Tom Jackman
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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- Reposted by Tom JackmanAlt 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 ❤️
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- This is the way.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanCall 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...
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- Hats off to these people for recreating and running the work of a government, the same necessary work that our ineffective governments are declining to do.
- "If you have ever said, 'I wish someone would do something,' this is your opportunity to be that person," Maffin said. "The templates are there. The whole kit is ready for your community." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reposted by Tom JackmanOn world cancer day, thinking of all the patients who will go to chemo today facing unmasked hospital staff. And who will suffer hospital-acquired infections and even die due to the lack of airborne mitigations 💔
- Reposted by Tom JackmanIf you’re being threatened for telling the truth, first, you’re not alone; and second, you’re a thousand times the scientist and educator than any of the men trying to silence you ever will be. Working on (vs. within) systems of oppression is difficult and scary. It’s also our only way forward.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanIf you saw a woman being cornered on the bus, would you step in? If you witnessed transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to help? Let me teach you bystander intervention - for free! Sign up now and get automatic email reminders. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Tom JackmanI truly don't understand why this isn't a priority for the Canadian government. What's more likely, a full-scale military invasion, or Trump in a fit of demented rage demands all US companies hosting Canadian government data shut off our access, and they comply (because that's what US CEOs do)?
- I don't think gassing children is the winning move the U.S. administration thinks it is. “Good job. They’ve just made more young enemies for life.”
- ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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- Reposted by Tom Jackman“How many times, then, will Western journalists allow themselves to be fooled by Israeli propaganda – by military denials that later collapse under the weight of evidence?”
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanThis was a peaceful bike ride today in Portland, Oregon. And they ended up tear gassing kids.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanReminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanTonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”
- Reposted by Tom JackmanMy bar for politicians is not high. I want them to care about eugenics and disabled people. Because without that, we don't stand much of a chance defeating fascism. If some of us are deemed disposable, eventually other groups will be too
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanDrop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanAbolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanI don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanAs many Canadians expected, Trump has returned to form and is threatening Canada with 100% tariffs if we do not heel to his trade demands, now including who we strike deals with (like China). He also called Carney "governor", a return to his direct attempts to subjugate us and threaten annexation.
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanSeeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
- Reposted by Tom JackmanMeasles is coming back. Polio will be back. COVID never went away. The "you do you" approach to public health is an abject failure. The rejection of Science, Engineering and Industrial Hygiene by too many "leaders" has led us to this point. People will die needlessly.
- This aspect of Canadian healthcare funding has always vexed me: tax dollars cover the salaries of medical personnel and treatments, but usually fail to adequately fund medical infrastructure and equipment costs (which of course are necessary for treatment). Patients really do end up paying twice.
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanPhil Collins: "I got COVID in hospital. My kidneys started to back up, you know, everything that started that could, all seemed to converge at the same time.” He joins a LONG LIST of high-profile individuals who are now disabled since Covid began. consequence.net/2026/01/phil...
- These kids' lives were forever damaged by masked and jackbooted employees of the government who operate with impunity. I'm at a loss for words to describe the cruelty and inhumanity of it all.
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- Sometimes it's good to look out the window and take a deep breath. #vancouverisland #aurora
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- This virus feels insidious.
- Reposted by Tom JackmanThe First Nations Health Authority, a health system partner to the B.C. government, said it is disappointed that it was "not engaged in a decision that will disproportionately impact First Nations people, communities and families." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- Breaking: Small-handed dictator threatens own subjects if foreigners don't comply with his diktat.
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- I feel like people are downplaying the scale of the possible US theft of Greenland. I know Greenland isn't Mercator-projection big, but it's still massive: it would increase the total territory of the United States (including Alaska) by nearly a quarter (23.7%)!
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- Indeed, but ICE is not an occupying force; ICE is a terrorizing force. They don't have the numbers to be an occupying force. At a certain point the sheer numbers of people in the streets will simply overwhelm ICE's ability to inflict fear. The moment of shock is transient.
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- Reposted by Tom JackmanJust saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.
