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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Genre of the day: melancholic, atmospheric, yelpy post-punk.

Album cover of Wilderness - Wilderness (2005). Bright, ornate bead-like pattern of many colours.

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I miss fwing. Feels very fwingy here up north right now. But that just means a brief mud season before extra long winter, which is weeks away.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Peltigera lichen point of view

Photo of me, man with reddish beard, pale complexion, large glasses, jacket and hat, trees and bright sky above

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a fascinating read. If you enjoy science and history it’s worth a few minutes of your time. 🌿

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Declan Troy @troydeclan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We've got ourselves a feeding frenzy. A ball of fish within diving range of Black-legged Kittiwakes. Murres, cormorants, and puffins after the deeper fish. Cape Resurrection #Alaska 🪶🦑

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do these just show up as black rectangles for others? Is Bluesky messing up images now? I swear these were real photos.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lichen hike update: this is my third time looking at lichens on this range, but I was much more prepared than in years past. Highlights include two Western Waterfan (Peltigera gowardii) thalli in one stream, a semi-aquatic leafy little lichen. 🌿🧵

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western waterfan lichen (Peltigera gowardii)

western waterfan lichen from Cariboo, CA-BC, CA on September 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM by Paul Foth. Mostly wet. Dry thallus nearby: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/401893985

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A biofilm is not the same as a biopic. This has been a handy reference post.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The funniest parts of the BC Conservative Party caucus saga is each of the parts.

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Andy Radde-Gallwitz @argphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The last sentence. I’m really no expert on prison abolition, but I’m sure that “deserve” is the most devilish word in our language, and when combined with “criminal,” it chases all possible thinking out far into the wilderness.

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Huge day for sickos

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Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Karla Navarrete was one of my best ever Labor Studies students at UCLA! Thank you @gustavoarellano.bsky.social for this must-read about her work. Commentary: 'It's become a deportation mill': A day in the life of an immigration attorney www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Commentary: 'It's become a deportation mill': A day in the life of an immigration attorney

'I used to call my presentations ‘Know Your Rights’ workshops. Now they’re just workshops, because there are no rights,' attorney Karla Navarrete said.

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Misha Tri-Flow Glow @spoketension.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Really enjoy this lichen-covered speed limit sign in my neighborhood

A speed limit sign that reads “speed limit 25” all of the numerals and letters are printed in black on the sign, and each of the numerals and letters is covered with lichens growing from their surfaces.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

epistemic vigilante justice

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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute @abbiodiversity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New lichen profiles are available in the Biodiversity Browser! These profiles were researched and written by students in the U of A's Lichenology course taught by Dr. Diane Haughland. Explore over 3,400 species profiles, including 470 lichens: abmi.ca/biobrowser 📸 Diane Haughland

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've come down with a terrible quesedilla

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm biking up a hill in the lowest gear, huffing. My kid in the bike trailer says to a stuffed animal, "We're taking the scenic route."

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just rocking out to "Losing My Religion" at the dollar store.

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Every Noun, Pumpkin Spiced @pumpkinspicenoun.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pumpkin Spice Pentecostal

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Simone @simonebatyochai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is the kind of place that insufferable Church History nerds hang out right? I need to find who a historical figure was who would have known the wonderfully named Henry F Butts prior to his departure as a missionary from England to New Zealand in Dec 1841.

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So is steely Dan the guy in dire straits

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)

Album cover of Joanna Newsom's Ys. Our painting of woman with scythe and Renaissance (?) clothing style, Crow, wooden chair, etc.

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Kenneth Black @kennethblack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Happened across this unhinged Wittgenstein line

We speak of birds singing. When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn't singing. Finally someone said to me, "All right, don't call it singing, call it something else"
'. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My friends: this is the best part of writing.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

OK ENOUGH PLAYING AROUND WHO THE FUCK HAS THIS VARIED THRUSH?!

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In parts of the world this is shark fin level scary stuff

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#booksky 📚 By Trevor GOWARD, THE WAYS OF ENLICHENMENT: I Face in the Mirror A new way of looking Highly recommended! 🌿 pdf www.waysofenlichenment.net/essays/readi... #ferns #lichens #PacificNorthwest #philosophy #ecology

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ruddy ferkin' Turnstone at my local spot.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Went to Bella Coola cause it sounded pretty cool

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New Zealand sent over a team of firefighters to help with the wildfires (Yay!!!) but their local article makes us sound like a wasteland teeming with dangerous animals www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/9...

In western Canada, over 20,000 people were forced to flee communities in British Columbia over the weekend and in the US, crews in Washington have been fighting three wildfires that began burning in the Spokane area.
The New Zealand firefighters are experienced working in arduous conditions, including steep terrain and high temperatures, and living in fire camps in remote areas.
It's not just the scale of the wildfires that would be challenging for the Kiwi crews - they've been told to keep an eye out for local wildlife.
"Bears, scorpions, rattlesnakes any of those sorts of things that we typically don't have over here that are out to hurt us. It's a different environment for us...we just have to keep our wits about us."

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Where are my salty Sophiologists at?

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Downplay a book or movie: One Hundred Seconds of Solitude

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Ben Steele @bensteele.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Flobots take the handlebars

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Awful smoke has me at home and inside living vicariously through my old self's birding escapades. Here's a local big day I did once in Creston, BC. It apparently includes my first Forster's Terns. 🪶🌿 ebird.org/tripreport/7...

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Creston Big Day 2020 - eBird Trip Report

09 May, 2020. Created by Paul Foth

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Prog is great. Dont let punk tell you otherwise. You can love both. Some music IS both.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Cool day at work today (I found a moth on the building).

Photo of striking white and dark patterned moth with fuzzy features on brown wall

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is really good. It's on my "top albums of the 2000s" list because it was only releases in 2004, but that's not really fair (for everything else from the 2000s).

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

9:27 am, 7/29 anyone listening got a brain washed like mine?

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s

Album cover of Digable Planets' Blowout Comb (Vol. 1. Also includes the words "Intercommunal Sound Service"). Album cover is purplish and rectangular with large outline of afro comb, small photo of the members in the top right corner

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I kinda get air quality, but I struggle with the fine particulars.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Can any lichen folks help illuminate me about Nephroma taxonomy? McCune & Geiser (2023) say that N. helveticum is absent in the PNW. They say N. tropicum is expected. But I see records of N. helveticum (2 subspecies) from lichenologists, in databases, publications, etc. What gives? Recent changes?

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Somewhere in the Midwest there is a kid named Ebenezer because I suggested the name as a joke and the parents ran with it. Sorry, Benny.

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