I think it's a good thing that media are still reporting about COVID. It isn't gone. It isn't mild. It's still evolving. Minimizers hate nicknames for variants like "Cicada" because they make it easier for people to understand that the virus is still here and still evolving.

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A thing that really bugs me about the legalized sports betting situation is that we never talked about it in any election campaign. Nobody voted for it. Nobody took responsibility for making the case. It just kinda happened. Let's have some democratic process here, about prediction markets.

Ontario's part time Premier is opening up the legislature for a couple of weeks to target university and college students. My latest on the dark numbers of growing alienation of young people in Canada. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Students can and should be able to express what's important to them at a critical life moment, when they literally have the stage. And frankly, if the Ford government keeps chipping away at their futures, he should not expect them to stay silent. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is the face of a teacher who is learning how easy (and fun) it is to make a Corsi-Rosenthal Box. Clean classroom air is coming their way! Join the movement: corsirosenthalfoundation.org/donate/

High above our towns and cathedrals, the 2026 peregrine season of love has begun. From Norwich and Ely to St Albans and Cromer, pairs are reclaiming ledges, courting on the wing and getting nests ready for this year’s chicks, watched by millions on webcams. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

A new bird-tracking project using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System has been launched through a partnership between the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC) and Tay Ringing Group. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 🥇Subscriber Content 📸 Rock Pipit by SOC

👀 a sighting: “Events like the Clear Air Festival and its partners (Canadian Covid Society, DoNoHarm BC and the Public Health Is Dead podcast among them)...are working at the grassroots level to envision a better future with the knowledge that COVID is (still) here...” exclaim.ca/music/articl...

Lifer Alert! 🚨 Greater White-Fronted Goose 🪶

@alan678.bsky.social has set today's #BirdOfTheDay as #GreyDay. Here's a beautiful Gray Hawk I saw this week

Just got back from my first visit to Costa Rica. My brain is completely fried by the amount of new bird songs! 😵‍💫 🪶

“Almost 5 years after the WHO acknowledged that COVID was airborne, many people — including public health officials and infection prevention physicians — still do not openly acknowledge that breathing infectious aerosols is the main way to catch and spread COVID.” montrealgazette.com/opinion/lett...

I love this!

CBC airing the State of the Union address pisses me off and is also so embarrassing. I wish Canadians understood that "Everything the US does, impacts us" has become a self-fulfilling prophecy where we rely on them for everything and are therefore, constantly being impacted by their BS.

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Pro tip: set your homepage to ebird.org/species/surp... to get a random bird every time you open your browser

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

It's here! Wingspan Americas expansion

For Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Portrait, I have this lovely pair of Turkey Vultures from the archives 🪶

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

2026 Great Backyard Bird Count is on! Feb 13-16. Report your sightings on eBird or just follow along and watch sightings accumulate around the globe in real time. It’s getting birdy! #birds www.birdcount.org

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

These are some great ideas! I started birding. It gets me out walking even when I have to push through the pain & physical challenges. Sometimes (often) I overdo it, but I wouldn't have found that first hermit thrush if I hadn't been face-planted on the ground! The things we do for #birds

For @robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay today, I have this Tufted Titmouse with its #StareDown 🪶

Perfect morning to go owling, this #SuperbOwl weekend 🥶🪶

This is fucking criminal. I can't believe Ontario keeps electing these malicious clowns who are openly and gleefully destroying health care in front of our eyes.

Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

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@robcrank68.bsky.social has called #Ducks for the #BirdOfTheDay. Here's a sweet Wood Duck who hopped out of the creek when he saw that I had walnuts (yes, I shared) 🪶

Read this whole thread. Fantastic work pulling out the critical failure of this attempt by non-scientists to dictate the language used by scientists and engineers. Aerosols are aerosols. No neologisms from non-scientists are required to reason about them: training in fluid mechanics is.

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Legend.

I'd put her right up there with Lucille Ball and Madeline Kahn as some of the funniest and greatest scene stealers of all time. Like, not even splitting that shit by gender. GOATs on their own. Just ran circles around anyone near them.

Please 👃 if you're reporting news or ways for people to help to get help and you post either text or a graphic, add alt text. There are many reasons that alt text is a necessary accommodation and it aids in searchability. A ton of us need it. In fact, QT and say "I need alt text" if you do.

Superb reporting from @lygianavarro.com thewalrus.ca/how-universi...

Shout out to the Parks Canada staff for the tremendous job they've done in training the Bison of Elk Island National Park! #wildlife

Ever Bird.

I’m in a local bird photography group of Vietnamese Americans to level up everyone’s birding ability This is the conversation I just had with one of our group members Please protect birders of color who live near you. If you can, volunteer to accompany some you know I personally don’t feel safe 🪶

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Omg, these babies! 🙈

News is too important to not use alt text... especially for text. It's difficult to take any news source seriously if they don't use alt text for a couple sentences. Even if accessibility wasn't so necessary, text doesn't always scale well on mobile devices, and alt text increases searchability.

This needs to blow up in the bird feed please 🪶

Got my first photo of a Rough-Legged Hawk this morning 🪶 #Raptors #WorstBirdPic

Had a 12 #Raptor morning, including this beauty #Owls 🪶

Wonder if I can convince my university to stop using rodenticides. We have red-tailed and red-shouldered hawks, Cooper's and sharpies, kestrels, great-horned, barred, and screech owls, and I even have a photo of a bald eagle on campus. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

906 days. That's how long Meta's been blocking news in Canada. Doesn't matter if the outlet is based in Canada, the U.S. or Germany – we can't read it. Small non-profit or legacy newspaper. Can't read it. Posts made before Aug. 1, 2023? Nope. But disinformation, AI-generated spam, that'll pass.

lol: that is, or in principle could be, amusing actual lol: I have produced a sound, contrary to social convention lmao: I appreciate the humor of the situation actual lmao: nearby strangers are becoming concerned rotfl: that is genuinely funny actual rotfl: emergency services are already en route