WAIT

Doug already bought the plane and is already going to sell it?!?!?

omg

I’m so annoyed by the framing of this article. It’s a Robot-Wars style contest of “everybody bring your bipedal robots! Let’s race!” and the headlines all focus on robot vs human rather than “Look at the extremely complex engineering people made! Cool!”

Discovery!!!!!

The thing about Vancouver wanting a world class art gallery is we already have one.

The Museum of Anthropology combines two of the greatest visual contributions this land has shared with the world — West Coast Modernism and Northwest Coast Art — into a singular expression of this region.

planners: our two universities will be at the end of a peninsula and at the top of a mountain

people: won't people complain about how removed they are from the city?

planners: almost immediately

people: will rapid transit be created in response?

planners: we'll talk about it for decades, but no

An Osprey is seen in flight against the blue sky.

Osprey have become a daily sight (late April to Oct) along the Bow River #AB #YYC. Fifty years ago, this wasn't the case, but as their pop'n recovered + local nesting & feeding opportunities took off, so did these birds. We now find about 1 nest/ km of the river within #YYC.

Somewhere in his writings Samuel R. Delany talks about living in London in the early 1970s and going upstairs to see who was playing amazing piano and getting to know that person and becoming friends with them and of course it was Tim Curry

teaaaa

Okay, on the one hand, running upright is hard! The designers did a genuinely impressive thing here!

On the other, I’m not sure “look how much faster than a human it can go” is terribly interesting framing. Lots of things go faster than humans, and it just gets people’s backs up.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Even by Poilievre's standards this is just an absurd misrepresentation of reality.

Carney left the Bank of England in early 2020. Inflation didn't take off in the UK until mid-2021 -- the same as every other economy on earth.

Black head and neck fading into a blue body and wings on this jay standing on a post 🖤💙☮️

cyanocitta stelleri posting

A close-up of a Caesar cocktail in a glass with a salted or spiced rim. The drink is reddish-orange and filled with ice. A lime wedge is hooked onto the rim, and a celery stalk stands upright inside the glass. A black straw is also visible. The background is softly blurred, keeping focus on the drink.

In 1969, Walter Chell of the Calgary Inn wanted to create a signature drink for the Inn's new Italian restaurant.
The drink he created became Canada's national cocktail.
Today, 350 million Caesars are consumed each year in Canada.
This is the story.

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STOP CALLING THINGS VEGAN LEATHER ITS FUVKING PLASTIC ITS P L A S T I C

ITS
PLASTIC

it’s fucking plastic

fuck you and your non renewable fast fashion fucking plastic goddamit

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

A bright spot in the news. Firmly believe that right-to-repair suits like these are an irreplaceable part of progressive environmental policy worldwide

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

"If you can't express your intent or decisions to others. Then you serve no purpose."

*pounds table* IDES IDES IDES

Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.

And we have learned what happens when the entire institution fetishizes tactical-level performance and largely pre-selects its senior leaders when they're about 10 years into their careers. Eventually we get the cult of the pushup.

Definitely not all leftists but some leftists seem to have this "I should just be able to exist and be supported without having to contribute something to capitalism" and I just want to be like "I'm not sure you have a good understanding of what the basic expectations of society are under communism"

Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

When it comes to the impact of #MeToo, it’s important first of all to recognise that it was not a deus ex machina event out of nothing and nowhere. It was a consequence of the preceding five years of feminist upheaval, which in turn built on earlier feminist work. That upheaval took place as a vast public discourse educating the public about the pervasiveness of gender violence and the fact that it very often does not unfold as “stranger in alley attacks pure young lady”. It got people to let go of a lot of the stereotypes and slanders that protected rapists by blaming victims or portraying them as incapable of bearing trustworthy witness to their experience. It created the editorial willingness to publish stories that exposed movie producer/convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and a host of other abusers and creeps and unpacked the mechanisms of protection they employed. That in turn resulted in changed laws. Six years after that 2017 upheaval, two women said, in a talk at the Practising Law Institute, “Prior to #MeToo, only three states had passed anti-harassment reforms.” They counted 70 workplace anti-harassment laws passed, in 40 US states and 3,000 pieces of legislation introduced overall that were impacted by #MeToo. A nationwide law passed in 2021 ended forced arbitration of sexual assault and harassment, giving victims the right to go to court. All this legislation created a lot more accountability and victim protection, but it’s the kind of consequence that often goes unnoticed. Unnoticed because it’s complicated, slow, incremental and, for the most part, legislative reform is not a hot headline. The eager obituary writers tended to announce that #MeToo had failed whenever further incidents of high-profile sexual abuse were reported (though the very fact they were reported and in some cases successfully prosecuted may have been a result of these shifts). The single most important impact of #MeToo, I believe, is akin to what many environmental victories look…

"It’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy entrenched in law, culture, social arrangements and economics could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime."

like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands

Hey this is like the most serious oil guy i know and this is worse than i expected

I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.

I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

Oh, it's CAF-wide.

Then you read the new CDS Directive on Second Language Etc while you're on an international conference talking about real stuff and you just wonder what we're even doing here.

Can't wait for the 3VP WOs to get told they need a B profile, though. Gonna be hilarious.

The idea that imperfect victims aren’t worth defending is much bigger than me, and is something I had to speak out about.

What kind of world does it create when only some of us are deemed worthy of institutional support and safety?