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Jackie Seidel

@jackieseidel.bsky.social

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😷 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

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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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · Feb 14

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

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4h

A Crushing Year for Science in America

The Trump administration has sharply cut funding for scientific research and eliminated thousands of jobs. We spoke to scientists about the work that was lost.

www.nytimes.com

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 5h

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · 5h

🐉✨ Collaboration time!
I’m so excited to share that Sarah from @greyowlknits.bsky.social has created a stunning new pattern the Draco Manus Mittens using my yarns Louverture’s Sapphire & Dragon’s Pale Gold. Get your hands on her new pattern & also enjoy 15% all my yarns this weekend! 🧶
#knitsky
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A collage announcing a knitting collaboration inspired by a medieval dragon. In the top left, a blue and gold dragon curls beside Gothic script from a 15th-century manuscript (Harley MS 1662). To the right, two skeins of yarn — one cream, one vivid sapphire blue — are shown with fern and pearl accents. Below, a pair of colorwork mittens display the dragon motif in blue and cream against a rustic wooden background. Center text reads “NEW COLLAB ALERT!” with a small green dragon icon. Additional images show close-ups of the yarn and the finished mittens, whose intricate patterns mirror the medieval illumination.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 5h

" #Photos: Hundreds of thousands of displaced persons continue to return from the south and center of the #GazaStrip to their homes in #Gaza City and the north."

www.threads.com/@5newspal/po...

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#BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #GazaNews #Israel #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #WorldNews

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 5h

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 5h

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 5h

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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 5h

FROG = Fascism Resistance On the Ground

👏 👏👏Let’s hear it for the amphibians on the front lines 👏👏👏

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Frog gets it

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 5h

For those who are disabled, you can reach out to 311 to have someone come to your house so you can vote.
#YQL #Lethbridge #abpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 17h

“A leader of the Alberta separatist movement has been reprimanded by the Law Society of Alberta for a second time in four months, after he admitted to twice breaching professional standards.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Alberta separatist lawyer reprimanded for second time in four months

Jeffrey Rath represents the Alberta Prosperity Project and was reprimanded on Friday for his role in a near-decade old legal case.

edmontonjournal.com

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 5h

Morning rainbow!

a rainbow over a suburban neighbourhood, with trees turning yellow in the background. in the foreground, an apple tree with a couple of apples still on it.

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 23h

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Demand for the vaccine remains strong heading into cold and flu season.

👉 There were over 400 COVID-related deaths in Alberta last year, a reminder of the ongoing risk the virus poses to the community. 👈

Angela Amato, CTV News Edmonton
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Edmonton pharmacist says he can only administer 5 COVID-19 shots a day

A west Edmonton pharmacist said his pharmacy can only administer five COVID-19 shots a day outside of the province's official immunization program.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 5h

Read this.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 5h

I read this myself, I never miss a post even if it takes me a bit, but I've also found it valuable to send this specific one to other folks in recent days.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 5h

Wearing an n95 is BY FAR the single most impactful act of resistance a person can do right now.

Your maskless face is the bullet in a fascist’s gun.

Mask up to resist eugenics by protecting vulnerable groups like kids, BIPOC, trans, disability and immigrant communities.

Give/get mask mutual aid:

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 5h

Frogs are my favourite animals and now also my favourite protesters.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 5h

Evil!!!!!!!!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone should be screaming about this.

Diasporic Minnesotan @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 5h

They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.
They killed MMWR.

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 5h

You can find Melody Kwe’s artwork on instagram at

www.instagram.com/melody_kwe?i...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 5h

ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario...
We all see where this is going, right?

‘Ontario spends $1,935 per person on hospitals, the lowest per capita in Canada’

Facing record debt levels, Ontario hospitals told to balance budgets and find efficiencies

Debt-laden hospitals have been told to come up with proposals to balance budgets over the next three years, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.

ottawacitizen.com

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 5h

Local woman wakes up, establishes Antifa Frog Brigades in all cities across America (and elsewhere around the world, as needed), makes oatmeal.

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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 8h

People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk aren’t tech creators — they’re tech colonizers.
Rich white men who used privilege and capital to seize an industry built by real innovators, exploiting the minds and labor of creators while branding themselves as “visionaries.” #Pinks

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 5h

Early voted at the U of C on Thursday.

They did not mention my mask 😷 or ask me to remove it like I’ve heard has happened at other polling stations.

The SU was giving out gelato after you voted 😋. 8 degrees outside. Perfect 🍨 weather!

Chickadee earrings by Melody Kwe, an Anishinabe artist.

Me, a white woman with grey hair in a pony tail wearing round glasses and a pink mask and beaded chickadee earrings . I’m holding a small container of hedgehog gelato.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 6h

I spent this morning making flat packed furniture and I did something amazingly incompetent.

The instructions said to attach two planks by a single screw such that one is basically levitating in this position…

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