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
"Democracy" south of the border looks a lot like permanent rule by an entrenched white minority.
I've slept a bit on this other than a few posts, but one of the most brazen things happening in state governments right now is that the Kentucky GOP is trying to impeach a liberal justice (and the first/only Black woman to join the court) because of a vote she took last year they don't like.
February 14, 2026 at 6:21 PM
"Democracy" south of the border looks a lot like permanent rule by an entrenched white minority.
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Happy Pale Blue Dot day open.substack.com/pub/natureof...
We're all here
If you squint
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Happy Pale Blue Dot day open.substack.com/pub/natureof...
This is what Americans are paying for whether they like it or not: they're paying their government to imprison and torment kids who commited the "crime" of being born in the wrong postal code.
Don't look away. Fight back.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Don't look away. Fight back.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
February 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
This is what Americans are paying for whether they like it or not: they're paying their government to imprison and torment kids who commited the "crime" of being born in the wrong postal code.
Don't look away. Fight back.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Don't look away. Fight back.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
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People who still take Covid seriously are increasingly isolated and being able to access community in places that encourages masking can be lifesaving for mental health.
people on this website are thanking will stancil for personally forcing ICE out of minneapolis
this guy.
this guy.
February 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
People who still take Covid seriously are increasingly isolated and being able to access community in places that encourages masking can be lifesaving for mental health.
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I hate hate.
I hate hate.
Some clarifications about the victims' ages: at the school, one 39 yo female educator, three 12yo female students, two male students age 12 and 13. At the home, a 39 year old woman and 11 yo boy.
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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I hate hate.
I hate hate.
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📢This is a reintroduction of the Hub Model with softer language📢
The “means tested” supplement is only available to kids who qualify for the DTC (incredibly hard to access).
There are some disabled kids receiving supports right now who will lose them, instead of funding being *actually* inclusive.
The “means tested” supplement is only available to kids who qualify for the DTC (incredibly hard to access).
There are some disabled kids receiving supports right now who will lose them, instead of funding being *actually* inclusive.
British Columbia has unveiled a revamp of its funding system for children with support needs, including those with autism, that it says will be "fairer, easier to access and better co-ordinated."
B.C. revamps funding for children with autism and other support needs
British Columbia has unveiled a revamp of its funding system for children with support needs, including those with autism, that it says will be "fairer, easier to access and better co-ordinated."
cheknews.ca
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
📢This is a reintroduction of the Hub Model with softer language📢
The “means tested” supplement is only available to kids who qualify for the DTC (incredibly hard to access).
There are some disabled kids receiving supports right now who will lose them, instead of funding being *actually* inclusive.
The “means tested” supplement is only available to kids who qualify for the DTC (incredibly hard to access).
There are some disabled kids receiving supports right now who will lose them, instead of funding being *actually* inclusive.
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This is a message that should resonate across all partisan lines.
If you can't fix it, you don't own it
Love it.
If you can't fix it, you don't own it
Love it.
Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it.
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM
This is a message that should resonate across all partisan lines.
If you can't fix it, you don't own it
Love it.
If you can't fix it, you don't own it
Love it.
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February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic
Cardiovascular...
www.bmj.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Some of us have been screaming this for years
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
This video by the Durham County DOH, about how viruses like covid spread, is more informative than about anything released on the topic by public health officials in Canada.
If you want to help prevent your friends and family from getting sick, please share it with them!
h/t @chantzy.bsky.social
If you want to help prevent your friends and family from getting sick, please share it with them!
h/t @chantzy.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
This video by the Durham County DOH, about how viruses like covid spread, is more informative than about anything released on the topic by public health officials in Canada.
If you want to help prevent your friends and family from getting sick, please share it with them!
h/t @chantzy.bsky.social
If you want to help prevent your friends and family from getting sick, please share it with them!
h/t @chantzy.bsky.social
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Thank you Bad Bunny for such an excellent illustration of a walkable neighborhood #SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Thank you Bad Bunny for such an excellent illustration of a walkable neighborhood #SuperBowl
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fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
Abolishing ICE is the start. This will end when these agents occupy the cells they're currently using to jail innocent people.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Abolishing ICE is the start. This will end when these agents occupy the cells they're currently using to jail innocent people.
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Another Olympics in an ongoing pandemic, another few weeks of feigned surprise about viral illness outbreaks among athletes.
