Shane Mulligan

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Editor, writer. Fond of wild spaces, dogs, evolution, asters, moss, compassion, books, genuine intelligence. #Free 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🌈

CBC News "Business" and "Politics" sections both feature an image of Alberta Premier Smith and Prime Minister Carney in front of a loader. The headline for both is "Alberta’s pipeline pitch is heavy on public, light on private investment — so who benefits?"
Golden-tailed sapphire (Chrysuronia oenone oenone) male, Wildsumaco Lodge, Ecuador. By Charles J. Sharp - Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=166007333
Image of a diver at a 3-metre wall of seagrass roots.
A Towhee facing away, perched in a spring pear tree.
Map of US showing relative concentration of migratory birds on April 16.
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf New study finds "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse".
Several species of mosses, lichens, hornworts and liverworts on a stump, with autumn birch leaves around.
Alicella gigantea, shown held in a researcher's blue-gloved hand, can grow to over 30 cm.
Links to a selection of public domain works on gravediggers via the Internet Archive.
Body snatching emerged from a very specific situation in Britain. In 1540, Henry VIII had granted a Royal Charter to the Company of Barbers and Surgeons that provided them with just four human bodies a year for dissection and anatomical study, an essential component of medical training. Dissection was a sacrilegious act, imperilling the hope of bodily resurrection. Bodies could be taken only from those executed by hanging, who by their crimes had forfeited the right to proper burial. Two hundred years later, this provision had increased to only six bodies, despite a great increase in the number of surgeons.
Friday’s press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.
Cartoon title: A National Attraction. A man sitting in a cell ticking off days. Placard says "Now Hosting 1.7 million" and beneath this is written "Enjoy your visit!"
Quote: The attention-grabbing nature of wonder means that it can bring about the attentiveness required to properly appreciate a sentient being's value. To re-evaluate something, an agent must see it anew or with increased focus. Wonder achieves this not only by grabbing our attention, but also by unsettling us and forcing us to contemplate its object. Thus, the experience of wonder can move an agent towards seeing nonhuman animals as ends-in-themselves.
Canada two dollars with polar bear.
1967 CDN dollar coin with Canada Goose in flight.
Canada 25 cents with caribou head.
A flock of Canada Geese in formation.
Part of the job of editors is to put themselves in the reader’s shoes. “I may be employed by the writer or the publication, but my job is to stand in the place of the reader, the party most often neglected in these operations,” says McIntyre. “The writer is commonly too close to their work to do this. My working assumption is that if the text is not clear and orderly to me, it is not going to be ... Read more at: https://themorningcontext.com/on-the-record/think-editing-is-a-waste-of-time-think-again Copyright © The Morning Context
1. A Lamp Falls. To this day nobody knows exactly what transpired in Selamon on that April night, in the year 1621, except that a lamp fell on the floor in the building where Martijn Sonck, a Dutch official, was billeted.
A deep blue winter twilight, looking up through maple trees at a near-full moon.
A pair of Sandhill Cranes in flight over a woods. D. Collins 2025.
The highly coloured front facade of the Museum.