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N.P. Thompson 🍁

@nptwrites.bsky.social

Canadian author of magical middle grade books. Probably in the garden. CHALICE OF CALADRIAI, book 4 of The Arcanium Saga now available! books2read.com/NPTwrites | shop.nptwrites.com | nptwrites.com/links (Also: @CanadaFictionFest.bsky.social)

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N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · 3h ago

Okay, #WritingCommunity people... how do you keep going when you hit the "I don't know why I even bother anymore" wall? In between the day job stress, gAI nonsense, pathetic lack of sales, can't get reviews, people who think they should have a right to steal books... I am so tired. 😔

Patrick Canning 🇨🇦@patrickcanning.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember what matters. Our lives are short, but the future stretches out forever. Everyone says "take care of yourself" but in my view, frankly, that is a juvenile approach to life. Take care of your children, of all children, of the future. Deprioritise your "self." Their future is in our hands.

4-year-old hands with pink, purple and green paint on them, palms down, rest in adult hands, palms up.
PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 9h ago

The Right seems to think PressProgress is dying. That couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s been an eventful few weeks here at PressProgress. Here are some updates 👇🏽

N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · 10h ago

I will never understand how prediction markets are even legal. Anyone with even the tiniest bit of sense could have foreseen the damage they would do.

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 10h ago

Prediction markets are turning real-world events into tradable assets—and business is booming. Writer Kyle Volpi Hiebert examines why critics say regulators need to step in before the stakes get even higher: https://thewalrus.ca/prediction-markets-corrupt-everything-they-touch/

On the left: a closeup image of various numbers in pixelated rainbow text on a lightboard. On the right: text that reads “Prediction markets corrupt everything they touch. Governments are finally waking up to the cost of turning tragedy into a tradable commodity.”
N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · yesterday

If you like your fantasy with action and snark and characters you can really get invested in, check out my Arcanium series! Paperbacks are available most places, and you can get the ebooks via Kobo, Payhip, and Itchio! #BookSky #reading www.kobo.com/en/series/th...

N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The latest book in the series is Chalice of Caladriai. It picks up 6 months after the end of book 3 and pitches the team into a series of deadly trials in an effort to save a friend, while uncovering a long-buried secret on the way! #BookSky #books ➡️ books2read.com/ChaliceOfCaladriai

A paperback copy of Chalice of Caladriai against a snowy purple background. Text in the bottom-right corner reads "Book 4" and "books2read.com/ChaliceOfCaladriai".
Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · yesterday

As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News

Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉@alonghurst.bsky.social · 2d ago

This US resident has insurance and this is the bill he got for a single visit to the ER Canadians, we have so much to lose and nothing to gain from a two-tier system with private insurance like the Alberta gov is pushing

Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 2d ago

I realize the Europeans have largely gone to bed, but: I got bitten by a dog yesterday and had a bad reaction to it and ended up throwing up all night last night. My wife made me go to the emergency room; I've gotten IV fluids and an abdominal ultrasound. This is what I had to pay. I have insurance.

$3,894.00
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨FOR PETE’S SAKE PEOPLE, DO NOT EAT THINGS YOU THINK MIGHT BE WILD CARROT/QUEEN ANNE’S LACE UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE WILD HEMLOCK LOOKS A LOT LIKE WILD CARROT AND IS BAD NEWS FOR THE HUMAN BODY www.dcmga.com/wp-content/u...

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Alan@gammacounter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Only learned recently that this thing I’ve been calling Queen Anne’s Lace for most of my life is actually also called a “wild carrot.” Totally blew my mind. I didn’t eat it, but it *smells like a carrot*. There were hundreds, so I pulled one and washed off the dirt at the riverbank.  

The wild carrot lying on its side over some old bonfire with bits of charcoal, the point of the carrot is pointing to our right, and the green part is to the left. The carrot is slender, pale, almost like an off-white color and alongside the shaft of the main carrot, there are many roots that go out almost in right angles.
C.H. Romatowski@chromatowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

“PASC [Long Covid] is estimated to affect up to 5.8 million children” in the US, surpassing asthma as the most common chronic condition in American children.

Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in Children

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant medical, social, and economic impacts globally, both in the short and long term. Although most individuals recover within a few days or weeks from an acute infection, some experience longer lasting effects. Data regarding the postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (PASC) in children, or long COVID, are only just emerging in the literature. These symptoms and conditions may reflect persistent symptoms from acute infection (eg, cough, headaches, fatigue, and loss of taste and smell), new symptoms like dizziness, or exacerbation of underlying conditions. Children may develop conditions de novo, including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune conditions and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. This state-of-the-art narrative review provides a summary of our current knowledge about PASC in children, including prevalence, epidemiology, risk factors, clinical characteristics, underlying mechanisms, and functional outcomes, as well as a conceptual framework for PASC based on the current National Institutes of Health definition. We highlight the pediatric components of the National Institutes of Health-funded Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Initiative, which seeks to characterize the natural history, mechanisms, and long-term health effects of PASC in children and young adults to inform future treatment and prevention efforts. These initiatives include electronic health record cohorts, which offer rapid assessments at scale with geographical and demographic diversity, as well as longitudinal prospective observational cohorts, to estimate disease burden, illness trajectory, pathobiology, and clinical manifestations and outcomes.

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N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think education is also an issue here. My kids did NOT get taught about HIV (or even basic internal reproductive anatomy) in school and I was horrified (and had to teach that myself b/c omg critical knowledge gap). When I was in school we got taught ALL of that stuff. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

New HIV infections in Canada are rising. Advocates say years of progress are at risk | CBC News

Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada said HIV infections in the country increased by 22.8 per cent. Advocates say previous momentum to eliminate HIV as a public health threat has slowed and wa...

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N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

I was in the middle of the last chapter (I think) of the book I'm currently reading and my e-reader rudely shut down and insisted I plug it in. 😒 The suspense may kill me. (Yes, I always preferred paperbacks until my eyesight got so bad that being able to blow up the font became hugely important.)

N.P. Thompson 🍁@nptwrites.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have somehow lost one of the nose pads on my distance glasses, and it looks like the little hoop thingy it was on is bent, so that's great. On the Saturday of a long weekend, so can't take them anywhere to get them fixed. 🙃

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.