Jocelyn 🌿
borealj.bsky.social
Jocelyn 🌿
@borealj.bsky.social
Progressive in the Wild Alberta Boreal 🇨🇦 Nature addict. Educator.
Mom. Linguist.
BComm. Planet before Profit.
Looks like this statue in Berlin. “Politicians discussing Climate Change.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The number of MLAs with ties to private schools in Alberta is obscene. Sitting MLA Rajan Sawhney’s daughter sits on the board for the private school “STEM Innovation Academy,” who Smith gifted $120,000,000 public tax dollars in 2024. Yep.
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The reason we vaccinate our family is for those who cannot be vaccinated 👍
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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8. But it might not require Nazi terror for Europe to revert to default mode. We seem perfectly happy to vote or drift our way back to it. As the US might already have done.
Once you vote for an autocrat, you might find it extremely hard to reverse the decision.
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
If someone was walking down the streets with a machine that killed 40,000 North Americans a year, we’d definitely stop them, right? We’d definitely ban or severely limit that machine, & who could operate it? … Right?
October 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
May he rest in peace
October 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“People not products” motto has served me well
October 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM