Thanks to AI, and the 10x productivity gains, we are only 6 months away from being able to cancel our online accounts without having to call, email, or talk to someone offline first.

I hate banks. Won't let me past this screen without filling in the optional field.

World relying on USA as world's police force is a myth Americans tell themselves. The world tolerated USA being self-appointed police force because it was convenient, not because it was needed. A corrupt force btw. Pinochet, Shah of Iran, etc. USA operates in USA interests, not world interests.

The people of Iran pose no threat to the United States — this has always been an oil war at the behest of the 1%. Now, Trump is threatening genocide over it. Where is the leadership from Carney to denounce this illegal war? Where is the pressure from provincial leaders?

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Carney spent his whole career helping rich people get even richer. He didn't get into politics to change that.

Kissing Trump's ass won't change anything. Stand up to bullies at first available chance. Don't wait until you've turned over most of what they want before you grow some balls.

"The image of the all-powerful dictator creates the false impression we can understand fascism by scrutinizing the leader alone. It offers an alibi to nations that tolerated fascist leaders and diverts attention from the persons, groups and institutions that helped him." - Paxton,Anatomy of Fascism

They know. Some of them love what he is doing. All of them are cowards. That includes most democrats.

The American people are better armed (minus MRBMs/TBMs) and more numerous than Iranians, and are the only people in the entire world that the USAF might hesitate to bomb.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

Day Counter xkcd.com/3228/

The rich are buying all the assets, which increases inequality. Once the rich have most of the assets in their own country, they look to other countries. But it's cheaper to get the government to send soldiers to steal assets from those other countries. youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI

This is very true: "energy now looks more like an electronics factory than an oil well". Solar panels, wind turbines, batteries... all are made in factories. To increase energy supply, you don't go poking around in the ground hoping for a strike. You just build a factory. youtu.be/VNIzJI7ST24?...

POET: And, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp’d in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,The moon arose up in the murky east, A white and shapeless mass. OTHER ASTRONAUTS: [screaming] they should have sent a pilot

In the land of the free and home of the brave they have regular checkpoints where people have to show their papers to prove they're not "bad guys". This woman had been through several of them before a space opened up in the detention center and they hauled her in. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In 2026, China’s combined wind and solar power generation will exceed US household and industrial power consumption combined. This has given China a huge energy advantage over the US, vulnerable because of its fossil fuels dependency.

I was out on a walk with doggo the other day when I had a bit of a revelation.

Some first episode awkwardness, but informative nonetheless! Interesting quote re Iran war, "...you can inflict all the casualties you want, but if you're not in a geopolitical position to improve your situation, then you're not winning, you're just doing damage." open.substack.com/pub/avantgar...

These industry heads see the writing on the wall — Canada is set to over-produce LNG. The new BC projects will come online in the 2030 supply glut. To lock in domestic demand for these failing investments, LNG and AI CEOs are pitching gas-powered data centres as the solution.

Neo-classical economics and capitalism have brought us to this point, where resilience is priced out of the system. The knock-on effects of Hormuz closure can have severe consequences for wealth, even in rich countries, who are ill-prepared for such calamity. open.substack.com/pub/profstev...

Chevron's CEO Mike Wirth said we must produce more oil and gas because....that is what he sells. Now Chevron is betting big on LNG. And plans on selling it to Asia. Who wants to tell Mikey what is happening in Asia?

Facebook post by owners of the Ksi Lisims LNG project proposed for Nisga'a territory. If this is supposed to be a "Nisga'a-led project" then why is the ad saying "they chose..." instead of "WE chose..."???? The Trump-adjacent owners wrote this ad, not the Nisga'a govt who supposedly owns the thing.

Avi Lewis has won the the federal NDP leadership on a ticket that includes a green new deal and a 'make the O&G companies pay' pledge. Expect BC NDP Premier and foreign-owned gas industry cheerleader David Eby to make unpleasant noises in the coming days.

Now do Ksi Lisims LNG and the pipeline supplying it, which is owned by associates of both Epstein and Trump. One of them, Marc Rowan, runs one of Trumps latest grifts, the so-called "Board of Peace". www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As a rich person's wealth soars beyond a certain threshold, he stops using his money to buy stuff (there's only so much stuff you can own) and starts buying power until he finds himself upstream from politics. A wealth tax is essential because it cuts the power of the un-elected and self-appointed.

