Andy Fraser

thomething pithy

2023-02-18

@brooklynmarie 10000%. Possibly more. 3+ years of an internal monologue that's an endless cycle of WTAF are we doing and why does noone seem to care about it and I can't seem to muster any other thought and it all spills out any time I have a rare in person interaction.The only escape appears to be capitulation to climate change denial, antivaxx anti-mask maniacs and colossal corruption and accepting the goons have won. And so the cycle continues.

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2023-02-16

As Canada’s premiers express disappointment over Ottawa’s health-care funding offer, questions are being raised about why provinces are demanding more federal cash while sitting on tens of millions of surplus dollars and other financial gains in their own budgets.

globalnews.ca/news/9488839/hea

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2023-02-16

🚲 Maximizing bike infrastructure: how to connect a fragmented network using #python 🐍
Take #London, a city with a drive network connected in one component, while their bike network has more that 3,000 patches.
(Read the full post here: luisnatera.com/posts/2023/02/m)

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2023-02-14

“My god, it’s full of stars”

#LichenSubscribe #Mosstodon

Dark patio like sky filled with pale lichen and gaps filled with moss
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2023-02-14
grown Calvin thinking of Hobbes from youth playing
2023-02-10

@EricLawton the only number that matters is their soaring quarterly profits. Whatever they say, they can't duck the fact that this is because of price-gouging which they try to excuse under the cover of "it's all inflation/Ukraine/Trudeau etc". It's the same for oil companies - their whining of "oil prices are high because of Ukraine" cannot explain why they are making record profits.

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2023-02-10

Party guests asked to donate money to Ford's daughter & son-in-law

Millionaire Doug is greedy, shameless & happy to use his office to benefit his family.

“The invitation, one source said, came with a request to make a donation to the couple of up to $1,000 & seemed “very dodgy”..

Sources tell Global News invitees were “browbeaten” into buying tickets, while large & small lobbying & government relations firms were asked to purchase tickets at $150 each.."

#OnPoli

globalnews.ca/news/9457569/ont

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2023-02-10

And @battlingbeaver tells me I should have introduced myself before I just jump in and start posting.

Sorry! I'm Tara. I'm an infectious diseases researcher and Associate Prof at the University of Toronto, and I'm the lead of COVID-19 Resources Canada.

We do the Canadian COVID Forecast, Canadian COVID data reporting, the Canadian Excess Mortality Tracker, and of course, COVID Conversation Zoom sessions supported by me and other volunteer scientists.

It's great to be here at last!

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Augie Rayaugieray
2023-02-03

People who are vaccinated and not taking measures to reduce their contact rate can expect to spend an average of 6 days a year acutely sick with COVID-19 and be infected 1.4x annually. That's a infection every 8.5 months on average. Now is a good time to remind the "just the flu" folks that the average American gets the flu once every 10 years or so.

cdc.gov/flu/about/keyfacts.htm

2023-02-01

@BobM two solution: pension age at 60 but pensions strictly means tested LIKE EVERY OTHER DAMN STATE BENEFIT. We cannot keep trying to justify poor working families paying tax so that wealthy pensioners can avoid using their capital to pay for their lifestyles. Poor pensioners are a completely different deal...hence means testing.

2023-01-31

@InnesBT neither!! And I like scrnaseq too…just once you’ve seen 100 maps they all look the same (like interaction hairballs used to be!)…and I’m now in talks with alternating umaps and spatial and I really have to check what I’m looking it. Combo is superb I think, just amazing advances in tech.

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Artem Babaian :rna:RNA@genomic.social
2023-01-30

Are you passionate about #bioinformatics / #Virology / #AMR / #Microbiology / #InfectiousDisease? Another amazing faculty opportunity is opening up at the University of Toronto!

apply.interfolio.com/118539

RT :)

2023-01-30

It’s getting increasingly hard to tell a umap scrnaseq figure from a well-analyzed spatial transcriptomics image.

2023-01-28

@lowqualityfacts in the uk royal family, this is not true because most royals are their own first cousins through extensive inbreeding. Prince Charles is also his own grandfather.

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Rabih Alameddinerabihalameddine@zirk.us
2023-01-28

Hajime Namiki

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Antifa Internationalantifaintl@kolektiva.social
2023-01-28
Post from @Brcremer:
"Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing the +3,000 verses calling for the care of immigrants, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the poor to a personal choice."
2023-01-28

Have finally looked up the origin of “like gangbusters”
It is not what I thought it would be.

2023-01-27

Top: lanes for cars.
Bottom: lane for bikes.
This is Harbord - one of the main ways that students get to campus. It’s just bonkers that we live in a city that refuses to make its roads safe for cyclists. Every progressive major city from Paris to New York to London is trying to encourage cyclists. Toronto actively wants to exterminate them. Thanks John Tory - you’ve been an abysmal mayor that’s overseen the stagnation and decline of Toronto. What a waste of a great city.

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