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Tom Jackman

@frozen.bsky.social
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Dad, ally, and keeper of digital receipts | #MECFS since 2004 | #LongCovid since 2020 | Archivist by training | 🇨🇦 by choice | @frozen in the old 🐦 country | he/him

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 1h
Gas prices aren't high because of taxes! Don't sacrifice billions of public dollars to fix what you didn't cause!
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 1h
Suspending gas taxes is the easiest move for politicians to make when gas prices are high and it's also the dumbest. It does very little to alter the material conditions of constituents, but costs a shit ton of money while slightly diluting the market signal that high gas prices should send.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 1h
So here's my plan: free soda in the vending machines
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1h
Carney carefully weaves in his shock doctrine narrative, telling us why we have to do this NOW so “we can continue to live our lives as we choose.” The implication being: no oil pipeline, no sovereignty. Which is an unhinged thing to say, actually!
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Dustin Poppendieck @poppendieck.bsky.social · 3h
CR box air cleaners reduce particles in classrooms by 61%. pubs.acs.org/aeacd5/artic...
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Performance and Practical Considerations of Deploying Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Air Purifiers in Occupied Classrooms
Abstract. Poor classroom ventilation allows airborne particles to build up, leading to suboptimal indoor air quality (IAQ) and increased risk of airborne v
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 13h
Men can keep each other in check actually. It’s not hard actually.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just want everyone to take a second to imagine how Poilievre would have responded if Justin Trudeau had done this while in office. like i just think it would be a fun experiment for us
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now that all regions have their ad hoc time zone, should we be scheduling things based on UTC instead?
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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"We need to ask why so many patients have been abandoned, why discredited and dangerous treatments continue to be prescribed and why ignorance and neglect still dominate, in the health system and beyond. In other words, there has seldom been a stronger case for a public inquiry." #MECFS #pwME
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 23/09/2026
The AI slop, the spammy calls and phishy emails are out of control. Is this the future we were all waiting for?
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're not supposed to mention this anymore, but the BC NDP government stood firmly behind public-health messaging that promoted droplet precautions for an airborne virus and saw masks in healthcare as unnecessary
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AT A GLANCE Broken @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social promises since 2017: ❌Properly fund classrooms & school equipment ❌Replace portables w classrooms ❌Seismically safe schools ❌Ensure faster access to school & public MH services ❌EAs in every elem. classroom ❌No cuts to funding for Autistic kids
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Tom Jackman @frozen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can we please stop calling them conservation officers?
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have zero faith that most Canadian politicians are taking this seriously or preparing for it in any significant way.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
acting morally is a lot easier when it's your only option.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Found my few minutes of joy today amidst <<waves hands>> all this. #Vancouver
Vancouver looking west from Burrsrd Bridge. You can see ocean, with beach, trees, city buildings on right and mountains in the distant. Also, a jetty for an aquabus stop.
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We gotta talk about how this dismal job market is disproportionately affecting women in their 40s and 50s, specifically many of my exceptional, highly-proficient friends who are bafflingly not getting interviews and job offers.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My cat has been sick, which has made me feel so terrible and anxious, I can hardly function. She's 19.5 years old and has been with me forever. I fear we're nearing the end and I love her so much. If you have a pet, please give them a kiss for me. Take them out for a walk tomorrow; give them a treat
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“We will revoke citizenship for anyone who defames IDF soldiers around the world—he will be deeply hurt in his pocket,” said Netanyahu.
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Sphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sign at the #ER " If you traveled in the last 3 wks to a country with an active #Ebola outbreak AND have a fever STOP, wash your hands , put on a medical mask , immediately inform a Healthcare provider"
" If you traveled in the last 3 wks to a country with an active #Ebola outbreak AND have a fever STOP, wash your hands , put on a medical mask , immediately inform a Healthcare provider"
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How sweet. @davidebybc.bsky.social spending big bucks to protect BC chickens, not BC children, from flu. MERV *16* (16!) air filters and UV technology. #bced #bcpoli @chantzy.bsky.social @tjradcliffe.bsky.social @mosssphagnum.bsky.social @donoharmbc.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/after-d...
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After the death of 10 million birds, there's a glimmer of hope for B.C.'s poultry farmers
As birds migrate south over B.C., avian flu outbreaks typically spike. Could new technology help?
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Most people don't know that the best way to make a service more efficient is to bring in a layer of upper management devoted solely to extracting a profit from it. It takes a doctorate in economics to figure that one out.
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Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 15/09/2026
I think holding a fire sale for foreign investors, including Americans, and selling off Canada’s critical infrastructure is a bad idea and inconsistent with shoring up our sovereignty. Just one man’s opinion!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026
hearing mark carney talk about how privatizing airports will free up money to invest in regional airports, transport links, broadband infrastructure makes me think of how nationalizing the pipeline was supposed to deliver revenues to pay for climate measures
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Epidemiologists are starting to worry about sweeping claims based on smaller observational studies
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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've seen three different people on Bluesky this week celebrating getting their Canadian citizenship, and another few who are in the process. It makes me so damn happy. Immigration and multiculturalism are what make Canada a great country, and anyone who tells you otherwise can fuck right off.
