One Not Two 🏴🚩🌻

Stop this cruelty!!!!!!

Your silence in the face of someone being anti-Indigenous is loud. The fear of conflict. Like hey man, actually that’s anti-Indigenous for xyz, rethink that or let’s chat offline/in DMs and I can talk you through it.

For a brief couple of months in 2020 when Covid arrived, it seemed like people coming together for the greater good was going to be the trend going forward. Boy was I wrong.

tankies are the reason so many people despise communism and leftism. if your only exposure to the left is people deepthroating dictatorships ofc you'd think we're all hypocritical af. I used to think exactly that back in the day

@69L46 @adamscochran "The research shows that any mask is much better than no mask, and an N95 is significantly better than the other options." today.umd.edu/n95-masks-near… Another study showed that surgical mask filtration efficiency, *at the MPPS*, was ~63%, but only offered ~30% to 40% protection.

@69L46 @adamscochran 1. True 2. False. "Surgical masks brought up the rear in performance, but even they blocked 70% of the virus." 3. Virus size is irrelevant. Viruses travel in aerosols. The smallest particles are easier to trap than medium-size ones (~0.3 μm), the Most Penetrating Particle Size.

This is the correct protocol for 2 reasons: 1) N95’s are optimized to filter *incoming* air. Surgical masks are optimized to prevent contaminating the environment when exhaling. 2) The hantavirus 80–120 nm in body diameter. By comparison, COVID was 60-80 nm in body diameter (excluding spike proteins) While that may not seem dramatic it means a very large difference in actual mass of the pathogen. The larger and heavier pathogen size means it needs droplet vapor to carry, not just air. So the person you think is infected, wearing a surgical mask is effective as it traps droplets on exhalation. The staff wear n95s. The patients don’t. If someone is already infected there would be no statistical difference between them wearing an n95 and a surgical mask, so you do not need to waste the better equipment. In a quarantine facility the staff change over PPE and sterilize equipment between patient rooms, so there is zero risk of cross patient exposure. So only the staff need an n95.

CW RACISM, CPS: I’m a bit turned up tonight and want to get this out. I constantly think of Black kids who have Long Covid. CPS already disproportionately targets Black families. Throughout part of my career, I worked adjacent to CPS and saw the racism firsthand 1/4

@shrugdeaIer Happy birthday weekend! 🥳

Coasting into my birthday weekend like:

@kadamssl Congratulations to both of you!

This 📸 was taken at her kindergarten graduation. I was a single mom in the thick of my uni undergrad. Now this teeny tiny is graduating at the top of her class and has her pick of some of the country’s best programs. Mom just submitted her PhD application 🎓 Never give up.

#OtD 15 May 1919 30,000 workers across Winnipeg walked off their jobs, bringing the city to a halt. Although defeated by heavy police repression, the strike inspired many other workers, who won significant improvements over the coming decades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8712/W…

Indigenous peoples are not an identity category invented by capitalism. We are ongoing relations, languages, obligations, kinships, and place-based continuities that preexist and refuse colonial absorption.

This is exactly the problem with universalist ideologies. They can only imagine difference as something to dissolve into a single human future. Every peoplehood that refuses absorption gets treated as reactionary, nationalist, or an obstacle to history.

I saw an add on tv last night Promoting the spraying and killing of Dandelions treated as a pest that must be removed No concern that Bees will be poisoned or that one of their main sources of food will be gone or even the health hazards for humans themselves

Organized labour should exercise its power and use its leverage to pressure governments into cutting ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. Making demands without deadlines or ultimatums seems more performative than substantive.

It's good that @CanadianLabour has made demands to the Canadian government, but how will they follow-up if (when) their demands are ignored? Will there be a series of work stoppages? A general strike? ...or is this just another strongly worded letter with no consequences?

Former senior Canadian diplomats urge Ottawa to impose 'robust' sanctions on Israel ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

In January, a Mossad-linked Israeli group tried to “shut down” The Maple by contacting payment processors and demanding they cut off services to us. (This is not mentioned in the report) readthemaple.com/a-mossad-linke…

On May 15, Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakba. The count of land Israel has taken keeps growing today.

On May 15, Palestinians across historic Palestine and the diaspora commemorate the Nakba of 1948. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami explains how Zionist militias tore through Palestinian society and displaced some 800,000 people after the British laid the foundations for dispossession.

im a sobbing mess reading this news. she was just a kid. the stab wounds to her hands from trying to defend herself. how terrified she must have been. the cruel brutality of her murder juxtaposed with such a tender name like juniper blessing. im utterly destroyed.