Tom Jackman
@frozen.bsky.social
Dad, ally, and keeper of digital receipts | #MECFS since 2004 | #LongCovid since 2020 | Archivist by training | 🇨🇦 by choice | @frozen in the old 🐦 country | he/him
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"How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it," writes @arnokopecky.bsky.social
Read it and weep: This pipeline agreement is a document of betrayal
How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it. It’s not just the hard-won ground lo...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it," writes @arnokopecky.bsky.social
I try to stay out of US politics these days, but I do believe Trump's revanchist racial policies animate him and his supporters more than anything else. They want their purified (and poorer) white ethnostate.
The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I try to stay out of US politics these days, but I do believe Trump's revanchist racial policies animate him and his supporters more than anything else. They want their purified (and poorer) white ethnostate.
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Meanwhile a mini caucus revolt with a Minister resigning and public comments from MPs saying they are opposed, while angering BC and alienating First Nations
None of it is a good move
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
None of it is a good move
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Meanwhile a mini caucus revolt with a Minister resigning and public comments from MPs saying they are opposed, while angering BC and alienating First Nations
None of it is a good move
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
None of it is a good move
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #ABpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
#COVID patients have higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, #headache, and #fatigue before diagnosis, study suggests
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
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Taxes are good! Taxes are how we pay for all of the things that make society a good place to live!
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Taxes are good! Taxes are how we pay for all of the things that make society a good place to live!
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.
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Meanwhile in Canada we are yammering about a bitumen pipeline
Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Meanwhile in Canada we are yammering about a bitumen pipeline
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I have been browbeaten by many people as to my decision to leave twitter months ago. "Sensible people must stay and debate!"
Wonder if any of those folks have updated their understanding. Is your life better when you spend it arguing with a bot farm?
Wonder if any of those folks have updated their understanding. Is your life better when you spend it arguing with a bot farm?
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I have been browbeaten by many people as to my decision to leave twitter months ago. "Sensible people must stay and debate!"
Wonder if any of those folks have updated their understanding. Is your life better when you spend it arguing with a bot farm?
Wonder if any of those folks have updated their understanding. Is your life better when you spend it arguing with a bot farm?
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There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄
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See what's happening again?
'The public' excludes people with underlying conditions.
'The public' excludes people with underlying conditions.
BREAKING: Man from Washington state dies after being infected with H5N5 bird flu
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
See what's happening again?
'The public' excludes people with underlying conditions.
'The public' excludes people with underlying conditions.
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New research proves that Drax is sourcing BC old growth to burn—and the BC government is signing off on it
Drax is the UK fuel pellet manufacturer.
Sign act.stand.earth/page/89926/a...
#bcpoli
Drax is the UK fuel pellet manufacturer.
Sign act.stand.earth/page/89926/a...
#bcpoli
New research proves Drax is sourcing old growth to burn and the BC government is signing off on it
It’s time for us to hold this government accountable and make sure that the promises to protect BC’s old growth forests are actually kept. Let’s flood their inboxes with letters about this new researc...
act.stand.earth
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New research proves that Drax is sourcing BC old growth to burn—and the BC government is signing off on it
Drax is the UK fuel pellet manufacturer.
Sign act.stand.earth/page/89926/a...
#bcpoli
Drax is the UK fuel pellet manufacturer.
Sign act.stand.earth/page/89926/a...
#bcpoli
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
This is an excellent primer on the importance of cleaning indoor air as well as how it can be done.
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is an excellent primer on the importance of cleaning indoor air as well as how it can be done.
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Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
The solution isn't a for-profit system, but like Thompson says there's no use pretending that BC's healthcare system is working or ok.
Just did a rough calculation of how much I've paid directly into the health system since I arrived in BC. In that time, I've never had a family doctor, and the one time I tried to use the ER I was turned away. I've been paying tens of thousands of dollars for a service that doesn't exist.
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The solution isn't a for-profit system, but like Thompson says there's no use pretending that BC's healthcare system is working or ok.
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Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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It is pretty fucked up that disabled people can't even have one day of mourning one of our advocates without random condescension from people who are oh so tired of hearing us correctly state COVID isn't over bc "you've gotta live your lives."
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It is pretty fucked up that disabled people can't even have one day of mourning one of our advocates without random condescension from people who are oh so tired of hearing us correctly state COVID isn't over bc "you've gotta live your lives."
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
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An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
This LNG project sounds familiar — and not in a good way
More than a century ago, Prince Rupert, BC was poised to become the hub of the Pacific, thanks to a megaproject with eerie similarities to what's coming now. What happened?
www.nationalobserver.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
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i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
All happy social networks are alike; each unhappy social network is unhappy in its own way.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
All happy social networks are alike; each unhappy social network is unhappy in its own way.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
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Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region.
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region.
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
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this could be a horrible winter as the flu vaccine is not a match for an emerging strain, and getting a Covid and flu shot at the same time is now shown to reduce effectiveness for both
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
this could be a horrible winter as the flu vaccine is not a match for an emerging strain, and getting a Covid and flu shot at the same time is now shown to reduce effectiveness for both
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
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Still one of the best articles I've read on this topic and sad i still have to share it with people who ask "why didn't you just leave?"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'A life sentence': No escape from abusive relationships when navigating family court system, say victims | CBC News
Recent changes to federal laws aim to better educate judges on intimate partner violence. But survivors and experts say abuse is still not being adequately incorporated into family court decisions, le...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Still one of the best articles I've read on this topic and sad i still have to share it with people who ask "why didn't you just leave?"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...