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Anti-democratic Forces Are Using a Bullhorn in Canada Something has changed on Canadian social media in the last few weeks. I’ve felt it. Maybe you have too.

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#cdnpoli #canada

We Must Stop Letting American Tech Companies Bill Canadians for Their Infrastructure The AI buildout on Canadian soil is accelerating. The power costs, the water costs, the grid expansion, those are landing on Canadian ratepayers.

We Must Stop Letting American Tech Companies Bill Canadians for Their Infrastructure
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‘Reverse-gentrify the country’: how Black and Indigenous intentional communities are reclaiming land From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition

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CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Ancillary Review of Books: Year 7! Questioning power, imagining possibility: ARB provides thoughtful criticism of speculative fiction. Help us pay our writers and staff!

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Solar power in Africa is heating up — thanks in part to chili peppers | CBC News They're the chili peppers in the spicy chicken at a restaurant you might know. And they were an ingredient used by a Canadian company to build the first solar power plants in Malawi.

🌶️☀️🌶️☀️🌶️☀️

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‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it Britain’s swift population fell by two-thirds between 1995 and 2023. Make their lives a little easier with a bit more food and more places to nest

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Katharine Johnson

As we send a Black man and a woman around the moon for the first time, let’s remember the trailblazing Black woman Katherine Johnson, whose brilliant calculations were critical to the initial Apollo 11 mission. Her work spanned 33 years at NASA, including contributions to the Space Shuttle program.

Someone sent me this.

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Night Into Day The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

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LOL. Bye now.

Just stop. People also make money from nuclear and it also has an impact on the environment.

“A trained parrot.” This from a guy who apparently makes it his life’s mission to seek out wind and solar posts made by strangers and attempt to crap on them.

You want to be pro nuclear, knock yourself out. The rest of us will be rolling out renewables.

No, it isn’t. And take your oil and gas propaganda elsewhere.

Rooftops are a thing. So is agrovoltaics.

India solar to quadruple, wind to triple over a decade, power ministry adviser says India's solar power capacity is expected to quadruple over the next ​decade, while wind energy capacity could triple, according ‌to a report published on Thursday by an adviser to the country's power ...

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Scottish airline makes history with first all‑electric flight A Scottish airline has made UK aviation history by being the first commercial airline to fly an all-electric aircraft across its network

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I’ve Got to Admit, It’s Getting Better Designer and artist Stefan Sagmeister on why the world is improving more than we think.

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What's worse than hospital food? New blog post answers the question.

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#blog #amwriting #hospitalfood #parkinglot #humor #humour

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‘In Romania now, you don’t see a bottle anywhere’ A deposit return scheme for used drinks bottles and cans in Romania has ‘made the impossible possible’

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Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: Review of Joe P.L. Davidson’s Saving Utopia Chandra K. Clarke Under Review:Saving Utopia: Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times. Joe P.L. Davidson. MIT Press, March 2026. Like many people, I came to SF fandom by way of Star Trek. As a…

Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: @chandraclarke.bsky.social reviews Joe P.L. Davidson's SAVING UTOPIA (@mitpress.bsky.social)

How a 1930s house was turned into a carbon-negative home - Positive News New regulations promise zero-carbon-ready homes, but the real work lies in retrofitting Britain’s ageing and inefficient properties

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This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Less traffic, less noise: Green axes cut noise levels in cities The implementation of green axes and the reduction of motorized traffic in cities is effectively consolidating itself as a strategy to significantly lower environmental noise levels. A study conducted...

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#plantmoretrees

"Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it."

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Where did all the starships go? | Datawrapper Blog In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.

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#scifi #writing #spaceships #starships

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.