Jessica Theodor
@jmtheodor.bsky.social
Ungulate paleobiologist, fibre nerd. Professor @UCalgary in Canada. Opinions mine. Born in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee, living on Treaty 7 land. She/her.
Pinned
My new band will be called Vicious Compliance.
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Note the UCP's meme 👇.
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Note the UCP's meme 👇.
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
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Wasn't close at all in my collision estimate.
"From midnight to 4 p.m., there were 389 reported collisions, including 26 involving injuries, and 50 non-injury hit and runs, police said" ~ CBC News
And people wonder why Alberta insurance rates keep climbing...
"From midnight to 4 p.m., there were 389 reported collisions, including 26 involving injuries, and 50 non-injury hit and runs, police said" ~ CBC News
And people wonder why Alberta insurance rates keep climbing...
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Wasn't close at all in my collision estimate.
"From midnight to 4 p.m., there were 389 reported collisions, including 26 involving injuries, and 50 non-injury hit and runs, police said" ~ CBC News
And people wonder why Alberta insurance rates keep climbing...
"From midnight to 4 p.m., there were 389 reported collisions, including 26 involving injuries, and 50 non-injury hit and runs, police said" ~ CBC News
And people wonder why Alberta insurance rates keep climbing...
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I will say it once more. Every city councillor and the mayor should take Calgary Transit from their residence (in their ward) to work (City Hall) & return home once per week. We'd have improved transit for everyone in Calgary if key decision-makers were mandated use it regularly. 6/6 🚍🚉
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will say it once more. Every city councillor and the mayor should take Calgary Transit from their residence (in their ward) to work (City Hall) & return home once per week. We'd have improved transit for everyone in Calgary if key decision-makers were mandated use it regularly. 6/6 🚍🚉
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"We're kind of excited that you can actually use AI to write legislation right now,” Dale Nally told the CBC on Saturday.
Quite a week for this guy.
Quite a week for this guy.
Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"We're kind of excited that you can actually use AI to write legislation right now,” Dale Nally told the CBC on Saturday.
Quite a week for this guy.
Quite a week for this guy.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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If you think the Watergate burglars were dumb, you haven't met Rob Anderson, Vitor Marciano, and Brian Jean, and the rest of the inept political bunglers running Alberta's oil and gas strategy.
Do not discount the influence of stupidity.
Ideology, not expertise, rules in ABGov.
Do not discount the influence of stupidity.
Ideology, not expertise, rules in ABGov.
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
If you think the Watergate burglars were dumb, you haven't met Rob Anderson, Vitor Marciano, and Brian Jean, and the rest of the inept political bunglers running Alberta's oil and gas strategy.
Do not discount the influence of stupidity.
Ideology, not expertise, rules in ABGov.
Do not discount the influence of stupidity.
Ideology, not expertise, rules in ABGov.
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If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If this is true, every halfway decent foreign intelligence service on the planet already has the receipts ….
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Indeed. This is a prescription for Duma.
“Having a United States senator subject to discipline at the behest of the secretary of defense and the president — that violates a core principle of legislative independence,” Kreis said in a phone interview.
apnews.com/article/pent...
apnews.com/article/pent...
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says it's investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after the former Navy pilot joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called...
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Indeed. This is a prescription for Duma.
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The overall proportion of Cdns with a lot of trust in elections has remained stable. But supporters of the Conservative Party are less likely to express high trust in elections, and this proportion has fallen notably since 2019, from 40 to 25 percent.
www.environicsinstitute.org/projects/pro...
www.environicsinstitute.org/projects/pro...
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The overall proportion of Cdns with a lot of trust in elections has remained stable. But supporters of the Conservative Party are less likely to express high trust in elections, and this proportion has fallen notably since 2019, from 40 to 25 percent.
www.environicsinstitute.org/projects/pro...
www.environicsinstitute.org/projects/pro...
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It would be a win/win
#markcarney
#daniellesmith
#notwithstanding
#pipeline
youtube.com/shorts/jzuBK...
#markcarney
#daniellesmith
#notwithstanding
#pipeline
youtube.com/shorts/jzuBK...
Mark? I have an idea. #markcarney #daniellesmith #pipeline #notwithstanding #alberta #politics
YouTube video by Lisab0923
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It would be a win/win
#markcarney
#daniellesmith
#notwithstanding
#pipeline
youtube.com/shorts/jzuBK...
#markcarney
#daniellesmith
#notwithstanding
#pipeline
youtube.com/shorts/jzuBK...
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Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
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Christianity really is Judaism's stalker ex.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Christianity really is Judaism's stalker ex.
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JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
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Please, pretty please.
@fairvote.ca
@fairvote.ca
Let's put an end to First-Past-the-Post elections together and build a true democracy! Join us: lewisforleader.ca
Huge moment in this interview with @frankdomenic.bsky.social.
NDP leadership candidate @avilewis.ca puts proportional representation on the national stage and makes it the non negotiable democratic reform we need.
When leadership contenders acknowledge the core issue, the national debate shifts.
NDP leadership candidate @avilewis.ca puts proportional representation on the national stage and makes it the non negotiable democratic reform we need.
When leadership contenders acknowledge the core issue, the national debate shifts.
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Please, pretty please.
@fairvote.ca
@fairvote.ca
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The descent into dystopian nightmare continues unabated.
The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
theintercept.com/2025/11/21/f...
The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition
An FBI procurement document inquires about AI surveillance on drones, raising concerns about a crackdown on protests.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The descent into dystopian nightmare continues unabated.
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Punching down is not protecting.
Everything Danielle claims about puberty blockers and this issue is false. She's a liar kowtowing to her christo-fascist and petro-fascist "associates".
Everything Danielle claims about puberty blockers and this issue is false. She's a liar kowtowing to her christo-fascist and petro-fascist "associates".
At the Alberta Legislature this morning to bear witness. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransKids #yeg #Edmonton
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Punching down is not protecting.
Everything Danielle claims about puberty blockers and this issue is false. She's a liar kowtowing to her christo-fascist and petro-fascist "associates".
Everything Danielle claims about puberty blockers and this issue is false. She's a liar kowtowing to her christo-fascist and petro-fascist "associates".
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"A 25-person startup" should not be allowed to "disrupt" fundamental inputs to the Earth's ecosystem, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Like, what are we even thinking here?
Like, what are we even thinking here?
This is a VERY long piece about solar geoengineering that starts, scientifically speaking, badly, but gets better, but still has a few issues.
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"A 25-person startup" should not be allowed to "disrupt" fundamental inputs to the Earth's ecosystem, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
Like, what are we even thinking here?
Like, what are we even thinking here?
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
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Now that Poilievre has a new campaign manager, it’ll be interesting to see if Pierre goes all Marjorie Taylor Greene or now goes full Max Bernier.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Now that Poilievre has a new campaign manager, it’ll be interesting to see if Pierre goes all Marjorie Taylor Greene or now goes full Max Bernier.
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