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Joanne Hammond
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Archaeologist & anthropologist. Settler doing my best on Secwépemc and Nlaka'pamux territories. Land back. Free Palestine. Pro swearing.
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Building public washrooms and water stations that are powered 24/7 but CLOSED UNTIL SPRING is hostile municipal behaviour. The public exists and has to hydrate and pee in the winter. Pioneer Park, Kamloops
Night shot lit by neon light and lots of ambient light pollution. A squat cinder block public washroom building on the edge of a park. Sad. Closed. A stainless steel water fountain/bottle refill station attached to a cinder lock wall. It’s night but well lit by surrounding lampposts etc.
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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At dusk tonight, looking across the South Thompson River at Tk’emlups from Kamloops 🧡
Landscape photo at dusk across a wide, calm river with dark beach and tall pilings in the foreground, mountain topped by low cloud in the background, bluish grey sky behind the clouds
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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The parents bring their little* gray toddlers to fatten up and learn to swan here, before heading back to Yukon/Alaska 🩶

*lol, 20 lbs or more
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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The waters where the Thompson Rivers meet at Tkemlups/Kamloops stay ice-free, at least in part, for longer than many in the region, so we’re a migratory stopover for loads of water fowl. Welcome, webbers!
A snowy surface in the near-dark, with a couple of sets of waddly webbed bird footprints, probably goose
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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loooooook who’s back!
Trumpeter swans marking the beginning of winter at Tk’emlups. Volume up for honks🤍
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Winter afternoons along the Thompson River at Kamloops/Tk’emlups are getting washed out bright and I don’t like it. Turn that shit off.
Landscape shot of a mountain across dark fuzzy looking water in the foreground, with street and industrial lights reflected along the horizon in the centre of the photo. The sun has set and it’s darkly cloudy but there are still patches of blue sky peeping through the clouds over the mountains.
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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500 m west. Asphalt plant, overhead wires, light, and Tsqwmémenk (Mts Paul and Peter) back there in the after dark haze.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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🩶 Tsqwmémenk (Mts Paul and Peter) at Tk’emlups tonight. Neat lighting courtesy ambient light pollution.
View of a snow-dusted two-peaked mountain across a dark river banded by leafless trees, in a strange night-but-bright light from too much light pollution reflecting off snow.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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favourite photojournalism ever, no notes
A very round brown marmot, photographed sitting from behind, on short green grass. Like ORBISH. Mathematically compliant with sphere. A news photo caption: A marmot in Kamloops has a big backside. imagine credit: SUBMITTED/ Taylor Borth
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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fealty always!
Remember the Roundest One??
One big fat golden marmot standing up on short green grass, with his/her paws out, palms up, like he’s Donnie in the big Lebowski asking AM I RIGHT It’s a yellow-bellied marmot living the good life at a Kamloops BC park. Screenshot of ctvnews interview with the photographer of a very fat marmot, with highlighted text ‘As I was rounding the corner of the pond, I gasped’. Underneath is a picture of a very fat yellow-bellied marmot
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I loved this book in so many ways! Familiar lives in lands so far apart, the fallout of invasive forces, all with a captivating Indigenous woman archaeologist character (!!) and a sensitive recognition of the everyday heartache of the MMIWG crisis. Thank you ♥️ @shobharaowrites.bsky.social
Book cover in creamy white with a stylized meandering blue river and red hills In black letters at the top, Indian Country In black letters at the bottom, Shobha Rao
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects."

The nation we're building:
View from an airplane of a forest fire, with a lake in the lower left glowing like copper, forested hills in the centre, and a front of flames and smoke across the top of the frame
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Damn. TMX is your model, Alberta NDP? You sure? How many Indigenous people arrested, harassed, charged, kept from their lands? How much for the lawyers to fight FN title? How much debt for Canadians for this sunset industry nowhere project that no one wants to buy? Do the fucking math.
alberta's New Democrats have had success building pipelines with TMX—we know what it takes. It's time for everyone to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work to get it done.
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Looking across the current of the Fraser River at Lytton, in one of its lower and slower and greener moments. I just love how this river changes. Volume up. #waterislife
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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It seems like a bad time to revive this phrase that most people had not heard until that dead sex criminal used it to describe the US rapist-in-chief. About the massive sex trafficking ring with hundreds of survivors? Who can read? Maybe lead with something else @theguardian.com 👎
The Guardian story headline under a photo of two football players on a grass field celebrating with a trophy “Champions League ‘Dog that didn’t bark’: Uefa’s Champions League rights sale delivered a key lesson Plan to sell first-pick games to one global streaming company failed and that offers pointers for the future”
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Enjoy a few moments of a quiet lil bit of the Fraser River at Tl'ḵémtsin (Lytton) just below the mouth of the Thompson. Volume up, shoulders down. #waterislife
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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None of this jargon means anything. It’s insultingly vacant communication and we’re not fooled. Kamloops families are so tired of the slowly revolving door that is SD 73 leadership.
“I look forward to supporting to board in a shared commitment to fostering authentic connections with students, parents and families, all employee groups and labour partners, the Indigenous Education Council and the entire SD73 community,” St. John said in a news release. “We will learn and lead together as we collectively create the most caring and engaging learning environments for students and staff, while expanding on the district’s solid foundation of connection, equity, wellbeing and sustainability.”
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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wtf is happening for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be making sense, even as a Canadian I know this is not normal
“She said voters were tuning out Washington because "they know how much credit card debt they have, they know how much their own bills have gone up over the past five years, they actually do their own grocery shopping and know food costs too much, their rent has increasingly gone up, they have been outbid by corporate asset managers too many times when they put in an offer to buy a house."
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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omw to explain that we have to dig up and move the bodies
A headshot of a gape-mouthed pink-skinned white man in a suit, with blurred people in the background. (The man is United States speaker of the house Mike Johnson)
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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testing
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Sarah Aziza’s The Hollow Half is an *amazing* recent read: a beautifully poetic and completely unique Palestinian-American memoir of the colonialism and diaspora.
Book cover: The Hollow Half, Sarah Aziza, a memoir of bodies and borders. Background is green-blue with a painted red poppy with leaves and stem above a peach cut in half with pit removed.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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These are Royal Canadian Mounted Police. RCMP were created to clear the land that is now Canada of Indigenous peoples and to secure it for occupation by white people, with extreme prejudice. Their entire history is consistent with that goal. But sports, I guess?
A social media post that says “This is Canada. This is the Grey Cup. I love my country.” Underneath is a photo of two Mounties (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the regimental red serge suits holding a large trophy topped with a silver cup. The cop on the left is a white man wearing the classic flat brimmed brown felt RCMP hat, the one on the right is a brown-skinned Sikh man with a moustache and beard in a grey turban.
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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This is a crucial bit about clandestine child graves at residential “schools”. FNMI communities who’ve become caretakers of the remains and memories of many thousands who died at residential “schools” owe us non-Indigenous Canadians NOTHING. It’s not about us or up to us.
Excerpt from quoted article: “Tk’emlups, who has taken responsibility for the children, is under no obligation to disturb them from their resting places just to counteract the ignorance of a few toxic hatemongers.”
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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read the trc: nctr.ca/publications...
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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sky says free free Palestine 🇵🇸
photo by @lacci.bsky.social
photo and alt text from @lacci.bsky.social: Northern lights from the corner of my front yard. There are trees in the foreground and some bits of houses.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM