Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPtPalantir - named in my report for complicity in Israel’s crimes - is a threat to all of us. Palestinians were only the first in line.
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Canadian autoworker. Small "L" liberal. Devout atheist. Living on the Niagara Escarpment in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada. Fully vaxxed.
Angus Andrea Grieve-SmithNew post: Nine observations from three and a half years of carbon dioxide monitoring. #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne
https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2026/03/nine-observations-from-carbon-dioxide-monitoring/
Nine observations from carbon dioxide monitoring
Introduction In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic I learned that we can estimate our level of risk by checking the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air, because when infected people breathe out virus aerosols, they also breathe out CO2. I recently wrote about some limitations on this
VessOnSecurityThis is a hilarious commentary on the US/Israeli war with Iran:
"God is a comedian":
Roy Brander🍁I post this often, it's been forgotten, and today of all days, everybody should read this.
If you bomb the power plants, the water treatment will stop, the plagues of cholera and typhus will begin, and hundreds of thousands of children will die.
It already happened, 35 years ago; they did it in Iraq, and the Pentagon accepted the figure of 170,000 dead children under 5. (Before you get a full immune system.)
https://archive.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/0623strategy.htm
Copy of WaPo, June 23, 1991
Hanno Rein@sundogplanets, Aaron Boley, and I have written an article in The Conversation Canada about the extremely stupid idea of putting a million satellites into orbit as AI data centres. We include some new simulations of how many satellites will be visible in the night sky if this goes ahead (left) compared to all the Starlink satellites already visible today (right). It's bad.
𝙉𝙤𝙖𝙝 𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛There are a few really popular accounts here on the Fediverse that I muted some time ago. It’s not that I don’t understand why folks follow them, it’s more that I couldn’t understand why I felt like those accounts bothered me so much. I mean…it’s folks like Robert Reich and George Takei so it’s certainly not a content issue, and I love reading them under other circumstances.
It took me a while to tease it out and it ultimately comes down to the difference between the Fediverse and sites like Twitter.
When I had an account there I rarely posted anything and after a few attempts to participate in conversations, realized that I was whispering at a Throbbing Gristle concert and no one was hearing me.
So when you look at accounts like Robert Reich or George Takei, they’re not actually here, they’re just mirrors of content they write elsewhere. So even though I see people responding to those posts as if they’re writing to a specific person, they might as well be replying to a bot.
Take as a counterpoint folks like @RickiTarr or @TheBreadmonkey. Very popular accounts, thousands of followers, but they’re actually here, they’re a part of the ecosystem and will boost, reply, favorite, etc.
I love that about this wild, weird, little slice of internet. I think that’s why I muted folks like Robert Reich, they’re not actually here to interact, they’re ultimately not a part of the community. They’re just here so they can access us, not interact with us. That’s not why I’m here. If I reply to someone, I want to know there’s a high likelihood they see it, whether or not they choose to respond to it.
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ETA: A few folks have pointed out that they've gotten replies from George Takei so it seems that this is more my personal experience there and there is at least a human on the other end of the posts which I'm glad to be wrong about as I adore George Takei.
Canadian, home for nowRE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116272165933204307
Alberta separatists take note.
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Here’s a crazy idea: what if news orgs included Trump’s deranged Truth Social posts verbatim (screenshots) when quoting him on policy, so people can see what a maniacal lunatic he is, instead of sanewashing his screeds to make them sound legitimate.
Isn’t that what real journalists would do?
Richard LittlerAliens: "We don't understand why 8.2 billion humans are just standing by while a tiny (tiny!!) fraction of narcissistic, flagrantly benighted terrestrial fucknuggets ruin the planet and risk the future of the species. It makes no sense."
Hello! I’ve just moved over here, but have been on Mastodon since the great Twitter migration of 2022. I’m looking forward to reading or interacting with all of your posts from my new vantage point here at TheCanadian.Social. 😁 #introduction