The other night, @BigMedicine shared that priority 4 calls in Montreal, which normally should be assigned within 30-60 minutes, were taking *10 hours* to be assigned.

The Story of The Dearborn Independent 🧵

🧵 Here’s the thing, when the Sask Party govt introduced their unconstitutional essential services legislation in 2007 they argued it was to insure health and safety of the public. When the SCC struck it down and declared the Right-to-Strike was constitutionally protected … 1/5

A word on the idiocy known as "immunity debt". How did such a nonsensical idea take hold? Simple. The obvious mental model for our immune system is a muscle: use it or lose it. Muscles atrophy when we don't use them. The same mental model works for our memories & skills. 1/19

But that's not the only possible strategy: you can also trash the photo collection itself, so your intended victims won't recognize you. In 2015, it was discovered that Measles does this. It literally erases immune memory. It fades those photos. How was that discovered? 6/19

What do we have today? A ton of unexplained child illness in the first cold/flu season since we let COVID rip. Hmm. We have known since 2020 that COVID harms interferon production, a protein that your cells release to call the immune system for help when they are attacked. 8/19

heY I GuiZe, fReE SpeAcH Iz my tHinG

Free speech for me, not for thee.

Zoë Schiffer Mueller, She Wrote

Denise 'You have fouled your nest, not us' Suzannah Banana 🌻 Zoë Schiffer Mueller, She Wrote

Zoë Schiffer Today, on 'Who wore it best'...🤔

It's one month since Danielle Smith was sworn in as Premier. Here are a few things she's done IN ONE MONTH. #ableg 🧵 1/15

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is planning to quit Twitter: "We don't need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything." cos.lv/LyJe50LJ3nj

.Elon Musk Trent Reznor and Jack White are out of here. But worry not dear overlord, you still have your fascist knights of dumbfuckery: Trump, Chachi, Kid Rock, and Kevin Sorbo.

I have a funny Trent Reznor story and I'd like to share it now in remembrance of him nuking his account. If he is still lurking somehow (Uncle T was a master lurker), I hope he's okay with me telling it.

math twitter: log😅 = 💧log😄 💬27k 🔁360k ❤️9M

A famous researcher predicts divorce with 91% accuracy. He invented a game to protect against the #1 relationship killer. Here it is (in 3 minutes):

dog: [brings sticks inside] me: no that belongs outside me, at Christmas time: [brings entire tree inside] dog: what the actual shit is this

In conversations w/ well-intentioned folks “disgusted” by visible poverty & now supporting violent policed responses, I’ve stopped trying to “teach.” A different tactic: Asking questions. Have seen how pondering/answering questions forces people to think more. Some examples:

#Ableg News 🧵 This week was typical for the United Conservative Caucus: HORRIBLE! 😡- An AHS Board Member Calls Smith Out! (Story #1) 😞- Five Stories About Alberta’s Health Care Crisis (#4-9) 📉 - Alberta Makes International News [For Bad Reasons] (#16) Here’s 16 Bad News UCP Stories!