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Food Dive Hare Unlocked for Wild Green Memes For Ecological Fiends www.facebook.com/groups/WildG...

HareLoom Dinesty’s Hare-e Hare remembers the Lore dropped by Harriet Hare in his last encounter with “Putchamin” and waited…

Join and Vote for the HareLoom Dinesty in the Wild Green Memes Charity Battle! www.facebook.com/groups/WildG...

Food Dive Hare unlocked for use in the comment section

The Curious Hare with Regrets and custom puckered face 😖

Here are the hare templates if you want to join the fun!

#HareLoomDinesty with Putchamin Templates of these hares available in the comments to create your own HareLoom Memes for the WGMFEF Charity Battle! _______________________________________ Join The HareLoom DINEsty gang for a Hare Brained Journey on Wild Foods! ✅We like to meme about: ✅Feral Heirloom Foods ✅Native Plants our Domestic Food came from ✅Identifying Wild native food* ✅Tips and Tricks for enjoying Feral and Wild foods ✅Weird Ass History of these foods - often does involve butt stuff ❌No Myco Mob, Fungi but we don't want to hurt the Unqualified Team ❌ No food that has a toxic look alike, unless it is Lore of what not to do = Weird Ass History / a WGMEF version of Horrible Histories Hares depicted may be enjoying a particular wild edible, but we don't talk about that... *Seriously though, can't safely give wild mushroom food tips as memes! Myco Mob will kill you! IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A color saturated meadow with two hares in the foreground and text that reads,"We are the HARELOOM DINESTY, Together We Weave Wild Food Lore." "Eat Sunchokes to ensure the office meeting ends early"

This is the first of three panels Image Description: A Persimmon Tree in the background in leaf with fruit. in the Foreground are two hares. The first Hare asks, "What is this weird fruit?" the second hare responds,"Persimmon". The first hare then states, 'Aren't those from Asia?"

This is the second of three panels Image Description: A Persimmon Tree in the background in leaf with fruit. In the Foreground are two hares, above their heads is a framed image of two cartoon Tanuki eating persimmons on the ground. The second hare answers, "Most people first encounter persimmons in Asian food or films, such as seeing these Tanuki eating them in the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko. American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) are smaller and sweeter"

Image Description: A Persimmon Tree in the background in leaf with fruit. in the Foreground are two hares. The first hare has an exaggerated puckered face as they spit out the persimmon yelling "PEH" The second hare continues, "But they are also more astringent before they are ripe which only happens after they experience frost. Persimmon is derived from the Algonquian word "Putchamin", meaning "Dry Fruit" because they are so Astringent."

Here is my new #WildFood #meme #comic series that is for the #WildGreenMemesForEcologicalFiends FB group charity battle. #HareLoomDINEsty with #Putchamin #Persimmon #AmericanPersimmon

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#Ecology #Wildlife #Hare #Forage #Native #Rewild #Funny #Educational #Food /|\

Update on ICE facility speculation

Helpful AP roundup on the state of play with Trump's effort to build himself huge new black-site prison camps all over the country...

www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/i...

Points to another one apparently blocked in the town of Merrillville, Indiana:

www.merrillville.in.gov/news_detail_...

Shipwrecks, Sham Papers and False Flags: Tracking the Company Behind It All - bellingcat A shipwreck in India, an ammunition seizure in Senegal, and a raid on an oil tanker in Malaysia - all involving one recurring figure: Captain Suniel Sharma.

@Bellingcat.com’s latest report on false flag registries linked to Suniel Sharma references our collaboration with @FinancialTimes.com — tracing how these networks enable sanctioned vessels to sail without accountability.

Read more 👇
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#sunielsharma #falseflags #osint #oiltanker #oil

From War Zones to Minneapolis, ‘Civilian Self-Protection’ Proves Its Value Many tactics used in Minneapolis are akin to civilian efforts to protect each other from human rights violations in wars or highly repressive situations.