Meanwhile in Canada... bsky.app/profile/davi...

O&G industry hired hand Tim Hodgson, moonlighting as Canada's Energy Minister, still going on about Canada being an "energy superpower". Really? Superpower? Producing less than 5% of world oil consumption? That guy sounds like a grifter to me. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Crazy prediction: Iran war ends with a list of promises that each side will break over the years, but neither will care because the central tenet will be a toll on Hormuz traffic that's split between Trump family and Iran. USA will then make sure nobody strikes Iran to keep cash flowing to Trumps.

I know a beef farmer and a dairy farmer. Beef farmer (not part of supply management) and wife both have off-farm jobs. Dairy farmer doesn't need off farm work; in fact hires locals to help with milking. Beef farmer doesn't realize it, but he's subsidizing beef with his off-farm income.

Moving workers who dedicated themselves to climate action into fossil fuel projects is unthinkably callous. This is yet another example of the BC NDP prioritizing the profits of foreign fossil fuel corporations over our public service workers.

Very long article, but it proves the last line "Those are political questions. Not technical ones. Not economic ones. The economics and the technology were resolved years ago." The friction holding back a renewable energy future is not technical, but political. www.linkedin.com/pulse/have-p...

"These are not projections. They are measurements. The economic argument for fossil fuels is over. What remains is not an argument. It is a lobbying operation."

LNG head spokesman Premier David Eby keeps telling us that LNG projects are needed to pay for these exact things that they're canceling funding for. Billions and billions of public money is spent building hydro dams and transmission lines for LNG export, but for people who need care? Cut, cut, cut.

Is it a giant wooden horse

Imagine you're a country in Asia, or Africa, and someone comes to you and says you can borrow billions to build LNG import infrastructure + pipelines + gas power plants + daily LNG imports, or you can buy solar panels and batteries and be up and running in a few months. What do you do?

Canada Must Stand With Cuba. Some ideas from @charlieangus104.bsky.social about how you can help: open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

In the Wall Street Journal. Something has changed.

So this is interesting: the Gaslog Glasgow LNG tanker left Kitimat two days ago and is now off the coast of BC milling about with no destination. Waiting for the highest bidder maybe? Meanwhile the New Green LNG tanker is nearby milling about empty. Waiting to buy the lowest LNG price maybe?

It routinely amazes me how Americans have more power to stop this than anyone else in the world but absolutely zero interest in getting off their asses to do so.

Great t-shirt: "Read books. Walk dogs. Fight fascists."

An antifascist group calling itself “Youth Equality Coalition” is carrying out a campaign across the United Kingdom targeting nationalist flags and far right demonstrations.

Because of Trump's war global gas prices are rising including Canada which has a surplus of fossil fuels. American billionaires & corporations that own Canada's oil & gas companies are making billions from the high prices. Canada should cap prices, tax the excess profit & subsidize public transit.

This is true. We already know exactly what the solution is. And when AI comes up with the same solution, i.e. "stop burning fossil fuels!" it'd get shut down right quick.

I would simply cut corners, pull myself up by my bootstraps, and stop being so reliant on it

BC is one of the wealthiest provinces in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. We don’t have to beg massive corporations for scraps. We can create thousands of good jobs, invest in a sustainable economy, and make life affordable for working people. It’s just a question of political will. /6

Cheers to everyone who delayed fossil fuel phaseout by saying "you can't switch off fossil fuels overnight" Because thanks to them everyone now has to face a situation where fossil fuels are switched off overnight 🙃🙃🙃

"The Atom Bomb and your survival" 😱 I wonder if the sponsors of this "manual" saw it as nothing more than a marvelous marketing and advertising opportunity for their businesses. "Sure it spreads fear and division", they said. "But think of how much money we can make!"

Billionaires don't use their money to buy stuff. They use their money to buy power. And in a parliamentary system without proportional representation, they only have to get to the person at the top. Perhaps that's why we're spending billions on a handful of jobs.