lexomatic.bsky.social
lexomatic.bsky.social
@lexomatic.bsky.social
High and counter culture. Former public servant, translator, videographer, musician, editor, and intern everywhere I can make myself redundant by fixing systemic problems. TTRPG & audio drama He / Him
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There are NO downsides to improving the quality of air in the spaces in which our kids and their educators spend the most time. Even the cost makes itself up in reducing replacement staffing costs, bettering education, decreasing healthcare burden, etc.
Did you know that pregnant staff, aging educators, and asthmatic students suffer disproportionately in extreme classroom heat? 🌡️ Ontario must address IAQ comprehensively to ensure safe temperatures AND clean air for all. Modernizing IAQ is basic health and safety. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-peel...
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The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.
PM Carney on the privatization of federal assets: "What we're looking to do with all the tools we have is to catalyze building of this economy. If there are some assets that the federal government has that can help with that process, we'll look at it as part of a comprehensive approach."
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My latest -- what is Zionism doing in the Ontario Grade 10 civics curriculum? And of all the democracies in the world, who decided that comparing Canada to Israel made the most sense? noraloreto.substack.com/p/zionism-is...
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From the vaults: a piece I wrote for TVO @therundowntvo.bsky.social on the 1965 Auto Pact, which transformed trade between Canada and the US #cdnpoli #onpoli #cdnhistory www.tvo.org/article/how-...
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But maybe in a more condensed form so the button doesn't have to be the size of a CD I just feel like the "NO A.I." buttons attract slopsuckers who immediately want to proselytize about it and that is not a conversation I am going to be able to have without someone getting severely mandibled
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We hit the stretch goal, so we'll be doing at least two of these babies 📚
Submissions are now open for speculative novelettes and/or tiny short story collection chapbooks. Word limit: 7,500 to 12,000 words. Limited print run. Will pay $100 and 25 copies. Deadline: October 15th. More info here: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit/36598...
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Why should New Jerseyan renters have all the fun? This could be you, Canada renters. Time push for plug-in solar in your province. www.cnn.com/climate/new-...
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New from me. Mark Carney’s Oprah giveaway day, and a vexing question: if a new pipeline is a money-printing machine, why does no private company want to build it so that taxpayers have to? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...
#PublicHealthIsDead ex 6352728 applying #DropletTheory to smoke from a fire... www.canada.ca/en/health-ca... #canpoli
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The government is tabling privacy reform today. That’s overdue, but its privacy track record is terrible: mandated age verification for millions, mandatory metadata retention, weaker privacy rules for political parties, and sidelining the Privacy Commissioner. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/priv...
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PARENTS: Speak to your insurance broker. Ensure your children are NAMED in your policy, and purchase additional benefits--including, at a minimum, the maximum income replacement benefit. You do NOT want to end up on government assistance following an accident, esp if you have dependent children. 1/
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@goingmedieval.bsky.social I recently learned that George Michael had much better politics than I was aware of, and thought I'd give you a chance to talk more about your fave - especially if you know more about that aspect.
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Replying to @emilyhughes.bsky.social
Introducing @darkertimes.bsky.social - a new worker-owned website for cultural criticism about all things horror! www.darkertimes.com
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With FIYAH going on indefinite hiatus it's really fucking important we support the mags publishing POC. If you have the means, support the things you love or they will disappear. Everyone's probs sick as fuck of hearing it but a magazine for Black voices stopped publishing today, it isn't abstract.
We're 86% of the way to our fundraising goal with 99 backers and just 2 weeks to go 💫 Thank you so much for your support! Kickstarter only releases this money if we hit our goal of $5,000, so we need your help! Be our 100th backer, or even our 101st 💜
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The latest update to my guide to online historical Toronto newspaper resources includes: * A new home for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario's collection * Has the Telegram finally made it onto the internet? #TOHistory #cdnhistory jamiebradburncreative.wordpress.com/online-newsp...
This seems like a good way to hurt a lot of people by ignoring internal advice and not have people find out how you're killing them. Totally relates to the #BikeLanes decision #FluBriefing #onpoli #Bill97 #CYA
NEW: Flu briefings prepared for Health Minister Sylvia Jones. That’s the latest batch of documents blocked from release under the government’s freedom of information clampdown. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1185225...
2 most consistently awarded presses I can name are Neon Hemlock & Undertow. Just great
Gearing up to start promo for our next novella series! This will be another set of novellas alongside a short story collection, with an especial interest in queer speculative fiction. You can sign up here to get notified when we go live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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Labour movement demands Prime Minister and Health Minister stop Alberta's two-tier health care law https://www.healthcoalition.ca/labour-movement-demands-prime-minister-and-health-minister-stop-albertas-two-tier-health-care-law/ @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
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Replying to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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- Coastal First Nations unanimously oppose this - BC gov't has been shut out of all negotiations between Carney & Smith - Carney seeks power to pre-approve fossil fuel projects even if they result in entire species going extinct - Yes, what Carney is doing is much worse that what Stephen Harper did:
"This would represent by far the worst evisceration of environmental law in Canadian history, far worse than what happened under Prime Minister Harper’s government in 2012.” #Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #PolyCrisis
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Former Liberal environment minister www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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close friends who are aware of my bizarre, fucked-up personal situation have encouraged (bullied) me to create more of a clear-cut fundraising campaign to help with my upcoming move. if you can chip in, great! thank you! but please only do so if you can spare it. 💚 ko-fi.com/interrobangb...
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My guess. It costs the wrong people money. Just a guess though.
It's widely accepted that hantavirus transmits from rodent excreta to humans via inhalation of aerosolized virus, so I don't understand why we're so reluctant to acknowledge the inhalation route for human-to-human transmission. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/h...
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Podcast alert! want to know more about the Andes Hantavirus strain? Great interview with good science from CBC's Quirks and Quarks. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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What immediately concerns me is that when you have a physician who supports genocide against a group how can you trust them to ethically treat members of that group? There have already been multiple implied threats from pro-genocide doctors. thevarsity.ca/2025/01/19/g...
A doctor wearing a watermelon pin is what Hal Berman calls "racism." Just to let you know how to weigh Hal's other over-the-top statements, particularly his incessant targeting of Yipeng Ge.
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I continue to be flabbergasted that other (non-insane) governments aren't making similar changes. The Canadian government won't shut up about how important "digital sovereignty" is, and then it pours resources into posting everything to Twitter and Facebook.
European Commission has updated its follow buttons. ✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in; ⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out. (Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.) commission.europa.eu/index_en