February 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Another Olympics in an ongoing pandemic, another few weeks of feigned surprise about viral illness outbreaks among athletes.
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Feel like I'm never going to stop figuring out that I'm still not following all my former twitter mutuals
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Feel like I'm never going to stop figuring out that I'm still not following all my former twitter mutuals
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Let's be clear about who @mark-carney.bsky.social's government is harming with this policy
- Women & mothers: flexible remote work ⬆️ retention
- Disabled & immunocompromised - remote work is a core accommodation
-BIPOC workers: remote/hybrid ⬇️ bias
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Women & mothers: flexible remote work ⬆️ retention
- Disabled & immunocompromised - remote work is a core accommodation
-BIPOC workers: remote/hybrid ⬇️ bias
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Federal public servants called back to office 4 days a week starting this summer | CBC News
The federal government expects its employees to return to in-office work for a minimum of four days a week starting this July.
www.cbc.ca
February 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Let's be clear about who @mark-carney.bsky.social's government is harming with this policy
- Women & mothers: flexible remote work ⬆️ retention
- Disabled & immunocompromised - remote work is a core accommodation
-BIPOC workers: remote/hybrid ⬇️ bias
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Women & mothers: flexible remote work ⬆️ retention
- Disabled & immunocompromised - remote work is a core accommodation
-BIPOC workers: remote/hybrid ⬇️ bias
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Transport Canada can choose whether to use its EV rebates to further enrich a dangerous fascist — whose vehicles for the Canadian market are made exclusively in the US and China — or to help develop the Canadian industry. But there's no sign the new system will exclude Tesla. Why not?
February 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Transport Canada can choose whether to use its EV rebates to further enrich a dangerous fascist — whose vehicles for the Canadian market are made exclusively in the US and China — or to help develop the Canadian industry. But there's no sign the new system will exclude Tesla. Why not?
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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Alt text was on maybe 75% of Bsky images when I first joined. Accessibility is still the right thing to do.
You can hit the gear on the left of yr screen, click accessibility, and get Bsky to remind u to use alt text. It's pretty easy ❤️
You can hit the gear on the left of yr screen, click accessibility, and get Bsky to remind u to use alt text. It's pretty easy ❤️
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Alt text was on maybe 75% of Bsky images when I first joined. Accessibility is still the right thing to do.
You can hit the gear on the left of yr screen, click accessibility, and get Bsky to remind u to use alt text. It's pretty easy ❤️
You can hit the gear on the left of yr screen, click accessibility, and get Bsky to remind u to use alt text. It's pretty easy ❤️
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New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg
February 6, 2026 at 4:17 AM
This is the way.
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
This is the way.
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Call me woke and annoying, but I TRULY do not see how you could support the Dodgers as a fan after this.
And yes, I'd say this about the Blue Jays if they'd won and made the same choice. I don't give a fuck about team loyalty. Talk to the Epstein files about it.
www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
And yes, I'd say this about the Blue Jays if they'd won and made the same choice. I don't give a fuck about team loyalty. Talk to the Epstein files about it.
www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
Dodgers plan to attend White House following latest World Series championship
President Trump is planning to host the Dodgers to celebrate their most recent World Series championship, the White House confirmed Thursday morning.
www.latimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Call me woke and annoying, but I TRULY do not see how you could support the Dodgers as a fan after this.
And yes, I'd say this about the Blue Jays if they'd won and made the same choice. I don't give a fuck about team loyalty. Talk to the Epstein files about it.
www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
And yes, I'd say this about the Blue Jays if they'd won and made the same choice. I don't give a fuck about team loyalty. Talk to the Epstein files about it.
www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
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#CleanTheAir #MaskUp for fuck sake.
Study ties adult #RSV hospitalization to a higher risk of heart and lung problems in next 6 months
The most common event was arrhythmia, followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation and congestive heart failure exacerbation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
The most common event was arrhythmia, followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation and congestive heart failure exacerbation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
#CleanTheAir #MaskUp for fuck sake.
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But we were told NOT catching RSV was creating dangerous ImmUNiTy DebT.
Study ties adult #RSV hospitalization to a higher risk of heart and lung problems in next 6 months
The most common event was arrhythmia, followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation and congestive heart failure exacerbation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
The most common event was arrhythmia, followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation and congestive heart failure exacerbation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
February 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM
But we were told NOT catching RSV was creating dangerous ImmUNiTy DebT.