Tag: bees

In the next 3 weeks, Canada will make a decision that could save the bees for good

pottercastleminds:

pottercastleminds:

radfemsideblog:

dorianshavilliard:

parttimeperfectionist:

um guys?

canada is currently considering banning imidacloprid, which is apparently “one of the most widely used bee-killing pesticides in the world”. this seems pretty huge, so if you’ve got two seconds, add your name to the list! as of posting this link, they need just over 8,000 more signatures by february 21!

@allthecanadianpolitics

I DON’T CARE IF YOU’RE AMERICAN
PLEASE REBLOG THIS SO THAT OTHER CANADIAN USERS CAN SEE IT

To all my non-Canadian followers: please reblog this to spread the word.

To all my Canadian followers: please take a few seconds to sign this and reblog.

As of 1am (ET) on Saturday Feb 11th, 8 098 signatures are needed.

We have until Feb 21st (10 days) to do it.

Let’s go!

The goal has now been moved to 150 000 signatures.

As of 11:25pm (ET) on Feb 11th, 49,705 signatures are needed. 

Come on Canada! Let’s do this 🙂

In the next 3 weeks, Canada will make a decision that could save the bees for good

still-intrepid:

midcenturymodern:

that time walter cronkite died and the chicago tribune decided to refer to him as mr. cronkite in their obituary as a show of respect so they ran a program that replaced every instance of “cronkite” with “mr. cronkite” and do you see where i’m going with this

i love this.

reported here: “an editor must have used search-and-replace to make “Cronkite” into “Mr. Cronkite.“  There was some collateral damage.”

see also

Reuters style apparently avoids mentions of “the Queen”, instead favoring the full name “Queen Elizabeth.” [x] and once in this article about bees do you see where i’m going with this

and

the time American Family Association’s news site, who apparently aim to combat The Homosexual Agenda by removing all instances of the word ‘gay’…… reported on sprinter Tyson Gay’s victory….