no brain, only alison

@alisonborealis.bsky.social

posts too much ecol/biologist in climate change settler. knitter 🧶. antiracist. chronically ill. #yeg Edmonton Alberta Treaty 6 Canada born @ 340ppm CO2 #BiInSci Wildfire resources: https://bsky.app/profile/alisonborealis.bsky.social/post/3lqep5ttvnt25

Potential for numerous lightning-caused fire starts in BC in the next few days. Saturday, in particular, looks scary. Forecasted Duff Moisture Code for Saturday - the higher the code the drier the fuel (red areas receptive to fire starts). Lightning density forecast for Saturday also below.

Duff Moisture Code for Saturday August 8th 
https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/en/static-maps?layerId=public%3Admc&date=2026-08-08
ECMWF lightning density for Saturday

Creating child sex abuse materials is a crime. It does not matter if they used AI to do it. Possessing said material is also a crime. So too is distributing it. Meta's entire leadership team should be prosecuted for these crimes, and Meta itself should be dissolved. No one will miss it.

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

Ok. I understand and support the Albertans who want to leave this conservative-separatist nightmare... BUT this is OUR HOME TOO. When we leave, they win even more. Do you believe in solidarity with the Indigenous people who also call this place home? Do you believe in fighting for what you love?

Canada’s last peach breeder is growing fruit for the future #Ontario In Ontario’s Niagara region, scientist Jay Subramanian is designing a peach that will help reduce food waste, allow workers to avoid heat waves — and still taste delicious thenarwhal.ca/ontario-peac...

He's protecting Ontario peaches from climate change | The Narwhal

In Niagara, fruit breeder Jay Subramanian is designing a peach that will reduce food waste, allow workers to avoid heat waves — and taste delicious

thenarwhal.ca

My go-to cool fact to drop at a party has been that the most common form of communication on Earth is bioluminescence, where squishy life forms flash and sparkle at one another in the sea. And then half way through this interview I learned Du Preez CAME UP WITH THAT FACT. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns | The Tyee

Some creatures that ‘survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions’ might not make it if we go ahead.

thetyee.ca