I can't believe I am just hearing about this anniversary now. According to wikipedia, the signing took place between August 18 and Sept 9 of 1876, so I'm going to allow myself a bit of space to reflect and celebrate in some way.

Bonnie Critchley@bonniecritchley.bsky.social · 3d ago

150years ago Treaty Six was signed, granting the land that Central Alberta sits on to the Crown. We still have work to do to balance the needs of everyone now. But #History can't be ignored. Events were so quiet our Minister of Indigenous Relations didn't showup. I'm here for ALL my neighbours.

Finally got a good view of this little fellow who has been hanging out near my house.

heartened by the students here and amused by the "conscientious objector" language—as direct an acknowledgement as you could wish that recruitment into slop culture is an ideological war of conscription

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings and complex ideas"

I decided to try making something for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social this year. It is a fun challenge with a great variety of simple but creative games that are downloaded as pdf files. Mine may appeal to fans of munchkinish ttrpgs and cryptic crosswords. jytk.itch.io/cros-sword-l...

Cro's Sword: Legend of the Fractured Fields by JYTK

Adventurers explore strange square patterns. . .

jytk.itch.io

Amazon has its issues but I have to give them some credit for this. Acknowledging th problem and doing something useful is more than certain elected people seem to manage. retail-insider.com/retail-insid...

Amazon opens first Canadian Disaster Relief hub in Edmonton, specialized in wildfire response

The hub specializes in wildfire response, stocking and donating supplies that nonprofits and responders need most.

retail-insider.com

Is wildflower Wednesday a thing?

My poem "The King in Red," which was originally published in the Alice Unbound anthology edited by Colleen Anderson is now available to read free on the Forgotten Ground Regained site, which has a fabulous collection of alliterative verse in modern English. alliteration.net/poetry/the-k...

The King in Red

On a desolate street, the gindy neon sketched a lady lewd with lighted tits rudely blinking ...

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I am starting to think maybe Taco Bell DESERVES to win the franchise wars.

Carouby de Maussane snow pea plants in my garden. They are a great producer, and also lovely to look at with flowers in shades of blue, pink, and purple. I try to resist the temptation to plant far more of them than I could harvest. I got the seeds from prairiegardenseeds.ca

This is a very useful resource for understanding the racist and useless referendum questions on offer to Albertans this fall. knowthenine.ca

Stay in Canada. No to the Nine.

Use Alberta's Voice's interactive ballot guide to review all 10 referendum ballots before you vote.

knowthenine.ca

Cory Doctorow gives a fine summary of the ongoing toxicity of AI boosting fascists. locusmag.com/feature/comm...

Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People - Locus

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the 'burning marl.' Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS – OTHER PEOPLE! –Jean Paul Sartre, No Exit Sartre was (arguably) an optimist. It's not that other people are unpleasant: quite the contrary! There's nothing that makes the day (or, pointedly, the night) …Read More

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Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one

The last two dates I wanted to go on a mushroom walk at the UofA botanic garden, they did not have enough people signed up to go ahead. Anybody want to hang out with me identifying mushrooms this Thursday morning? www.ualberta.ca/en/botanic-g...

I am taking bluesky's silence in response to my parody lyrics as consent, so here is the Ewok Death March. 0/5

I had bad knees, and the surgery list Was so long I had three years to get pissed So there I was in my hometown bar When in walked a paramedic who looked like a movie star 1/4

Good News! Congratulations to all who worked hard on this. edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/06/08/c...

Corb Lund says coal-ban petition has met signature threshold

Alberta musician Corb Lund says his Water Not Coal campaign that pushes for a ban on new coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies has gathered enough signatures. The petition, which Lund was a...

edmonton.citynews.ca

Let’s remember that we also need to say NO to the nine noxious referendum questions. Proud to add my name to this open letter. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #saynotothenine

An Open Letter to Albertans on Division and Dignity | The Tyee

And why we need to reject Danielle Smith’s referendum questions.

thetyee.ca

I have a poem in the latest Polar Starlight, 'This is the Wizard'. It is lighter than the poem of mine that was in the April issue: sort of a nursery rhyme feel. As always, Polar Starlight and Polar Borealis are free to read anywhere. polarborealis.ca/wp-content/u...

Separating Edmonton - from the Alberta Status Quo aaronpaquette.ca/blog-2-1/sep...

Separating Edmonton - from the Alberta Status Quo — Aaron Paquette

While the province rolls the constitutional dice, Edmonton must negotiate a stronger future.

aaronpaquette.ca

Hey Alberta - there's a federal petition out right now to bar construction of energy-hungry AI data centres. It aims to mandate and prioritize national environmental protections, public hearings, and First Nations consent. Anyone from Canada can sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

We don't need your data centres We don't need self driving cars No plagiarism in the classroom Hey, clanker, leave those kids alone (Once again you're just another block in the chain)

What a legacy! How lucky we are he’s lived long and productively. Happy 100 years! 🎈

Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary...

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So someone made this. And in a time when no one seems to be fighting back against these awful, racist, useless referendum(b) questions, this gave me a glimmer of hope. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #referendumb #Alberta

Alberta Referendum 2026 | Referendum Reality Check

Not because Albertans are dumb. Because this government thinks you are. Independent political commentary on Alberta’s 2026 referendum and the politics behind it.

albertareferendumb2026.ca

A flock of the roundest robins I have ever seen were in my crabapple tree, fluffed up against the cold.

This petition asks the federal government to investigate foreign interference on Alberta separatism. It was drafted before the recent news about paid misinformation accounts on youtube, which only confirms its importance. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I have a poem in Polar Starlight 22, which was released earlier this month. Three poems from last year's issues of Polar Starlight are on the ballot for best poem/song in the Aurora Awards! All issues are free to read online. polarborealis.ca/currentback-...

tante.cc/2026/04/21/a... Particularly well put: "bureaucracy is not just an annoyance but one of the central tools that democratic societies have established to realize the core idea of democracy: Transparency in the application of power in order to be able to control said power. 1/2

AI as a Fascist Artifact

(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy...

tante.cc

Somebody pulled into the end of my driveway, and left it like this.