Notices by Mat Wright (matwright@mastodon.social)

RIP Dolly Parton - she was a force for good

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/dolly-parton-has-died-family-says/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@skinnylatte once had to get a business visa to India from Belgium to Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai (hiring tech developers) - actually went to the embassy in Brussels and they looked totally shocked as no one applies in person, everyone 'in the know' uses a broker

@skinnylatte our area in Nanaimo, which is classless - lawyers, plumbers, nurses, care givers, seniors - is now so over priced the insurance is insane - and we are getting daily homeless with carts up the street begging for bottles and cans

This is dystopia - because it's obvious the real estate fuck heads want to price us out, buy it, turn into a luxury park place - and our poli are all in

Yuch - heavy smoke for South BC, Vancouver, Vancouver Island and Western Washington tomorrow

Wear a mask, it looks ugly

Explain to me like I'm 4 years old why the hell we are building more oil and gas pipelines

#BCstorm #Wildfires #BCpoli #Climate #ClimateChange

Holy shit - Madrid fire is massive, 10's of thousands evacuated

The space radio telescope complex near the city is on fire

#Madrid #Madridfire #Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange

via a knowledgeable friend - the Madrid deep space radio telescope complex going down (likely destroyed by this huge fire) means a gap of around 120 degrees in communication coverage for solar system and deep space missions - there is no backup

#Space #Madrid

@blogdiva New York must be erupting

WHO '40 days is the basic isolation minimum to ensure no onward transmission or mutation'

Henry '“As we see the situation evolve globally and here that might be extended as far as the full 42 days,” she added. “But as you can imagine, that’s quite a burden on people and it’s challenging to stay in one place for that period of time, especially as the risk diminishes over time. So we’ll be reassessing that on an ongoing basis.”

I would not put her in charge of a crosswalk

#BCpoli #Hantavirus

Bonnie Henry presser - Hanta doesn't spread like Covid 'which lingers in the air for a long time'

NOW SHE SAYS THAT!!!

From 2020, Covid doesn't go around corners to admitting it's airborne

God she IS awful

#Covid #Covid19 #HantaVirus #BCpoli #CDNpoli

More Bonnie Henry BS - BC only requiring 25 days isolation for suspected Hanta exposures, despite an incubation period of 40+ days

UK is requiring 42 days, Greece 45 days

She's a dangerous idiot

#HantaVirus #BCpoli #CDNpoli

My nurse wife was called over by our neighbour to test her kids (we always have kits) - and yep, they are Covid positive, also playing with all the other nearby kids this afternoon - so she's going around testing everyone - already 5 more

So yeah, 7 years in and we haven't learned a thing

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #Covid #Covid19

It was looking good, waste water detection down all over, fewer reports of LTC homes with Covid - but today at least 5 friends reporting positive cases, some just a month or so after getting over a previous infection, and it's mainly kids with schools projecting

This is BA 3.2, it has a new binding mechanism bypassing vaccines and short term infection immunity - and it's a bugger, people getting really ill

Mask, be aware

#Covid #Covid19 #Covidisnotover

Iran's trolling of Trump is brilliantly hilarious

@blogdiva

#Iran #IranWar #USpol # USpolitics

Brilliant - First Nations trolling that total dipshit Aaron Gunn

#CDNpoli #BCpoli

@blogdiva now, can we have what's left of the Iran regime target every data center in the continental US?

@giflian oh, I am sure they do get it, just don't know how to message 'please come and buy our cheaper cheese and gas and ignore Gestapo in the streets, they're just cosplaying - silly kids'

Vegas taking a 27% cut by valuing the Canadian dollar at par is giving me the giggles - this is bordering on one of the most successful boycotts in history - FAFO you fucking US fascists - we are NEVER coming back

#CDNpoli #Vegas #USpol #USpolitics

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/we-miss-our-best-friends-las-vegas-hotels-accepting-canadian-dollar-at-par-to-spark-tourism/

posts from Europe showing one of the most amazing aurora shows in recent memory. G4 (out of 5) storm hitting earth head on. Expected to show all over North America tonight - hoping for clear skies

#AuroraBorealis #Aurora

This is gross and vile - and Canada backing away from any regulation or even temporary blocking Grok, while Indonesia and Malaysia have done so, it's utter cowardice - Carney rejected proposals by UK and Australia, this will hurt the Libs, they simply do not get the Zeitgeist

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Grok #X #Twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/11/how-grok-nudification-tool-went-viral-x-elon-musk?CMP=share_btn_url

Perfect, just perfect...

#USpol #USpolitics #Epstein #Epsteinfiles