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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne
Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature
Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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sfdirewolf.bsky.social
Mask up NOW

“A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...
A New COVID Variant Is Here, And It's More Transmissible — Here Are The Signs And Symptoms
A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.
www.huffpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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geoffdembicki.bsky.social
Was thrilled to appear on @systemcrash.info this week hosted by @parismarx.com! We chat about the conservative weirdos who badly want to import DOGE to Canada.
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Apr 25
Canadians go to the polls on Monday, so it’s worth knowing how conservatives — including an oil executive and Amazon public policy person — are planning for how the implement a DOGE in Canada and silence their critics while they’re at it.

Great interview with @geoffdembicki.bsky.social this week!
systemcrash.info System Crash @systemcrash.info · Apr 25
Elon Musk couldn’t hide the problems his DOGE escapades have caused for Tesla during its earnings call.

Plus, @parismarx.com talks to @geoffdembicki.bsky.social about how Canada’s conservatives (and an AWS rep!) are planning for their own DOGE.

Listen now: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
April 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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geoffdembicki.bsky.social
Need more proof that Pierre Poilievre wants to bring a Trump agenda to Canada?

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson from @nationalobserver.com and I were at the ARC conference in London, where Poilievre allies rubbed shoulders with MAGA supporters.

www.desmog.com/2025/04/08/j... @desmog.bsky.social
Jordan Peterson's International Network Has Its Eye on Pierre Poilievre
Despite disclaiming Trump's policies on the campaign trail, talks from the Conservative Party candidate's allies at Peterson's ARC conferences hew closely to MAGA.
www.desmog.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten
‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten
Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic never happened
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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seanorr.bsky.social
Amazing to hear councillors say "we need to do more" then vote to do less
anibyl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 @anibyl.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · Feb 27
Vancouver council just decided to stop building supportive housing

#vanpoli #vancouver #homelessness #abcvancouver #kensim
Motion 3. Temporary pausing new-new supportive housing investments in Vancouver to prioritize replacing existing stock and promoting regional equity passes 6 to 3 with Meiszner, Kirby-Yung, Montague, Klassen, Sim, Zhou in support, Dominato, Bligh, Fry in opposition
February 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Ed Yong is such a real one <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
February 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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seanorr.bsky.social
Let's do this in Vancouver. Tax Amazon to pay for non-market housing.
theurbanist.org The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · Feb 12
Social housing funding appears poised to pass by a wide margin in Seattle. The Prop 1A version to enact an excise tax on employers with highly compensated employees is leading with 58% of the vote.
68% yes, 32% no; 58% Prop 1A, 42% Prop 1B
February 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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reallandsend.bsky.social
The genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped—it’s just slowed. Internet access remains life-saving, but funding for eSIMs has taken a hit. With costs rising and donations dropping, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza needs to raise at least $42K CAD to keep folks connected. Help if you can!
• disabilityvisibilityproject.com We have also been steadfast as we can be—in a disabled way. For over a year, we have sent eSIMs every day, from our bed, from the toilet, in the hospital, while waiting for the bus. With over 160+ volunteers, we have sent over 18,000 eSIMs and kept several thousand active continuously, some for over half a year, totalling more than 41,000 eSIMs and top ups. Thanks to all of your donations, we raised over two million dollars CAD and spent over two million dollars CAD on a rough estimate of 600,000 gigabytes of data, in support of Connecting Humanity and Gazans on the ground. • disabilityvisibilityproject.com With keeping eSIMs active for this long, and Canadian-US exchange rate at a disadvantage due to, among other reasons, the Trump candidacy, our spending has ballooned while donations have dropped. As a result, we are currently several thousand dollars in the negatives, and need to raise at least $42K CAD to comfortably send new eSIMs to Gazans again. We have been eager to keep all our active eSIMs going, especially users who use 10GB or more a day, knowing one single eSIM can power a whole family or apartment, and knowing how dangerous it is to activate a new one in elevated locations. The genocide in Gaza is far from over, it has — as Bisan Owda and many others point out - simply slowed down. Until the local Internet infrastructure is safely restored, we will keep our eSIMs active and send new ones when we have the funds to do so.
January 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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ajwithers.bsky.social
Free Online Community Course: Understanding Disability & Building Better Futures

Thursdays 4-6 pm PST/7-9 pm EST
February 20-April 17

No prior experience/education needed.

For more information/to fill out the form to join the class, click the link below.

#DisabledWriters
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Community Course: Understanding Disability & Building Better Futures
About the Course This free 8 week course meets for two hours a week to work towards understanding disability from a social justice perspective. Disability is not a fixed concept; it has changed ove…
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January 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
"Tidy frameworks shield us from discomfiting truths: the random allocation of adversity, the limited control we wield over our fates, the chance that disability will touch our lives." @sophiastewart.bsky.social on disability & representation in "A Different Man." lareviewofbooks.org/article/not-...
Not a Cautionary Tale | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophia Stewart reviews Aaron Schimberg’s film “A Different Man.”
lareviewofbooks.org
January 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows 😷

Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective

today.umd.edu/n95-masks-ne...
N95 Masks Nearly Perfect at Blocking COVID, UMD Study Shows
Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective
today.umd.edu
December 24, 2024 at 11:18 PM
swyl.bsky.social
never too late to start masking! that's what community care actually looks like.
thenarwhal.ca The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Dec 3
In November, Canada had its first case of a person contracting the H5N1 avian flu virus, which has killed thousands of birds. Last week, that B.C. teen was still in hospital. Here's a primer: human cases are rare, but experts say there is a pandemic risk. thenarwhal.ca/bird-flu-exp...
Worried about bird flu? Here’s what you need to know | The Narwhal
The H5N1 avian flu, or bird flu has killed birds and devastated poultry flocks. Human cases are rare, but experts say the virus poses a pandemic risk
thenarwhal.ca
December 3, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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mtol.bsky.social
As shorthand for a decade of tweets, here's a film that took me (and others) a decade to make... have you seen Yintah yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxh...
Yintah | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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November 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM