Be_Outside

Respecting the beautiful, dynamic & complex universe. Love the earth. Trying to leave it better than I found it.
I tend to animals and help build food forests.
degrees in history, philosophy, (cultural) methodologies/anthro.

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Photos: i take'em

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2025-07-15 19:30:04 UTC

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I appreciate that take on things.
lol, no decent person DOESN'T want to kick turnip and his ilk in the nuts. ;)
I hear you.
I'm not sure how much "tact" or business we should do with a full-on nazi shithole government, thinking that turnip will find provocation whever he chooses no matter how "amicable" his "trading partners" are. We need to bring that 75% down & deal with better countries.
And always true: The workers will be the one to pay, in this paradigm.

2025-07-15 01:08:53 UTC

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Carney won because he wasn't the ass-sucking shit-weasel that is pierre poilieverything-is-broken.
It was a very very low bar.
Canadians have a lot of work to do if we want this "liberal" (actually a progressive conservative) to not suck up to the same oligarchs as lil pp.

2025-07-14 19:24:48 UTC

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A "warning" that is literally decades old now.
"Canadians should be prepared..." HOW?
In my time is was by stopping the rape of the world's resources and tackling infinite growth... which my generation not only failed to do but made it infinitely worse.
Just what the hell does "Environment Canada" think we should actually DO to "prepare" at this late late hour? Any concrete ideas that will work?
Didn't think so.
🙄

2025-06-23 17:48:17 UTC

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That's satisfying and all, and also I hope they ALL get fucked while they eat eachother.
Only a fuckin' asshole gives a shit what a proud boy thinks.

2025-04-05 15:10:59 UTC

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the harper cons... a dumpster fire that just keeps on burning.

2025-04-03 00:24:16 UTC

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cheers!
When I finished Moon of the Crusted Snow I immediately wanted a sequel. I also fell in to it, and the sequel is no different.... I soaked it up in two days and was sad when it ended, just because it was done.
Waubgeshig is a wonderful and genuine guy.
I hope you get to read it soon.

2025-04-03 00:00:21 UTC

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I just finished the book Moon of the Turning Leaves, by Waubgeshig Rice, 2023.
It's the sequal to Moon of the Crusted Snow, 2018.
Highly recommend.

2025-03-19 19:18:45 UTC

It's kind of exhausting trying to 'splain Mastodon and the fediverse to the folks who have been brainwashed by for-profit foreign surveillance networking sites pretending to be "social networks".
They're caught up in their "scope, reach, influence" bs. They don't get the community.
I'm exclusively here on Masto. I'm not popular. I don't care. This is the only one that doesn't feed the billionaires and the consumer crap... and it still gives me everything I am looking for, and more every day.

2025-03-12 01:27:19 UTC

It wasn't Ironic, it was coincidental.
#DebunkASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

2025-02-22 23:36:37 UTC

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delightful! sounds delicious.
...I sliced and began a quick ferment of carrot slices today, for snacking on next week.
Two or three... or four.... days in a salt brine in open jars on the kitchen counter (with red onion and ginger for flavour) and then lidded and in to the fridge for at least a week.

2025-02-17 21:36:49 UTC

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omg that looks PERFECT for getting close around vehicles and in tight spaces around the actual house.
I have a tractor and a huge blower for the bigger spaces (and for my neighbours long driveways) but it doesn't help in those tight spaces.
Some of these battery-powered tools ie this shovel, and weed-cutters etc work better than the old gas-powered ones, I find.
Hows the price, I wonder? I'll look.
(lol, I don't like buying too many things)

2025-02-17 21:26:01 UTC

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Oh how I hear you!
The larger farm I'm just clearing paths to out-lying buildings for access... But the driveway where the cars are has been a pain. And the animals are snowed in.
I woke myself up at 3:30am when the snow was almost finished to brush off the cars & shovel it out for a seventh time.
I did it multiple times so I had much smaller amounts of snow to remove... but it took six hours out of my day and I had less sleep.
hip hurts. elbow, shoulder.
lol, too old for this!

2025-02-17 19:41:27 UTC

farm notes today:
animals safe and fed, but snowed in. Dogs not wanting to go out.
plowed and shovelled out the farm all day. 7 hours. 3 feet deep, 4-6 foot drifts.
windchill brought it down to a mere -30 celcius... it has been worse. Be prepared.
Shovelled through some of the largest snowdrifts I have seen since I lived in the mountains.
Wind is blowing... drifts will return. Doin' it all again tomorrow morning. At least the snowstorm is over.
lol, I'm sore. need sauna.

2025-02-07 05:39:09 UTC

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I'm so tired of trying to diplomatically splain the difference between "biological gender" and "gender identity" to people/media who are too stupid to master words beyond two syllables. I will keep trying though I am tired.