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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are Canada/BC always a couple of months later than the US with updated vaccines?? It’s always too late to help with the surge. Every time. People in the US were getting the updated vax in August #bcpolil #cdnpoli
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excited to share this podcast that I'm hosting, Transforming Health Insights, about biomedical innovation in B.C. This 1st episode looks at how RNA medicines are reimagining how we treat everything from cancer to chronic diseases & rare diseases 🔗 med-fom-faculty.sites.olt.ubc.ca/research/tra...
Visual graphic for transforming health episode 1 - the race to reinvent medicine and why Canada is winning featuring Drs. Anna Blakney and Pieter Cullis
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Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Observation: The powers that be want us to feel deep fear about misaligned artificial superintelligence, something that may exist at some point, but currently does not. Those same powers do not want us to feel deep fear about climate breakdown, something that exists now.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excited to see this building momentum in the US Sad to see a lack of this in Canada. We need to up our game, folks. #pluginsolar
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Plug-in Solar: The DIY energy revolution in the US
Plug-in solar is gaining traction in the U.S. From $300, no permits — learn how the DIY solar kits that changed Europe work.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Um… 😶
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Norwegian data: 98% more doctor visits for memory problems and 150% more for concentration problems than the trend before the pandemic.
At the same time, an enormous increase in prescribed heart medications. Even in Sweden.
Precisely the things we know COVID infections cause. Why don't we want to see the connection?
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026
This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’" #mustread from @swin24.bsky.social for Zeteo: The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Tom Jackman @frozen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This was a pretty good statement, but there's simply no universe in which these soulless megacorps will voluntarily "make it right" for such victims. They should and must be compelled to; we can't rely on the generosity and supposed humanity of their owners.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The fine this driver got for being ASLEEP behind the wheel is a little over twice what the fine is for taking a bus without a ticket. I do not think being asleep behind the wheel is about twice as bad as not paying $3 to ride the bus. Our legislators apparently do.
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Tesla Driver fined after police say driver was asleep behind wheel in Langley
A Tesla driver has been fined after appearing to be asleep behind the wheel in Langley.
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Lady DEADtera 💀🍁😷 @ladylettera32.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
... and yet CBC still refuses to acknowledge that wearing an N95 is a critical tool for preventing the spread of airborne diseases. Wear an N95 Get vaxxed Advocate for clean air
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Cold-weather bugs about to spread as Canadian kids head back to school | CBC News
With millions of Canadian kids heading back to school and temperatures set to drop, it’s time to brace for another fall of seasonal illnesses — and medical experts say staying healthy takes more than ...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you want to spot AI-generated writing just look for how the writer describes smells and tastes, because it's always goin to be some iteration of, "[Noun] smelled like [Food Item] and [Angry Or Sad Emotion]." Who smells like citrus and wrath? Wrath is not a smell??! Throw ChatGPT off a clifffff
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If we can spend over $1B rescuing elite US researchers, surely Canada could offer safe haven to a bunch of likely bilingual Haitians being cruelly targeted in US? @mark-carney.bsky.social #cdnpoli
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And, now, of course, BC is defunding supports for thousands of autistic kids 🤬
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We already have a HUGE amount of privatized health care in Canada that no one wants to talk about. If you need mental health or neurodevelopmental supports (dyslexia, autism, ADHD), you likely pay $$$ out of pocket each year. Psychologists make more than family doctors. @alonghurst.bsky.social
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/08/2026
My personal opinion is that it’s bad for us all that it’s so difficult to both use social media and also avoid involuntarily seeing videos of people dying.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Your friendly daily reminder that you can just choose not to participate in Today’s Take Battle. You can do literally anything else
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Tom Jackman @frozen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That mfer is trying to steal or destroy the monument built to honor a president shot and killed in the line of duty! Is anyone going to come out and tell him no? (rhetorical question)
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jack White is already paying tribute to Dolly Parton with a cover of Jolene in London
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 25/08/2026
This trade war should jolt us out of our reliance on volatile fossil fuels and accelerate our transition to clean, secure and reliable energy.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 24/08/2026
Inuit scientists are teaming up with outside researchers to understand the North Water polynya, a year-round open water hub for wildlife in the Arctic, as climate change upends it.
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When the ice bridge fails: scientists race to understand an Arctic oasis in danger of collapse
As climate change forces millennia-old Inuit cultures to adapt, the people themselves are at the frontlines of an effort to understand one of its most important ecosystems.
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Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One thing that's very scary about US aggression towards Canada is how every time it happens, Americans liberals don't really seem to treat it as a major issue. Have the Dems come out forcefully about Canada? All I ever really see are Dem governors asking us to go there on vacation.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump imposes crushing new taxes on American consumers & businesses - compounding the toll of his failed unprovoked war with Iran by escalating his failed unprovoked trade war with our longtime staunchest ally and trade partner, and advancing global disorder. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse
Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into...
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