Jane Cawthorne
@other-jane.bsky.social
Writer sometimes. Reader always.
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Pinned
Jane Cawthorne
@other-jane.bsky.social
· May 23
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Pinning this interview between myself and Shelagh Rogers. I miss her melifluous voice on the radio so much. This interview was a highlight of my life as a writer. Enjoy! The Next Chapter www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Oil.
Can someone explain to me why we're about to launch a war on Venezuela?
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Oil.
Campbell’s soup. (Shudder) Kraft singles, wrapped in plastic.(Wince) Might as well have been eating the plastic. Don’t forget Cheez Whiz. (Blergh) Part of the weird ultra processed food that made up my lunches as a kid. But Bioengineered chicken from a 3D printer? That really made my stomach turn.
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Campbell’s soup. (Shudder) Kraft singles, wrapped in plastic.(Wince) Might as well have been eating the plastic. Don’t forget Cheez Whiz. (Blergh) Part of the weird ultra processed food that made up my lunches as a kid. But Bioengineered chicken from a 3D printer? That really made my stomach turn.
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A dirty deal's being cooked up between the Alberta government & #BigOil so they can stick their MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR cleanup tab on YOU the taxpayer while a grotesquely complicit #AER watches & shrugs. Here's some of the people saying HELL NO #abpoli #PolluterPays www.podcastics.com/episode/3890...
Make Polluters Pay
The Alberta government's dirty deal with Big Oil
www.podcastics.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A dirty deal's being cooked up between the Alberta government & #BigOil so they can stick their MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR cleanup tab on YOU the taxpayer while a grotesquely complicit #AER watches & shrugs. Here's some of the people saying HELL NO #abpoli #PolluterPays www.podcastics.com/episode/3890...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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“Albertans don’t agree on a lot these days,” said pollster Janet Brown, “but our research shows they overwhelmingly want the oil and gas industry to pay their bills.”
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Albertans want oil industry to pay up: poll - Red Deer Advocate
92% say industry should pay cleanup costs
reddeeradvocate.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Albertans don’t agree on a lot these days,” said pollster Janet Brown, “but our research shows they overwhelmingly want the oil and gas industry to pay their bills.”
Read more at: reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
Read more at: reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
reddeeradvocate.com/2025/11/20/a...
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Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.
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Alberta moves to make quackery great again while protecting egregiously unprofessional behaviour. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
Alberta moves to make quackery great again while protecting egregiously unprofessional behaviour - Alberta Politics
Rest assured, Alberta’s Bill 13, the so-called Regulated Professions Neutrality Act, has little to do with protecting freedom of expression. Despite Premier Danielle Smith’s claim during a news confe...
albertapolitics.ca
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Alberta moves to make quackery great again while protecting egregiously unprofessional behaviour. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
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Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...
Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did - Alberta Politics
Albertan country music icon Corb Lund showed up in Edmonton yesterday to drop off a citizen initiative application at the offices of Elections Alberta for a referendum petition seeking permanent prote...
albertapolitics.ca
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Danielle Smith dared Eastern Slopes coal mine opponents to start a citizen initiative petition – so Corb Lund did. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/dani...
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Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑
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NO EXCUSES. THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. YOUR RIGHTS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY ***RIGHT NOW*** BY THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT. IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND.
McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg
McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
NO EXCUSES. THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. YOUR RIGHTS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY ***RIGHT NOW*** BY THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT. IT'S TIME TO TAKE A STAND.
McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg
McDougall Centre from 5-7 pm. it's time to STAND UP or get rolled over
#NotwithstandingClause #CharterRightsAndFreedoms #yyc #abpoli #ableg
I noticed a 🍉 meme that used AI. If you’re wasting the planet’s resources making AI crap, even if it’s AI crap I agree with, you’re part of the problem. Do some research. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
Explainer: The Role of AI in Israel’s Genocidal Campaign Against Palestinians
Palestine Square
www.palestine-studies.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I noticed a 🍉 meme that used AI. If you’re wasting the planet’s resources making AI crap, even if it’s AI crap I agree with, you’re part of the problem. Do some research. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
Sometimes, I rewrite posts. It’s my website and I figure I can do whatever I want. I keep working at this one. It’s almost there. www.janecawthorne.com/an-essay-abo...
