JP
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Are we really still doing this shit?
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Are we really still doing this shit?
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There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
Transportation 101 Policy Guides - Climate Cabinet Education
Transportation 101 Policy Guides by Climate Cabinet Education: practical, accessible guides on transit planning, active mobility & multimodal policy for climate action.
climatecabineteducation.org
January 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.
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In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report).
That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed.
My assessment just published:
www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...
That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed.
My assessment just published:
www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...
Maduro Capture Operation and the President’s Duty to Faithfully Execute U.N. Charter: Assessment of 1989 OLC Opinion
A decades-old Office of Legal Counsel memorandum claiming the President can disregard the UN Charter does not withstand serious scrutiny.
www.justsecurity.org
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report).
That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed.
My assessment just published:
www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...
That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed.
My assessment just published:
www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...
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The time honoured Canadian tradition of sitting in one's bathrobe, numbly watching the United States sleepwalk into something evil and stupid
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The time honoured Canadian tradition of sitting in one's bathrobe, numbly watching the United States sleepwalk into something evil and stupid
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This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
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Counterpoint: Fuck you
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Counterpoint: Fuck you
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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'Camberwell, London' (cut paper collage, 2022) by Jo Burgess
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November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
'Camberwell, London' (cut paper collage, 2022) by Jo Burgess
green-magpie.co.uk
green-magpie.co.uk
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The rest of the country bitching when Toronto gives them a rare opportunity to feel desperately alive is the energy of the rest of Canada, for the record
The jays having one good inning and then spending three hours holding everyone hostage while they waste any and all goodwill is the energy Toronto brings to this nation, I just want Americans to know this
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The rest of the country bitching when Toronto gives them a rare opportunity to feel desperately alive is the energy of the rest of Canada, for the record
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gotta remember that no one likes this shit
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
gotta remember that no one likes this shit
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Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai declared in 2020 that the IT behemoth was entering the “most ambitious decade yet” in its climate action.
But our investigation has found that Google’s net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed from its sustainability website.
But our investigation has found that Google’s net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed from its sustainability website.
Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 n...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai declared in 2020 that the IT behemoth was entering the “most ambitious decade yet” in its climate action.
But our investigation has found that Google’s net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed from its sustainability website.
But our investigation has found that Google’s net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed from its sustainability website.
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The Bathers, 1899 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/1222335
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/1222335
September 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Bathers, 1899 #artbots #cezanne
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/1222335
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/1222335
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The people saying that they can write as well as us, by using a plagiarism machine, also told us that their jpeg of a horrible drawing of an ill monkey in a hat was worth hundreds of pounds, i really thought there would be some fallout from when that happened
August 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The people saying that they can write as well as us, by using a plagiarism machine, also told us that their jpeg of a horrible drawing of an ill monkey in a hat was worth hundreds of pounds, i really thought there would be some fallout from when that happened
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Man I really hate this. As usual @cwarzel.bsky.social hits the shitty reality button www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
August 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Man I really hate this. As usual @cwarzel.bsky.social hits the shitty reality button www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Yes I definitely want to pay The University of Chicago's undergraduate tuition and fees of $67,000 per year to have chat gpt teach me German.
What are we even doing here people?
What are we even doing here people?
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Yes I definitely want to pay The University of Chicago's undergraduate tuition and fees of $67,000 per year to have chat gpt teach me German.
What are we even doing here people?
What are we even doing here people?
Oof. That's a terrible number.
• Canada has borne the brunt of the damage from US tariffs so far, with its long-run economy -1.9% smaller in real terms. China’s economy is -0.2% smaller, about 2/3 as large as the hit to the US. The UK’s is 0.2% bigger thanks in part to the benefits of US-UK trade deal.
8/10
8/10
July 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Oof. That's a terrible number.
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I know there are some individual exceptions, but as a collective group it is extremely difficult to sympathize with the American people.
May 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I know there are some individual exceptions, but as a collective group it is extremely difficult to sympathize with the American people.
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What's the catch?
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What's the catch?
Brett Howden isn't just bad for the prosecution, he's a disaster for @hockeycanada.bsky.social. This is exactly why hockey enrollments are down - yet another self-interested, "elite" athlete protecting his bros at all costs. Who'd want their kid involved in a culture that lionizes people like him?
May 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Brett Howden isn't just bad for the prosecution, he's a disaster for @hockeycanada.bsky.social. This is exactly why hockey enrollments are down - yet another self-interested, "elite" athlete protecting his bros at all costs. Who'd want their kid involved in a culture that lionizes people like him?
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Walk with me while we examine the absolutely extraordinary stuff the Trump flacks are doing with the English language, i.e. describing the president as “a virtuoso” whose “musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The hyper-aggressive, comically loyal government flacks who talk like Trump
Spokespeople are defending the administration in a language pioneered by the president.
www.motherjones.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Walk with me while we examine the absolutely extraordinary stuff the Trump flacks are doing with the English language, i.e. describing the president as “a virtuoso” whose “musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This was from 2016. Twenty. Sixteen. History repeating and we learn nothing, so we laugh, and we cry.
"It’s hard to understand, but this is just the way government works. We had the Jedi in power for a thousand years (or was it a thousand generations?), and now the Emperor is in power, and maybe later it will be the Jedi again. It’s good to have balance."
Relax, Sweetie, It’s Just the Death Star
What is it, sweetheart? Another nightmare? Oh no! Was it about that silly old Death Star again? I know, honey. It does look scary hanging up there...
buff.ly
May 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This was from 2016. Twenty. Sixteen. History repeating and we learn nothing, so we laugh, and we cry.
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From me: Pierre Poilievre promised to bulldoze your Charter rights and bring in U.S. style three-strikes laws. He lost. And with him, one of the most dangerous justice platforms in Canadian history [1/5] 🧵 www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...
Spratt: Carney's win rescues justice from the brink after Poilievre's dangerous pitch
The real test begins now – will the Liberals stick with an evidence-based approach to crime?
www.canadianlawyermag.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
From me: Pierre Poilievre promised to bulldoze your Charter rights and bring in U.S. style three-strikes laws. He lost. And with him, one of the most dangerous justice platforms in Canadian history [1/5] 🧵 www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...
We can't afford this.
May 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We can't afford this.
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This piece is cool
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This piece is cool