Moley of Mole End.🌹🌍🦊

Stop Trump, Putin,Tories🌹
#NeverVoteConservative
Canada has had #Medicare4all since 1968.
UK has had #Medicare4all since 1948.
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[Moley of Mole End.🌹🌍🦊 @unbrandy]

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

[Moley of Mole End.🌹🌍🦊 @unbrandy]

@alleria_eh Plus Northern Ontario doesn’t vote Conservative, so he doesn’t care. Very Trump-ish, his hero.

[Moley of Mole End.🌹🌍🦊 @unbrandy]

@univrsle Once the fire destroys the forest it will make it easier for him and American/multi-national mining cronies to pillage Ontario’s natural resources.

[Alina Cameron 🇨🇦 💉 🔬 @Alina_Cameron]

A message from a friend working in emergency management in Ontario:

Northwestern Ontario needs your help.

Our region is facing an unprecedented wildfire emergency. Communities across the Northwest are dealing with evacuations, hazardous smoke, extreme heat, and stretched emergency response capacity.

We're hearing one message loud and clear:

Where is Ontario Corps?

Many of the people and organizations who would normally step up to help are themselves affected by the fires, smoke, heat, and emergency social service demands. There simply isn't enough capacity left.

We need the Province to coordinate a regional response that supports all communities; First Nations, municipalities, and unincorporated areas alike. Emergencies don't stop at jurisdictional boundaries, and neither should the response.

Please help amplify this message. Tag Minister Jill Dunlop @JillDunlop1 and the Premier @fordnation and share widely.

We need help. We need coordination. We need it NOW.

Pray for Northern Ontario.

#ONPoli #NorthwesternOntario #OntarioFires #Wildfire #EmergencyManagement #OntarioCorps

*Picture attributed to Stephanie Paavola and her family as they fled their home. I hope you are safe and together. #solidarity

[neuro.social.self @neurosocialself]

🌳🌿 🐖 💕 peaceful
morning walk with a beloved .. Sam Neill

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. This is a big deal, and he must be stopped.

For half a century, harming a protected animal meant you couldn’t destroy the place it lives. The Supreme Court backed that up in 1995. Six justices said the obvious thing, that if you wipe out an animal’s home, you wipe out the animal.

Trump wants to throw this out so his friends can pave over the last nesting ground of a vanishing species and call it legal, as long as they don’t personally kill the animal.

Starve it, drill it, mine it. Go right ahead. It’s a permission slip for oil and mining companies to speed up extinction, and habitat loss is already the number one reason species disappear.

This rule ignores the plain text of the law Congress wrote. The 1995 ruling is still on the books, and a rule this lawless is exactly what judges are there to strike down.

Congress must act too. I’ll push for a vote to overturn this, and I’ll fight any spending bill that tries to lock these rollbacks in.

And you have a role. Public comments already are hundreds of thousands strong against this.

Keep the pressure on.

https://t.co/cL43VqJoLf

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Ford is cutting thousands of nurses from Hospitals & Long Term Care homes across Ontario.

"The Ford government is intentionally underfunding our public health-care system in its quest to justify more privatization," Ontario Nurses Association.

#onpoli

https://t.co/vN8HgrFsUX

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We should never take our NHS for granted.

And be very wary of all the millionaires who advocate for insurance-based models of healthcare.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It’s fascinating that giving to charities is considered noble and praiseworthy but creating a society that doesn't require charity is considered socialist and bad.

[Moley of Mole End.🌹🌍🦊 @unbrandy]

@ColinDMello Ford is copying his hero Trump, as usual.

[Anne Scottlin @AnneScottlin]

This wren is only about 4” (100mm) long, yet bathes us in beautiful song.
How much greater and impact we can make… to bring peace and joy to the spaces around us.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I think a lot of people are exhausted because it feels like every beautiful or useful thing eventually gets monetised, privatised, extracted, or bulldozed.

[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.

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

Quand les oiseaux chantent dans votre jardin, votre cerveau reçoit un signal qu'il interprète depuis des centaines de milliers d'années comme une seule information : il n'y a pas de danger. Pas une impression. Un mécanisme.

Dans toute l'histoire évolutive des mammifères, le silence soudain des oiseaux précédait la présence d'un prédateur. Leur chant continu signalait l'inverse : l'environnement est sûr, les ressources sont disponibles, le système nerveux peut sortir de sa vigilance. Ce câblage n'a pas disparu. Des chercheurs de l'Institut Max Planck pour le développement humain à Berlin ont soumis 295 participants à six minutes de chant d'oiseaux ou de bruit de circulation, dans une expérience randomisée publiée dans Scientific Reports en 2022. Le chant des oiseaux a réduit de manière significative l'anxiété et les pensées anxieuses — des effets mesurables sur l'état mental après six minutes d'écoute.

Une étude plus récente a suivi 233 personnes lors d'une promenade de trente minutes dans un parc, en mesurant la pression artérielle, la fréquence cardiaque et le cortisol salivaire avant et après. Le cortisol a chuté en moyenne de 33 %. Les participants qui avaient activement prêté attention au chant des oiseaux autour d'eux ont obtenu des résultats encore plus marqués. Pas besoin d'identifier les espèces. Pas besoin de connaître leur nom. Juste écouter.

Ce qui rend ce signal plus fragile qu'il n'y paraît : la LPO, le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle et l'Office français de la biodiversité ont publié le bilan de trente ans de comptages. Entre 1989 et 2019, la France a perdu près de 30 % de ses oiseaux communs. Dans les milieux agricoles, un tiers des effectifs a disparu. Merles, mésanges, pinsons, rouge-gorges — les espèces des jardins ordinaires déclinent à mesure que les haies disparaissent, que les insectes se raréfient, que les façades se rénovent sans laisser de cavités.

Le chant du matin n'est pas un fond sonore. C'est un rapport sur l'état du vivant autour de vous.

Ce que votre jardin attire, votre cerveau l'entend.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Dewey the cat passed away in 1910, but the love his owner had for him was so deep that a gravestone was placed in his honor and it still stands more than 126 years later.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That little patch of moss on your fence or shady spot is doing work on a planetary scale.

Moss stores 6 billion tons of carbon globally. It pulls carbon out of the air, holds moisture, and supports tiny ecosystems.

So maybe stop spraying it with chemicals and power-washing it off.

Your moss is on the job, let it stick around.

[Moley of Mole End.🌹🌍🦊 @unbrandy]

@OrevaZSN It’s heartbreaking, I cry a lot when they chop down any tree.

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

What depresses me is how preventable this all was. We could have a world abounding in whales & birds. We could have a thriving artistic & cultural life. We could have kids who know how to read a sentence. But those who rule us are greedy, and don’t want you to know anything.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Sunlife, Manulife, and Canada Life are the three insurance companies that are lobbying governments like Danielle Smith to privatize healthcare in Alberta.

The number one reason for bankruptcy in America is medical debt.

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

The stretch of the popular southern Ontario beach used by the endangered bird is no longer provincially protected. Environmental groups are taking the federal government to court over delays in stepping in https://t.co/nD6763uuFi