Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@qoto.org

Just heard a new term: “Trumpster Fire”

So very apt.

Hi there’s no situation where billionaire - even when they donate all their money to charity - is a good billionaire.

Their grotesque wealth is *always* built on exploitation and even when they give it away they’re exercising power they should never have had.

Small worlds - cobweb closeup: #cobwebs #macro #macrophotography #wondersofnature #monochrome #blackandwhite

In a fiery letter to school boards around the province, Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan urged them to use their power to implement temporary mask mandates before that power is stripped away by Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government.

“Help is NOT on the way. You are the last line of defense for students and staff in our schools,” wrote McGowan.

“Use it before you lose it” - AFL https://www.afl.org/_use_it_before_you_lose_it #abpoli #masks #mandates #afl #politics

Billionaires and the system that creates them necessitate charity.

It’s a loop.

They’re giving back a portion of what they stole in a fashion which benefits them.

🚨 A meta-analysis confirms the role of endothelial dysfunction (reduced ability of arteries to expand when blood flow increases) in #LongCovid. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2022.2136403

Okay, this one picked up the phone at daycare today and said ‘hello’

@ktowens I know! The #COVIDconcensus is barely getting any press in the U.S. 380-some global experts come together and give us a roadmap on how to end #COVID, and there is no one talking about it? No one covering this as the biggest news since the invention of fire? I’m going out of my mind!

But the most shameful example of manufactured uncertainty has come from public health authorities themselves. In Canada that has taken the form of hiding public data, ceasing to report some kinds of outbreaks altogether (as Ontario did with school outbreaks in January 2022)

When we talk about science and its impact on policy and decision-making during the pandemic, it is quite common to suggest that difficulties are simply a function of scientific uncertainty. That is, if we had perfect information, we would make optimal decisions.

..."we care about kids", then these are easy decisions. That's why you have to manufacture uncertainty. You take no-brainer decisions, and open them up for debate.

I suck at #introductions because I forget what I love or sometimes don’t know how to articulate it properly. It’s just difficult to express how overwhelmed I am by how barbaric our world feels to me. I just don’t understand why people are so judgmental. Why so many have to suffer. Why we have gotten so disconnected from the environment. And yes. I understand it’s complicated. But it’s just so exhausting and I just want to be around others who understand this.

I could not tell you
the precise moment
when I realized
that I had become old
though I can say
with absolute certainty
that I was still young
when the plague began.

Great article.

"Musk thinks he bought a tech company, but he’s actually bought a community of users, and that's where its value lies..."

So says Prof Paul Bernal - Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of East Anglia School of Law.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/why-elon-musk-the-chief-twit-is-in-trouble/

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
- Simone Weil