brought this up to two “Canadians” last night from BC and they both right away were like oh yeah that’s what it’s called. But also cracked up looking it up as in Scotland they call it Chickenelly or Chappy
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brought this up to two “Canadians” last night from BC and they both right away were like oh yeah that’s what it’s called. But also cracked up looking it up as in Scotland they call it Chickenelly or Chappy
love this ty
this is fucked up obviously america is a terrible place. but also calling ding dong ditching a tiktok trend?? you mean a time honored tradition. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/u...
niiiiice
i’ll try for Cooper’s hawk definitely not confident though
very nice shot
Indigenous & Hispanic populations are most affected by pollution from exploration, extraction, transportation and storage, Black & Asian populations are most affected by emissions from processing, refining, manufacturing, distribution and usage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mop Gull successfully fledged. still returning to the nest to roost and beg but flying well
environmental racism alive and well in the United States “They don’t care about us,” said Taylor, referring to both the industrial company and government officials. “There is no way people don’t get sick, because we need help over here and we’re not getting it.”
#OtD 31 Aug 1942 a wildcat general strike broke out in Luxembourg in opposition to the occupying Nazi regime's order to conscript young people into the Nazi army stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1035...
have you ever seen the documentaries Merata: How Mum Decolonized the Screen or Patu! (by Merata Mita). Highly recommend the first and haven’t seen the second yet but it’s about rugby and the struggle against Apartheid South Africa en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merata_...
Caspian tern, largest tern in the world. Genus name hydroprogne means water swallow. #superseabirdsunday #🪶
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Anti-cop graffiti seen in Manado, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21 year old protester Affan Kurniawan
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Context is just a scam made up by Big History to sell us more nuance.
i know, it’s hard. the article is more about how the chemicals are literally everywhere and next to unregulated tho. the single use plastics are only a part of the issue. but i don’t have to tell a bird person how bad pesticides are
“a lot of people assume that there’s really great knowledge and huge due diligence on the chemical safety of these things. But it really isn’t the case.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lesser yellowlegs: another orange alert tipping point species in the 2025 state of birds. #birds #🪶 #birding #shorebirds #nature #wildlife
radical publishing is not just about books. Esp in regards to the Black Power era, it’s not an exaggeration to say people fought and died for political education. We are lucky the JoNina and Lorenzo are still with us and still working to pass on their important lessons and wisdom
great new episode of Black Autonomy Podcast by @williamcson.bsky.social JoNina Ervin, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin is about JoNina’s newly re-released book which I encourage everyone to get from @akpress.org She explains why the stories of every day people involved in the Black Power era are so important
im not an artist but someone should do a photography project about the makeshift furniture workers make in their break room type spaces. true ingenuity and creativity
same vibes. funny yet also so bleak
overheard someone at Mt Rainier NP say “does someone own them?” about a herd of (wild) Mountain Goats. kms
Wilson’s Storm-petrel #superseabirdsunday #🪶
sorry to surprise them but lol
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“The little Ants which live in the earth love their young ones and wish to have them in their homes. Surely us red men are not smaller than these Ants.”
with all the terrible truth coming out about residential schools, I encourage people to also take a look at this inspiring and touching piece of history. A letter from Cree leader ᐊᒑᐦᑯᓴ ᑳ ᐅᑕᑯᐦᐱᐟ (acâhkosa kâ-otakohpit) resisting forced assimilation.
BREAKING: A US judge just denied our request for an injunction to the land transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper. Oak Flat, a sacred site of the Apache and part of the Tonto National Forest, is scheduled to be privatized on Tuesday. With the clock ticking, we have appealed to the 9th Circuit.
great stuff
@natewolff.bsky.social weighing in on the discourse every time
awful - “Shaw’s son has been “very sad he lost his summer vacation to being locked in the facility.” Shaw has used commissary funds to buy him ice cream and colored pencils to make him feel at home”
to have immediate negative effects on children in Gaza seeking medical treatment +more : www.bbc.com/news/article...
"At least two Canadian toddlers have been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, including one who was detained for 51 days, more than double the legal detention period for migrant children in the United States ..." #GlobeAndMail #news #Canada #USA
“how do you think AI will affect your career” “well besides being a soul-deadening thought-killer, it will render the planet uninhabitable, which would be bad for my career”
ICE agent drunk driving with children in his car
The UN figure represents a jump of several hundred deaths since its last published figures at the beginning of August.