Many tactics used in Minneapolis are akin to civilian efforts to protect each other from human rights violations in wars or highly repressive situations, @betcy.bsky.social and @charlicarpenter.bsky.social and write.

Canada will hike military aid to Ukraine by $2B New sanctions will target Russian oil vessels and list 51 more individuals and entities, mainly in the energy sector.

Canada will hike military aid to Ukraine by $2B

What's the income brackets of each? I am sure it would be telling, and likely unsurprising.

GIJN and iMEdD’s educational pillar, Ideas Zone, are coming together again to offer a unique, 10-week program designed specifically for journalists and reporters with little or no experience in investigative journalism.
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Do Humans Really Understand the World’s Disorderly Rivers? In James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we have any control over the Earth’s depleted watershed.

Our cartographic representations of rivers—blue lines cutting across brown land—are both hopelessly oversimplified and inevitably out of date.
https://bit.ly/3MYGrcY

BEV owner satisfaction hits record high despite slowing EV demand, says JD Power Nearly all BEV owners surveyed (96%) indicated they would consider leasing another BEV for their next car (3 min. read)

🔌🇺🇸✅ EV satisfaction in the U.S. is now at a record high, according to a new J.D. Power study. It finds that 96% of current #EV owners would consider another all-electric vehicle for their next car.

Image is a Winter Forest Scene overlaid with the following text, Do not shelter from and avoid things that challenge your beliefs. The goal in belief should not be the ability to hold on tightly, preserving and never letting your beliefs change; but to forge your beliefs, hammer out the impurities that are not worthy of belief, and wield only what is found to be true. Rua Lupa

Thoughts I had on reading stories of youths sheltered in Christian indoctrination, and remembering my own upbringing in the same sheltered belief system.

If I could tell them - these youths, the parents, and my younger self - one thing, it would be this.

Make your beliefs worthy of your belief.

A star-filled night sky above Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, framed by the dark silhouettes of tall pine trees along the edges of the image.

Dark skies over Bandelier National Monument, framed by pine silhouettes.

We traveled to New Mexico searching for darker skies, and this quiet canopy of stars made the trip worthwhile.

There’s always another story waiting to be seen.

#Photography #Astrophotography #DarkSkies #ScottKissPhoto

Two hares in a color saturated rippled meadow staring at a Wild Mustard Plant in the foreground. behind the hares are Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, Kohlrabi, Turnip, Broccoli, and Kale. The text reads, "its all mustard man" This is referring to how all the plants were bred from wild mustard that selected for different features: Cabbage for the terminal Buds, Brussel sprouts for the lateral buds, Cauliflower for the flower clusters, Broccoli for the stem and flower buds Kohlrabi for the stem, Kale for the leaves, and Turnips for the roots.

My idea for a Wild Green Memes For Ecological Fiends charity battle gang - HareLoom Dinesty
Tripped out hares "weave lore" of the origins of domestic foods, feral heirloom foods, and wild edibles, while on a wild edible... #Wildfood #NatureMeme #EcologyMeme #NatureHumor #WildlifeHumor #Wildlife /|\

This was lost in the thread and wanted to bring it up in view to share some fun related lore that inspired the Winter Warden #SnowSculpture in the last image. /|\

Click the images to read their lore in the alt text!

Follow the thread to learn more about Snowy Owls and Caribou! #Snowman #Winter

YouTube video by The Breach Toronto Police scandal reveals: Your personal info is not safe with the cops

A police corruption scandal in Toronto once again raises the concern of cops’ access to our personal information.

From street checks to stalking, @desmondcole.bsky.social Cole looks back on how personal data in police hands is ripe for abuse. youtu.be/gJ2gbh3IUkE

A powerful decentralized campaign forced Scotiabank to divest from Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems.

@desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

Doug Ford is out of touch with the challenges that students and new grads are facing like a record high youth unemployment rate and the worst housing crisis in Ontario’s history.

Ford needs to drop the avocado toast rhetoric.

