Deb Jeffrey
@debjeffrey.bsky.social
Canadian bird nerd, advocate for social & environmental justice, believer in building strong community by sharing info on issues & events. Any humour in dark times appreciated.
Today's magical experience.
"Translucent horses gallop where theater meets the sky. These ethereal creations by the German theater troupe Pantao seem to materialize from a dream, blurring the line between puppetry and moving sculptures, and captivating audiences with their enchanting presence."
"Translucent horses gallop where theater meets the sky. These ethereal creations by the German theater troupe Pantao seem to materialize from a dream, blurring the line between puppetry and moving sculptures, and captivating audiences with their enchanting presence."
Wind Horses, Pantao's ethereal equine "puppets"
Translucent horses gallop where theater meets the sky. These ethereal creations by the German theater troupe Pantao seem to materialize from a dream,
thekidshouldseethis.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today's magical experience.
"Translucent horses gallop where theater meets the sky. These ethereal creations by the German theater troupe Pantao seem to materialize from a dream, blurring the line between puppetry and moving sculptures, and captivating audiences with their enchanting presence."
"Translucent horses gallop where theater meets the sky. These ethereal creations by the German theater troupe Pantao seem to materialize from a dream, blurring the line between puppetry and moving sculptures, and captivating audiences with their enchanting presence."
I too wish to be hugged by a frog...
"Kind Reader,
Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation?
Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas".
Open Culture 2024
Simple stop-motion tale from 1913 featuring dead insects & a frog
"Kind Reader,
Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation?
Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas".
Open Culture 2024
Simple stop-motion tale from 1913 featuring dead insects & a frog
The Insects' Christmas
YouTube video by Tom Peters
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I too wish to be hugged by a frog...
"Kind Reader,
Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation?
Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas".
Open Culture 2024
Simple stop-motion tale from 1913 featuring dead insects & a frog
"Kind Reader,
Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation?
Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas".
Open Culture 2024
Simple stop-motion tale from 1913 featuring dead insects & a frog
On acting against the rise of hatred:
"Enough is enough. Stop standing by."
Interview with Ahmed al Ahmed who stepped in to saved so many lives at Bondi Beach.
"Enough is enough. Stop standing by."
Interview with Ahmed al Ahmed who stepped in to saved so many lives at Bondi Beach.
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
On acting against the rise of hatred:
"Enough is enough. Stop standing by."
Interview with Ahmed al Ahmed who stepped in to saved so many lives at Bondi Beach.
"Enough is enough. Stop standing by."
Interview with Ahmed al Ahmed who stepped in to saved so many lives at Bondi Beach.
GREAT News - "How to Kill a Witch: A Guide for the Patriarchy" (a non-fiction history book by human rights lawyer & campaigner, Claire Mitchell KC, and writer Zoe Venditozzi, co-founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign) won the Blackwell's Scottish 'Book of the Year' Award.
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
GREAT News - "How to Kill a Witch: A Guide for the Patriarchy" (a non-fiction history book by human rights lawyer & campaigner, Claire Mitchell KC, and writer Zoe Venditozzi, co-founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign) won the Blackwell's Scottish 'Book of the Year' Award.
Fine journalism to raise awareness and protest. Project Ploughshares & the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc. have been loudly ringing alarm bells but MSM did not chime in with even a tinkle.
I am still nauseated thinking of Ontario Premier Doug Ford gleefully saying "I love this!" on national news.
I am still nauseated thinking of Ontario Premier Doug Ford gleefully saying "I love this!" on national news.
It's not a great month for people who wish that Canadian corporations didn't supply armoured vehicles to ICE.
It seems a lot of people don't know about this.
So I wrote about it:
chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...
It seems a lot of people don't know about this.
So I wrote about it:
chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...
A Canadian company is selling armoured vehicles to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is spending over C$10 million on armoured vehicles designed to protect against bomb blasts and military-grade weapons. The supplier of the 20 vehicles is...
chrishouston.ca
December 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fine journalism to raise awareness and protest. Project Ploughshares & the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc. have been loudly ringing alarm bells but MSM did not chime in with even a tinkle.