2025-01-28 02:01:27 UTC

There's really only ONE THING to do with nazis... and it ain't business.

2025-01-23 18:01:39 UTC

Happy to share that I now am aware of ten couples/families who have cancelled their trips to our fascist neighbours country this week, and will not be planning on going any time soon.
...Also, many have decided to minimize all purchases of products from our fascist neighbours.
Making good choices is a start. lol, now Canada has to also deal with our own wanna-be nazis in the form of conservative leadership in this nation.
godspeed.

2025-01-21 21:18:52 UTC

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thanks to musk and social media/news, kids at the local public school were nazi saluting all over the place today. Most thought it was just funny. They don't know.
The teachers feel helpless. They can only act on what they can prove.
It's.... not good.

2025-01-21 19:55:44 UTC

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don't forget his "policy" about gender. ...the fascists also decided that millions of people no longer exist.
This is war.

2024-12-29 02:51:04 UTC

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some of the ACTUAL creators of images stolen to make your AI might sue... but not me. ;)

2024-12-29 02:47:28 UTC

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lol, All I can see are the broken/failed parts of this ai image.

2024-12-21 02:07:14 UTC

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I was wondering if I should play it safe for the first try, and just salt them... but I also saw a recipe that included cloves and a little cinnamon.
...I add a little dill to some of my ferments. I'll probably try the peppercorns in my next saurkraut.
I do a three-day ferment of carrot sticks before fridging them, and those get onion, garlic, bay leaf, and some chili pepper flakes.

2024-12-21 01:35:45 UTC

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niiice.
I made a batch that is in week three of fermentation and I have already eaten half of it. So delicious.
lol, going to have to start another batch soon.
Also, i'm going to try fermenting brussel sprouts tomorrow... never done that before. Should be interesting.

2024-12-18 21:14:03 UTC

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I agree that- in reality- it wasn't about the truckers. But the gas-lighting about the trucker convoy was huge.
A local food placein my region had a "god bless the truckers" sign flying below their "fuck trudeau flags."
...two local food places, now that I think about.

2024-12-18 19:36:28 UTC

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true.
lol, in light of that, I look forward to watching all of these clownshoes turn on pierre poili-everything-is-broken when they realize that he is not one of them.

2024-12-18 18:54:06 UTC

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I wonder who idiots like this are going to want to fuck once trudeau is gone...?

2024-12-18 18:49:49 UTC

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So gross. This disgusting person DOES NOT represent the "blue collar" workers that I know, and certainly does not represent this country.
Of course, the VAST majority of "truckers" were vaccinated and working while this minority of canada-hating occupiers harassed the residents of the city of Ottawa and tried to commit serious crimes at the Coutts border... and cost Canada over 4 billion in trade.

2024-11-26 01:05:51 UTC

It's totalitarianism now... Time to stop being surprised by it every day, and learn how other people in better nations dealt with it on the ground, in the past.

2024-11-07 01:45:42 UTC

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Years ago I wrote a fake proposal for Kelowna City Council about homelessness.
I called it the HRI: Homeless Removal Initiative.
In that fake, offensive, bullshit proposal, I presented a plan to bus homeless people out of Kelowna and drop them in a nearby valley.... where there was literally nothing. Just a road, a creek, trees and mountains.
SOME of the councilors bought it and wanted to propose it in session!! 🤔
You'd think they'd have clued in to how awful it was. NOPE.

2024-11-03 16:37:54 UTC

If you are a mayor of an Ontario municipality, and the ONLY WAY you can see to governing that municipality is by asking the premier to take away the basic Human Rights of your poorest constituents, then you are a shit mayor who should resign in total shame.
Like the mayors of THESE cities:
Barrie
Brampton
Pickering
Brantford
Chatem-Kent
Clarington
Oakville
Oshawa
Sudbury
Windsor
Pickering
St Catherines
Cambridge
#ontario #onpoli #notwithstandingclause
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-big-city-mayors-notwithstanding-clause-encampments-1.7370210

2024-10-30 16:34:41 UTC

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long ago I worked- in the bush, tree planting- with one of the drummers for godspeed.
Bruce was a wildcrafter. He knew so much about the forests it was intimidating. He taught me a few things.
He brought recording equipment to the camp and collected the sounds of nature in the northern forests of ontario for a future album.
A really good guy.
lol, but I never heard them live.

2024-10-21 18:02:55 UTC

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I don't know if this was already mentioned.
https://pressprogress.ca/24_connections_linking_christy_clark_bc_liberals_to_stephen_harper_conservatives/

2024-10-19 23:31:52 UTC

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Humility Contest!!
....GO!

