Catherine Clase @cmclase@qoto.org

Today Ontario New Democrats #MaritStiles and I joined #CrystalQuartz, a drag artist who has been targeted by hate groups, to show love and support for 2SLGBTQ+ Ontarians. Thank you #Hamilton for the groundswell of love you showed her ⁠— ensuring a full house of allies turned out. #OnPoli #lgbt #lgbtq #2SLGBTQIA #ndp #Ontario #drag

I got laid off 2 weeks before xmas. If anyone is hiring let me know! I’m a tech!

“Using data from 35 million traffic stops, we show that the probability that a stopped driver is Black increases by 5.74% after a Trump rally. The effect is immediate, specific to Black drivers, [lasting], and is not justified by changes in driver behavior.” Study: Grosjean et Al (2022), The Quarterly Journal of Economics:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac037/6710386?login=false #economics #policing #massincarceration #stochasticterrorism #racialprofiling #hatespeech

I thought you might need to see this.
#MeanwhileInCanada

Never forget, electric cars are here to save the car industry, not the planet.

Who should I follow here on Mastodon?

The Case for Mask Mandates - why we should #BringBackMasks - by ⁦@Billius27@twitter.com⁩ https://billius27.substack.com/p/the-case-for-mask-mandates

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #CovidIsntOver #Health

Hard, not impossible, but hard to find the words for this:

Nurses don't want to be COVID 'heroes' and 'angels' — they want better conditions, study finds

#COVID19Aus @auscovid19
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-10/nurses-want-better-conditions-not-hero-labels-study-finds/101748056

MILAN has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035.
Strategy & leadership.
https://road.cc/content/news/milan-confirms-new-bike-network-289375
#milan #cities #urbanism #BikeLanes #cars

#Twitter sued for disproportionately firing female workers after Musk buyout

"The proposed class action, which was was filed late on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, said that after Twitter was taken over by Musk, the world’s richest person, it laid off 57% of its female workers compared with 47% of men."

"The gender disparity was more stark for engineering roles, where 63% of women lost their jobs compared to 48% of men, according to the new lawsuit."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/08/twitter-sued-firing-female-workers-after-musk-buyout

Ontario has expanded Paxlovid eligibility without adequately announcing it today.

Please communicate this expanded eligibility to anyone near or dear to whom this applies.

(Had CMOH Kieran Moore not been hiding, this would have been communicated more effectively today.)

H/T @niagaragal1

Do you REALLY want to know how your city could transform public transit virtually overnight to dramatically increase ridership? The answer is to change car lanes to dedicated bus-only lanes so buses won’t be stuck in car traffic, & run more buses more frequently on those lanes. You SHOULD INVEST more in transit to get those additional buses, but in the immediate term, reallocate near-empty buses from low density, low ridership areas to run them often on the bus-only lanes. #cities #publictransit

Just went on BBC radio Bristol @BBCRB@twitter.com to talk about ambulance waiting times, A+E waiting times, the problems in social care and the crisis facing our NHS

I don't know why this crisis isn't front page news in every newspaper

You can listen here from 10:41
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_bristol

LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words

Never forget that when #Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream and a 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it completely transform the city’s public life & economic success, but when combined with public transit improvements, the vehicle traffic congestion actually got better.

The traffic got BETTER!

#cities #urbanism #traffic #cars #transit #congestion #transportation #city

Labour’s plan to reform politics doesn’t go far enough – here’s what evidence shows will really stop governments hoarding power http://theconversation.com/labours-plan-to-reform-politics-doesnt-go-far-enough-heres-what-evidence-shows-will-really-stop-governments-hoarding-power-196002

December 6, 1989, 14 women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada, were murdered. A man who claimed he was "fighting feminism" lined up women and shot them. If you think #misogyny is a thing of the past, you aren’t paying attention to the world today. 🧵