Jenny Kats
@jkats.ca
Just a human who prefers hanging out with dogs. Psychology student, neurodiversity advocate, harm reductionist, solo parent, AuDHD'er. Never stop learning. 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🪰🔬🧐📚🇨🇦
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A local doctor says the province’s new safer supply rules are more about politics than public health.
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Safer supply changes leave patients struggling for stability – The Discourse.
A local doctor says the province’s new safer supply rules are more about politics than public health.
thediscourse.ca
October 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A local doctor says the province’s new safer supply rules are more about politics than public health.
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This is Quandale Dingle and Popcorn. Can you guess which is which?
#backyardchickens
#petchicken
#chickensky
#backyardchickens
#petchicken
#chickensky
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is Quandale Dingle and Popcorn. Can you guess which is which?
#backyardchickens
#petchicken
#chickensky
#backyardchickens
#petchicken
#chickensky
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Join the #Handala surveillance team - watch the live feed from the boat here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lr...
July 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Join the #Handala surveillance team - watch the live feed from the boat here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lr...
July 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Someone discovered that he loves being wrapped in a blanket
#hereallyismychild
#dogsky
#bernesemountaindog
#hereallyismychild
#dogsky
#bernesemountaindog
April 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Someone discovered that he loves being wrapped in a blanket
#hereallyismychild
#dogsky
#bernesemountaindog
#hereallyismychild
#dogsky
#bernesemountaindog
An excellent listen! Check it out 👇
Victoria addictions doctor speaks at pop-up OPS
In conversation with Dr. Kelsey Roden
vancouverislandmentalhealthsociety.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
An excellent listen! Check it out 👇
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Join us on Monday, April 14, 2025, from 12-2 pm in the VIU Quad as we come together to grieve, remember, and honour those we have lost to the Toxic Drug Crisis. 💜🕯️
March 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Join us on Monday, April 14, 2025, from 12-2 pm in the VIU Quad as we come together to grieve, remember, and honour those we have lost to the Toxic Drug Crisis. 💜🕯️
For the Nanaimo folks. This is sure to be an interesting conversation!
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
@docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social
@hrna.bsky.social
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
@docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social
@hrna.bsky.social
We are looking forward to this upcoming event from @momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
See you all there??? 😄
#nanaimo
#drugsky
#harmreduction
#careisnotforced
See you all there??? 😄
#nanaimo
#drugsky
#harmreduction
#careisnotforced
March 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
For the Nanaimo folks. This is sure to be an interesting conversation!
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
@docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social
@hrna.bsky.social
@momsstoptheharm.bsky.social
@docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social
@hrna.bsky.social
I'm learning so much from this lovely team of folks up in Campbell River. The north Island badly needs more support, yet their city is actively working against them.
The City of CR is ok with anti-abortion protests, but shows with force when people are trying to keep their grown children alive. 🫠
The City of CR is ok with anti-abortion protests, but shows with force when people are trying to keep their grown children alive. 🫠
Campbell River's unsanctioned overdose prevention site calls for safer drug policy
'People are dying'
www.campbellrivermirror.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm learning so much from this lovely team of folks up in Campbell River. The north Island badly needs more support, yet their city is actively working against them.
The City of CR is ok with anti-abortion protests, but shows with force when people are trying to keep their grown children alive. 🫠
The City of CR is ok with anti-abortion protests, but shows with force when people are trying to keep their grown children alive. 🫠
We legit just want you all to know how to respond to save a life.
Come for the free food, stay for the interesting content 💜
Come for the free food, stay for the interesting content 💜
We had such a good time at the last Overdose Response event that we decided to do it again- this time with the added benefit of a FREE LUNCH! 🥳
All are welcome, no sign up required. If you need assistance finding parking or locating the room, please send a message and we will help 🫶
All are welcome, no sign up required. If you need assistance finding parking or locating the room, please send a message and we will help 🫶
March 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We legit just want you all to know how to respond to save a life.
Come for the free food, stay for the interesting content 💜
Come for the free food, stay for the interesting content 💜
Shame on you @josieosborne.bsky.social for pretending you gave a crap and then turning around and doing this. I hope this new job is everything you hoped it would be. What a legacy you are building for yourself 😒
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social
Share this post and tag:
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So that they can hear from you.
This is neither Truth nor Reconciliation.
@josieosborne.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social
So that they can hear from you.
This is neither Truth nor Reconciliation.
February 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Shame on you @josieosborne.bsky.social for pretending you gave a crap and then turning around and doing this. I hope this new job is everything you hoped it would be. What a legacy you are building for yourself 😒
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social
This interview hits important points:
Witnessed consumption will make safer supply inaccessible in rural communities. Indigenous populations will be disproportionately harmed. No experts were consulted.
