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How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
...
and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
...
and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit
Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STATE/BANQUET
How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
...
and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
...
and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... "Municipalities are owed $254 million in outstanding property taxes from oil and gas companies, while another $200 million has been written off in the past decade..." this isn't Edmonton & Calgary, these are rural municipalities.
Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal
Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy aims to deal with the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes and orphaned wells. A pitch in Warburg didn’t go as planned
thenarwhal.ca
September 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... "Municipalities are owed $254 million in outstanding property taxes from oil and gas companies, while another $200 million has been written off in the past decade..." this isn't Edmonton & Calgary, these are rural municipalities.
A head of Draw the Line and Sun-Day, here's a fun read on solar punk www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism
At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radically different societal and economic structure.
www.vice.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A head of Draw the Line and Sun-Day, here's a fun read on solar punk www.vice.com/en/article/s...
Welcome to Sun Day (Sept 21) sunday.earth/welcome via @ayanaeliza.bsky.social
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September 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Welcome to Sun Day (Sept 21) sunday.earth/welcome via @ayanaeliza.bsky.social
What do you wish $100,000,000 was spent on in SK this summer?
NEW: Sask. government paid $100M too much for new firefighting planes, B.C.-based manufacturer says. From Geoff Leo
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sask. government paid $100M too much for new firefighting planes, B.C.-based manufacturer says | CBC News
Coulson Aircrane says the Saskatchewan government has agreed to pay more than twice what it should have for four firefighting aircraft — a decision the B.C.-based company says will cost Saskatchewan t...
www.cbc.ca
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What do you wish $100,000,000 was spent on in SK this summer?
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“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall
An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.
www.thestar.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
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🚨BREAKING: Apparently, we've written a paper about how dog ownership causes extreme weather 🐶🌪️ 😂
Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US...
While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...
Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US...
While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🚨BREAKING: Apparently, we've written a paper about how dog ownership causes extreme weather 🐶🌪️ 😂
Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US...
While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...
Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US...
While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
August 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda via @momentumdash.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda via @momentumdash.bsky.social
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The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
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The Chinese might dominate polar oceanography if the NSF follows through with plans to retire the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, our only research icebreaker for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
www.science.org
August 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The Chinese might dominate polar oceanography if the NSF follows through with plans to retire the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, our only research icebreaker for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
A viral chocolate goes bacterial www.msn.com/en-us/foodan...
MSN
www.msn.com
August 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A viral chocolate goes bacterial www.msn.com/en-us/foodan...
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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl
August 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl
Such a delight to walk alongside @mrapomquet.bsky.social this weekend. 10 years since his first SK trail walk with our dear friend Hugh and the history & folklore society. Read a review of his book about that first walk: reviews.skbooks.com/good-walk-the/
August 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Such a delight to walk alongside @mrapomquet.bsky.social this weekend. 10 years since his first SK trail walk with our dear friend Hugh and the history & folklore society. Read a review of his book about that first walk: reviews.skbooks.com/good-walk-the/
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If CO₂ is plant food and so essential to life on Earth as this administration claims, why are they destroying the satellites that track CO₂?
NASA's carbon tracking satellites are on Trump's chopping block
The satellites targeted for removal are the only ones monitoring Earth's greenhouse gases.
mashable.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If CO₂ is plant food and so essential to life on Earth as this administration claims, why are they destroying the satellites that track CO₂?
"Until scientists have more answers, cancer survivors are recommended to take extra precautions to avoid respiratory infections" and maybe the rest of us can help them out too by trying to not spread our own germs through masking, cleaning, and vaccination.
“You’ve awakened the flames and then it dies back down,” he says. “But now you’ve got 100 times the embers that you had before” — making it more likely to turn into an inferno.
‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu
Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.
www.nature.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Until scientists have more answers, cancer survivors are recommended to take extra precautions to avoid respiratory infections" and maybe the rest of us can help them out too by trying to not spread our own germs through masking, cleaning, and vaccination.
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”
BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis
Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.
www.phenomenalworld.org
July 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”
I'm trying to imagine if any other industry 'borrowed' this much money and didn't pay it back or provide a rationale for their socio-economic impact. Maybe schools or hospitals fall in this category?
“When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay their land rent, the provincial government will pay it for them. More than 99% of the time, the government never gets its money back.”
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...
Alberta covered $150M in oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent | The Narwhal
Issue of oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent in Alberta is ‘intertwined’ with unpaid municipal taxes, cleanup bills: law professor
thenarwhal.ca
July 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm trying to imagine if any other industry 'borrowed' this much money and didn't pay it back or provide a rationale for their socio-economic impact. Maybe schools or hospitals fall in this category?
People thought they could explain and conquer nature — yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. -Vaclav Havel www.dadychery.org/2012/03/25/p...
Politics and Conscience: An Essay by Vaclav Havel – Haiti Chery
www.dadychery.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
People thought they could explain and conquer nature — yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. -Vaclav Havel www.dadychery.org/2012/03/25/p...
“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.” – @@paulocoelho via @momentumdash.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.” – @@paulocoelho via @momentumdash.bsky.social