allison-talisman

She/her. Climate justice, small furry animals, old growth, gardening, ADHD. 🐇🌲🐀

[Timothy Gray @CanadaGray]

Just in case folks were unclear about the chances of an oil sands pipeline being built to the B.C. northwest rainforest coast: https://t.co/vuKBJUy0cb #cdnpoli #energytransition

[allison-talisman @AllisonTalisman]

@Biff234523 You had mentioned you were thinking of trying the black Tridents. They have been bulletproof for a family member. I feel like they are equivalent quality to the Auras. I tried the BreatheTeq black masks. Foam not as thick, nosewire not as strong. But ok for some contexts I think

[Brain Inflammation Collaborative @BrainInflCollab]

Researchers stimulated neuroinflammation in mice by activating the inflammasome (in-flam-uh-sohm) in white blood cells called macrophages.

Thus, the macrophages in the brain (i.e., the microglia) had a hyperactive inflammasome, causing neuroinflammation.

⬆️ inflammasome activity = ⬆️ inflammation.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Imagine finding out YOUR parents ignored this & just carried on as normal…

[Yishan @yishan]

Somehow "large corporations made huge profits emitting a chemical into the air that warmed the earth and changed the weather and then secretly funded groups to psyop the public and bribe politicians to ignore the problem even while their own internal corporate scientists knew the truth" isn't a plausible enough conspiracy theory.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

When I was thirteen, I started at a new school. The other kids disliked me and called me names. I found the work boring and pointless. I felt like an alien. I dreaded each interminable day. I stopped wanting to go to school. Every Sunday evening I was filled with misery.

If that happened today, they’d say I was anxious about school. I could have been said to have ‘Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)’ or ‘school anxiety’. Then, it was just called ‘school refusal’.

I was anxious about school, that’s true.

I was anxious about school when I was told that there was no choice but to go every day and that I ‘looked fine when you’re there’. I was anxious when I was told that if I didn’t attend school, I’d have no future. I was anxious when I was told that it was an ‘excellent school’ and that perhaps I just didn’t appreciate my luck.

I was anxious because I felt trapped in a place where I was miserable. There’s nothing wrong with someone who feels anxious in those circumstances. In fact, I’d worry more about someone who DOESN’T feel anxious. Certainly most adults would.

Once I had been defined as ‘anxious’ I could have been sent to see a specialist. I could have been told I had a mental health problem. My hatred of school would have been turned into a problem with me. ‘Successful treatment’ would have meant ‘Back to school’.

And what I would have learnt was that I was the problem. I’ve have learnt to keep quiet and stop telling others how I felt. I’ve have learnt (as I already suspected) that there was something wrong with me, not the school.

In fact I was lucky. That didn’t happen. I moved house and changed schools and the next school was different. I felt different almost immediately.

Anxiety is a understandable reaction to many circumstances. It’s an emotional response to uncertainty, novelty or lack of safety. It lets us know that extra caution is required. It keeps us alert through hard times. It is useful. We need our anxiety.

Yet with children, we’ve decided that their anxiety is the problem, that it means something is wrong with them. We’ve even told them this, with mental health awareness campaigns on toilet doors and in classrooms. We’ve encouraged them to see their emotional reactions as a sign of dysfunction, as something outside the ordinary. A problem in their heads, rather than a meaningful reaction to the world.

By turning children’s distress into a mental health problem, we depoliticise it. Instead of asking questions about the school system and whether it is fit for children, we suggest that the problem is our children’s reaction to school.

We’re using ‘anxiety’ to keep children quiet.

We don’t ask whether our schools might be designed in ways which provoke distress and anxiety. We don’t ask if they might be developmentally inappropriate and in need of change. Instead we say that they need counsellors, and mindfulness courses, and emotional regulation apps. Ways to ‘cope’, whilst the system carries on regardless.

If only our children could just stop having those inconvenient emotions, we think, then we could carry on as we were. There would be no need to change anything.

