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ecol/biologist in climate change
settler. knitter 🧶. antiracist. chronically ill.
#yeg Edmonton Alberta Treaty 6 Canada
born @ 340ppm CO2
#BiInSci
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ecol/biologist in climate change
settler. knitter 🧶. antiracist. chronically ill.
#yeg Edmonton Alberta Treaty 6 Canada
born @ 340ppm CO2
#BiInSci
Wildfire resources: https://bsky.app/profile/alisonborealis.bsky.social/post/3lqep5ttvnt25
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Will be applying a new policy from here on out.
If you come into my mentions to tell me that [thing] isn't worth my attention or bringing it to the attention of others, I'm going to assume you're a bad actor and block you.
ESPECIALLY if you're an 8 follower account with primarily replies.
If you come into my mentions to tell me that [thing] isn't worth my attention or bringing it to the attention of others, I'm going to assume you're a bad actor and block you.
ESPECIALLY if you're an 8 follower account with primarily replies.
2025 challenge for everyone (myself included):
- Have you read the entire thread before replying?
- Have you looked to see if other people have already replied with what you want to say?
- Are you thinking of "well, actually"-ing?
- Do you you and the person know each other well enough to say that?
- Have you read the entire thread before replying?
- Have you looked to see if other people have already replied with what you want to say?
- Are you thinking of "well, actually"-ing?
- Do you you and the person know each other well enough to say that?
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My mom once tried a "Peruvian Chicken" recipe in a magazine that sounded interesting for a dinner with the whole family.
We got to the "add 1 chipotle pepper in adobo" instruction and could not fathom "Just 1" when the can was so small. "Do they mean 1 CAN? Must be."
Nuclear Peruvian chicken.
We got to the "add 1 chipotle pepper in adobo" instruction and could not fathom "Just 1" when the can was so small. "Do they mean 1 CAN? Must be."
Nuclear Peruvian chicken.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
My mom once tried a "Peruvian Chicken" recipe in a magazine that sounded interesting for a dinner with the whole family.
We got to the "add 1 chipotle pepper in adobo" instruction and could not fathom "Just 1" when the can was so small. "Do they mean 1 CAN? Must be."
Nuclear Peruvian chicken.
We got to the "add 1 chipotle pepper in adobo" instruction and could not fathom "Just 1" when the can was so small. "Do they mean 1 CAN? Must be."
Nuclear Peruvian chicken.
I remembered another.
We have a traditional steamed plum pudding at xmas every year and generally make two sauces for it (1 is just the packaged rum sauce).
We decided to go all out and make a vanilla custard sauce one year. It wasn't hard, it just had extra steps, and involved a double boiler.
We have a traditional steamed plum pudding at xmas every year and generally make two sauces for it (1 is just the packaged rum sauce).
We decided to go all out and make a vanilla custard sauce one year. It wasn't hard, it just had extra steps, and involved a double boiler.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I remembered another.
We have a traditional steamed plum pudding at xmas every year and generally make two sauces for it (1 is just the packaged rum sauce).
We decided to go all out and make a vanilla custard sauce one year. It wasn't hard, it just had extra steps, and involved a double boiler.
We have a traditional steamed plum pudding at xmas every year and generally make two sauces for it (1 is just the packaged rum sauce).
We decided to go all out and make a vanilla custard sauce one year. It wasn't hard, it just had extra steps, and involved a double boiler.
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Your holiday reading assignment
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Your holiday reading assignment
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This is incredible.
⚖️ Judgment in Case C-713/23 Wojewoda Mazowiecki:
Can a Member State refuse to recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State?
🎥 💬 Judge Jan Passer explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...
📰 PR 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Can a Member State refuse to recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State?
🎥 💬 Judge Jan Passer explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...
📰 PR 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is incredible.
My occasional reminder to folks:
I have been recovering from some kind of brain injury-like event the entire time I have been on Bluesky.
I am ... not operating at full capacity and expecting me to have the normal memory and thinking speed of the average person is going to disappoint you.
I have been recovering from some kind of brain injury-like event the entire time I have been on Bluesky.
I am ... not operating at full capacity and expecting me to have the normal memory and thinking speed of the average person is going to disappoint you.
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
My occasional reminder to folks:
I have been recovering from some kind of brain injury-like event the entire time I have been on Bluesky.
I am ... not operating at full capacity and expecting me to have the normal memory and thinking speed of the average person is going to disappoint you.
I have been recovering from some kind of brain injury-like event the entire time I have been on Bluesky.
I am ... not operating at full capacity and expecting me to have the normal memory and thinking speed of the average person is going to disappoint you.
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You may be asking, “where on earth can I get these?!”
I gotchu. Direct link here: www.terripowerart.com/miniature-fo...
Terri also has (I think!) 2 markets left and she’s working on a big restock. Follow her on IG or send her an email from her site!
I gotchu. Direct link here: www.terripowerart.com/miniature-fo...
Terri also has (I think!) 2 markets left and she’s working on a big restock. Follow her on IG or send her an email from her site!
Turkey dinner — Terri Power Art
Huggies are surgical steel Choose between gold or silver
www.terripowerart.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
You may be asking, “where on earth can I get these?!”
I gotchu. Direct link here: www.terripowerart.com/miniature-fo...
Terri also has (I think!) 2 markets left and she’s working on a big restock. Follow her on IG or send her an email from her site!
I gotchu. Direct link here: www.terripowerart.com/miniature-fo...
Terri also has (I think!) 2 markets left and she’s working on a big restock. Follow her on IG or send her an email from her site!
