Jackie Seidel
@jackieseidel.bsky.social
😷 Born 322ppm 🌎 ❤️ Poetry. Bees. Bikes. Eco/Climate Justice. Contemplative ecology. UofCalgary Assoc Prof Curriculum/Learning. PhD. Tweets mine. She/Her
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Jackie Seidel
@jackieseidel.bsky.social
· Feb 15
The hole in the roof of the protective 'New Safe Confinement' containment shell over destroyed Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after a Russian drone targeted it last night. #MSC2025
This is BAD. Many countries assisted with building the containment over reactor 4. Because Chernobyl is an existential threat. Canada donated over 66 million dollars. Building this was an example of extreme engineering. That a drone could do this to any nuclear facility has been a concern.
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It’s not a journey, I can tell you that for certain.
This is a great read on how we talk about chronic illness (shoutout Susan Sontag’s foundational writing on the topic), and reminds us that millions of us (mostly women) live with post-viral chronic conditions.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
This is a great read on how we talk about chronic illness (shoutout Susan Sontag’s foundational writing on the topic), and reminds us that millions of us (mostly women) live with post-viral chronic conditions.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
www.statnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
It’s not a journey, I can tell you that for certain.
This is a great read on how we talk about chronic illness (shoutout Susan Sontag’s foundational writing on the topic), and reminds us that millions of us (mostly women) live with post-viral chronic conditions.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
This is a great read on how we talk about chronic illness (shoutout Susan Sontag’s foundational writing on the topic), and reminds us that millions of us (mostly women) live with post-viral chronic conditions.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
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Calgary ridings are the ones to watch, but all recall petitions will tell us something about how people on the ground are feeling about this govt today.
#ableg #abpoli
#ableg #abpoli
14 UCP MLAs Subject of Recall Petition and Probably More Coming
Who's got an office pool on the final number? I want 33.
@Mitchell_AB explains how the recall process works and the political implications.
Subscibe to her Substack @WomenOfABPoli.
#abpoli
youtu.be/hfO-5E24qOA
Who's got an office pool on the final number? I want 33.
@Mitchell_AB explains how the recall process works and the political implications.
Subscibe to her Substack @WomenOfABPoli.
#abpoli
youtu.be/hfO-5E24qOA
14 UCP MLAs Subject of Recall Petition and Probably More Coming
YouTube video by Energi Media
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November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
🇨🇦 can NEVER lose the CBC. I have listened to Ideas faithfully for 40 years.
There are many BEST episodes and this is one of them.
This is what HEALTH CARE at all levels should be.
Education too.
Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The Idea of Home: The Hospitable Hospital www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
There are many BEST episodes and this is one of them.
This is what HEALTH CARE at all levels should be.
Education too.
Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The Idea of Home: The Hospitable Hospital www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
🇨🇦 can NEVER lose the CBC. I have listened to Ideas faithfully for 40 years.
There are many BEST episodes and this is one of them.
This is what HEALTH CARE at all levels should be.
Education too.
Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The Idea of Home: The Hospitable Hospital www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
There are many BEST episodes and this is one of them.
This is what HEALTH CARE at all levels should be.
Education too.
Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The Idea of Home: The Hospitable Hospital www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Isabella St. A perfectly good apt bldn empty, people displaced & being demolished all because so much of Toronto is off limits & forced here. Aka house neighbourhoods. Such a shame. Such waste. And the shame of every elected official here. Shame of Ford for not pushing reforms. All the same.
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Isabella St. A perfectly good apt bldn empty, people displaced & being demolished all because so much of Toronto is off limits & forced here. Aka house neighbourhoods. Such a shame. Such waste. And the shame of every elected official here. Shame of Ford for not pushing reforms. All the same.
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Five years after they published their landmark paper titled "10 Calls to Action to Natural Scientists", @carmtree.bsky.social and colleagues have an update. #TruthAndReconciliation 🧪 www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
Reflecting on the “10 Calls to Action to Natural Scientists” 5 years later: how do we keep moving forward on reconciliation?
Five years ago, we published a paper that proposed 10 Calls to Action aimed at enabling reconciliation in the natural sciences research arena in Canada. Our goal was to provide a starting point for th...
www.facetsjournal.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Five years after they published their landmark paper titled "10 Calls to Action to Natural Scientists", @carmtree.bsky.social and colleagues have an update. #TruthAndReconciliation 🧪 www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...
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And then there were 14. #ABpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
5 more UCP legislature members facing recall, bringing total to 14 | CBC News
Elections Alberta says it has approved recall petitions against five more members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus, bringing the total to 14.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Also, even if you can obey stop signs and use your turn signals, you should consider walking or taking the bus anyway. Cycling is a great option too.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Also, even if you can obey stop signs and use your turn signals, you should consider walking or taking the bus anyway. Cycling is a great option too.
