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Stage 4 breast cancer haver, now experiencing metastasis to the brain as well as the lungs. Probably not gonna make it, but that's just how it goes! You live until you don't and then it's someone else's problem :)

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i love this so much! i love how they're saying sounds i've never heard in my life and out of nowhere "is the day unlucky?" i could go back in time and ask somebody "is the day unlucky?" and they'd know exactly what i said

norse and old english were mutually intelligible languages. movies and TV portray them as if these people couldn't communicate easily, but norse grammarians at the time talked about the anglo-saxons speaking a dialect of norse. here's two norse & old english scholars demonstrating

A Conversation in Old English and Old Norseyoutu.be Were Old Norse and Old English really mutually intelligible? Jackson Crawford and @simonroper9218 set out to test this often-asserted statement as best as th...

I'm in hospital (again!!) and eating the most terrible food. So this effort to move toward more healthy/sustainable traditional food options is very appealing! The steroids have made me (temporarily?!) diabetic and they give me sooo much refined sugar. I have to pull teeth to get a packet of salt.

Whether to return Indigenous foodways to the healing process or to slash climate-impacting food services, hospitals are reimagining their menus. 🏥🥪 Here’s what works.

A Coastal Revolution in Hospital Food | The Tyeethetyee.ca How health-care visionaries are creating tasty, culturally friendly menus while cutting waste and carbon emissions.

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Wow, that's a big deal. So much of what we believe to be natural, true and inevitable is increasingly turning out to be just propaganda for the rich & powerful.

"Scientists now believe that between 10,000 and 20,000 large-scale sites remain to be discovered across Amazonia. Similarly startling finds are emerging from Southeast Asia, and we might reasonably expect them from the forested parts of the African continent too." 🧪

An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essaysaeon.co A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms

omg my personal information has been involved in a minimum of 3 data breaches. First one a couple years ago at LifeLabs, second one earlier this year from a pharma charity org where they got a LOT of extremely private information about me. Third one in May from Ticketmaster. Cloud data is not safe!

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How it started, how it’s going

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Haaretz reports that the Hannibal directive was used systematically on October 7th against at least three of Israel’s own military bases, civilians hiding in open areas between kibbutzim and the Gaza fence, and hostages being taken to Gaza. Use of armed drones, tank shelling, apaches. Gift link:

IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captivewww.haaretz.com ***

I did not appreciate Bruce Cockburn enough as a kid but this is how you write an anti-war song. I've had constant recurring thoughts just like this throughout the past 9 months. Gaza is our Vietnam.

youtu.be/O9HFjErMMlA?...

Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcheryoutu.be "Playlist Best of Bruce Cockburn https://goo.gl/iKLZmnSubscribe for more https://goo.gl/k87a2K"Music video by Bruce Cockburn performing If I Had A Rocket Lau...

facebook memories are only ever so rarely any good. but i just got one that told me 15 years ago today it rained and i had the homemade cabbage rolls from the neighbourhood italian deli that closed down a few years ago now, so that's a pretty fond one

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Revisiting three unsolved Nashville bombings, Betsy Phillips reveals a racist terrorist network, "The Confederate Underground," committing nationwide acts of violence against integration efforts in the late 1950’s and early 1960s. Forthcoming 14 July.

From 1957-1960, Nashville experienced 3 bombings - an elementary school that had just been integrated, the home of a city council member who was also a prominent Civil Rights attorney, and a synagogue. Betsy Phillips examines these bombings and why they remain unsolved. #PhotoFriday #Histbookchat

Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers beyond their Control: Phillips, Betsy: 9798986614571: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers beyond their Control [Phillips, Betsy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers beyond their Control

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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

Joe Biden has a chance to do the funniest thing right now

Sotomayor says this decision gives the US president a "loaded weapon" to use for his own interests. "Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

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The school censored a student, and now everything they tried to stop her from saying about them has become national news. How, in the year of our Lord 2024, do people still not know about the Streisand Effect?

Abbotsford student's speech about accessibility challenges at her school censored by administratorsbc.ctvnews.ca As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford.

I'm having a real "I follow way too many Americans" moment on here today. No offense to all of you or your warranted anxieties, you're by and large very good people! But I sure am filling out my muted words list today. I have no place in these conversations.

Screening at 40 is not "early" screening. It's still a long shot away from protecting women like me, diagnosed stage 4 at 36, or another woman from work I'm close friends with, diagnosed at 30. Breast cancer is hitting younger and younger and heel dragging on early screening is killing us.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care does not recommend breast cancer screening for women aged 40 to 49. Meanwhile, rates of breast cancer are rising in younger women, and early detection can save lives.

Why Canada’s New Breast Cancer Guidelines Are Misguided | The Tyeethetyee.ca They advise against screening women in their 40s. But early detection can save lives.

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The Canadian government announced another round of settler designations. Importantly, this one include Amana, the settler construction arm. This is already a big deal and could get bigger if the US joins on this one.