I am still nauseated thinking of Ontario Premier Doug Ford gleefully saying "I love this!" on national news.
I am still nauseated thinking of Ontario Premier Doug Ford gleefully saying "I love this!" on national news.
"Can People be Trusted? We Find Out"
www.voronoiapp.com/other/Can-Pe...
www.voronoiapp.com/other/Can-Pe...
December 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Can People be Trusted? We Find Out"
www.voronoiapp.com/other/Can-Pe...
www.voronoiapp.com/other/Can-Pe...
Brilliant approach to the "Thou shalt and thou shalt not..." difficulty found in communicating the urgent need for change.
Ha! Colleagues at UofT have built a project called "We Did It!" - where they build upon fictional storylines from the future (circa 2050) thinking *back* on how Canada managed to successfully achieve Net Zero and a just transition: wedidit2050.ca/about/
The Project – WeDidIt!?
wedidit2050.ca
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Brilliant approach to the "Thou shalt and thou shalt not..." difficulty found in communicating the urgent need for change.
The International Rescue Committee’s 2026 Emergency Watchlist highlights 20 countries facing extreme humanitarian crises.
The list shows that as urgency rises, often from conflict & #war, global support is collapsing.
War - not #peace - brings big $$ to many corporations- including some in Canada.
The list shows that as urgency rises, often from conflict & #war, global support is collapsing.
War - not #peace - brings big $$ to many corporations- including some in Canada.
New world disorder: Support shrinks as crises surge | The IRC
New world disorder: Support shrinks as crises surge
www.rescue.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
On its 80th anniversary of publication with the Doomsday Clock only 89 seconds from midnight...we all can access a broad range of articles in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on the dangerous state of our world. Not for the faint of heart to read but crucial for awareness & action. "Now or never".
Exactly 80 years ago, scientists who helped build the world's first atomic bomb published a "bulletin."
That was the beginning of the Bulletin, our nonprofit newsroom.
To mark the anniversary—in true Bulletin fashion—we published a magazine that looks to the future: buff.ly/REJsWIF
That was the beginning of the Bulletin, our nonprofit newsroom.
To mark the anniversary—in true Bulletin fashion—we published a magazine that looks to the future: buff.ly/REJsWIF
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 AM
On its 80th anniversary of publication with the Doomsday Clock only 89 seconds from midnight...we all can access a broad range of articles in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on the dangerous state of our world. Not for the faint of heart to read but crucial for awareness & action. "Now or never".
Oh! Oh! Is this the Canadian version of #DOGE starting?
Danger, danger. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Danger, danger. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh! Oh! Is this the Canadian version of #DOGE starting?
Danger, danger. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Danger, danger. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...
Who keeps their eye on the clock? I do and it is nerve-wracking, I must say.
I fear for most people the clock is set on 'high ignore.'
I fear for most people the clock is set on 'high ignore.'
In the 80th year of the nuclear age, with just 89 seconds left on the Doomsday Clock, every nuclear challenge is trending in the wrong direction, writes Bulletin president and CEO Alexandra Bell @atomicbell.bsky.social.
Eighty years and 89 seconds: It’s time to fight against midnight
"Eight decades since the Trinity Test and the first use of atomic weapons in war, we now find ourselves at an inflection point. The rising tide of nuclear challenges threatens to overtop what remains of our poorly tended metaphorical levees. The choices in the months and years ahead will determine our fate. The future—our future—is on the line."
thebulletin.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Who keeps their eye on the clock? I do and it is nerve-wracking, I must say.
I fear for most people the clock is set on 'high ignore.'
I fear for most people the clock is set on 'high ignore.'
I would be thrilled to know that a #bird nerd here would go for this rare experience in the world of Wisdom the Laysan Albatross. Any brave enough, curious enough & able to understand that a stamina requiring challenge like this is a treasure for life?
friendsofmidway.org/wp-content/u...
friendsofmidway.org/wp-content/u...
