Heartbreaking immigrant child labour in the US. (As always, a reminder that you can access today's NYT via the public library website.) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?
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Urban cyclist, vegan, settler on Musqueam Territory. Retired children's book author-illustrator and animator. Now making art at my own pace.
Ron Chusid 
Avian flu is a serious problem for animals already. With a mortality rate of over 50% in humans we must be prepared should it mutate to more easily spread to us. Our record re Covid is not encouraging.
#BirdFlu https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/02/avian-bird-flu-virus-outbreak-epidemic/673058/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
#BirdFlu https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/02/avian-bird-flu-virus-outbreak-epidemic/673058/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
The Narwhal on the steps of the courthouse downtown explain events that led to their decision to sue the RCMP. They are supported by the Canadian Press Association. You can join the hundreds of people who have donated to help with their legal fees, which will no doubt be substantial. https://www.youtube.com/live/SFhfwoYTBBw?feature=share
Why The Narwhal is suing the RCMP
I am furious at the RCMP for acting as mercenaries for industry, as well as their racism, sexism, tinpot arrogance, lack of accountability, and antidemocratic suppression of a free press. Yes, sue the bastards! Just donated to support the Narwhal's @thenarwhal legal action. https://thenarwhal.ca/bracken-rcmp-case-faq/
Plague PoemsMy coworker jokes
that today is not
the fourth day of 2023
but the one thousand and
ninety-ninth day of 2020,
and though I chuckled
at his woebegone comment
I do hope he understands
that no matter how
we measure the days
the time the plague has stolen
will not be returned to us.
that today is not
the fourth day of 2023
but the one thousand and
ninety-ninth day of 2020,
and though I chuckled
at his woebegone comment
I do hope he understands
that no matter how
we measure the days
the time the plague has stolen
will not be returned to us.
Recent study showing that bike lanes increase public health fails to differentiate between kinds of bike lane. Interesting to me because I'm still recovering from a bad cycling accident in July 2022 caused by dooring.
". . . we need to stop painting door zone bike lanes and start creating barrier protected cycle tracks. . . Riding in the so-called door zone can be fatal if someone in a parked car opens their door at the wrong time . . ." Anne Lusk, research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. #cycling #bikelanes #urbancycling
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A
". . . we need to stop painting door zone bike lanes and start creating barrier protected cycle tracks. . . Riding in the so-called door zone can be fatal if someone in a parked car opens their door at the wrong time . . ." Anne Lusk, research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. #cycling #bikelanes #urbancycling
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-costbenefit-bike-lanes-idUSKCN11Z23A
Steffen ChristensenFuckeroo.
"Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.
This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.
If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced."
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]afe/109630506194830406
Today's WHO report on new covid variant XBB-1.5 by Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove. See 15:30 - 20:0 minutes.
Now accounting for 40% of hospitalizations in US NE, this variant originating in New York is the most evasive variant of covid19 to date. #covid19 #xbb15 #who
https://youtu.be/QEE_EOCg83g
Now accounting for 40% of hospitalizations in US NE, this variant originating in New York is the most evasive variant of covid19 to date. #covid19 #xbb15 #who
https://youtu.be/QEE_EOCg83g
LIVE: Media briefing on global health issues
Mallory 🏳️⚧️I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:
Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".
Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun