I have seen an angel. We breathed the same air, if only for a moment.

As Premier Danielle Smith appears poised to bring permantn DST to Alberta, a reminder that Albertans voted against adopting Daylight Saving Time in a referendum in 2021.

Men literally any time a helicopter flies by

This is a major line being crossed by Alberta's UCP government. Throwing out the work of an independent boundaries committee is authoritarian and extremely anti-democratic.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

Found the map of areas approved for use for Strychnine in Alberta.

Expect to see dead ground squirrels above ground, dead dogs and other pets, as well as a wide range of poisoned hawks, owls, skunks, foxes, coyotes etc.

There is no more painful way to kill an animal.

@johnemarriott.bsky.social

a pie chart that looks like a pyramid inside

Finally, a pie chart that I like!

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Toad and Frog chase after Toad's list, which is blowing away in the wind. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”

After 3 years of building, my app is finally live for paying customers (we did a 6-month free beta). You can see it at www.knowledgekeepr.ca

Basically, if you need authoritative information about any First Nation in Canada, finances, bylaws, lands, contact info, governance info... that's us.

Re-upping this timeless gag for Easter 2026. Have a good one!

Stop using acronyms for things that conservative media wants us to hate.

Don't say DRIPA. Say Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People's Act

Don't say SOGI. It's age-appropriate Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity education

And don't say EDI. It's equity, diversity and inclusivity

Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Snippet from a CBC news article about how birdwatching may build better brains according to a recent study.

Birding isn't just a great hobby - it may also help keep your brain sharp!

In a recent CBC article, Bob McDonald discusses the results of a new study where MRI scans compared expert birders with beginners.

🌟🌷🌟 #internationalwomensday
celebrating women who are central to all our lives! 💗 leaders, sisters, inventors, aunties, scientists, nurses, daughters, teachers, mothers, doctors, grandmothers. ❤️🌟❤️

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

(By emielscartoons on IG)

In Manitoba, a growing bison herd welcomes new members | The Narwhal As a group of once-endangered Alberta wood bison join a larger herd in Skownan First Nation, hope for the future of the culturally vital species grows

On the Skownan First Nation bison ranch in Manitoba, new members of the herd are helping to revive a culturally vital species. Via @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/skownan-firs...

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

We need a woman as president so desperately. In fact, we need an entirely matriarchal government for at least a few generations. Men have been running wild for a bit too long.

Immigrants make everywhere better.

Pass it on.

Luzon Redstart - eBird A fairly small bird of fast-flowing streams through foothill and montane forest or scrub. Slaty-blue with a rufous belly and tail. Female is a duller version of the male. Somewhat similar in color to Blue-headed Fantail, but has a shorter tail and is usually restricted to streams. Also similar to Blue Rock-Thrush, but smaller, with a dark tail. Song is a slightly ascending series of notes run together to sound like a quavering whistle.

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

#yeg now has $62M/yr of new revenue from mature neighbourhood infill compared to 2016. That's over $330M added to city coffers

All using the same roads, pipes, preserving farmland and enabling neighbourhood-level shops.

All of this is thanks to Edmonton's pioneering approach to urban redevelopment

America, It's Not You, It's...

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation (undoubtedly to the frustration of certain KC’s and separatist leaders)…

Are making it clear that they can speak for themselves.

A new fact sheet blows absolute holes in a LOT of the separatist lies.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Mark Carney's full speech at the World Economic Forum YouTube video by National Post

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If you don't want Claude to load all this great #RStats content for each session, try asking Claude Code to deconstruct this content into distinct skills. On first pass it did not add required YAML headers, so needed second pass with those instructions. Here are the skills I ended up with.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.