My own personal Chernobyl - Jane Cawthorne
Jane Cawthorne My own personal Chernobyl First Person
www.janecawthorne.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Sometimes, I rewrite posts. It’s my website and I figure I can do whatever I want. I keep working at this one. It’s almost there. www.janecawthorne.com/an-essay-abo...
Both good. I always like, ‘Don’t be dick,’ but that’s just me.
'Drop dead' is an underrated comeback. It's almost as good as 'Beat it, grandpa'.
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Both good. I always like, ‘Don’t be dick,’ but that’s just me.
One more batch of applesauce to make. So. Many. Apples. Still working through this bounty. #GrowYourOwn #NeighbourhoodSharing #UrbanFarming
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
One more batch of applesauce to make. So. Many. Apples. Still working through this bounty. #GrowYourOwn #NeighbourhoodSharing #UrbanFarming
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If you're posting tributes to Alice Wong but aren't wearing a well fitted respirator indoors when sharing air with people outside your household AND outdoors when it's crowded than I think you misunderstood the assignment.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you're posting tributes to Alice Wong but aren't wearing a well fitted respirator indoors when sharing air with people outside your household AND outdoors when it's crowded than I think you misunderstood the assignment.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
“We’ve been sold AI as an emancipatory tool when it fact it is enslaving us. There will be a time, and for some people it is upon them already, when they will not be able to function in day-to-day life without AI.” open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
The AI Machine Men Snatching Our Souls
(Fuck AI Part II)
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“We’ve been sold AI as an emancipatory tool when it fact it is enslaving us. There will be a time, and for some people it is upon them already, when they will not be able to function in day-to-day life without AI.” open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
I felt seen in Alice Wong’s writing. I’m so grateful she was here. My heartfelt condolences to all of those who loved her and to all of us who mourn the loss of her. www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I felt seen in Alice Wong’s writing. I’m so grateful she was here. My heartfelt condolences to all of those who loved her and to all of us who mourn the loss of her. www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...
Thanks to Lynne Melcombe for this wonderful review and for highlighting Julia Nunes’s piece, “The Next Hit.” It is about concussion, but also about our times. The hits keep coming, and somehow, we carry on. #concussion #gratitude lynnemelcombe.com/2025/09/29/u...
Understanding How Concussion Affects Women’s Lives
Essays by women writing after concussion shed light on the seriousness of this injury and its particular impacts on women
lynnemelcombe.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thanks to Lynne Melcombe for this wonderful review and for highlighting Julia Nunes’s piece, “The Next Hit.” It is about concussion, but also about our times. The hits keep coming, and somehow, we carry on. #concussion #gratitude lynnemelcombe.com/2025/09/29/u...
I spent the morning trying unsuccessfully to fix a bureaucratic bungle and thinking about disability and bureaucracy. We use all of our spoons trying to advocate for the simplest things. It is exhausting. www.janecawthorne.com/bureaucracy-... #disability #HealthCare #Wheelchairs
Bureaucracy Blues - Jane Cawthorne
Jane Cawthorne Bureaucracy Blues First Person
www.janecawthorne.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I spent the morning trying unsuccessfully to fix a bureaucratic bungle and thinking about disability and bureaucracy. We use all of our spoons trying to advocate for the simplest things. It is exhausting. www.janecawthorne.com/bureaucracy-... #disability #HealthCare #Wheelchairs
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In the uncomfortable position of being the lone dissenting voice in book club tonight. I should be accustomed to this as I am also the lone masker—I’m always a dissenting voice in that way. #CovidConscious
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
In the uncomfortable position of being the lone dissenting voice in book club tonight. I should be accustomed to this as I am also the lone masker—I’m always a dissenting voice in that way. #CovidConscious
Part of today’s harvest of apples from a neighbour’s tree. They are ginormous. No surprise, we are making applesauce. #NeighbourhoodSharing
#GrowYourOwn
#UrbanFarming
#GrowYourOwn
#UrbanFarming
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Part of today’s harvest of apples from a neighbour’s tree. They are ginormous. No surprise, we are making applesauce. #NeighbourhoodSharing
#GrowYourOwn
#UrbanFarming
#GrowYourOwn
#UrbanFarming
And is anyone working on regaining our “measles free” status? Is anyone proposing clean air strategies? Masks? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And is anyone working on regaining our “measles free” status? Is anyone proposing clean air strategies? Masks? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM