hmltm @hmltm@qoto.org

People on mastodon so smug about those of us returning as soon as Twitter goes down, YES WE HAVE COME CRAWLING BACK ok u won

Please boost even if this isn't for you. On Mastodon, favoriting is not like 'liking' on the other site. All it does is it tell the writer you liked it, there is no algorithm.

Trying to reach #KidneyVerse people on Mastodon

#KidneyDocs and #KidneyResearchers

Consider submitting your #KidneyResearch to #CJKHD (Canadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease)

We have a policy of supportive review. Here's the piece we wrote about the central role of kindness in peer-review

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/…

We aren't here on Mastodon yet but working on it. @CanJKHD at the other place.

#KidneyKindness #Kidney #KidneyVerse #AskRenal

As you see horror unfold in Northern Syria from the quake, remember that it is preceded by a decade of the most brutal war of this millennium. Waged by their own government. Including a systematic campaign to destroy hospitals in the region that Vladimir Putin openly bragged about.

All while the rescuers in white helmets have been vilified for years as terrorists and crisis actors. Particularly by powerful, credulous westerners whom I'd literally spit in the face of given the chance.

The fun thing about Montréal is that in the middle of the winter the sun rises due south.
#montreal #grid #cardinalDirections #localGeography

Feeling inadequate because everyone on Mastodon appears to be a professor or a doctor or a rocket scientist?

Follow me and feel better about yourself, for I have the intellect of a clever potato.

Here's what active (winter) transport looks like in a walkable neighborhood.
The morning commute by sled, outside daycare in #Montreal's Mile-End.

Bonjour, amis francophones de l’autre côté de l'Atlantique, n'hésitez pas à rejoindre notre communauté ! Nos pays déjà représentés : FR, CH, BE (et IT, ES 🙂).

Hi, French-speaking friends on the other side of the pond, don't hesitate to join our community! Countries already represented: FR, CH, BE (and IT, ES 🙂).

#travel #travelphoto #travelphotograph #travelphotography #photo #photos #photography #photographie #quebec #canada #Montreal #gayfr

Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2019

West end Montreal communities rally to help medic who lost leg during illness

Clifford Jordan, a volunteer first responder in Côte-St-Luc, was rushed to hospital while visiting his parents in Barbados.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/west-end-communities-rally-to-help-medic-who-lost-leg-during-illness

#Montreal #firstresponder

Union Avenue, Montreal, Quebec. about 1900.

#DoYouSeeTheHorseAndSleigh
#Montreal #Winter #Snow #1900s #Canada

https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/

“I guess Browder didn’t trust his AI lawyer whispering in his AirPods to keep him out of jail for the unauthorized practice of law. And if he’s unwilling to eat his own dogfood that way, perhaps he shouldn’t be offering it to other people.” - @mmasnick

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/25/if-the-ai-lawyer-you-built-cant-keep-you-out-of-jail-maybe-its-time-to-hire-a-real-lawyer/

Hi, I’m online right now if you want to start boosting all of those funny things I missed.

this was the best thing I ever tweeted

#photo #photography #blackandwhite #photographie #noiretblanc #canada #quebec #québec #montreal #montreal

The right way to understand these laws is as an attempt to erase the public recognition and, in some cases, public existence of transgender people. To make the law, in other words, a tool for enforcing the closet. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/politics/transgender-laws-republicans.html

“an e-bike subsidy is 2.9 times more effective per dollar at displacing gasoline miles than a zero-emission vehicle subsidy.”

so i like this chait piece on republican debt ceiling extortion as an attack on democracy, but i think he could have developed the argument a little further to make this point, which is that beneath this hostility to democracy is a belief that republicans and republican constituencies are the only legitimate political actors, and thus their preferences represent the entire political community even when they are only those of a small minority. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/debt-ceiling-extortion-is-an-attack-on-democracy.html

all due love for fact checkers in an age of torrential misinformation but the pizza box thing is canon.

Haven’t encountered many trolls/creeps here. Like, shockingly few, compared to what I was used to . . . elsewhere. Have actually encountered more in the comments on my Substack. Just saying — if you show up with a Pepe the Frog avi talking about genetic superiority, you’re not staying.

Happy New Year to everybody except for Florida prison officials who decided this week to permanently ban my book.

I hope you are hungover for like two weeks.

#florida #bannedbooks #correctionsinink #journalism #criminaljustice

I needed to read this today. My New Years revolution is to live life vibrantly, like a benevolent alien.

I think it might help. 🧡