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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Had a surprisingly nice drive through BC and part of AB yesterday… Drive up Coquihalla and on through Jasper, roads were clear and mostly dry. Only when we got closer to Hinton was there quite a lot of snow. Seemed like a reversal of typical weather patterns.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Take off… to the Great White North. Take off, it’s a beauty way to go…

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

⚛️ 🎨"There are many individuals out there today emphatically demonstrating the falseness of the so-called “art-science” divide on a daily basis. We just have to know where to look.” 🗃️ #arthistory #academia #skystorians #Edusky 🧪 #SciComm #science #art ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/the-false-...

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The False Divide - Part 2

Still inappropriate

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I am back in my usual nest for now, but there will be future trips to the True North, strong and free. I just hope my all-weather tires and sanity hold up.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

So… hi. Yes, I have been very quiet. I spent almost 2 weeks on the road and in Edmonton, and have been busy with family obligations as well as a series of unfortunate events (car broke down on the way to the ER being one of them… don’t worry, everyone survived, even the car!)

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Is there anything particularly compelling going on in Edmonton this weekend and next week? Any events I ought to know about? LMK

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Heyyyyyy… What’s up? How’s autumn in your neck of Canada? 🇨🇦 Curious as your latitude is ahead of mine and I wonder what the leaves are like now. Photos are welcome (hint hint) :)

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thesouloftheearth.bsky.social @thesouloftheearth.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

What can I say? This spotted owl was 7 weeks old, not nearly time to learn to read. It was so curious about me I thought it was going to land on my head but instead it landed on the sign and studied me so long it finally fell asleep. #OwlAwarenessDay #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #birds #owls 🌿

A very young, brown and beige spotted owl on a 'No Loitering' sign. Forest in the background.

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NPR @npr.org · 05/08/2025

The Lithuanian composer, now based in New York, creates layered, deliberate music that she hopes will grant listeners the freedom to enter an altered state of mind.

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Meet Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, the composer who wants to get inside your head

The Lithuanian composer, now based in New York, creates layered, deliberate music that she hopes will grant listeners the freedom to enter an altered state of mind.

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Elizabeth Weber Handwerker @elizwebhand.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This paper. Wow. The authors linked years of car crash data from Florida with income tax data. They found that having your parked car crashed into was associated with substantial reductions in earnings FIVE YEARS LATER. (Only for people with low earnings to start out).

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Pelican 🇵🇱 pelikan 🇺🇦 пелікан

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Pyrrhuloxia has something to crow about. 🪶☀️🌵

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Most Americans need stronger safety nets and deserve a bigger piece of the economic pie, and they know it. If you want to call this socialism, fine. I call it fair.

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So Much for Socialism

The Trump regime is using the specter of socialism to make America even more authoritarian. The regime will lose.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A federal judge just ruled the White House broke the law by pulling down a public site that tracked Congressional spending. Why’d they yank it? Because people were catching DOGE making fraudulent claims and inflating “savings” that didn’t exist. Transparency isn’t optional.

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Judge orders Trump administration to ‘stop violating the law!’ and publish spending details

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress.U.S. District Court for the D...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Meiselas: First off—people who are alpha don’t go around calling themselves alpha. Look, where I grew up, my dad would say: Being a man means standing by your word. Being a man means you push back against the bully, and you uplift people. You don’t punch down at marginalized communities.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

Newspaper photo of a group of cats huddled together on a satellite dish with the headline, "Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds."

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Jack Hill @jackhill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#Nenshi arrives with a powerful political cause “The Opposition leader has finally arrived on the job. The #UCP has reason to be worried” Shameful by election delay! #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… via @calgaryherald

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Chester Zoo Science @chesterzoosci.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

That slit on the duiker's face is a gland that expresses a fluid used for scent marking. Scent marking is a bit like posting on social media, only damper and with less potential for embarrassment. 🦇

A close up shot of a duiker (a small antelope). It has brown fur and brown eyes. There is a slit running down its face between its nose and eyes.

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Paweł Niezbecki™ @szaulo.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Guardian

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Leyla I. Royale @leylairoyale.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I’m so excited about this shot! Had my camera in place just as the barn swallow swooped in towards the young ones, who started demanding food. So cool! #montroseharbor #birds #barnswallow 🪶🪶🪶

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Kingfisher 🇵🇱 zimorodek 🇺🇦 зимородок

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12/07/2025

Is the COVID-19 pandemic to blame for the birding boom? Statistics Canada estimates that in 2021, 11 percent of households participated in birdwatching. Writer Julia Zarankin says that number is undoubtedly higher today. thewalrus.ca/birding/

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Western-oriented fundraisers require a whole smm team to make it entertaining and televisable while Ukrainian-oriented fundraisers are just “you use Hryvna’s? You like using Hryvna’s? Then donate your Hryvna’s so that you won’t have to use roubles”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces and LA's economy is floundering without them. Hello?

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Anna’s Hummingbird in the early morning 🌎 Northern California #birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #hummingbird

Male Anna’s hummingbird with a brilliant red gorget sitting on a yellow stick.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

You know, growing up I never could have imagined two such entirely different performers engaging this way.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Everywhere I look, I swear the dialog going on in that crowd is going to be this: “Oh, we don’t need that. Rip it out. Tear it down!” Time passes. “OH. So THAT’S why that was there. Oh, you didn’t tell me!” “We did…” 🤦🏼

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Monsoon sunrise 🌵🌥️🏜️

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Think long COVID can't affect you or your family? It affected Jonathon Toews, an elite hockey player. This is why I continue to try and protect myself against infection www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGRi...

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Jonathan Toews set for NHL comeback with Jets after long COVID

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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