Adding to the Annals of Things Wasted on Youth: the lovely tabla parts of Get Ur Freak On

Extremely not good, to say the least! 🙈

This is great!

Portions of an exposed tree trunk with tight and psychedelically flowing whorls in the grain, like nature’s slow lava lamp

Whorls gone wild

How a Tsunami Was Unleashed at 17,000 Feet, Shattering Lives Below As warmer temperatures melt polar ice, a parallel danger lurks in high mountain areas where melting glaciers have created thousands of new lakes.

🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/world/asia/h...

On International #TransDayOfVisbility, we stand with trans people worldwide facing escalating attacks on their rights, safety and dignity.

Human rights are universal, and governments must protect trans communities from discrimination and violence, and ensure everyone can live freely and safely.

Pour contèxte, le projet le plus grand n’a aucun connection petrolière. C’est pour faciliter le stockage pour un project biomasse qui est détenu à la majorité par la Première Nation de Meadow Lake ressources-naturelles.canada.ca/financement-...

Congrats, Joel!

How tech billionaires are alienating neighbours in Toronto’s idyllic Wychwood Park For more than a century, the Toronto enclave has managed its own affairs discreetly. But as corporate types move in, the neighbourhood is now confronting its tensions

I can't help but think that @vassb.bsky.social would find this profoundly amusing: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9363f1...

Can't wait for the next season of Centre Block Idol

Ask not for whom the growing global energy imbalance amplifies chaos...

Debates (Hansard) No. 100 - March 26, 2026 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada Debates (Hansard) No. 100 - March 26, 2026 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada

Hey @aaronwherry.bsky.social I know that duels with weapons are frowned upon, but do the rules of parliamentary procedure say anything about singing and/or math battles? www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...

Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Toronto folks!

Tonight we're convening the latest edition of our East End Energy Beers. Come wonk out with some of Canada's sharpest climate/energy dorks from government to banking to ENGOs to academia.

7pm on at The Dylan, near Greenwood station

Joanna Biggs · Bleeding in the Dishes: Solvej Balle’s Time Loop Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of...

Everytime a fresh LRB arrives the *very first thing* I check is if there’s any sweet sweet Balle content. Now it’s finally here, but it includes Book IV, which doesn’t come out in Canada till mid-April 😭
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This and more in StatCan's Table 20-10-0085-01

Since I can just *sense* you're all hankering for weird-but-true Canadian ZEV sales statistics facts, consider this:

In November 2025, Ontario and Alberta both had the same meagre 5.35% share of electric vehicle sales (either BEV or PHEV).

For the the same month:
-Canada: 10%
-BC: 20%
-QC: 17%

(and do industrial policy, presumably)

For Government Reasons I can't describe the details of the Request for Standing Offers, but I strongly encourage folks to read it if they're interested. There's a lot of great detail, reflective of the thinking the teams have put into this and great inputs received from stakeholders in the past year

Scoring also takes a range of broader factors into account, meaning that assessments are not purely on price but also on broader benefits that, again, connect to the conditions needed for responsible scaling.

The design of the procurement also reflects a recognition that it's going to take a range of approaches to responsibly scale CDR to meaningful levels. It deliberately takes a portfolio approach, setting out a number of different technology categories, each to be competed separately.

Geological Net Zero and the need for disaggregated accounting for carbon sinks - Nature Including passive CO2 uptake as an anthropogenic removal in greenhouse gas accounting systems could undermine the Paris Agreement; measures to address this include acknowledging the need for Geologica...

The intent, spelled out in the document, is to support the like-for-like principle, offsetting fossil emissions with removals on geological (1000yr+) timescales. There's a reference to Allen et al (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

The first priority of this strategy is absolute emissions reductions. But for emissions sources where complete elimination is not currently feasible, like the national safety and security fleet (fighter jets, ships, etc), permanent CDR is tagged to address residuals.

Unlike the US Department of Energy's (paused) CDR purchase prize pilot, this is not a grant program. These credits are being procured by the government as part of the Greening Government Strategy to reach net-zero operational emissions.

Excited to share some fun policy progress from Canada on permanent CDR. Yesterday, we launched a government procurement process for high-integrity credits from a range of approaches. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first national government to do so. canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-op...

Alberta Carbon Market Rally Fades as April 1 Deadline Nears A rally in the price of Alberta’s carbon credits after the province promised to raise the industrial carbon tax and shore up its carbon trading system has faded.

🙈 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Please provide submissions so I have something to do on the chairlift youraislopbores.me

Pretend AI composes a haiku about Doritos: I like eating them/they are tasty salty fun/hooray Doritos

An oz-like AI that’s really just randos generated a picture of two fun snails in love

I’m very upset that I didn’t invent this genius website, but I am so glad that *someone* did. The absolute best way to waste your time and celebrate idle humanity 🤣

an important anniversary this year: colm tóibín's 2009 novel *brooklyn* is exactly as old as avril lavigne was, when she recorded and released her debut album "let go", featuring "sk8er boi", "complicated", and "i'm with you". congratulations to both