I needed to read this today.

Absolutely true. Personally, capturing my first Spotted Bat with Cori Lausen was an *emotional* experience. These are really unique and special little mammals. Life is richer with this kind of biodiversity in our lives. ❤️🦇😍 #BatAppreciationDay

Over on Twitter, Greg Clark, former leader of the Alberta Party and Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission committee member shared his thoughts on the UCP's failure to act on the recommendations of the Commission. He was one of the most reasonable politicians I've ever worked with. Worth a look.

every day it gets a little more embarrassing to be from this province

The Boundary Waters are one of the most pristine, beautiful places on Earth. A rare place that is truly wild. The GOP just authorized stripping it for copper.

perfection

Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election: A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public. This has never been done in Canadian history. /1

And here is the remaining range of the burrowing owl on the prairies in green completely within the approved area for strychnine use. Burrowing owls inhabit similar prairie areas, using the same burrow holes, and feed on ground squirrels.

This should freak out any reasonable Albertan. #gerrymandering

Despite my loathing of the regime I am as unsufferably proud of Iran as any Iranian (WE INVENTED ICE CREAM YOU'RE WELCOME) but if we end up the thing that finally breaks Israel's iron grip on American politics I am gonna be insufferable.

"...venting a steady stream of methane and potentially dangerous greenhouse gases downwind..." Sooner or later it all comes back to ol' Wiebo

🚨 The National Wildlife Federation and three affiliates filed a lawsuit against the administration’s attempt to allow oil and gas companies to bypass protections for wildlife in the Gulf. 🚨 Read the press release 📲: https://ow.ly/PRJ550YJWAZ

To promote The Fractured Mirror, my massive encyclopedia of American movies about filmmaking, I am introducing Fractured Favorites. I will sign, number, and handwrite a unique recommendation in the books of the next 100 people who buy it from me at nathanrabin.com/shop

Aging oil wells on her land are making this Alberta farmer's life miserable. She's not alone #Alberta Advocates call for stronger rules, more research to protect residents from oil-and-gas emissions www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

Part of the bloodbath today 🫡

Spring migration is under way. #birds

Conditions are finally right for frog surveys! Out tonight covering my volunteer sites for @birdscanada.bsky.social Marsh Monitoring Program. So lovely to hear a full chorus of Northern Leopard Frogs among the Spring Peepers and American Toads. Even a few Wood Frogs in there too!

forgot to mention I saw this duder this morning

Egg product news - Looks like preppers, powerlifters, hikers (bars) and various protein bros and maxxers/moggers are keeping the dried white (albumen) egg market elevated. Shell, liquid and frozen prices are in the tank, but not dried, and esp. not dried white. Prices shown usd/lb.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today

okay now this is posting

"Predation by the native tropical fire ant Solenopsis geminata on live hatchlings and eggs of the vulnerable American crocodile Crocodylus acutus" was published today, exploring the impact of ants on crocodile nests [doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2026.2651329].

Closest call with wildlife after several decades of bush work in extremely remote places was a cow moose behind my garage 2 years ago. Dogs barked at something,went to investigate and turned the corner to the cow 5m away, she laid back her ears and came straight at me Turned and ran and yelled

5/ Children's screams in southern Iran, Gaza's cries in vain Lebanon's sorrow, his conscience remains stained Epstein's shadows cling, a secret he's kept Yet still they follow, their blind love unbroken, unkept"

Armed intruder on MRU campus. We have an emergency alert system, but it was not used! Instead a simple email with a description about an intruder. But the Calgary Police mentioned a weapon and to shelter in place.

lol buddy i'm literally in the NDP

#BatAppreciationDay is April 17th - what is our team doing to support and appreciate Little Brown Myotis? Follow the thread and we'll tell you! 🦇

I call on the Iranian Embassy in the UK to urgently demand that Iranian authorities halt the executions of Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, quash their convictions, and release them immediately. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

It’s so weird to think of Justin Trudeau posting this tweet while wearing a backwards Allouettes cap and smashing beers with Katy Perry at Coachella

Orcas off Vancouver | Salish Sea

I had a great day today helping with herp survey work in southern Illinois. Finds included this large female eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis), out basking under the warm spring sun. #herps #snakes 🌿

Friends, here’s the info for my Dad’s memorial. Please do RSVP here (and you can register for livestreaming too). www.bit.ly/honouringste...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_... 2/3rds of this expedition died of it. "In one incredible case, a man who had been wounded at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 but had made a complete recovery, now found, 50 years later, that his wounds reopened and a broken bone fractured again"

What we're seeing these days is the dying gasp. It might take twenty years for most people to figure it out. China sees their role as "managing a declining empire."

a modest proposal

Sound On.

Here is a nice mushroom

MORNING AFTER REPORT: Heard six owls, all saw-whets. Also cranes, trumpeter swans, but no woodcocks and surprisingly, zero grouse. Our highlights were pre-survey – a gliding great grey owl and my first-ever sighting of a lynx(!) crossing the road – and post-survey: a short burst of Northern Lights.

A future D administration should hire a D/CIA or DD/CIA with a clear, definable, achievable plan for enemies of human civilization like Orbàn, Bukele, Smortich, and Ben-Gvir.

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

This is horse shit and if you buy it you’re a fucking idiot.

US hostile moves have centred around oil: Venezuela, Iran, threats to Canada and notably interference in Alberta. All point to gaining leverage over China via more control over oil. But this will only accelerate China’s shift. [1/3]

These purely defensive weapons are actually deescalatory and it is bigoted to oppose the transfer of them. Do you want more Iranian civilians to die? Do you think more Iranian civilians dying will lead to Iran being less aggressive? Opposing this actually hurts Israelis.