Tom Jackman
@frozen.bsky.social
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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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
This is an excellent primer on the importance of cleaning indoor air as well as how it can be done.
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is an excellent primer on the importance of cleaning indoor air as well as how it can be done.
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Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
The solution isn't a for-profit system, but like Thompson says there's no use pretending that BC's healthcare system is working or ok.
Just did a rough calculation of how much I've paid directly into the health system since I arrived in BC. In that time, I've never had a family doctor, and the one time I tried to use the ER I was turned away. I've been paying tens of thousands of dollars for a service that doesn't exist.
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The solution isn't a for-profit system, but like Thompson says there's no use pretending that BC's healthcare system is working or ok.
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Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Alice Wong died of an infection 💔
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Thinking of all the healthcare workers over time who failed to protect her
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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It is pretty fucked up that disabled people can't even have one day of mourning one of our advocates without random condescension from people who are oh so tired of hearing us correctly state COVID isn't over bc "you've gotta live your lives."
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
November 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It is pretty fucked up that disabled people can't even have one day of mourning one of our advocates without random condescension from people who are oh so tired of hearing us correctly state COVID isn't over bc "you've gotta live your lives."
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
Bitch, that's exactly what we do while wearing a mask.
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An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
This LNG project sounds familiar — and not in a good way
More than a century ago, Prince Rupert, BC was poised to become the hub of the Pacific, thanks to a megaproject with eerie similarities to what's coming now. What happened?
www.nationalobserver.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
Icebergs.
My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.
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i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
All happy social networks are alike; each unhappy social network is unhappy in its own way.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
All happy social networks are alike; each unhappy social network is unhappy in its own way.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
I guess this is why good people are still using the awful one run by the Nazi saluter: it's bad everywhere.
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Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region.
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region.
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
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this could be a horrible winter as the flu vaccine is not a match for an emerging strain, and getting a Covid and flu shot at the same time is now shown to reduce effectiveness for both
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
this could be a horrible winter as the flu vaccine is not a match for an emerging strain, and getting a Covid and flu shot at the same time is now shown to reduce effectiveness for both
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#Covid #Flu
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.
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Still one of the best articles I've read on this topic and sad i still have to share it with people who ask "why didn't you just leave?"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'A life sentence': No escape from abusive relationships when navigating family court system, say victims | CBC News
Recent changes to federal laws aim to better educate judges on intimate partner violence. But survivors and experts say abuse is still not being adequately incorporated into family court decisions, le...
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Still one of the best articles I've read on this topic and sad i still have to share it with people who ask "why didn't you just leave?"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
![[Text on an yellow octagon meant to look like the output of an overhead projector.]
The silent erosion of COVID-19 awareness & management in B.C.:
A TIMELINE
[A timeline of the year 2025 and the January of 2026. Numbered diamonds are placed on the timeline to mark the events below.]
1. April 16: Amount & timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID, an online repository, deteriorate.
2. May: The end of RAT Kit Distribution Program is announced in a professional newsletter. This provided free RAT kits to pharmacies.
3. May 31: RAT kits orders from this day onwards would not be reimbursed.
4. June: The BCCDC page dedicated to how COVID-19 spreads is removed.
5. September 1: Under the BC medical services plan, less than 20 people will be allowed in an online group medical visit. An unknown number of bed- & house-bound people will lose telehealth access to the BC-CLMF, a long COVID & ME/CFS clinic. Implementation delayed until January.
6. September 15: Vancouver Sun publishes a sponsored article, suggesting the program responsible for generating SARS-CoV-2 data from wastewater samples would be expanded & describes the then-current state of the program.
7. September 18: The wastewater surveillance program is cut: 8 of 12 wastewater treatment plants will no longer be monitored, and 1 sample will be taken per week instead of 3.
8. October 14: The year's vaccination campaign begins to widespread shortages.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dy4l7kqcar73iaezbjxzwiui/bafkreibyc7hcwrwtwlid453tk3fv523vx3cziv4g5qksvdrks6b3ymxo2a@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
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You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax.
Pro-infection messaging - Hooray for hybrid immunity! Get infected regularly to avoid that immunity debt! Infection is just as good as vax, except for 'the vulnerable'! - 💯 undermines vaccines.
Can't believe we are here.
You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax.
Pro-infection messaging - Hooray for hybrid immunity! Get infected regularly to avoid that immunity debt! Infection is just as good as vax, except for 'the vulnerable'! - 💯 undermines vaccines.
