Karissa Milbury 🇨🇦

"These restrictions apply to trails that are part of any active transportation routes through woods such as the Mainland North Trail and the Chain of Lakes Trail, which are closed. "

Shitty week for #BikeHFX

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

#Halifax council isn’t perfect—who is?!—but there are solid voices speaking out, including Janet Steele. Removing the bridge tolls, making parking free at hospitals, not promoting working from home all add to congestion. That’s Premier Tim Houston’s doing, not bike lanes.

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:

Removed COVID vaccine recommendations

Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee

Replaced scientists with antivaxxers

Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research

Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable.

For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

Alt text: A group of people standing outdoors in a park, posing for a photo with their faces blurred. They are making peace signs with their hands. The background features trees and a clear blue sky. Text on the image reads 'Neighbourhood Engagement Survey' alongside logos for 'HALIFAX' and 'Parks & Recreation.

Residents are invited to provide feedback on how the municipality can strengthen neighbourhood connections by completing the Neighbourhood Engagement Survey. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re...

Drought, extreme heat, wildfires across Canada, orders to conserve water, in Nova Scotia a provincial order to stay out of the woods or face a $25,000 fine, and missing in all the messaging is any mention of the elephant in the broiling land: THE CLIMATE CRISIS caused by our burning FOSSIL FUELS.

Voluntary water conservation in effect in HRM.

But yeah, let's sabotage transit and active transportation, slow-roll renewables, and bury reports (or even municipal governments) that challenge the old-boy coalburners.

Halifax Water asks customers to reduce water usage The water utility in the Halifax area is asking its customers to use less water. Halifax Water says the voluntary conservation measures are necessary due to a prolonged period of low precipitation. Th...

Here we go #Halifax #NovaScotia #Drought #WaterConservation

Halifax Water asks customers to reduce water usage

halifax.citynews.ca/2025/08/05/h...

At the very least, thankful to see my councillor Patty Cuttell standing as one of the few voices of reason.

Our local government, broadly speaking, doesn't seem to care about evidence-based decision-making

Part of my issue with Carney not being tough enough is that he has allllllll the political capital he could possibly dream of to go hard and adopt a war-like effort to shift us away from the US, and he's not going remotely hard enough.

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On Tuesday, August 5 we will be holding a Regional Council meeting. There will be a public hearing.

To speak in-person, pre-register with the Clerk's office by Tuesday, August 5 at 4:30 p.m. or register at the meeting. For Zoom, register by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 1. Agenda: brnw.ch/21wUBlH

Averted Burden of Influenza and Direct and Indirect Benefits of Vaccination This decision analytical modeling study estimates the direct and indirect influenza case burden averted by vaccination in a representative US population.

#VaccinesWork

"...influenza vaccination benefits both the vaccinated and unvaccinated segments of the population and that vaccine effectiveness estimates in those groups may underestimate the actual effectiveness of vaccination."

Benefits of Flu Vaccination jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Active transportation options, including transit, can reduce congestion because the only solution to congestion - especially in a tightly-constrained space like peninsular Halifax - is to reduce the number of cars.

You have to give people transportation options that are NOT cars to achieve that.

Anyway HRM please build a bike lane so I don't have to go through the rotary and get screamed at for trying to get to work alive

"I've been hit by a bike before!!" Did I hit you? As I slowly rolled past 6 feet away from you?

"It's dangerous!!" Me being on the road is dangerous but I manage it for 95% of my route.

"It's illegal!!" And I'm sure you've never gone 10kph over the speed limit? Or broken any other law ever?

Well it finally happened -- got screamed at by a pedestrian for SLOWLY biking on the sidewalk for a total of 2 blocks where there was zero shoulder & bumper-to-bumper traffic. Was told to get on the road (no? lol) then told to get on a side street (nevermind the fact the situation there was worse)

if your business will collapse if your employees have a healthy work life balance, take time off (which they literally earned) or stop doing extra work for no additional pay or recognition, you deserve to go under. you deserve to be bankrupt. i have no respect for you as a businessperson or a human

I wonder what AI says about vaccines, Mr. Kennedy, since that is what you want to use instead of actual evidence-based science.

And then there's this nonsense. WE CANNOT SUBSTITUTE ANIMAL TRIALS WITH AI. We don't even know some of the basics of the immune system bc it's so fricking complicated. AI is based on what we know. Man, I was happier on the plane without wifi. Utter nonsense.

Attn HRM data nerds:

Commuter travel time estimates, EV charger station locations, floodplain zones, and park and ride locations have been added to open data.

Also, assessment info has been added for property tax data, and regional plan future land use areas have been updated.

still astonishing to me that our country is purging & punishing the people who saved millions of lives just a few years ago while giving their power to the ones who killed millions.

It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)

Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus", and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = "Stratus".

Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus.

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Folks, keeping emailing your councillors! Don’t let Andy make congestion worse in Halifax by stopping progress on one of the most effective tools against it (bike lanes!!).

You can easily copy councillor email addresses here:

In conclusion, I think misuse of ChatGPT is as much a symptom of a society in decline as it is a cause. If kids felt an education would actually benefit them in material ways, they wouldn't cheat. This is a sign that the kids have read the room and, by and large, already given up.

a peacefully snoozing tuxedo tort in a sunbeam. tummy out of course

one of those mornings where I had to look in the mirror and remind myself: public health requires the revolutionary discipline to refuse to accept that any human suffering is inevitable. it is never popular and always essential. it is more essential the less popular it is.

A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