@lizoksbooks.bsky.social Just finished My Dreadful Body and loved it, what a beautiful book to get to translate, thank you!

"I see plants – all life – as equals. And that’s been my art practice forever." www.rewildingmag.com/the-artist-w...

The removal of a statue of Mikhail Bulgakov - the Kyiv-born author of The Master and Margarita - sparks a debate over how far Ukraine's de-colonization drive can and should go. “If Bulgakov was alive today, he would probably write a satire about all this.” My report from Kyiv

Morning! I have a new feature out for the first time in many months. For Be Giant, I wrote about a recently completed wildlife underpass in southern Alberta, and its role in the larger Yellowstone to Yukon conservation project. Working on this changed my whole perspective when I drive! #longreads

As Russia’s prison population hits historic lows, the number of women behind bars is growing. Among them are mothers jailed for anti-war activism & political dissent — and they’re increasingly cut off from the outside world. My article for @neweasterneurope.eu neweasterneurope.eu/2026/06/23/r...

If other news was reported like climate change:

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

So sad that after all this time Soames doesn’t get it - he chooses women who don't care about property then wonders why they don't care about his property. #forsytesaga26

Yesterday, Marmot Technician Erin was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Gracelyn at her home in Bell Creek Meadow. Gracelyn was born at the Tony Barrett Mount Washington Marmot Centre and released to the wild in 2023. Photo by Erin Barlett

"Landscaping with native plants is just the beginning. Each additional resource added, including duplicates, will have compounding benefits that will greatly increase the activity, abundance and diversity of the creatures living in your garden." www.rewildingmag.com/5-things-eve...

Galsworthy's "brumous October gloaming" was giving me Jabberwocky vibes so I went looking for references and oh look at what MW uses as a reference for brumous. #forsytesaga26

"What would his father be advising now, in this sudden recrudescence of an old tragedy?" Recrudescence is such a great word. Reminds me of Crudessence, the raw-food place in Montreal, for good reason. #forsytesaga26 www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/r...

"Prioritizing responsibility over novelty within the context of the contemporary art world is a truly radical act." Meet Nevada Lynn, one of the winners of the 2026 Rewilding Arts Prize presented by us and the @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social >> www.rewildingmag.com/the-artist-m...

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"Boulle work (also known as buhl work) is a type of rich marquetry process or inlay perfected by the French cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732)." I wonder if Soames bought his sister an original. #forsytesaga26 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulle_...

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

And then there's "the clean potato", which is all kinds of fun. Oh, Dartie. #forsytesaga26 wordhistories.net/2022/05/24/c...

It can be hard to understand the emotional and social impact of old slang terms, like swearing in a foreign language. Anyway here is bounder, "a man who behaves badly or in a way that is not moral, especially in his relationships with women" #forsytesaga26 dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

Apparently plover eggs used to be seen as quite the delicacy, sigh. #forsytesaga26 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plover_...

A few years ago I ran a campaign to try to get the @nytimes.com to stop making ads for oil and gas companies. It didn’t work. But we will try again. Many times, if we have to. One day, everyone will have been against this.

Venus and Jupiter in the post-sunset sky, from 9500 feet over southern Ontario.

VERNON, B.C. - “Water restrictions imposed for Vernon area, including 70% reduction for farmers” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC British Columbia #BCPoli #Drought #NorthOkanagan #VernonBC

"But nowadays Nature actually made him ache, he appreciated it so." #forsytesaga26

An excellent article from @jeremymorris.bsky.social and @seva.bsky.social on Putin's self-inflicted constraints when it comes to the Ukraine war. Especially important reading for Western policymakers who spend too much time "trying to read Putin's mind." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/inert...

This is an absolutely terrific piece about the Patagonia lawsuit, and about the history of the region and ethical questions raised by using names from nature as brands.

Quickled some radishes earlier today and I have no regrets.

A tiny Canadian bird tracker is unlocking the mysteries of migration, following birds as they fly across countries and continents. @brianbanks.bsky.social on how @birdscanada.bsky.social's Motus is used around the world to help decode a worrying trend in bird numbers www.begiant.ca/stories/idea...

