Kelly Rusk

First post 🆙 on Substack: Online Community is not what it used to be…but what now? open.substack.com/pub/kellyrus...

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

Today has been a very rough day. But it‘s important to share Alex’s parents message.

Grateful to have a family doc but my husband and I have different doctors and neither would take our whole family so now all 4 of us are down with the flu, both kids have appointments but on opposite ends of the city so it’ll be 3+ hours of driving sick kids. So frustrating #ontario #healthcare

I pay hundreds to subscribe to all of the streaming networks, but all I want to watch is the old Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, which I can, 24 hours a day on the free Samsung channel.

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What in the mental illness is going on down there?!

A friend on vacation sent me this artwork in the bathroom where she is… what is happening in this painting?

This is a masterpiece. 😂

I went to the grocery store with my 4 year old yesterday to pick up 2 things and we walk in the door and she says to me in all seriousness “ ok, we need two things, we better split up!” good plan except you’re a toddler who needs adult supervision.

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The Russian State Media is coming for Mark Carney... Disinformation is rampant. Don't believe what you read, have human conversations with real people. #cdnpoli #waronCanada #Disinformation disinfowatch.org/mark-carney-...

Check this out — American stocks were on par with global stocks up until late January — and have now dropped terribly since then Gosh I wonder what happened in late January?

You are being targeted by foreign disinformation.. Even if you think you're not. This is a great synopsis of what's going on and why. Canada needs to stay strong and united. www.reddit.com/r/self/comme...

Let’s go www.yahoo.com/news/no-amaz...

Didn’t know how I’d ever get Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show out of my head, but then Macklemore drops this banger 🔥🔥🔥 apparently resistance rap is my jam.

ALTMAN, on Musk: “.. I wish he would just compete by building a better product. .. Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy... I don't think he's, like, a happy person.” @bloomberg.com

Rogers math is I was paying $48 monthly for a device rental which I returned but now my monthly phone plan is only $20 cheaper.

Seeing the US talk about buying Greenland and referring to it as an 'uninhabited land' is so disrespectful to the 60,000 Inuit who live there. Check out this amazing videos series of how they live www.youtube.com/@nanuknarrat...

Oh this is a bad look for Shopify. Someone tell them this is definitely NOT the way to #BuildCanada 😬

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

#TBT to the time my husband made the cutest music video featuring our daughters (the song is about the older one but video starred the younger one) and it went semi-viral. 🥰❤️👶

Imagine posting this two months ago and everyone thinking you are crazy and now this is the reality we are all living in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpP...

If I didn't have kids, I would cancel all my streaming services and only watch the free Unsolved Mysteries Channel on Samsung TV. All the original episodes narrated by Robert Stack. Peak television. Its own kind of AMSR. #Chefskiss

I just learned about the Black Hills and how the US Government signed the Fort Laramie treaty guaranteeing this land to the Lakota people before they unceremoniously stole it from them and had the audacity to carve their smug mugs into it. Apparently the US Gov has always been massive assholes.

I started using DeepSeek this week and immediately prefer it to ChatGPT. Also the fact that it’s open source makes me trust it much more.

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

This is brilliant!! 😂✊🏼

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

SERIOUSLY WHY IS ANYONE STILL ON X?!

*sigh* I cannot wait until we are on the other side of this history

So glad I haul this giant double chair to our soccer games so we can both have our own seat.

A Vancouver strip club got banned from X for sharing a photo of their cheeky sign: “FOREVER NEIGHBOURS NEVER NEIGHBORS” This is the social network of “free speech”?

Please don’t say “at least things can’t get worse” because the universe seems to be taking that as a challenge.

Excited to present on key trends for 2025 at the IABC Ottawa & CPRS Ottawa/Gatineau holiday mixer tonight. @bsky.app is on my list of trends for marketing & communications.

I haven’t run Meta ads in a while. Is it just me or is the platform overly aggressive in pushing its AI features? I want to control my content and thumbnails and it keeps overriding. The content is sensitive so very important to have that control.

ChatGPT failing to attribute news sources correctly 76.5% of the time is ridiculously high. It really highlights how much work needs to be done before LLMs can be reliable brand partners for building visibility.

The communications function is becoming ever more important for organizations — management consulting firms are quite active in the comms advisory space (e.g. this sensible and straightforward primer on stakeholder relationship management + leadership communication). www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

Where’s the AI software that allows me to just upload insurance receipts without wasting half a day typing in all the details that appear on the receipt I upload anyway. That’s what I need. #ADHDtax #ActuallyUsefulAI

The rage my toddler feels when I don’t yell “bye to the pee and poop!” When she’s on the toilet and I’m in another room… is not an emotion I was prepared to deal with.

Public relations activities impacted by AI adoption www.statista.com/statistics/1...

Black Friday is a scam… Black Friday is a scam… don’t be tempted by fake sales… just reminding myself not to fall for it again this year.

2 years ago I started buying Natrel high protein milk because as a vegetarian it can be tough to get enough protein. It was around $5 at the time for 2L which was steep but worth it. That same milk is now advertised as a deal for $7.48 and I’m done here. Back to plant based for me.

So this is pretty cool: I think I’m the first national news correspondent to switch my chyron social handle from X to Bluesky. 💪🏽

I use ChatGPT often for random questions… so I feel like it should know me well. I asked it, “based on what you know of me, create a picture of my life.” And it thought I was a man. *SIGH*

The Marketers 🤝 Marketing starter pack is now 40 strong 💪 Trying to keep it balanced, comprising of different perspectives, sectors etc… It’s still proving quite hard to find the marketing community on here so do keep sending over recommendations 💌 go.bsky.app/PRX91wm