Plain Sarah Jane

Wastewater virus signals for Toronto, for the 52 week period ending Friday March 6 2026 showing a drastic spike in COVID-19. RSV, Flu A and Flu B are also shown. The second highest spike was Flu A which peaked mid-December and was present for about 8 weeks, while COVID-19 has been at elevated and mostly growing levels since last spring.

"There's something going around"
Yeah. It's COVID.
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

Seems like very high levels of Covid out there right now, Ontario. You’d look silly NOT wearing a mask in this spike. Just sayin 😷

Toronto, Ontario - Wastewater 🇨🇦 At-a-glance graphs of COVID-19, RSV, and flu levels in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Torontonians - if you don’t wear a mask any more and you haven’t had Covid in a while, now is a great time to get it! It’s nearly off the charts!
wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

It was *such* a mess.

Guy at our local bar: “Hey, did you know it’s Customer Appreciation Day?”

Me: “No, I didn’t fuckin’ know that! <laughs>”

Guy: <looks distraught; walks away>

Husband: “WHY did you swear at him?!?”

Me: “Because he said it was Cuss Word Appreciation Day!”

Husband: “🤦‍♂️ That’s… not what he said… ”

Guy at our local bar: “Hey, did you know it’s Customer Appreciation Day?”

Me: “No, I didn’t fuckin’ know that! <laughs>”

Guy: <looks distraught; walks away>

Husband: “WHY did you swear at him?!?”

Me: “Because he said it was Cuss Word Appreciation Day!”

Husband: “🤦‍♂️ That’s… not what he said… ”

Ohhhh man… that sucks. But not your fault. You couldn’t have known.

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Baseball friends! The Toronto Public Library has some great baseball talks coming up in their Salon Series, and they're online. The first one is on Friday, March 20 at noon. Check out the series!

When this happened a few weeks ago, I read that the warm temps are melting the snow banks and releasing all the car exhaust, toxins and rotting debris that were tapped in the snow.

I’ve unmasked a white nationalist fight club in my city: Montreal.

After weeks of work (with help!), I can reveal an Olympian as a member of the Frontenac Active Club — one who, unbeknownst to the owners, brought them to a local gym for training and propaganda photos.

Here’s my investigation:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social this was a KEY part of your campaign and we believed you when you said it. But you have been radio fucking silent on this issue. Are you going to abandon trans people or are you gonna keep your promises?

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

Read my piece out in The Guardian today on all of this. If you are spreading bullshit about social media being "addictive" and "harmful to children" you are complicit in manufacturing consent for mass AI surveillance and allowing big tech to seize even more power while censoring lawful speech.

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

we protected my mom from COVID for 5 years. She caught it at the hospital during an outbreak in the dialysis ward (!!) and died 5 days later.

we will do nothing with this information as a society

Clicks to your blog are not worth selling out your humanity. If Substack supporting Nazis wasn’t the redline to get you off that platform, let’s effing hope the betting on when bombs will kill children in school finally is.

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

Ban kids from social media?
You can’t without ID checks for everyone.

That builds surveillance infrastructure that won’t just “protect children," it will track dissent.

We’ve seen this before.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#FreeSpeech #Surveillance #SocialMedia

For Mark Carney, the leader of a democratic country, to back a war his counterpart Trump started without the approval of the United States government, should raise serious questions for Canadians about the value our own Prime Minister places on our democratic process.

All the Fetterman "brain damage" jokes and all the "Epstein distraction" posts share a common thread.

Everyone is looking for a way to avoid the fact that the United States is an imperial power and nearly all of its leaders (in both parties) are bloodthirsty in their enthusiasm for wielding it.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

this AI slop has 1,200 reposts and nearly 5,000 likes. what the fuck are we doing out here.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

Taking a moment of silence for the fallen legacy of the fifa peace prize

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

The Prime Minister of Canada, a country that the lunatic-run US is illegally threatening openly supports the lunatic-run US illegally attacking Iran.

This won't be a red line for Carney's fans, but my goodness it ought to be for everyone else.

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

This is significantly *worse* than the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (at least they tried to make their bullshit case to the international community back then).

And Carney explicitly supports it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Graph with white and grey horizon stripes as background, showing Ontario rates over time of several pathogens including covid-19 and RSV

Graph with white and grey horizontal stripes as background showing rates over time of several pathogens including covid-19 and RSV, specific to Toronto Ontario

“During COVID” (and other respiratory transmitted infections) would be now.

Wastewater released today for Ontario. Screen shots of Ontario in general and Toronto specifically. wwater.ca/Ontario

v good list of independent media orgs to follow/support in this post's replies

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Hobbes is spreading health disinformation. Even if the vaccines did do what he says uptake has collapsed, most governments are now running defacto programs of regular mass infection to replace mass vaccination. All my friends with long Covid were vaxxed. His fear of the pandemic makes him do this