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solarab.bsky.social
A climate activist. An advocate for universal free electricity. (I have it, why can't you?) Saving the biosphere is a precedence-taking activity. Author, song writer, vagabond, microgenerator. A proud Canadian.
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Oh man RIP Brian Wilson 🙏….thank you for all the music!

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Saskatchewan government will pay equivalent of 2 nights in a hotel for wildfire evacuees. #skpoli #Regina #ClimateCrisis www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Meet China’s new $10,000 EV: The Chery QQ Domi #ElectricVehicles electrek.co/2025/06/10/m...

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Federal government releases final spotted owl recovery strategy — after 18 years, and after letting the owl population fall to one individual #bcpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/10/n...

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By 10am we're on the cusp between medium & high risk wildfire smoke AGAIN. 2025 will irrefutably be yet another year where Calgarians breathe literally 100s of hours of smokey air where the norm since time immemorial was just 12 hours per year. Our bodies weren't made for this #SueBigOil #AQHI #yyc

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Smoke-free summers are a thing of the past #ClimateCrisis #wildfires edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

McCain wind & solar power plan rejected by Alberta. New plant will not be able to reduce power costs as concept falls under the UCP renewables ban #yql #yyc #yeg #abpoli lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbri...

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Alberta looking forward to "increased trade opportunities" with the U.S. after lifting ban on American liquor #abpoli #yyc #yql #yeg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Amazon removes ‘sham’ cookbook listing from site after Ontario author speaks out. Canadian writer is the victim of AI book faking #cdnpoli #uspoli #WritingCommunity www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

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On Wednesday May 5, 2025, a massive glacier collapsed destroying a village called Blatten in Switzerland. It was home to 300 people, who had been evacuated a week earlier. A powerful reminder of the growing impact of climate change, and the danger leaders like Donald Trump pose. #Resist

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"Harvest records from Japan and China suggest that high night-time temperatures reduce the quality of rice, a staple food for billions of people." @nature.com

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Shed a tear for the city's poor weeping birches #yql lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbri...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Canada is on fire. The national media is focused on building pipelines for national unity. Oil production is at record levels. We are back of the pack in the G7 for failing all our environmental goals. My latest on Canada's oil obsession. charlieangus.substack.com/p/burn-the-p...

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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT Record heat from Africa to Europe to Asia. 46.9C in SENEGAL 45.1C in ALGERIA Minimums up to 33C 40C in Cantabria Region of SPAIN (North) 42.8C in TURKEY Minimums up to 28C Heat will just become worse and spread to Central Europe.

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While wait times rise and surgeries are delayed, the UCP’s friends and insiders keep getting paid through suspicious contracts. Danielle Smith says healthcare is 'fine.' Albertans know it’s not. We need public health care that puts people before politics. #VoteforBetter youtu.be/M6kB4V9HDcA

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I've been volunteering with the @fallcelticfestival.bsky.social for the last year - it's a great, bee growing event in the GTA to celebrate Celtic culture and heritage (and a lot of fun!) They've just joined Bluesky - pls give them a follow and welcome them here! :)

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Trans Mountain’s financial nightmare offers lessons in the reality of pipelines #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/10/a...

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One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures. #CostaRica #herons #nature #birds

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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

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Canada Post rejects the union's proposal for arbitration & insists no full-time worker could ever deliver parcels on a weekend #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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Captured Gaza food aid boat activists are to be shown violent videos by the IDF in an attempt to desensitize them to Israeli violence against Palestinians, Defence Minister says #eupol

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Alberta blows by 800 'official' measles cases and now we're gonna travel 🦠 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

What is the mountain bike equivalent of stumbling into beauty?

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

New tourism app ignores the EV driver demographic. Information on which locations are near Southern Alberta's abundant chargers is missing #yql lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/06/09/n...

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‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems. Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Double Your Nissan Leaf’s Range With A Home-Swapped Battery. This whole job was done on the driveway in just three hours. No fancy lifts, just some elbow grease and determination. insideevs.com/news/761788/...

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BC winemakers adjust for ‘scary’ future beyond their control www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/09/n...

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Danielle Smith has news for the people of Canada: you have ‘the lowest living standards in the world’ albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/dani...

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Israel kidnaps Greta Thunberg & impounds aid boat for Palestine #eupol www.cp24.com/news/world/2...

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Soon i will be culturally illiterate not just because i am old but because i am violently allergic to shortform phone videos

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

When many of us said antivaxxers are dangerous, we were told to be more diplomatic. There’s nothing as diplomatic and necessary as the truth. We need an all out campaign against antivaxxers.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Combined Manitoba fire now approximately seven times the size of Winnipeg: province #ClimateCrisis www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

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EXTRAORDINARY MEDITERRANEAN HEAT Hundreds of stations with unprecedented heat for early June,locally all June in Morocco,Algeria,Spain and Balkans. Only Italy was skipped. 44.5C in Algeria and 42.8C in Spain. 42.8 Zenata,Northern Algeria is a new June record More records coming

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“This is one way to understand the steady increase in fossil fuel-enhanced weather disasters: these floods, fires, heat waves, and intensifying storms are the Bank of Nature’s repo men coming to collect on that debt — “repossessing” our homes, our cars, our towns, even our very lives.”

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Extreme Weather Report, June 5, 2025. Alarming. But not surprising. And definitely not natural.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

UCP - “You should really consider limiting how much fish you eat from the Crowsnest Lake because the coal mines poisoned it. Check out recommended intake!” Also UCP - “We last updated the recommended intake in 2019 & Crowsnest Lake isn’t on it! Best of luck! #abpoli #cdnpoli

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Lots of American goldfinches calling along the Oldman River this morning. Lethbridge, Alberta 🇨🇦 #birds #birding #yql #Alberta 🪶

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Construction workers shelter in shipping container to escape wildfire #ClimateCrisis www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Jesus fuck this map alone is enough. Then consider the Great Barrier Reef bleaching on the east coast the Gnoorea Beach fish kill and the toxic algae bloom in At Vincents Bay off Adelaide. And so far I've only seen the extent of this marine disaster reported by one team of journalists.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Marine heatwave engulfed area of ocean five times the size of Australia www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateCrisis

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

1/8 🚨 CO2 RECORD SHATTERED 🚨 Earth just hit 430 parts per million—the highest levels ever directly recorded. When humans walked on the moon: 325 ppm During 9/11: 369 ppm COVID shutdown: 414 ppm This week: 430 ppm We're in "very dangerous territory." #ClimateChange #WarmingClimate

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Tesla’s Superchargers Are No Magic Bullet. For non-Tesla EVs, Tesla's charging network is as bad, or worse, than the rest insideevs.com/features/761... #ElectricVehicles

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