Ashley McCall
@ashmc.bsky.social
Passionate about the environment and climate change, books, cats (especially my two), walking, feminism, social justice, and human rights. Grateful to be gainfully retired.
Yes! Let’s respond to our current death cult!
I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.
I don’t understand the hand-wringing reaction to claims that nueral networks have a 10% chance of destroying civilisation.
Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event.
Maybe we could address that?
Fossil fuel companies have a 100% chance of initiating a mass extinction event.
Maybe we could address that?
September 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Yes! Let’s respond to our current death cult!
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Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
August 25, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
Helpful to reflect on all that we have rather than what we lack.
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress
ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
August 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Helpful to reflect on all that we have rather than what we lack.
Desperately trying to see the bright side!
Well, at least this shouldn't trigger more tariffs.
February 22, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Desperately trying to see the bright side!
This is the way of the future!
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This is the way of the future!
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Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
June 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
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My last official photo.
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup
March 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
My last official photo.
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup
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I can never keep this straight - do the tariffs move forward or back tonight?
March 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I can never keep this straight - do the tariffs move forward or back tonight?
Indeed!
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Tyler Hamilton on Substack
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Indeed!
Please take this seriously in Canada!
To every part of the world of every size having an election soon — Think really carefully before sitting it out, before thinking “they’re all the same,” before letting “the perfect” be the enemy of the rational & competent, and before assuming that “change” won’t end up being an absolute nightmare.
It will take years to repair the damage that Trump and Musk have done in less than two weeks. And it’s going to take a lot of hard work to make sure we even get the chance.
February 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Please take this seriously in Canada!
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Me too
I’d love to see other Commonwealth countries boycott US products in solidarity with Canada 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #buyCanadian
a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf
ALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf
media.tenor.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Me too
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Here’s the thing — when a politician shows they can be bought & will sell out the public interest for their self-interest… and that they’ll easily lie when lives will be endangered & cities will be hurt…you know you can’t ever trust them.
Every scandal has shown you can’t trust Doug Ford, Ontario.
Every scandal has shown you can’t trust Doug Ford, Ontario.
This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES.
People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
February 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Here’s the thing — when a politician shows they can be bought & will sell out the public interest for their self-interest… and that they’ll easily lie when lives will be endangered & cities will be hurt…you know you can’t ever trust them.
Every scandal has shown you can’t trust Doug Ford, Ontario.
Every scandal has shown you can’t trust Doug Ford, Ontario.
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Canada considers tariffs on US canned water
Canada considers tariffs on US canned water
OTTAWA - As a retaliation in an escalating trade war between the US and the rest of the world, Canada is considering placing a 25% tariff on all American canned and glass bottled water including Budwe...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Canada considers tariffs on US canned water
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All I know for sure is: Thank goodness, that during these immensely trying times for everyday Canadians, Doug Ford had the foresight to call an expensive unnecessary snap early election.
February 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
All I know for sure is: Thank goodness, that during these immensely trying times for everyday Canadians, Doug Ford had the foresight to call an expensive unnecessary snap early election.
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May this trade war (and the realization that the US is in the hands of fascists) remind the Canadian electorate that we don’t want or need this garbage here.
Vote accordingly.
Vote accordingly.
February 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
May this trade war (and the realization that the US is in the hands of fascists) remind the Canadian electorate that we don’t want or need this garbage here.
Vote accordingly.
Vote accordingly.
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I checked every social medias account of Pierre Poilievre and nowhere does he talk about the tarrifs in the last 5 days.
February 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I checked every social medias account of Pierre Poilievre and nowhere does he talk about the tarrifs in the last 5 days.
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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
canada.ca/en/public-he...
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice
www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
January 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice
www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...
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... and this one, this one I wear when I'm saving Canada but it's cold out.
January 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
... and this one, this one I wear when I'm saving Canada but it's cold out.
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Doug Ford pictured this week singlehandedly fighting off an attack by an aggressive toque.
January 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Doug Ford pictured this week singlehandedly fighting off an attack by an aggressive toque.
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Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
Pledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
January 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today we launched the Pledge for Canada.
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
We have voices from across the political, cultural, labour, Indigenous spectrum.
We are building a movement to maintain pressure on our leaders not to sell out our nation or our values.
Please sign and join the movement.
engagement-canada-pledge.ca
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January 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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“I don’t know whether good times are coming back again, but I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times”
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of a Sower
#booksky #blackbooksky #bookqoute 📚💙
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of a Sower
#booksky #blackbooksky #bookqoute 📚💙
January 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“I don’t know whether good times are coming back again, but I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times”
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of a Sower
#booksky #blackbooksky #bookqoute 📚💙
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of a Sower
#booksky #blackbooksky #bookqoute 📚💙