@bsky.app missed an opportunity. Nice butterfly logo. Should've called it Flutter. Posts called fleets.
Western Hemlox
@westernhemlox.bsky.social
• Never correct a professional proofreader's grammar on Bluesky. • Random thoughts, politics, EVs, the environment, and the Blue Jays. • Lekwungen territory/Victoria, BC
In case you thought we had wised up by now, B.C. is still logging #oldgrowth trees in the year 2026. Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social & forests minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social have absolutely failed on this file. #yyj #Saanich #VancouverIsland #climatecrisis cheknews.ca/british-colu...
British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it
Since industrial logging began more than a century ago, most of Vancouver Island’s productive old-growth forests — those capable of growing the large trees characteristic of the island’s rainforests —...
cheknews.ca
Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.
Times Colonist@timescolonist.bsky.social · 20h ago
One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”
This isn't the new normal. It's just the beginning
This summer’s disasters appear to have boosted climate multilateralism, at least within Europe, and underscored the need to tackle fossil fuels. But we may not be waiting long for the scientists' “wor...
nationalobserver.com
The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.
More than 2 million acres burned as Oregon sets new wildfire record
The state has surpassed it's acreage record just two months into wildfire season.
oregonlive.com
Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental Defence
Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealing
environmentaldefence.ca
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
thebeaverton.com
Raccoon rabies – first spillover to domestic cat with human exposures amid rapidly rising wildlife case counts in 2026, Montérégie, Quebec, Canada via @beaconbio.bsky.social - beaconbio.org/en/report/?e...
BEACON
Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.
beaconbio.org
In BC, private companies can control public access to provincial parks. And the BC government thinks this is fine. #bcpoli #VancouverIsland #CarmanahWalbran #yyj thenarwhal.ca/bc-carmanah-...
Logging company closes access to B.C. provincial park | The Narwhal
Many B.C. parks are accessible only by resource roads controlled by private companies. The Carmanah Walbran closure raises questions about access to public land
thenarwhal.ca
Why is Brendon Little still on the team? Why? #BlueJays
"Everyone wants to talk about wildfires in July and August, and then it starts raining in October, and we all conveniently forget..." Great interview with Jesse Winter — made me think of climate disasters in the same way I think of mass shootings. And opioid harm reduction.
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 2d agoOver 3 million hectares of land have burned—but Canada’s wildfire season isn’t over yet. In this new Q&A, Jesse Winter—author of Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze—speaks to The Walrus’s Samia Madwar about what’s driving our wildfire crisis: https://ow.ly/Xnwb50ZvFEj
🌊 Record heat has shallowed Europe’s rivers, exposing mammoth bones, sunken ships In Bulgaria, a mammoth jawbone and tusks have been found on the bare bottom of the Danube, in Croatia, the cargo ship Fulton, which sank in 1937, and in Serbia, a German warship from World War II.
Glad to see the NYT (unlike certain politicians I could name) explaining the full context behind California's declining wine sales, rather than simply blaming Canada.
Sales Are So Low, California Wineries Are Burning Their Vineyards
The rise and fall of pinot noir symbolizes the larger struggles of the wine industry as younger generations turn to other beverages.
nytimes.com
We need to sue these fucking companies into oblivion, and use the proceeds to pay for the energy transition. #cdnpoli #bcpoli
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 6d agoA study I co-authored in 2023 found ExxonMobil’s predictions of global heating over the following decades to have been mostly accurate, as skilful as independent academic and government models, and also very much at odds with its public statements on the matter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Be sure to check out this important new book, excerpted here in the Microdose: The psychedelic toad milkers - by Kimon de Greef themicrodose.substack.com/p/the-psyche...
The psychedelic toad milkers
Following toad poachers across the Sonoran Desert
themicrodose.substack.com
Smoke will be with us every summer from now on. @crof.bsky.social examines what we should do about it. #wildfires #smoke #cdnpoli #bcpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
‘Smoke-Proofing’: The Need for a National Effort | The Tyee
Fouled air by wildfires has become a fact of life. We must act to lessen the health impacts.
thetyee.ca
My latest: 'Smoke-Proofing': The Need for a National Effort via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
‘Smoke-Proofing’: The Need for a National Effort | The Tyee
Fouled air by wildfires has become a fact of life. We must act to lessen the health impacts.
thetyee.ca
Western Hemlox@westernhemlox.bsky.social · 2d ago@theglobeandmail.com editorial laments annual summer wildfire smoke without mentioning climate change or burning fossil fuels. This confirms Canada's newspaper of record has its head firmly up its ass. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... No paywall: archive.ph/SdIoS
@theglobeandmail.com editorial laments annual summer wildfire smoke without mentioning climate change or burning fossil fuels. This confirms Canada's newspaper of record has its head firmly up its ass. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... No paywall: archive.ph/SdIoS
Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear
The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country
theglobeandmail.com
George Monbiot is a treasure. Watch 👇
Evonomics.com@evonomics.bsky.social · 3d agoAuthor @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
