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mjnabuurs.bsky.social
MJ Nabuurs
@mjnabuurs.bsky.social
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Trying to remain human in a world determined to challenge humanity.Extrovert w the need for quiet time, despite appearances to the contrary. Co-host of @theresisters.bsky.social spaces w @coopspeak.bsky.social. Spokesperson for @onschoolsafety.bsky.social.
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Rest in peace, Alice. You are one of the best humans to have graced this planet:
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November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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@abbottelementary.bsky.social
also acknowledged the importance of good indoor air quality and the tools available to make it so:

#ItsElementary
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November 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Had a fab time last nt hearing the intelligent, highly informed & quick-witted @margaretatwood.bsky.social speak in #Toronto.

What I wouldn’t have given to be that interviewer! Maybe someday on our @theresisters.bsky.social
podcast?

#OGReSisters
#GoodTrouble
#MakeYourNoise

@coopspeak.bsky.social
Photo of large stage, black lit, with a pink square carpet and two white lounge chairs, one with Margaret Atwood sitting in it with a black suit, pink blouse and scarf, as she reads excerpts from a book. The other chair had a black man in light brown button-down shirt and grey pants sitting in it. Behind the chairs up on a screen was the event name: “TIFA Presents: An evening with Margaret Atwood”. The screen had a pink background and on the right had a round photo of Margaret from the shoulders up in a frilly red jacket, her finger to her mouth in a red glove.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Fangirling that @mariepoulin.com liked my post. (Am very happy “two others” liked it also 😉.)

Marie, wld you join @theresisters.bsky.social (@coopspeak.bsky.social and me) for a chat about your incredible career - the good, bad and everything in-between?

We love strong, capable, Canadian 🍁 women!
Screenshot of Bluesky’s notice that Marie Poulin (and two others) liked MJ’s post.
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Fangirling that @mariepoulin.com liked my post. (Am very happy “two others” liked it also 😉.)

Marie, wld you join @theresisters.bsky.social (@coopspeak.bsky.social and me) for a chat about your incredible career - the good, bad and everything in-between?

We love strong, capable, Canadian 🍁 women!
Screenshot of Bluesky’s notice that Marie Poulin (and two others) liked MJ’s post.
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Masking up (and repping @theresisters.bsky.social during our break 😉) as my teammates and I play two full days of competitive volleyball and come out champs.

Who says we can’t wear masks and live fully?

#ProtectedAndUninfected (hopefully, of course🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻)
close up of white woman with a lavender Breathteque KN95 on, wearing a white hoodie with THE RESISTERS in light blue font in the centre of the hoodie five times stacked.
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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That’s RIGHT he did!

#CanadianSuperstars
#FirstClassAllClass
#GoJays

@mariepoulin.com

👏🏻🏒🍁👊🏻⚾️
photograph from behind of a black man with very short black hair wearing a red hockey jersey with white lettering and two black stripes on each arm. Shirt says “Poulin” on top and “29” centred on it. White man with black baseball cap on in the forefront holding a cell phone on a stick filming the man with the jersey walking away, and a white man with a dark blue baseball cap in the back left holding a large media camera filming the man in the jersey coming toward him . All taking place in the entrance hallway for athletes at Rogers Centre.
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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#CleanTheAir
#WeHaveTheTools
#ItsElementary

@onschoolsafety.bsky.social @coopspeak.bsky.social @theresisters.bsky.social

/fin
Image of the host of the party standing, with his kitchen in the background, saying, “It’s all right. I’ll just open a window”. Someone else says, “It’s October”. Host of party moves to window and says, “If we’re anti-window, I can get everybody masks.”
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Thank you, #AbbottElementary! Looks like you understand #IAQ 👏🏻👊🏻!

