The most shocking aspect of @globalnews.ca interview with Toronto Fire Chief Jessop is that the Federal @mark-carney.bsky.social govt has no requirement for Lithium-ion batteries for e-bikes etc to meet any standard eg UCL or CSA. Any poorly made Li-ion battery can be bought on Amazon/eBay. #cdnpoli

There’s nothing quite like a new bridge. Canada built this, but USA gets to profit and got a take. Leeches.

Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍁🇨🇦🐶@bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 14h ago

Good luck, Justin! 👏🏼👏🏼

LOL @ last line!! My award-winning first novel in The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy: jeejeebhoy.ca/library/the-... And my award-winning self-help book on healing #BrainInjury grief: jeejeebhoy.ca/library/brai... For more empowering dystopian set in Toronto: jeejeebhoy.ca/library/time... #WriteStuff

The Soul's Awakening - Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy

The first book in a new trilogy written by Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy, The Soul's Awakening explores what if afterlife is just the beginning.

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Check out my very non-dystopian children's comics! lol #writestuff

If it makes you feel better, every case I've ever found where children wound up trapped in a survival situation, they banded together and helped each other to survive. There are cases of groups of schoolchildren surviving for years on their own. I based a book on that notion.

Everything I Know about Zombies, I Learned in Kindergarten

Finalist for Foreword Reviews' IndieFab Novel of the Year for Multicultural fiction and Horror. Even before the apocalypse, nine-year-old Letitia Johnson's life had never been simple. Shuttled from fo...

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www.royalroad.com/fiction/1485... Check out the Ninth Drift where members of the community come together to deal with the consequences of unregulated capitalism and also ghosts.

The Ninth Drift

In a small desert village, sometimes you have to wear a lot of hats. Enya Warden-Ernest is a pillar in her Chunish community, and is, among other things, a mother, a teamster, a chaplain, and a necrom...

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Wow. He was such a presence in our lives for so long. His retirement felt like the end of an era. Sad news. #RIP

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · yesterday

Lloyd Robertson has died. Born in 1934 in Stratford, he was one of Canada's most celebrated journalists. He was the anchor of CTV's national nightly news from 1984 to 2011. He was also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television. 📸 CTV

I was looking for CO2 levels at 8C global warming when I came across this 2019 article. Don’t know why search didn’t bring it up in my #novel research. 🙄 Anyway reinforces my belief we’re underestimating #ClimateChange. Every system has a tipping point. #Writing #SFF jeejeebhoy.ca/library/the-...

Helps with allergies and smoke to. Also, people (men) don’t tell you to smile more😂 And if your seat mate is stinky, pop a peppermint in your mouth under the mask (old nurse trick)

Ward Q. Normal (he/him)@wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.

Dear 🇨🇦 As we saw with the Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto, this government actually listens to the ppl. So now they want to know what you want from AI! So be loud & proud 🇨🇦 voice your concerns, instead of screaming at the sky.... fill in the survey! #BuyCanadian 🇨🇦 #BoycottUSA 🇺🇸/🇮🇱

SoundsKugle 🐝🌅@soundskugle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reminder to fellow 🇨🇦ians that we can currently have a say on #AI ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en... #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📢

Basically, everything Premier Ford of Ontario criticized and got rid of against Torontonian wishes, they advocate strongly for to prevent deaths. Our politicians are killing us. #onpoli #TOpoli

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm just a vulnerable road user ranting about road safety and the need for lower speed limits. Let's see what the professionals at the International Transport Forum at the OECD say… Oh. www.itf-oecd.org/monitoring-p...

The term I keep coming back to for this stuff is "Feedback Slop", because it's part of a vicious cycle in the creative ecosystem. Step 1: steal and copy everyone's work. Step 2: flood the web with generative crap (making it harder for human content to cut through the noise.) ....

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

I need a 2nd cup of coffee. ☕️ Which wildfire smoke is polluting Toronto’s air today? It’s exhausting. Making it hard to focus on editing today’s chapter! #Writing #WritingCommunity #BrainInjury #NaNoWriMo bsky.app/profile/shir...

Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy @shireen.link · 5d ago

I get few book sales, so logging in to IngramSpark and seeing my novels sold (one copy each on different days) rather surprised me. Of course, IS doesn't tell you the dates or which bookstores. Tis a palaver to figure out former. All I know is 13 in US; 1 in India; 0 in Canada. 👀 #WritingCommunity

🛩️ v 🏖️ People who aren’t used to winning, won. At the same time, people who often win lost for once. The losers are throwing tantrums. Winners should take the win to heart because it truly belongs to them & no one else. My column on this remarkable grassroots mobilization in @thestar.com

Shawn Micallef: The Billy Bishop expansion pause was a real win for the people. But don’t put away those No Jets signs just yet

The federal government’s decision to pause the Billy Bishop expansion means that people who often win lost for once — are taking it badly.