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Terri Power Art Earring Countdown to December, Day 6!!!!
TURKEY. FRIGGIN. DINNERS.
I am 100% taking credit for this because I asked for it, but LOOK AT THE EXECUTION!!!!!!!!!!!! Better than I could have dreamed. Every single one of those components? Handmade. Handpainted.
TURKEY. FRIGGIN. DINNERS.
I am 100% taking credit for this because I asked for it, but LOOK AT THE EXECUTION!!!!!!!!!!!! Better than I could have dreamed. Every single one of those components? Handmade. Handpainted.
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Terri Power Art Earring Countdown to December, Day 6!!!!
TURKEY. FRIGGIN. DINNERS.
I am 100% taking credit for this because I asked for it, but LOOK AT THE EXECUTION!!!!!!!!!!!! Better than I could have dreamed. Every single one of those components? Handmade. Handpainted.
TURKEY. FRIGGIN. DINNERS.
I am 100% taking credit for this because I asked for it, but LOOK AT THE EXECUTION!!!!!!!!!!!! Better than I could have dreamed. Every single one of those components? Handmade. Handpainted.
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you should read The Devourers
it's one of my all-time favorites and one of the books I made a point of saving from my old apartment
it's one of my all-time favorites and one of the books I made a point of saving from my old apartment
ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
November 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
you should read The Devourers
it's one of my all-time favorites and one of the books I made a point of saving from my old apartment
it's one of my all-time favorites and one of the books I made a point of saving from my old apartment
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there is some amazing internet lore in this thread
Hell, even in the last few years before Usenet functionally died outside of moderated newsgroups (and by "last few years before Usenet died" I mean "shortly after Cantor & Siegel's green-card spam in 1994/Sanford Wallace era") even spam moderation was becoming largely automated (cancelbots)
1/2
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
there is some amazing internet lore in this thread
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seasonal alert: when you're out and about for the next few weeks, try to clock good stocking stuffers and scoop 'em up!
signed, a lady who always forgets about stocking stuffers until 7pm on xmas eve
signed, a lady who always forgets about stocking stuffers until 7pm on xmas eve
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
seasonal alert: when you're out and about for the next few weeks, try to clock good stocking stuffers and scoop 'em up!
signed, a lady who always forgets about stocking stuffers until 7pm on xmas eve
signed, a lady who always forgets about stocking stuffers until 7pm on xmas eve
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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this is my super bowl
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
this is my super bowl
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"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" is one of the greatest sitcom lines ever delivered
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" is one of the greatest sitcom lines ever delivered
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This is how Canadians know that it's American Thanksgiving.
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" is one of the greatest sitcom lines ever delivered
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is how Canadians know that it's American Thanksgiving.
This takes the cake.
okay this isn't holiday food related, but one time my grandparents got into A FULL SHOUTING MATCH in a diner because my grandfather ordered a reuben at dinner time and my grandmother tried to stop him because "a reuben is a LUNCH sandwich"
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This takes the cake.
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My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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burrito spot nearby has burritos whose outer tortilla is made entirely of cheese
taco bell needs to call them. they've already cracked this thing
taco bell needs to call them. they've already cracked this thing
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
burrito spot nearby has burritos whose outer tortilla is made entirely of cheese
taco bell needs to call them. they've already cracked this thing
taco bell needs to call them. they've already cracked this thing
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library of alexandria 💀
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
library of alexandria 💀
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And if you were wondering if anyone was buying King's "awww shucks I just didn't know" act - yeah. They are. White people are currently bending over backwards to forgive him when they are not the ones who get to do that.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
And if you were wondering if anyone was buying King's "awww shucks I just didn't know" act - yeah. They are. White people are currently bending over backwards to forgive him when they are not the ones who get to do that.
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I swear, settlers believe that "in community" means like you, by yourself. Or hey maybe they mean reading books like King's.
But of course what this conversation really does is embolden the folks who want to erase Indigenous People in the name of "equality." Folks like Flanagan et al.
But of course what this conversation really does is embolden the folks who want to erase Indigenous People in the name of "equality." Folks like Flanagan et al.
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I swear, settlers believe that "in community" means like you, by yourself. Or hey maybe they mean reading books like King's.
But of course what this conversation really does is embolden the folks who want to erase Indigenous People in the name of "equality." Folks like Flanagan et al.
But of course what this conversation really does is embolden the folks who want to erase Indigenous People in the name of "equality." Folks like Flanagan et al.
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painful. Embarrassing. I'm currently watching folks claim that King must be Native because "he has asiatic features." "His stories ring true despite who his ancestors were." "He was raised in the culture" - he admits HE HAS NO COMMUNITY!!!! What do you think "raised in the culture" is?
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
painful. Embarrassing. I'm currently watching folks claim that King must be Native because "he has asiatic features." "His stories ring true despite who his ancestors were." "He was raised in the culture" - he admits HE HAS NO COMMUNITY!!!! What do you think "raised in the culture" is?
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The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
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Spouse said that he saw more masks than usual in the supermarket tonight
I think the flu news is breaking through even if everyone is still checked out when it comes to covid
I think the flu news is breaking through even if everyone is still checked out when it comes to covid
The Chicago area is already starting to see more influenza hospitalizations than normal for this early in the season.
Chicago expected to experience worse flu season this year, officials say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Spouse said that he saw more masks than usual in the supermarket tonight
I think the flu news is breaking through even if everyone is still checked out when it comes to covid
I think the flu news is breaking through even if everyone is still checked out when it comes to covid
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I’m losing my mind
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I’m losing my mind