Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

It's simply *wrong* to think that mitigating #ClimateChange takes sacrifice. Mitigating climate change is 100% a benefit for humans AND our ways of living (but you have to think outside of the *box* to perceive it)

Reducing over-consumption means getting rid of polluting products & activities, unhealthy diets & air polluting vehicles.

For,  l wouldn't call using eBikes, electric buses & trains too much of a sacrifice

Are relatively rich folk spoilt? (🤬 if they can't have their friggin 🚘 )

Does your city really want to attract and keep families living in your downtown and urban places? REALLY?

Remember, there are 3 KEYS, in THIS ORDER:

1) ensure family-sized housing (2-3+ bedrooms);
2) build local daycare, schools & supports;
3) design the #publicrealm for kids.

Today it's Hong Kong.
158 mm of rain within 1 hour; the highest hourly rainfall in its 139-year record!
Climate change is water change.
Video via Jim Yang on the birdsite.

UN envoy links Canadian temporary foreign worker program to 'contemporary forms of slavery' | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/un-special-rapporteur-migrant-worker-program-modern-form-of-slavery-1.6958592?cmp=rss

Ok, ok… I recycle, I compost, I bring my own bag to the grocery store. But hear me out, what if maybe, just maybe, WE GET THE G-20 TO REDIRECT THE $1.3 TRILLION IN ANNUAL FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES TOWARDS SOLAR, WIND, AND GEOTHERMAL?!?

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! (Gift link, no paywall)

You’re doing it wrong: Recycling and other myths about tackling climate change https://wapo.st/45PsQZb

#NeverPoilievre #GreenbeltScandal #DougFordIsACriminal #cdnpoli

Hey tweeps!
Are you aware of a evidence that reforms in scientific integrity, responsible scholarship, or #OpenScience have had measurable impact on the quality of science (broadly defined)?
@annaveer & I are looking information for a workshop we're putting together.

Thanks 🖤!

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft

These are the first 6 companies designated as ‘gatekeepers' under the Digital Markets Act.

They have 6 months to ensure their core platform services comply with our rules, including:

✔ Allowing users to unsubscribe and remove pre-installed services
✔ Allowing the download of alternative app stores

❌ Banning tracking outside of their services without consent
❌ Stopping ranking their products more favourably

➡ https://europa.eu/!NbfBbn

#DMA

To help birds and insects, cultivate native gardens 🌱

Entomologist Doug Tallamy has this advice for the readers of his book Nature’s Best Hope, geared toward kids:

"Feel empowered. Feel like there are things they can do where they live. If they live in the middle of a city with no land at all, they can get into container gardening. They can become activists. They can volunteer at preserves that are in their city."

Read the Q&A: https://knowmag.org/45QOXOS

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

And the gems keep coming. So much to learn! ✨
Apparently authenticity isn’t about being blunt, wildly expressing whatever is on your mind. It requires a sense of security—knowing that the person or people who will hear from you are generally safe. You don’t feel defensive. You aren’t operating on autopilot. You’re connected and taking ownership of your personal experiences

“Long-COVID patients, generally speaking, have been very miserable for a very long time.”

A good article about a doctor at Yale attempting to diagnosis & treat Long Covid patients when there aren’t any good answers yet:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/long-covid-treatment-lisa-sanders.html

h/t @Squish
#Covid #Covid19 #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

"I don't run away for weeks and avoid the media” said Premier #DougFord at the press conference."

- Sean O'Shea @globalnews

#ThatsNotTrueDoug#onpoli #greenbeltscandal #pandemic #ottawa #occupation #topoli

I took these photos of a cool purple seed I happened upon while enjoying a walk through the local botanical gardens.
I’m counting this as my first contribution to #Mosstodon.
#LichenSubscribe.

A few last glimpses of the West Island at #OntarioPlace before Premier #DougFord bulldozes it all for his private, glass-enclosed mega-spa.

#greenbeltscandal #corruption #ontario #therme #toronto #onpoli #topoli

So it looks like MPP Caroline Mulroney, #Ontario's failed attorney general & now failed Transportation Minister has become President of the Treasury Board (aka keeper of the purse strings)
Despite the #DougFord govt's #greenbeltscandal, she's managed to snag a KC patronage & sidestep her problematic transport file. Lucky, or what?!
MPP Sarkiria takes over transport & began his tenure by assuring disgraced MPP Clark that "we will finish the important work you started."
#onpoli #metrolinx