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I would be thrilled to know that a #bird nerd here would go for this rare experience in the world of Wisdom the Laysan Albatross. Any brave enough, curious enough & able to understand that a stamina requiring challenge like this is a treasure for life?
friendsofmidway.org/wp-content/u...
friendsofmidway.org/wp-content/u...
We lost our way when housing became a vehicle for high profit developers & speculators instead of a human right.
I watch with sorrow when fully financially secure peers succomb to the siren call of unjustifiable real estate profits. $$ signs in the eyes cause blindness to social justice.
I watch with sorrow when fully financially secure peers succomb to the siren call of unjustifiable real estate profits. $$ signs in the eyes cause blindness to social justice.
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
canadiandimension.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We lost our way when housing became a vehicle for high profit developers & speculators instead of a human right.
I watch with sorrow when fully financially secure peers succomb to the siren call of unjustifiable real estate profits. $$ signs in the eyes cause blindness to social justice.
I watch with sorrow when fully financially secure peers succomb to the siren call of unjustifiable real estate profits. $$ signs in the eyes cause blindness to social justice.
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (2025). National Peatland Strategy
"peatlands are increasingly recognized as a critical part of the natural infrastructure that regulates climate & buffers against the worst impacts of the climate crisis, they remain under threat" wcscanada.org/site/assets/...
"peatlands are increasingly recognized as a critical part of the natural infrastructure that regulates climate & buffers against the worst impacts of the climate crisis, they remain under threat" wcscanada.org/site/assets/...
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (2025). National Peatland Strategy
"peatlands are increasingly recognized as a critical part of the natural infrastructure that regulates climate & buffers against the worst impacts of the climate crisis, they remain under threat" wcscanada.org/site/assets/...
"peatlands are increasingly recognized as a critical part of the natural infrastructure that regulates climate & buffers against the worst impacts of the climate crisis, they remain under threat" wcscanada.org/site/assets/...
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights produces valuable podcasts on war & #humanrights.
"Less than a toilet flush: In Gaza, people survive on just 4–8 liters of water a day. This episode provides a legal analysis of Israel’s weaponization of water against civilians"
"Less than a toilet flush: In Gaza, people survive on just 4–8 liters of water a day. This episode provides a legal analysis of Israel’s weaponization of water against civilians"
In and Around War(s): Season 3, Episode 5: Israel’s Weaponization of Water in Gaza
geneva-academy.ch
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights produces valuable podcasts on war & #humanrights.
"Less than a toilet flush: In Gaza, people survive on just 4–8 liters of water a day. This episode provides a legal analysis of Israel’s weaponization of water against civilians"
"Less than a toilet flush: In Gaza, people survive on just 4–8 liters of water a day. This episode provides a legal analysis of Israel’s weaponization of water against civilians"
How revolting. People of Ontario can be truly ashamed that citizens of the United States will be harassed even more by ICE because an Ontario company's will sell ICE armoured cars.
And our premier says "I love that".
Global News video screen shot....moral turpitude writ large on Doug Ford's face.
And our premier says "I love that".
Global News video screen shot....moral turpitude writ large on Doug Ford's face.
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
How revolting. People of Ontario can be truly ashamed that citizens of the United States will be harassed even more by ICE because an Ontario company's will sell ICE armoured cars.
And our premier says "I love that".
Global News video screen shot....moral turpitude writ large on Doug Ford's face.
And our premier says "I love that".
Global News video screen shot....moral turpitude writ large on Doug Ford's face.
Today is our National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women. It stems from Dec. 6, '89, when a gunman entered Montreal's École Polytechnique & fatally shot 14 young women engineering students.
In my small town, young female students created an art exhibit to protest all #femicide.
In my small town, young female students created an art exhibit to protest all #femicide.
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Today is our National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women. It stems from Dec. 6, '89, when a gunman entered Montreal's École Polytechnique & fatally shot 14 young women engineering students.
