Creative and artistic vision, the ability to tell engaging stories and create inspiring art requires one to see and attempt to understand others' points of view. By definition the conservative viewpoint cannot do that. Matt is so close to realising this, but just can't get there.

It would be nice to ban cars, but there is nothing even close to replacing their malignant infection here in Newfoundland since the Trans-Canada Highway went through. All rail disappeared passenger first, replaced by buses, then the bus service has atrophied, now only once a day.

Same when I was looking at new cars before the current Authoritarian adjacent American regime took office. I have a decade+ old car, and I'm now thinking of a smaller used gas hatch, $30k less that an all electric car.

I've been thinking about going to a small cell phone and a tablet. But new phone prices are completely out of control. My salary hasent increased by 200%+ but phone prices have. Even a pop socket is $35. I will look at used iPads though. 11" with pencil support most likely.

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We're doing something close with the Team Gushue highway, and have done it with the Prince Philip/Columbus arterial. #nlpoli #nltraffic #yyt

Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial government is declaring gender-based violence an epidemic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"judge them by the standards of their times" is utter bullshit. That's dehumanizing the victims. Why not ask the enslaved, or the people that were colonized to judge? People knew the difference, it's just they could get away with it.

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

Canadians aren't bending or breaking. If the new Gordie Howe Bridge to the US is dependent on us kissing the gangster ring in Washington, the message from Winsdor is clear. "Keep it closed" says the Windsor mayor. www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...

I'll keep saying it. St. John's is the most car dominated and cyclist/pedestrian adverse city of the five Canadian cities I've lived in. I'll keep pointing out problems until things change. #nltraffic #yyt #pedestriansafety

Ottawa had a similar amount of unused rail lines that have been torn up in the past 20 years.

In honour of the opening of the new Anse-à-l'Orme (A3) branch, here is the REM overlaid other Canadian cities. I tried to roughly centre Gare Centrale with the centre of the city to convey just how much high-quality, automated rail has been built in such a relatively short period of time!!

#nltraffic #yyt #stjohnspoli

Yet more reason why Kelsey Drive is a city planning disaster area. Not related to this accident in particular, but there are no traffic lights or crosswalks between Kiwanis and Messenger drive.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Not a bad thing in my mind. Cramming generative ai down our throats and building hyper scale data centres that drain computer components, power and water while making the surrounding areas tough to live in and supplying dubious benefits has to stop.

Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.

I’ve dealt with several thousand cyber incidents over the past 5 years, and currently lead a global emerging threat team. Amount of those being GenAI incidents: zero. Amount being foundational causes: every single one.

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

When the hell did generalised betting become a market?

Everyone (to near as makes no difference) is for the envirionment, traffic safety, and against big corps until it affects them or they can get a better deal.

You know 'em, you love 'em... The unbeatable and beautiful von Karman vortices.

Despite the Verrazzano's best efforts, I finished the 48th Annual 5 Boro Bike Tour. See you again next year!

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

What I am saying is that even with the Andes strain, transmission between people requires CLOSE, PROLONGED contact -things like sharing a bed or very close living conditions. It does not spread easily through casual contact. Out of caution, health officials are conducting contact tracing for

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that dramatically reduces cancer-linked microbes in the mouth, including human papilloma virus (HPV) and harmful bacteria tied to head and neck cancers offering a promising new approach for cancer prevention and treatment.

As someone who lost hearing in one ear for about a year and now has poor in that ear, I super appreciate anyone who uses a microphone.

The current Veratasium video on the Apple TV YouTube app is about 30% external ads. Worse than tv. I should mention the channel is owned by private equity.

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

honestly the only Millennial / Gen Z dividing point that matters to me is this: do you remember how things were pre-9/11? and, crucially, how everyone lost their minds on and after 9/11? If so, you're a millennial or older.

Beautiful #NLwx on tap for Tuesday! Nfld will see sunny skies, with temps in the upper single digits to low teens. Light winds, but onshore for eastern areas, so areas along eastern facing coasts will be in the low to mid single digits. Other coastal areas will be the same.

That's a shocking proportion of code to be in a single driver.

That's literally where our heat has gone.

He averaged 21 km/h for *two hours*. In a good road bike group ride, we average about 31 km/h.

For real? 30+ cm of snow Friday into Saturday? #nlwx

Thunder in the west end of St. John's around 14:24. #nlwx #yyt

Human head hair. It grows to unmanageable lengths if we don't cut it. Why? Did it grow this long before we invented cutting tools? #biology #homosapien #palaeontology

Earth Week 2026: A time to rediscover and reconnect to the wonders of our home planet. Follow #EarthWeekNOAA and visit noaa.gov/earthday for cool science stories, infographics, video and more

So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!

I love these ads calling out all governments. We have some horrible trash (and some mild trash) in power. But we do have to power to get rid of them.

Ideas has an episode entitled "AI: will it save us or damn us". The ai researcher talks about it like it was an independent entity growing and changing, completely ignoring the megalomaniacal people behind these systems like Bezos, Musk and Altmann.

Social media share these traits of VLTs and are just as addictive. I've easily burned a couple hours on shorts. 1. Solitude 2. Speed 3. Bottomlessness 4. You almost get what you want

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Tidal's digital copy of Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance is digitised from an analog source with dropouts. I thought it was the cassette I was using to record it to! I've found earlier metal albums to be of questionable digital quality across platforms -- #Spotify, #GoogleMusic and #Tidal.

@ntvnewsnl.bsky.social I have not seen this hit run reported anywhere besides NFLD Bulletin on Facebook.

In West St. John's today near Brier Ave, a child cyclist was a victim of a hit and run, not far from two fast and busy roads cutting though many high density residential areas. Outside of a few isolated shared use paths, I do not consider this city safe for bicyclists. #yyt #nltraffic #cyclingsafety