sunrise bloom

it’s bubble tea bc boba is 75¢

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common kingfisher

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i have done it again: see a public event online, show up and realize i wasn’t the target audience

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going on tours of japan with a taiwanese group are always a fun game of, we are landing in what airport now?

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everything is possible through broken physics engine

(when the physics engine is working i average around 4k and get at best 7k)

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bemoaning the lack of uncommon latin-based symbol in fonts? just give me five minutes in fontmerge

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i love birds, i repeat to myself as a northern flicker repeatedly yells outside my window

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Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault to resign: sources | CBC News

The Montreal MP and former environment minister is expected to break the news to his colleagues at the Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday,

Not surprising. Massive respect to Guilbeault & hope he can continue to fight for environmental protections elsewhere.

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Even Harper ‘Did Not Put Extinction on the Table’ | The Tyee

Carney’s proposal to allow major projects that threaten species at risk is ‘morally wrong,’ former environment minister says.

[David] Anderson, who was the minister of fisheries and oceans before he became the environment minister [under Chrétien and Martin], said it’s “ridiculous” to leave the fate of species at risk of extinction “to the charity of individual companies or development proposals.” Carney’s government announced the proposed changes only days after it released Canada’s new nature strategy, billed as a “road map” for halting and reversing biodiversity loss. A key indicator of biodiversity loss is an increase in species at risk of extinction. “Every time a species goes extinct, diversity is reduced,” Anderson said. “You can’t be in favour of biodiversity and against species at risk,” he said.

Anderson is the third former Liberal environment minister to criticize Carney’s proposed changes. Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault told the Toronto Star that the proposed changes are “worse than what Harper did,” while former environment minister Catherine McKenna told the Canadian Press that changing how pipelines are assessed actually risks delaying those projects even further.

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both haku. and yureruwayurei for the upcoming next music in tokyo let’s fucking gooooo

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Wood ducks.

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this girl is absolutely warming up a double axel rinkside before public skate i’m scared

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so somehow i can do backwards single-foot c-pushes fine but cannot do them forwards. at all. skating instructors everywhere are confounded

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the latest taiwanese food trend is cilantro and i fear we’ve taken it too far again (ID in alt)

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Uni with Pikachu

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How Indigenous peoples in Taiwan continue to reclaim their lands rights despite 400 years of colonisation 中文 | Melbourne Asia Review

Indigenous peoples in Taiwan have survived 400 years of colonialisation and continue to thrive while asserting their land rights.

Worth a read about the history of land rights of Indigenous (Austronesian) Taiwanese peoples.

Also interesting albeit in Mandarin with Chinese subtitles only:

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picked up the phone and the caller immediately went on a multiparagraph spiel in cantonese 😭

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february sun