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If you’re incapable of picking up your dog’s poop, get a cat.
If you don’t stop at stop signs or use your turn signals, walk or take the bus.
if you can’t or won’t* shovel snow from your walkway and sidewalk, live in an apartment.
If you don’t stop at stop signs or use your turn signals, walk or take the bus.
if you can’t or won’t* shovel snow from your walkway and sidewalk, live in an apartment.
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you’re incapable of picking up your dog’s poop, get a cat.
If you don’t stop at stop signs or use your turn signals, walk or take the bus.
if you can’t or won’t* shovel snow from your walkway and sidewalk, live in an apartment.
If you don’t stop at stop signs or use your turn signals, walk or take the bus.
if you can’t or won’t* shovel snow from your walkway and sidewalk, live in an apartment.
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Maybe we shouldn't have scared off investment in renewables and other industries.
Alberta's 2025/26 fiscal year started April 1 and its next fiscal update is due later this week.
I don't have a crystal ball but if I had to guess the tone in a single emoji, I'd go with 😬
I don't have a crystal ball but if I had to guess the tone in a single emoji, I'd go with 😬
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Maybe we shouldn't have scared off investment in renewables and other industries.
My FAVOURITE Twitter post of all time, posted here today by my request/plea so that I can end my university courses this term by reading it to the students as I have many times in the past but I lost my print out of it.
They should hear this every day.
They should hear this every day.
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My FAVOURITE Twitter post of all time, posted here today by my request/plea so that I can end my university courses this term by reading it to the students as I have many times in the past but I lost my print out of it.
They should hear this every day.
They should hear this every day.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
We still have weird amazing shows. Check out Paris Paris on CBC Gem. It’s so hilarious and heartbreaking and very addictive.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We still have weird amazing shows. Check out Paris Paris on CBC Gem. It’s so hilarious and heartbreaking and very addictive.
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Danielle Smith is dismantling public healthcare piece by piece. If she isn’t stopped, universal care will be decimated.
Mark Carney must draw a line and that starts with standing up for healthcare.
Mark Carney must draw a line and that starts with standing up for healthcare.
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Danielle Smith is dismantling public healthcare piece by piece. If she isn’t stopped, universal care will be decimated.
Mark Carney must draw a line and that starts with standing up for healthcare.
Mark Carney must draw a line and that starts with standing up for healthcare.
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"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology
OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Actually, you harmed us by using our chatbot in a way that made us look bad" is straight out of the abuser's handbook
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
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A green bicycle priority street in the Netherlands
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A green bicycle priority street in the Netherlands
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They refuse to acknowledge that a huge reason Canadians aren't coming there is because they're led by a man who gets off on throwing innocent people in Venezuela torture prisons and checking our phones at the border for subversive memes. It's almost fascinating.
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U.S. senators say tariffs causing ‘cultural break’ in relations with Canada - National | Globalnews.ca
Maine Senator King said the lingering rift between Canadians and Americans is particularly troubling in a state that borders on New Brunswick and Quebec.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
They refuse to acknowledge that a huge reason Canadians aren't coming there is because they're led by a man who gets off on throwing innocent people in Venezuela torture prisons and checking our phones at the border for subversive memes. It's almost fascinating.
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Always great to be in Ottawa. The National War Memorial always my first stop. Then, visit to the eternal Centennial Flame that inspired our #ForeverCanadian logo.
Busy couple of days ahead of our Forever Canadian team…
#Cdnpoli #AbLeg
Busy couple of days ahead of our Forever Canadian team…
#Cdnpoli #AbLeg
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Always great to be in Ottawa. The National War Memorial always my first stop. Then, visit to the eternal Centennial Flame that inspired our #ForeverCanadian logo.
Busy couple of days ahead of our Forever Canadian team…
#Cdnpoli #AbLeg
Busy couple of days ahead of our Forever Canadian team…
#Cdnpoli #AbLeg
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From the new HBO documentary Thoughts & Prayers that looks into the impact of the $3 billion active shooter preparedness industry on schools and communities.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
If you're not American/don't live in the US, I'm asking you to please not comment.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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The UCP’s fall legislative session reveals volumes about what the party really values and what it doesn’t: no rights for teachers and trans folks (Bills 2 and 9) no rights for those who depend on AIMCo investments (Bill 12) but hey, we’ll pay out to aussie coal companies any time. #ableg #abpoli
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Anyone who says a bitumen pipeline through northern BC could "usher in a new era of harmony on resource development" has not talked to anyone in northern BC.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Anyone who says a bitumen pipeline through northern BC could "usher in a new era of harmony on resource development" has not talked to anyone in northern BC.
Sigh
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Sigh
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.