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Fucked around and got heat exhaustion on Saturday in 30 degree temperatures inside. I thought I'd be fine with lots of water and a fan. I was not. Took me two days to fully recover, and all I could do was sleep and hydrate. Was only able to eat today.

But don't read it when you're sweltering in a heat wave. It's that intense.

Nothing has scared me on an existential level quite like the opening chapter of The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Published in 2020 it describes one of the most harrowing mass death events from extreme heat I've ever encountered. It is fiction, by a slim margin.

Indigenous burning practices include healthy beaver populations.

So here's an interesting thing I'm seeing in these conversations about "Canadian wildfire smoke." Some Yanks are saying the wildfires are because Canada outlawed Indigenous traditional burning practices. This way, Canada remains the bad guy for oppressing Indigenous Peoples - which is true. 1/5

"Canadian wildfire smoke" though.

I know folks don't want to hear this...but you know how cops perpetrate a really shocking amount of domestic voilence? Whenever those discussions come up, folks fall all over themselves to praise firefighters as though they demonstrate an alternative to ACAB. Well...no.

Unsurprising but still gross.

So done with Hostgator. All their websites are down, including mine and we never get a rebate. Absolute trash company, trash services. Now I need to spend an entire day tomorrow migrating my website to a new host that doesn't absolutely suck.

"Do you have bottom-up thinking?" Uh well let me research the origin of that term and get back to you.

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

AAAARGH one of my lesson PPTs somehow got corrupted and I lost the whole thing. An entire day of work. I hate this unrealiable tech. I was able to upload it as a google slides presentation to at least recreate the slide content, but I lost my notes. Learned a lesson!

So. Is everyone going to stop naming their kid Al or anything that can be shortened to Al? At least until we all agree to only use serif fonts?

@jayispainting.earthskyart.ca just remembering that you were the amazing person who dropped off a Merv 13 three years ago when the air quality here was apocalyptic. kinanâskomitin, it made such a huge difference.

For folks struggling to figure out how to deal with wildfire smoke, I put together some information a few years ago: apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/miti...

Mitigating Exposure to Wildfire Smoke: What I’ve Learned So FarFolks, we need to talk. I’m shut up in the house again, windows tightly closed, air-filters running, because the outside air quality is absolutely terrible. It’s “wildfire season&…apihtawikosisan.com

Ooh, thanks for finding the credit! Nadya's work has been so influential for over two decades now.

A city councillor is the latest target of a local Zionist organization for his social media posts which criticize the genocide being perpetrated by Israel. Meanwhile our police chief took a whole trip to guzzle Zionist boots in Israel and champion their tech here & it's had no impact on his career.

Not the first time I've seen U.S. politicians simply refuse to answer questions and then pretend that they actually have done so...this is a tactic I've seen used at different times in my life but it's always like stepping into bizarro land.

Starting to do interviews about Indigenous Writes, the second edition, and it's pretty exciting to be here 10 years later, looking back at what has changed (and what hasn't).

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