Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨
@drewbrayshaw.bsky.social
Hydrologist, photographer, geoscience consultant, mycophile, sarcastic, dude.
the legend lives on, from the Ojibwe on down
Of the great lake they call Gichegami
Of the great lake they call Gichegami
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
the legend lives on, from the Ojibwe on down
Of the great lake they call Gichegami
Of the great lake they call Gichegami
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Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
SCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget.
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Worth noting that because Sim brought forward his proposal for a property tax freeze requiring millions in cuts with just weeks left in the budget process, this is not up for public debate and is not outlined in the documents available to councillors when they vote on this
"the war to end all wars" being followed by another one. 45 being followed by 47. not only an inability to learn from mistakes but an absolute effort to recast them as repeatable successes
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
"the war to end all wars" being followed by another one. 45 being followed by 47. not only an inability to learn from mistakes but an absolute effort to recast them as repeatable successes
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There was a recent case where a competitive trail runner cheated by cutting a switchback on the course -- and was prosecuted for going off trail in a national park. He was just pardoned by this regime. There is no kind of cheating too small to valorize if the right kind of person does it!
BTW the
BTW the
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
There was a recent case where a competitive trail runner cheated by cutting a switchback on the course -- and was prosecuted for going off trail in a national park. He was just pardoned by this regime. There is no kind of cheating too small to valorize if the right kind of person does it!
BTW the
BTW the
I love this article so much that I reread it every couple of months to rethink about it. Particularly the choice to represent a human by a 70 kg, 50 cm radius sphere. Close enough for fundamental physics!
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
All objects and some questions
We present an overview of the thermal history of the Universe and the sequence of objects (e.g., protons, planets, and galaxies) that condensed out of the backg
pubs.aip.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I love this article so much that I reread it every couple of months to rethink about it. Particularly the choice to represent a human by a 70 kg, 50 cm radius sphere. Close enough for fundamental physics!
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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General bookings for COVID-19 vaccines opened — in theory — three weeks ago in Alberta.
I still haven't been able to book any for my children.
Just tried again this morning and got hung up on again by Alberta's 811 HealthLink, with an automated message blaming "higher than expected call volume."
I still haven't been able to book any for my children.
Just tried again this morning and got hung up on again by Alberta's 811 HealthLink, with an automated message blaming "higher than expected call volume."
The only way to book COVID vaccines for young children in Alberta is by calling 811 / HealthLink.
Bookings opened Monday.
It’s now Friday and the system is still saying call volumes are too high and auto-hanging-up on callers. 🙃
(They also cost $100 a pop, if you can ever get through.)
Bookings opened Monday.
It’s now Friday and the system is still saying call volumes are too high and auto-hanging-up on callers. 🙃
(They also cost $100 a pop, if you can ever get through.)
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
General bookings for COVID-19 vaccines opened — in theory — three weeks ago in Alberta.
I still haven't been able to book any for my children.
Just tried again this morning and got hung up on again by Alberta's 811 HealthLink, with an automated message blaming "higher than expected call volume."
I still haven't been able to book any for my children.
Just tried again this morning and got hung up on again by Alberta's 811 HealthLink, with an automated message blaming "higher than expected call volume."
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Non- #MineralMonday Man-made taconite pellets, compressed pulverized iron ore, collected at a mine in Upper #Michigan in 1967. The #EdmundFitzgerald had 26,000 tons more than this 50 years ago today. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Non- #MineralMonday Man-made taconite pellets, compressed pulverized iron ore, collected at a mine in Upper #Michigan in 1967. The #EdmundFitzgerald had 26,000 tons more than this 50 years ago today. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
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“The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) notified PHAC that Canada no longer holds its status.
Canada can re-establish its measles elimination status once the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.”
Canada can re-establish its measles elimination status once the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.”
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) notified PHAC that Canada no longer holds its status.
Canada can re-establish its measles elimination status once the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.”
Canada can re-establish its measles elimination status once the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.”
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The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better?
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better?
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
steam, steam, up the bad dreams
goin up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
goin up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
steam, steam, up the bad dreams
goin up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
goin up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans
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"We only have these ducks just saying"
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"We only have these ducks just saying"
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"the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion."
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion."
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I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!
Can a cow have the Buddha-nature?
Can a hotdog be a sandwich?
Asking this for a relevant reason: can a pond be a computer?
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Can a cow have the Buddha-nature?
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Whether climate change is playing a role in this particular drought is secondary to the fact that this is what climate change impacts will look like at many other locations around the world. Buckle up.
In case you're not aware, Tehran is a city of ~10 MILLION people. "Rivers and reservoirs are running dry, while groundwater sources have been overexploited to sustain agriculture and urban growth."
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
www.newsweek.com/evacuation-w...
Evacuation warning for Iran's capital city
President Masoud Pezeshkian warns Tehran faces a historic water crisis with shortages and possible evacuations.
www.newsweek.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Whether climate change is playing a role in this particular drought is secondary to the fact that this is what climate change impacts will look like at many other locations around the world. Buckle up.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Drytooling: climbing that is neither aesthetic nor desirable but a type of climbing to do when you can't do any of the fun ones. (Crag shown here is a 100 year old railway cutting)
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Drytooling: climbing that is neither aesthetic nor desirable but a type of climbing to do when you can't do any of the fun ones. (Crag shown here is a 100 year old railway cutting)
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Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards - Nature Geoscience
Nature Geoscience - Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Rethinking policy on high mountain cascading hazards
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming is destabilising glaciers in mountain regions, triggering cascading hazards, from glacier collapse to downstream flooding.
Climate impacts are interconnected, not isolated.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
