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Come for the cat, stay for the science education!

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As Desmond says, it's not just about bike lanes.

Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social

Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes isn’t about traffic—it’s part of a global right-wing backlash to vilify urban residents and defend fossil fuel interests. @breachmedia.ca dove into the politics of cycling, and debunked some myths along the way www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoCz...

The height on my driver’s license isn’t even accurate! I lost a cm when I switched from an American license to a Canadian one because the US doesn’t do half inches. 😂

Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social

A friend of mine is a Kansas state representative & was adamantly opposed. The AG argued that sex on licenses needed to align w/ birth certificates for “accuracy” To highlight the absurdity of this argument, my friend proposed an amendment that would require weight on licenses to be accurate 1/

A reminder to all military personnel, and everyone, really, that “I was just following orders” is not a defence. There is an entire chain of command in the US military whose integrity has been compromised by these actions. They committed, or were complicit in, the murder of unarmed civilians.

Patrick De Klotz@patdeklotz.bsky.social

Holy shit

Cue: Governments around the world frantically changing their public health guidelines to remove references to the CDC.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

About the combined MMR and varicella vaccine (MMRV), ACIP has just voted to *not* recommend MMRV before the age of 4 years. This will not change access to MMR and varicella separately.

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Yes. Think of the disability costs if they acknowledged that Covid is in schools. Instead they put school staff in crowded classrooms without PPE and then when we get sick deny the existence of Long Covid. Teachers are second only to healthcare workers when it comes to Long Covid in Canada.

The same thing goes for environmental stories. If plastics recycling is so easy, why do we make such a big deal when someone actually finds a way to recycle it? For something to be an interesting news story, it has to be rare.

Kevin Verhoff@kevinverhoff.bsky.social

This goes for a lot of things, really. Crime (remember the big shoplifting craze), poisoned Halloween candy, immigration, you name it. The single best piece of advice for media literacy is: when you see a story ask yourself, how much of this is actually happening?

Sometimes you don’t even need to correspond with the author. Their email address says it all.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social

A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims. Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

What people who haven’t experienced it don’t understand is that, if you’re poor, you pay with your time and your dignity. Even if the program is “free”, if it’s means-tested, you have to give up part of yourself in order to access it.

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I have a concussion. My union is on strike. My employer still hasn’t paid me for work that I did a year ago. I’m behind on my research. I don’t get to teach. But OMG I love how she’s fascinated with the bubbles in carbonated liquids!

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The best mask is the one that you actually wear.

Bean & Sprout's Mom@beansproutsmom.bsky.social

80% of the population taking action to reduce transmission 50% of the time beats 3% of the population taking action to reduce 100% of the time. (This is why we need #CleanAir!) @kananaskinyeti.bsky.social