Larissa

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She/her/elle. Alto, ADHDer. Interested in politics, stories, disability, food, knitting, geekery, cats. Unrepentant leftie.

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Since 2013, Toronto has worked to become more flood-resistant, but climate change is outpacing our efforts and the massive flooding occurring today makes it clear: our infrastructure was designed for a planet that no longer exists.

A decade ago, Toronto was underwater. Here's what's changed since the 2013 flood | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Flooded streets, destroyed basements and a GO Train stuck in so much water that passengers had to be ferried to dry ground in inflatable boats — 10 years after Toronto was pounded by a record-breaking storm, here's what's changed.

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Doug Ford cut Ontario's flood management programs funding in half in his first provincial budget. Since then, he's accrued one of the most environmentally destructive records of any recent Ontario premier. Toronto gets more than a month’s worth of rain in a few hours amid rainfall warning

Toronto gets more than a month's worth of rain in a few hours amid rainfall warningtoronto.citynews.ca Toronto and parts of the GTA are under a rainfall warning, with Environment Canada calling for "extremely heavy rain."

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The tl;dr This is union-busting, written as a statute. A company union is not a union, it is a way for management to dilute/interfere with the power of the union. Company unions have been unlawful since 1935, because everyone recognizes it is an attempt to union bust. This is trying to undo that.

Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

www.rubio.senate.gov

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“As health professionals and educators, we are thrilled to see philanthropists supporting the future of medical training in the U.S. But as nurses, we are left asking why nursing schools are often left out of philanthropic donations like these, even though nurses are the backbone of the health care”

Why aren't philanthropists stepping up to support nursing education?www.statnews.com If there are generous donors waiting in the wings, consider making gifts to nursing education. It is time to recognize the true worth of nursing by creating a real-life angel fund.

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Library Lagomorph

Forbidden Chia Pet? 😉

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Watching people earn millions of dollars to run some of the worst campaigns I've seen in quite some time has been infuriating.

So the Biden campaign definitely wants to lose, then?

“The Biden campaign will draw on the president's history of condemning all sorts of political violence including his sharp criticism of the "disorder" created by campus protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict, campaign officials said on condition of anonymity.” Hahahahaha, go fuck yourselves.

Biden, Democrats scramble after Trump rally shooting upends campaignwww.reuters.com U.S. President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is scrambling for a new strategy after an assassination attempt on Republican rival Donald Trump in western Pennsylvania, including deciding to call off verbal attacks on the former president for now.

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The group text election

Reminder that 2024 is effectively the first post-social media election. People used to get their news from the tv and newspaper. Then we had a decade of news-via-google. Then a decade of news-via-big-social-feeds. Now that’s been fractured and nothing has replaced it.

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My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

If it’s not helpful to you, by all means ignore this, but I’m just saying… It really helps me to recenter myself to think “Oh right. The worst fucking people on the planet want me to feel like we’re doomed. Fuck those guys, actually.”

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everybody's gonna be talking about the other stuff today but Shannen Doherty spent the better part of fifty-three years entertaining people and fifty-three is pretty early to have to go and that's hard. travel home safe Shannen D.

Another famous woman of the ‘90s who deserved a reexamination of how hard people came for her. She was good at what she did. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Charmed’ Star, Dies at 53variety.com Shannen Doherty, who played Brenda on 'Beverly Hills 90210' and starred in 'Charmed,' has died.

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Popping on to say: A lot of rumors are about to fly about this rally. Trump's team is 100% going to try and take advantage of this situation. So will malicious foreign actors/bots/etc. Please don't auto share. Check your sources, and vet their wording/sourcing carefully.

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Be aware, however: this also cuts way back on your margin of error for remembering to take your bevvo out of the freezer! If you're a person who's occasionally had to clean spilled beer or wine out of the chill chest: SET A TIMER!

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summertime physics refreshment hack: have a warm bottle or can that you want *now* but haven’t had the chance to colden yet? put a wet paper towel on it and pop it in the freezer. the thin layer of liquid water conducts heat off the surface much faster than air will. it’ll be cold in 5-10 min. ⚛️🧪

This is worth a listen - some reporting that suggests r/canada is an outrage machine that is hurting Canadians (probably due in whole or part to outside influence): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Behind the anger on the Reddit Canada site | Day 6 | Live Radio | CBC Listenwww.cbc.ca r/canada can get heated. But there may be a lot fewer people stirring the pot in the online community than you might think. Ben Shannon is CBC Radio’s Digital Art Director and had done some digging into something weird he was seeing on Reddit.

