Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲

In the long process of exiting the Meta-Xitter Enshittisphere, I begged friends to trade FB, Messenger or WhatsApp to #Signal. I'm profoundly grateful to those who did🙏🏼🥰

I'm now inviting you to try Hey.Café
Come for the default nice, sane, Canadianness, stay for the no-data-or-servers-in-USAness

Hey.Café The Invfy site for Hey.Café, where you can submit a ticket for help and support, and or read support articles.

"It may not be big, but it's small".
(Canadians will recognize that quote).

I'm really liking Hey.Café! I've already had the quintessential Canadian experience: "you're from Winnipeg? Do you know my friend___? You do?!" Say hi for me?"

Bye-bye Meta!
#heycafe #CDNpoli

hey.cafe/conversation...

I’m really disappointed to hear that Car Free Days in Vancouver have been cancelled this summer.

These fun, free events are the heartbeat of a vibrant community — bringing neighbours together, supporting local businesses, celebrating music, culture, and connection. They make our city feel alive.1/2

Field of Dreams Book banning Scene YouTube video by jetaime manu

Dear Kim Snyder: I thought you used the Fahrenheit 451 film clips to great effect. Curious as to why this other US classic was not included (--were you perhaps denied the use rights)?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7p...

🙏🏼 gracias!
I'll watch for him next time I'm at the book resellers.

Brown and blue sticker of the front of a library building with the text "Protect Public Libraries" surrounding the building.

I just finished the documentary "The Librarians" (2025) - thank you @pbs.org for posting this to watch for free on YouTube! Libraries have always played an important role in my life. I proudly use my library card every week. Go read a book! #supportlibraries #read #books #readbannedbooks

We can't watch BBC player in Canada :-(

I saw this film last night. If you're USAian & agree w/ your constitutional rights, if you are Canadian & agree w/ our Charter of Rights & Freedoms, you need to watch this film. It's depressing & scary, but not as much as the "Moms for Liberty" (an oxymoron if ever there was one) & their censorship.

I thought I was a Sci-Fi fan, but I had to Wikipedia Jack Vance to see who he was. Read tons of LeGuin, Bradbury, Zimmer-Bradley, Heinlein, Dick, Pohl, Asimov, Hebert, Anderson, but no recall of JV. As a kid, I did read some Ellery Queens, tho whether they were the ones JV wrote or not = no idea.

Cover of the Lancet February 2026. Text reads "the destruction that Kennedy has wrought in one year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for us health and science while he remains at the helm"

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure - The Lancet

Editorial 👉🏼 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#USpoli
#health #medicine #science

Geographic distribution of the Homo fossil record in China over the past 2 million years.

China now appears as a dynamic evolutionary crossroad where multiple Homo lineages may have arisen

Palaeoanthropological evidence from China is changing the picture of hominin evolutionary history 🏺🧪
Shi-Xia Yang, @mmartinont.bsky.social & @mdpetraglia.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mary Leakey | The History and Meaning of the Discoveries in Olduvai Gorge YouTube video by The Leakey Foundation

Mary Leakey
The History and Meaning of the Discoveries in Olduvai Gorge🏺🧪
The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQNI...

In this historic lecture, renowned paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey explores the history and significance of the discoveries at Oldupai Gorge.

Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.

UNC Board OKs Definition of What Academic Freedom Is, and Isn’t

The university system dropped proposed language saying teaching “clearly unrelated to the course description” wouldn’t be protected. The @aaup.org remained opposed. https://bit.ly/4aUmuMp

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Went to my local indie bookshop w/ its great urbanism section, to buy the new "Women Changing Cities" by @modacitylife.com. But it's not stocked. They told me if I ordered, their distr charge $109, & a US distributor= more😳. Even Indigo=$77🤨? (I'll wait for the library)
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/women-...

"You need to finish reviewing scholarship applications" said Frog. "You need to write reference letters."

"But this morning is @coffeeoutside.bsky.social, and tonight is The Librarians at the Metro Cinema for Right to Read Week!" I will do it all tomorrow!" cried Toad.

@nicolettelittle.bsky.social

Do you want to become a Wallander Scholar at the Uppsala Economy and Society Lab, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University? Our department has opened a new call. #AcademicJobs #WallanderScholar #Sociology #UppsalaUniversity

Well, well, well. St Andrews catches up to the 20th Century (in the 21st).

Congratulations Dame Anne🎉 Congratulations Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#Feministsky

"The culture or tradition of keeping birds in captivity ... contributes to the extinction of the birds. Such cultures need to change." - Johan Iskandar, ethnobiologist

The songbird tradition is emptying many forests not only in Indonesia, but also in Malaysia & Vietnam, of their #birds 🌏

🧪🌏👇

U.S. women's hockey team declines invitation to attend state of the union address | CBC News The U.S. women's hockey gold medal-winning team said it has to decline an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his state of the union address on Tuesday night.

In all the 📣 re: Trump's propaganda speech, lauding the men's hockey gold medal; of Hellebuyck & Austin Matthews proud to shake the rapist's hand, I missed this.

The US Women's team *rejected* the White House invitation.

*Why didn't the men show same integrity*?
#fail

www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Looking forward to this. Just in time, as the AB UCP are about to ram through their book banning legislation on libraries.

(seriously, when the NDP get elected in the next round, they'll be so busy in the first year just repealing all this crap legislation!)

Next it'll be herons visiting!

True, that.

True, that.

Aren't the core Conservative values egocentrism, blame others & hoarding?

We played a better game. They had a better goalie.

I guess this is what the Finns or Czechs felt, loosing to Russia

kalyaramu.bandcamp.com/album/living...

The Calgary Raging Grannies at the Alberta is Canada Rally in Calgary, Alberta. Clap Your Hands.
#Canada #ForeverCanadian #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #CanadaStrong
@charlieangus104.bsky.social
@yycraggrannies.bsky.social
@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social
Full video here youtu.be/sZnHDu963no

Screenshot of text which reads: "In 2024 Premier Smith urged the federal government Trudeau to increase Alberta's immigration allocations to 20,000 + annually, citing labour shortages and economic growth. Tonight she suggests immigration is the problem. So which is it?" Included is a screenshot of the letter Danielle Smith wrote to the prime minister in 2024 (too small to actually read).

As others have pointed out, the Premier of Alberta, leader of the UCP, wrote the PM of Canada in 2024 (2 yrs ago) to complain that Alberta wasn't getting enough immigrants.

This gang of grifters & incompetents have ZERO idea (or skills) for how to govern a province 🤯

#Abpoli
#UCPincompetence

#FightBackNow - Albertans against #UCP

#Cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #yeg #yyc #ymm #RedDeer #strathco #shpk #FortSask #StAlbert #Leduc #StonyPlain #SpruceGrove #Lethbridge #MedicineHat #Brooks #ColdLake #Camrose #Drumheller #Banff #Jasper #GrandePrairie #PeaceRiver #Airdrie #UCPCorruption #Alberta