Heather Bamford

i don't have any plans for tonight. Lots of people thought I had a gig. I do not.

But if I get 100 likes on this post, I'll stream a Daft Punk DJ session on Twitch for funsies at, let's say, 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET.

Like early, because I'll have to set stuff up if this happens

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.

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Budget Consultations Share your ideas for the 2026 Budget on what matters most to you.

Have your say on the priorities for Ontario’s budget: www.ontario.ca/page/budget-...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Dealt with properly…instead of being dealt with they are elevated to the highest office

I am wondering if there is a correlation between increased food waste and the decline of home economics education. Home Ec teaches the knowledge and skills to effectively meal plan and shop within a budget to maximize and use what you buy. People throwing out food are basically throwing out money.

a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in front of a display of ties . Alt: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in front of a display of ties and staring into the camera

The Ontario government: every student needs to learn to code and use technology!

Also the Ontario government: We can’t waste money by giving school boards money to buy technology for students to use.

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

William Shatner interviews a beauty contestant: WS: Describe your perfect date. BC: I'd have to say April 25th because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need us a light jacket.

I almost forgot. Today is the perfect date. 😀

A post from a super-dick-ish account called Longest Ballot Committee celebrating getting 40 nonsense candidates added to the ballot for Carleton.

I’m no saint, but at least I have real things in my life to be proud of.

#CanadaVotes

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raised around 900 import tariffs by an average of 40% to 60%. Also referred to as the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930

Let’s all take a moment to read about the 1930’s Tariffs and how they worsened the Great Depression and made life unaffordable.

We teach history so that we don’t have to repeat our mistakes.

It looks like Donald did not show up to class.

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Sending healing vibes in 10’s direction.

Most provinces have dropped daycare costs to $10/day. Why are some Toronto parents still paying full fees? For-profit daycares continue to join the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program at much lower rates, particularly in the GTA.

Toronto parents have to pay full daycare fees instead of $10/day because the Province cancelled thousands of school-based daycare spots! They want private operators, not non-profit ones. Note how the Ford government hid from this interview. www.thestar.com/life/most-pr... #topoli #onpoli

It is so good. I just finished the audiobook today.

Not sure it if it is the best book I read this year (need more time to think about it) but Survive the Dome by @kosokojackson.bsky.social was excellent. It has stayed with me for weeks since I finished it. I needed a bit more time with those characters. Fingers crossed for a sequel.

QAnon fell out of headlines in 2024 — but only because conspiracy theory is the new normal The single biggest reason Trump won? The median voter ignores real news to consume endless disinformation

"The allure of the conspiracy theory is that you, Joe Nobody, understand a topic far more than the experts who spent their lives working on this issue."

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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan -The Onion

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
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Listening to the audiobook of Mind the Science by @jonathanstea.bsky.social
I teach #appsych and open the course with #scientificthinking and the warning signs of #pseudoscience - this forms the foundation of the course
I will be using his book as a mentor text to frame our learning!

It is a great book…also an excellent audio book

One of the central jobs of everyone who works in education but is not a classroom teacher should be ensuring classroom teachers have enough (time, energy, knowledge, training, resources).

If you nurture and value teachers, you nurture and value the children in front of them.

"Feral and not trained" emus Thelma and Louise on the loose in South Carolina as state's monkey search continues Police in Horry County, South Carolina, said this week that they are searching for two missing emus that have been evading capture for months: "We are not emu-sed."

Two “feral and not trained” emus named Thelma and Louise are on the loose in South Carolina about three hours from the 43 monkey escape that happened days earlier