CJ Moose 🫎

Tomato soup with grilled cheese is the bomb.

a cat sitting on a chair in front of a couch Alt: A gray medium haired tabby kitten with white mask and paws is sitting in a dining room chair at a dining room table with its paw in the air like it’s raising its hand

#AvsBingo for me please!

Quotations 2016 Luke Savage is a Toronto writer and producer with the Broadbent Institute. He says "maple washing" needs to end. "Sure, we don't have our own Donald Trump...but what about our, you know, actual and obvious problems? The incidents of quotidian racism in the United States we constantly hear about certainly aren't unknown to Canada. So, as much as it might be fun to respond to every international outrage with that latest viral picture of Justin Trudeau in a yoga pose, I believe it's time we ended the practice of maple-washing once and for all" 2016 I think the @Canada Twitter account was maple-washing. Keep in mind: this is the same account that claimed "Canada has a long history of welcoming immigrants," in reference to Sir John A. Macdonald's Scottish origin. This is the same man who fought for the Chinese Head Tax, and once said "the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics... The cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be." 2019 As their outward-facing final exam, the participating students created an installment in the atrium of the KPU Library called Maple-Washing: A Disruption, which was launched on December 19, 2019, and ran until January 24, 2020. The exhibition, an integration of ceramics and literary analysis, articulated select parts of Canadian colonial history that resist the myth of multicultural Canada [.]. 2021 Maplewashing refers to a tendency by Canadian governments, institutions, and media to perpetuate the notion that Canada is morally superior to other countries, thus sanitizing and concealing negative historical and contemporary actions.

2 n.— Economy, Canada-US relations the exaggeration of Canadian-made resources or labour used in a product. Type: 3. Semantic Change - In the light of high, controversial tariffs levelled onto Canadian goods by the 47th US president on 4 March 2025 and a rhetoric of annexation of Canada as the "51st state", the term has acquired a new meaning in the sense of greenwashing but related to the Canadian provenance of goods and services. Quotations 2025 Shoppers across the country are scrutinizing labels in search of Canadian products amid U.S. trade tensions, and as businesses scramble to tap into the Buy Canadian boom, some are being accused of "maple-washing" - misleading consumers by overstating their products' ties to Canada. C 2025 Mike von Massow, a professor at the University of Guelph who studies food and labelling, says food producers and retailers should explain what their labelling actually means. [...]"As long as we're clear on what they're telling us, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, but it might in some cases be an oversimplification," he said. "There is a risk of, you know, to coin a new phrase, maple-washing to try and get more credit for being Canadian than perhaps a customer might expect."

Read the excellent entry on MAPLEWASHING in the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 3rd edition dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/mapl...

Inflation *was* under control. It’s not now. Trumps tariffs have driven up prices worse than COVID.

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Check out the latest viewing conditions of Haleakalā Crater via our webcam at Puʻuʻulaʻula located at the summit.

Live Haleakalā Crater Cam, Haleakalā National Park


#NPS #NationalParkService #Haleakalā

Middle Island Passage, Isle Royale National Park

Middle Island Passage, Isle Royale National Park

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A pair of small hands holding a beige envelope addressed in red crayon to "Santa Claus, North Pole, HOH OHO". The return address in the top left reads "123 Main St, Anytown, A1A 1A1 ON". A small stamp is in the top right corner. A pink crayon lies on the dark table nearby, with another child's drawing partially visible in the background.

When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada.
H0H 0H0.
Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered.
This is the story.

🧵1/8

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

Is that pin where “the cables” are located?

"The Trump administration is trying to make it the law that Americans don't deserve clean water. Already today, clean water protections have been defanged."

@beyer.house.gov called out how House Republican's dirty water bill would roll back remaining clean water protections 👇

Two dogs losing their shit as a moose passes by the window

Just a reminder that moose are enormous, this one is firmly in the window frame that's pretty far off the ground

We are PUPSET

Other people: “You should get back into teaching.”

Me: “Not in this state.”

Fuck.

@1lukeaf.bsky.social WTF?!? These people are fuckin nuts. lf two people distrust each other that much, then that’s not a healthy marriage. At all. He can’t even be alone with his mother?!?!

We do as well. But the President doesn’t think the rules apply to him. And Congress won’t do anything to stop him, so all we have are the courts.

So great. What Trump is doing to the White House is incredibly illegal and wrong, and it needs to stop.

Goal here should be to force him to restore the East Wing not build a gilded ballroom.

Dexter sitting holding his Birds of the Great Lakes book at table with a wall of Bird feeders behind him with red table cloth with stacks of books on each side. A sign with the event details.

Book signing event today at my local Wild Birds Unlimited store in Middleton. Here until 3 PM! 🫶🏾

A ring of light around Earth, with a bright spot of light at lower right as the Sun peaks out from just behind our planet.

A total solar eclipse.

By Earth.

Taken from the Moon in March this year.

Is the humble pigeon a mascot for our time? All of a sudden, my social media feed has been taken over by pigeons, writes Tove Danovich. It was enough to make me look more closely at these birds and what I found delighted me.

Essay: Pigeons care for their young, writes Tove Danovich. They purr when they’re happy. They like to cuddle. They can be potty-trained.

Most of all, they’re survivors — something people can relate to.

Almost 20 of my mutuals follow @thefireorg.bsky.social. I don’t want to tag every one of them, but I do hope some of them see this. Also, it’s interesting to note that several major accounts who were defending this professor a few days ago follow @thefireorg.bsky.social as well.

It’s been 9 days since @assignedmedia.org asked @thefireorg.bsky.social whether it would defend a trans OU instructor targeted by Turning Point USA in a highly orchestrated media attack. She was suspended for doing her job. In its silence FIRE turns its back on a founding principle: academic freedom

On the 11th day of Christmas my true love gave to me: 11 pipers piping, 10 lords-a-leaping, 9 ladies dancing, 8 maids-a-milking, 7 swans-a-swimming, 6 geese-a-laying, 5 GOLD RINGS, 4 calling birds, 3 French hens, 2 turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. 38 people watched me devour 23 birds.

@skywatch.blue this account is definitely a bot, so I fully understand how it came to be labeled as “Suspected of Inauthentic Behavior.” I truly appreciate the function of this particular labeler but I was wondering if an admitted bot account like this one could be exempted.

uh oh

In this north-facing view, the Battleship is in the center, and Havasupai Gardens (formerly known as Indian Garden) is visible - lower right, 3000 feet (915 m) below. Kolb Studio was the family home and photography studio of the Kolb Brothers, pioneer photographers at Grand Canyon. Verify that the time and date of the picture is current (upper left in image) Camera is hosted by Grand Canyon Conservancy. The image updates every minute.

Live View From Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon National Park


#NPS #NationalParkService #GrandCanyon

"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"

This, this a point

Replenishing sapped groundwater could trigger small earthquakes A boom in aquifer injection projects could unlock long-quiet faults

Managed Aquifer Recharge could be a solution in areas with over-extraction of groundwater resources to avoid ground subsidence or saltwater infiltration. However, forced injection of water in an aquifer also increases the risk of injection-induced seismicity.

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fucking howl it from the rafters