DC Will #BLM

Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
All tweets my own.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

Looks like my "Flee to the Caymans" option just pulled into first place.
https://t.co/7k8bgMFPrJ

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's 757 plane has been spotted on the tarmac in West Palm Beach. It had been undergoing repairs before this.

A 757 has a flight range of over 4400 miles.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink This has been out a really long time. Have you been hacked? Is our data safe?

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink Compass Card site has been down all day?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Prime Minister Mark Carney enrages MAGA by announcing that Canada will purchase its new surveillance planes from Sweden instead of the United States — as they seek to decouple from Trump's America.

The entire world is turning its back on us...

“The first job of the government is to keep Canadians safe. Our government is protecting Canadians and supporting our Allies with an approach that transforms defence procurement,” stated Carney. “With our new strategy, we are building our economy and creating careers in the skilled trades, science and engineering. The GlobalEye procurement will help us secure our North and build our economy at once.”

Canada has been looking to pull back on its national security dependence on American defense companies as Trump has transformed the U.S. into the most unreliable trading partner and ally in modern history. Even longtime allies like Canada aren't immune to his dementia-addled whims, as evinced by his pointless trade wars and deliberate undermining of the global order.

This new deal with Sweden will see Canada purchasing GlobalEye early warning jets from Saab, and will likely result in 3,000 jobs for Canadians. Boein was also jockeying for the business, as was L3Harris.

"With a suite of advanced sensors and mission systems, Saab's GlobalEye will be a key resource for the Canadian Armed Forces to detect and deter threats across the Arctic," said Carney.

“By operating Global Eye, Canada strengthens its ability to safeguard their sovereignty while contributing to NATO’s collective defence, including being a vital asset for surveillance and control of the Arctic region,” Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson ​said on X.

This is what happens when a country alienates its closet friends. They start acting in their own best interests, and that means moving as far away from you as possible. Every day that Trump remains President, America grows weaker and more isolated.

Please ❤️ and share if you'd prefer Mark Carney as your leader!

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink @rishibaruahhere I'm getting unexpected notifications about auto-loads & would really like to be able to check.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@Ash_Lee_IRL ...not watching me pee.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

Nothing to say, @BlueJays or @RealCdnSS ?
#CanadaWashing

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@BlueJays @RealCdnSS
Really?
REALLY???
#IAmCanadian #WeTheNorth

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Fuck you an infinite number of times.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@BlueJays @RealCdnSS
Really?
REALLY???
#IAmCanadian #WeTheNorth

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Great sign 💯

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink Moving at 7:29.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink The 7:23am and 7:32am #335 to Surrey Central disappeared? Been waiting at the Newton Loop since 7:20am and we finally have a bus at 7:35am. This bus is going to be SRO in 2 stops.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink 7:23am officially MIA at 7:28am.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink Same deal today. NextBus text says the next buses are 7:23 & 7:34. Google Maps says no bus expected until 7:51.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

❤❤❤

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Good morning.

Quick update: the courts took one look at that referendum push and said “no thanks.” Petition denied. Game over before it even started.

Turns out you don’t just get to break up a country because you’re in a mood. There are rules. There are laws. And they apply to everyone.

All that talk, all that buildup, and it didn’t even make it onto the field.

Anyway, Canada’s still here. Functioning. Intact. Not going anywhere.

You’re still part of it, whether you like it or not.

Welcome back. 🇨🇦

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink Pulled Hubs out of bed on his day off to get me to work.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink Where has the 335 to Guildford gotten to? Been at the Newton Loop since 7:17, it's 7:30 now.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink Nope. Had to get a ride at 745

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink There is a HUGE lineup at the loop. The 7:17, 7:23, and 7:34 all went missing.

[DC Will #BLM @doe_will]

@TransLink "Next bus" text and Goggle maps cannot agree on when I'll get to work, but the arrival time keeps hetting pushed back.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.