Lauralee Dukeshire (she/her) @LauraleeDukeshire@social.cleverlibre.org

👉​ "It's wild to me that several estheticians/hair stylists/makeup artists I know have better #covid safety protocols than schools and hospitals"

#CovidIsNotOver #Onted #Onpoli
via 🐦​ @musewendi

Indigenous people only represent 3.3% of the B.C. population, but 16.4% of #ToxicDrugCrisis deaths in 2021.

Action is needed on the health emergency entering its eighth year, said chief medical officer Dr. Nel Wieman of Little Grand Rapids First Nation.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/04/24/Indigenous-People-Bearing-Brunt-Toxic-Drugs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=042423-m&utm_campaign=editorial

Kevin Bacon shows support for drag in Taylor Swift dance video

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/kevin-bacon-drag-taylor-swift-video-kyra-sedgwick/

#transgender #trans #lgbtq

In an act of defiance against Tennessee’s anti-drag law, Lizzo has performed in the state with a whole bunch of Drag Race faves and local queens, and yes, it was iconic.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/23/lizzo-tour-tennessee-ban-drag-race-queens/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-pinknews&utm_content=later-34644990&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

#transgender #trans #lgbtq

Perfection. HuffPo right now:

"Tuck off!" #TuckerCarlson #ClusterFox #media

https://www.huffpost.com

Looks like Tucker Carlson already has a job offer from the Russians.

Does anyone remember this?

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

4/ More:
"Q: So this is why Musk seemingly “overpaid” for Twitter? He & backers want to use it as tool of info warfare, to kill off dollar & help usher in Putin’s “multipolar world?”
A: Yes, that’s why they “overpaid” for Twitter. Bc end goals have nothing to do w Twitter or its ad model by itself. It’s merely means to an end. Musk likely to join forces w Trump’s Truth Soc & Kanye’s Parler to try to control much of the info space. And they’ve got the threat of Putin’s nukes to force the issue"

Myles Cogrove, the ex-Louisville officer who shot Breonna Taylor in her home, was hired to be a police officer again in Carroll County in Kentucky. That makes me ill. https://www.wlky.com/article/hired-carroll-county-sheriff-kentucky-louisville-breonna-taylor-myles-cosgrove/43675237

Trevor Hancock: We need to get over our obsession with the economy
The economy is — or should be — a tool used to achieve the things that really matter. It should not be the central focus of government, of public policy and public discussion.

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trevor-hancock-we-need-to-get-over-our-obsession-with-the-economy-6895545

@TheSaanichDaily This dominant economic perspective is a European derived colonial world view that has diminished, destroyed and subjugated all other world views. The reality is that humans flourished, in many cases stewarding ecologies to greater abundances, in virtually all ecosystems beginning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. That reality has been replaced with a narrative of the wretched savages and of intrinsic poverty to make the majority wage slaves to the wealthy.

New research: another #LongCovid symptom, smell loss, is linked to changes in the brain.

You risk this every time you contract #COVID19.

#CovidIsNotOver
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RT @NeuroscienceNew
Long COVID Smell Loss Linked to Changes in the Brain

Anosmia, or the loss of the sense of smell caused by long COVID is linked to changes in the brain that prevents correct olfactory processing.

#neuroscience

https://neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-sme…
https://twitter.com/NeuroscienceNew/status/1648076818736377857

There was a time when I never mixed metaphors but that ship has sunk.

I guess I have to repeat this so I don't get @ with "Don't be naive, Canada has problems too, you know:" I'm well aware, but still glad we got permanent residence in BC. No place is perfect, but I feel safer there. So far, no insurrection, no daily mass shootings, and, well, the chart below.

I prefer it to the accelerating fascism here, at least for now. And with that👇

H/t: Ian Bremmer:

% of canadians that follow q-anon theories: 3

#Canada 🇨🇦

https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/the-graphic-truth-no-need-to-liberate-canada

If listening to "Very Serious People" ultimately got you a rigged oligarchy, swarming with dangerous armed nazis, under a fascist police state regime on a planet literally about to boil humanity off its surface... why do you think it's a good idea to ask those same people about solutions, and trust them when they tell you no one but them can solve the problem?

I'm not talking about scientists and experts; we're talking about capitalists here.