Wildflower garden IG: rozavin_official

I plant his 'n' her plant as a food source for early hummingbirds. While I wait for them to show up, the bumblebees indulge in a quick snack.

My cat Boop sleeps in truly weird positions.

It snowed yesterday. Of course it did. Shorts weather one day, parka weather the next. Welcome to Quebec. While I await my beloved daffodils, I finished the last of this year's bead and wire flowers. It feels carnivorus, so I've named it Audrey.

Tirzepatide accidentally saved my life when no one was taking my long covid seriously or even understood how badly it was messing me up. I truly hope they find some solid evidence it can help others, too.

Participants are now enrolling in our #longCovid randomized, controlled trial of tirzepatide. The largest trial to test a treatment for this condition. Home-based—no sites. In today's @sandiegouniontribune.com www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/01/c...

When I saw these two my first thought was, "Was it something he said?"

My morning walk. I've lived in this valley 48 years and these fall mornings still take my breath away.

I have ARCs!! Would you like one? The Drowned Man's Daughter, coming from @newestpress.bsky.social in September 2025. A heartwarming tale with almost no cannibalism! Repost this before midnight Pacific on July 3 to be entered to win a signed hardcopy. Will ship worldwide. :)

Now that I'm in the middle of a major storm that's blowing off all the petals, thought I'd preserve a memory of the magnolia.

when MAGA Americans are watching their parents ration heart medication and drawing straws to decide who tells the kids that Santa can’t afford to come this year, at least they can take comfort in knowing they have temporarily inconvenienced the economy of the Falkland Islands

This is great. You can even type in your congressman's name in the search engine and find all the buildings that have been put up for sale in your district. Then call your congressman and ask what they think about this.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

A friend of mine jokes that grocery shopping in Canada now is like visiting a library. The aisles are full of people quietly reading product labels as part of the spontaneous boycott of US products. We love our neighbours to the south, but really abhor President Goober.

Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

Why Trump wants Canada’s wealth of critical minerals https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article741929.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

"I drink local Donald" New billboard in Montréal from Boréal beer made in Québec.

Quebec working to unhook from Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service, CAQ MNA says https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/provincial-politics/article733815.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

Watching what's happening in the US now feels eerily like watching the fall of Afghanistan in 2021, that same "how can this be happening?" unreality.

Interesting to see how quickly American foreign policy pivoted from "Get clean drinking water for children without hope" to "Do ethnic cleansing for condos with Mediterranean views."

Do one thing every day that scares you. Me: **reads the news**

First foreign leader to visit the White House has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes. I haven't heard that mentioned once during the coverage of his visit. There was a time when a charge like that would have made him a pariah.

right now a 25 year old berkeley grad is slapping chat gpt cobol code into the treasury’s electronic payment system. im sure this will be fine.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

If you're mad and find yourself yelling that you want someone launched into the Sun, take a moment, calm yourself, and remember that it takes a lot less Delta v to launch them out of the Solar System instead. You can be mad, but that's no excuse to be inefficient with propellant.

Canada and Denmark share a 1.2 km long land border on Hans Island since we ended the Whisky War in 2022. So technically we could join the European Union.

Here's a fact most Americans don't know: The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wine by dollar value in the world. The LCBO has shut the flow of all American beer, wine, spirits. We will drink "Freedom wines" from our allies and beer from our communities.

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.” I’ve had my differences with Justin Trudeau, for sure, but he rose to the occasion here.

"It feels like the end of a marriage," says the mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, just across the bridge from Port Huron, Michigan

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

TRUMP: "I'm going to impose 25% tariffs!" CANADA: "We will do even worse in return." TRUMP: "Don't make me shoot myself in the other foot!!!"

Dear American friends: Resistance can take many forms. Please buy Canadian whenever you can when the tariffs begin. Canada is not a threat to you. We're the neighbour who feeds your cat when you're on vacation. What will your chonky floof do without us?

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

Keep your messaging simple: “Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.” That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

An elderly man reflects on his 17th summer, spent with his beloved grandparents outside a remote, poor Irish village. Wry, evocative, tender, This Is Happiness by Niall Williams is a yarn spun of a faith questioned, love, loss, guilt and redemption. Recommended. 4.5 🖋️📚💙

we've done positivity, now time to feed the part of your soul that lives in a hut on chicken legs in the deep forest punishing the arrogance of man 1 like = 1 curse

fun fact about these new links that I haven't seen people utilize much, they are so much easier to type than having to click to find the feed, copy the link to the feed, paste the link etc. you can just type booksky.club/main and direct people there instead! 📚💙

The findings of the AHA’s recent report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools, served as the backdrop for Smithsonian magazine’s article on the ten best history books of 2024 🗃️:

There's a lot to recommend in The Siege of Burning Grass. It's a beautifully written and timely examination of war. The story is compelling, characters interesting and the world created is original. The very last pages as this good read rushed to its ending were a bit of a letdown for me. 3.75 ⭐🪐📚💙

Dawn this morning from the upstairs window. For a few moments the rising sun turns the snow orange.

Excellent post

Tom Lake is the only novel I’ve read so far that catches how the covid lock down changed how we looked at time, how it had us all taking stock of our lives. It’s a beautifully written meditation on love and the little corners of ourselves we hide, even from those we love and trust most. ⭐⭐⭐⭐📚💙