Jackie Seidel
@jackieseidel.bsky.social
😷 Born 322ppm 🌎 ❤️ Poetry. Bees. Bikes. Eco/Climate Justice. Contemplative ecology. UofCalgary Assoc Prof Curriculum/Learning. PhD. Tweets mine. She/Her
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Jackie Seidel
@jackieseidel.bsky.social
· Feb 15
The hole in the roof of the protective 'New Safe Confinement' containment shell over destroyed Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after a Russian drone targeted it last night. #MSC2025
This is BAD. Many countries assisted with building the containment over reactor 4. Because Chernobyl is an existential threat. Canada donated over 66 million dollars. Building this was an example of extreme engineering. That a drone could do this to any nuclear facility has been a concern.
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The @policyalternatives.ca calculated the cumulative funding gap in Ontario since 2019 – the amount that school boards have lost compared to what they would have received had their funding kept pace with enrolment and inflation – at $6.3-billion. #CanEd www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Violence in Canadian schools is reaching a tipping point. What needs to change?
Underfunding and outdated policies mean students’ needs are being neglected and teachers are stretched thin. The only solution is more boots on the ground
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The @policyalternatives.ca calculated the cumulative funding gap in Ontario since 2019 – the amount that school boards have lost compared to what they would have received had their funding kept pace with enrolment and inflation – at $6.3-billion. #CanEd www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Visualizing can clarify.
🚨about $47 MILLION LOST: The Sam Mraiche/AHS Scandal.
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Visualizing can clarify.
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This infographic is excellent. Summarizes a complex issue very succinctly.
Every AB should care about this.
Every AB should care about this.
🚨about $47 MILLION LOST: The Sam Mraiche/AHS Scandal.
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
Infographic breaks down the Globe & Mail investigation: $600M+ in contracts, political resignations, and the ongoing RCMP & Auditor-General probes.
#ableg #abpoli #UCPCorruption #CorruptCare #UCPayToPlay #DodgyContracts #CdnPoli #RecallThemALL
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This infographic is excellent. Summarizes a complex issue very succinctly.
Every AB should care about this.
Every AB should care about this.
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Mortality and health care privatization: A comparison between countries
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Mortality and health care privatization: A comparison between countries - CCPA
Privatization is deadly. Canada needs to learn from other countries and focus on public health care instead.
www.policyalternatives.ca
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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'The Earthlycrumb Tragedies'
(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)
A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵
(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)
A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
'The Earthlycrumb Tragedies'
(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)
A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵
(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)
A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵
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"making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere.” - UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority for everyone, everywhere.” - UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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unfccc.int/news/un-secr...
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unfccc.int/news/un-secr...
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'The Earthlycrumb Tragedies'
(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)
A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵
(with apologies to Edward Gorey & for being overly morbid)
A poem in 26 Skeets... 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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C is for Canada,
choking as forests turn to ash.
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choking as forests turn to ash.
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Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten North American air quality for days
After historic seasons in last two years, blazes continue trend of warm, dry conditions intensified by climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
C is for Canada,
choking as forests turn to ash.
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choking as forests turn to ash.
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Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
arablit.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
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Was recently told to essentially “Shut up and stick to bike advocacy” after a post supporting the trans community.
1. GTFO
2. My voice is not some singular thing - bike advocacy is a small part of my makeup-you don’t like me or my position on things refer to point 1
Signed,
Me
1. GTFO
2. My voice is not some singular thing - bike advocacy is a small part of my makeup-you don’t like me or my position on things refer to point 1
Signed,
Me
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Was recently told to essentially “Shut up and stick to bike advocacy” after a post supporting the trans community.
1. GTFO
2. My voice is not some singular thing - bike advocacy is a small part of my makeup-you don’t like me or my position on things refer to point 1
Signed,
Me
1. GTFO
2. My voice is not some singular thing - bike advocacy is a small part of my makeup-you don’t like me or my position on things refer to point 1
Signed,
Me
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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projected coal extraction in Australia....the government expects Australia to still be supplying ~400 megatonnes a year, in 2040
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December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
projected coal extraction in Australia....the government expects Australia to still be supplying ~400 megatonnes a year, in 2040
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Trump and Republicans are implementing Project 2025 They don't want an educated populace making good money
They want power over the worker drones left behind by the bad economic decisions in Project 2025
Read Project 2025 and see
Here are the details on Education and Unions from Project 2025
They want power over the worker drones left behind by the bad economic decisions in Project 2025
Read Project 2025 and see
Here are the details on Education and Unions from Project 2025
December 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Trump and Republicans are implementing Project 2025 They don't want an educated populace making good money
They want power over the worker drones left behind by the bad economic decisions in Project 2025
Read Project 2025 and see
Here are the details on Education and Unions from Project 2025
They want power over the worker drones left behind by the bad economic decisions in Project 2025
Read Project 2025 and see
Here are the details on Education and Unions from Project 2025
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By mid-2022, the greatest threat to my family was SHAME.