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Next article in my serialization of excerpts from my #memoir: "Salvation: Sitting Still for a Brain Injury Assessment". #offprint https://brain-injury-travails.offprint.app/a/3mrxmhlczm223-salvation-sitting-still-for-a-brain-injury-assessment #BrainInjury #EEG #neurostimulation #PsychologyToday

Salvation: Sitting Still for a Brain Injury Assessment

qEEG is a safe and powerful—but neglected—way to measure brain activity after injury, not just for epilepsy and sleep studies.

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As I'm blogging Brain Injury Travails, I stumble on Kirkus Reviews of Concussion Is #BrainInjury. Love their intro: "In this revised version of her original 2012 publication, Canadian novelist and biographer Jeejeebhoy (Aban’s Accension, 2013, etc.)...creating an immersive, multifaceted #memoir."

CONCUSSION IS BRAIN INJURY | Kirkus Reviews

A brush with a life-threatening accident spurs a writer to investigate the “hidden epidemic” of debilitating brain trauma.

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I get few book sales, so logging in to IngramSpark and seeing my novels sold (one copy each on different days) rather surprised me. Of course, IS doesn't tell you the dates or which bookstores. Tis a palaver to figure out former. All I know is 13 in US; 1 in India; 0 in Canada. 👀 #WritingCommunity

Home - Shireen's Place of Books and Blogs

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1. It's a fun action movie. A line that got cut but sums up some of my overall feelings: This Odyssey is not a rich, satisfying Homeric banquet, but sometimes in the heat, an ice-cold Philly water ice is all you want - even it's mostly sugar and food coloring, and makes no nutritional sense.

A friend sent me the NYT Cooking recipe for one-bowl Pound Cake, which uses cornmeal and yoghurt. Didn’t have either. Commenters suggested almond meal and chopped orange. Oooohhh. Made it. Soooo good. Crunchy crust, airy crumb, hits of orange and almond.

3 followers away from 3000. 3 for 3. 😄

In case you missed it, the first blog I set up in the Atmosphere (AT Proto) was on #BrainInjury. "Salvation: Finding Treatments to Restore Injured Neurons". #offprint https://brain-injury-travails.offprint.app/a/3mqmynbklps23-salvation-finding-treatments-to-restore-injured-neurons #BlogPost

Salvation: Finding Treatments to Restore Injured Neurons

Seeking and finding treatment for my brain injury began with googling ADD. A reprint from Psychology Today.

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The next step in moving my blogs to the Atmosphere is setting up a subdomain on my website and pointing it to my custom domain #Offprint blog. "Moving My Blog to The Atmosphere aka AT Proto".✅ #BlogPost letters.jeejeebhoy.ca/a/3mrgjc265m...

Moving My Blog to The Atmosphere aka AT Proto

Blogging used to be fun. Then it became energy-consuming. AT Proto brings the best part of the past and, hopefully, will renew my blogging.

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The ideal life. 😛

Frog and Toad Bot@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 6d ago

“There,” said Toad. “Now my day is all written down.”

Electric motors have full torque from standstill. Electric trains (especially if actually overhead wires like GO should have) accelerate much faster than diesel trains because they have all the instantaneous power they need. One of the examples of where better for the environment is better for all.

“Today we are standing up for everyone who felt the impact of the rising cost of... everything, really," says Chow. She says surveillance pricing is "really unfair -- an item being sold with two different prices depending on who you are and when you're shopping."

Don’t waste your life or the lives of others.

What if acute COVID seems gone, but parts of the virus aren’t? Our lab is using advanced imaging to see what conventional methods miss, and turn those discoveries into urgently needed #LongCOVID treatments. 🔬 The evidence 👇🏻

Ali Maximilian Erturk@erturklab.bsky.social · 7d ago

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years👇🏻. We develop advanced imaging/AI to cure Long COVID & beyond👇🏻. Join us 🤗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

💯! Outrageous that the province would expropriate city land. Just one thing after another with Ford from trees cut down at Osgoode Hall and Ontario Place to shuttering Ontario Science Centre to narrower part-above-ground subway to this. We need Charter City status. Where are we in that fight?

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · last wk.

Bradford says he'll support Chow's motion demanding the Ford government give the land back. "This land belongs to the people of Toronto." "Torontonians must have a say in consequential decisions, and I think this council chamber is united in that."

I’m not sure which impresses me more: the neatness of their raid or drinking tea. 😄🦝

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last wk.

And he didn’t seem to like the shortbread or ginger cookies, or any of the other fruits and vegetables available. However, he unscrewed the natural peanut butter and ate half of that. Laid the lid neatly beside the jar. And finished off his midnight feast with half a jug of sassafras iced tea.