This is reactionary politics.
Keep politics out of medicine.
@josieosborne.bsky.social
Witnessed consumption will make safer supply inaccessible in rural communities. Indigenous populations will be disproportionately harmed. No experts were consulted.
This is reactionary politics.
Keep politics out of medicine.
@josieosborne.bsky.social
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
February 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
This interview hits important points:
Witnessed consumption will make safer supply inaccessible in rural communities. Indigenous populations will be disproportionately harmed. No experts were consulted.
This is reactionary politics.
Keep politics out of medicine.
@josieosborne.bsky.social
Witnessed consumption will make safer supply inaccessible in rural communities. Indigenous populations will be disproportionately harmed. No experts were consulted.
This is reactionary politics.
Keep politics out of medicine.
@josieosborne.bsky.social
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The end of take-home safe supply programs in BC is devastating news. Witnessed options aren’t possible in almost every jurisdiction. This will result in deprescribing, forced tapering and sadly in deaths.
Cowardly politicians caving to misinformation.
#BCpoli #DrugSky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Cowardly politicians caving to misinformation.
#BCpoli #DrugSky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion | CBC News
The health minister says the "significant" change to end the take-home model will be difficult for some but is designed to reduce the criminal diversion of prescribed alternatives.
www.cbc.ca
February 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The end of take-home safe supply programs in BC is devastating news. Witnessed options aren’t possible in almost every jurisdiction. This will result in deprescribing, forced tapering and sadly in deaths.
Cowardly politicians caving to misinformation.
#BCpoli #DrugSky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Cowardly politicians caving to misinformation.
#BCpoli #DrugSky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How do these people sleep at night?
I would rather the streets be flooded with clean, diverted drugs than have an entire population of already vulnerable people further fucked over.
Fucking shameful.
#drugsky
I would rather the streets be flooded with clean, diverted drugs than have an entire population of already vulnerable people further fucked over.
Fucking shameful.
#drugsky
B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion
British Columbia's health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply anti-addiction program to a witnessed model, in which users will be watched as they consume the drugs.
cheknews.ca
February 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
How do these people sleep at night?
I would rather the streets be flooded with clean, diverted drugs than have an entire population of already vulnerable people further fucked over.
Fucking shameful.
#drugsky
I would rather the streets be flooded with clean, diverted drugs than have an entire population of already vulnerable people further fucked over.
Fucking shameful.
#drugsky
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Vancouver Island's @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social will be back outside Royal Jubilee Hospital today and tomorrow with pop-up overdose prevention sites.
They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.
They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.
February 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Vancouver Island's @docs4saferdrugs.bsky.social will be back outside Royal Jubilee Hospital today and tomorrow with pop-up overdose prevention sites.
They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.
They will be joined by former BC Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe, and have support letters from multiple groups eg BC Family Doctors and BC Nurses Union.
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There’s an anti-fascist march happening in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada!
📆 Saturday, March 1
📍 Meet at City Hall on Wallace Street, then march to the Swy-a-Lana Pavilion
🕐 Gather at 1 PM, march at 1:30 PM
🪧 Bring signs if you like
📢 Spread the word by sharing this thread
VIVE LE CANADA 🍁
📆 Saturday, March 1
📍 Meet at City Hall on Wallace Street, then march to the Swy-a-Lana Pavilion
🕐 Gather at 1 PM, march at 1:30 PM
🪧 Bring signs if you like
📢 Spread the word by sharing this thread
VIVE LE CANADA 🍁
🚨📣 A CALL TO ACTION: JOIN THE ANTI-FASCIST MARCH IN NANAIMO ON SATURDAY, MARCH 1, AT 1 PM AT CITY HALL 📣🚨
Join the resistance against fascism and stand in support of human rights, democracy, and Canadian sovereignty!
facebook.com/events/s/nan...
Join the resistance against fascism and stand in support of human rights, democracy, and Canadian sovereignty!
facebook.com/events/s/nan...
Nanaimo March Against Fascism
Event in Nanaimo, BC by Moriah Dawn and Carly Hinksman on Saturday, March 1 2025
facebook.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
There’s an anti-fascist march happening in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada!
