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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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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ICYMI my op-ed about an under appreciated risk to tanker traffic along the north coast of B.C.
I wrote about the under-appreciated hazard of landslide-triggered tsunamis, which need serious consideration in discussions of new pipelines from Alberta 🧪⚒️
@theglobeandmail.com @davidebybc.bsky.social @natural-resources.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
@theglobeandmail.com @davidebybc.bsky.social @natural-resources.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
New northwest pipeline risks hazard of landslide tsunamis
Major Projects Office needs to be wary in its planning for pipeline projects to tidewater
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
ICYMI my op-ed about an under appreciated risk to tanker traffic along the north coast of B.C.
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#Fossilfriday: Pseudorhina alifera, a species of angel shark from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. Pseudorhina is the oldest known genus of angel shark (145-150 million years ago.)
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
#Fossilfriday: Pseudorhina alifera, a species of angel shark from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. Pseudorhina is the oldest known genus of angel shark (145-150 million years ago.)
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"Ukraine must “enshrine in its constitution” a promise to never join NATO. Ukraine must shrink the size of its armed forces to 600,000, down from 900,000. Ukraine may not host foreign troops on its soil. Ukraine must hold new elections within 100 days, a demand not made of Russia, a dictatorship"
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"Ukraine must “enshrine in its constitution” a promise to never join NATO. Ukraine must shrink the size of its armed forces to 600,000, down from 900,000. Ukraine may not host foreign troops on its soil. Ukraine must hold new elections within 100 days, a demand not made of Russia, a dictatorship"
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Today, for #FossilFriday, we present Madeleine Alberta Fritz (1896–1990): a Canadian pioneer of palaeontology, and affectionately known as “the great-grandmother of Palaeozoic Bryozoa.”
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Today, for #FossilFriday, we present Madeleine Alberta Fritz (1896–1990): a Canadian pioneer of palaeontology, and affectionately known as “the great-grandmother of Palaeozoic Bryozoa.”
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waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
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It's been this way for decades!
The industry takes their talking points from the same mainstream techno-optimism that makes liberal leaders think we can somehow deal w 40gt of CO2 pollution every year while still using fossil fuels.
This is the language of climate politics all the way down.
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The industry takes their talking points from the same mainstream techno-optimism that makes liberal leaders think we can somehow deal w 40gt of CO2 pollution every year while still using fossil fuels.
This is the language of climate politics all the way down.
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As @doctorvive.bsky.social has pointed out a quadrillion times, it such a moment of significant and extreme alarm that fossi lfuel industry talking points are being shamelessly and bluntly repeated by people like this
Very, very, very grim
Very, very, very grim
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It's been this way for decades!
The industry takes their talking points from the same mainstream techno-optimism that makes liberal leaders think we can somehow deal w 40gt of CO2 pollution every year while still using fossil fuels.
This is the language of climate politics all the way down.
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The industry takes their talking points from the same mainstream techno-optimism that makes liberal leaders think we can somehow deal w 40gt of CO2 pollution every year while still using fossil fuels.
This is the language of climate politics all the way down.
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Also they seem to have badly missed the point that the handmaidens were badass, transgressive women being punished and exploited by conservative collaborators with the religious patriarchy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Also they seem to have badly missed the point that the handmaidens were badass, transgressive women being punished and exploited by conservative collaborators with the religious patriarchy.
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
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For #FossilFriday: one of the very first fossils of the American mastodon ever discovered. This specimen was found at Big Bone Lick, KY, US, in 1739 by a French military expedition, then sent back to Paris for study. On display at the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris. 🧪
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For #FossilFriday: one of the very first fossils of the American mastodon ever discovered. This specimen was found at Big Bone Lick, KY, US, in 1739 by a French military expedition, then sent back to Paris for study. On display at the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée in Paris. 🧪
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So apparently you CAN get people to save money.
You just have to make the money cute.
Mexico made the mistake (debatable) of putting an axolotl on their 50 peso bill. Now its estimated something like 12.5 million in pesos are out of circulation, because people are refusing to part with the bill.
You just have to make the money cute.
Mexico made the mistake (debatable) of putting an axolotl on their 50 peso bill. Now its estimated something like 12.5 million in pesos are out of circulation, because people are refusing to part with the bill.
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
So apparently you CAN get people to save money.
You just have to make the money cute.
Mexico made the mistake (debatable) of putting an axolotl on their 50 peso bill. Now its estimated something like 12.5 million in pesos are out of circulation, because people are refusing to part with the bill.
You just have to make the money cute.
Mexico made the mistake (debatable) of putting an axolotl on their 50 peso bill. Now its estimated something like 12.5 million in pesos are out of circulation, because people are refusing to part with the bill.
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Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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Yup.
Smith 2.0, Authoritarian Libertarianism, and Breaking Bad in Alberta
Henry Ford: "You can have your car in any colour you want as long as it's black."
Danielle Smith: "You can have as much freedom as you want as long as I approve."
#ableg #abpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/smith-20-a...
Henry Ford: "You can have your car in any colour you want as long as it's black."
Danielle Smith: "You can have as much freedom as you want as long as I approve."
#ableg #abpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/smith-20-a...
Smith 2.0, Authoritarian Libertarianism, and Breaking Bad in Alberta
It's not just MAGA politics. Premier Danielle Smith has also adopted the underlying ideology of Donald Trump's movement
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Yup.