Just read this poem. Gives all the feels. Poet: Robin Gow Poem: Space Heaters Publication: The Passionfruit Review passionfruitreview.com/space-heater...

Operation Total Recall is a website with information on how to start and track the recall process for every MLA that voted in favour of Bill 2. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

this is the best movie i've ever seen

European media closely follow Alberta’s separatist chatter. This has negative impact on investment confidence and it compromises Canada’s geopolitical standing. Separatism only serves foreign interests. #ForeverCanadian #Cdnpoli #ableg

The United Conservative Party government recently awarded a $95-million settlement to the Australian mining firm Montem Resources. About a third of that settlement will go to an investment firm in Melbourne. The same firm that funded Montem’s lawsuit against Alberta. Andrew Nikiforuk writes.

The UCP uses closure more than any other party in Alberta history. It's easy to blame the leadership for curtailing debate. But UCP backbenchers have willingly handed over their authority by supporting these motions. Our new book explores this element of hyperpartisanship: partyloyalty.ca.

You can do that in Australia, much tougher when you share the longest border in the world.

As I take my seat in Question Period for the first time today, I will be fighting for teachers and students and standing up for public education. /1

Canada’s spy agency now shares intel with corporations — thanks to a push from one of the country’s biggest oil and gas firms. Our reporter Zak Vescera explains. #cdnpoli

Danielle doesn't let reality get in her way. 🙄

At any point the gallery could have simply opted out of being robbed

Reminder that relying on what an LLM tells you is…not a good idea.

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually. By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus! We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them. Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest" US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

The Cranberries - Ode to my Family m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-D... #thanksgiving

Time for a new research project: monitoring light pollution/sky quality in St. John’s, Newfoundland, as part of a new project to support Dark Sky Preservation across the province. #DarkSkies

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise. Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

Ah yes. Waking up from the hag with someone calling your name backwards. Those are the memories that childhood is made of 😬

I see where benches are placed in public walking areas. I see where folks with mobility issues likely need seating breaks. The two do not coincide 😕

Takes notes.

Why would anyone partner with AB when they can't even successfully partner with their own teachers??!?

That old chesnut, "Good vibes only!", takes on new and more gut wrenching meaning in this time of AI slop cleanup.

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This is the solution to the Paradox of Tolerance: It's a contract, not a rule. If you break the terms of the contract, it no longer applies to you. If you won't be tolerant, you don't get to be tolerated.

Your utility bills are subsidizing your shitty AI.

Canada knocks out New Zealand to reach Women’s Rugby World Cup final

Word of the day: WAYZGOOSE, a celebration given by a master printer for their workmen on August 24th, marking the end of summer and the start of the season of printing by candlelight. It later came to mean an annual dinner for printing staff, and more recently, a celebration of printing.

A sidebar in this: I shuttle tat. It's a pain in the ass to learn. It's 100% knots, which in the beginning, you fuckup constantly. One only learns by fucking up a lot. This is why this craft is dying out. Only a dwindling few have the patience to fail-fail-fail before succeeding. It makes me sad

Anything destroying your ability to call upon years of training, experience and pattern recognition should perhaps not be in your office. Anyway, here’s the link to the actual study, so you can avoid Bloomberg’s interstitial terms, subscription and AI meanderings. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps. "AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse. Jfc.

Here's where you can pre-order a COVID vaccine in Alberta. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

That Mamet interview: Mamet starts the interview lauding stoic men who don't lose their cool. Claiming something like: liberals are swearing, cool-less chumps. Then he ends the interview as a swearing, angry, butthurt, runaway baby 🤷

Recent read: You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. Excellent. Pick it up. Audiobook is exceptional. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/722363...

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... This is disturbing. And given the position of the Smith govt on COVID, entirely predicable.

I don't know how to say this any clearer: Everything is burning, every summer. Climate is changing. More fossil fuels are just accelerant. This is a catastrophe that no one dodges. Will leadership (gov, business, religion, other) please wake the F😔CK up!!??!?!!

Delighted to have my micro poem "Last Request" up today at @identitytheory.bsky.social - thanks so much @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social for selecting it.

The summer issue of +doc (issue 9!) is now available. Featuring longer poems by Elizabeth Wing and Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social. $4 CAN, $6 US/Int'l - can I send you a copy? For more info - nullpointerpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/doc9...

Canada Summer Games starts in a week. Can't wait!!

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

Marie-Helene Bertino are you going to make me cry? Reading: Beautyland. app.thestorygraph.com/books/f79b9b...

This always reminds me of Wallace Stevens' statement that "A poem is a meteor" in 'Adagia', similarly existing by virtue of its self-annihilation.

The littlest helper 🖤 📸dogsig #dogs #BlueSky

We’ve got so many wonderful prints by local printmakers in stock! Stop by our Tors Cove shop to find just the right piece to decorate your home 10:30 - 5 daily (except Wednesdays)

Just listened to TED talk by Yoshua Bengio, now I'm not exactly in a sunny, summer mood. With all the callous, selfish loons in power today, we can't even take substantive action against world-destroying wildfires, let alone risks more difficult to see/pin-down. 😔 www.ted.com/talks/yoshua...