I'm coining a nickname for Louie Varland: "Louie Legend."

#BlueJays

Varland needs to be the closer from now on.

How many blown saves—or nearly blown saves—does Hoffman have to amass before John Schneider wakes up to this fact?

Varland needs to be the #BlueJays closer.

Hoffman is simply not the guy.

How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.

God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

Palmer has been fomenting fear and anger ever since the Cowichan Tribes decision.

Nissan LEAF: Gas Powered Everything commercial YouTube video by Motor1

This remains the greatest piece of persuasive advertising ever made about electrification. It's insane to me that Nissan dropped it & it's insane that no one on the green left has picked it up to make it a national PSA.

I know

This episode is a super helpful précis of the DRIPA saga in B.C. 👇

#bcpoli

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

The pecan tree has much to teach; Robin Wall Kimmerer breaks those lessons down.
orionmagazine.org/article/peca...

Agreed.

It's the democratic equivalent of lead in the drinking water. The longer we wait to remove it, the more lasting the damage will be.

It has taken over five years of murderous chaos for Republican voters to start to see what was obvious all along: that Donald Trump should not be trusted with a box of matches, let alone the most powerful office on Earth. That's the power of propaganda for you.

Bless you, Victoria: B.C.'s capital ranked worst city in Canada for tree pollen allergies Allergy sufferers in Victoria may be in for a rough spring, with a new report ranking the city as the worst place in Canada for tree pollen allergies.

cheknews.ca/bless-you-vi...

One of the very few downsides of living here. #yyj #Saanich

Great stuff from Max. Love that "Schrodinger's oil and gas". It fits UCP too. Record output while the Libs destroy the industry.

"Politics remains the art of the possible, and nowhere is that more true than on climate policy in Canada. The last decade should be all the proof anyone needs of that. "

did a ryan beedie write this

Alberta announces move to 1950s time EDMONTON — After weeks of speculation, Alberta’s United Conservative government has announced that the province will be moving to the 1950s on a full-time basis. “Many Albertans just aren’t comfortabl...

Alberta announces move to 1950s time

@maxfawcett.bsky.social's take on the why we SHOULDN'T institute a windfall profits tax on oil companies is worth considering.

So can we bide our time & take revenge on them later, because they're giant assholes, always lying to us?

#cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...

Carl and Joe Martin, nephews of Tla-o-qui-aht Chief Moses Martin, outside a protector cabin built to house blockaders on Meares Island in the mid-1980s. The effort to protect Meares Island was among the opening salvos in British Columbia’s so-called War in the Woods.

On this day in 1984, Tla-o-qui-aht and Ahousaht First Nations declare Wah-Nah-Jus Hilth-hoo-is (Meares Island) a tribal park.

anticolonialhistory.com/event/331/

It's interesting, because Canada spent $6.48 billion last year alone on the RCMP: rcmp.ca/en/corporate.... & yet I'm not being inundated with articles about the fact that the service is a financial gaping maw

You don't say

There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is

gotta say, the honesty/vulnerability here is refreshing.

how many other leaders who f'd up this badly have you heard acknowledge/reflect on it?

FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT DEAD

The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisis Donald Trump is unfit for office. He might do genocide before Congress recognizes that.

Had anyone in a position of power during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted this stupidly, we’d all be dead. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-stupid...

oh for sure man any day now

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

good luck, babe.