🎄🦉🎄Silent Night - by Vanessa Bowman #OwlishMonday

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

I just can't get enough of these fog covered foothills at #sunset. Snapped this one tonight at La Cumbre Peak, 4000 feet above #SantaBarbara. #Photography

'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt

When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada. H0H 0H0. Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered. This is the story. 🧵1/8

The Hunt for Voter Fraud Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry

Court watchers have built what they call a "habeas machine" with @repdangoldman.bsky.social. For months, the congressman'office has been a rapid response center. Families go there after a loved one is detained and lawyers immediately get on the case. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

the prairies are incredibly pretty and if you try to tell me otherwise, i won’t hear it and i won’t respond to it 🙂‍↔️❄️✨ #art

I love to feel small and insignificant in nature. Perspective is good #ArtAdventCalendar 🌿

"To attempt to find useful information and instead take part in the solidification of the internet as an ad-delivery business, where you’re given no option but to be the product."

One of the painters shared some making-of video for the icebergs in Frankenstein so I think it’s now safe to reveal that there were little bits of styrofoam on my husband and tracked into my house for months in order to make that movie. So. Much. Styrofoam. But the fully gimballed ship was cool.

I (belatedly) thought I’d inquire about this. Anybody want to assist me in Getting The Hell Out Of Dodge at #Christmas? https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/802500831283953664/ill-be-home-for-christmas-unless-theres-a

🌎 December 10 is Human Rights Day, and our rights are under attack. Trans rights are human rights. If you would like to help us in our fight against discriminatory government policies & legislation here in Alberta, please donate to our legal fund: www.skippingstone.ca/legalfund

Today's the day! Put our heart and soul into these lil guys. Find a Mars friend to wear around your neck today at 12pm PST / 3pm EST Previews of each: sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra... #sciart @sciencesocks.bsky.social

Vulcan, AB, Christmas Tree R.F.M. McInnis 1997

Bonus #artAdventCalendar Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to 🧵

Hi researchers interested in Canada 🇨🇦 👋. Call me 🤙 (Well actually email me).

Medical misinformation and social media go hand in hand now. After a rousing chat with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social about his new book, I wrote my thoughts on a five-steop guide to recognizing and resisting medical misinformation. vajenda.substack.com/p/a-five-ste...

Cypress Hills, Alberta Luke Lindoe 1999

Two things: (1) I’ve had shingles, and it really, really sucks, and (2) recent research suggests getting the shingles vaccine may lower the risk of dementia.

Opossum advice: even if the snow’s coming down and your coat’s at maximum floof take the time to pick the best apple slice😄

How Christmas gift-giving exposes the flaw in means-tested welfare and makes the case for truly universal basic income.

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I think the four pieces I edited by incarcerated queer journalist B Speaks may be the thing I'm proudest of this year. Speaks is an incredible writer, with an ability to take you into the world of the GA prison, and its trans and queer inmates, that takes my breath away.

The Sun in my Sunday Morning Lee Munn 2024

6.12.1989 😔🙏

36 years ago today a man entered an engineering class at École Polytechnique de Montréal and murdered 14 women and injured 14 others simply because they were women. I think about these 14 bright young women all the time and did so especially while I was in undergrad becoming an engineer.

✨✨ Le 6 décembre, il y aura toujours 14 étoiles qui brilleront pour nous rappeler Polytechnique. Nous ne vous oublierons jamais ✨✨

It’s a true spread, with everything from the meat and potatoes of protest memoir to the gravy of a pensive novel to the confection of an escapist mystery. 📚🎁🎄❄️

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

Porcupine are the north's spiky sloths. These slow movers will climb into trees and shrubs during the winter and stick it out for days and weeks at a time. #mammals #AB

If you or a loved one has gone through it, you know how many years, how much paperwork, how much money, and how much stress goes into arriving at your citizenship ceremony. This is so pointedly racist and cruel.

I *LOVE* the Wayfarer series. So so much. When we had her on Gastropod for our sci-fi food episode (I worked so hard to make that happen!) (gastropod.com/what-do-alie..., I had to call her first for a quick soundcheck and I could get all my fangirling out of the way

Lots of good stuff in this 🧵

When leaves retire ...

The joy of bookish gifts. 📚 #BookSky #KidLit #Uplift

“ICE agents would disembark from the airplane and unload bags of shackles from the cargo hold … seeing the chains that would soon be confining my neighbors, binding their hands together at their waist and then down between their ankles.” unicornriot.ninja/2025/documen...

Day 4 of my 2025 Favorites: Tiny Leaf With Grabby Hands! Juvenile Macrocephalini, a somewhat rarely-seen tribe of ambush bugs. He's just a pleasing shape and color and disposition, with his chonky grabby hands he hasn't grown into yet

You don't have to look like a character to dress up as that character. You just have to like the character! And it is actually far more polite to just ignore differences than to reach for make-up or prosthetics to cosplay as a different race. Doing that is weird and off-putting.

Highly recommend!!! I have this book on my shelf and it is both an amazing story and amazingly researched!

We have a generous donor who will match up to $75K in reader donations! Doubling your donation means we can publish more journalism about slime molds and sunflower stars, cormorants and caddisflies; stories that help you feel more connected to the natural world and inspired to protect it.

I've been doing these rough background sketches to practice background design and improve my intuition for perspective. I've come to love doing these, and they're helping me improve too!

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, a sketch I did on a day when lots of people were sharing their aurora photos. I remember it felt very joyous on here that night, and it reminded me how important it is to share good things. "There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for."

Happy Holidays #kidlitartpostcard ! I illustrate picture books, middle grade, and comics. 💼 kidshannon.com/jenniferl.me... #kidlitart #animals

On Dec. 4, 1977, CBC aired an animated special called A Cosmic Christmas. It was one of the first productions by a Canadian studio that later brought us Inspector Gadget, The Edison Twins and The Care Bears. It also led to the creation of Boba Fett. This is the story. 🧵1/10

Remember summer and meadow flowers? 🌸🌼🌻🪻 if you need more wildflowers to see you through winter I have loads in my folksy.com shop at the moment 🌷🪻🌼🌸🌻 all hand embroidered onto brooches, purses and pendants folksy.com/find/item/85... #handmade #handembroidery #textileart #fibrearts #giftideas

-Elon Musk is a dual Canadian-US citizen. -Peter Thiel has German, US, & New Zealand citizenship. -Arnold Schwarzenegger is a dual Austrian-US citizen. -Andrew Tate is a dual British-US citizen. -Mel Gibson is a dual Irish-US citizen. -Melania & Barron Trump are dual Slovenian-US citizens.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...