Sheri Osden Nault

I’ll definitely share my contact info for mastodon or whatever our next hope for a Twitter equivalent is, once such an account exists !

Thank you for so thoroughly catching me up! Learning how to use mastodon can move higher up my to-do list, it seems.

Haven’t logged in here forever. How are we feeling about bluesky these days? Is it sold out and evil yet? Is trying to be present here worthwhile?

Collage of photos include artist, carving, hidetanning, beadwork and weaving done by Adele Arseneau

Tan’si friends, An intro:
I’m a Cree and Métis artist, educator, speaker, and cultural worker rooted in land, story, and ancestral knowledge.
My art practice lives in beadwork, hide tanning, textiles, painting, and public talks-holding space for difficult truths, joy, and cultural resurgence. Tawaw!

Alberta, Ontario don't want feds to reintroduce First Nations safe drinking water law Environment ministers in Alberta and Ontario don't want the federal government to reintroduce the safe drinking water law for First Nations.

The Alberta and Ontario environment ministers sent a letter to the federal government, asking it to 'refrain' from reintroducing Bill C-61/

Hispanic journalist in Atlanta detained by ICE speaks out Mario Guevara tells the AJC about his month behind bars, and his once positive feelings toward Donald Trump.

“I’m plainly convinced that my situation in this ICE jail is direct retaliation for my coverage,” Mario Guevara told @ajc.com in an exclusive interview from the Folkston, Georgia ICE detention center where he is currently detained, despite a judge's bail order. “I haven’t committed any crimes.”

Omg!! 😍

"[D]on't lose hope. That's when we lose."

Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice) - UNICORN RIOT Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 MN legislative session in attempts to create legal protections for wild rice.

Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)

Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 legislative session in an attempt to create legal protections for wild rice.

unicornriot.ninja/2025/pressur...

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After Axing the Word "Transgender," Stonewall Monument Website Quietly Cuts "Bisexual" Too Erin Reed reports the “.gov” removed several mentions of bisexuality in favor of “gays and lesbians" or “the Stonewall community.”

Monosexuals only

www.them.us/story/stonew...

We stand in solidarity with communities in Las Naves, Ecuador facing violent repression.

Since last month, they have been blocking access to the Domo Curipamba project by 🇨🇦Silvercorp Metals Inc and Salazar Resources

📸 Frente Nacional Antiminero

Idle No More 2.0 will be ‘fierce’ if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5 First Nation leaders say new Ontario law lets developers avoid consultation

Northern Ontario First Nation leaders are vowing 'Idle No More 2.0' if Doug Ford moves ahead with Bill 5.

"They’re just making things up on the fly... it's too late in the process to fix this."

NEW from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/indigenous/i...

#onpoli #indigenous #IdleNoMore

I use -ai at the end of my searches on Google but it is starting to not always work :(

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

The thing that I am not always good about saying but want people to remember is that whatever you help ChatGPT learn how to do, OpenAI et al are selling to the military as a weapon

That by itself should be an argument for not helping them train *anything*

Special reminder that N95 masks can be used when smoke impacts air quality AND when wanting to avoid airborne illness.

Musk has experienced multiple slights lately (from his perspective) at the hands of the administration, so I don't know how this will end up. But the guy struck a Nazi pose and made cuts that will kill millions. He should never know peace. He should only know scorn and blowback forever.

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Reposting to read later.

Also: surprised substack is still so pervasive given their overt willingness to platform white supremacists

Two pink lily’s in a small green glass vase, on a wooden windowsill. Dried flowers sit on the sill around them, a lilac tree blooms in the yard behind them.

I don’t want the passage of time. I don’t want the future. I don’t want this reality, in which you’re gone. I don’t want the last two flowers from your celebration of life to wilt. Words fall so short. #personal #grieving

I taught functionally illiterate undergrads at an R1 university 15+ years ago.

Tech/LLMs made it much worse very fast, but this did not start with ChatGPT.

This started with standardized testing. It started with high school budgets being slashed. It started with colleges turning into summer camps.

The thing about the birth rate is that there are over eight billion people in the world. That’s actually too many humans. We have a resource crisis.

Every single one of the birth rate worriers is talking about a race war. That is the entire thing. They are worried about dominance in a race war.

People try and act like racism doesn't exist in Canada when there's questions like this in the federal leadership debate

Human-Nature Relationships: Navigating a Privileged White Landscape It can be tempting to think of experiences in ‘nature’, and building ‘human-nature’ relationships, as relatively politically neutral, or even straightforwardly beneficial. In t...

“…outdoor and environmental educators need to remain ever vigilant of the political ramifications of the knowledges of ‘nature’ which inform their pedagogies.” 🙌🏽 #academicsky #higherEd #environmentaljustice #socialecology

Call for papers, due end of April. Queer ecology and the Temporal Imagination

#academicsky

For future reference

Love this simple advice

“Internet of nature” helps researchers explore the web of life A new paper highlights information exchange between species as essential for understanding ecosystem stability in an era of global change.

🌍 Discover the 'Internet of Nature' 🌿

A novel study led by Ulrich Brose (@idiv-research.bsky.social & @uni-jena.de) reveals the hidden networks of information exchange within ecosystems.✨ Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution (@natureecoevo.bsky.social) #iDivResearch

www.idiv.de/internet-nat...