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Matt Oliver @sameo416.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social story feature two super voices of science @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social and @mark-ungrin.bsky.social. Precaution means you use higher mitigation until you know absolutely a lower mitigation is acceptable. A lack of hazard is never assumed only proven.

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yup 😣 All the coffee ☕️☕️☕️

Some women wake up
looking refreshed
and ready for the
day.
I wake up like
a possum caught
under a porch light.
Confused.
Defensive.
And absolutely not
ready for peopling.
THE FFF CLUB

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Live your life with lots of egrets, not lots of regrets. #Deep #Photography

A photo of the bare branches of trees sticking up out of a pond of water. Among the branches are numerous (12) white egrets. Some are looking out while others are cleaning themselves. The birds are reflected in the water. Behind the pond are green trees and grasses illuminated in a warm tone from the setting Sun.

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm ready for my close-up! Also, did you bring snacks? For @helenbennett.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BirdsUpClose 🪶

Very close-up view of an almost head-on Trumpeter Swan. The Swan's black beak is prominent as the large, white bird looks into the camera

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Piratebill 🇨🇦 ☠️ @piratebill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He will try to take our water

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What’s that? For #MinCup26, our 10th year of minerals battling it out for your affections, we drew from ANY year to pick our returning minerals? That’s a lot of joy and heartbreak from one little list! www.mineralcup.org/2026/mineral...

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Mineral List — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

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Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

sad to hear that 80 yr old Dolly Parton has died. an extraordinary musician, person and inspiration. Dolly’s light burned bright. #RIPDolly. 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's only Tuesday and the Bush Thick-Knee is already so over this week. We saw a number of them in Queensland and they always made us laugh. #Australia 🪶

Brown-and-white streaked shorebird with long legs standing by a tree

Closeup of the head of a brown-and-white streaked bird witha large yellow eye.

Brown-and-white streaked bird resting on the ground on bent legs, looking at the camera with a droll expression

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/

A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"After 13 years in the Royal Australian Navy, Emily Pyke realised if she encountered a fire her bra could catch alight beneath her protective uniform." "Women are wearing everyday commercial, synthetic, highly flammable products into these high-risk environments."

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dear Americans (and also Canadians tbh), You simply do not need to praise Doug Ford just because Donald Trump is a corrupt monstrous evil. Doug Ford is *also* corrupt and frequently evil - he just currently has less power than Trump. Let them fight. But do not try to turn Doug Ford into a hero.

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Gita Salinger 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @salinger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That folksy stuff about the real estate of Ford’s a$$ was funny and all but let’s not allow ourselves to get carried away. This is a lovers tiff. I hope pro-Canada moves result but steady on people; he’s the same goof as he was last week.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Doug Ford and Paul Calandra took money from public education and presented it as a "gift" of $750 to Ontario educators to spend at Staples, a company owned by a friend and donor of the Ontario PCs. I don't want my tax dollars taken out of public education and given to Staples. Do you? 🧵 #OntEd

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 19/08/2026

Send this to a young adult who looks at their phone while walking on campus.

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Lifer alert! I finally saw my first Red-Headed Woodpeckers today. #LiferPie 🪶

2 woodpeckers on a dead tree. The top bird is white with black shoulders and tail, and a vibrant red head, face, and neck. The lower bird is similar but without the red, and is smaller. This bird has a worm in its bill

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So today's alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors? #EveryDayIsRaptorDay! Bat Falcon looking extra fine 🪶

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

our manifesto includes making the World Cup into an actual cup, replacing penalty shootouts with a ploughing championship, a greater number of straw man arguments, and renaming var to baa

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Good night folks. Hope this helps you with the week ahead. The rota will just repeat itself, unless one of us is unable to on any given day. #BirdOfTheDay I even put a Kingfisher in for Rob. That’s the gentleman I am. 😂😂

A bird of the day poster with the names of the hosts for the next four days.

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay today is #OverTheRainbow: any bird looking skyward. Here's my Sweetie Bird, watching the Chimney Swifts overhead 🪶

Peregrine falcon perched on a gable on the side of a steeple. Her head is turned almost all the way back and up as she looks to the sky above

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Junior proudly sporting their new crest 🪶

A mostly brown cardinal sitting in a bird feeder with its head cocked to the side. The bird has a fluffy, beige tuft of feathers on its crown

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In today's column, we explore the Welsh rarebit, a weirdly named and delicious cheese toast! Included: Tudor jokes about cheese-loving Welshmen being tricked out of heaven; what it means when you dream about cheese; and the legendary Welsh cheese pudding caws pobi buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Notable Sandwiches #144: Welsh Rarebit

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

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Alex Goatcher @alexgoatcher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We need to bring back social clubs. We need clubs for people to hangout and chat and do things together. Barrier free, too. No sponsors, no hidden meetings. Just groups hanging out doing things.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Burning. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Foreground left: large, windowless buildings. Background: fiery forest horizon and red to black sky. Foreground right: man on his phone saying, “Quick! We need more water to cool down the data centres that are overheating from processing all the news about unprecedented wildfires…”

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 22/07/2026

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

So @alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay is the #LastBird on your camera. The last photo I took this afternoon is this little Ruby-Throated Hummingbird who is really possessive of this tiny branch 🪶

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 24/07/2026

Tabletop fire pits like this are dangerous and cannot be used safely. Don't use them if your vacation rental has one. Throw them away if you have one at home.

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Gallinule family and Uncle Muskrat out enjoying the sun this morning 🪶

Tall green grasses with shallow water in front. In the water are an adult Common Gallinule (blackish water bird with white in its tail and a red and yellow bill that looks like candy corn), two juvenile Gallinules who are grayish and have plain orange bills). There is a large, brown, wet Muskrat plunked down just in front of the Gallinules

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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Americans should take the president's anti-Canadian saber-rattling so much more seriously than we do. We should treat it not as a joke, not as a quirk . . . but as a genuine threat to our neighbors." @jamellebouie.net is exactly right www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPs9...

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It is time to stop treating Donald Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric like a joke

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's sad it has come to this. Don't fall for AI slop. However, I figure someone will finally get awesome, legitimate photos of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker or the Loch Ness Monster and we'll all assume they are fake! #birds

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Where is Lamine Yamal’s little brother? I need visuals!

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why are we listening to the American anthem at this 🇪🇦🇦🇷 game?? If it's for the "host country, where are the Mexican and Canadian anthems???

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Heather D 🇨🇦 @heather147.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

@alan678.bsky.social has called the theme of #ScreenFiller for today's #BirdOfTheDay. I suspect this Cobra Chicken fits the bill (for the theme; I realise the picture doesn't actually fit his bill 😆)

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Like….everybody shut the fuck up and stop fighting. You are taking the wrong fucking lesson from this border-crossing smoke nightmare. The lesson is *all of earth’s ecosystems are entwined, borders mean nothing, all emitters are culpable, this is an EARTH PROBLEM NOT A COUNTRY PROBLEM*.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/07/2026

👋 Scientist here. Here are some science-backed tips that will help protect your health against wildfire smoke:

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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Doug Ford as you allow northern #Ontario to burn to the ground we really have had enough of you. Just resign already. #RCMP when are we going to see your #GreenbeltScandal findings? #DougFordFailedOntario #DougFordLied @environmentaldefence.ca @ontarionature.bsky.social #wildfire #nature

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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/07/2026

830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

A NASA map of the wildfires burning across Canada right now.

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I FUCKING KNEW IT.

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