@Youens

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Helping those who help others. I work in primary care, & recently moved back to Vancouver Island after 15+ years in Alberta. Formerly @MattYouens on the site for birds.
I like to follow news on #technology, #Apple, #ClimateCrisis, #SustainableEnergy, #Reconciliation, & #DataPrivacy. I’ve watched a ridiculous number of hours of #AlternativeLiving videos. Love #ProjectKamp. #GoAvsGo

A #caturday story in 4 photos.

This week was my last week at my job of the past year and a half, and the team presented me with an beautiful ceramic raven bowl designed by Nuxalk & Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation artist Kelly Robinson.

Fez, has decided he absolutely pawsitively has to sleep in the cardboard box the bowl came in.

#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt

For those who have a significant overlap in their #podcast Venn diagrams of #science, #competition, & #fun, I highly recommend SciShow Tangents. #hankgreen #scishowtangents #scishow

https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/episodes

Episodes | SciShow Tangents

SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.

SciShow Tangents

Beautiful art seen in Nanaimo this week. The photo does not do it justice.

Sea Bed, by Peter Achurch. “Woven with marine rope & string collected at the shoreline, & on an armature made from a steel-spring mattress, discarded materials take centre-stage in this sculpture. As the artist says, they tell their own tales of work along our coast.”

Thank you, Culture_Nanaimo #LoveArtsNanaimo

Aaaand, here is a non-clam related photo, though it is also mollusc-related. Took me a while to identify what this actually was, but these are opalescent squid eggs I found during my clamming activities. #squideggs #squid #beachcombing #bc
I was last week old when I learned that clams have two siphons (incurrent and excurrent), and have very active cilia at the ends of those siphons… the bucket contains littleneck, Manila, butter, and geoduck clams (the geoducks were placed back). The macro photos are of the butter clam siphons during the purging stage, pre-chowder. #clams #clamming #beachcombing #bc
Fez & Salish are now fully recovered from their humans being away for the holidays. #catsofmastodon
Happy #Caturday Mastodon! This is Fez. He likes catnip, hiding under blankets, & stealing socks at midnight and running around while trying to sing opera with a mouth full of sock. #catsofmastodon