when covid started, and I was alarmed by the growing public acceptance of and tolerance for openly eugenicist rhetoric about disabled, sick and vulnerable people, I said as much, repeatedly, and loads of academics and doctors told me I was overreacting and hyperbolic (subtext: hysterical)

Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · yesterday

What is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take

Nora is awake! Vet tech said it went really really well and she’s just napping in recovery ❤️ What a relief! 4:30 can’t come soon enough

Jenn Allen@jenn-allen.bsky.social · 8h ago

Said goodbye to the sweetest tail this morning ❤️‍🩹 She’ll be real loopy when I pick her up, more so than last time as she’s getting a fentanyl patch. The vet is going to save me some tail fluff 🥺❤️‍🩹

Published in the Boston Globe a few weeks before ChatGPT was released in 2022.

Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · yesterday

What is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take

Said goodbye to the sweetest tail this morning ❤️‍🩹 She’ll be real loopy when I pick her up, more so than last time as she’s getting a fentanyl patch. The vet is going to save me some tail fluff 🥺❤️‍🩹

Nearly 350 laboratory technicians and technologists at Dynacare’s 22 laboratory and health services centres in Manitoba have voted in favour of a strike.

Strike mandate for Dynacare workers

Nearly 350 laboratory technicians and technologists at Dynacare’s 22 laboratory and health services centres in Manitoba have voted in favour of a strike.

winnipegfreepress.com

Grocery store checkout teen: Bruh what is this song? Me: Rude Boy. Teen: Sorry, ma'am, I didn't see you there. Me: No, that's the name of the song. Rude Boy? By Rihanna? Teen: Oh, this is the oldies station, I guess.

Babe, you can't spend more money on creating a problem than solving it. $34million for fixing climate change when you're spending significantly more to build pipelines, sell off green space, etc. is not only dogshit economic policy, it's downright offensive. Do not applaud for these crumbs.

Federal government announces $34M to help communities cope with climate change

The federal government is spending $34 million on projects to make Canadian communities more resilient to the effects of climate change.

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I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

Why are people relying on machines to feed their animals they (presumably) purposely decided to take care of?

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Petlibro says it’s working to resolve a ‘service issue’ that’s causing its smart feeders not to dispense food on schedule. www.theverge.com/tech/979295/...

Mystery

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Europe is the world’s fastest warming continent. What is to blame?

The future we were promised: Flying cars The future we got: Pervert glasses with an app that can undress women in real time.

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

The bad news is that tail amputation is confirmed to be medically necessary for Nora, but the good news is that her vet is very confident she will still have a nub to cover her bum and wag around. So she'll be joining the Nub Club on Friday.

Some of the most radical mutual aid work in America is coming out of the communities still advocating for public awareness on SARS2/COVID & the importance of filtering the air. Whether its wildfire smoke, or the acceleration of airborne disease events, masking is 100% part of our future.

Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 5d ago

I spoke to the mutual aid groups and mask blocs combatting the spread of COVID and viral illness by freely distributing masks and tests and lending out air purifiers — who nationally have now distributed thousands of masks for wildfire smoke, too, amid an anti-public health admin @us.theguardian.com

On stage and screen there are no small roles, but there are small actors.

Pup performance

Local pooches get time in spotlight on Rainbow Stage

winnipegfreepress.com

A northbound cyclist getting hit by a westbound driver likely entered the intersection well before the driver was nearby, even more so if the driver is traveling at a higher rate of speed than the limit.

Winnipeg cyclist riding in bike lane knocked down by police cruiser

Police say a 37-year-old cyclist needed to be hospitalized after being knocked down by a Winnipeg Police Service cruiser on Friday night. The WPS says it happened at Portage Avenue at Garry Street aro...

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I appreciate the president of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association mentioning how advances in tech are good on its surface but can also make it harder on pet parents because now you CAN save your pet, but can you afford to? That guilt is very real.

Pet owners grapple with high costs and hard decisions for their aging companions

While veterinary medicine has advanced, people are now forced to evaluate whether they can afford expensive surgeries and end-of-life care for their pets, and whether or not it’s worth it

theglobeandmail.com

1. Vaccines do not "cause" autism 2. I want to live in a society, that even if it did, the answer would be "so what?" 3. Some parents think having a neurodivergent child is worse than having a dead child

Dang brutal feedback from my grandma

Nora has another low grade mast cell tumour that needs to be removed, and I could use some help with the cost, as I only have partial insurance and am recovering financially from her first surgery a month ago. Thank you. gofund.me/e7bdf8e45

Jenn Allen@jenn-allen.bsky.social · last wk.

Unfortunately, we celebrated too soon. I found another lump today, this one on her tail, and took her in for another fine needle aspiration.

Huh. All of them were in the last decade. I wonder if something has changed. Like, climatically. But surely if that were the case, a timeline of the effects of this phenomenon would at least mention the phenomenon in question. It would be ridiculous not to.

CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here’s a list of B.C.’s most destructive wildfire seasons

Is it me or do we rarely hear the 'affordability' discourse—so often deployed by various Canadian governments—in the same breath as climate change?

Rick Harp@rickharp.bsky.social · 6d ago

“The most common refrain I hear from climate deniers is that green policies are some kind of luxury divorced from the worries of working people who are just trying to get by. But the idea that you can separate the climate crisis from the cost of living is patently absurd.”

Living conditions driving hepatitis A outbreaks in some First Nations today mirror those in residential schools decades ago. zurl.co/ZhCC9

It’s another low grade mast cell tumour that will need to be removed. The tail is very tricky to operate on and while I haven’t been able to discuss the surgical plan with the vet yet, I’ve read that tail amputation is likely.

Jenn Allen@jenn-allen.bsky.social · last wk.

Unfortunately, we celebrated too soon. I found another lump today, this one on her tail, and took her in for another fine needle aspiration.

Yet another article talking to everyone *but* the people directly impacted by these inhumane sweeps, but hey, they included photos of them

Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 7d ago

Drawing a lighter from his pocket, a shirtless man perched on a concrete wall outside United Way Winnipeg’s Main Street headquarters heats a substance in a glass pipe and moves the tube toward his mouth.

I'm a lifelong reader & absolutely read books to earn my Pizza Hut pizza (IYKYK) But this new trend of "Reading as a performative, competitive sport" sucks. It's directly tied to the popularity of very bad books because people are just mainlining books at a WILD speed to get the numbers.

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · last wk.

We say we read for pleasure. Then we track it like performance. Here, author Thea Lim argues that our obsession with rankings, ratings, and reading goals reflects a market mindset that flattens art into a competition. https://thewalrus.ca/abolish-the-top-ten-books-list/

I am “this restaurant is too loud” years old.

I can’t get the city to do anything to save mature boulevard trees from guys with heavy machinery that have the company’s name plastered on the side in foot-high letters but we’ll spend hundreds of thousands harassing poor people and arresting them for things other than what we claim the problem is.

Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · last wk.

The Winnipeg Police Service is restarting a drug enforcement campaign in certain neighbourhoods Friday after a 10-day initiative led to more than 100 arrests – eight for drug possession or trafficking – earlier this summer.

Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why? Reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather don't consistently connect the dots to fossil fuels, leaving Canadians without the context they need to understand the unfolding crisis. @sfu.ca's Tara Mahoney explains: ricochet.media/media/canada...

Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?

When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfo...

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