A green snake eagerly tries to get a peak at Toad in the water. From "A Swim" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

A snake crawled out of the grass. “If Toad looks funny in his bathing suit,” said the snake, “then I, for one, want to see him.”

Opinion | Netanyahu claims that victory over Iran would bring peace to Israel. He should look closer to home - The Guardian

PhD Student Jiaqi Wen is Named 2026-2027 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellow

PhD student Jiaqi Wen has been named the 2026-2027 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute for her research on the history of computing.

Read the full story about her research and this prestigious Fellowship: www.sfu.ca/communicatio...

Can Vancouver Progressives Unite to Win the Next Election? | The Tyee Three municipal parties are trying to find ways to work together. But it’s not exactly peace and harmony.

In Vancouver politics, sometimes what one municipal party sees as an “ultimatum,” another sees as a “cheeky” way to inspire faster inter-party negotiations in the hopes of achieving a progressive win in the coming fall election. #vanpoli

With the Canada-Alberta MOU Prime Minister Mark Carney has given up many of Canada’s hard-won climate and environmental policies to appease Alberta Premier Smith and the fossil fuel industry. Tell the federal government to reject a new pipeline and uphold environmental policies bit.ly/3MKVypS

I have many opinions but here’s one: the makeup of this generation is their parents removing all boundaries from the parenting process thus offering no preparedness or accountability for this generation of youth

If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?

A 3x3 grid of #SaveTheAI posters featuring the dimensions of water, air, electricity, jobs, and coal. Five in English, one each in French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic. Other languages available not shown here.

📣 Friends, fans, enemies!
We would love to hear your thoughts on our hard work to #SavetheAI. Please take a few minutes out of your daily scroll to complete our anonymous survey and let us know how we're doing: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

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The ‘People’s Filibuster’ Comes to Vancouver City Hall | The Tyee Over 600 people signed up to speak to Mayor Ken Sim’s tax-freeze budget. Most were opposed.

And where is mainstream coverage? thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Contact Mayor and Council Contact City Council and the mayor as a group.

Speak out against Ken Sim’s budget #vanpoli:

Submit comments to Mayor and Council via vancouver.ca/your-governm...
Share ideas and feedback through www.shapeyourcity.ca.

Writers! Give @TWSSFU a follow & enter into your 2025 calendars the upcoming #TWSsprints and #TWSOchat sessions. Twitter Sessions: 2nd Sunday of each month -- TWS Twitter Chats #TWSOchat 4th Sunday of each month -- TWS Writing Sprints #TWSsprints

What did it all mean? A good read below. Watching from Canada, there is a sadness about the Women’s marches, and BLM marches and all the other marches despite which Trump got elected.

Join us in congratulating our graduates at the FCAT Convocation celebration on October 9th!

The Convocation ceremony will be held at Convocation Mall at Burnaby Campus at 9:45am, with a reception to follow at the SW corner of the Reflection Pond.

Register now: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/R5D37FG

Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv Editor's Note: The Kyiv Independent is a media partner of the "Gaia-24" performance on Nov. 27 in Kyiv. Even in the midst of Russia’s ecocide against Ukraine — where forests are scorched, rivers are ...

“Gaia-24,” the opera inspired by Russia’s 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir dam in Kherson Oblast, is set to make its return to the Kyiv stage in late November at the Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theater.

I don't believe in God. I'm an atheist.

BUT I believe that people with great influence should use it to do good for nature, life in general, humanity, and the planet.

That's why I think this is a good thing.

My my … look
who got kicked out of their own people

Global warming caused by humans is an observed fact. Yes, science still needs to learn more, but it's no more in overall doubt than the theory of gravity. And it's bad. Willful ignorance, enforced by those who choose to deny science, is an existential threat to our civilization.

Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist An online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.

#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest

Fire in the hole: Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it.
After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs & cultural history in the Tongass national forest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Looking to deepen your practice on urban issues?

The Fall 2025 @sfucity.bsky.social courses & workshops are now open and featuring:

Financing Urban Growth
Real Estate Development
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echoing this key takeaway, in solidarity against-a-i.com

so much needed! thank you for the ideas and the solidarity.

sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest.

balm for the sundays:

this solidarity guide to back-to-school support against the AI assault

against-a-i.com

Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!

Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

This is the way the World is ending, not with a bang but a whimper

Scientists discover blue whales singing less because they are starving

The Global Climate Crisis is killing off their krill & plankton food

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

"Susanne Calabrese, a lawyer for Ecojustice, argues [David] Yager’s various appointments and roles put him at odds in crafting the [#MAS], which she says furthers industry interests over the public’s."

You too can request an investigation into potential conflicts of interest👉 https://bit.ly/46jfb07

Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.

dystopia: "put resources behind AI while it strips funds for actual public education. invest in AI while it strips funding for scientific research. sponsor creation of vast data center infrastructure but ensure AI will be propped up by energies of the past."
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-...

The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

All Students Invited to Build their Professional Communication Skills in New Course

Hear from Daniel Ahadi and Jennesia Pedri about the new course they developed - CMNS 200: Professional & Strategic Communication!

This course invites all students to build their professional communication skills, which are valuable across all industries.

www.sfu.ca/communicatio...

Ontario wants to develop Wasaga Beach Park—home to endangered Piping Plovers—for tourism and housing.

🚨 No Plovers = no healthy beach. 🚨

Speak up before Aug 11 to stop this reckless plan 👉 bit.ly/3ICMYHU

#ProtectWasaga #SaveThePlovers #EndangeredSpecies #Ecojustice 🕊️🌊