutionalism is the back up for when political constitutionalism fails, as is happening in the US now. Its time for US lawyers to ensure the US Constitution is upheld while Trump is in office.
February 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Constitutions die when people stop viewing them as binding and important. Legal constitutionalism is the back up for when political constitutionalism fails, as is happening in the US now. Its time for US lawyers to ensure the US Constitution is upheld while Trump is in office.
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Nanos Poll: who is most qualified to negotiate with trump?
Carney: 40%
Poilievre: 26%
“This is significant because our next election will probably be a referendum on who is best able to manage the relationship with Donald Trump.”
Carney: 40%
Poilievre: 26%
“This is significant because our next election will probably be a referendum on who is best able to manage the relationship with Donald Trump.”
Canadians believe Mark Carney would be better than Pierre Poilievre in dealing with Trump, poll finds
What Mr. Carney has going for him is that he was in charge of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis and headed the Bank of England when he warned of the economic consequences of pulling ...
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Nanos Poll: who is most qualified to negotiate with trump?
Carney: 40%
Poilievre: 26%
“This is significant because our next election will probably be a referendum on who is best able to manage the relationship with Donald Trump.”
Carney: 40%
Poilievre: 26%
“This is significant because our next election will probably be a referendum on who is best able to manage the relationship with Donald Trump.”
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oh my gosh they brought back the monuments review.
this was so controversial under trump 1.0, the idea they might just get rid of national monuments willy nilly. so much was said.
now it’s like footnote number nine to this week’s news cycle.
not good if you’re, uh, a monument.
this was so controversial under trump 1.0, the idea they might just get rid of national monuments willy nilly. so much was said.
now it’s like footnote number nine to this week’s news cycle.
not good if you’re, uh, a monument.
In other news, the Center for Western Priorities flags that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued an order calling for the review and possible revision of all national monuments and mineral withdrawals established by past presidents. www.doi.gov/pressrelease...
Secretary Doug Burgum Signs First Round of Secretary's Orders to Unleash American Energy | U.S. Department of the Interior
Today, Doug Burgum officially began his tenure as the 55th Secretary of the Interior, marking the start of a new era focused on advancing American energy independence and ensuring the responsible stew...
www.doi.gov
February 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
oh my gosh they brought back the monuments review.
this was so controversial under trump 1.0, the idea they might just get rid of national monuments willy nilly. so much was said.
now it’s like footnote number nine to this week’s news cycle.
not good if you’re, uh, a monument.
this was so controversial under trump 1.0, the idea they might just get rid of national monuments willy nilly. so much was said.
now it’s like footnote number nine to this week’s news cycle.
not good if you’re, uh, a monument.