In my small town, young female students created an art exhibit to protest all #femicide.
In my small town, young female students created an art exhibit to protest all #femicide.
2018, my first serious "Day 0" in Cape Town through a fellow MOOC student in a sustainabilty course from U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Oh the irony.
People planet-wide experienced the terrible tension via our fellow student's eyes in real time.
Now Iran's turn.
theconversation.com/irans-presid...
People planet-wide experienced the terrible tension via our fellow student's eyes in real time.
Now Iran's turn.
theconversation.com/irans-presid...
Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
2018, my first serious "Day 0" in Cape Town through a fellow MOOC student in a sustainabilty course from U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Oh the irony.
People planet-wide experienced the terrible tension via our fellow student's eyes in real time.
Now Iran's turn.
theconversation.com/irans-presid...
People planet-wide experienced the terrible tension via our fellow student's eyes in real time.
Now Iran's turn.
theconversation.com/irans-presid...
"The 2023 Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR23) presented a dual focus on disease prevention and planetary health."
An interesting note caught my eye: people classified as underweight who adhered well to NNR 23 gained even lower mortality rates. Maybe they are the 'proper' weight???
An interesting note caught my eye: people classified as underweight who adhered well to NNR 23 gained even lower mortality rates. Maybe they are the 'proper' weight???
Development of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023 Food-Based Diet Score and Its Association with All-Cause Mortality in Two Swedish Cohorts
The 2023 Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR23) presented a dual focus on disease prevention and planetary health.We aimed to develop a food-based d…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"The 2023 Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR23) presented a dual focus on disease prevention and planetary health."
An interesting note caught my eye: people classified as underweight who adhered well to NNR 23 gained even lower mortality rates. Maybe they are the 'proper' weight???
An interesting note caught my eye: people classified as underweight who adhered well to NNR 23 gained even lower mortality rates. Maybe they are the 'proper' weight???
"I've been putting these caps on these containers for 30 years now, but thanks to you Premier, I got a $10M Skills Development grant, to learn how to do it with my left hand instead!" @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social
Doug Ford pictured yesterday laughing about milk.
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"I've been putting these caps on these containers for 30 years now, but thanks to you Premier, I got a $10M Skills Development grant, to learn how to do it with my left hand instead!" @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social
Give it a minute. It might grow on you...
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Give it a minute. It might grow on you...
The urge to give gifts to show we care or to show thanks is strong in many cultures. But meaningful gifts are not frivolous new & unneeded "stuff".
Where I live, thrift & reuse store shopping is really taking off.
So are gifts of experiences, of homemade treats & of time together. Heart given.
Where I live, thrift & reuse store shopping is really taking off.
So are gifts of experiences, of homemade treats & of time together. Heart given.
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It | George Monbiot
Bake them a cake, write them a poem, give them a kiss, tell them a joke, but for god’s sake stop trashing the planet to tell someone you care. All it shows is that you don’t.
www.filmsforaction.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The urge to give gifts to show we care or to show thanks is strong in many cultures. But meaningful gifts are not frivolous new & unneeded "stuff".
Where I live, thrift & reuse store shopping is really taking off.
So are gifts of experiences, of homemade treats & of time together. Heart given.
Where I live, thrift & reuse store shopping is really taking off.
So are gifts of experiences, of homemade treats & of time together. Heart given.
Do you feel your 'soul' is at risk of holding itself together these days in the face of #climate chaos, the demise of democracy, the global carnage from #war and lack of progress on achieving #peace in all its needed manifestations?
As is often the case, a #poet gives needed advice - Joseph Fasano.
As is often the case, a #poet gives needed advice - Joseph Fasano.
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Drilled Media is talking and has a telling & helpful overview but still no guiding thoughts on the best action for all of us effectively sitting on the outside...which is just about everyone on earth. drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Drilled Media is talking and has a telling & helpful overview but still no guiding thoughts on the best action for all of us effectively sitting on the outside...which is just about everyone on earth. drilled.media/news/COP30-w...