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The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
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If there was an association for people whose minds are totally subsumed by oil and gas, such as the Smith woman, it would be called Bitumensa.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

A few interesting preventative measures re: ticks: www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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Everyone who drinks from the Old Man River downstream from Rocky Mt. east slope coal projects should show up at this Ft. Macleod town hall. Those who irrigate food crops using OMR water should also be there. Let Smith and Co. know how you feel. That's the scariest bunch of Grifters I have ever seen

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“Canada’s fires aren’t “back” because they never went away. North America’s 2023 fire season — the worst in Canadian history — has never really ended. […] The continent has been burning — above and below ground — all the way through the winter of 2024.“ www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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The smoke has just arrived here. It’s come to its source.

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Long thread but very helpful in exposing the UCP's deliberate destruction of Alberta. Smith & UCP didn't get these ideas from air. These changes line up nicely with the Project2025 Agenda MAGA uses in the US. #abpoli #cdnpoli

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Weekend thought: Why do people get so twisted up over unhoused people smoking drugs as they step over them but seem unable to point a finger when oil companies blow forest fire smoke straight into their kids' lungs for weeks on end?

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FFS:

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Are Alberta and Ontario having a measles race? (Sarcasm)

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If humans can’t even refrain from exploiting the marvelous seahorses, what hope is there? No one needs a dried seahorse.

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and now this

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chat is it normal to invite the head of a govt alleged to have been involved in the extrajudicial killing a canadian citizen on canadian soil to canada asking for a diaspora

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Believe it or not. This supports my theory that those on the Right lack a sense of the ironic.

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With Canada at a crossroads, what is CBC News in 2025? This video, written and voiced by chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault, was played at yesterday's CBC season preview. It gave me chills and I hope more get to see it. #journalism #Canada #CBC

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

I am only one research subject, but it seemed to me today that both Costco and its customers are forgetting about or backsliding on the boycott US products project. Full disclosure: I myself bought a sunbrella that attaches to a lawn chair, having scorched 🥵 at a picnic in kananaskis two weeks ago

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I’d like to be able to do in Alberta would be to go out and sit on the deck with a glass of tonic water or wine w/o first sweeping debris off the deck and cleaning the chair and the table. #windy

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Hey American doctors and nurses! Itching to live and work in an actual democracy?

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The bird doing the two-or-more step certainly gets overshadowed by the other one:

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Attn Pierre Poilievre, who purportedly has not changed his ideas since high school.

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Here's a link to my latest article--thinking about bear faces and bare faces (ours): read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... #environmentalhumanities #bears #theface @asle-us.bsky.social @alecc1.bsky.social #animalstudies #multispeciesstudies

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I think that by December 2025 when Words of the Year are collated the terms "sweeping powers" and "sweeping encampments" are going to be in the top five.

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Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

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“What is now speculated is the symptoms of selenium poisoning are so similar to those of Whirling disease, that the impacts from legacy mining have not been recognized throughout the watershed.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment