STOP THIS IS A CUTE ANIMAL PIC CHECKPOINT. PLEASE SHARE A MINIMUM OF ONE (1) CUTE ANIMAL PIC BEFORE PROCEEDING. THIS IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE TO PRESERVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THIS SITE. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. Baby Buntcake 🪶

Happy #UnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate! 🦆

Today is National Bird Day! It's also the final day of the Christmas Bird Count. What better way to celebrate than by recognizing all of those who participated and contributed to bird conservation? The data collected helps improve our understanding of how birds are doing across Canada.

Ooh! I do have one for Alan's theme of #SnowyBird which is the handsome fellow I met and shared yesterday. I think he's pretty enough to be both #BirdOfTheDay and Bird of Yesterday 🪶

Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.

Even now, as the US commits the crime of aggression and tries to take over Venezuela, it does not face anything like the response that Russia face for doing the same to Ukraine. Instead, Western leaders are releasing vague statements that let the US off the hook. disconnect.blog/the-united-s...

Snowy Owl days are great days! 🦉 #Birds #Owls

No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet. Sweet P is totally my pet, but she lives outside. We've known each other since March '23 (including her mate), but I recently moved across town and can't see them every day any more. I miss my Sweetie Birds 😭💔 🪶

My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.

People keep asking "why didn't the triage nurse put a pt with chest pain in a care space immediately?" Let me simplify our current ED triage state in the face of SEVERE SYTEM OVERCROWDING threadreaderapp.com/... 1 open bed and 30-50 w serious complaints = an impossible choice

Rob's choice for #BirdOfTheDay is tough. Which of our many #BirdButts do we choose? I've selected a few: Peregrine Falcon, Scarlet Tanager, Canada Warbler, and Killdeer 🪶

Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year

They can even top Charlie Brown trees 🪶

"It’s not about efficiency; it’s about removing power from the communities and imposing control from above.”

I’m sick of accessibility meaning “assembling the scraps of consumer products in a usable way” when the technology behind those products almost always came out of accessibility

I think it should be illegal to name your subdivision after the wildlife you displaced to build mcmansions Bobolink Acres? Not anymore, you assholes, you made sure of that!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 🪶 I usually catch the warblers just as they're flying away, but this Tennessee Warbler set this up perfectly back in May

According to PHAC wastewater data, in Ontario, both Covid and flu-A are high, and RSV is moderate. Put on a mask, wash you hands, and run an air filter.

Snowy Owls are the fuel that charges northern birders in the winter. We travel many miles to enjoy these white on white experiences. #birds

Natural science, licks the rock Social science, watches someone else lick the rock and writes down if they die

fountain pens still require less fuss than, say, Microsoft Word

Looking for some inspiration? Stu Mackenzie is celebrating 20 yrs at Birds Canada. Truly one of a kind. Absolute legend @birdscanada.bsky.social #birds 🌿

We really need to get serious about actually using other tools at our disposal, too, like masking and ASHRAE 241.

Who would have thought I'd get my first Virginia Rail in December! What are you doing here in the snow, little guy? #LiferPie 🪶 🥧

What Doesn't Kill You Mutates And Tries Again. #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #CleanAir #MaskUp😷

I'm just enjoying my corn over here where I'm allowed. Definitely not plotting my attack on the suet feeder 🦊 🪶

TFW there's someone looking in your window 🪶

“As a society, we continue to deny the straight line between the minimization of everyday violence against women and the more horrific forms of misogyny that eventually materialize. The groundwork for gender-based violence is laid out daily in a world that allows misogyny to be normalized.”

We remember #6Decembre

To my fellow female Engineers, particularly in #Montreal Nous avons encore un long chemin a parcourit. We still have a long way to go. #NousNousSouvenons #EcolePolytechnique #RubanBlanc #December6th

A legend

The government of Canada and Ontario should ensure N95’s are used at all times in healthcare settings to protect patients and healthcare workers. This is what the Canadian Standards Association new standards tell us to do!

This Christmas, consider donating to your local food bank.

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

"You seem happier" Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

YES, PLEASE

I've been calling friends and family and asking them what prescriptions they're on and if they like them and now I just have to figure out how to send this $12K invoice for MedChecks to Doug Ford.

And they're returning with the Resurrection. So excited!

Yay! ❤️

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

No idea how Canada's Supreme Court will handle the notwithstanding question before it. But at the very least, politicians should be legally required to stand in front of mics and declare, "I, [politician name], think it necessary to override the rights of [group]." And then take questions.

For-profit healthcare is failing when it comes to saving money or providing care, but it's working when it comes to its actual purpose: stopping poor people from accessing the same healthcare as the wealthy. It's class warfare. It's not even well-disguised class warfare, it's pretty blatant.

Enraging. Back when I was still on Facebook, I asked my (mostly liberal) friends why they had stopped masking. Most said because their doctor weren't masking, so they know COVID's not a big deal. If medical settings required everyone to mask, people would get the message.

Hey KW Friends! If you’re at Conestoga Mall please keep an eye out for this missing pink lamb lovey, lost by a wee girl today!!

In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary. The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with: “Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Omfg why can infection control not get their 🤬 clown car in order and do their 🤬 jobs and tell people that for an aerosol hazard you need aerosol PPE? Seriously, wtf is wrong with medicine that it tolerates this constant amateur-hour incompetence? We know this is killing people! "Do no harm"? 🤬🤡

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Who's ready for their close-up? This Trumpeter is here for the #BirdIfTheDay theme of #Swans