That people would try to shame me, as a teacher, or shame my children into giving up our efforts to protect ourselves.
“It's a shame you're not playing music.”
“It's a shame the boys aren't ___”
#UseItOrLoseIt
That people would try to shame me, as a teacher, or shame my children into giving up our efforts to protect ourselves.
“It's a shame you're not playing music.”
“It's a shame the boys aren't ___”
#UseItOrLoseIt
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
By mid-2022, the greatest threat to my family was SHAME.
That people would try to shame me, as a teacher, or shame my children into giving up our efforts to protect ourselves.
“It's a shame you're not playing music.”
“It's a shame the boys aren't ___”
#UseItOrLoseIt
That people would try to shame me, as a teacher, or shame my children into giving up our efforts to protect ourselves.
“It's a shame you're not playing music.”
“It's a shame the boys aren't ___”
#UseItOrLoseIt
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"Sameer Project will continue to assist... by clearing the streets of rubble, cleaning debris filled structures, renting and fueling heavy machinery and bringing large crews to tend to destroyed neighborhoods.
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"Sameer Project will continue to assist... by clearing the streets of rubble, cleaning debris filled structures, renting and fueling heavy machinery and bringing large crews to tend to destroyed neighborhoods.
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
....support with infrastructure projects like water lines."
chuffed.org/project/1491...
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Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Walz on Trump calling him the r-word: "We all know both as an educator & parent that using that term is just so damaging. It's hurtful. We have fought 3 decades to get this out of our schools. Kids know better. But this is what Donald Trump has done. He's normalized this type of hateful behavior."
I’m a careful rider and I would have ridden there too.
There are constantly weird pylons and other things left in bike lanes for no apparent reason, or a pylon is marking a small pothole that’s visible. Never an uncovered hole bigger than a person on a bike and filled with water 🤯.
There are constantly weird pylons and other things left in bike lanes for no apparent reason, or a pylon is marking a small pothole that’s visible. Never an uncovered hole bigger than a person on a bike and filled with water 🤯.
This is the craziest video that shows how cities fail cyclists. Thankfully she didnt drown. #yycbike youtu.be/vOD8a8DKJpo
Video shows Montreal cyclist swallowed by construction pit
YouTube video by CTV News
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December 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I’m a careful rider and I would have ridden there too.
There are constantly weird pylons and other things left in bike lanes for no apparent reason, or a pylon is marking a small pothole that’s visible. Never an uncovered hole bigger than a person on a bike and filled with water 🤯.
There are constantly weird pylons and other things left in bike lanes for no apparent reason, or a pylon is marking a small pothole that’s visible. Never an uncovered hole bigger than a person on a bike and filled with water 🤯.
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Guess BC should demand that Alberta and Saskatchewan not stand in the way as we build some massive wind farms in Canada’s prairies. After all, it‘s the best place to get our wind energy to market.
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Guess BC should demand that Alberta and Saskatchewan not stand in the way as we build some massive wind farms in Canada’s prairies. After all, it‘s the best place to get our wind energy to market.
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I never noticed this old tree stump in the woods until the other day.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I never noticed this old tree stump in the woods until the other day.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
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This also ISNT ABOUT THE RUBRIC,
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This also ISNT ABOUT THE RUBRIC,
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
It’s about purging trans people from public life.
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Yep. De-risking for the capitalists. Taxpayers on the hook.
Funny how a lot of the rationale for capitalist profit is they take the risks.
But it's the government that often takes the risks, the taxpayers that pay when they fail. When they succeed? Money for the private sector.
Funny how a lot of the rationale for capitalist profit is they take the risks.
But it's the government that often takes the risks, the taxpayers that pay when they fail. When they succeed? Money for the private sector.
When pundits talk about “de-risking” pipeline investment, they mean that we cover the losses and private companies walk off with the profits.
It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.
It’s taxpayer funded corporate welfare.
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yep. De-risking for the capitalists. Taxpayers on the hook.
Funny how a lot of the rationale for capitalist profit is they take the risks.
But it's the government that often takes the risks, the taxpayers that pay when they fail. When they succeed? Money for the private sector.
Funny how a lot of the rationale for capitalist profit is they take the risks.
But it's the government that often takes the risks, the taxpayers that pay when they fail. When they succeed? Money for the private sector.
In Alberta too.
Women politicians, academics, journalists, doctors etc.
Women politicians, academics, journalists, doctors etc.
"Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency. Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency
Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
In Alberta too.
Women politicians, academics, journalists, doctors etc.
Women politicians, academics, journalists, doctors etc.
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every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents.
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually
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Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.
Time magazine quotes Canadian satirical website The Beaverton
A recent Time magazine article used a quote from Canadian satire site, the Beaverton, as a fact in reference to U.S. relationships with other countries.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Our pretend facts are just as good as the real thing. If not better.