Matt Oliver

“When the agreement came out someone texted me saying, ‘The only thing missing from the agreement is Pierre Poilievre's signature,’ and I went yeah, I think that sums it up,” he said." 👀

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland

When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Hey! If you’ve ever liked my voice, now, before the end of the year, would be a really good time to hire me for any SAG-approved projects!

Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance

Recent data shows significant spike in US military aircraft accidents Across the military, the rate of severe accidents per 100,000 flight hours rose 55% in the 2024 budget year compared with four years earlier.

55% increase in US military aviation mishaps. 2020-2024

Nice image of a Hornet on the trap in burner.

www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Association between COVID-19 infection and risk of mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed Our findings suggest an association between COVID-19 and risk of mental disorders, as well as the prescriptions for psychotropic medications. It is imperative for individuals to become vigilant of mental health problems that may arise following COVID-19.

“Twenty-eight cohorts with a total of 977,434,207 participants... We revealed a 40 % increased risk…of mental disorders in patients with COVID-19 compared with non-exposed individuals”

Read that again: A 40% INCREASED RISK OF MENTAL DISORDERS

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41086559/

Hello

"The unredacted classified report was sent to his buddies and bros on Signal much later on Tuesday night.” 🍸

@drpgolf.bsky.social @sameo416.bsky.social

5 stick images of people. In the first 4, the person has a disability aid but the fifth one does not. Text: some disabilities look like this some like this

On International Day of People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are invisible

#Disability #invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25

Excluding experts introduces biases in that the review specialists have no boundaries of knowledge or experience to constrain them from making horrific mistakes that an expert would immediately recognize.

It’s the voices you exclude from input that allow that bias to be created.

This is an excellent analogy!

The important common ground is that an engineer would not undertake a system design without input from all of the involved communities. When we do it usually ends badly.

Stated another way, expert input is critical in the design process and is not a source of bias.

This seems to be pretty much what let COVID get out of control. A few senior pilots locked everyone else out of the room, and insisted designing a plane was a pilots-only problem - even though the engineers had already designed a plane for exactly this situation, and the plans were on the shelf.

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Image of a modern aircraft cockpit, showing its complexity.

An aircraft analogy can work.

Clinical practice is like flying a plane - it takes skill and practice, you need training and in-the-moment answers.

Making guidance is like building a plane. You want pilot input, but it better be led by aerospace engineers or you'll kill a bunch of people.

Mark, do you have any guidance on what folks should say? I’m thinking that some analogies may be useful to help get across the ridiculousness of this - something like “it’s like if your mechanic refused to take input from the air bag manufacturer on how best to install it b/c of risk of ‘bias’”?

Sounds like the effort to permanently hand control of preventative health guidance in Canada to this group is being railroaded through, aiming to have it locked in by April 2026, before the public has time to react and start fighting back.

Spread the word, talk to politicians, journalists, etc.

Landmark glyphosate safety study retracted for Monsanto ghostwriting, other ethics problems A scientific study that regulators around the world relied on for decades to justify continued approval of glyphosate was quietly retracted last Friday.

usrtk.org/pesticides/l...

Eight years to retraction for an article known ghostwritten by the corporation's staff and with undeclared financial COI for the published authors.

Is there any wonder the trust in 'science' is in a spiral dive towards the ground? This is not a rare circumstance.

The group Red Bone music video ends the episode.

This time through I’m picking up all sorts of little gifts and clever scenes.

Deer Lady stops a robbery at a store to start, and the display case has a row of Indigenous bobble heads (I think).

Deer Lady travels around killing bad men, so you know this is an encounter with a bad man.

The driver of the camero is played, ironically, by Kiowa Gordon.

The series is full of these little Easter eggs.

Deer Lady is witnessed by Big, a Lighthorsemen tribal cop, and it’s why he’s a cop.

Rewatching Reservation Dogs season 1 episode 5. “Come and Get Your Love”.

Episode starts with Kaniehtiio Horn playing the Deer Lady getting picked up by a loud guy in a camero.

He asks where she’s going and she names a city in Oklahoma. He says it’s out in Apache country.

She says ‘Kiowa’.

Para 23 from the linked document. https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/ruling/105-at-c-a-2023

It has been reported in Canada. The distinction between service dogs and emotional support animals in 2024 was the result partly of abuse of ESA declarations. I track this as it impacts my community of injured veterans.

Canadian Transportation Agency decision:
otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/ruling/1...

Unfortunately regulators often decline to accept complaints at the entry point, as it can often be done with no right of review or appeal, as there’s no substantive decision.

You’d need to obtain a court order directing they accept the complaint and process it, a mandamus in Canada.

“Persons who have been incapacitated by wounds, sickness, or shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack." reads the Pentagon’s Law of War Manual theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...

Ah, see some of the examples in the op I understand. Support dogs on aircraft destroyed by a legion of 'I get nervous without fluffy' emotional support dogs. Now anyone with actual needs has an uphill battle to get a PTSD support dog on board.

Personally it's a past argument for extended palliative benefits which are always denied b/c "you haven't demonstrated there will be the potential of improvement".

Before I gave up I wrote back to ask - you do understand the meaning of the word 'palliative' excludes improvement?

for an extended height sit/stand desk. The answer back, "everyone needs an occupational therapist assessment before we purchase specialized costly adaptations". My they're taller than everyone on our staff by a good foot and the normal desk specs are <6', got a point to the policy.

The linked post is shocking - not sure I've ever encountered someone who is faking disability to get 'benefits' in the workplace.

By contrast I've encountered lots of asinine policies that are intended to cause added burdens.

It wasn't a disability case, but a 95 %ile staff member who asked

Really appreciate your first-hand perspective - thanks for sharing! Totally agree that, for this to all work, Canada (and the CF specifically) is going to have to move way faster and make a lot of improvements to HR, procurement, etc. - i.e. truly act like this is the crisis it is.

It’s worth noting that this article Brownstone posted is by Tom Jefferson, author of that dubious Cochrane Review on masking who made statements to the media that Cochrane later had to clarify/correct, explaining they were not supported by their own research.

The anti-vax, anti-public health dark money group, The Brownstone Institute, is on BlueSky as of yesterday.

It joined up the same day Politico revealed that its founders had allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior at their workplace: the American Institute for Economic Research.

@adriantomlinson.bsky.social I believe this may be pertinent to your interests :)

And just saw they’re preparing 50 kits for libraries to help introduce people to native planting.