The sting of colonialism is when you read speculation about your homelands- the Bering Strait- for barter between two deranged leaders. greed + imperialism. As if Native people of the Bering Strait do not exist. As if their lands and waters are open for business of another country for extraction.
sometimes this bot messes up in very comical ways. unless that really is what portuguese armed vessels looked like in 1517. if so my apologies
nice interview about the book project. Fundraiser to bring JoNina out to California still active too. chuffed.org/project/1421...
hell yea
so disingenuous for SFU to already release a statement saying her death had “nothing to do with the working environment” when the coroners office hasn't even released a cause of death yet. Janitorial work is so important and we're so disrespected. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
nevermind everyone CryptPad has sheets
oh funny i do use proton mail but i didnt think the sheets was live yet. i can only see docs from my account but obviously i only use the free account (due to poor)
what’s a good, ideally at least slightly secure alternative to google sheets for a shared spreadsheet
Therefore, our results support a likely mechanism behind these declines in tropical bird populations in undisturbed habitats and imply that intensifying heat extremes are degrading abundance more widely across the tropics
... in two relatively undisturbed rainforests in Panama and the Amazon, abundance declined by over 50% for the majority of bird species between 1977 and 2020 and between 2003 and 2022.
findings are also particularly pertinent given recent documentation of declining tropical bird populations, even in undisturbed habitats. The source of such declines have been noted as unknown, yet they are of a similar order of magnitude to our estimates of the impacts of intensified heat extremes
in my opinion conservation (bird and otherwise) must include a land back approach where we adjust our entire worldview and relations towards animals and the land. climate change makes this more stark but this has always been true since colonialism started. saving birds means destroying capitalism.
Western approach to conservation where we 'save' small patches of pristine habitat is not enough: "Overall, these results showcase how human-driven climate change is already reshaping biodiversity globally and may explain reported declines of birds in undisturbed tropical habitats."
Looking back to my round the UK cruise back in June and a fantastic boat trip out of Lerwick. Really good to get close to a few Great Skuas. Not heard much about their breeding season this year can but hope #superseabirdSunday #ukbirding
The dangerous end of a Bonxie #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
Fulmar fly by. #SuperSeabirdSunday
#OtD 10 Aug 1914 with the recent outbreak of WWI, the Australian revolutionary @IWW union ran an anti-war front-page stating: "WAR IS HELL! SEND THE CAPITALISTS TO HELL AND WARS ARE IMPOSSIBLE!" More on the Australian IWW at this time in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e...
"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"
The total number of malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza is now 217, including 100 children, per health ministry.
Thank you
also found this guy who was cooing and i thought was an owl for a second
teenage mallard seen today #🪶
“People need to think carefully,” says Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivor Mitsuko Yoshimura, 102. “What does winning or losing even bring? Wanting to expand a country’s territory, wanting a country to gain more power? I don’t understand it. What I do feel deeply is the utter foolishness of war.”
At Penticton Indian Band, researchers work to find remedy for bighorn sheep disease The Okanagan population of yilíkʷlxkn has been depleted by up to 70 per cent by mange over two decades — a year-long project aims to find a drug to treat it indiginews.com/news/pib-res...
Deaf guy tried to show ICE his ID. An agent grabbed it and didn't return it. So he tried to type a message about his disability but an agent grabbed his phone. He was left w/ no way to communicate w/ the men seizing him. He was a DACA recipient (a "dreamer"). He spent nearly a month in detention.
Long-stay car park, Edinburgh Airport today. I pity the traveller who’s going to return to find that a Crow’s wedged a rabbit’s head into their windscreen wipers in order to pick the brains out 😂 #birds
Boston Consulting Group "provided modelling for a plan to forcibly relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to Somalia and Somaliland." "$4 million in contracted work." #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Somalia #Somaliland #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages”
“Stations like KUYI provide more than news and information: they’re community hubs where Indigenous languages can thrive, a space to preserve and grow Indigenous peoples' connection to their culture and their own place within the world.”
