I am loves Blues Jay, thank you Facebook! Looking forward to wearing glasses all day that feed this kind of insight directly to my brain!

Ah yes, the notwithstanding clause was definitely included in the constitution to avoid having to wait a little while for a court to rule on whether a law is constitutional

This is not a top reason why my family moved away from Alberta earlier this year, but it's high on the list of reasons why I miss Alberta less than I might otherwise. There has been no more destructive provincial government in this country in my lifetime

Exaggerate and embarrass. Twenty-five years as a writer, still can't memorize which one has one R and which one has two.

The electrotech revolutionaries @ember-energy.org have released their annual slidedeck and there's no read I consider more must than this ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

This is the best kind of advanced baseball metric

And now for some actually important technology news

What impact will this have on the shop I’ve been diligently tending each day on the high street in the Metaverse?

Highly recommend reading the whole two-part essay, but this is a solid summary 🧵

In an ugly time, it’s been a lovely escape from reality and even the usually cruel baseball fates to watch the Toronto Blue Jays come from behind to win 45 times and counting

Important report for Canadians as our government contemplates what kinds of major energy projects are worth prioritizing

No, New York Times, this is not breaking news. The mental and physical health of the current president of the United States and his close associations with Nazis and pedophiles is breaking news

Every generation gets the "finest hour" speech it deserves

I expect that the rollout of battery, and other energy storage technologies, will - within just a few years - shock people in the way that the pace of the solar rollout is shocking (some) people right now.

New report from @ember-energy.org finds the world installed 380GW of new solar power in the first six months of this year, which is up 64 percent from the same period last year. Which was of course a record-breaking pace, because that's all solar does now is break records and blow past forecasts

This is a major energy transition pivot point

The economics of the energy transition won’t be swayed much because the American president is still mad that some wind turbines intruded on the horizon at his Scottish golf club

This is Hall of Fame calibre NIMBY reasoning

Dodgers, having blown a no-no in the craziest way ever a couple nights ago, are offering up a whole new way to think about a potentially successful no-no

At long last indeed! Using the like button to indicate things I want to come back around to as well as things I, you know, like -- that was not a particularly good work-around. And I never understood the pin thing and now I never have to

US DOE has basically become the dumbest reply guy in every energy transition thread circa 2013

Not the most appalling thing here of course but add this to the thick file of movies in which the MAGA crowd openly identifies with the villains

“The status quo isn’t just inefficient – it’s economically catastrophic.” Not many people in the country who understand its electricity systems better than Bruce Lourie. A must-read for energy and climate wonks

The parameters here are pretty arbitrary. But also still amazing and delightful. All hail the Summer of George!

"Feed it off an aux" really changes the whole vibe of that verse. Also seems possible that he's just messing with us for kicks. Which, if so, I respect

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

This really takes me back to 2011 or so, when my book with a bunch of reporting about Germany's Energiewende had just come out and I'd get taken aside at conferences by mostly older engineers, who wanted me to understand that Germany would never generate 20% of its electricity from renewables

I don't even have to switch to another album to get to Country Feedback

Might be Wilco at the Horseshoe in Toronto on the Being There tour, blowing the roof off the joint just as the Americana world was beginning to realize that Tweedy was becoming the more dynamic songwriting force in the Uncle Tupelo divorce

This poster and this whole thread are …

This cartoon is a distraction. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Alberta could’ve doubled the capacity of its grid inside 5 years with solar and wind projects that have been cancelled since the UCP made it nearly impossible to build renewables in the province. In a wildly optimistic best case, you might see nuclear on Alberta’s grid by 2035 or so

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The fine folks @pembina.org have done the math on the toll of Alberta's UCP government's open war on clean power. Essentially an entire provincial grid's worth of emissions-free energy projects have been cancelled. Spectacular own goal, well done, Danielle Smith and team!

“Only the Brewers have been reliably reliable during this period of chaos.” <sighs in Jays fan> Anyway, fun read on the Brewers’ improbable run here

Some tremendous work throughout this clickbait infographic from the PhD-in-your-pocket AI folks, but I particularly like its take on currywurst

Says a lot about the crapshoot of playoff baseball that not one of these teams to date won the World Series the year that they did this

Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

Pretty much this. “Edward Hopper created a legacy lasting long beyond his death based significantly on his choices of angle and detail and point of view. Wouldn’t it be better if we smeared those all around like a toddler with watercolours?”

Not a novel observation but it’s amazing nonetheless how comprehensively these AI bros fail to understand the entire point of art

The furthest in Canada: N: Dawson City, YT W: Hartley Bay, BC E: St John’s, NL S: Windsor (South Detroit), ON

Russell Martin

Furthest I've been: N: Dawson City, Yukon E: Auckland, New Zealand S: Torquay, Australia W: Kona, Hawaii

Really doesn’t get much better than a 3-game sweep so dominant it invokes a reference to the 1901 Brooklyn Superbas

"It’s just a better way to do everything." Amen, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. Great piece on the inevitability and irresistibility of the clean energy transition www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I did this with a Jumpman game and a Commodore 64 and I do not find that fact all that unbelievable, thank you very much FB clickbait feed

With respect, the Yanks’ 3 deadline bullpen upgrades combined to give up 9 runs and blow two leads in 3 innings and then their new OF booted a ground ball to cough up the tying run. Then they got walked off on a swinging bunt. So it might not be the funniest thing that happened in baseball tonight

Energy transition skeptics love to point out how 80% of primary energy is still fossil fuels. But as this excellent rundown from @rockymtninst.bsky.social points out, "2/3 of total energy fed into the system produces no value." Another essential read from this crew rmi.org/energy-after...