Finally got around to making these mushroom treats! Now that I know how to make them they will be added to next year's halloween handouts that already include "Breaded Leaves" and "Chocolate Acorns". All looking realistic and have been asked by multiple people if they were actual leaves and acorns 😁

"The wide availability of redistricting data and mapping software has transformed mapmaking ...[into an] activity that anyone can participate in." “N​​ow, nearly 300,000 Alabamians will be voting under new district lines that I drew up at two in the morning in a dorm, a cramped dorm study room.”

8000 years ago in the remote, boreal landscape of the Siberian taiga, hunter-gatherers built the earliest fortified sites. The development of territoriality and social conflict was not necessarily tied to agriculture. 🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology 📷 N. Golovanov

Breckenridge becomes the first mountain ski resort community in the world to be certified by DarkSky International. The designation recognizes the Colorado ski town's years-long commitment to reducing light pollution and protecting its night sky.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) American Marten (Martes americana) Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis)

I want to attempt this form of vernacular architecture on a smaller scale, at least at first 😁

Only cowards fear the truth, don't be snowflakes USA.

Rewriting the history of the Eurasian Steppe to include Bronze Age urban development

Power is out eh?

#Bonsai Updates: One of my #PricklyPear #Cactus seeds (Opuntia Humifusa) sprouted! 1st time growing a cactus so this was exciting for me. Must have gotten warm enough! (Needs 22°C, House=20°C +Cloche) My 13yr old #citrus tree I grew from seed and defoliated on Oct 11 is back in full leaf already🌳

Anyone else feeling a bit sleepy this morning? #wildlife #fox

This is a game changer in the fight against cancer!

BREAKING: The Israeli army has launched an incursion into the countryside of Quneitra in southern Syria with five vehicles entering Syrian territory. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ovn8p0

It's cute how we pretend the "Integrity Commissioner" is a real thing. David Wake, the last one, got Doug off more times than Kinga. Wake basically covered for all the chiefs of staff on the Greenbelt fraud, but especially Doug's chief of staff, Pat Sackville.

It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good. Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.

The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching. When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative. No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.

Hahahah! This article is so good. I will only tell you that the title is only the tip of the iceberg :D

My Canadian News Starter Pack has had quite a few additions over the last few months. Take a gander to see if you want the pack in its entirety or select who you want to hear more from #Canpoli #CdnPoli #Canada #CanadaNews #News #CoastToCoastToCoast #BC #Alberta #Manitoba #Ontario #Quebec #Maritimes

This is what should be done bewteen Alberta and Canada for a pipeline. Better to not do the pipeline because there is so much bad. The only good thing is that it keeps the oligarchs and fasc occupied on a dead end plan, while the green projects can move along unaccosted. So if you're going to do it👇

Fantastic discussion with Luke Kemp on his book 'Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse'. Lots of great info on how human societies rise and fall, how historical accounts are not always what they are presented as, and what the other side has looked like and could in our future

Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #forests #nature #biodiversity

Watch full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXse... Funded by the EU LIFE programme

This was already demonstrated over half a century ago with the banning of DDT. Why are we on repeat here? share.google/tX0kljiyYfOn...

Why do I leave dead logs in the yard? Not only are they useful as garden and path edging, but they are habitat for salamanders and insects, who are themselves eaten by other animals, like the world’s largest woodpecker - The Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) #Rewild #HomegrownNationalPark /|\

Want to promote this creator @the-goose-media.bsky.social who is doing great video essays on Canadian Politics. This video in particular is a great run down on what the Alberta Politics situation is and how it got there. #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USpoli #USpolitics #CanadaNews #Alberta #AlbertaPoli #Oil

Alberta Public Health is being Privatized

Continuing on the topic of how the clothing piece known as the Cockade had been used in history is relevant in today's time. Here is a concept for a Cockade for #MutualAid in the #USA, a #Cockaid if you will. #ANTIFA #TheResistance #FightFascism #Resist

The Cockade, a bit of historical embellishment whose relevance appears to be appropriate for today's times... perhaps for #MutualAid? #MutualAidCockade #Resist #TheResistance #ANTIFA #USpolitics #PoliticalHistory #History #HistoricalClothing #MilitaryHistory #Resistance #FightFascism #FuckFascism

