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@buttly

Conservation & restoration worker. Here to save wetlands and eat tacos. And I’m all outta tacos Alberta

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with kwayne pronounced like kanye

06.03.2026 16:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 👍 5343 🔁 1442 💬 63 📌 52

I know I keep saying this, but I get a perverse sense of relief when things like this happen due to the war because oh hey, reality still exists. It’s not all just content. Cause and effect are still a thing. You haven’t totally lost your fragile grip on sanity.

06.03.2026 15:31 👍 415 🔁 56 💬 9 📌 4
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From the first trailer of "Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) + Folivari. Coming in 2028.
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9...

05.03.2026 17:25 👍 2754 🔁 1018 💬 12 📌 72

1/ Experts issued some pretty dire warnings about Trumpian tariffs and Brexit, and the result was not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Now they're issuing dire warnings about Iran.

A much smarter friend asked me how I was thinking about the difference.

My short answer: control.

04.03.2026 10:08 👍 199 🔁 76 💬 8 📌 3

10/ Both Brexit and Trumpian trade wars did and will have long term consequences, but the worst case scenarios experts weren't about were avoided because the governments responsible could simply not escalate in the ways that would produce them.

That may not be their choice here.

Yikes.

/end

04.03.2026 10:08 👍 129 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0
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Well, what a wild ride this has been

05.03.2026 21:25 👍 262 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 7
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There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

05.03.2026 18:42 👍 2546 🔁 855 💬 746 📌 964

real glad i didn't get around to actually buying anything after funding our rrsps last week

05.03.2026 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Original post from which this illustrious sentiment originates, from Emirati billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor on X is here:

05.03.2026 18:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a "Blank" in which they have neither a camel nor a she-camel is an idiom which will enter my every day vocabulary

05.03.2026 18:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

also just huge dad/grownup vibes. big shift from teenage-ish trudeau and petulant toddler vibes of trump

05.03.2026 18:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yeah exactly, he didn't look at the polls and choose centrism; it's his ideology, it has been his whole life, he's been consistent and clear through his whole career. opposite of Starmer

05.03.2026 18:03 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This #belugagrad was pretty happy to spend time with 🇨🇦 icon @raffic.bsky.social talking about his new song 🎶 ABC Democracy 🎶
and democracyssecondact.org

23.02.2026 19:04 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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In the spotlight

05.03.2026 11:46 👍 81 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

19.01.2026 19:54 👍 15615 🔁 5677 💬 26 📌 57

Daylight Savings is actually totally anodyne. The reason it's so objectionable is because twice a year we get reminded that our social form would rather mess with our sleep than shift work hours so that we could have both the sleep and sunlight after working hours.

05.03.2026 16:52 👍 57 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 2

Maybe the one (effective) strategy they have

05.03.2026 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Footage shows a Iranian ballistic missile striking Bahrain's Bapco Energies refinery. The IRGC confirmed it had completed a 12th wave of missiles targeting 'US bases'. #Iran

05.03.2026 16:46 👍 175 🔁 36 💬 9 📌 4

no worries! i agree with the actual intent of your post 100%, it was just a bit confusing.

05.03.2026 16:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All criticisms of Joss Whedon aside, Firefly is considered the perfect series precisely because it was killed before it could fuck something up. Dredging it up for a half-baked reboot will only ever fuck up a good thing.

05.03.2026 16:23 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Just a heads up, im pretty sure youre talking about Andrew Tate but from this quote post it really looks like youre talking about Lupita. Had to read it 3 times

05.03.2026 15:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

slowly becoming radicalized about grouse and quail

05.03.2026 14:51 👍 78 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 0

Also pothole wetlands! Especially intermittent ones, biodiversity multipliers

05.03.2026 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Lesser Prairie Chickens Delisted from ESA The U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) recently moved to confirm the delisting of the lesser prairie chicken, a rare and long-embattled species of upland bird. The action is the latest in a back-and-forth o...

Oh for fucks sake

I miss that they delisted the lesser prairie chicken from the Endangered Species Act last week. Ranchers and oil fought tooth and nail for years for the right to destroy habitat

www.themeateater.com/conservation...

05.03.2026 14:01 👍 59 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 2

The esa had so few teeth under Biden and now it’s goddamn hopeless, BUT STILL

Fuck everything. I’m going to have a little despair as a treat because, on top of EVERYTHING, you come for MY bird???

Christ

05.03.2026 14:01 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Every once in a while I’m lucky enough to be filming when a falcon takes flight 🪶✈️

Peregrine Falcon, Astoria NY, 3.1.2026

05.03.2026 13:15 👍 56 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
A large grey lynx walks down a snowy road looking incredibly badass.

A large grey lynx walks down a snowy road looking incredibly badass.

I'm celebrating half a century on this planet today and it's also #WorldWildlifeDay. I know there's a lot of darkness, but the world is still full of so much beauty. Let's celebrate it by sharing our favourite wildlife photos.

03.03.2026 15:11 👍 821 🔁 128 💬 129 📌 17
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Alberta’s Tax Advantage Is Being Paid For by Your Property Tax Bill I am sitting here running code to pull and process British Columbia property tax data for a project Gillian Petit and I are doing on property tax regressivity across Canadian provinces — work that …

Alberta Budget 2026 didn't raise taxes. It just raised your property taxes — the one tool the province left municipalities, then spent years criticizing them for using. Wrote about it.

deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/a...

04.03.2026 20:13 👍 44 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 2

Cuba is in a major blackout now. No country brave enough to stop it. No people powerful enough to pressure their government. Bleak

04.03.2026 20:51 👍 1640 🔁 392 💬 20 📌 6