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2024-05-25 17:39:28

Hey Covid-aware friends, does anyone know if expired RATs are trustworthy?
My partner has a sore throat and I went to the co-op to get some free tests, but when I got home, I saw they expired in September 😑.

2024-02-04 00:39:08

Happy #Caturday night, everyone
https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/111/870/411/476/567/448/original/e37654eb9bd0feed.jpg

2023-11-17 17:35:59

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#ALT4you
Carl Sagan giving a lecture or interview in black & white. The accompanying text is:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World
CARLSAGAN.COM
@npub1ccn…czwu

2023-11-17 17:33:36

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@npub1ccn…czwu When I was in grade 6 in 1992, our teacher had us watch The Cosmos on Betamax tapes. That was hard for a kid with undiagnosed ADHD, lol. But by 1997, I was ready to embrace Contact as one of my favourite movies.
Hmm, I should read the book...and probably rewatch The Cosmos. But not on Betamax, lol.

2023-09-13 20:40:47

I feel moved to make the following statement in light of the anti-Indigenous, IRS-denialist, racist attitudes/comments I've seen reported in the fediblock hashtag. (And heard from my MIL 😡)
I am a third-generation Canadian citizen and a descendant of people from England, Scotland, Poland, and probably a few other European countries. I acknowledge that I and my near ancestors have directly or indirectly acted as racists or benefited from policies developed with racists and genocidal foundations. Even my parents had racist attitudes towards Indigenous people that I've had to actively unlearn.
That is all to say that I know my place as a guest in so-called Canada, and in any dispute, I will side with the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island who have been here for time immemorial. I humbly follow their lead and recognize their Wisdom about the Land and its history.

2023-09-09 01:19:40

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Any Canadians reading this thread should read this article:
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/racial-segregation-of-black-students-in-canadian-schools
After seeing the post from @npub1u3t…c6ug, I realized I didn't know the history of racial segregation in Canada (aside from the "Indian" Residential and Day Schools).
TIL that the last _legally_ segregated school in Canada closed in 1983.
1983.
Friends, I was 3 years old that year. It's only 40 years ago. Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was on the radio. Dallas and Dynasty were the must-watch TV shows.
Canada's history of racial segregation has tried to hide in the shadows cast by the US. Let's bring it out into the light and face it and do something about it.
#antiracism #canada #CanadianHistory #BlackLivesMatter

2023-04-21 14:21:10

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For Android users:
To stop photos from all your WhatsApp individual chats and groups being saved to your phone's photo storage:
1. Open WhatsApp.
2. Tap More options > Settings > Chats.
3. Turn off Media visibility.
This will only stop the media from being stored from this point on. You will need to review your stored photos/videos to remove anything already downloaded.
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