@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWell. This is an interesting paper about "supraglacial lakes" in Dronning Maud Land Vestfjella, but not the lakes you're thinking of. . "Lake" Suvivesi they talk about is our water source here at Wasa station.
Here's a photo of it yesterday (peak melt season)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/physics-and-geochemistry-of-lakes-in-vestfjella-dronning-maud-land/1CA27CBAD2EEA910EA325481577D4ABA
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI had not heard that the trumpies have ordered the National Symphony to begin every concert with The Star Spangled Banner.
Are there any among us who have the talent to create a melding of the Star Spangled tune with what really ought to be our national anthem, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Our Land"?
Then the symphony could begin with that.
And wouldn't it be cool if at sports games, after the singing of the Spangled Banner song the crowd picks up and sin…
@girahh@mastodon.socialSupport Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
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On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc
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@scott@carfree.cityoooof. this incumbent running for re-election to the SF Bike Coalition board is literally a landlord lawyer.
if you're a member, the voting details are here and there are 10 candidates for 8 seats. https://sfbike.org/news/meet-the-candidat…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caSo this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction
@brian_gettler@mas.toToday's #TuneTuesday theme is #RipAndTear, music that gives vent to our inner tempest. A little old-school hardcore does the trick for me.
Leatherface, "This Land" (1989)
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
If you haven't been living in a cave this week, you know that the #NorthernLights were putting on a show across Canada. As you know, a solar eruption sends billions of tons of superheated plasma into space and traveling at more than 45 million miles per hour it can reach Earth in less than a day. That plasma, drawn towards the magnetic pole, interacts with our atmosphere, and we get a spectacular light show. The Aurora Borealis, named by Italian astronomer Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, is not unique to Canada, but so much of our land is in the Northern Hemisphere that most Canadians have the opportunity to experience it. This is particularly true in the Northwest Territories, where the Northern Lights are visible for 240 days every year on average. The phenomenon has a special meaning for Indigenous Canadians, some of whom believe it shows them ancestors dancing in the sky.
#CanadaIsAwesome #GetOutside
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/how-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-is-improving-our-understanding-of-aurora-borealis-1.7414899
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@adjb@social.lol📝 On this #GivingTuesday, we invite you to support our work at the donation link in our bio.
🔗 Donate: aila.li/tuesday [Link in bio!]
These funds will support our LakeBack campaign, working to return Maple Bay, on the north side of Onondaga Lake to the Onondaga Nation. We have been working on this campaign for years. We have renewed our demand that the county government fulfill their commitment to return land on the shores of Onondaga Lake.
There is an additional 1% donation added by the fundraising site for all donations that come in on Giving Tuesday! Please support our work today.
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