Canada imposes second round of sanctions on perpetrators of extremist settler violence against civilians in West Bankwww.canada.ca The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada is imposing new sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Extremist Settler Violence) Regulations.

I just looked up information on clonazepam withdrawal and tapering methods and everything I've seen is saying that going cold turkey enormously increases the likelihood of long term confusion, poor cognitive function, and poor memory. That explains a LOT about Jordan Peterson!!

Oh great, the one Tesla feature I thought was pretty cool turns out to be not so cool, literally

a little behind on this one, but uh... please don't rely on Tesla's "Dog Mode" to keep your dog from dying insideevs.com/news/724121/...

Some Tesla Owners Report Malfunctioning Dog Mode In New Updateinsideevs.com Be a little extra cautious when enabling Dog Mode in Tesla's recent software update.

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“But here’s what’s not in the report: The injuries to Native people were not just an unforeseen byproduct of federal dam building. They were, in fact, taken into account at the time. And federal leaders considered that damage a good thing.[…] government documents from the 1940s and 1950s ….”👇🏽

The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out.

The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out.www.propublica.org The Biden administration said officials historically gave “little, if any, consideration” to impacts on tribal fishing. But some sought deliberately to upend the harvest, according to documents obtain...

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a great cbc vancouver piece from 1968 or 1969, about the "cool aid" hostel in that city, which served transient youths. (cool aid vancouver pre-dated but did not last as long as cool aid victoria.) #bchist #cdnhist @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social @jmcelroy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERq...

The Cool-Aid House: Documentary (1968-9) [Vancouver, BC, Canada]www.youtube.com Cool-Aid, or "The Greater Vancouver Youth Communication Society", was an organization in Vancouver, British Columbia providing affordable housing for young people forced out from broken homes. This footage from the archives of 1960s CBC television shows Cool-Aid proprietor Elmore Smalley in historical newsreel footage of the Cool-Aid House along with the hippies and residents of Cool-Aid. This mission lives on in the Victoria Cool Aid Society. You can help support this organization here: https://coolaid.org/

This looks fantastic 😭🙏🥹

Someone posted this earlier: haven’t tried it yet but it looks amazing. Also, Koshari is an Egyptian lentil-rice dish that is great - I don’t have a favorite recipe though. www.theguardian.com/food/article...

Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe vegan recipe for lentils with pomegranate molasses and lemon tahini | The new veganwww.theguardian.com These sweet-sour lentils are beautifully offset by a whipped lemon tahini that just might become your favourite condiment

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Army violence against Native Americans was greater when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building & in recessionary election years, according to economist Warren Anderson in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review #Indigisky📉📈🗃🏺📗🍎📜#history #AcademicSky #polisky #sociology #geosky #c19

Politics, economics and Native American conflictsdoi.org US military sources document more than 1800 conflicts of varying intensity between the United States and tribes from 1830 to 1897. Negative binomial and Tobit regressions both show that hostilities f....

FYI I tried the chips and the orange blossom water so far. Both of them are magnificent!!! Put a good splash of orange blossom water in your next cup of coffee and thank me later

BRO there's this little tiny corner store in the West End I just found for the first time that has a crazy good selection of Persian, Lebanese, Italian, Mexican, French, and Eastern European import items for really good prices and I just got lost in there trying to decide what to get

this is the way tbh. stay under 500 followers by talking about the mundane aspects of your offline life and just vibe with a handful of others who live by that creed

you do not actually have to complain about the culture here because it doesn’t exist. there’s like a couple of dozen people playing the hits of discourse and they like each others posts enough to get them in the “what’s hot classic” feed, it’s a mirage. mute them and post pictures of your lunch

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Edmonton another potential data point for Juiceless Trump Theory

the Florida Panthers were 3-0 in the Stanley Cup finals they were about to sweep the Edmonton Oilers then at the start of Game 4, Trump posted about the Panthers for the very first time the Panthers went on to lose their next 3 games the Oilers just tied the series tonight

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man in my lifetime HIV has gone from a death sentence to a disease that could be eradicated biology kicks ass

New injection is 100% successful at preventing HIVwww.cnbc.com

Lynx are the most perfect creatures in the world and I'm so glad to see the most vulnerable of all lynx species making a comeback 🙏

One of world’s rarest cats no longer endangered

One of world’s rarest cats no longer endangeredwww.bbc.com The Iberian lynx is now classed as "vulnerable" as numbers surge due to conservation efforts.

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Scans from ‘What makes a shadow?’, 1962. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/w... Solstice content.

Imagine the kind of business genius it takes to lock up the impulse purchase items? No option to act on the impulse, no purchase 🤷‍♀️

This is how my anglo-Canadian ass thought it was pronounced until I heard someone say it out loud

(Cajun accent) Who your favorite Irish singer, cher? I like dat Ho-zee-yay, me