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How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
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and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... "Municipalities are owed $254 million in outstanding property taxes from oil and gas companies, while another $200 million has been written off in the past decade..." this isn't Edmonton & Calgary, these are rural municipalities.
What do you wish $100,000,000 was spent on in SK this summer?
“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
🚨BREAKING: Apparently, we've written a paper about how dog ownership causes extreme weather 🐶🌪️ 😂
Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US...
While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda via @momentumdash.bsky.social
The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
The Chinese might dominate polar oceanography if the NSF follows through with plans to retire the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, our only research icebreaker for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl
Such a delight to walk alongside @mrapomquet.bsky.social this weekend. 10 years since his first SK trail walk with our dear friend Hugh and the history & folklore society. Read a review of his book about that first walk: reviews.skbooks.com/good-walk-the/
If CO₂ is plant food and so essential to life on Earth as this administration claims, why are they destroying the satellites that track CO₂?
"Until scientists have more answers, cancer survivors are recommended to take extra precautions to avoid respiratory infections" and maybe the rest of us can help them out too by trying to not spread our own germs through masking, cleaning, and vaccination.
Motherfucking wind farms…
“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”
I'm trying to imagine if any other industry 'borrowed' this much money and didn't pay it back or provide a rationale for their socio-economic impact. Maybe schools or hospitals fall in this category?
People thought they could explain and conquer nature — yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. -Vaclav Havel www.dadychery.org/2012/03/25/p...
“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.” – @@paulocoelho via @momentumdash.bsky.social
Found a tick? You can submit it to eTick.ca for analysis.
preferably the HARVEST link...
wait, where is the link?!
