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YouTube video by InterestingMD From Burnout to Renewal: Dr. Michael Antil’s Move from North Carolina to Toronto

There's quite a movement now of American docs who've moved to Canada who are trying to attract others here, because they are so all-in on our medical system after butting heads in the USA for so long.

Dr. Rob Beck's an internist in Victoria talking to a doc who related to Toronto:

Just your monthly reminder to get off substack.

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Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts | TechCrunch A recently added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some tech journalists, too.

Hey @officialgrammarly.bsky.social we're gonna need to know the full list of identities you have stolen here as well as clear info on how to opt-out

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Opt-out is not nearly enough, of course. This should be opt-in only --- and for pay.

Amazingly this is by design. This is how they get voters.

Pauline Hanson secured government solar rebate despite calling for subsidies to large-scale renewables to end Exclusive: Spokesperson for One Nation leader says it supports rooftop solar, as Matt Canavan also defends using scheme

Ha! Pauline agrees! Solar is unstoppable - cheaper, cleaner and isn’t shipped through the Strait of
Hormuz!

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I’ll remember her as the one who posted so badly that Lowtax’s ex-wife showed up and said “Wow, she’s spiraling the exact same way Lowtax used to”

Support Blacksky with your hard-earned money, like I do, because @rude1.blacksky.team and team are doing it like nobody else is.

Make it substantial, too. I just doubled mine:

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Chiefs deliver fiery message to Alberta Premier over separation More than a dozen First Nations chiefs and even more band councillors and elders were...

Over a dozen First Nations chiefs, band councilors and elders were at Alberta's legislature Monday, to call on Premier Danielle Smith's government to stomp out the push for Alberta to quit Canada.

Rachel exposes dangerous, violent and unhinged people online so you and your family don’t have to deal with them in-person

She’s not just doing journalism, she’s providing a valuable community service – you can support her work here:

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Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.

For no particular reason, don’t forget to sign up for Gander! It looks like it has the legs (wings?) to be a social site that doesn’t make you want to live in a cave.

It’s still in beta and the devs are, well, real people who want normal people things.
@gandersocial.bsky.social

gandersocial.ca

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in retrospect its super funny the Bsky brain trust dreamed of a crypto bro wonderland without realizing their invitation only beta (which only the most tuned in, extremely online people could access) guaranteed a seed population of freaky communist shitposters

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Inside Climate News Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.

Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground.

Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present.

It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills.

Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:

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If the news about change in BlueSky's officers has you worried, join me in supporting BlackSky with a monthly donation and helping them build a responsible alternative!

(Also, us people of limited color can use the myatproto.social server, so you could pay for what you consume.)

This video of the damages to the Chehel Sotoun palace in Isfahan is hard to watch. The finest example of Safavid architecture, the palace is a marvel of art & architecture that has survived more than 400 years. It is unbelievable that the “most moral army in the world” has cared so little about it.

Reform want to do this in the UK 🤬

Entire administration of domestic abusers and rapists

Building on the above posts about how LNG is poison for people + the planet, here’s a great way👇to tell the federal government and your local MP to stop funding LNG!!!
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This is also why art is important. I learned about the Troubles because of the Cranberries song Zombie. I was only six or seven at the time, but it was such a powerful and terrifying song and music video that I asked my family what it was about. They told me as best they could.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Take a look at these losers who somehow think they are superior beings.

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For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises.

Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.

(Published Sept. 2025)

The asbestos industry knew about the life-threatening toxic and carcinogenic nature of asbestos from the 1930s but covered it up for several more decades. It's not a pretty story but I bet the woman on my doctor's surgery's recorded phone message could make it sound like one. It wasn’t until 1980, the year that the actor Steve McQueen died from a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos during the US marine service he did in his youth, that its use as a building material was completely phased out. By that point, my parents had owned a house with an asbestos garage for half a decade. You can see, in this photo, which is from about three years after that, that me and my friend Edward are staying away from the garage but also pushing our luck a little bit. My dad had repeatedly told me that if my skin came into contact with its walls, it would kill me. I didn’t know quite how this would happen but I imagined it as being a bit like the bit in The Wizard Of Oz where The Wicked Witch Of The West melts, but with extra chemicals and unpleasant bubbling sounds. Which is why, during the dramatic dive I took through one of the garage's windows later that year, I made triple sure not to touch the wall. I ended up with twelve stitches in my arm. On the plus side: no melting or bubbling flesh. "Result!" I might have said, if it hadn't been 1983 and children had started to talk like that. P.S. I hear you own a pub in Nottingham now, Edward, which means you are probably busy, but on the off chance you are reading this, please can you let me know where you got that jumper? It's great.

A little extract from today's piece in the alt text of this photograph of me and my friend Edward messing around a little too close to my parents' asbestos garage in 1983.

You can read the full thing here: www.tom-cox.com/in-the-villa...

Nobody patronised Kurt Vonnegut's writing by calling it "whimsy" because he wrote in a time when having a wild imagination and mixing extreme seriousness with extreme silliness wasn't seen as something freakish and troublesome to deal with for publishers.

This really resonates with me. We are conditioned so tightly to categorize art into ‘serious’ and ‘frivolous, meaningless, dismissible’ that it strictures all expression.

It is used that way by many people, but mainly the ones who want to see writing strictly categorized into ‘this is serious literature with deep meaning’ and ‘this made me think and feel things that I dismiss as lesser and weak so it must be frivolous and shallow’.

I have some good news: it’s time to watch a few hours of “Star Trek: Some Terrorism Is Okay”

Sickos haha yes but it's "Siskos" and it's Benjamin Sisko's head