But they can't. No more than I could, all those years ago. Our children’s reactions are showing us that there’s a problem.
What will it take for us to listen?
(with @_MissingTheMark)

[Trevor @TrevorsIdeas]

From the CPC costed platform:

Cutting every climate change initiative to save ~$12B in 2028/29.

Happy Earth Day everyone.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

If we implement ‘consequences’ when a child avoids something due to anxiety, then that’s punishment, not therapy.

If you’re told to make home less pleasant to compel a child to do something they dislike, then that’s punishment, not therapy.

If you’re told to force a child to attend school and that you should ignore their cries, then that’s punishment, not therapy.

If you’re told to aim for solitary confinement during the day if a child don’t attend school, then that’s punishment, not therapy.

If you’re told to take away things that children like to do because they didn’t do what you wanted, then that’s punishment, not therapy.

Using distress to make a child do something they don’t want to do is not therapeutic. Therapy is collaborative, with goals which matter to the child.

Therapy can be difficult. It can be challenging. It can involve taking risks and doing things differently.

But therapy should not feel like being punished, especially not by your parents. If therapy feels like punishment, then it’s very likely that it’s not therapeutic.

Punishment is not therapy.
Illustration by Eliza Fricker @_MissingTheMark from the upcoming book What Can We Do When School's Not Working? Fisher, Fisher and Fricker, available for pre-order now.

[SharonBC,Canada @SharonBurnabyBC]

Musk’s tweet highlighted that his Starlink satellite program was crucial to Ukraine’s defense & in doing so speculated about the consequences of him turning it off #Trump #Vance #Musk Russian puppets endangering the world #USA #USApoli #DOGE #Ukraine #Republicans #Democrats #MAGA

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Oh, Canada!

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 82.6
🇺🇸: 78.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births
🇨🇦: 3.7
🇺🇸: 5.2

Yearly deaths from lack of health insurance
🇺🇸: 68,000
🇨🇦: 0

Ozempic's Price
🇺🇸: $998
🇨🇦: $155

Uninsured/Underinsured
🇺🇸: 85 million
🇨🇦: 0

Admin Costs Per Capita
🇺🇸: $1,055
🇨🇦: $196

[Clean Air in BC Schools @IAQinBCschools]

“How to get CLEAN AIR at School”

TUES JAN. 21, 2025 at 7PM – 8PM
We are hosting a 30 min presentation followed by questions.

ALL SCHOOLS WELCOME!

Online via Zoom
https://t.co/7omelHarYA

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

Big Oil spent a record amount lobbying in CA last year to avoid accountability for damage from their pollution.

"Accountability is an existential threat to their business model, and their business model is an existential threat to all of us.”
https://t.co/x2YVUGdKid

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Will the LA wildfires prompt people to leave California for good? “Wherever you go, you’re not going to escape nature – and nature is being disrupted profoundly,” says former California Governor @JerryBrownGov.

Without addressing the climate crisis, he argues, the cost of mitigation and resilience will be even higher: “This is a huge national crisis… If we don’t wake up, humanity will suffer, and suffer grievously.”

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

the tragic irony is that phasing out oil and gas, zeroing out emissions, & halting global heating IS cost-effective—in fact it's a massive macroeconomic benefit.

the problem is that resolving the #ClimateCrisis will cut into the profits & the pleasures of the wealthy. that's all

[Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot]

They knew. They lied. Make THEM pay.

Photo by @KitKarzen showing the scale of destruction in the Pacific Palisades from the #PalisadesFire.

[Lee Camp [Redacted] @LeeCamp]

Climate change isn’t real.

Climate change isn’t real.

Climate change isn’t real.

Climate change isn’t real.

Meanwhile, this is Los Angeles -

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

15 years old, but still completely relevent —and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Street art by Greg Goya

📹 greg-goya

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Climate disasters like Hurricane Helene aren’t “natural”, they’re crimes.

Big Oil has known for over 50 years that oil & gas pose a huge danger to the climate.

They covered it up to keep raking in profits.