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ICYMI - NEW DENVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA: “New Denver artist maps movements of evacuees displaced by 2024 Slocan Valley wildfires” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC British Columbia

#Art #BCWildfire #Maps #NewDenver #SlocanValley #Wildfires
New Denver artist maps movements of evacuees displaced by 2024 Slocan Valley wildfires | CBC News
Two years ago, New Denver, B.C., artist Petra Hekkenberg was forced to leave her home during the 2024 Slocan Lake Complex wildfires. She's since created a community map with the help of residents, sho...
www.cbc.ca
February 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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A message of defiant hope in this difficult time:

MAKE NO MORE CLOUDS.
I HAVE DRAWN THE RAINBOW HERE.
January 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)
December 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well done Skate Canada. Organizations (and individuals) need to make them pay for this authoritarian bullshit.
December 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Frankly, this is political pseudoscience. Postulations of intra-group unity and intergroup incommensurability are as facile and cartoonish when framed in terms of "civilisations" as they are when framed in terms of "races". Thankfully, IR as a discipline is moving on from this sort of nonsense.
Amid the liberal internationalist optimism of the late 1990s, Samuel Huntington foresaw a world marked by continued conflict.
Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge
The idea of a global “clash of civilizations” wasn’t wrong—it was just premature.
foreignpolicy.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Dangerous animal keeps sliding out between the bars of its enclosure: problematic cage gap
Angry person yelling at chill person who is responding by being calm, which makes the angry person even more mad? Problematic rage gap.
Prisoners keep escaping because you put the bars too far apart? Problematic cage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Just an absolute banger of an animal family
June 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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July 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“When you live in a forest, you have to be prepared.”

What it took to face down a wildfire in a coastal mountain town. Lauren Watson reports. 🌳
Close Call: Squamish’s 11-Day Fire Drill | The Tyee
‘We live in this naive bubble.’ What it took to face down a wildfire in a coastal mountain town.
thetyee.ca
June 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I just pulled the data for Canadian provinces of the most common injuries by province, here they are:
June 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.
May 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure.

- Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes
- We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles
- We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
April 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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yep. transphobia is the camel’s nose under the tent for the full panoply of right wing gender policing, for men and women alike
not that it should have to be like this for people to care, but everyone should understand that anti-trans bigotry is a threat to cisgender people as well as to trans people.
Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
April 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
They really are the best.
April 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.

www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."

But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.

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April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!
April 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is the best analysis of what makes these goblins tick I’ve seen yet.
Last week, I wrote about how explicitly and vigorously sociopathic this version of The Trump Experience is, and the urge to defeat or devour every other person and thing on earth. The tariffs literalize that in a way that's easy to see, but also it's everywhere you look. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
defector.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Last week, I wrote about how explicitly and vigorously sociopathic this version of The Trump Experience is, and the urge to defeat or devour every other person and thing on earth. The tariffs literalize that in a way that's easy to see, but also it's everywhere you look. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
defector.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Do yourself a favour and read this entire thread.
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM