Renette (Prybylski) Garbutt

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 Prairie farm girl always in my heart ❤️ the wind. Proud mom of ASD/ADHD son.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Reporter: Your government has capitulated on revenue splitting for Gordie Howe bridge, DST, and removing funding for American streamers. What has Canada gotten in return for these concessions?

Carney: Sorry, I'm going to do a little premise surgery for your question.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It takes me 2.5 minutes to explain why it’s a lie that we gave all the weapons to Ukraine that we needed for Iran.

But the lie can be said in one sentence. We’re at a disadvantage when reality is nuanced.

But the truth is essential

[Kathryn Mathias @KathrynMathias1]

(Gift link) by @cafreeland
https://t.co/EOCnv74kM6

[Renette (Prybylski) Garbutt @prenette]

@silverpebble Thank you ❤️
I love the flowers and finding the little owl was a small pleasure for sure.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

2013 Southern Alberta floods
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire
2024 Jasper wildfire

When Alberta needed help, Canadian troops, pilots, doctors, nurses and crews came from across the country.
Canadians helping Canadians.

Vote Against Alberta Separation

📸 Department of Defence

[David Coletto @DavidColetto]

The mood inside Canada and the mood about the world are moving in opposite directions.

🇨🇦 47% say Canada is headed in the right direction
🌎 76% say the world is on the wrong track
🇺🇸 80% say the U.S. is on the wrong track

That gap has widened sharply since Trump returned and Carney became PM.

New Abacus Data poll: https://t.co/RZ0zEg5d5L

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Pride is a promise — that every Canadian can live safely, openly, and proudly as themselves.

On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we recommit ourselves to fight for the dignity, security, and equal rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Canada and around the world.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eduardo took eleven minutes to cross the field this morning.

The field is approximately 130 metres long. Eduardo, if he had wanted to, could have crossed it at a brisk alpaca walk in about three minutes.

He did not want to.

He stopped at the gorse bush. He stopped at the small section of clover near the gate. He stopped at the place where the badger crosses, which is not currently active but which Eduardo, by some assessment of his own, considers worth checking. He stopped at the dip where the rainwater pools, drank slightly, walked on. He stopped at the eastern fence post for ninety seconds and looked, by every visible indicator, at nothing in particular.

He arrived at the far gate at 7.46am.

The farmer, watching from the kitchen, made a cup of tea.

The farmer's wife, who has watched Eduardo cross this field most mornings for seven years, said: "He's slow today."

The farmer: "He's slow every day."

The wife: "He's slow on purpose."

The farmer: "...Yes."

This is the thing about Eduardo. The eleven minutes is not inefficient. The eleven minutes is the work. The work is to walk the field, attend to it, notice what has changed, register the gorse and the badger crossing and the dip and the fence post, and finish at the far gate having processed the morning.

Most useful animals, and most useful humans, work like this. The work is in the noticing. The noticing requires time. The time looks, to the casual observer, like the animal is doing nothing.

The animal is not doing nothing.

The animal is doing the most important part.

The phone in your pocket has, in the last decade, optimised the noticing out of most modern lives. The walk to work has become the scroll on the bus. The lunch has become the working lunch. The slow look at the eastern fence post has become the answered email.

Eduardo has not, at any point, optimised the noticing out.

This is, in the long run, why Eduardo is fine and you are tired.

Walk the field slowly. Notice the gorse. Be the alpaca.

[Renette (Prybylski) Garbutt @prenette]

@oldcanadaseries @GeoffyPJohnston 🤮

[Inter Press Service @ipsnews]

The global push to clean energy and digital technologies is driving a hidden crisis in some of the world's most vulnerable regions, where mining for critical minerals is depleting water supplies, damaging health, and deepening inequality, warns UN report https://t.co/QxapjRYTDl

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

This was previously expected to go to the US.

But, with Trump showing an inability to keep international commitments, and Carney showing Canada's economic strength - this is a big win for the Canadians.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Canada will get the economic benefit for any time its being run profitably above surplus - compared to Canada's economy its likely a decent GDP plus.

If facilitated in the CAD, that will be huge for CAD strength.

I imagine it will also mean that NATO allies will be looking more closely at Canadian defense companies who by nature of having better relationships with this bank could get better rates than foreign counterparts, and therefore get more business.

Above all else, these kinds of multinational entities are rare, especially financial ones. Having one is a strong responsibility signal that tends to open up doors for other opportunities like this as well.

The US will shrug it off, but it is a very big deal.

Normally you'd expect this to end up in the hands of the US, or maaaybe the UK or France. Because a defense focused bank needs so much more trust than anything else, it normally would only go to a tier 1 Western aligned superpower.

Canada's peers are signaling they are ok with putting that type of faith in Canada for the first time at this scale in the modern era - and that alone is huge.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you find a bumble bee sitting still on the ground, the best thing you can do is ...nothing. At least at first.

Most "tired" bees you find are just resting. Queen bumble bees emerging from hibernation in early spring spend much of their time sitting motionless on grass or pavement, and they recover on their own.

Conservation orgs are clear: rest is normal, and intervening too quickly can disrupt natural behavior.

If after 45 minutes the bee is still in the same spot and still struggling, then there's a chance it's exhausted. Try moving it onto a nearby flower first.

If there are no flowers, then a small drop of sugar water on a spoon next to the bee can give it enough energy to fly.

Mix two parts white granulated sugar with one part room-temperature water. White sugar only, never honey (can spread bee diseases) and never brown sugar or syrup.

Place the spoon next to the bee, not on it. If it needs the help, it'll drink.

Don't leave dishes of sugar water out for general use. It pulls bees away from real flowers and causes more harm than good.

The pattern: observe, wait, flower first, sugar last. The bee on your sidewalk usually doesn't need a rescue. Sometimes it does.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.

In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.

In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.

A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.

Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.

Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.

One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Just a reminder that you are not obligated to argue with every sub-literate plonker online. Gandalf the White did not pass through fire & death to bandy crooked words with witless worms, and nor should you.

[Renette (Prybylski) Garbutt @prenette]

@PlantNativeWI Last year I had a new area of only a few swamp and showy milkweeds that attracted Monarch eggs and I was able to observe the caterpillars till they eclosed, and it was magical!

[Renette (Prybylski) Garbutt @prenette]

@PlantNativeWI Not sure where I’m putting plants yet but I’ve got a variety of locally native seeds undergoing CS in jugs and other various containers outside.
Last year I planted a mishmash of plants between ours & our neighbours driveway & I’m looking forward to seeing what they do.

[Renette (Prybylski) Garbutt @prenette]

@CurseOfPolitics I’ll always vote yes for more pod

[Anushka𝓦onders @AnushkaSharad]

I learned a few months ago from Dr. Harmon that you can actually see Earth’s shadow in the sky during sunrise or sunset. I had no idea that was even possible until he mentioned it.

Today, I looked out the window and the sky looked exactly like what he had described: a bluish band near the horizon with a soft pink layer above it. I checked with him, and my guess was right. It was Earth’s shadow and the Belt of Venus.

Even though we can’t see it anymore, its light is still traveling through the atmosphere. The Earth itself blocks part of that light, casting a huge shadow into the air opposite the sunset. That shadow appears as a dark, bluish band rising in the sky. This is Earth’s shadow.

The pinkish layer above it is called the Belt of Venus. It is sunlight that is still reaching the upper atmosphere and getting scattered, giving it that soft pink color.

There are so many subtle celestial moments happening around us that we don’t even realize are there!