Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Brown, any bird with Brown in its plumage. The Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in its plumage. Another 2-fer with a barn swallow on a wire. 🪶
Martin L Martens
@mlmartens.bsky.social
Activist Insurgent, Retired Professor Dept of Management & Law. Ground Search and Rescue Team Lead, Medic, Tracker, and Instructor. Ski Patrol in the winter. S'uqsen, Xwkwa’luxwum, S’ólh Téméxw Also @mlmartens@mastodon.social
Also for Indigenous Peoples Day, I talked to experts on demography about how many people were in the Americas in 1492 -- and why it's so difficult a question to answer. 🧪🏺
'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived
Archaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult.
livescience.com
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
#BirdOfTheDay is #Green, any birds or backgrounds that have Green in them. Alt theme is #Geese A two-fer with this Greater White-fronted Goose.
It's not safe. November is going to verge on civil war.
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 4d agoJust don’t go!! Global Affairs #Canada says the number of arrest and detention cases involving Canadians citizens has jumped 60%. The department’s annual report on consular cases, published today, tracks an increase in arrests between /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
A document prepared by Energy United and Resource Works calls Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem,” and environmental organizations are “opponents,” @meyer.bsky.social reports They also took aim at the Local Journalism Initiative
Carl Meyer@meyer.bsky.social · 5d agoA document meant for a behind-closed-doors group of fossil fuel advocates earlier this year got right to the point: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem” and environmental organizations are “opponents” thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...
An Oystercatcher and gull were minding their own business on a bar when there was an unexpected tern of events. One for the alt of today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #BlueWater, birds surrounded by Blue Water.
Big fungi have little fungi upon their backs to mine them, and little fungi have lesser fungi, and so ad infinitum ... #fungus #fungi #mushrooms #symbiosis #parasitism #ecology themeaningofwater.com/2025/12/14/n...
Nature’s Symbiosis and When Fungus Grows on Fungus…
Big fungi have little fungi upon their backs to mine them, and little fungi have lesser fungi, and so ad infinitum… (Adapted from Augustus DeMorgan) . Various saprophytic mushrooms (photos by Nina …
themeaningofwater.com
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
getartcraft.com
A 16-year-old boy was rescued from steep mountainous terrain in the B.C. backcountry on Sunday after Claude AI guided him to the wrong location, according to North Shore Rescue. #Canada FFS 🤦♀️ www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Teenager rescued from B.C.’s ‘Widowmaker’ after getting stranded using AI instructions
A 16-year-old boy was rescued from steep mountainous terrain in the B.C. backcountry on Sunday after Claude AI guided him to the wrong location, according to North Shore Rescue.
ctvnews.ca
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. This male Long-tailed Duck is a good example.
The myth of the “good guy” as bystander and the Cornell 7 case.
Passionate or paid?
Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · last wk.Report: pro-independence influencers "dominate the online referendum conversation." "The online conversation about Alberta's referendum is driven by a passionate community of 114 accounts, unencumbered by traditional forms of political accountability..." See mediatechdemocracy.com/en/publicati...
🚨🇨🇦 Border Czar 🇺🇸 said that with the southern border secure, the focus is shifting north❕
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
The first-ever case brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court displayed the dangers it poses to democratic rights, writes Eric Lee.
Dangerous Warning Signs from the First-Ever ATRC Case
The first-ever case brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court displayed the dangers it poses to democratic rights.
justsecurity.org
Dallas Brodie and OneBC out here doing anti-Indigenous racism, masks off, day-to-day lives and in their election platform. #bcpoli
🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃@historykeeper.bsky.social · 2w agoPeople focusing on the Second Sons wearing masks in Kamloops need to realize that there are minimal consequences for residential school denialism when not wearing a mask. This politician is still in office, without a mask, representing a Vancouver district not a rural one.
“Civil emergency” at Tsawwassen First Nation Truth and Reconciliation day event. Delta Police say it is a collision: “At this point it appears to be a medical incident. Four pedestrians have been struck and are being dealt with by Emergency Health Services.”
Awful news coming from Tsawwassen right now:
Tsawwassen First Nation ends Truth and Reconciliation event early due to 'critical incident' | CBC
cbc.ca
Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here's one small, practical thing you can do: learn the right words. Pick up this great book as a first step: ✅ Your local bookstore: www.indiebookstores.ca/bookstores/ OR ✅ Nanaimo's Indigenous-owned bookstore: StrongNations.com
Voluntary self-regulatory commissions are the blue ribbon panels of memorandums of understanding.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EFG any bird whose first name starts with one of these letters. Here is a Great Egret #greatEgret #egret #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #birds #wadingbirds #largebirds #🪶
How did Denmark get from basically 0 to 80% new sale of EVs in 5 years? Here’s my slides from a recent presentation on what I think has been instrumental in achieving this.
Breaking: Anthropic & OpenAI disclose in their IPO prospectus that their latest model traveled back from the future to save us from Meta's, Google's and China's evil AI's.
My story about Second Sons showing up in Kamloops and how experts say this is a wake up call to law enforcement, and to political parties who have been making space for residential school denialists. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears | The Tyee
‘I don’t want these people in my neighbourhood, in my city, in my country.’
thetyee.ca