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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 4h

I just looked it up and apparently there are no porcupines in Finland?

Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 4h

ANSWER TIME ON THE QUIZ!

We have a winner in @luaz.bsky.social 🎉

This was a closeup of a porcupine.
Secwépemc territory

This porcupine was in identified core critical mountain caribou habitat near Wells Gray Park, BC...on a logging road.
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Logging continues to devastate caribou populations.

A large porcupine stands on a gravel road, glancing over at the camera. Beautiful white blonde hairs stand up against a darker underfur.
Secwépemc territory
Blue River, BC

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS THAT PICTURE TIME!

Who knows what this is?

Answer in the comments and I'll post the full pic this afternoon.
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#NeedMoreNature

A closeup picture that will be properly described this afternoon, after folks guess.

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely you do!

How does it taste?

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 1d

We've got some guesses coming in for our picture quiz. Get yours in before 4 pm CST
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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS THAT PICTURE TIME!

Who knows what this is?

Answer in the comments and I'll post the full pic this afternoon.
🌎

#NeedMoreNature

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS THAT PICTURE TIME!

Who knows what this is?

Answer in the comments and I'll post the full pic this afternoon.
🌎

#NeedMoreNature

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 1d

Vibes are off. Post some fancy feathers. 🪶

Closeup of a spruce grouse hen stretching her neck out. The mottled brown and black feathers stand out like a pine cone. You can see the catch light and the mountain sky reflect in her eyeball. She has a little red eyeliner above her eye.

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 2d

I've missed the segment already but I was hoping you were going to tell people to drink some water and put their phones down for awhile. 😊

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 2d

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 2d

For thousands of years, the Koyukon have subsisted from the boreal forest they are surrounded by.

However, that means of survival is under threat as President Trump pushes to make use of Alaska’s natural resources.

Story by grantee Tom Parfitt for @thetimes.com. bit.ly/42L6fOA

Native Americans Fear Trump’s Alaska Road Will End Their Way of Life

A 211-mile road accessing $7.5bn copper deposits threatens the fragile ecosystem which the Koyukon people rely on for their food and survival As the single-engine Cessna begins to descend, rocked by.....

pulitzercenter.org

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 2d

STORY: Why a judge rejected prosecutors' call to give three Coastal Gas Link protesters jail time for breaching an injunction.
@amandafollett.bsky.social: thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Supporters Cheer After Indigenous Land Defenders Avoid Jail | The Tyee

Judge rejects the prosecutors’ call for more jail time for protesters arrested at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site.

thetyee.ca

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 3d

"The annual area burned in the western US has expanded by 258% since 1985, despite increases in suppression costs & no rise in human ignitions. The difference comes down to temperature. As climate has gotten warmer & drier, fires have grown larger & more severe." 🌍
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

On the Arizona Trail, a community steps in as fires blacken forests and force detours

The Republic's climate reporter started her journey on the Arizona Trail with detours that were forced by wildfires and left for volunteers to fix.

www.azcentral.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 3d

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 3d

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 4d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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CarolSanders @fpcarolsanders.bsky.social · 4d

Nick Martin: No-nonsense WWSL referee, retired @winnipegfreepress.com education/legislature reporter and good guy who’d drive you to the ferry terminal from the Victoria airport, RIP.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

You could just organize people instead of complaining.

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 6d

Friday seems to be food processing day. So here's something fun...choose your fighter:
carrot cake,
zucchini bread,
pumpkin pie,
apple pie

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 6d

I was just now acquainted with the "piss-yellow filter" description of AI slop. So on point.
"Hey guys look at my piss-yellow pic!" ☠️

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🎃 Dr. Jessie Christianstein 🎃 @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 6d

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 6d

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

www.youtube.com

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Eric Reder is on the River 🛶💦 @ericreder.bsky.social · 6d

Where in Alberta can we ship the thesauruses to?

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 6d

“In the quiet of nature, I don’t feel alone — I feel whole. Solitude isn’t emptiness; it’s where the soul remembers who it is.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

a campfire in nearly dark camp. big logs laying on top and on the sides.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 7d

The other word for objections to diversity, equity, and inclusion is "racism"

Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 7d

The DEI debate comes to Canada. www.thestar.com/diversity-eq...

Diversity, equity and inclusion are coming under scrutiny — and Pierre Poilievre is ready to push the conversation

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are in the crosshairs south of the border and now the mantle has been taken up by the federal Conservative party, which has released a

www.thestar.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 7d

Notice how the adultification of Black children (especially young Black men) is the inverse of the infantilization of White adults (especially fully grown White men). It holds Black children as always blameworthy and White adults as blameless.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7d

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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