2024-10-19 21:29:32 UTC

Autumn landscapes in the rural places.
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2024-10-12 01:52:26 UTC

Another One Bites the Crust
#PizzaToppingASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

2024-10-07 11:30:30 UTC

The choke cherries by the forest have a wild grape vine growing up in them.
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2024-10-06 01:31:59 UTC

"satanic panic"
#MostEightiesThingEver
#HashTagGames

2024-10-05 22:57:05 UTC

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The sample is from ONLY 1500 Canadians!
I bet they spent more time colouring the graphs on the fancy website than they did doing actual methodologically sound research that would (more) appropriately reflect the opinions of the population of Canada.
This survey is junk.

2024-10-04 21:20:53 UTC

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Poor john having a hard time.
Life without the straw, man, it's rough. No plastic to suck, lips directly on the thing. .. or on a CARDBOARD straw... ok, I know it's still a straw but shut up.
At least there's still a stupid plastic lid (on the heavily waxed, and inked with a logo) recepticle from which I drink, so that I am still FREE,
god bless this country......
and try not to think about the fact that- if you want a straw- copper or stainless steel straws are awesome.

2024-10-01 20:08:19 UTC

Democracies are relying on "social networks" and media owned almost entirely by oligarchs. That is definitely hurting democracies worldwide.

2024-09-25 18:39:27 UTC

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lol, in 2045 you'll be competing for land on the east coast somewhere, hoping the dry coastal winds are not too polluted.... Unless you go waaay north of an airport in ontario or quebec its already well above a humid 21C for a whole lot of the summer... also well below -20C for parts of the winter.

2024-09-22 13:58:21 UTC

#flowers in the garden.
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2024-09-21 22:48:44 UTC

A few tens of hops varieties to play with.
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2024-09-21 22:44:08 UTC

Raisin awareness. The grapes.
Do I juice them, jam them, jelly them, or booze them?
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2024-09-21 22:14:12 UTC

Some cool summer mornings in the early mist, in the rural places.
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2024-09-21 20:39:57 UTC

Late summer sunflowers under a bright blue sky. The bees are everywhere. Taken this morning.
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2024-09-14 20:25:23 UTC

"I don't like nazis... I just go to that nazi bar to drink."
That's YOU, on twitter.

2024-08-27 23:41:06 UTC

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One of the most disgusting aspects of the okanagan fruit industry (twenty years ago but I assume it hasn't changed) was the realization that Okanagan Fruit was packed and shipped to warehouses hundreds to thousands of miles away.... and THEN "distributed" from these hubs to grocery stores....
This meant that some BC apples that were picked literally a few miles from a store were trucked far far far away and then back to the local grocery store....
Unbelievable.

2024-08-14 14:59:11 UTC

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Sure!
AMERICAN-owned grocery chains determine product placement in CANADIAN stores. Years ago, as part of a food movement in BC, we established that Canadian stores should be pushing Canadian Foods, but our major grocery chains were not on board. Many took their orders from San Francisco.
After that: Let Fruit Pickers UNIONIZE, and give farm laboureres more rights.
It's been a while since I was in it. I'll think some more about your question.

2024-08-14 14:41:28 UTC

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In the Okanagan, BC Tree Fruits just filed for bankruptcy. They have been fully behind squeezing out Canadian labourers to save money on cheaper foreign workers. They have struggled. Clearly their plan only delayed the inevitable. Their industry is presently not sustainable
....I feel like I need to absolutely clarify that no TFWorkers are to blame for this.
The industry used the lure of TFW's to squeeze Canadian labourers like me out of the industry and avoid unions.

2024-08-14 13:23:33 UTC

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The biggest problem Canada has in the BC fruit market is the USA. Even at peak apple season in the Okanagan, American apples (usually washington) are at the front of the grocery stores shelves.
Fruit-dumping makes the industry in Canada very expensive. TFW's are cheaper and they are subsidized. Farmers liked that.
But it doesn't solve the problem, and eventually the fruit industry in the Okanagan will be unsustainable the way its going.

2024-08-12 14:07:52 UTC

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NOW farmers get to charge hundreds of dollars in "rent" to the people who live & work their land. Living arrangements used to be provided as part of your labour. I never paid a cent to live where I worked. The new TFW's that took over my jobs did & do. (Lodging is part of the farming job. You lodge your labourers.)

2024-08-12 14:01:34 UTC

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I was a (Canadian) "fruit-picker" for ten years. I migrated across Canada seasonally. Planted trees in Northern ON in spring/summer, went west to BC & pick fruit in the summer/fall, tended horses in the winter back in Ontario.
In 2000, picking apples in BC paid 1979 wages still. Labourers like me were often called "gypsies" by locals.
By 2003, farmers found out that using temporary foreign workers could save them even MORE money than paying Canadian labourers 1979 wages.