Would it be antisocial for me to block all anonymous accounts that try to follow me on here? I like my social media to include interaction with actual people. Not bots and nameless, faceless “accounts” that I have no idea who’s behind them.
I hear they’re calling it the “Department of War Crimes” now.
I love @timothysnyder.bsky.social's do not obey in advance, and like to add do not obey during or after either. (I mean within the bounds of what's necessary to do to survive.) I also like to point out that our enemies would like us to feel powerless and surrender and why give them the satisfaction?
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
Love seeing this on a Canadian news site, but what a missed opportunity to speak more clearly on the serious lack of medical care for Dysautonomia patients in Canada. #Care4ComplexCanada
UCP vaccine policies & rhetoric = deadly.
Alberta's flu season deadliest in recent memory as experts call for action www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"250 Albertans have died ... vaccination rates remain low."
Vaccine "one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk of severe illness.”
See also: where is public health? Where are the PHOs? Where are the annual vaccine campaigns? All MIA over here in BC and seemingly country-wide, ever since the WHO “ended” the Covid pandemic (not actually, they just m ended the state of emergency, but gov’s act like it’s gone now).
Apparently the US has now bombed the airport serving Tehran, one I’ve flown in an out of multiple times. There are a lot of Iranians who are currently outside of Iran, visiting friends or on vacation or whatever. This will make it a lot harder for them to get home.
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(I’ve been trying to keep it more chill on here, because when I talk about what’s happened to me I seem to get swarmed by very angry centrists, and even leftists, who don’t believe the Canadian healthcare system is killing people, but this is still my daily reality so there you go.)
Lol… apparently it’s #InternationalWomensDay? In my world, it’s just another day where women with complex illness across Canada suffer and die due to severe medical neglect and abuse. Wheee. 🙃 There is no equality and no justice for us + nobody cares. #Care4ComplexCanada
Wastewater virus signals for Toronto, for the 52 week period ending Friday March 6 2026 showing a drastic spike in COVID-19. RSV, Flu A and Flu B are also shown. The second highest spike was Flu A which peaked mid-December and was present for about 8 weeks, while COVID-19 has been at elevated and mostly growing levels since last spring.
"There's something going around"
Yeah. It's COVID.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Attention: why don’t you just give up on trying to improve the world, fucko
It’s Rare Disease Day, and all I have to say is BC is a death trap for rare disease patients. #BeautifulBC #RareDiseaseDay2026
This is a cool story. But note: BC would NEVER. This kid got help with a trial in Montreal because his doctor here happened to know the doctor in Quebec doing this gene editing work. Josie Osborne should not be acting like BC has any shred of competency in healthcare or public health.
I built a small prototype exploring how we might publish structured accessibility information about physical buildings:
https://mgifford.github.io/accessible-buildings/
Web #accessibility has standards as does the built environment.
There isn't a good model though to share the work to […]
Truly. Both causing things like preventable persistent infections in immune suppressed people, and then not even providing care for them once infected. How is this okay??
@copevancouver.bsky.social ⬆️👀
@seanorr.bsky.social 👀🔥
It’s important to call out gaslighting by the BC government whether it’s gaslighting by left-wing or right wing parties
And this is just gaslighting
The correct term is the BCNDP abandoned the most vulnerable seniors in BC, funds LNG corporate welfare, but removes funding from LTCH’s #bcpoli
Crucial paper published Friday that deserves much more attention in the #LongCOVID world: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
TLDR: 13/15 immunocompromised patients who had chronic COVID infections (>200 days) cleared the virus in under 2 weeks when given combo antivirals/monoclonals
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And yes, I should have advocated for myself, but I was in excruciating migraine pain, with brain fog exacerbated by all the drugs they were giving me, & I had to weigh whether by complaining the nurse might retaliate & cause me even worse harm--another extremely common thing disabled people face
This is one of the reasons disabled people are *terrified* of ending up in the hospital. 50% of hospital-acquired infections are preventable. Just last week in the ER, I watched my nurse change my IV bag without cleaning her hands multiple times. It's a miracle I didn't end up sicker for having gone
These infections aren’t even just incidents, they can have lasting multi-year or permanent effects on already vulnerable patients. It’s absolutely abhorrent how bad the infection control is in hospitals.
Nobody would try and figure out why I was almost dying from diarrhea on top of the severe drug reactions that landed me in there (on top of my already severe disease), finally tested last year + caught it. Another year later, still positive, still sick, still no help.
It’s so hard to in the moment. I had an IV nurse make “hot towels” for my arm by putting them in the dirty sink and running hot water on them. I was so out of it and it happened so fast I couldn’t say anything. Somehow escaped sans Covid/Staph, but got Norovirus…
And don’t get born with any autoimmune genes or catch any bad viruses, cause you can do everything right and still get a severe chronic illness when a crappy virus turns your immune system against you. 🙃
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Wow, they’re replaying this Danielle Smith speech on CPAC after the NDP debate, and all I can think is: does she want to see Alberta burn? Bragging about expanding oil + gas and AI data centres, while they’ve had horrible fires. Incomprehensible. She’s living in a fantasy.
