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Free graphic design ad tip @ONDPPressOffice @OntarioNDP from someone who has been homeless 7 times and abusing in public parks, don't vilify us, highlight our truama and struggle. "This is not a supervised consumption site. But 3,456 people overdosed and 43 died in public Ontario parks after removal of the harm reduction sites by the Gord government." Bam. Insert real stats and go. #onpoli #addictions @MaritStiles @chrisglover #ontario

As someone who grew up in that reality, I am now waking up in a nightmare.

You actually reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.

ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.

It’s true!

RT @macmike086: Mark Carney just received 2 standing ovations, at Trinty College Dublin. It appears he's as loved in Ireland as he is in C…

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

The colony gonna be hyped af when he gets back

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

The most powerful antibiotic you’ve never heard of was sitting under scientists’ noses for decades. A team from the University of Warwick and Monash University has discovered a hidden molecule that’s over 100 times stronger than existing antibiotics against drug-resistant bacteria like MRSA and VRE. It’s called pre-methylenomycin C lactone – and it was quietly lurking inside a well-known bacterium studied since the 1950s. Streptomyces coelicolor is a familiar name in microbiology, known for producing the antibiotic methylenomycin A. But no one had tested the intermediate compounds created during its production – until now. By deleting specific genes in the bacterium’s biosynthetic pathway, researchers uncovered two previously unknown intermediates. One of them, pre-methylenomycin C lactone, turned out to be a game-changer: 100x more active against Gram-positive bacteria than methylenomycin A. The compound worked exceptionally well against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), two of the deadliest superbugs on the World Health Organization’s priority list. Even more promising: in lab tests, the bacteria didn’t develop resistance to the compound – a rare outcome in antimicrobial research. ["Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025]

Strawberry Melon Diesel from @topcolatn Sadly Ray will be closing Top ColaTN at the end of this month. Ray has provided top quality small batch cannabis to those in need for years thanks to the 2018 farm bill. I sold my home in TN and moved my family to Florida last year to get out before the laws changed. I've done state and fed time for this and at 46 I'm tired of looking over my shoulder. We need national legal home grow and complete de-scheduling. Please don't forget if you're a seed company. You're out of business come November. We may all be in different boats but we're all heading into the same storm with the corporate take over of cannabis. Are you just gonna sit there quietly pretending the writing isn't on the wall? Wake the fuck up people!

So, friends, how's the fight for legalization going? 🪴✊😄 Are we winning this battle... or does your life look more like the game in this photo? Share your stories below 👇 And have an awesome Sunday, everyone! 🫂💚

Possibly the most eloquent man of his time. Like Orwell, he spoke and wrote in a way that got to the point and explained it well.

🚨 Think your morning coffee powers your day? Wrong. It’s sunlight! Just 10-30 minutes of morning sunlight triggers vitamin D synthesis, releases nitric oxide for better blood flow. It also lowers BP, and anchors your circadian rhythm for deeper sleep & steady energy. A study showed low-dose sunlight (equivalent to ~15-20 min UK midday exposure) boosts nitric oxide in skin cells with minimal damage. Your body’s free heart-health upgrade. Plan: Get outside today, before the sun becomes too hot. Stay hydrated too! What's your sunlight ritual? Drop it below 👇 Sources: Greater than 90% of vitamin D comes from sunlight (Cleveland Clinic). Low-dose daylight induces nitric oxide release (Hazell et al., Scientific Reports 2023). #SunlightHealth #VitaminD #CircadianRhythm

Day 50 of traveling through Asia searching for wild weed growing naturally in the Himalayas. Some of these are clearly 16 to 20 feet tall and they’re only halfway done. Can you imagine them when they are peak height full of flowering colas the size of baseball bats. This is on my travels through Nagarkot, an hour outside Kathmandu, Nepal. 🇳🇵 daily average temperature is between 90 and 100° thank God for the daily rains which last 1-2 hours usually in the morning or evening. Driving up to the mountain you find wild grown ganja plants all along the roads, and in every yard and even up on top of the ⛰️ which I hardly ever see cannabis growing in the pine forest outskirts. Nagarkot is a kind of local resort areas for the local Nepali, Indian and Chinese. I think modern history has been lying to us, I have a deep rooted believe that humans, homo sapien, and our ancestors have been using cannabis for millions of years. ✊ Free the plant 🌱

No time to strength train? You’re not alone. But ut skipping it entirely is costing you muscle, metabolism, and longevity. Most busy adults think they need hour-long gym sessions. Wrong. Short, smart training works. Science backs it: Even 10-15 minute sessions 2-3x/week build strength, preserve muscle mass, and boost metabolic health as we age. (Especially important after 40.) Quick “no-time” strength training blueprint: 1Focus on compounds — Squats, push-ups, rows, glute bridges, deadlift variations. Maximum bang for your time. 2Use your body or minimal gear — No gym? Do them at home, between meetings, or after work. 3EMOM or circuits — Every Minute On the Minute or quick rounds. Example: 10-12 min of alternating push-ups, air squats, and inverted rows. 4Stack it with daily life — Calf raises while brushing teeth, single-leg stands while waiting for coffee, carry heavy groceries like farmer’s walks. 5Progressive overload — Add reps, slow the tempo, or hold pauses. Consistency beats perfection. Your body adapts fast when you show up regularly — even in micro-doses. Who’s trying one 10-minute session today?

Epilepsy Patients on CBD were nearly 8x more likely to become completely seizure-free! They pooled data from 6 high-quality randomized placebo controlled trials (the gold standard). Seizure freedom: CBD made patients almost 8 times more likely to become completely seizure-free compared to placebo. Best results seen with the 20 mg/kg dose in Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut patients. The findings were very consistent across studies (no differences between them). 50% seizure reduction: CBD made patients 2.5 times more likely to cut their seizures in half or more. Again, strongest effects at the 20 mg/kg dose, especially in LGS and DS. The benefits held up well when tested for robustness — the results are solid and not likely due to chance or bias. neurology.org/doi/abs/10.121…

🍁 🍁🍁🍁🍁 Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it. His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra. Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public. For 20 years he did it quietly. Then Monsanto came knocking. A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow. The file landed on Chopra's desk. He started reading the science. He started finding holes. The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans. If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk? His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data. His managers had a different idea. Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off. He refused. So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments. He kept refusing. Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer. In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada. Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken. It made headlines around the world. In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world. Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won. Then his own government fired him for winning. July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country. The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy. He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone. But here is what they could never take back. rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign. And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now. He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border. So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."

China took the land. But they could not take the teacher. For 65 years, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has taught Tibetans one truth: Your identity is not a place. It lives inside you. And no government on earth can confiscate that. #DalaiLama #Tibet #Xijinping #China

Plants commonly known as “cranesbills” are so called because their long, pointed seed pods were thought to resemble the beak of the long-legged wading bird, the crane. The name inspired botanists to call the genus “Geranium” from geranós, the Greek word for crane. #FolkloreSunday