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Patrick Lilley
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Biologist on Coast Salish territory/Canada’s Pacific coast #water #watersheds #salmon #nature #conservation #biodiversity #climate #planetaryhealth 💧🌲🌍🚲 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Environmental science 60%
Geography 15%

It’s Thursday

@neorsd.org saw this online and thought of you. I mean, it’s not a sea shanty (missed opportunity) but it is pretty good. drive.google.com/file/d/13MiR...
Waterwater rough demo.mp4
drive.google.com

@nvandistrict.bsky.social I heard you left X. ❤️ When are you activating over here?

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40% of the mass of everything transported by a ship in 2023 was a fossil fuel.

That stat paired with this new study shines a pretty harsh spotlight on how obscenely bad-faith the right-wing concern trolling around offshore wind + whales is

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
UW study finds leading cause of whale deaths
New research shows that the top threat to whales around the globe has changed. But it wouldn't take much to reduce the risk, researchers say.
www.seattletimes.com

Saw my first Cybertruck in the wild today

The dirty, dirty rats of the world….

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Today almost 150 health professionals wrote to Mayor Sim and Vancouver City Council urging them to uphold the city’s bylaw requiring clean electric heating in new homes.
We call on you to make the right choice for a #healthyfuture on November 26.
Read: drive.google.com/file/d/19HFN...

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This Tuesday, council votes on whether to go back to allowing natural gas for heating buildings in Vancouver. I want to take a look at the stated reasons behind this move, and assess their accuracy. A bit of a long thread but an important one... 🧵

www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/t...
To ban or not to ban natural gas in construction of Vancouver detached homes?
City creates frequently-asked-questions document to clarify confusion leading up to Nov. 26 vote on controversial policy.
www.vancouverisawesome.com

I was worried it was because bots

I see me there! Thank you. I do know Katharine a bit so that makes sense.

I’m at over 200% of my X followers. How does that work?

Why am I accumulating so many followers on BlueSky compared to X? Am I really more popular here? Did someone include me in their starter park? How can I tell?

Go Costco!

@bcferrys How can we get the real BC Ferries over onto this site? Do you have any sway? In the meantime, thank you for keeping us informed. So serious. It’s not like you.

Is this where the cool people are hanging out now?