Can't believe we are here.
I've never really understood the logic of "targeted vaccination".
Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent.
Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it.
But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...
Of course, money is a huge issue and we seek to get the most out of every £ spent.
Of course COVID and flu waves would be far worse without it.
But, what doesn't sit well for me is the following...
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🎯🧵
You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax.
Pro-infection messaging - Hooray for hybrid immunity! Get infected regularly to avoid that immunity debt! Infection is just as good as vax, except for 'the vulnerable'! - 💯 undermines vaccines.
Can't believe we are here.
You can't be pro-infection AND pro-vax.
Pro-infection messaging - Hooray for hybrid immunity! Get infected regularly to avoid that immunity debt! Infection is just as good as vax, except for 'the vulnerable'! - 💯 undermines vaccines.
Can't believe we are here.
As usual, those with zero agency are being hit the hardest by our society's callous public health decisions.
Infants younger than six months old get hit the hardest with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, making up almost half of all patients hospitalized for the illness in Canada, according to a new study. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.
Infants Bear the Brunt of RSV Hospitalizations, UBC Study Finds | The Tyee
Researchers say the province should do more to protect the very small and vulnerable.
thetyee.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As usual, those with zero agency are being hit the hardest by our society's callous public health decisions.
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It's important to remember that Eby only became premier because the party executives put their thumbs on the scale so hard they broke it. It's embarrassing. He should never stop being embarrassed by it.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
It's important to remember that Eby only became premier because the party executives put their thumbs on the scale so hard they broke it. It's embarrassing. He should never stop being embarrassed by it.
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What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
David Eby to become next B.C. premier after NDP ousts leadership rival Anjali Appadurai | CBC News
The B.C. NDP executive has voted to disqualify Anjali Appadurai from its leadership race, effectively crowning David Eby as the next premier of British Columbia.
www.cbc.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
What establishment Dems tried to do to Mamdani, the BC NDP successfully did to Anjali Appadurai.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
She was poised to win the leadership race by actually getting people to join the party. The old guard didn't like that, so they crushed the next generation to maintain their grip on power.
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hug your war criminals a little tighter today
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
hug your war criminals a little tighter today
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May the ghosts of the one million Iraqis he slaughtered mock and curse him before casting him into eternal torment in hell.
May his wife and Liz hear it all.
May his agony haunt their dreams.
#CheneyDead
May his wife and Liz hear it all.
May his agony haunt their dreams.
#CheneyDead
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
May the ghosts of the one million Iraqis he slaughtered mock and curse him before casting him into eternal torment in hell.
May his wife and Liz hear it all.
May his agony haunt their dreams.
#CheneyDead
May his wife and Liz hear it all.
May his agony haunt their dreams.
#CheneyDead
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Periodic reminder of why we must decarbonize. The Permian extinction was the planet killer. It was caused by - wait for it - greenhouse gas warming: >90% of all species went extinct.
Under business as usual we're 20% the way there by 2100, 35-50% by 2300.
sustainability.stanford.edu/news/what-ca...
Under business as usual we're 20% the way there by 2100, 35-50% by 2300.
sustainability.stanford.edu/news/what-ca...
What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction?
Scientists have debated until now what made Earth's oceans so inhospitable to life that some 96 percent of marine species died off at the end of the Permian period. New research shows the "Great Dying...
sustainability.stanford.edu
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Whatever people think about the outcome, that entire playoffs was one of the best I’ve ever seen. What an incredible month.
Three of the 12 most pivotal plays in baseball history by cWPA occurred last night
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Whatever people think about the outcome, that entire playoffs was one of the best I’ve ever seen. What an incredible month.
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It got me.
I'm not even 12-fucking-hours into November 1 and Mariah Carey's Christmas song got me.
A woman can't even get a bagel in peace on a Saturday morning...
I'm not even 12-fucking-hours into November 1 and Mariah Carey's Christmas song got me.
A woman can't even get a bagel in peace on a Saturday morning...
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It got me.
I'm not even 12-fucking-hours into November 1 and Mariah Carey's Christmas song got me.
A woman can't even get a bagel in peace on a Saturday morning...
I'm not even 12-fucking-hours into November 1 and Mariah Carey's Christmas song got me.
A woman can't even get a bagel in peace on a Saturday morning...