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Kat Tancock

@kattancock.bsky.social

Writer, reader, editor, Russian > English translator. Gardener + crafter. Syilx + Secwépemc territory, British Columbia. kattancock.com

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I use Canada Post to ship out my prints. Its crucial for my business. Canada Post staff are fantastic when I go in to ship stuff out. Corner store depots are a NIGHTMARE for small businesses. Try going in with 30 packages while people are buying lotto. UPS and Fed Ex triple my costs.

07.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 54    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

Good read here.

Solar panels are cheap today everywhere because Germany's government created a 100,000-solar-roof program to build a pro-renewable constituency, creating the political capital for the wider subsidies that made the German industry boom and then get exported to China and made cheap

02.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 44    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 2
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Residential schools still exist in our world today. This is the lesson Canadians can draw from that disturbing truth Canadians think about residential schools as if they were a creature of the past, an ancient moral failing from which we have since evolved. But around the world new residential

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

30.09.2025 15:12 — 👍 46    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 5
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

29.09.2025 20:19 — 👍 135    🔁 35    💬 0    📌 5

feels to me like he’s trying the doug ford playbook. but BC doesn’t have the same anti-big-city sentiment imo

27.09.2025 00:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My driver's license comes in the mail. My health card comes in the mail. My notifications about mammograms and other imaging come by mail! Some of my income comes by mail. What if we just, I dunno, used TAXES to pay for this SERVICE?

25.09.2025 22:42 — 👍 71    🔁 19    💬 5    📌 2

@zoeyunker.bsky.social with a scoop on LNG Canada operations in Kitimat. #bcpoli

24.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

as a person who dislikes flax seeds I endorse chia as an alternative

23.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

have you tried ending fascism and halting climate change?

23.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

have you tried gentle exercise, reducing stress or changing your genes

23.09.2025 16:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

ooh so fancy, I tend to use pumpkinseeds these days. you’re reminding me I’m due to make another batch

21.09.2025 02:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The muralist whose art is a conversation with nature Cole Swanson turns to rocks, dirt and lichen to make murals that highlight what often goes unnoticed.

“Painting the wall brought attention to it,” says Swanson. “It got people to ask questions and to marvel over the incredible beauty of this micro universe, which we often don’t even notice.”

www.rewildingmag.com/the-muralist...

20.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

06.09.2025 06:31 — 👍 11887    🔁 9814    💬 225    📌 741

corporations fund guys like Kirk to not only spread bullshit, but to keep the plebs fighting amongst themselves, making informed consensus and reform harder to come by.

I enjoy when writers center on this fact.

18.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 137    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 0
A Vancouver Island marmot, Joey to be specific, confidently bleps our photographer Adam Taylor. Joey shares his white nose and chest patch chocolate coloured fur and joy of blepping with other Vancouver Island marmots.

A Vancouver Island marmot, Joey to be specific, confidently bleps our photographer Adam Taylor. Joey shares his white nose and chest patch chocolate coloured fur and joy of blepping with other Vancouver Island marmots.

New life goal: to be blepped by the world’s rarest mammals. First up – the Vancouver Island marmot. A photo essay.

15.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 52    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
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From barren to bountiful: How a village in Maharashtra reclaimed its forests and its future After decades of struggle, the Indigenous community of Pachgaon in Maharashtra transformed a degraded forest into a thriving ecosystem – proving that rewilding can be both ecological and equitable.

“You can feel the difference,” says Sachin, Rupesh’s younger brother and a student of rural management. “Earlier, people had to migrate. Now, we work six months in the forest and spend the rest on farming or enjoying festivals. There is a rhythm to life again.”

www.rewildingmag.com/from-barren-...

12.09.2025 20:22 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How to plan for old age when you don’t have kids - MoneySense More and more Canadians are entering their golden years without grown children to help out should they lose their faculties. Here’s how you can prepare for advanced age in the absence of offspring to ...

I wrote about some important steps to take pre-retirement - especially if you don't have kids - for MoneySense:

www.moneysense.ca/save/retirem...

12.09.2025 20:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our cars tend to show both and many of us have driven in the States so I'd say lots of us are somewhat bilingual in that way, though personally I have to think about it a bit

12.09.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

as a Canadian I was perturbed when I discovered Brits use miles. Their idiosyncratic imperial/metric hodgepodge is quite distinct from ours! Though we are all on board with Celsius

12.09.2025 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

times new roman!!!

08.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Russia Faces Declining Numbers of Schoolchildren. What Did the Kremlin Expect? - The Moscow Times Opinion | The most horrifying story I have ever heard is that of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who first lured all the rats out of the city by playing his magic pipe.

#OpEd The past decade saw a growing number of targeted groups created in Russia. Of course that made having children unappealing, writes Valery Panyushkin.

08.09.2025 15:24 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 1

Except this savings flows to the 90%, while the 10% and especially the super-rich will take a tremendous hit in stranded assets.

In other words, climate change is a class war.

07.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 140    🔁 56    💬 2    📌 6
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Russian dissidents in ICE custody warn of deportation back to Russia unless Canada intervenes ICE has already sent at least 80 people back to Russia this summer. Activists say a third mass-deportation flight is expected in the coming weeks

Russian dissidents denied asylum in the U.S. fear deportation back into the arms of Putin’s security services - unless Canada intervenes.

“I hope that Canada will accept us, because all the world is going crazy and I hope that Canada won’t be.”

My report

07.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 34    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 1

An #ElectricVehicle mandate helps create a more affordable future for Canadians.

Requiring automakers to supply more EVs drives down costs through scale, ensures greater consumer choice and provides the policy certainty needed for industry to invest in tech & infrastructure. 1/3

05.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

too hard to build extensive roads on much of the terrain 😂

05.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We need your help An urgent appeal from the Meduza team — Meduza Dear Meduza in English readers,

Dear readers, we urgently need your help.
Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you.
Please, read our full statement here:
meduza.io/en/feature/2...

02.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 33    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 4

skipped my morning walk today because of the smoke :(

04.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How To Prepare For A Smokier Future - Chatelaine Forest fires aren’t going away anytime soon. Here’s how to protect yourself and your family from the harmful effects of wildfire smoke.

"In short: You really don’t want to be breathing wildfire smoke if you can avoid it. And that goes double if you’re in a high-risk group, which includes the very young, seniors and people who spend a lot of time outdoors, those who are pregnant..."

chatelaine.com/environment/...

03.09.2025 22:56 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

thank you!

04.09.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new film shines a spotlight on the white-tailed eagle Thanks to 50 years of dedicated effort, the UK’s largest bird of prey is a rewilding success story.

Dedicated groups and individuals have been working hard for 50 years to reintroduce the species – a successful endeavour resulting in a current status of more than 200 breeding pairs in Scotland alone.

www.rewildingmag.com/a-new-film-s...

02.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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