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It's Orange Shirt Day in Canada! Here are some ways you can support survivors of residential schools today:

Learn about the harm done by residential schools, and the calls for justice (links contain discussions of child death and abuse)

Call your elected representatives and show up to city council meetings. Speak up in support of indigenous activists' causes.

Follow indigenous journalists and activists online.

Donate to organizations that help survivors:

The Indian Residential School Survivors Society offers counseling and other supports (24 hour crisis hotline: 1-(800)-721-0066)

The KUU-US Crisis Line Society (for adults: 250-723-4050; for minors: 250-723-2040

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society

(Feel free to add more!)

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More pets go missing around the Fourth of July than any other time of year. If your cat is afraid of fireworks, keep them inside and STAY HOME. Make sure they have cozy places to hide. Play music to help cover the loud noises. Keep windows shut - cats can easily bust through screens if they are scared enough. Draw the curtains to block out flashes of light. Use a calming pheromone diffuser such as feliway if you have one. And if they are up for it, play with them for distraction!

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El perro guardian

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Junk Guy

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Wayne and Shuster: Rinse The Blood Of My Toga, an Ides of March mystery.

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Three layers of history in one building!

This home in the Fatih district of Istanbul has ancient Roman foundations under Ottoman-period archways, with the house dating to the start of the Turkish republic (c. 1920's).

📷@bursadabugun

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-ancient-rome/

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Untitled © Peter Solarz

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Tony Nellis Photography

Waxwing

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El perro guardian

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(Cerastes vipera) dwarf Sahara sand viper

Venom contains mainly mild cytotoxic & neurotoxic components. Bites reportedly painful, but usually not serious.

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Big Brother and I: red-billed oxpecker and the African buffalo, 2022 - by Clint Ralph, South African

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A newly hatched baby egret in a nest in the Wakodahatchee Wetlands in Delray Beach, Florida, US

Photograph: Ronen Tivony/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

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Causus maculatus

Common Names: Spotted night adder, West African night adder, forest rhombic night adder

Habitat

Found in very wide variety of habitats in a band across western & central Africa; from forest to savanna to semi-desert. Present from senegal east to central Chad, southeast to Zaire, northeast into SE Sudan, & the low country & river gorges of SW Ethiopia, then southwest to northern Angola.

Activity and Behavior

Mainly nocturnal but sometimes active in day or at dusk, & mainly terrestrial but may climb low bushes, sometimes basks in sun. When threatened, inflates body & hisses loudly, not agressive but will bite quickly if further molested. Oviparous w/ 6-20 eggs/ clutch reported. Prey mainly on available frogs, lizards, & sometimes small mammals or birds.

Venom Characteristics

Not well known. Mainly hemotoxic, w/ possible cytotoxic factors. Bites generally cause immediate local pain, at least limited local swelling, sometimes fever, & painful regional lymphadenopathy. Second most common cause of snake-bite mortality in Senegal. No known antivenom currently produced.