Another Conservative MP, Matt Jeneroux, has crossed the floor to join Mark Carney's Liberal Party.

This is a very good day for the Liberals -- and a very bad one for Pierre Poilievre, who has several MPs giving him a headache these days.

Here's what all this means:

More fun facts about Caribou,

Here are some details on the native wildlife that were part of this design,

Cailleach is a divine hag, associated with the creation of the landscape and with the weather, especially storms and winter. The word literally means 'old woman, hag', and is found with this meaning in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and has been applied to numerous mythological and folkloric figures in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man.

Macha, also known as the Owl Witch, is the main antagonist of the 2014 animated Irish film Song of the Sea. She is based on the goddess Macha of Irish mythology. Macha is a witch who waged war against the fairies (or the Daoine Sidhe) and other mystical beings of Ireland by turning them into stone. She sends her owls to capture her victims and take their feelings back to her. Her house is full of creatures and people turned to stone, and glass jars full of captured feelings of anger, sadness, and happiness.

No. 22, Snow in Front of the Official Storehouses (Onkura mae no yuki), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi). Dog stealing a workman's meal from a snow Daruma from the woodblock series Edo meisho dôke zukushi (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo) by Utagawa Hirokage Published in 1859

The other sources of inspiration were The Cailleach and the 2014 "Film Song of the Sea"'s depiction of Macha /|\

So 3 Mythological aspects, 2 Celtic and 1 Nippon Zen Buddhist, and two Winter Species - Snowy Owl, and Caribou - were part of this reimagining of a festive winter sculpture. #SnowArt

Snowman - Kobayashi Eitaku 1888 from "Picture Album of Children's Games"

Yukidaruma are Snow Sculptures of Bodhidharma known in Japanese as Daruma, the founder of the Zen tradition of Buddhism. Legend claims that he sat facing a wall in meditation for a period of nine years without moving, which caused his legs and arms to fall off from atrophy.

Winter Warden Snow Sculpture. Shaped with one large base for the body and a smaller snow mound for the head; small snow balls placed as feathers, head and face shaped as a snowy owl; hair lines of neck, chest and head gear of sumac for the Caribou characteristics.

Winter Warden Snow Sculpture. Shaped with one large base for the body and a smaller snow mound for the head; small snow balls placed as feathers, head and face shaped as a snowy owl; hair lines of neck, chest and head gear of sumac for the Caribou characteristics.

Winter Warden Snow Sculpture. Shaped with one large base for the body and a smaller snow mound for the head; small snow balls placed as feathers, head and face shaped as a snowy owl; hair lines of neck, chest and head gear of sumac for the Caribou characteristics.

No. 22, Snow in Front of the Official Storehouses (Onkura mae no yuki), from the series Comical Views of Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho dôke zukushi). Dog stealing a workman's meal from a snow Daruma from the woodblock series Edo meisho dôke zukushi (Joyful Events in Famous Places in Edo) by Utagawa Hirokage Published in 1859

Family Day here in Canada, and the town had a Winter Festival that included a snow sculpture competition! Here is my household's entry, the foundation shape based on the Yukidaruma and details as a Snowy Owl with Caribou chest and antlers. The Winter Warden.

High Time that every State should have their National Guard and Police coordinate to be posted to checkpoints and apprehend these I.C.E. and C.B.P. Invaders, traitors and enemies of the United States; defending the Constitution and Americans as is their Oath and Duty. #HonorYourOath

The dome woven enclosure is where one of my Chinquapin Oaks are planted to keep them safe from deer. The branch fence has Blackberry and Umbrella Magnolia seeds planted along it that should sprout this spring. All native to the NorthEast of Turtle Island/North America selected for climate adaptation

Snowed in...
Mama Great Horned Owl keeps the next generation warm and cozy.
Photographed January 29, 2026 - Western New York
**Taken at a distance of over 105 feet (32m)**
#greathorned #birdsofprey #birdphotography #winterwildlife #birdsinsnow #photographersunited #wildlifephotography #nature #OM-1