Flora Lee Bernard

Practice praxis; actions speak.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Canada built bridges for bears, and the bears used them.

So did wolves, cougars, elk, moose, lynx, wolverines, bighorn sheep, black bears, deer, and almost everything else trying to cross one of the busiest highways in the Rockies.

The Trans-Canada Highway cuts through Banff National Park for 82 km. For decades, it did what highways do: split habitat in half, severed migration routes, isolated populations, and turned animal movement into roadkill.

So Parks Canada tried something that sounded ridiculous to a lot of people at the time: they built wildlife bridges and tunnels.

They look nice, but they're far from a decoration. Forested overpasses wide enough for grizzlies and elk. Dark underpasses for cougars and black bears. Fencing along the highway to keep animals off the pavement and guide them toward safe crossings.

At the time, critics called it a waste of money and editorials opined that animals would never use them.

Fortunately, animals don't read opinion pieces. Since monitoring began, wildlife have used Banff’s crossings more than 250,000 documented times.

Grizzlies took years to trust them. Elk started testing them while they were still under construction. Different species chose different designs: grizzlies and elk tended to prefer wide, open overpasses, while cougars and black bears often used narrower underpasses.

The results were not subtle. Wildlife-vehicle collisions dropped by more than 80% overall. For elk and deer, they dropped by more than 96%.

Banff now has one of the most studied wildlife crossing systems on Earth, and countries around the world have looked to it as a model.

[Flora Lee Bernard @FloraBernard]

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I requested a simple band of rubber from my host. She gestured to a drawer, and the very gesture told me everything I needed to know about American chaos.

One drawer. Every household. Always in the kitchen, and it holds the same things in every home in the nation: batteries of unknown charge. Rubber bands. A screwdriver too short for any screw. Birthday candles. Soy sauce packets. Three pens, one of which works. And a key.

The key is the part I cannot release. I have now surveyed eleven households. ALL have the key. NONE know what it opens.

"What does this open?" I asked Sue, holding it up.

"No idea. Been there since we moved in."

"Then why keep it?"

She looked at me as if I had proposed burning a shrine. "You can't throw away a KEY."

She is right. I felt it the moment she said it. A key answers to a lock somewhere. To discard it is to abandon a door you may never find. Eleven households, each guarding one orphaned promise, between the candles and the takeout menus.

In Japan, we made a national art of putting things in their proper place. I assumed the junk drawer was that art's absence. Wrong. The junk drawer IS the proper place — for things whose place has not yet been revealed. Not disorder. Faith, with a handle.

I confess my crime. I once organized Dale's junk drawer while waiting for him. Small bins. Categories. He opened it, stood silent, and said, "Where's the thing?" He could not name the thing. He knew only that it could no longer be found. I had alphabetized a treasure map. We do not speak of it.

The drawer does not need order. It needs to be opened with hope, and closed with acceptance.

I keep a junk drawer of my own now. This week it accepted a battery, a twist tie, and a key I found in the yard. I do not know what the key opens.

Into the drawer it goes. Someday, the door will announce itself.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

The NYT bombshell confirms what we already know. It’s not conjecture. It’s not a fabrication. It’s not a “Hoax.” Donald trump is a child-raping pedophile & the entire republican party is engaged in the most massive coverup in history to prevent the world from realizing this fact.

[Flora Lee Bernard @FloraBernard]

@ClownPunished Time for an uprising!!

[🌙🪓Uncle StayPuft🏴 @ClownPunished]

we're out of the legal and democratic phases of fascism. the courts won't save you - when a judge decides against your deportation, they appoint a more loyal judge and try you again (see below). if you try to "vote them out," they gut the CRA and Gerrymander you.
few choices left

[🌙🪓Uncle StayPuft🏴 @ClownPunished]

my book on sex and sexuality in far-right spaces comes out on 6/15, and deals with this. it also covers the history of fascist sex and sexuality leading to this point. all proceeds go to HRT distro for at-risk and in-need trans people https://t.co/6NE4JZ86Sp

[No Empire @BrownRealAll]

@TrueOnX

[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

🚨 ANDOVER, NJ JUST DECLARED WAR ON BIG TECH... AND WON! 🚨

These absolute LEGENDS in rural New Jersey just REPEALED the pro-data center ordinances and PASSED A FULL BAN on these AI monster facilities!

No more sucking down insane amounts of electricity & water.

No more 24/7 noise, diesel generators, traffic Armageddon, or fake "PILOT" tax deals that screw local schools.

The people showed up, packed the meeting, made their voices UNIGNORABLE... and the township said: NOT IN OUR TOWN.

This is what REAL resistance looks like.

Small towns fighting back against billionaire AI empires turning America into a server farm.

SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE.

This energy needs to go VIRAL.

Would YOU fight like this if Big Tech tried to plant a data center in YOUR backyard?

Which town is next?

Tag them below.

Let’s make this a nationwide movement!

Let me know what you think,
and SHARE THIS so that others may too!

And if you're not already following @TrueOnX...
What the heck are you doing?!

[Madness Heart Press @MHP_Horror]

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[Madness Heart Press @MHP_Horror]

OUT NOW! Out newest imprint, Gutter Mystic Press, is pleased to present its debut book - Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Nihilism, Fascism, and the 21st Century Occult by Charles R. Bernard. All proceeds donated to Food Not Bombs! #WritingCommunity #Books https://t.co/k5OEQTSOvN

[🌙🪓Uncle StayPuft🏴 @ClownPunished]

My nonfiction debut, Black Sunrose On Piss Earth: Nihilism, Fascism, and the 21st Century Occult, is depressingly relevant! Available in paperback or just $4.95 for the ebook, and all proceeds go to Food Not Bombs! #WritingCommunity https://t.co/LvqFVoB7UY

[Sarah Reale @votereale]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Utah gets a new women's sports team! @theAUSLofficial is coming to Salt Lake City! I am so stoked! @AUSL_Talons #Utah