Edmonton's responsibilities on Indigenous relations: Where the candidates stand edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2025/... #yeg

Carefully keeping my decorative gourds away from my non-decorative gourds

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

The second is Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new @nichecanada.bsky.social on the #envhist of residential and day schools in Canada. Read "Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e... #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous

In the first, for @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social, Fraser demonstrates why we need to think about residential school history in terms of forced labour. citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/09/30/m... #cdnhist #yeg #indigenoushistory #everychildmatters #indigenous #labour

I had the privilege to work as an editor on two important articles by Crystal Gail Fraser that come out today for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. #cdnhist #envhist #indigenous #indigenoushistory

If you feel out of the loop with all the orange shirts today, read this new story on ECAMP. This is not the distant past. My grandparents were alive when children were forced to do dangerous work at this "school” in St. Albert. #yeg #yeghistory #trday citymuseumedmonton.ca/2025/09/30/m...

@cityofhamilton.bsky.social should send city council to Edmonton for a week to take notes on some of the good urbanism choices they've made. From raised bike lanes and wide sidewalks to detailed map signs and art EVERYWHERE! They also have a working LRT system, what a concept 🤯 #yeg #hamont

Hey Dave! Who’s going to be the next Mayor of Edmonton? Walters, Knack, Cartmell? It could be anyone's game. daveberta.substack.com/p/hey-dave-w...

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English! Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

No one could have predicted this. #ableg

We’re excited to launch our tool that helps you find out how the candidates running for mayor and city council in Edmonton align with you on the issues that matter most. blog.taprootpublishing.ca/2025/09/26/t... #yegvote #yegcc #yeg

Microraptor repost time!

Happy fat bear week everybody 🐻

There's always something new to see. This absolutely wild little thing is the insect-egg slime mould (Leocarpus fragilis). Each fruiting body is about 1.5 mm long. Bob Orr Pond Trail, Caughey-Taylor Preserve (Nature Trust NB), near St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

Here's a look at what I've been working on these past couple weeks!! Rainbow Raven, a collection of pride flag coloured formline stickers!! 🌈🪶 #formline #telekitneticart #pridemonth #indigenousart 🌈🪶

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

So many #yegbike friends and neighbours came together this morning in memory of Darren Markland. Easy to love Edmonton today.

Captain Janeway’s Holo-Beau Aboard Voyager

Hey #yegcc and #yeghistory nerds - I’m cohosting a trivia night this evening for ECAMP with @stephanieswensrude.bsky.social. It’s gonna be awesome! citymuseumedmonton.ca/events/ecamp...

my wife didn’t hesitate to name me the kermit in our relationship. almost offensively fast

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

four color riso with Nova Community Arts ✨ last piece for my class!

Tupac Amaru is not to be confused with the better known Tupac Amaru II who led an Andean rebellion against the Spanish from 1780 to 1783. He was born José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera but adopted his new name in honour of the original Tupac Amaru. Read more: ageofrevolution.org/200-object/t...

453 years ago, on the 24th of September 1572, the last Sapa Inca, Túpac Amaru, was convicted for the murder of priests in Vilcabamba and beheaded by Spanish conquistadors. Amaru became Sapa Inca in 1571, after the death of his brother. He was 27 years old when he died. #otd #history #inca 🗃️

Almost Home - this month’s riso print to ring in the fall. Not sure how to describe it, but this time of year always feels like I’m almost “home” so I wanted to come up with something that touches on that feeling a little

Happy to confirm the funicular is still working. The elevator is still down for maintenance. What a clear blue sky today. #YegFunicularStatus

[1] it was not² [2] if it was, no-one could prove it³ [3] even if someone could prove it, is it a crime to appreciate a succulent footnote?⁴ [4] in some principalities, it is in fact a crime to enjoy a succulent footnote, particularly if that footnote is not so much a footnote as it is a human liver

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

First day of autumn #sciart 🦤 🍂

Nature and Slate

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!

Here are some nice mushrooms

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Just the Alberta government casually threatening to use a constitutional sledgehammer to block a handful of transgender kids from doing normal kids stuff like playing on school sports teams. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/18/a...

We are teaming up with a lot of great orgs around Edmonton for the "Draw the Line" rally on September 20th! Register at: actionnetwork.org/events/draw-... #yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt #drawtheline #publictransit

Tired of being stuck in #traffic? If you live in one of the many parts of #edmonton that's under construction, you might be really frustrated right now. There are alternative options to being traffic. Just take a look outside the windshield. #yegbike #bikelife #yegtraffic

I just can’t stop loving [red osier dogwood].

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.

It is important to stay vigilant about the horrors and injustices of the world and seek the levers of change. It is also important to seek joy wherever you possibly can — it is difficult to dig a well if you are dying of thirst.

My latest. "This plan looks less like streamlining and more like risk stacking: more data on more cards shown to more people, with unclear guardrails and unfunded administrative burdens. "...The citizenship marker project will likely be scuttled on the shores of logic, logistics or law."

This is amazing: A direct image of the shadow of a black hole. A direct image of the hot, swirling gas circling and falling into it. And brand-new images showing an apparent magnetic flip around the black hole, a sign of turbulent, tumultuous changes. 🧪🔭 eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

Goodnight.

"AND THEN, AND THEN I CAUGHT A BUG, AND THEN AND THEN I ATE THE BUG, AND THEN..." happy end of #InverteFest lol, to know what is going on here check the reposted thread!

Imagine being Albertans concerned about parks, inviting media to your protest in Banff, and... TV + newspapers show up and portray you as ordinary people putting up with bad weather to present reasonable concerns! The 70s, man. Wild. New article I wrote for whyte.org: www.whyte.org/post/environ...

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.