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Paul Foth

@paulrfoth.bsky.social

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Sparrow, lichen, music fan account Bird guide in the BC Cariboo Occasional scholar of of religious history Exile from the Salish Sea

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 40m

By a user, not by the suggested identifications (unless that is where the user got the suggestion).

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 4h

I think this case was a user error somehow. Or a user who went with the AI-suggested species.

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 7h

My favourite iNaturalist misidentification so far is a June Beetle marked as a Common Merganser.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 17h

Baseball is Really Long and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 17h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 23h

Nervous* of course

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 1d

How do you like the new Thrice?

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 1d

I've been listening to Designing a Mervous Breakdown again this week. It's cool, it's cool.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 1d

I don't really sport (not since I was maybe 13), but should I start watching the Mariners now?

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 2d

And Sequim. I even once heard "Skagit" pronounced with a hard "g."

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 2d

Puyallup

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 3d

14EE is hard to find. Apparently I had a size 10EEEE great-grandfather.

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago manual of style pizza

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 3d

So it follows that Cleopatra was a T. rex. #knowyourhistory

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 3d

I've loved it for along time, but at the same time, it's also so annoying (Illinois and Michigan in particular).

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Lee Stevens @leestevens1.bsky.social · 5d

From a colonial modernity lens, we are conditioned not to question whether or not progress is good. Progress has become synonymous with “innovation” and we should probably start thinking about these terms more critically.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 3d

I've been looking outside my usual US-Canada-UK sphere of music. Four new favourites are Seu Jorge, Rokia Traoré, Manu Chau, and Che Sudaka.

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 4d

How is it?

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 4d

An AI hologram of George Grant should do the trick.

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 4d

And Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 5d

Our belief in inevitable progress has become uncoupled from the belief that progress is good. And yet we still believe in its inevitability.

That's so dark, folks. So dark.

Where's George Grant when you need him?

Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 5d

We blundered into a lot of problems because we were so impressed by the potential upsides of something that we didn't pay enough attention to the perils.

But that's not the case here. The perils are so obvious and the upsides so minuscule.

We are doing this because it feels inevitable. That's it.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5d

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell

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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 4d

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Orange-filtered photo of grand fir trunk

Orange-filtered photo of grand fir branches and needles

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 5d

I spent my morning emailing the regional eBird reviewer to change the filters for Yellow-rumped Warbler subspecies. How about you?
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Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 6d

The fox:
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Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Red Fox in October 2025 by Paul Foth

inaturalist.ca

Paul Foth @paulrfoth.bsky.social · 7d

I saw a fox and a Long-eared Owl today.

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