It's H5N5. Hope the patient recovers, and it doesn't spread. At this point, it's unclear whether the virus was within their birds (backyard flock) or if wild birds spread it to those birds.

One US company starting Canadian operation: "The company said nearly 98% of its 1 million Sour Puss bottles sold last year were in Canada, amounting to Canadian sales of $23 million" torontosun.com/news/nationa...

Keep on travelin', Carol! #Pluribus

I donated to this educational project in Venezuela, to help educate kids at rural schools about protecting wildlife, especially endangered tapirs. Even a few dollars can buy supplies so Denis can print colouring books and stickers, and the school kids really love that. This is going until Nov 28.

This is very interesting, because they did break down the age groups (and younger Gen X through to Gen Z wouldn't have clear memories of that time -- their views would be based on secondary sources like TV/movies, books and articles, and older people's opinions)

I'm trying not to think about what those "insatiable appetites" would look like, given that he was going to eat that bear carcass he found on the road.

h/T to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social who did this and really made me laugh: Olivia Nuzzi bio Mad Libs GO

Say hello to Fender, our critically endangered bowmouth guitarfish, making waves in the Tropical Reef Aquarium! Our aquarists and veterinary team worked together for a smooth, carefully monitored transfer to the Outer Reef habitat, ensuring the 230-pound guitarfish settled safely into his new home.

I'm imagining @chuckwendig.bsky.social has an entire wall like this!

Radio killed the silent film star

Imagine how they'd enforce this -- surveilling e-mail, even encouraging colleagues and students to snitch on profs. Also -- if they can do this to China, there's nothing to prevent them from dictating this for Canada, the EU, etc.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Frequently there are stories about people getting lost in the woods, or falling over cliffs or riverbanks while out hiking --stuff like this may be a factor. Eyes on the trail, folks!

crazy IG em_clarkson

Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

I'd heard of Lone Star ticks and alpha gal syndrome (which causes the allergy) but didn't realize it can be fatal.

A Dick Flick! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGAR...

By a weird coincidence, I found a copy of the book at a thrift shop last Saturday, and read that same chapter earlier this week. Here's what the coveted first edition looks like (mine's a recent paperback). www.setantabooks.com/products/the...

Oreoboros

Oh, the irony

The Easy Way or The Hard Way? More about the Niger River: brilliantmaps.com/niger-river/

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

The Israeli government identified the deceased hostage whose remains were handed over by Hamas on Thursday as Manny Godard, 73, an Israeli resident of a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.

Some good news for the week!

Once people accepted casual social media posts as being as authoritative and formal as official press releases, that probably opened the way. Familiarity breeds contempt, etc.

It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion

Unlimited toilet paper?! What other special privileges could possibly top this?

We'd be a lot further along with climate change mitigation, and adaptive measures (emergency response, better hazard mapping/zoning, etc.) -- because big insurance companies would be prodding everyone along to do something.

Lettuce consider where this is coming from

You can help make the Fifth National Climate Assessment easier to find. Watch this short video to learn how. #ClimateForUs

🚨🚨 🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed 🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨 Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism CDC Library is a national treasure #SaveCDCLibrary

🎥 @alertcalifornia.bsky.social cameras are capturing some incredible footage of the Northern Lights! The skies across much of Northern California were so bright that it triggered many cameras to switch into full-color “day mode.” Check out more cameras here: cameras.alertcalifornia.org

Lies are foundational to fascism

Reading various journalist takes, and B'sky speculation ... JE might have gotten that rich and powerful from dodgy financial stuff, even espionage, and possibly blackmail too. But ... even before he got onto Wall Street in his 20s, he was unusually lucky. He was just a student (a dropout in fact)

Very little value *to him*, it seems. It's funny how many self-proclaimed conservatives and pro-business boosters grab for centrally-planned economies, as soon as they seen an opportunity.

On the one hand -- the more time he spends on this stuff, the less he's making up tariffs or threatening to invade countries. On the other -- he's been much less enthusiastic about helping Alaska or Texas with the flooding, or Kentucky with the plane crash, or California with the wildfires.

So instead of having a dignified end, to something that a lot of people agreed was long overdue -- because it's being done hastily without a coherent plan, now the penny's demise has turned into a scramble with legal ramifications www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I'm a bit late to the party -- but these are awesome! And right up to date (the arsonist kite) www.zmescience.com/ecology/anim...

It wasn't that long ago, when Cape Town almost ran out of water. Tehran's a lot bigger. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...

From: jeevacation To: [email protected] rou gh. haev you tried assking her doter ? From:[email protected] To: [email protected] The new postdoc has a hair up her ass about my request that she smile more and declined my invitation for a private drink.

Um. "Barely legal". I don't believe that phrase means what she thinks it means. 15 = still illegal. If you just turned 18 and there's still leftover birthday cake in the fridge -- that's the "barely" part. A 15-year-old is years away from that. They are still children.

This sounds weirdly like this situation described more than 200 years ago ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Check your supply of masks (ideally N95) and hand sanitizer. Looks like they'll be useful this winter.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Must take a powerful light to candle a mermaid's purse (shark egg capsule).

Interesting -- look at Iceland!

The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous and shouldn't be turned over to federal immigration authorities story via @glorihuh.bsky.social