Just for the record, "misinformation" is a less inflammatory way of saying "lies". If someone pushes misinformation further down in a search engine's rankings, they keep sites that lie from overtaking the truth. Which is what a search engine is supposed to do. #DuckDuckGone

Long Covid now major cause of long-term job absence, say quarter of UK employers ft.com/content/33444f…

Along our theme of Alt-Text this month, Megan, Corey, and Simon from NNELS are presenting a session at #BCLA2022 called “Extending Your Reach with Accessible Social Media Posts”. Accessible social media increases the number of people your information will reach.

Are you a person with a disability who uses, or plans to use, your public library regularly over the next year? Consider sharing your experiences with BibliosAccessiblesLibraries study to help libraries improve accessibility. Deadline Apr 24. For more info: accessiblelibraries.ca/accessible-lib…

A friend and I (he with much experience in elections) have an ongoing thought experiment about weaknesses in #cdnpoli democratic systems, oh for no reason in particular. 1/

It feels like "living with COVID" has turned into seeing how many times folks can get COVID before getting Long COVID.

This has been shared many times with me and I do appreciate the general accolades, but there’s a huge disconnect between this idea of library workers as superheroes and the reality of decreased funding, increased violence and even being fired for promoting LGBTQ2S+ books.

How to cook crack and clean a crab. Step 1: Use fucking commas…

1/ A fresh, running thread on COVID’s well-documented cardiovascular harms for anyone who needs links when discussing the rise in heart failure and strokes among younger and middle-aged people since 2020:

This is a fascinating take. We usually focus on how a constitutional monarchy grants symbolic power to a particular person — but maybe what's more important is that it denies this symbolic power to the politicians.

Yes!

Voted earlier this morning. How about you?

Never forget that it's far cheaper to give unhoused folks a place to live than leave them on the streets to depend on a patchwork of emergency services.

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A study from #Brazil finds 1 in 4 adults who had mild #COVID19 demonstrated cognitive deficits. The average age of study participants was 38. See what happened when they were asked to copy a diagram. We are not prepared for this. #MedTwitter #LongCovid brainfacts.org/diseases-and-d…

Did you know that Hawaiians came to Canada as workers, with many being employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in British Columbia? In fact, the word Canuck, may have actually come from the term for these workers, Kanaka. Their story is often overlooked, but they were an important

Später habe ich versucht, für alle 38 Juden, die es 1933 in dem Heimatstädtchen gelebt haben, ihren Verbleib herauszufinden. Ich habe fast alle gefunden und von fast allen Familien noch Angehörige in Israel und in den USA. Während ich in D die Akten suchte und auswertete 10/

Places on Earth that don't look real - thread 🧵 1. Namibia, where the desert meets the ocean