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posts too much 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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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Jan 18

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?

alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · Nov 29

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.

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5h

I am only on February 2024.

This is going to take forever!

alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5h

hey! Me too!

alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5h

Public schools ALWAYS need more funding.

BUT even if the taxpayer money from funding private schools does not get reallocated to public schools, we should still stop funding private schools.

Luke Fevin @according2luke.bsky.social · 19h

"If high school chemistry teacher Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in referendum on whether to end public funding for schools.

"...highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools,"

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly, I don't care if the money gets put back in public schools. (It should, public schools ALWAYS need more funding)

But taxpayers should not be funding private schools. Period.
That needs to stop.
No matter where that money gets reallocated.

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 6h

"I think people have pity for the birds ... but let's be realistic. If the government aren't going to kill their birds, the next day, me and the other guys they owe money to are going to be there and take most of their birds," Talica told CBC News.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

What do you know, the ostrich farmers owe money all over Canada for the ostrich schemes of the past. They are in arrears on $250K worth of debt and their creditors find their interim payments of ostrich oil instead of actual loonies to be insufficient
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News

After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping ...

www.cbc.ca

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 6h

gnome in a hollowed out pumpkin with a motor on it

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 5h

I might need a nap.
But only for an hour.
Feeling vaguely like a normal person with a headache, not a zombie who hasn't had sleep in ages ... because I ACTUALLY HAD SLEEP LAST NIGHT!

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 7h

the inevitable conclusion of this boondoggle is a million power plants making the planet less and less hospitable to an apathetic humanity resigned to dwelling in god’s waiting room while the planet warms around them…

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 7h

if a plagiarism machine is all it was, that would be sad enough but vaguely tolerable, but it’s more than that - it’s a rapidly growing, planet destroying prison whose bars are made of everything humanity has already dreamed up: an instrument of stagnation.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 7h

are we as a species ready to further enable the heat death of our planet in order to foster the endless recycling of already conceived ideas instead of educating ourselves in those ideas in order to transform them intentionally and thus create newness?

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 7h

art - even the lumpen popular arts in which i proudly make my living - exist to give us what we need, not what we want. even if what we want is comfort, it is the job of people like myself to make it novel, new, and reflective of an evolving consciousness.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 7h

are we really, as a species, abdicating everything that has made us unique to a vast network of machines programmed to statistically determine what we will say, do, or make, and spit back at us what we want to hear - or, worse, what they have “learned”?

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 7h

a few years ago i sincerely believed it to be the duty of artists to take these tools and show the world how to use them humanely and respectfully. i don’t believe that any more. every time i have tried i have left the experience frustrated and angry…

pjrodriguez.bsky.social @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 8h

@okbjgm.bsky.social uh wut theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight

Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover

theankler.com

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

PLUS all the double credits and credit subsidies specifically for CCUS available to early adopters within the offset system...

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 6h

Like many of the big successes of the entrepreneurial oil industry, the Alberta government has invested heavily in Carbon Capture projects over the past 2 decades. Nearly $2 billion dollars worth of public funding I believe.

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 6h

Also, if you’re wondering, the carbon-capture technology that oil companies spent years touting as their sustainability pathway is now an imposition by the Laurentian elite (which is basically the Canadian politics equivalent of calling anything that you’ve decided you don’t like “woke”).

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 7h

I hate to keep picking on The Hub, but there is such a bizarre, mythologized version of Alberta’s oil history as purely free-market triumph at play here - omitting everything from AOSTRA to to TMX, with lots in between (and even before). thehub.ca/2025/10/07/r...

Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer: Alberta may gain a pipeline—but what would it lose?

Once you let Ottawa in the door, it’s almost impossible to give it the boot

thehub.ca

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

Stop talking before you're evicted!

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 6h

For those who wanna wear earrings but can't these sterling ear wires by Shiv are awesome. They fit over your ear and you can bend them into place. Down to $24.

www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Shiv's Moon Mirror (Unpierced Earwire) | Peculiarity Shop

What happens when the moon sees its own reflection? Components: Sterling silver earwire, polymer clay, nickel free jump rings Lead/nickel free

www.peculiarityshop.com

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

I didn't get covid until 2024 (I did a lot of testing over the intervening years) and I would still assume that some of my lack of energy and fatigue issues are covid related rather than ongoing brain problems from my neurological disorder.

It has affected everyone.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

[cough cough] "The SoHo location was the first REI location to unionize, after a vote in March 2022. A year later, workers with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union filed 80 nationwide unfair labor practice complaints against the outdoor retailer for bad-faith bargaining practices."

Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 9h

REI soho closing is pretty bad for anyone who loves buying outdoor gear in the five boroughs. I know their c-suite is retrenching and cost cutting but I think folding up their NYC presence entirely is a huge mistake www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 6h

Whether it’s physical disability or cognitive dissonance due to society-wide gaslighting or unacknowledged trauma due to institutional abandonment…

Yeah

Occam’s Razor says covid

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 7h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

After all, that's how Charlie Kirk and so many others recruited more followers (it's also how cults work).

You do not start out watching the most egregiously awful Charlie Kirk videos. You probably start out watching the Charlie Kirk videos about raising a good christian family.

alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

Lots of people still wouldn't want to hang out with someone who read Atlas Shrugged and Mein Kampf and 12 Rules For Life EVEN IF they weren't a total nazi freak.

Being exposed to extremist views can push you further into understanding, excusing and possibly supporting extremism. It's a slow erosion

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 6h

And I get that a lot of people read it as "this person endorses and supports the bigoted shit ___ is promoting".

That doesn't need to be true to not want to be associated with people who read that stuff. Reading stuff affects your thinking EVEN IF you don't actually support or want to promote it.

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