IB

beautiful gray squirrel with one paw tucked

An excellent Squirrel of the Day for March 6, 2026 #sqrlpix

BC Should End Costly Deals with Private Health Staffing Agencies | The Tyee Growing use of the contractors has pushed up costs and hurt morale.

Despite the claims from the usual austerity-minded commentators that the sky is falling and spending needs to be slashed, B.C. has a revenue problem, not an expense problem, writes @alonghurst.bsky.social. #bcpoli

A snake has its head right in front of a camera. It has a cream and rasberry coloration in large patches that get smaller on the top of the head. The eyes are comically enormous, lime-green colored, and seem to protrude from a tiny snake skull. From the Wikipedia page on Imantodes cenchoa Colubridae: Imantodes cenchoa Yarina Lodge, Ecuadorian Amazon Geoff Gallice from Gainesville, FL, USA

The blunthead tree snake (Imantodes cenchoa) looks like what happens if you squeeze a garter snake too hard.

The eyes make up 27% of the head's area, and a thin ribbon body looks out of proportion.

You'll find them high in the trees of Central & South America.

(📷: Geoff Gallice)

A relatively small Amanita muscaria grows out of dark brown soil and is surrounded by light green moss on the ground. It stands about three and a half inches tall and is about an inch and a half wide at the thickest part of the cap. The stipe is fibrous and white. The cap, covered in pointy raised soft yellow patches, is reddish-orange that fades to deep red at the top.

Loved this chunky little Amanita muscaria. My favorite part is the webby detail around the patches on the cap

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 16 images
11/6/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Photo of a cluster of a couple of dozen cream coloured, fan-shaped fungi growing on a dead, bark-free tree trunk. A pill bug is visible in front of the fungi.

A cluster of fungus, Panellus stipticus. #Newfoundland, Canada. Cluster is approx 8 to 10cm, left to right. #fungi #fungifriends

The fuckwit is even doing musk cosplay.

How we get by in Canada - still thinking an Impact + chair is a great deal?

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Her work paved the way for blockbuster obesity drugs. Now, she’s fighting for recognition Svetlana Mojsov helped discover the hormone GLP-1. Why has she been excluded from its history?

Svetlana Mojsov’s research paved the way for Ozempic, but she had to fight for her seat at the table. The Matilda Effect strikes again! 😤

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we begin by honoring the chemist who identified the active GLP-1 hormone.

It’s high time we credit the women who change the world. 🧪✨

an essential thread

about cities, choices, and the future

I encountered this Bursaria truncatella after it "inhaled" a Paramecium. I was hoping to see the Paramecium get sealed into a vacuole, but instead it finally managed to escape! My students have nicknamed Bursaria "Micro Roomba." LOL

#microscope #science #microscopy #iteachbiology

Willow slowly wakes
Soft pendulous flowers sway
Catkins herald spring

#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #catkin

Smoky jungle frog, Guyana

It's hard to get a sense of scale from this, but the smoky jungle frog is the largest amphibian I've ever seen. We first saw it in Ecuador 20 years ago (my wife still refers to it simply as the "Hypnotoad"), and I had a chance to nab this photo this January in Guyana.

(Guinea pig-sized, I'd say.)

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

Tomorrow!

Join 100s of people in learning the tangible skills of de-escalation and community care!

It's fast paced and engaging but cameras/mics are off, so you're never on the spot.

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Often nature moments are envisioned and waited for.

You see something or imagine it might happen, and you have to plan and return multiple times

Often it never happens

Then there are the completely unexpected encounters

Like a baby goose hopping on mamas back

And it's FUCKING ADORABLE!

🪶 🐣

Oh look, it’s exactly what I told ya would happen

BC Wildfire Service firefighters return after helping with deadly Australia wildfires Dozens of BCWS members returned to British Columbia last week after spending more than a month in Australia helping to fight wildfires in the country’s State of Victoria.

“Dozens of BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) members returned to British Columbia last week after spending more than a month in Australia helping to fight wildfires in the country’s State of Victoria.” cheknews.ca/bc-wildfire-... - @cheknews.ca

#AusPol #Australia #BCWildfire #Wildfires

A world map showing the countries that have reported a case of polio within the last year. They are: AFRICA 1. Algeria 2. Angola 3. Benin 4. Burkina Faso 5. Cameroon 6. Central African Republic 7. Chad 8. Côte d'Ivoire 9. Dem. Rep. of the Congo 10. Ethiopia 11. Ghana 12. Guinea 13. Niger 14. Nigeria 15. Senegal 16. Somalia 17. South Sudan 18. Sudan 19. Tanzania 20. Zimbabwe EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 21. Afghanistan 22. Djibouti 23. Pakistan 24. Gaza 25. Israel 26. Yemen 28) 3 EUROPE 27. Finland 28. Germany 29. Poland 30. Spain 31. United Kingdom WESTERN PACIFIC 32. Papua New Guinea

The CDC has just issued a Travel Health Notice specifically related to polio popping up in about 30 countries.

They recommend making sure you’re up to date on your vaccinations, and if you are traveling to one of the countries in red, you should consider a booster.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notic...

Fucking asshole. I have less than zero respect for this prick.

Does anyone have any ideas about what someone can do when they find a bunch of fake AI content falsely quoting them on a website? I think all the writers of the blog posts are also fake. The website is Alibaba, I have a feeling all of their help is also AI...

So this will be the last thing by The Narwhal I ever read, at least as long as they persist in theft and climate death.

I'm so proud of my kid for recognizing the toxicity and danger of this, and coming to me about it. We've talked about social media and radicalization, about how it almost always starts as jokes so they can say you're overreacting, it's not serious... and then it gets darker.

Talk to your kids.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Winner is an absolute UNIT

A brown squirrel in a plum tree stretching up to nibble on some pink blossoms. The background is washed out and mostly white.

Squirrel nibbling on plum blossoms
#photography #squirrel #flowers #nature 📷

Know what water fluoridation is correlated with?

Fewer cavities.

Lower heath costs.

Increased equity as a universal heath benefit.

Likely lower rates of heart disease by reducing rates of Streptococcus mutans in the blood stream.

Which again, lowers heath costs and increases equity.