midniterain.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Another way of understanding #MapProjections. Note Mercator (lower right). #Maps #Geography

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There are more than 60 known archaeological sites in this view of town, left by 500+generations of Secwépemc ancestors. Tk’emlups/Kamloops been eminently liveable for millennia🧡

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Alrighty, so, since a lot of folx suddenly want to discuss Indigenous peoples a couple of reminders: * capitalize the “I” on Indigenous; * don’t talk over Indigenous peoples. If you listen you can learn more; * you having a relationship with an Indigenous person and using that to silence another /1

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

I was going to say that we need some Academic Aunties to get them to smarten up, but 1. The Aunties are tired and overworked; time for men to hold each other accountable 2. By the way they dismiss or are outright aggressive and disrespectful to Indigenous women, they won't listen to the Aunties

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I wish there were more critical conversations about community accountability & non-local Indigenous people taking up space/speaking over local Indigenous people. I'm finding myself disheartened tonight by some academics who act like they're above accountability just because they're Indigenous. 1/

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is a good day for a gentle reminder that you can mute words and hashtags, even just for a temporary break for your own wellbeing. I'm trying to remember that I can curate my social media experience here, so I don't need to completely disappear as I'm trying to rest & heal.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

So, it seems some of the app settings are attached to your device, not your account. My phone bricked itself last week & I'm slowly coming back here again. I had mine set to require ALT text before & had to reset it again on this device. Settings> #Accessibility > Require alt text before posting

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone w/ a shaky foundation in their #Indigenous #language flip-flop b/w dialects? I read a lot of words in the eastern dialect, but I speak most words in mine (western). ... And if I read a written word out loud I stumble over both 😂 (and some words I 'hear' in my head in the northern)

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Stop paying academic keynote speaker thousands and then ask the directly impacted folks to present their trauma stories or lived experience as a keynote for a small honorarium, a $20 gift or for free! Lived experience is valuable, you wouldn't be asking for it, if it wasn't! #equitablepay

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Still relevant. Sometimes when I've got writer's block, I'll just write an ancestor on the whiteboard and circle out from them. After filling the board with relations, I'll deliberately erase it; I let myself be comfortable knowing they'll still be there whether their names are written down or not.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Secwépemc family demands answers, justice in mysterious death of BC residential school survivor, Douglas Eustache | more details : www.beloud.com/news/113903713 #TruthandReconciliation #Indigenous

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The #CulturalAppropriation never ends... Wayfair selling a " #NativeAmerican #Indigenous Wigwam Shelter Cardboard Standup" ...for "up to 70% off!" What a steal... What even is this??

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Some of the last of the hand-painted wood feather earrings for the year. With the postal strike and some health issues, I couldn't have them ready before XMas, but I enjoyed making this batch.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like the wet coast is in for another series of storms over the holidays. No snow, but potential for power outages. #BCWeather #BCStorm

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

❄️🧪🧵 In late fall through winter, ice sometimes grows into wild, gorgeous, and unusual structures variously known as frost flowers, ice ribbons, rabbit frost, hair ice, ice wool, and needle ice. Delicate and ephemeral, they're often found in forests. 📷 Wikimedia + Flickr (details in alt text)

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments

With wind in the forecast we want to remind everyone to get prepared for potential power outages. Here’s what you need to know: bit.ly/3RCiNTt #BCStorm 📱 Report outages online: bit.ly/4gAGkNO ☎️ Report fallen power lines: 911 📱 Outage updates: bit.ly/4dRDP84 - BC Hydro via X: x.com/bchydro/stat...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Newly released Core Human Rights Principles for Conservation from @unep.org officially repudiate the "fortress conservation" model that has so often provided a pretext for colonialist land grabs and displacement of Indigenous peoples. theconversation.com/new-set-of-h...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Added about a dozen accounts to the #BCSky starter pack over the last week.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation (SSN) — a governance group made up of the Skeetchestn and Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc bands — have now laid out their reasons for opposing the mine extension. www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

FINALLY. Imperial metals spilled 25 million cubic metres of tailings (~10,000 Olympic swimming pools) and most of it is still sitting at the bottom of Quesnel Lake. It’ll take decades more to even understand the impacts. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 89 days ago • 59 comments

Friday the 13th is looking pretty rough for the coast, weather-wise. #BCWeather #BCStorm

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Canada’s commitment to reconciliation is ONLY allowed to be on Canada’s terms. This is nothing new on their part. It’s embarrassing and disappointing ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-block...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The public health system in Canada continues to attack Indigenous people in every way possible. Criminal assault charges would send a strong message. Revoking licenses to practice would send a strong message. But, to date, Canada is too racist to send a strong message.

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

Gonna’ pin this here.

submitted 98 days ago • 28 comments

Another good example of how #maps can distort our perception of the world. #Geography

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

Map projections from Robinson to Equirectangular, which circles of the same size added to show how countries are being deformed. By NASA's Scientific Vizualization Studio: youtu.be/EWU26jetYnA

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Wonderful orange peel maps to help explain map projections from @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that you can mute keywords in your Settings (in the drop-down menu on the top left side of your Home screen)

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Cheam and Sqwá #FirstNations sound alarm about mysterious and smelly discharge flowing into the Hope Slough | "Cheam First Nation said it is covering the cost of the cleanup, as it did for the September discharge" www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7398694 #IndigenousRights #Environment #Pollution

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Some missing #ResidentialSchool #Indigenous students disappeared into arranged marriages, report says www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... #TRC #TruthandReconciliation

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Manitoba premier orders practice of jailing ( #Indigenous ) people with TB to end after CBC investigation www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #CanadaNews #IndigenousNews #ManitobaNews #Reconciliation

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments