Could drones and AI-directed weed sprayers be the future of agriculture? A family-owned farm in Manitoba has become the testing ground for new farming tech. Read the full story by @jokinen.bsky.social www.begiant.ca/stories/places/rutherfor...
Was you father as bold as the sergeant major?
Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance.
Journalist @jokinen.bsky.social explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journal...
Pelicans forward Trey Murphy exited Monday’s game with a right shoulder injury after diving on the floor for a loose ball.
The team later announced that X-rays on his shoulder came back negative and that he would not return to the game.
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www.nytimes.com/athletic/621...
[Norman Rockwell guy] I personally wish publications were still paying writers wheelbarrows full of money
Screenshot from the film THE OMEN. Damien's mother (Lee Remick) holds her hand to her head in exhaustion, while Damien's father (Gregory Peck) stares straight ahead and clutches his sweet, screaming l'il antichrist son.
North American current affairs update:
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Those are Nazi salutes. They're Nazis.
Haha ever notice how we “drive” on a “parkway” but “god” “has” “abandoned” “us”?
A postcard of Winnipeg's Centennial Concert Hall dating probably to the 1960s. The angle is such that you can see the Manitoba Museum in the background and the photo was taken on a clear summers day.
Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg.
“I’m bummed oot…”
I’ll guess… Valerie Harper.
No! Met him in men’s room at Toronto’s Massey Hall before show. Never met Thatcher… but stood ten feet from her.
Mickey Rooney
Robert Duvall
Margaret Thatcher
Robin Williams
Raffi
Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano killing the appetite for a drink.
I sing the kettle electric
One early lesson from the longshoremen's strike: the ocean shipping industry has the cash to pay for its own decarbonization.
I want to do a bunch of life stuff over again but with enough magnesium
monch
The only way to stop a bad guy from eating a goose is with a good guy threatening to murder every elementary school student in town.
I saw a werewolf buying Two-Buck Chuck at Trader Joe's, his hair was disheveled
If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers (h/t Dan Bodah). https://buff.ly/3B7c1iv
In my first magazine story for @motherjones.bsky.social, I wrote about attacks on disinformation researchers, and the ways they echo attacks on climate scientists in the '90s. One person compared it to the Red Scare: “How do we not see the historical parallels?” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Comic cover Wonder Woman underwater battling mermen armed with tridents and guns.
H.G. Peter, 1948
For The Reveal I wrote about one of my favorite supporting characters in any movie: VERTIGO's Midge, whose crucial role in the film isn't always noticed (kind of like Midge):
i don’t think it’s sinking in for some white liberals that your neighbor putting up a trump/vance sign is the equivalent of supporting the KKK. it is an act of aggression. i really don’t care if they’ve been nice to you—they are objectively hateful people with whom you should not associate.