Beyond this screenshot video showing how Canadians cannot interact with news on FB, Canadians cannot share news links, and Americans sharing news links are not visible to us either. #Censorship #SocialMedia #Facebook #META #Canada #NewsMedia #USA #Politics #TechCompanies

The Scottish Greens have submitted plans to require all new builds of a certain size to have nesting boxes for swifts in a bid to reverse the loss of urban bird habitats 👀

Gardening in Winter?! YES! One winter gardening technique is called Nimawashi. Niwashi (Japanese Master Gardeners) prepare wild trees (Yamadori) in dormancy by digging up the soil ball, wrapping it in burlap and replanting to collect a year later during dormancy in early spring #Bonsai #Forestry /|\

Really weird search difference between DuckDuckGo and Google when in @wikipedia.org When Searching 'Bull Moose Party' each have different results, you can't even find Bull Moose Party in Wikipedia while on DDG. #Internet #Censorship #Wikipedia #Google #DuckDuckGo #SearchEngine #WebBrowser #Browser

Less air pollution as farmers switch from burning crop stubble to using it. My news to me good news for Nov 18 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

It’s not just what we build. It’s how we build.   We’re building major projects sustainably, in partnership with Indigenous peoples, in solidarity with union workers, and we are building Canadian – with Canadian materials and technology.

Needed to do some hemming so I took out my inherited Singer sewing machine. I wanted some tea while I sewed so I put out my moon teapot. The singer work light no longer works so I got my "lamp cat" for setting up. Suddenly I felt very Studio Ghibili ☺️

"New research reveals [...] that the skin found on newly discovered duck-billed dinosaur “mummies” [...] aren’t fossilized flesh at all but clay molds welded by microbes as the creatures decayed." #Dinosaurs #Fossils #Mummies #Edmontosaurus

So this #Dinosaur #Edmontosaurus, "Warwick's Duck", has an "extreme degree of lesions and fractures in the neural spines of the vertebrae", caused "by an external pressing force acting vertically to diagonally" with different "pathological events". My take on what happened... 🧵1/2

Dang, check out that super briyt* star! *Trying out a 'Fonetic' Spelling of "bright" 🙃 /|\

White, as a group of people, is fabricated and is only real in how it is a social concept. For example, those who were Irish or Polish were previously not considered white. A great breakdown of this is "Birth of a White Nation" its opening lines are, "White people did not exist before 1681" #History

🏙️🌎 From cutting pollution to lowering bills to building sustainable housing, America’s mayors are proving #climate action works. Local leaders are driving a cleaner, fairer, more resilient future for all. #ClimateMayors

#PricklyPear seeds finished #ColdStratifying in the fridge so I planted them in my spare #bonsai pots (black pot=3, circular pots=4 ea., tiny pot=1) #Germination requires 22°C but my house is 20°C in the winter months, so likely keeping these pots moist and will see nothing until spring, unless 🧵1/2

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections go.nature.com/4hJ4d7K

Genius. #fuckICE

Research shows disgust is the most successful way to get an attacker away from you. Ex. Vomit. I keep thinking, "What if you kept the most rancid stink bomb on your person and set it off during an ICE abduction?" #Resist #FuckICE #FuckTrump #SelfDefense #SelfDefence #USA #FightFascism #FuckFascists

Was trying to finishing prepping the meadow site for the last of my winter sowing, unexpectedly ended up sowing by the light of a Super Moon! 🌕🧑‍🌾🌾 /|\

My 2nd year making these treats for #Halloween, "Breaded Leaf and Chocolate Acorns" are they #TrickOrTreat? 13 boxed treats with full leaves and 20 wrapped treats with leaf pieces (fell apart). Live in a tiny village so I expect left overs!

Fish live in trees. Sometimes fallen trees need managing, but every bit we can keep in the water is valuable habitat

Knowing the US president likes to use what he's seen on TV — This was a comedy, not an instruction manual 🙃 #USA #Canada #CanPoli #USPolitics #USPoli

Enjoyed a noon walk along the Kagawong Falls Trail today Following flit 🦋 is a video clip of the falls... #Photography #AutumnPhotography #Autumn #Waterfall #October