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I'll repeat what I wrote in my book. People going after others should ask themselves: Am I going after the appropriate entity or the *available target*? A LOT of latter goes on. But cruelty laterally/downward does nothing to the entity that created a situation &ensures creation of a truly awful vibe

I think a lot of people get into a bad space here because the people with power they actually want to yell at would never in a million years be on Bluesky so we end up yelling at people who aren’t that bad and it makes everyone pissy and weird

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Once again I’m here to say that @support.bsky.team needs to give people the opportunity to lock their accounts, or else we’re just going to constantly lose people to bad-faith pile-ons and then the whole place goes tumbleweeds.

If you see this post, post or quote post with a tree or a tree-lined path from your photos. (I am always ready to think about autumn 🍁)

If you see this post, post or quote post with a tree or a tree-lined path from your photos.

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nobody: literally no one at all: me: just remembering that time almost a decade ago when I wrote this @stronglang.bsky.social post about why we don't say abso-jesus-lutely

Abso-jesus-lutely not: Why can you infix “fucking” and “bloody” but not other swears?stronglang.wordpress.com Here's a puzzle: why can't you say "abso-jesus-lutely"? (Recently brought to my attention by Leland Paul Kusmer.) Let's back up for a sec. The classic case of expletive infixation involves "fucking" o...

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A Tesla in full-self driving mode hit my twin today. The driver was not aware, did not have his hands on the wheel, and did not brake. He hit this mother of 2 going 30 mph before blaming it on FSD getting confused by a train and driving off, as if that explained everything. So now, it's personal.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist

Find the people with the power (not just a platform, I know, confusing). Yell at them.

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I think as a rule that when the issue is the Institution, it may be both more effective and less shitty if an aggrieved audience applied sustained pressure to the owners/masters/authorities of those institutions instead of the most accessible/also marginalized cog they can find.

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I was going to suggest that blocking someone because you want to engage in targeted harassment of them while limiting their awareness of said harassment is also bad.

“It’s about stopping the destruction of actual jobs held by actual people. It’s about protecting a public asset that belongs not to the government but to the people of Ontario. And it’s about protecting billions of dollars in revenues that fund provincial public services.” #ONpoli

What’s at stake in the LCBO strike?monitormag.ca By now, most Ontarians know that frontline workers at the LCBO are on strike, but not everyone knows why. So here’s an explanation. This is not just another strike about wages and working conditions....

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Yes! Google Maps has recently decided that the best way to get to my workplace is through a series of gated parking lots that it’s absolutely not possible to drive through (unless you want to pay to open the gates)

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I think all the time about the interviewer who asked Meryl Streep “how did you not know about Weinstein” and she was like “I didn’t know because he NEEDED me not to know” it isn’t a character flaw to have been deceived by someone who is a deceit expert cultivating the cover of your faith & goodwill

Whenever someone is outed as problematic, there are a billion people who need to see, in sky-writing, "you didn't know, that's ok, but now you do, act accordingly." No one expects you to be psychic or in on every whisper network, and folks inferring so aren't being fair. WHISPER networks. WHISPER.

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it cannot be healthy for me to hold so much hatred inside my heart but these garbage people make it very difficult

David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN’s parent company, at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Doug Ford steals from children. "Dozens of high school students from across the province who had hoped to spend a semester learning at the Ontario Science Centre have been told they won’t get that chance after the building was suddenly closed last month." #OnPoli

Ontario Science Centre's school cancels semesters for dozens of Grade 12 studentswww.cp24.com Dozens of high school students from across the province who had hoped to spend a semester learning at the Ontario Science Centre have been told they won’t get that chance after the building was sudden...

“But the dental associations are aware that if dentists do not sign up for the CDCP, the program will be a failure and it will be easier for the Conservatives to cut the program, in whole or in part.” #CDNpoli monitormag.ca/articles/why...

Why dentists are not signing up for the Canadian Dental Care Planmonitormag.ca As a dentist, and an open advocate for public dental care, I often speak to other dentists about the issue. Recently, I’ve started hearing a new type of story—dentists receiving threatening phone call...

Re: the Alice Munro reporting, I had recalled this @julieslalonde.bsky.social piece from 2022 - she just mentioned on the other place that it took over *2 years* of pitching to find a forum for it, which wound up being Chatelaine. Andrea Robin Skinner is not alone. chatelaine.com/living/featu...

Incest Survivors Need Their #MeToo Momentchatelaine.com The past few years have seen great changes in how we talk about sexual assault, with one big exception: the shame and stigma that still surrounds those who publicly accuse a family member of a heinous...