Lance
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Frontend Developer / Project Manager Board Member @covidsociety.ca He/Him • So-called British Columbia • Just a no-class beat-down fool Opinions are my own
Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing climate fires across Europe and North America. Meanwhile the planet burners are making record profits. And they are hitting up the Canadian taxpayers for $100 billion for another pipeline. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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There were rallies across Canada last week, calling for more efficient and more transparent processing of immigration applications, as well as fair treatment in security screening. Some applicants have been waiting for 60 months without an answer.
Abuse Calls from Women Spiked During World Cup. Officials Were Warned via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
Abuse Calls from Women Spiked During World Cup. Officials Were Warned | The Tyee
Vancouver’s Battered Women’s Support Services, which tracked the rise, says government didn't properly plan.
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1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental Defence
Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealing
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"Kushner is the ‘chief negotiator’ for Israel and Gaza and Iran; and for Ukraine and Russia. He is not an elected or appointed official. He’s a mafia operative who is Trump’s son-in-law, which is how authoritarian kleptocracies work... (1/2)" youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...
The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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They think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
Perhaps a good time to point out that last year Long Covid surpassed asthma as the leading chronic illness in children. We need to limit the transmission. First step: Acknowledge it’s still happening & still a threat.
Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.
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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoThey think they're being clever eugenicists by saying that people with "underlying health issues" don't matter, but >75% of U.S. adults have a chronic condition (including 60% of age 18–34). So what they're really saying is "nobody matters, it's okay if everybody dies from inadequate regulation."
What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
Can’t reclaim selenium, the wetlands will be deadly ☠️ Don’t forget, Smith & Carney have made it so the oilsands toxic tailings waste can be dumped in the river. The Athabaska watershed will awash in deadly toxins in the next couple years. They are selling us out before we can stop them. 🇨🇦 #CdnPoli
Janet 🇨🇦@jansplanet.bsky.social · 4d ago“The operations of the Vista Coal Mine will include surface open-pit mining, highwall mining & construction of a freshwater pipeline. Permits allow Coalspur to divert up to 5,406,000 cubic metres of water annually. Wetlands reclamation is expected to take upwards of 20 years.” #FUCP #AbPoli #CdnPoli
Watching this unprecedented summer of drought, fire and heat unfold across Europe has just been awful. They're hitting temps the older, less catastrophic climate models told them wouldn't happen until 2050. We're in a new era.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d agoFirefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.
this is incredibly abnormal and scary. always a possibility this decade, extremely bizarre to experience in real time. we’ve got important stuff loaded in the car, not going anywhere at the moment because by all accounts traffic is already very bad www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city
A wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane.
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Never forget, we can double the # of people in a pedestrian street or people-place in 2 ways— by doubling the # of people who come (which is harder), or by doubling the length of time people stay (easier, but we often get this wrong). My kids played in this spot for an hour. Make streets magnetic.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Big Apple bench is going in. The ball chairs that were all soccer balls during the World Cup, now reflect all sorts of summer sports you can watch on Granville Street patios. Tonight’s Dominican Street Dance drew a crowd. And simple games help make the street magnetic. Week Two looking good.
Something I love doing is talking about fossil fuels as "19th century technology". Coal plants and gas plants are machines from CENTURIES ago. The combustion engine is silly. It gets people thinking about what modernity means but also, importantly, it makes fossil fuel guys mad online
(1/?) "Some of the autoimmune disorders repeatedly associated with previous COVID-19 infection included rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, vasculitis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease
COVID-19 Triggers Autoimmune Diseases Long After Infection - Thailand Medical News
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I've been living with ankylosis spondylitis for 20 years now, so trust me when I say that this is not something you want to inflict on yourself. Wear a mask and stop getting reinfected. A SARS virus isn't "just a cold," no matter how much you want to pretend it is.
Lady Lettera 😷 🍁@ladylettera32.bsky.social · 6d agoSo you know how I'm always harping on about N95s and HEPA filters? This is why. Even a mild COVID infection isn't "just" a COVID infection. It basically fucks up your immune system and tricks your body into attacking itself.
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@mark-ungrin.bsky.social has added more to his thread plus comments on that methodological & ethical hot mess "air purifiers don't work" study below. It's worth your time to read his posts and all the receipts he brings. And, then, get effing angry these murder 🤡 are still getting away with this 💩
Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 7d ago🧵: Even a brief examination of this article highlights a number of issues that the @uk.theconversation.com should address. The lead author has an *immense* undisclosed COI to deny aerosol mitigations are effective, due to his role in the "very big mistake" that wasted "an enormous number of lives".
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
The usual scientifically illiterate gibberish from deeply conflicted aerosol transmission deniers.
Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 3y ago🧵(1/n) An unfortunate example of confusion around the value of RCTs common to practitioners with limited research training. RCTs are a useful scientific method, but they are only a small part of the biomedical researcher's deep toolbox. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Anything, and I mean anything, Carney says or does will be rationalized. He can use right-wing rhetoric and institute policy indistinguishable from Poilievre's and someone will show up to defend it. Every single time. I've never seen anything like this in my lifetime.
Dean Brown@deanfb.bsky.social · last wk.You don’t have to be anti-immigrant to recognize basic economics. Adding people faster than we can build homes, expand infrastructure, and provide services drives up costs and strains supply. Sustainable immigration requires sustainable growth.
On some level, fact-checking Musk's "zero died" claim misses the point. He's communicating in a coded race-war trope that his global fascist audience will instantly grasp: Zero people died *who matter.* He sees these USAID cuts as a dry run for much worse to come. newrepublic.com/article/2135...
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
New article on wildfire smoke in the Canadian Medical Association Journal 🍁 "Relying on people to protect themselves is not enough & top-down strategies such as building measures to ensure quality of indoor air & legislation to protect outdoor workers are needed" www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Wildfire smoke air pollution: new approaches needed to protect people affected
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Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get nearly enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air & cooling the city.
here’s a partial update: I broke my phone, I’m homeless, looks like laptop screen went kerplooey from the heat. i gotta figure out some plans and im not exactly Captain Functional atm So here’s me, passing the hat. Need some help e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com
karen ward@kwardvancouver.bsky.social · last mo.hi my difficulties continue and i need to pass the hat around to ask for help, if anyone is able to chip in a few bucks, its greatly appreciated e-transfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com here is a GIF
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Reality doesn’t care about political talking points. This isn’t because Spain and France forgot to rake the forest. This is climate change, plain and simple, and it’s only going to get worse. 🚨 Nearly 200,000 people are running for their lives from out-of-control wildfires.
