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Sandra L Lester

@sandrallester.bsky.social

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Tech-enabled Certified Passive House Designer and building scientist 👩‍🔬 #SclerodermaWarrior 🇨🇦 Anti-colonial socialist democrat questioning broken systems, elevating sustainability, and human dignity. 🍉🏳️‍🌈🪶 https://coff.ee/sandrallester

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

I developed the sustainability strategy for the Fogo Island Inn and Shorefast Foundation took it even further into an Economic Nutrition Label. I support Zita Cobb’s calling for it to be used support purchasing of Canadian products and labour: www.corporateknights.com/category-fin...
#CdnPoli

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 4m

Coming to Bluesky for more frogs, and not disappointed.

Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 5m

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

Spread this far and wide.
#USPoli
#KavanaughStop

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12h

Many have noticed a pattern that on the days Russia attacks Ukraine the worse, Donald Trump goes on social media and thanks Putin. This has happened repeatdly.

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

One of my grandfather’s RCAF diaries talking about people he met and their daily activities overseas between bombing raids across Europe.

Handwritten diary in ink, with small writing outlining activities of a RCAF bomber/navigator during WWII.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s a suggestion:

If you were a real God-fearing Christian man then you wouldn’t need 24 karat gold everywhere to make you feel better about yourself.

Or something like that that would fit actually on a sign…

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 16h

Have you made your protest 🪧 signs for #NoKings yet? Canadians have been appointed judges of the wittiest signs. Break out the paint 🎨, it’s a fun family activity.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16h

The great derangement syndrome. As the world blows past the 1.5 degree red line Trump and Carney talk about reviving Keystone XL.
It won't lower tariffs on wood, furniture, steel, auto.
But it will be a massive carbon bomb to a struggling planet.
My latest.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Great Derangement: Carney, Trump and the Return of Keystone XL

Well, that was unexpected.

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

It’s hard, but I am thankful for the capacity that I do have. Thanks so much for understanding. 🫂

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 16h

In 2024 the oil and gas industry paid BC taxpayers $20,000 for fresh water. They used and poisoned 9 Billion litres of fresh water. Fracking companies should not be allowed to do this. If you want to call in the government to stop letting them you can here act.stand.earth/page/89100/a...

Fracking is draining B.C.’s freshwater: Act now before it’s too late

Despite B.C.’s Peace River Region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil & gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction, with an alarming 50% increase over the year before. J...

act.stand.earth

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

Got connected to a long lost dear friend after two decades apart, and my half-sister that I found out about fairly recently.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 12h

So sorry you are going through this. This hits me, but I’m kind of the opposite. Due to Scleroderma, wrinkles are disappearing from my face because my body overproduces collagen. (But no one sees my sore hands.)

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 16h

Canada Post 💌 switched to rotating strikes so Québec elections could have mail-in ballots for their election. That union and its workers are the back bone of this country.
Solidarity forever. #canlab

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 16h

'cause we all still need to keep our sense of humor, folks,
no matter how dark the skies

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 19h

Trump has done more to damage peace & human progress than any leader in recent history. He has demonized the vulnerable, dismissed science & medicine, destabilized global order, & is now actively dismantling the democracy that gave him power. His legacy is one of hate, division & decay.

White House Says Nobel Committee Puts 'Politics
Over Peace'

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 17h

The richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot, whereas the poorest 40% of countries, with 42% of the global population, experience more than 60% of the social shortfall. What can we do about this?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature

A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

www.nature.com

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 18h

The meat and dairy industry is just as threatened by climate change activism as the fossil fuel industry.

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 18h

The meat and dairy industry acts just like the fossil fuel industry

Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 18h

#Nestlé quit the Dairy #Methane Action Alliance whose members commit to measure methane #emissions from their #dairy supply chains and reduce them, raising questions about the transparency & accountability of its #climate strategy: www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025... #globalwarming

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 18h

This is a game changer for anyone that works at the grassroots level in Canada.
#cdnpoli

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 19h

You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?

Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.

Check it out:

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not how science works.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Fleurish Folk @fleurishfolk.bsky.social · 1d

Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever - Witches teach us how to push back - and raise hell - in the face of authoritarianism. #Witchsky
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Rebellion, Activism, Imagination: Why We Need Witches More Than Ever - Reactor

Witches teach us how to push back — and raise hell — in the face of authoritarianism.

reactormag.com

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

If only he cared about other people as much as he cared about himself.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 1d

Liberals and Conservatives have let corporate grocers rip off Canadians for far too long.

Billions in profits for the Big 3 Grocers, while working-class people wonder how they’ll afford their next meal.

No more waiting for the market to fix itself. Canada needs a public option for grocery stores.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 1d

Please, bring them home @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. Israel has broken several international laws by abducting them. Canada 🇨🇦 can’t continue to condone this lawlessness. I don’t understand your disdain for humanitarians. And I certainly don’t understand Canada’s new blind-eye foreign policy.

The 6 Canadian activists abducted by Israel

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

We wish PM Carney was using this logic to review pipeline development and carbon emissions. I thought he was good with numbers.
#CdnPoli

Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 1d

Carney, Smith's "Pipeline for Lower Oil Emissions" Deal Doesn't Work

Janetta McKenzie, @Pembina Institute, modelled 3 scenarios, several that included a new pipeline to the West Coast.

Oil sands emissions rise in every one.
#ableg #abpoli @markjcarney
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Carney, Smith's "Pipeline for Lower Oil Emissions" Deal Doesn't Work

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

This is bad. Here’s a link that works:

www.bbc.com/news/article... New York Attorney General Letitia James criminally indicted - BBC News

New York Attorney General Letitia James criminally indicted

James, who led a civil fraud investigation against US President Donald Trump, was indicted in Alexandria, Virginia.

www.bbc.com

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Unbeknownst to most or long forgotten is that on October 8 and October 10, 2023; Hamas offered the same deal that’s being pitched as Trump’s “Gaza Peace Deal” which would have handed all hostages over to Israel in exchange for Israeli troops not entering the strip, Netanyahu refused the proposal.

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