[most annoying voice imaginable, in no way resembling a kindly southern grandmother or whatever the intended effect is] Oh, my sweet summer child,

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (For bugs in your bed or anywhere else, try new existential-threat-strength Raid insecticide spray!)"

An incidental detail amidst the announcing of such intent to commit impeachable crimes, but "storage ships" racing "directly" to "unloading docks" is pretty funny

A key takeaway from Risk No. 2 on @eurasiagroup.net's excellent new Top Risks 2026 report, regarding the widening gap between "electrostates" (led by China) and "petrostates" (led by the Trumpified USA)

"This has happened at startling speed. Solar has risen from almost nothing in 2019 to roughly 10 percent of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity." This, not Venezuelan heavy crude, is the future of energy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

remarkable amount of talk abt how Trump is going to administer Venezuela when he pretty clearly hasn't overthrown the current govt yet

As a teen in northern Ontario in the early 1990s, the excitement of the drive down to Toronto began somewhere around Orillia when you could pick up the CFNY signal on the car stereo and plug into a whole wider world of music that had not yet reached you in the sticks. Keen to see this!

Happy new year! Might not feel like an optimistic time out of the gate, so here's a friendly reminder from the good folks @canarymedia.com: The clean energy transition had its best year ever in 2025, and it will almost certainly do the same in 2026 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

And for those still buying into the skepticism of folks like Daniel Yergin, his argument about the “troubled energy transition” is premised on the assumption that the growth of renewables will never exceed demand growth. Which is being proven false quarter by quarter now

Asked to comment on the incident, my junior high calculator said, “5318008”

Want to ruin every pricey meal out for the rest of your life? Just follow these tips from a guy with a debilitating case of availability bias!

As wild and often giddy as the World Series was, this was the pure uncut joyful moment

Excellent thread. The Onion’s return to vintage form has been one of the few good-news stories in journalism this … decade? And this one hits a particular sweet spot for Canadian readers

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Shocked to discover this detail in a story about fundamentally misunderstanding how societies respond to crisis: “Its current owner, blockchain expert Jonathan Baha’i…”

Post a criminally underrated song from the 90s. Challenge points for songs that never charted in the U.S. but should have. m.youtube.com/watch?v=n0KT...

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or Alice In Chains

Mostly accurate. But I’ve now spent enough time swimming in places outside Canada that I go with Celsius for temperature of any body (or pool) of water you swim in

I think often of @patrickfreyne.bsky.social describing Prince Andrew as a “sweatless creep”

This is my Die Hard and/or Love Actually

This laughable, amateurish, ungrammatical mess is a pretty fitting memorial tbqh

Guess we can add Indigenous treaty rights and Canadian environmental regulations to the growing list of complex topics that Matt Yglesias believes he can wave away with a stroke of his mighty keyboard

Stand By Me was my favourite movie as a teen in the 80s, because it was so unflinchingly honest about what being a kid on the verge of not being one anymore feels like, as I was experiencing that transition myself. This is a lovely tribute to a great man and a singular piece of art

Literally every Rob Reiner post is a different version of “damn what a mensch”

Stand By Me, among many others. A completely flawless movie

As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet. Forever.

💯 agree — Josh O’Connor strides on to a set loaded with heavyweights and steals the whole movie, incredible performance

“Ultimately, I don’t have good answer as to why this was debated for so long.” I know a pretty good one: urbanist wonks call it "motonormativity" and the populists among them call it "car brain" thewaroncars.org/episode-99-c...

I like to think I pay closer attention to the energy transition than most and I will confess I was unaware of Hungarian leadership on this

The gold card is for chumps. The truly savvy elite will hold out for platinum, and the luxurious comfort of "no assurance that the Platinum Card contribution will remain at $5 million"

I am very glad I watched Free Solo and it’s one of the most riveting movies I’ve ever seen and I have no desire to ever watch it again, it’s just too intense

Also that it fundamentally misunderstands and pretty much inverts the theme of the original artwork

This (excellent) thread is about the US auto industry but is also the critical question Canadians should be asking whenever someone starts bleating about pipelines

Bring the tolls back on the bridges and build the light rail network that’s been hemmed and hawed over for decades. Let me know where to send an invoice

Howard Dean’s presidential bid sank because he sounded a little weird doing a victory yell once

Meantime the Comic sans administration keeps its eyes fixed on the big picture

I mostly try to tune out these “Thank you for your attention to this matter” rants but this one is special. The first reference to the NY Times hits like a Tracy Jordan bit on 30 Rock

The best argument I have read for this was in @theturner.bsky.social’s How to be a climate optimist

you will be visited by 3 spirits

Stallone appears to be approaching the vaunted final stage of male Mar-a-Lago face, as seen here in a file photo of a royal rival to the Trump regency

Easily the best story to emerge from the question of what to do about orphaned wells in Alberta’s oil patch

The problem with The Studio is the satirical detail around the Kool-Aid movie is way too understated

Genuinely impressed that Wayne Gretzky stood on a stage watched literally around the world and mispronounced "Macedonia," "Curacao" and "Jordan" with a thoroughness that was almost artful. It somehow redeemed the whole sordid spectacle by its incompetence

Calgary's Eavor Technologies continues to do trailblazing work on commercial-scale geothermal energy ... in Germany

Inevitable energy transition update: Despite the White House being occupied by the most brazenly anti-climate regime anywhere in the world, new solar installations in the US are outpacing 2024, accounting for 75% of new electricity capacity this year www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g...

The worst part about selling your soul to shovel this AI slop is it doesn’t even pay well

“Wafting and unfocused in a manner that makes you long for the sweet relief of a detailed policy paper” is 🔥🔥🔥

Pretty tidy summary of the difference in angle of attack between climate advocates and energy transition boosters right here (and I'm completely with @mliebreich.bsky.social on this one)