I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

There should be zero duty to serve data centre loads. For once, make corporations pay for some of their their so-called "externalities." heatmap.news/energy/elect...

clair obscur is the best atlus rpg since digital devil saga 1 dont @ me

Hey Torontonians! Learn abt the future of climate politics at book launch event for Existential Politics, Oct 9 at @utoronto.ca. Features a fierce all-woman panel including @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir & CBC's Jill English. Event is FREE. Registration here: cpe.utoronto.ca/event/book-l...

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"You have to build a case, an AI executive said... , comparing raising concerns over AGI to the way that the US built its case for the invasion of Iraq. But that case was built on faulty evidence, an audience member objected." 😩 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-disagre...

This is the main thing that concerns me about having moved back to Canada - we may not have gone far enough.

Alpha Centauri still stands alone among 4X games, I think. The factions have philosophies, not flavour. And they all have to grapple with ethical questions other 4X games ignore, because the ecosystem is a character - not just a substrate for the mechanics. www.filfre.net/2025/06/alph...

OMFG OMFG A SEQUEL TO DIE?!? www.rascal.news/exclusive-di...

Decarb work in #banking continues behind the scenes 💸🤫 "Financing provided to oil, gas and coal projects by Wall Street’s top six banks fell 25% to $73 billion this year through Aug. 1 from the same period in 2024" @bloomberglp.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A lot will be determined by how successful these efforts are. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Good morning with good news: Solar and wind globally generated a record 471 TWh in May 2025 or 19.3% of the world's electricity! Global S&W Generation in May 2025 471 TWh 2024 400 TWh 2023 360 TWh 2022 311 TWh 2021 267 TWh 2020 214 TWh 2019 188 TWh It skyrocketed 154% since 2019. Wow! #energysky

I was an avid Reading Rainbow watcher. LeVar Burton introduced me to science fiction generally, and TNG specifically: m.imdb.com/title/tt0683...

This tension runs throughout so many tabletop roleplaying games. And unsurprisingly, one game that handles it well is... LANCER (whose co-creator I'm quoting here). It has the benefit of a narrative justification for imposing structure on combat: when you get in the robot, you use different rules.

Every tenth matters. Don't give up.

All of this 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This answer is a right answer, not a wrong answer <3

Wrong answers only, eh...

First sunset together in our new place!

Excuse you, Microsoft SwiftKey. You remember my typos but predict this? Something I've never typed? Might finally be time to switch phone keyboards. I've used SwiftKey since well before it was acquired.

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Musk-backed candidate for US Governor looking for upset in Canadian election

More than SIX times? Uh, there aren't any. I'm not sure there's a movie I've seen more than three times.

On the one hand, I'm sympathetic. I remember being stuck on d20. On the other hand, whyyyyyyyy

Long lines at early voting today. I hope we can beat the right wing propaganda machine - adversaries foreign and domestic. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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I had no idea what I was getting into. It was great!

Seems pretty simple. My teenage self, who relished reading the existentialists, would be horrified. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/virtue

Valid work permit, no irregularities. This was me until last year. They literally told him "you have no rights." Which, as I've been saying for literally decades, is accurate for both immigrants and visitors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Toronto, let’s #LoveLocal! It's time to stand united with small businesses and local suppliers & manufacturers that need our support during these economic times. Let’s keep our dollars in our communities. Learn more: toronto.ca/Tariffs 🍁 #TeamCanada #MadeInCanada

Why is the policy prescription always tax cuts + austerity... 🤦‍♂️

Dinosaur affirmations!

I don't talk much about Palestine online anymore. Partly out of a desire for privacy, partly because I invested years in countless debates and eventually wore out... and partly because I was living in the US, and was well aware the whole time that as a resident alien, I functionally had no rights.

More mech RPGs? Why wouldn't I?

🎶 Bury me 6 feet deep, cover me in concrete 🎶

Very good review of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, from a former meta at one of the regional offices (Bangladesh) restofworld.org/2025/careles...

Of course ICE is surveying your socials to decide whether they like you. www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Yes, he's a central banker who was appointed by Tory governments in two countries. No, he wouldn't be my pick, despite some climate bona fides. But if he can crush the Tories hard enough that they dump Poilievre and move left, that alone will be a huge win. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

NextEra's CEO lowkey announced TerraGrid in this video - the last thing I worked on there before moving back to Canada. I wrote a blazing fast first approximation optimization of transmission and / or load siting across the continental US! Super fun. 🔌💡 finance.yahoo.com/video/renewa...

This is the biggest, closest rainbow I've ever seen!

"The apartment is full of books and dust. He can afford books but not bookshelves, and because he lacks windows, the apartment traps becalmed sea winds that take a wrong turn, depositing the dust of a thousand shores in a fine layer over Fetter's books." @vajra.me

"Historians will forever remember when we held up very small signs." Democrats right now

When I say that no gov/policy/media/organizing work can be effective without acknowledging that a solid 30-40% of the US is living full-time in an ARG that positions verifiable reality as an evil illusion, this is what I am talking about.

The first post on C&D in years is, of course, highly topical: www.tumblr.com/calvinanddun...

All without building a bunch of new gas plants, which utilities are currently racing to do at the behest of big tech. Because gas - well understood, quick to build, and dispatchable - is the easiest path for both, climate be damned. We can only hope they read this report.

American threats to annex Canada predate Canada... and were a reason for confederation to begin with: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...