Good news! The Sprawl is nominated for 7 Alberta Magazine Awards. For our municipal election coverage, our tree canopy coverage (ha!) and our Pop-Up Press. www.sprawlcalgary.com/alberta-maga...

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If you love words and the universes of meaning between them, this is for you: www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/04/t...

LEDUC, WETASKIWIN, INNISFAIL, PONOKA, LACOMBE and ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, come and claim your #ForeverCanadian lawn signs. Show your pride in Canada! #ableg

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Allison Russell x Kronos Quartet x A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall. 🔥 performance marking 80yrs since the first nuclear test 🎼Where have u been by blue eyed son? Where have u been my darling young one? All children are our children. No exceptions. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhX...

Corb Lund has droped off what he says are more than 200k signatures for his Water Not Coal petition with Elections Alberta. EA has 21 days to count the signatures and if valid, will require action from UCP www.elections.ab.ca/resources/me...

NEW: Corb Lund says he expects Alberta's government to add his proposed coal mining ban to October's referendum ballot "precisely as it’s on the signature sheet.” It would certainly add a different flavour to the premier's recent referendum-maxxing. www.readtheorchard.org/p/water-not-...

Illustration by artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) from her 'Moomins' book series #womensart

The people of Albania have been protesting the Trump family for 11 days straight because Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner want to build a $2 billion luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive coast site. Solidarity with the people of Albania standing up to billionaire greed. 🇦🇱 🎥 @olsimeraj on IG

I lived in this house for 11 years dreaming that someday I'd have flowers planted where there was just dirt and concrete. It was never the best time to do it. Then I got my diagnosis and realized there was no "better time" coming, that whatever life I wanted to live had to be now.

And here’s the thing: closed loop water systems are 100% possible. They just require a bit more investment. Similarly, powering data centers off clean energy is also 100% possible. In some cases, it’s even cheaper! This disastrous overconsumption is not a technological failure: it’s a policy one.

My new book is explains the major threats to the ocean from unsustainable fishing, celebrates the amazing people working to solve these problems, and teaches concerned consumers how to "vote with your wallet" and make a difference. Preorder it today and use code HWSSM for 30% off!

I had 3 slices of #LiferPie today, including this beauty: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-he...

“Because we don’t give it to a person who has a criminal record” 🤭 #Canada

“Those living near certain data centers have reported noise levels approaching 100dB, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” www.techradar.com/pro/dizzines...

Lethbridge showed up! 👏🌎 Their Day of Action carried a clear message: Water Not Coal 💧. #SeniorsForClimate #LaterIsTooLate #BreakThroughTheClimateSilence

Thank you Brooks for having me out till 4pm #rodeo Last Chance to sign the Water Not Coal Petition

I worked hard on this campaign, together with 3000 other volunteers. While the work is not over, we can catch our breath and feel good about reaching this first major goal.

"global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, [which] produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina...If data centers were a country, the country would be projected to rank sixth-highest in power use in 2030." www.wcvb.com/article/un-c...

“Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.” On Gwendolyn Brooks's birthday, her abiding wisdom on vulnerability as strength and her advice to writers www.themarginalian.org/2017/04/19/g...

The CEO of Volvo is on record as saying that if someone invented the car today and tried to get government approval it would fail. A 2 ton box that would probably be used to move only 1 person but collectively they would kill over 3000 people worldwide a day. Puts it into prospective.

Canadian teenagers invented the most unhinged board game, and I need you to see it.

Pi and the seductions of infinity www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/14/u...

Two soras together is the stuff of legends. Most bird nerds have soras and bitterns on their nemesis lists for years. This guy waits them out and gets TWO!! Together!!!!

Hi we're not nervous, we hate it and would like it to fall into an open manhole, hope that helps

A year ago: We're building data centers everywhere to run you out of your job and double your power bill. It's so you can look at fake videos of talking dogs on your phone Now: Why are people so hostile about the data centers

Good excuse for Alberta racists to racist. Literally no one in Alberta asked for our citizenship to be added to our drivers’ licenses! #Canada #Alberta #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #ForeverCanadian #racism #ElbowsUp @naheednenshi.bsky.social @lukaszukab.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca

"Something unusual has organically grown here: strong sustained bipartisan resistance from the broadest coalition of Albertans we've ever seen. Ranchers, scientists, conservationists, rural AND city folk, climate activists & musician #CorbLund have all found common ground around SAVING OUR WATER."

I do recommend that each writer NOT USE ai and for you to prominently display that no ai is used in the writing of your novel. We are just entering this war of creative theft and you want readers to support humans, not ais. I do not use ANY AI in the creation of my novels. #writingcommunity #books

I like metaphors. So here’s an extended one about how Danielle Smith and the UCP are attacking & undermining our public healthcare system, pushing it to the point of collapse. The damage is deep, but it can be stopped. An Alberta NDP government will build our healthcare system back. #abpoli

Alberta’s biggest problem is that our leaders consistently shove sticks into their own spokes

"Whoever is in your life, those who harm you, those who help you; those whom you know and those whom you do not know — let them off the hook, help them off the hook." Leonard Cohen on the antidote to anger and the meaning of resistance www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/03/l...

Me: [arrives at computer every morning, clicks to tab in which e-mail was open when I left] Microsoft Outlook:

More on our recent study...👇 Popular AI chatbots are confidently dispensing medical misinformation, analysis shows medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04... Much of the chatbots info "is inaccurate and incomplete, with half (50%) of the responses problematic..."

Across every corner of this beautiful place we call home, I've been meeting with hardworking Albertans who are proud Canadians. They're worried about the future of our province and, most importantly, they're ready to stand up and fight for Canada. youtube.com/shorts/kspGM...

The stupidest people you ever imagined are in charge of everything. It’s going exactly as expected I’d say.

Find a signing location here: sign.waternotcoal.ca?city=Calgary...

If you haven’t signed it, please sign it soon; if you don’t know about it read about it on the website; if you have signed it, tell 10 friends.” I’m telling all of you. Link in next post for website. Last week to sign!

100% the Sexiest Duck Alive. Not at all surprised he took this title in Coverbirds. Did you swoon at the bubbles?

#WaterNotCoal #StopCoal #ProtectOurWater #SaveOurSlopes #SaveOurMountains #yyc #abpoli #ClimateChange #cdnpoli #FightThePower

"Since launching its climate strategy, its energy investments returned 10 per cent annually, compared to 8 per cent from a global oil index — a gap that amounts to almost $4 billion above what investing in oil companies would have generated."

Cruel and unusual punishment. Brought top you by Danielle Smith.

We have to stop data centres from being built.

I’m upset that the data breach happened while we are working on the Water Not Coal petition. If all the folkx who are upset about the data breach could help us get 5 friends who haven’t sign, we could REALLY upset DS. Locations are at waternotcoal.ca

It's been over 4 weeks and Albertans still have no answers. #abpoli #ableg #VoterDataBreach #DoxxingInquiryNow

So I've been busting my ass on the Water Not Coal campaign. It's a huge issue. Literally about making sure our drinking water isn't full of selenium. I have a chronic illness so extra energy is a precious commodity and here I am giving it up because planet/kids/future. So what do I come home to?

Yup. Denial isn't going to help things, fellow humans.

#FightBackNow #St.Albert thank you for showing up. #abpoli