BC Wildfire Service urges caution as fake wildfire images surface online The BC Wildfire Service is urging the public to be cautious of misleading images circulating online, as artificial intelligence-generated wildfire photos become increasingly common.

The BC Wildfire Service is urging the public to be cautious of misleading images circulating online, as artificial intelligence-generated wildfire photos become increasingly common.

Either that or his $ did.

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

Congrats to Tim Cook, whose obituary will feature extended quotations from the president's uh praise

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.

FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

In May, Canada will co-host a conference with EU and Ukrainian partners to advance the return of Ukrainian children and ensure Russian accountability. 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

A painting of a bird beside the text "is this shit over or what"

Uncertain Sanctuary: The Complete Trilogy Uncertain Sanctuary: The Complete Trilogy - Kindle edition by Schwartz, Jenny. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Uncertain Sanctuary: The Complete Trilogy.

If you were Baba Yaga's space-traveling great-great-granddaughter, you too could escape in a magic castle.

A whole lot of wonderful people consider my Uncertain Sanctuary trilogy a comfort re-read. Try it today!

(Available in Kindle Unlimited & Audible, read by Tess Irondale) #booksky

iPod shuffle - sometimes I just want my music really nimble (headphone jacks required)

Local Okanagan-Similkameen government making moves related to controversial KVR trail closure The Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen will be taking some action regarding the controversial deactivation of a portion of the KVR Trail near Princeton.

#OkanaganSimilkameenRD - Local Okanagan-Similkameen government making moves related to controversial KVR trail closure (Penticton) www.castanet.net/news/Pentict...

Regional airport still waiting on approval to secure reliability and increase air travel Castlegar’s regional airport’s one flight per day is impacted by the Selkirk Mountains and cloudy weather conditions throughout the winter season.

#CastlegarBC - Regional airport still waiting on approval to secure reliability and increase air travel (Castlegar) www.castanet.net/news/Castleg...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

A digital illustration done in simple contour lines and rough pencil coloring on neutral tinted paper background of a woman reclining on a surface in a faint. Seen from a foreshortened angle from her knees and feet. She’s laying on one hip with her torso twisting to supine. The back of one hand lays across her forehead and the other is held limply on her ribs. Her head is back and her red curls spread out on the ground around her. She’s wearing a white, voluminous and old fashioned night dress. Orange lettering in an Art Nouveau style to the right reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A Great Blue Heron flares his tail feathers as he lands in the woods to hunt down sticks for the nest.

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

Cuba is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis, marked by nationwide power grid failures, blackouts, and fuel shortages. Canada is announcing $5.5 million in additional assistance to help those most in need by improving access to health services, medicine, and food assistance.

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Pansies
Joseph Plaskett
1970

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Male Common Grackles (bronzed subspecies) strutting their stuff on the boardwalk.

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Vancouver Island among shortlist of best ‘emerging’ film locations in the world The Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission is among the nominees for best emerging film location in the world, according to the Global Production Awards.

The Vancouver Island South Film & Media Commission is among the nominees for best emerging film location in the world, according to the Global Production Awards.

"The GOP is slashing NSF & NEH grants; imposing bans on books, courses and lecture topics; punishing student protesters; blocking foreign students; waging endless lawsuits on colleges and venerating the grifter who created the Professor Watchlist. I wonder why more professors aren't voting GOP?"

"The effort comes in response to longstanding criticism that Harvard’s faculty leans overwhelmingly liberal."

Golly, I wonder why faculties tend to be overwhelmingly liberal? Are liberals more drawn to teaching? Have conservatives been engaged in a long war on science and knowledge? WHO KNOWS?

Yes on mass-market (they fit my shelves better)!

But also: the existing price point of Stars Die was under $18CAD - I don't think it was too much. The books are good quality & the contents are fantastic.
Another $6 or so would not be outrageous, imo. (Though of course cheaper lets me buy more ;-)

Screenshot from the 1992 Republicans party platform: Imagine the America we could create if all parents taught their children the importance of honesty, work, responsibility, and respect for others. We would have less violence in our homes and streets; less illegal drug use; fewer teen pregnancies forcing girls and boys to be adults before they have graduated from high school. Instead, we would have an America of families, friends, and communities that care about one another.

I am procrastinating writing, so I looked it up, and it’s literally in the official Republican Party Platform in 1992! At the front!

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Spring snow dump brings 30cm of accumulation on B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway A low-pressure system dumped significant spring snow on a number of major British Columbia highways, hampering travel through the Interior, including on the Coquihalla where 30 centimetres was recorded.

A low-pressure system dumped significant spring snow on a number of major British Columbia highways, hampering travel through the Interior, including on the Coquihalla where 30 centimetres was recorded.

we’re back to the pets dot com era, baby