In some ways, says Hullin, Hinton Ampner is turning the clock back “to the ways that, certainly, my grandfather would recognize.” www.rewildingmag.com/the-english-...

So gratifying to finally be able to pick from my own rhubarb patch, even if the harvest is still meagre. Clafoutis tonight!

If being alive in this world doesn’t break you a bit and change your gait, then look around. What god are you serving? And why you are keeping that monster alive with your libations? 🙃

“You don’t realize how sad you are until you see good art.” Oof. Quite the quote in The Tyee's newsletter today. mailchi.mp/21b3579a7433...

June reads the absence of Bosinney's things as though he's sold them to gather up cash but seems more likely he's fled altogether. She's quite the woman of property, determined to possess him despite his loss of interest; a flip of Irene/Soames? #forsytesaga26

But where did Timothy *go*?? #forsytesaga26

Thinking more about the meaning of "property": "VIRTUE sense 2" ("a good and moral quality"); "an attribute common to all members of a class". I don't think Soames is all that virtuous, but I do think he thinks he is, as do all "Forsytes". #forsytesaga26 www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...

"A totally wild, unkempt, cacophony of lawn-to-meadow conversion is a lost opportunity, and indeed, shooting ourselves in the foot." www.rewildingmag.com/why-wildlife...

"Nothing in this world is more sure to upset a Forsyte than the discovery that something on which he has stipulated to spend a certain sum has cost more." Oooh, this paragraph is such a dramatic double entendre. #forsytesaga26

My book Fair: The Life-Art of Translation is coming to North America! It will be out from Invisible Books this November.

Who is the Princess de Galles whose hairstyle Mrs Baynes is imitating? Must be Alexandra of Denmark, the future queen, quite the style icon in her day, and it's probably along the lines of the updo in this opening image. #forsytesaga26 www.rct.uk/collection/p...

Meanwhile, I read Rebecca Solnit's The Beginning Comes After the End yesterday and couldn’t stop thinking about the Forsytes the whole way through, eg "to feel himself the possessor of this gracious creature before all London had been his greatest, though secret, pride." #forsytesaga26

"The gray light clung about the trees of the square, as though Night, like a great downy moth, had brushed them with her wings." I do love some good moth imagery. #forsytesaga26

Still thinking about this (from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 's Becoming Earth): "a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants". I knew it was big, but never worked it out. A tank of petrol is a LOT of ancient life. +1 reason to electrify!

Another for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...

For people with a lot of cookbooks I can’t recommend Eat Your Books enough, and their newish app CookShelf is even better. I'd be cooking out of my books a lot less without them. www.eatyourbooks.com

"And Dartie shot a glance at the face between, so veiled by the overhanging shadow that it was but like a darker piece of the darkness shaped and breathed on; soft, mysterious, enticing." So much play with light and dark in this chapter! #forsytesaga26

1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.
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Nina Litvinova, a veteran Russian human rights activist, has died by suicide in Moscow, leaving a note condemning Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the mass imprisonment of anti-war dissidents. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

The end goal of AI is not building god or whatever — or even building AI tools that even work. It's stuff this. A proprietary layer of automation that controls and surveils everything we do, owned by the wealthiest of society. They want to freeze the world as it is now and rule over it.

Some favourite word combos in this chapter: "brilliantly alight"; "embowered in palms"; "clean-shaven and sprightly"; "armoured in professional gaiety"; "patient, sourish smile"; "the refraction of human needs and human fancies"; "with idle malice". #forsytesaga26

Hey! Canadian journalism jobs! The Narwhal is hiring a reporter in B.C. and one (almost) anywhere in Canada. We're looking for seasoned, ambitious reporters to focus their skills on the natural world and how it connects to politics, industry - and people. thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers?sour...

"He would...let Timothy have a bit of his mind"; "it was by no means unusual for Timothy to have so many visitors"; "the sound of a door closing announced the approach of Timothy"; but where *is* he? Are we ever going to meet him? #forsytesaga26