Heather Legarde

So cool. They have them in Dinosaur Provincial Park if you walk around at night with a black light.

The frequency of ads for online and in-person gambling is shocking
I've been wondering about the real world consequences.
How do people who have a gambling addiction resist gambling on their phone?
People must be losing their shirts
If we had a any real media they might do a story on it

Even before reading your actual text, I was looking at the photo thinking “Wow! That is incredible hair!”

Yes. Please. So many professionals that we encounter make me out to be a terrible parent bc I have not and will not let my child endure this particular “therapy”. You can tell they’re parroting books without ever learning from those with lived experience.

Classroom Conflicts: An Autistic Student’s Classroom Challenges For autistic students, whose sensory sensitivities, communication styles, and learning requirements differ from those of their neurotypical peers, the mainstream classroom can be an overwhelming envir...

"I was commonly accused of making mountains out of molehills.

I could not let go of common injustices.

They bit into my flesh and got under my skin."

"When you defend someone else's human rights, you're also defending your own."

Cover of Thursday’s issue which I wrote the cover story for about Gisèle Pelicot as person of the year 2024

On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault
It is my proudest writing.
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...

Carnivorous sundews (Drosera rotundifolia) are more carnivorous in high‐light bog microhabitats that are not also nutrient‐rich Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

New paper out today with Chris Hatcher in @funecology.bsky.social

Sundews change how carnivorous they are depending on microhabitat variation.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another worker’s livable wage doesn’t get taken out of our pockets; there is an artificially small pot from which we’re all drawing wages because a select few are making more money from our work than we’d ever be able to spend. All workers should all be doing better

A photo of a bead embroidery. The subject is Egyptian Horus in hawk form - in the classic wings spread in a circle above his head pose, inspired by the ancient artifact. Horus is made from matte translucent glass beads in brown, ochre, pale yellow, and white, with a few opaque gloss black beads outlining and accenting some feather shapes. In Horus’ talons, he holds lotus buds and mirrored copped disks. The lotuses are matte translucent purple with hot pink tips and pale green stems. Horus’ eye is a larger iridescent red bead set in a pearlescent black disk bead. The background is in mirrored beads, cobalt blue at the edges of the square, creating a gradient through shades of blue to silver behind Horus’ head.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 is for something different.

I have made only a few beaded embroideries, and this one is my favorite. Horus in hawk form, a gift for a loved one who appreciates all things Egyptian.

Horus
9"X9"
Glass beads on cotton

#beadwork

He had a paper route which, according to his commercials, is one of his major selling points. 🫠

They should invent a year that you can make it through without feeling like it's trying to kill you.

Is that like aids, except from covid instead of hiv?

bison run out of the picture. The grassland landscape in the background

Several years ago bison were re-introduced to the southern grasslands of Saskatchewan. This was the first time wild bison roamed freely on the prairie since likel the 19c. Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar celebrates that achievement. #Canadianart #acryliconcanvas #wildlife

In your experience, is there anything that has been or would have been helpful? My audhd teen really struggles with this and I haven’t figured out an effective way to support him in it.

A big white dog sleeps on a couch. A bearded dragon sleeps on the dog.

This is Bob The Dog. He is a walking anxiety disorder with a varied and hilarious list of phobias (pigeons, wind, Canadian Tire, the “f” word, many more…). Our dragon is Irwin, named after Steve Irwin. He likes to eat, but only if you put his food in his mouth for him because he is one lazy lizard.

There is too much parachuting in for lived experience and then not engaging any further. Progress reports, updates, and evidence of how survivors' experiences and expertise are being used is essential. (2/2)

#16Days #EndVAWG

Yes.

Hoooooo boy, is this ever a whole lot of truth.

Governments could meaningfully address income inequality, but they’re busy gifting everyone half of a PlayStation instead. 🙃

This time of year amplifies all that so much. I wish that for you, too. Sometimes life is stupid. ❤️

Beaded fringe earrings with wavy stripes of different blues, hopefully somewhat mimicking geode slices.

Having a fun day making gifts for friends. First up: geode earrings. Which will, obviously, be wrapped with geodes. Because you’re never to old to collect rocks. #artadventcalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar day 9 #flowers #Sunflowers #photography

#ArtAdventCalendar day 9 #flowers #Sunflowers #photography

I am so, so sorry for how much abuse and harassment you go through just for being smart, female, and speaking truth. You’re incredibly brave, but this crap has to take a toll. ❤️

I heard so many enthusiastic proclamations about the deliciousness of kale chips that I decided to make some. Biggest disappointment of my life, and I have an ex husband.

Arts don’t just decorate knowledge, they deepen it Former poet laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh on funding cuts to arts and social sciences ... "Some discoveries shake the earth. While others whisper of their worth"

“Here’s what’s at stake: when we cut arts funding, we don’t just lose poems and paintings. We lose ways of knowing, understanding, communicating. We lose tools for building empathy, fostering innovation, creating change.”

newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/09/a...

A watercolor painting of a cutesy wootsy little owl with huge green eyes wearing a Santa hat perched on a branch.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#paintingwithfriends
#watercolor
#birds
#nature
#christmas
#bskyart

I would like my country to be far less selective about it's calls for international justice.

Those are so cute! Love it! 11/10 would meet up and do crafts with you any day.