(Hubby and teen said it could have been me playing that part 😆)

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Image of a square air quality monitor sitting on a kitchen counter beside a stove showing the CO2 level of 1059. Dialogue: “Oh. What is that?”…”Uh, it’s my air quality monitor.” Close up of the first image, more clearly showing the air quality monitor. A group of 5 30-somethings sitting around a coffee table with a game board on it. The host is standing up and saying, “Yeah, the CO2 levels are a little high.” Similar image to the previous photo but a moment later with the caption reading, “I think the addition of Simon increased the concentration levels.”
October 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Hey, #Canada!

Did you know today,

Oct. 6, 2025,

is our first

National Day of Action on Planetary Health?

Learn more here:

planetaryhealthday.ca

@jvipondmd.bsky.social - Literally carrying the world on your shoulders lol?
Photo of a white, male, middle-aged medical professional wearing a blue medical shirt, khaki pants, white lab coat, red stethoscope, and brown shoes. He is walking directly toward the camera holding a large royal blue and green globe on his left shoulder. He walks on a wide, grey and white striped path with people walking various directions behind him.
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Let’s go, #CleanAir, CovID realists, let ‘em know!

Canadian Patient Awareness Week is Oct 27-31.

Make your NOOOOOOISE 📣📣📣!

“How do you see safer care in action? Share your story on social media (“I see safer care in action when…”) and tag us or include the hashtag #CPSW2025.”
Screenshot with multicoloured tabs highlighting the theme of HEC’s Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025 and this descriptor: “Get ready for Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW), taking place October 27–31, 2025. This year’s theme, All Voices for Safer Care, is an invitation to listen more deeply and take meaningful action. To help you bring the theme to life, we’ve prepared webinars, activity cards, posters and more — everything you need to take part in CPSW and highlight what safer care means in your setting.” “CPSW Spotlight Series Join us for a special edition of our Spotlight Series, guided by this year’s theme. These webinars will explore how safety is shaped not only by systems and policies, but also by the voices of those delivering, receiving and supporting care.” Bright yellow graphic mid screenshot with the heading “Spotlight Series: From Awareness to Action” “From Awareness to Action: Beyond Harm, Toward Safer Care  English-first webinar with simultaneous interpretation in French October 28, 2025”
October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Anyone willing to start re-trying to stop infections yet?

Or is our concern for our children based only on info and knowledge we had before 2020?

Loving our kids shouldn’t be conditional upon our discomfort with reality.

@loscharlos.bsky.social
Screenshot of @loscharlos post explaining covering by the NYTimes of a Lancet study that shows: “Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCovid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found. The study, of nearly a half-million people under 21, published Tuesday in Lancet Infectious Diseases”
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#NationalTruthAndReconciliationDay
#EveryChildMatters
Graphic with all-orange background. On the left side and centred top to bottom is a white heart that has two orange feathers coming down from the top left of it and a smallish orange maple leaf in the top right corner of it. From mid to right of the graphic reads in white all caps font: “NATIONAL DAY OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION” and just under that in smaller white all caps font: “ SEPTEMBER 30”
September 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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So grateful to those helping us travel down this new path of communicating.

Looking forward to re-connecting with my amazing co-host @coopspeak.bsky.social and providing some thought-provoking, engaging, and fun episodes!

Here’s to the next 100!!!

#MakeYourNoise
#GoodTrouble
#NoOstrichingHere
Black and white photo of a caucasian woman with long, wavy, light brown hair, wearing a mid-length denim jacket, white tshirt and dark pants leaning over a bit forward and to one side of an old-fashioned microphone/microphone stand, smiling widely with one hand holding the top end of the microphone stand.
September 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Yes, IPAC continues to provide questionable guidance to those who look to them for it.