📆 Saturday, March 1
📍 Meet at City Hall on Wallace Street, then march to the Swy-a-Lana Pavilion
🕐 Gather at 1 PM, march at 1:30 PM
🪧 Bring signs if you like
📢 Spread the word by sharing this thread
VIVE LE CANADA 🍁
📆 Saturday, March 1
📍 Meet at City Hall on Wallace Street, then march to the Swy-a-Lana Pavilion
🕐 Gather at 1 PM, march at 1:30 PM
🪧 Bring signs if you like
📢 Spread the word by sharing this thread
VIVE LE CANADA 🍁
Reposted by Jenny Kats
Reposted by Jenny Kats
Autistic people can't have one place to be themselves with the support they need,
Because people will worry "what happens when the support goes away?" and think burnout and trauma is the way to independence.
And parents are forced to choose between no support, or ABA.
It's honestly sick.
Because people will worry "what happens when the support goes away?" and think burnout and trauma is the way to independence.
And parents are forced to choose between no support, or ABA.
It's honestly sick.
February 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Autistic people can't have one place to be themselves with the support they need,
Because people will worry "what happens when the support goes away?" and think burnout and trauma is the way to independence.
And parents are forced to choose between no support, or ABA.
It's honestly sick.
Because people will worry "what happens when the support goes away?" and think burnout and trauma is the way to independence.
And parents are forced to choose between no support, or ABA.
It's honestly sick.
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I was reminded tonight that ABA still exists,
And I still can't believe the argument for ABA is either
1) Traumatize the autistic person so they deal with scary society "easier"
2) Make them as "independent" as possible so they can navigate society
You know what reduces functioning? Trauma & PTSD
And I still can't believe the argument for ABA is either
1) Traumatize the autistic person so they deal with scary society "easier"
2) Make them as "independent" as possible so they can navigate society
You know what reduces functioning? Trauma & PTSD
February 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I was reminded tonight that ABA still exists,
And I still can't believe the argument for ABA is either
1) Traumatize the autistic person so they deal with scary society "easier"
2) Make them as "independent" as possible so they can navigate society
You know what reduces functioning? Trauma & PTSD
And I still can't believe the argument for ABA is either
1) Traumatize the autistic person so they deal with scary society "easier"
2) Make them as "independent" as possible so they can navigate society
You know what reduces functioning? Trauma & PTSD
This is exactly the book we need right now. It reminds us that in a capitalist society, taking time to rest is an act of resistance & liberation. Being continually exhausted/unwell/overwhelmed makes is easier to manipulate.
Rest is an act of community care.
#booksky
@smilesavenue.bsky.social 💜
Rest is an act of community care.
#booksky
@smilesavenue.bsky.social 💜
February 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is exactly the book we need right now. It reminds us that in a capitalist society, taking time to rest is an act of resistance & liberation. Being continually exhausted/unwell/overwhelmed makes is easier to manipulate.
Rest is an act of community care.
#booksky
@smilesavenue.bsky.social 💜
Rest is an act of community care.
#booksky
@smilesavenue.bsky.social 💜
Keeping an eye on this one 👀
ATTN BC and Canada:
Announcing Debrief Communications, a brand new initiative created by some of your favourite journalists in town.
We’re a worker-owned collective of journos now offering our skills to help drive your communication goals.
Check out our website: debriefcomms.ca
Announcing Debrief Communications, a brand new initiative created by some of your favourite journalists in town.
We’re a worker-owned collective of journos now offering our skills to help drive your communication goals.
Check out our website: debriefcomms.ca
Debrief Communications: Worker-Owned Collective for Media Services | Debrief Communications
Debrief Communications offers expert writing, editing, and media training workshops. Our worker-owned collective is dedicated to enhancing media literacy and providing comprehensive communications ser...
debriefcomms.ca
February 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Keeping an eye on this one 👀
"Communication pages like this are not just for people who absolutely can’t ever speak. They are for anyone, anywhere, who for whatever reason would be unable to say things like this in situations where they need to be able to say it."
Communication skills can fluctuate.
#actuallyautistic
Communication skills can fluctuate.
#actuallyautistic
Possibly the best AAC post of all time: If you or your autistic person use AAC [alternative communication], don't forget to enable descriptions of personal boundaries—because everyone should be able to say "stop" and "F*** off". From Mel Baggs, RIP:
ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/c...
ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/c...
Communication page I used to handle that invasive woman I met.
It’s been quite some time since I posted my letter to the woman who accosted me on my way to the para transit van. But I wanted to update people on how I handled the situation when she approa…
ballastexistenz.wordpress.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"Communication pages like this are not just for people who absolutely can’t ever speak. They are for anyone, anywhere, who for whatever reason would be unable to say things like this in situations where they need to be able to say it."
Communication skills can fluctuate.
#actuallyautistic
Communication skills can fluctuate.
#actuallyautistic