Rocket57 🇨🇦

12 Nov 2024

Dear new followers, thank you for following me but be warned: It’ll mostly be (sometimes profanity-laden) covid-awareness posts here. I *will* try to post some art from time to time though.

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Tyson Graber

@rnaguru.bsky.social

16h

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Oct 25. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

I think this pretty much holds true for the western world.

Dave@allcaps.bsky.social

The Alberta referendum has only reinforced my opinion that 25-30% of the population are incorrigible idiots.

Why does it seem like on every issue, there’s always 30% that are idiots? See: politics, separatism. It never drops much lower and sometimes gets a lot higher.

wapo.stSecret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroomThe records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

Fuck all these guys but especially Apple.

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social

"A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.... Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million....Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project."

Just so I have this straight, the Howard Lutnick that wants to invade Canada is the same Howard Lutnick from the Epstein files, right? Right?

@clareblackwood.bsky.social

That greasy pedo weasel can fuck all the way off.

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Clare Blackwood

Lololololol Blake Snell

@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

I maintain that it is actually more of a bat-shove than flip. Either way, maybe the most catharsis I’ve ever seen in a swing.

CJ is..... ⚾⚕️😷@cjhajer.bsky.social

Happy Batflippiversary to everyone, whether you celebrate or not! (If not, honestly, why not?!)

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drewtoothpaste

2026 isn't "a weird time in history," we're living through the inevitable conclusion to doing everything wrong

What the hell is with the trend of having a red circle on every image these days? Yes, it’s a picture of a guy’s face. A portrait. I see it. There’s no need to circle the damn thing. ⭕️ 🚫

en.wikipedia.orgPneumonic plague - Wikipedia

On the other hand, it could shut up the “masks don’t work” crowd really quick, one way or another.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

Note that pneumonic plague is airborne to begin with - and public health leaders just spent several years manufacturing disinformation claiming the required (and effective) mitigations "don't work", to cover up the deaths from their opposition to them in COVID policy.

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Robert Jago

@rjjago.bsky.social

Poor Péquistes, now that they’re officially a minority, they’ll have to discriminate against themselves

I wouldn’t mind seeing Snell lose tonight.

I really hope Muse is a massive failure.

The last time I made fan art, it ended up taking me to Memphis for one of the most surreal experiences of my life. I doubt something like that might happen again. I just really, really dig Angine de Poitrine.

Marc Audet@raggedempire.bsky.social

I really don’t have time for fan art these days, but my love for Angine De Poitrine compelled me to do up this #silkscreen #gigposter #anginedepoitrine

I’m dreading the day that line starts creeping upwards, but for now, I’ll take it!

Tyson Graber@rnaguru.bsky.social

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Sep 27. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

Payton Tolle just seems so darn likeable.

How can you not be romantic about baseball? Not a dry eye in my basement (it’s me, I’m crying), watching the (likely) last games with l George Springer and Max Scherzer. Here are a couple of details from my 2025 ALCS print of those two legends.

Dammit. Getting misty again.

Fuuuuuuck 😭😭😭

Max. George. This game might do me in. 😭

Dammit

“If you’re evil, you’re not bad”. What the actual fuck

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

This is actually hell, right?

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Tyson Graber

@rnaguru.bsky.social

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Sep 20. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

Someone tell him it’s named after Doug Ford. 😂

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The story that the White House, or me, want to affix my name to Ford’s Theatre where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, is a ridiculous lie. It is FAKE NEWS! Who would possibly want a name on such a tragic place? The Dumocrats suffer from serious TDS. They are Degenerates and Losers ... "

Death, taxes, “And the Blue Jays leave ‘em loaded.”

Dear smart Covid cautious people, explain this like I’m 5. I know this guy has gone fully on the Covid is a nothingburger train. I simply cannot believe excess mortality has improved beyond even pre pandemic days, as much as I’d love it to be so.

Oddly, no one on Twitter is refuting his posts either.

I am wrong. Gregory Travis is pushing back a bit.

I assuming they just started baking in Covid to the baseline. If not, how can this be true?

Anyone? lol. I usually get decent engagement on Covid posts :)

Like, after 2022, things just literally went back to baseline. And now we’re better off than ever like the pandemic never existed? The thing that killed and disabled millions is now doing less than nothing?

21 Sept

Speaking of dictators allied with Putin, Canada is trying to have less to do with the one to our south.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️

@lalegault.bsky.social

21 Sept

Did Macron teach Mark Carney how to open an Epstein investigation today? #cdnpoli

21 Sept

What’s it going to take, America?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

We’re being run by an unhinged, corrupt egomaniac who thinks he’s a king and has no use for the constitution. And most of the media still just covers it like it’s normal.

youtu.beCOVID health policy still outdated: researchersYouTube video by CTV News

20 Sept

This is fantastic. Please watch. Also, so nice to see respirators worn by really smart people.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

CTV news coverage of the errors in health policy and guidance that leave the public unprotected from aerosol disease transmission and long COVID (with @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social and Kerri Bowser) is up. Great to see so much interest! Below is the UK inquiry cited: #medsky #scisky #cdnpoli #polisky

20 Sept

PHAC is updating their policies and…changing nothing. :/

18 Sept

Something something Moosehead

Mark Somers@marksomers.bsky.social

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

More fun stuff. I love my job. 💚

Marc Audet@raggedempire.bsky.social

I hand-pulled a few silkscreen prints of my poster for The Gruesomes at House of Targ this weekend. My first time trying out fluorescent ink! #gigposter #screenprinting #thegruesomes #houseoftarg #ottawamusic #illustration

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Jon Cooper

Thinking about this day. The only comment I got on my n95 was from my old friend who stopped by with his wife, and when she questioned why I was wearing it, he said “It’s Marc.” The longer I sit with it, the more it annoys me.

Rocket57 🇨🇦@rocket57.bsky.social

Outdoors at the Road Trip Music Festival street in my hometown, Kingston. Masking anyway because it’s pretty busy and more than a few folks are coughing.

I think the 450000+ studies (none of which state that COVID is benign) should be enough to convince anyone willing to listen in good faith that they *should* be masking. But even then, thanks to social pressure, I don’t think they will.

Obviously I’m a little fired up about this. Do people close to me really think I enjoy being the outlier? Or that I’m overwrought with anxiety? Or just stupid? These are all questions I’ve been asking myself for years and have yet to come up with a good answer.

Rocket57 🇨🇦@rocket57.bsky.social

Outdoors at the Road Trip Music Festival street in my hometown, Kingston. Masking anyway because it’s pretty busy and more than a few folks are coughing.

We’ve never discussed masking or covid because we don’t see each other all that much due to distance. But these are smart, left leaning (whatever that is worth anymore ) people and I can’t help but feel insulted.

His wife has some training in medicine, so I think he depends on her judgement, but again, what does that count for when the healthcare system has all but acquiesced to mass infection and denying the long term damage this virus creates?

Rocket57 🇨🇦@rocket57.bsky.social

Outdoors at the Road Trip Music Festival street in my hometown, Kingston. Masking anyway because it’s pretty busy and more than a few folks are coughing.

@clareblackwood.bsky.social

This coming from a couple that don’t even think about SARS CoV 2 anymore. Do they think I do it for fun? I suspect he thinks it’s anxiety. I remember these two being vocal during the AIDS epidemic decades ago. How is this different?

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Clare Blackwood

16 Sept

Trump is threatening to cut off all trade to the European Union if Canada becomes an associate member, and I give it a few months before the only people the White House will be trading with is Don Jr.'s cocaine dealers