During their last poster campaign, @ryantennant.ca & I submitted our take on their theme, “Prevention with Intent” - mostly hoping it would entice them to reconsider the comms they had been putting out to date:
A graphic titled at the top and centred, “Climbing the Ladder of Infection Prevention” in black font with red outline and a ladder symbol standing in for the “l” in “Climbing”. The image is of a grassy hill in the forefront to about 1/3 of the way up, with a sun and its rays in light yellow peaks up half way behind the hill. From centre to left side of graphic on the hill is a brown ladder with a brown-skinned androgynous cartoon character on the third ladder rung and appearing to be climbing upward. Bottom rung is red and in black font says “Understand the Problem”. Second rung from the bottom is orange and in black font says, “Prioritize Values and Principles”. The next run up is yellow and says in black font, “Analyze Options”. Up from that run is a green one that says in black font, “Educate and Implement”. The last rung at the too is blue and says in black font, “Measure Impacts”. On the right sode of the ladder frame is a series of purple arrows showing how these steps continue to be taken ongoing.
September 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Seeing parent posts in my 2 kids’ uni FB groups saying their kids are already sick. I posted a PSA in both explaining airborne viruses, #IAQ, avail #Airborne virus mitigation tools, some deets re Covid, and links.

The only pushback (‘twas respectful) is from an #Ontario #Nurse. We have failed them.
Screenshot of response to FB post: “I am a bigger supporter of fresh air and air purification, but having worked in healthcare through pandemic and managed COVID units, a few of the items are misleading above. Most respiratory illnesses are droplet/contact, not airborne. This means they may be expelled by someone’s nose/mouth but droplets fall onto surfaces. Hand washing and general cleaning are most important. N95 masks are not required. If you are sick or a high risk, a surgical mask is enough. We follow public health, CDC and WHO recommendations. Rapid tests (due to user error) and even PCRs are no longer recommended. Back to basics, if you are sick, stay home. Wash hands often, sneeze/cough in your arm and clean regularly. Air purification and fresh air are always a positive.”
September 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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IKEA uses:
Overhead photo of four rows of thousands of harvested, beige tree trunks with the documentary caption in bright yellow saying, “20 million cubic metres of timber every year.” Overhead photo of four rows of thousands of harvested, beige tree trunks with the documentary caption in bright yellow saying, “That’s one tree every two seconds.”
September 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Shared in a local FB SC group:

“Email to Health Care Providers from Dr. Moore, dated August 27, 2025. Incoming supply of the new formulation of LP.8.1 vaccine is expected to be distrubuted in Ontario by late September. More details to come once the new formulation is available.”
Screenshot of the email summarized in text of post.
September 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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@mirvish.bsky.social - Love what you bring to the city 🕺, but not regarding Covid & other illnesses that travel thru the air (RSV, Strep, measles, whooping cough, TB, influenza…).

Kindly update the signage in your bathrooms to protect your visitors and your performers:

#MaskUp
#VentAndFilter
A poster on a wall in a bathroom. Black printing on white background, with red symbols for each point on how to protect from Covid. Wording primarily about washing hands, social distancing, etc. - nothing about ventilating and filtering spaces or wearing a respirator.
August 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Calling all IAQ experts! What say you about this webinar and its link to Panasonic’s Nanoe X?
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August 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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All part of the #Ontario govt’s #PathwayToPrivatization agenda of pub education & healthcare (about which the writing was on the wall before Ford got elected the 1st time & about which I’ve been raising alarm bells over ever since), and that a pandemic has been helping to expedite.

#UGetWhatUVote4
Screenshot of a newspaper headline on a white background. A blue Toronto Star banner is at the top left, with a “Newsletters” button on the top right. Another smaller blue banner before the headline reads “Provincial Politics” in caps. Article heading is in bold, black font.
June 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A birthday pic for you, @daniellebeckman.bsky.social !

And a hug for your first birthday without your Mom. It is difficult for sure 🙏🏻🫂💞.
A photo looking up at tall maple trees with bright green leaves in a forest with a bright, blue sky peeking through the trees at the top.
June 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Amirite 😏?
Screenshot of post by “Jane of the North” “@JaneofN” on a black background with white font saying: ‘So Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a flunkie goes "Deport!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.’
June 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM