Paul Cowling (he/him)

Proud Canadian and working actor.

I speak my mind ALWAYS in my posts.

Don't like 'em, don't read 'em.

Trolls and bots can fuck off...

[Paul Cowling (he/him) @PaulTheActor]

Homeless man, shoplifter, or just brutally handsome and talented? You decide...

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Sean Amato @JSJamato]

Never thought I'd post this…but here we go…

All I ever wanted to be was a journalist, but after 21 years I’ve filed my final story.

I’m choosing to take a stand for Alberta & Canada.

I'll share more soon, but for now, thanks to everyone who follows & supports my work!

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

The good news?

We have laws!

Our Charter REQUIRES all schooling kids regardless of status

The Canada Health Act ties federal funding to covering EVERY resident here

Immigrants have rights a province can’t vote away

Smith can’t just make our fundamental rights go away

[Markham Hislop @politicalham]

Albertans are not victims.

Not of Eastern elites or foreign-funded activists or any of the imaginary grievances the AB elites push as part of their authoritarian libertarian fever dreams.

Alberta doesn’t have grievances, it just has bad politicians.
https://t.co/MGba53K5Eo

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A cancer vaccine, using the same core mRNA technology as the COVID vaccine, has shown an almost 50% reduction in the risk of melanoma recurrence or death when combined with immunotherapy.

This is why we fund MRNA technology.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The "free-range" label on the egg carton at your grocery store has no requirement that the chickens ever go outside.

The Animal Welfare Institute has found that the USDA does not actually inspect facilities to verify outdoor access claims.

What this winds up looking line in practice is a barn with 20,000 to 30,000 birds and a single small door leading to a fenced concrete or gravel patch.

Most of the chickens never see the door, and the ones that find it step into a space that may be a few square feet per bird, often with no grass and no shade.

The label that actually means something is "Certified Humane Pasture-Raised" or "Animal Welfare Approved."

Certified Humane requires 108 square feet of outdoor pasture per hen, with at least 6 hours of outdoor access daily.

Animal Welfare Approved requires continuous access to living vegetation. The eggs from those programs cost more, but they're the only ones where the bird on the box is actually living something like a chicken's life.

"Free-range" and "cage-free" are marketing terms and not much more.

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

This weekend alone, #ForeverCanadian handed off more than 5000 lawn signs. Pouring rain did not deter Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary proud Canadiens.

No matter where you live in Alberta, you will have plenty of opportunities to get your sign. Stay tuned.

#ableg #cdnpoli

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

7- days in Danielle Smith’s Alberta:

- Her business community turned on her
- Her party president contradicted her
- A separatist leader moved to oust her
- Manitoba’s Premier called her out on treaty rights
- Then she signed a vote she opposes

The week in review🧵

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

@lovelylibrary The fact Smith didn’t even think “is this a conflict of interest” as she is in the living room of the same people actively lobbying her direct for a fancy new private school and rec centre is crazy.

she truly thinks she’s untouchable

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson: "We joke in Sweden and say that Canada is the most Nordic country in the world outside the Nordics. For us it's really a way of saying that we appreciate Canada because we think we have so many common denominators."

[Paul Cowling (he/him) @PaulTheActor]

Fucking. Awesome.

#ClimateChange

[Gaurav kochar @gaurav_kochar]

Something potentially massive may be brewing beneath the Pacific.

This is NOT just surface warming.

New 3D diagnostic analysis based on ARMOR data shows a huge subsurface heat reservoir with anomalies reaching +6°C below the ocean surface.

If powerful WWB (Westerly Wind Burst) events intensify and push that heat upward, the surface response could theoretically explode toward +3°C to +4°C El Niño territory.

That would push the climate system into extremely dangerous territory.

Extreme heat. Crop stress. Rainfall chaos. Floods. Droughts. Global weather disruption.

People keep saying “nature is taking revenge.”

Reality is more alarming:

This is atmosphere-ocean physics operating at full power.

The Pacific’s internal heat engine is loading energy beneath the surface.

And if that energy vents upward… the world could be looking at a monster hybrid Super El Niño.

Monitoring continues.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom.

Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six).

Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only.

This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths.

One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it.

The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes.

Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

[Paul Cowling (he/him) @PaulTheActor]

Fuck Danielle Smith and the entire @UCPCaucus.

You people are evil...

#ableg #abpoli

[Sarah Biggs @sarahbyyc]

Are we done yet? Because this is the lowest of the lows.

Two words to describe what has been going on re: ADAP, The Alex, women shelters and so many more.

Fucking brutal.

Cruel is also another way to describe it.

But let’s spend millions on a non binding referendum, eh?

#ableg #abpoli

[Dick Swett @brent_whiteside]

#AlbertaIndependence
Alberta First Nation Chief Allan Adam

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Today Danielle Smith became, the third Premier in Canada’s history to put a question on breaking up our country to a referendum.

The other two Premiers were leaders of a Quebec separatist party and had a mandate to do so.

Not the way I’d like to be remembered.

#ableg #cdnpoli

[Melanie Behm, she/her @lovelylibrary]

So well said Minister, thank you, I’m currently not @ the heartbroken stage, I’m @ the angry stage, that @ABDanielleSmith has put us here. It’s shameful, it’s irresponsible, it’s selfish. Thank you @EleanorO_MP for standing up for Canadians

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew on fact-checking Danielle Smith: "Somebody's got to stick up for Canada. And I love this country so much ... if there is going to be a referendum, I don't want fake news to be framing it up."

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

We stand on guard for thee 🇨🇦

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

@gilmcgowan Michelle Rempel married U.S. Army veteran Jeffrey Garner on May 25, 2019. The private ceremony, which took place in Calgary, was officiated by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Michelle moved to Oklahoma in 2019. Why is she still an MP?