Her son said maybe she shouldn't have accompanied him to hospital. That's because his Cree mother looked more Indigenous than him, and maybe that impacted the way he, a member of Shamattawa First Nation, was treated. "You know how much that hurt?" she said, looking down, “Still hurts today”
she’s always going on about how prisons are not just sites for capitalism to cage surplus labor but are a part of a war on Black resistance
what we’re reading this month honors George and Jonathan Jackson. Only finished the Introduction but highly recommend so far!
"Near Hiroshima’s iconic Atomic Bomb Dome under high security, more than 200 protesters gathered, holding posters and flags carrying messages such as 'No Nuke, Stop War' and 'Free Gaza! No more genocide' while chanting slogans."
On the militarist threat, both nuclear and conventional. Among the earliest opponents of nuclear weapons were anarchists like Marcus Graham and Stuart Christie, while anti-militarism has always been an integral part of anarchism itself.
“Bell suggested there may be historical trade documents that would attest to the company’s colonial endeavours, as well as portraits of Indigenous leaders that could “provide evidence of Indigenous negotiations and sovereignties.””
“It is highly possible there are sacred belongings in the collection including wampum, quillwork, moccasins, and other belongings that should be restituted to Indigenous communities and families,”
there could be historical documents in here of legal importance to native land claims or lawsuits. Not to mention documentation of peoples ancestors and sacred items.
not only should they not sell these items for profit, they should be kept together as a snapshot of HBC colonization in a museum paid for by HBC or CA Gov w free access to Indigenous people and available to academics to study and summarize for the benefit of Indigenous peoples
Another example of how Canada is behind the US when it comes to some aspect of colonization. Canada lacks a version of NAGPRA. And their version of ICWA only recently passed and is weaker. This article is extremely disturbing.
"Memory matters more than compensation," he says. "Our bodies remember what we went through… If we forget, it'll happen again. And someday, there'll be no one left to tell the story."
Ms Ichiba notes that Japanese textbooks still omit the history of Korea's colonial past - as well as its atomic bomb victims – saying that "this invisibility only deepens the injustice". This adds to what many view as a broader lack of accountability for Japan's colonial legacy.
According to the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Association, the Korean fatality rate was 57.1%, compared to the overall rate of about 33.7%. About 70,000 Koreans were exposed to the bomb. By year's end, some 40,000 had died.
“Korean workers had to clean up the dead," Mr Shim, the director of the Hapcheon branch of the Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Association, tells BBC Korean. "At first they used stretchers, but there were too many bodies. Eventually, they used dustpans to gather corpses and burned them in schoolyards.
Korea had been a Japanese colony for 35 years when the bomb was dropped. An estimated 140,000 Koreans were living in Hiroshima at the time - many having moved there due to forced labour mobilisation, or to survive under colonial exploitation.
"No-one takes responsibility," says Shim Jin-tae, an 83-year-old survivor. "Not the country that dropped the bomb. Not the country that failed to protect us. America never apologised. Japan pretends not to know. Korea is no better. They just pass the blame - and we're left alone."
“We are all Palestinian children,” said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the opening event. “Today, in one of the small parts of this land, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget, we cannot set aside”. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/04/z...
Grand Chief Cody Diabo told reporters on Tuesday the tolls could help offset the impact of cuts by Indigenous Services Canada on the community south of Montreal. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A statue of a Confederate general that demonstrators toppled and burned in D.C. in 2020 will be reinstalled, the National Park Service announces.
yeah and for all jays and corvids. they eat small birds esp young birds and eggs too. it’s normal. that’s part of why people ask not to feed them in places where other endangered birds nest (like marbled murrelets). Not a thing in Utah.
saw one eat a small bird once, you can see the leg in second photo lol. near Fairbanks Alaska
they are definitely special. can be very curious birds. lots of Cree stories involving them.
gn salish sea
sure is! also called Whiskey Jack from the Cree name for them ᐁᐧᐢᑭᒑᐠ [wîskicâk]. wonderful bird
July 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the 4th lowest on record for the month... This was 1,810,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. July ice extent is decreasing at about 6.87% per decade. Data: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.
excellent stuff here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Luis en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...
Support the travel fund for Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and JoNina Abron-Ervin! They’ll be visiting us at the Oakland Public Library (West Oakland Branch) this October 🙌🏽 chuffed.org/project/1421...
Dan Angelucci 