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Liz Smith
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soccer mama, camper, birder, lover of nature
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Next week the days start getting longer
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Police looking for 11-year-old girl last seen in Kitchener
Police looking for 11-year-old girl last seen in Kitchener
The Waterloo Regional Police Service is looking for a missing 11-year-old girl.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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“If you can’t win on the field you can always play quarterback for the culture war”

aka The Failing at Life-to-MAGA Influencer” pipeline LOL
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
Texas' new 'butterfly nets' are saving monarchs from becoming roadkill
The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.

New York Times tomorrow
September 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks. "We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges. "When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89
August 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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iNaturalist Animals and Plants

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Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Dead bird in Waterloo Region tests positive for West Nile virus
Dead bird in Waterloo Region tests positive for West Nile virus
Region of Waterloo Public Health says a dead bird found the in the community has tested positive for the West Nile virus.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Black bear spotted near Erin, Ont. homes
Black bear spotted near Erin, Ont. homes
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are warning residents about a bear seen in Erin, Ont. on Wednesday.
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July 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Handcrafted card game ‘Hop ON It’ promotes Ontario breweries
Handcrafted card game ‘Hop ON It’ promotes Ontario breweries
An artist from Conestogo, Ont., is encouraging people to explore Ontario – one brewski at a time.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Wild to be up against naked fascism and the dismantling of human rights, separation of powers and free speech and be like man these guys kidnapping people and sending them to camps are making me just as worried as the wokes who hate when you say slurs. American centrism is awesome
April 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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the latest episode of Severance featured 3 seconds of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in the opening, so naturally this morning I woke up and wrote 2000 or so words about Gord, labour, and the stories in scars

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Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the severance turns the minutes to hours
I’m thinking about “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” this morning. Partially because I always am, and partially because of three seconds in the opening minutes of the latest episode of Severance.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!
Beautiful red roses on a pink background with flowing script saying "Roses are red," Violets budding and blooming. "Violets are blue," Hydnora plants opening up looking like terrifying red mouths bursting from the hard sandy soil. "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyll," A splash of cute red and pink hearts. "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day."
February 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Good advice from Moscrop 👍: Preparing for the Newspocalypse
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Preparing for the Newspocalypse
Mind your sanity. Connect close to home. Set boundaries. Support the media you trust. Live your life. Don't feel guilty about it. There's no better advice than that.
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January 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Looking Ahead to 2026-2027 or So: The Conservative Party is Cooked
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Looking Ahead to 2026-2027: The Conservative Party is Cooked
A short, definitive, in-no-way-guaranteed account of the future right wing collapse.
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January 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Pretty sure that Barred Owls can stare directly into your soul. #wildlife #birds
A Barred Owl, with dark black eyes, sits on a fence post and stares directly at the viewer.
January 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Another shot of the Cooper's Hawk in our backyard a few days ago #birds #Bobsbackyard #Ancaster #HamOnt #hawks #raptors
A hawk perched high in my backyard maple tree on a horizontal branch. The background is a bright blue sky. It's looking off to the right. Only one yellow foot is exposed, the other is tucked up under his white belly feathers. Most of his chest is horizontally barred orangish-brown and white. The sides of his face are gray and he has a blackish gray cap. His eye is bright red, indicating it is a mature adult, probably at least three years old.
December 19, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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Son found this baby snapping turtle this past spring and carefully moved the turtle off of the roadway, safe from car and bike tires. #PineryProvincialPark #OntarioParks #CommonSnappingTurtle #camping #nature
A boy is carefully holding a baby snapping turtle, as the boy moves the turtle to safety, off of the roadway
December 13, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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I love coming across interesting articles like this in my feed. It’s what I enjoyed about Twitter, before its current iteration.
December 10, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Clouded sulphur on knapweed this fall at Point Farms Provincial Park. #butterfly #PointFarms #OntarioParks #camping #cloudedSulphur
Yellow and black butterfly feeding on a purple-pink flower.
December 3, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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The snow appears to have stopped for now over Dorset Ontario.
#DorsetTower
View from the Dorset Tower, snow is covering the landscape
November 30, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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One of my favourite places to be - the Ducks Unlimited pond at MacGregor Point Provincial Park in spring. I look at this picture and can almost hear the call of the pied-billed grebe. 😍 #DucksUnlimited #OntarioParks #MacGregorPoint #camping #nature
A pond full of emerging vegetation, bordered by hardwood forest. The pond is calm and reflects the puffy white clouds in the blue sky.
November 29, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Inverhuron Provincial Park in June, along the Chain trail. #OntarioParks #Inverhuron #camping #nature #Ontario #LakeHuron
Turquoise water of Lake Huron in the background. A boy is exploring the rocky shore with his bicycle parked near a trail.
November 28, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Hubby knows how to sleep in style. His Hennessy hammock is set up beside the Ausable in Pinery Provincial Park, early spring. #HammockCamping #HennessyHammock #camping #OntarioParks #Pinery #nature #LakeHuron
A brown tent hammock is suspended between trees beside a river. The setting sun has turned the sky pink and blue
November 27, 2024 at 9:05 PM