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Kat Tancock

@kattancock.bsky.social

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

82 Followers  |  218 Following  |  28 Posts  |  Joined: 07.07.2023  |  2.1597

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Wild farming benefits crops – and ecosystems too How farmers are inviting nature onto their land to help restore the connections between cultivated and wild lands – and become stewards of biodiversity.

“Rewilding farms and forming symbiotic relationships with the natural world is easier than fighting or trying to control it.”

www.rewildingmag.com/wild-farming...

10.08.2025 23:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

that might be the existential dread

08.08.2025 20:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Uncensored version with Samuel L. Jackson - A taste of fossil freedom
YouTube video by Vattenfall Uncensored version with Samuel L. Jackson - A taste of fossil freedom

Another thing I did not have on my 2025 bingo card:

Samuel L. Jackson stars in an unapologetically anti-fossil fuel commercial for seaweed snacks grown on offshore wind farms

08.08.2025 17:42 — 👍 375    🔁 92    💬 6    📌 9
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Want to support pollinators beyond your yard? Here’s how to do it A pollinator corridor can bring butterflies, bees and neighbourhoods together. Here’s how to get one started in your community.

To find out how to amplify your impact beyond your own front yard – no matter where in the world you live – we spoke with three seasoned @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social Butterflyway Rangers. Here they share their tips on growing #gardens and community, at any scale.

www.rewildingmag.com/want-to-supp...

02.08.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

just for fun I like to think of it as demonstrsting nature’s superiority over colonialist power

31.07.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

31.07.2025 19:04 — 👍 1000    🔁 391    💬 14    📌 22

true, Endling is fantastic

29.07.2025 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just got this weird feeling the flag is going to win which makes sense on a semantic level

24.07.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

nanaimo bars havevto be homemade or from a really good bakery, otherwise they’re made from cheap ingredients

23.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A young protester in Kyiv sums up the feelings behind the backlash well: “This (law) undermines the very reason Ukraine continues to fight — because we’re supposed to be a young democracy standing up to an old autocracy. But now we’re starting to look more and more alike.”

23.07.2025 02:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol: Round 2 — Nature | CBC News For a province so synonymous with trees, and with so many people who love all they provide, it's ironic that the two species British Columbians might love the most carry with them a hint of false adve...

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22.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 61    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 3

Come on people, what does a jay have on a marmot? Let’s do the right thing.

21.07.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Our yard is now teeming with life” How one Australian homeowner is transforming her standard-issue suburban yard into habitat for birds, insects, lizards and more.

"We’re not going to save the world with one backyard. But every #garden that supports wildlife, and every person who chooses #habitat over (or in addition to) aesthetics, adds to a growing shift."

#rewilding #pollinators #wildlife #gardening

www.rewildingmag.com/our-yard-is-...

17.07.2025 23:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Let’s keep the lighthouse on Supporting Meduza from inside Russia is impossible. Our readers there are counting on you. — Meduza We recently invited readers from Russia to share what Meduza means to them and asked those living abroad to help support our work through donations. We’ve spent years explaining why this assistance…

Meduza has collected letters from our readers in Russia, where it's illegal to donate to support our newsroom, appealing to you, our international audience, to help sustain their access to reliable news and information.

meduza.io/en/feature/2...

17.07.2025 17:11 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

not too earnest! and proven by data! our coddled pets have terrible survival instincts

17.07.2025 02:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, the skytrain doesn’t even represent the whole coast, let alone the province…

16.07.2025 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You are all owners of Canada. Please accept this invitation from our government to provide your input on our budget.

15.07.2025 16:53 — 👍 70    🔁 44    💬 10    📌 2
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Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol: Round 1 — Nature | CBC News From trees to mountains, rivers to fruits, the unique natural aspects of British Columbia have long been powerful symbols of this province. But which one is the best?

BRACKET BRACKET BRACKET

It's time for the NATURE round of the Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol!

PEACHES. CHERRIES. TREES. FEEL THE EXCITEMENT.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

15.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 48    🔁 21    💬 12    📌 9

marmot all the way to the top!

15.07.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

no choice really

15.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ok but how many books in are you?

15.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thursdays on the Stoop: Getting Started in Literary Translation — Blue Stoop Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual writing workshops led for and by our community members. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal workshops ...

Doing a free, online event this week with fellow Philly-based literary translators through Blue Stoop! Come see my brilliant friends + me as Stoop Kid

14.07.2025 19:47 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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"“We’re not just competing against large-scale publications and AI slop, we are competing against the entire rest of the internet. We were publishing articles and AI was scraping and republishing them within five minutes of us publishing them,” I said. “So many publications are leaning into ‘how can we use AI to be more efficient to publish more,’ and it’s not going to work. It’s not going to work because you’re competing against a child in Romania, a child in Bangladesh who is publishing 9,000 articles a day and they don’t care about facts, they don’t care about accuracy, but in an SEO algorithm it’s going to perform and that’s what you’re competing against. You have to compete on quality at this point and you have to find a real human being audience and you need to speak to them directly and treat them as though they are intelligent and not as though you are trying to feed them as much slop as possible.”

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Screenshot reading: "“We’re not just competing against large-scale publications and AI slop, we are competing against the entire rest of the internet. We were publishing articles and AI was scraping and republishing them within five minutes of us publishing them,” I said. “So many publications are leaning into ‘how can we use AI to be more efficient to publish more,’ and it’s not going to work. It’s not going to work because you’re competing against a child in Romania, a child in Bangladesh who is publishing 9,000 articles a day and they don’t care about facts, they don’t care about accuracy, but in an SEO algorithm it’s going to perform and that’s what you’re competing against. You have to compete on quality at this point and you have to find a real human being audience and you need to speak to them directly and treat them as though they are intelligent and not as though you are trying to feed them as much slop as possible.” The final sentence is highlighted

this is the way

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by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

14.07.2025 15:46 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

also, blows my mind how many Brits continue to miss the part where heat pumps both heat and cool

13.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Important chickadee content from the garden today:

13.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Insects are dying: here are 25 easy and effective ways you can help protect them From turning out the lights to letting leaves rot, these small steps can create big changes at home or in the wild

"In creating better habitats for insects, you can also reap the benefits: thriving gardens, more songbirds, and a healthier web of life."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

11.07.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Obituary information for Sheila Colla View Sheila Colla's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

The conservation science community lost an amazing soul--Dr. Sheila Colla, the leading expert on wild bees and wild-domestic bee interactions in North America. Sheila was a tremendous advocate for nature and environmental justice. 🧪
www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/S...

10.07.2025 18:45 — 👍 240    🔁 48    💬 6    📌 1
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In the shadow of kiʔláwnaʔ’s housing boom, fragile ecosystems depend on those fighting to save them As urban sprawl threatens the Okanagan’s rare grasslands, a proposed wildlife corridor offers a glimmer of hope

In the shadow of kiʔláwnaʔ’s housing boom, fragile ecosystems depend on those fighting to save them
"People need to really start thinking about the future of their grandkids, their great grandkids."
Story by @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social co-pub with @thenarwhal.ca

indiginews.com/features/in-...

10.07.2025 16:47 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Naoise Dolan | Take these yokes An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, too....

‘Kneecap’s lyrics illustrate the reality that a cloying approach to the language would have us forget: in the Gaeltacht and for tens of thousands elsewhere in the country, Irish is not a museum piece but a normal means of daily communication.’

@naoisedolan.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

10.07.2025 16:50 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

congratulations!

09.07.2025 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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