Bryn, outside

beige poster with blue type in a baseball shirt style Orange type Don't wanna go far for stuff 15 minute cities no big conspiracy just lazy

rebranding the 15 min city.

What We Can Learn from Water, a Great Force of Life | The Tyee Transformative and resilient, it helps us meet our future. An excerpt from ‘Theory of Water.’

What We Can Learn from Water, a Great Force of Life via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

A lot of people with chronic illness are flaring right now due to the stress of the state of the world.

Living through end stage capitalism and escalating fascism takes a tremendous toll.

It’s important we all resist at our own pace. Don’t be afraid to rest. Unplug. Recharge.

Podcaster Daniella Barreto hosts Public Health Is Dead, a podcast she describes as an anti-establishment guide to surviving in the age of pandemics

Is Public Health Really Dead? thetyee.ca/News/2025/04... @michellegamage.bsky.social @sharpflower.bsky.social

𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

63 studies: women who assert their ideas, make direct requests, and advocate for themselves are liked less.

They're also less likely to get hired—and it hasn't improved over time.

When will we stop punishing women for violating outdated gender stereotypes?

There's no such thing as a self-made man or woman. No one succeeds without support.

"I did it on my own" is a sign of insecurity and entitlement. Acknowledging help is a mark of confidence and humility.

Giving credit to others doesn't undermine you. It elevates them.

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

This seems really important:
The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings.
Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO?
your turn.
www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...

The Rise of Slopsquatting: How AI Hallucinations Are Fueling... Slopsquatting is a new supply chain threat where AI-assisted code generators recommend hallucinated packages that attackers register and weaponize.

Can vibe coding increase velocity?

Yes, in fact it speeds up the entire product lifecycle, from first deployment to embarrassing hack that steals all your customers' money and leads to the company being shut down for gross negligence.

Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭

What is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps | TechPolicy.Press Results of a technical, design, and policy analysis of encrypted apps from Signal, Telegram, Google, Apple, and Meta.

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A couple of years ago, I co-authored a report on messaging apps. We looked at how secure they really are and how users themselves often defeat security with their own behaviors. We focused on understanding vulnerable communities: journalists, abortion rights activists…

Blue, yellow and black graphic with an illustration of a person in an N95, fist raised, holding a sign that reads: Keep (and improve) masks in healthcare. Text at the top reads, Have your say by April 1, and at the bottom it says, Add your voice: www.DoNoHarmBC.ca Email, call, fax, send postcards, share your story, spread the word. In the corner is the DoNoHarm BC logo and a QR code.

Stay safe out there: ventilate, vaccinate, educate, mitigate 😷 And join us at donoharmbc.ca/masks-in-hea... to demand that BC keep & strengthen healthcare mask protections. Patients & frontline workers need consistent, evidence-based safety year round - not policies that change with the weather!

Canadian COVID Forecast for Mar 15-28, 2025, produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada's COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 11.3 About 1 of every 142 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 221,575-486,325 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.7X higher Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 19.0X higher Hospitalizations, ICU: VERY HIGH; 13.3X higher Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.3X higher

British Columbia's COVID Forecast for Mar 15-28, 2025, produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Outlook is HIGH (increasing) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 6.6 About 1 in every 143 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 20,650-45,350 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: MODERATE; 4,7X higher Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 8.2X higher Hospitalizations, ICU: HIGH; 8.4X higher Deaths: HIGH; 6.4X higher

Gauges with the Mar 15-28, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories: Canada: 11.3 - VERY HIGH Alberta: 8.1 - HIGH British Columbia: 6.6 - HIGH Manitoba: 7.4 - HIGH New Brunswick: 7.9 - HIGH Newfoundland and Labrador: 6.7 - HIGH North: 9.3 - HIGH Nova Scotia: 7.2 - HIGH Ontario: 16.4 - SEVERE Prince Edward Island: 8.5 - HIGH Quebec: 10.0 - VERY HIGH Saskatchewan: 7.6 - HIGH

. A graphic shows recommendations from COVID-19 Resources Canada, including: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks AVOID indoor social gatherings AVOID crowded non-essential places Below that, text reads, infection increases risks of long-term health damage (Statistics Canada). A Statistics Canada graph shows long term symptoms from one infection (14.6% of people), two infections (25.4%), and for three or more infections (37%).

Mar 15-28 hazard index from the
team at Covid-19 Resources Canada, based on federal wastewater data. COVID hazards are very high in Canada (~1 in 143 people) & high in BC (~1 in 142). While this isn’t the highest in recent memory, COVID is still circulating, & analysis suggests it’s increasing.

‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers - Healthy Debate Let’s start protecting people in health-care settings as that’s where people should have the best understanding of a viral threat.

My guest article in @healthydebate.bsky.social looks at why we need mandatory masks in healthcare, why surgical masks aren’t enough, and how the mounting threats to public health are putting lives at risk.

If you’re a healthcare worker, mask up. Show us you take your oath to “do no harm” seriously

Canadians need to talk about cancer screening Canada’s cancer screening guidelines lag far behind the latest science, and Canadians are paying with their lives.

We to talk have a serious discussion about #cancer screening. Canada’s cancer screening guidelines lag far behind the latest science, and Canadians are paying with their lives, by Dr. Anna Wilkinson canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/10/c... via @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social @nicktsergas.ca

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The journalist-arresting RCMP can't be trusted to accredit media There is possibly no single body worse suited to deciding who is and is not a journalist than the RCMP. I would trust nine strangers at a bar to know what a journalist does, and why, before I trusted ...

Twice this month, RCMP has been publicly rebuked over how its members treat journalists and activists in environmental protests, @jameswsthomson.com writes.

Now the RCMP watchdog CRCC wants to task it with designing an accreditation system for journalists.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/03/o...

Great news, you’ve collected enough plastics in your body to start forming an exoskeleton. The universe will always bend toward crab.

Super intrigued now by the 3.5 non-"normal" ones...

Frontiers | Neurological sequelae of long COVID: a comprehensive review of diagnostic imaging, underlying mechanisms, and potential therapeutics

An overview of dozens of studies on the neurological impacts of COVID.
“Our analysis suggests that vascular dysfunction, neuroinflammation, and gut-brain axis disruption create self-sustaining feedback loops that maintain chronic symptoms.”
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Insidiously, "oh I'll wear a mask around immunocompromised people". But people who say this think nobody with poor immunity needs to actually GO ANYWHERE.

If you have said that and you mean it: public transport including planes, gfocery stores, schools, the post office, the bank. Bare minimum.

For the record, I *detest* dealing with fibreglass insulation. It just gets its nasty little fibres EVERYWHERE.

Solid advice for securing your digital footprint, for any reason really. Sure it was written for activists but we can all use a little more privacy.

activistchecklist.org

When the World is Running Down, Rebuild Bicycle Components.

New blog post in which I encourage you to take bike parts apart and put them back together. #BikeSky

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LPT: everything bagels are not the ideal food to eat at your desk over the keyboard.

Orchids are the birds of the plant world.

An entire lineage of influenza B viruses literally went extinct due to COVID mitigation measures and people will still say “masks don’t work”

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🎯 "We need to put far less energy into people who don’t want to be in conversation with us at all, and far more into building relationships and trust and social/informational infrastructure for those who do. The truly radical act here is not pushing back but pushing forward."