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@watersheds.ca?

I’m working on a project in SK, and I need someone that knows more than I do to validate a thesis and methodology.

Happy to share if anyone would like a quick read, just DM.

@cyanotrans.bsky.social?

Thank you!

Does anyone in my circles happen to know a cyanobacteria specialist in Canada I could visit with?

If life gets boring, fall in love.

Can Canada build its own social network? | BetaKit Gander CEO Ben Waldman explains his vision for sovereign social media.

.@gandersocial.bsky.social CEO Ben Waldman set out to build a Canadian social network to counter what he sees as the current platforms' "apathy toward their users."

Will he succeed?

He lays out his plan on The BetaKit Podcast. Listen now:

A reminder that America has a history of this stuff. Two of the six were friends of mine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphon...

It fundamentally shapes you as a person growing up knowing you are in a country that values your wellbeing vs. makes you dog fight for it . It’s not because we’re weak or silly or not “hard enough.” It’s because health is wealth.

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "don't forget to be a fuckin' human being"

YouTube video by Rawnboy RON SINGS "TAKE THIS LONGING" WRITTEN BY LEONARD COHEN

Some Leonard Cohen music for your Sunday RS

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Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

Thank you :)

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — messages Her last interviews are essential listening for everyone.

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — messages www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/n...

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit - Carbon Brief On the sidelines of a conference, Carbon Brief asked a range of experts what they consider to be the key “unknowns” around overshoot.

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit www.carbonbrief.org/experts-the-...

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

"Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time
FOR DEVIN THOMAS O’SHEA, THIS IS PYNCHON’S USA AND WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT"

lithub.com/thomas-pynch...

Ocean heating is - literally - off the chart.

We only get to do this to our planet once - front row seats to the greatest fuck-up in the history of our species; brought to us by decades of corporate greed, political corruption & public apathy, & paid for by the futures of children we claim to love.

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It's social terrorism.

The Log Driver's Waltz with Aaron Reynolds: Deep Thoughts About Canadian Masculinity, Quirky Comedy, and Keeping Animation Weird | Guy Girls Media Get more from Guy Girls Media on Patreon

I had a chat with Tracie and Emily of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit about one of my formative inspirations: The Log Driver's Waltz. It went places that I did not expect. Find it wherever you get podcasts, or on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/log-dr...

Two homes for sale side by side.

One is a brand new code-minimum for sale at $800k, and it's worth less than $500k.

The other is a brand new Passive House certified, climate-secure home for sale at $400k, worth over $500k.

Which would you buy?

Liveable Homes At-Cost, Climate-Secure Housing for Canada Canada’s housing market is not suffering from a shortage of materials or land. It suffers from a shortage of integrity in the way homes are conceived, finan...

You pay for developers’ profits, not for a home.

Passive House, fixed price, six-month delivery, under $500,000.

We build at cost; profit only on resale — comfort, low bills, real equity.

proconsul.ghost.io/liveable-hom...

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I live in rural east central AB where it's not creeping anti-vaccine rhetoric, it's galloping. And actively encouraged by the govt's decision to make the covid vax more expensive/harder to get, and apparently requiring signup even for the flu vaccine. A sad and dangerous disavowal of public health.

For Americans in the back: Canadians are a peaceful cool people who would prefer not to worry about you or boycott you or resist you but MAGA and threats to our country force us to. We will stop giving you our money, our tourism and our respect until you stop this fascist regime.

Without trying to be alarmist, I think there's enough evidence to suggest that the United States government does, in fact, want a civil war. 😕 This is a weird thing to watch from Canada; I can't imagine what it must be like to live it.

A gentle warning from Carl Sagan

YouTube video by ValerieJuneVEVO Valerie June - Endless Tree

A better world is possible, fam. Believe it. Bring it into reality. We all deserve more. We all deserve to feel safe & free. To be fed & housed. To be loved & valued. Wellbeing is our sovereign right. Love each other hard & fiercely.

We're one & the truth shall set us free.

✊💖

#StrongerTogether

And exhausting. We make things so hard for ourselves over here. It doesn't have to be an uphill slog all the time, everywhere, for everything.

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Wait. So Alberta’s federal income taxes don’t belong to Canada but BC’s coastline belongs to Alberta?

What in the When It Suits Us kind of Trumpian thought pretzel is this now?

And I thought in the '90's that things were going to be ok.