🇨🇦NWTkayaker🇨🇦🦫🫎
@nwtkayakerbskysoc.bsky.social
🇨🇦 N of 62°32’, off-grid dweller, chronically on-line, cranky crone with ultracrepidarian tendencies. And yes, I play the ukulele. And Taiko drums. Badly. Not at the same time.
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AI’s menu plan for us this week suggested a Greek yoghurt berry parfait for breakfast. But looking out at our gloomy cold morning, we think buckwheat-cranberry pancakes with a bacon side is a better idea. Human intelligence triumphs!
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI’s menu plan for us this week suggested a Greek yoghurt berry parfait for breakfast. But looking out at our gloomy cold morning, we think buckwheat-cranberry pancakes with a bacon side is a better idea. Human intelligence triumphs!
Kudos to NWT Public Health for setting up vaccine clinics at all sorts of locations and all sorts of times. Makes it really easy to get the annual jab(s).
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Kudos to NWT Public Health for setting up vaccine clinics at all sorts of locations and all sorts of times. Makes it really easy to get the annual jab(s).
Seems a bit early for this.
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Seems a bit early for this.
Overnight temperatures are getting close to 0°C. It was time to bring the tomatoes in to finish ripening on the laundry dryer😏
October 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Overnight temperatures are getting close to 0°C. It was time to bring the tomatoes in to finish ripening on the laundry dryer😏
Amazing cranberries this year.
October 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Amazing cranberries this year.
The only good thing about forest fire smoke is it makes splendid sunsets.
September 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The only good thing about forest fire smoke is it makes splendid sunsets.
Thank goodness CBC has people on Bluesky to help amplify CBC’s story that they would like help amplifying Indigenous climate stories.
September 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thank goodness CBC has people on Bluesky to help amplify CBC’s story that they would like help amplifying Indigenous climate stories.
Recalling in doodles, stained glass panel works-in-progress, still fragile, smeared with flux, and spattered with solder, lifted at last. Then comes the revelation: light streaming through glass, colours alive and dancing. A moment that always took my breath away.
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Recalling in doodles, stained glass panel works-in-progress, still fragile, smeared with flux, and spattered with solder, lifted at last. Then comes the revelation: light streaming through glass, colours alive and dancing. A moment that always took my breath away.
My Goth tomatoes are doing well and they have delightfully creepy flowers.
August 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My Goth tomatoes are doing well and they have delightfully creepy flowers.
This is fantastic. Our small but mighty #LocalNews streaming media outlet, after years of persistence, has finally been granted an FM radio licence. Congrats to @cabinradio.ca’s team!!
After a six-year saga, federal regulator the CRTC announced it had agreed to let Cabin Radio broadcast on 93.9 FM in Yellowknife.
Cabin Radio granted licence to broadcast on FM in Yellowknife
After a six-year saga, federal regulator the CRTC announced it had agreed to let Cabin Radio broadcast on 93.9 FM in Yellowknife.
cabinradio.ca
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is fantastic. Our small but mighty #LocalNews streaming media outlet, after years of persistence, has finally been granted an FM radio licence. Congrats to @cabinradio.ca’s team!!
Another gorgeous sunset on the Trail.
July 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Another gorgeous sunset on the Trail.
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With demand for doctors exceeding supply, the market has changed and the #NWT has fallen behind. Local staff cannot fill gaps in the #ER schedule safely. We need the political will to emergently increase rates. July is looking dire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca
June 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
With demand for doctors exceeding supply, the market has changed and the #NWT has fallen behind. Local staff cannot fill gaps in the #ER schedule safely. We need the political will to emergently increase rates. July is looking dire. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Virtual doctors. Good thing we never have internet or cell service outages (sarcasm tone). Thank goodness our HCWs are speaking up.
June 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Virtual doctors. Good thing we never have internet or cell service outages (sarcasm tone). Thank goodness our HCWs are speaking up.
Well I’m still here but the algorithm seems to keep things fairly parochial-the posts of only a small subset of people I follow will show up in my feed. I check on others, and nothing shows up even though they are still active. Then there’s that darn CBC…
Bluesky is dying?!
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Bluesky is dying
Bluesky was invented to create a nicer space than Twitter. The problem is that too few people have joined and most are smug and boring.
www.spectator.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Well I’m still here but the algorithm seems to keep things fairly parochial-the posts of only a small subset of people I follow will show up in my feed. I check on others, and nothing shows up even though they are still active. Then there’s that darn CBC…
Reposted by 🇨🇦NWTkayaker🇨🇦🦫🫎
Bluesky is dying?!
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Bluesky is dying
Bluesky was invented to create a nicer space than Twitter. The problem is that too few people have joined and most are smug and boring.
www.spectator.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Bluesky is dying?!
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Really?
Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...
Pair that with wildfire evacuations. Truly a test for emergency responders and public health officials to act nimbly and proactively to keep everyone safe from both risks.
#Manitoba reaches 72 confirmed #measles cases, majority from spike in May
Provincial data shows 53 cases confirmed in May alone so far, rate of more than 2 cases per day
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Provincial data shows 53 cases confirmed in May alone so far, rate of more than 2 cases per day
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Manitoba reaches 72 confirmed measles cases, majority from spike in May | CBC News
Manitoba has seen 72 confirmed measles cases since the start of the year, including 53 in May alone, the province confirmed in an update Wednesday.
www.cbc.ca
May 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Pair that with wildfire evacuations. Truly a test for emergency responders and public health officials to act nimbly and proactively to keep everyone safe from both risks.
May 24, 2025
A little NWT magic-kayaking along the edge of candled ice.
A little NWT magic-kayaking along the edge of candled ice.
May 24, 2025
YouTube video by Ukeladies YK NWT
youtube.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
May 24, 2025
A little NWT magic-kayaking along the edge of candled ice.
A little NWT magic-kayaking along the edge of candled ice.
Boasty post-we have the BEST local media in Yellowknife! Accolades are well deserved, Cabin Radio@cabinradio.ca does a great job for us.
Cabin Radio's journalists and broadcasters are shortlisted in four categories at the 2025 Digital Publishing Awards in Toronto. Here's the shortlisted work.
Cabin Radio shortlisted for four Digital Publishing Awards
Cabin Radio's journalists and broadcasters are shortlisted in four categories at the 2025 Digital Publishing Awards in Toronto. Here's the shortlisted work.
cabinradio.ca
May 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Boasty post-we have the BEST local media in Yellowknife! Accolades are well deserved, Cabin Radio@cabinradio.ca does a great job for us.
Thanks for putting these on. Today’s (the first I joined) was great.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Thanks for putting these on. Today’s (the first I joined) was great.
Moss (and ferns and rock) back at you - not very boggy though.
April 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Moss (and ferns and rock) back at you - not very boggy though.
Single glaze glass sunset in the subarctic. Not very energy efficient but sure gets pretty frost.
March 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Single glaze glass sunset in the subarctic. Not very energy efficient but sure gets pretty frost.
Morning ptarmigan in the ptrees.
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Morning ptarmigan in the ptrees.
Ummm…just sharing some afternoon shadows, filtered view and a stain glass WiP.
March 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Ummm…just sharing some afternoon shadows, filtered view and a stain glass WiP.
But if the earth actually IS flat, and a cat jostles your arm as you’re finishing?…
Speaking as a cartographer:
No.
No.
Trump: "When you take away that artificial line that looks like it was done by a ruler ... you look at that beautiful formation of Canada and the US, there is no place anywhere in the world that looks like that. And then if you add Greenland, that's pretty good."
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
But if the earth actually IS flat, and a cat jostles your arm as you’re finishing?…