@virtuous_sloth The article compares the pipeline idea and the 401 tunnel idea, and concludes that the latter makes more sense. #onpoli

If you are worried about Carney being all rah-rah about oil & gas investment, here Mark Hislop, who is an world & Canadian energy market journalist, trying to play devil's advocate to Max Fawcett, who argued in a recent piece that Carney is removing all federal roadblocks to Danielle Smith […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116881310915475377 I am in wonder at the myriad ways humans can confound artificial intelligence. These ones are truly special.

OK Graeme MacKay has outdone himself on today's cartoon. https://mackaycartoons.net/2026/07/07/saturday-july-7-2026/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saturday-july-7-2026 #worldcup #trump #corruption (Note that this URL contains UTM "tracking" tags indicating the link came via RSS […]

Just pulled the latest Immich (jumping from 2.4 or something to 3.0?) and location browsing (looks like mostly by city) is cool!

Canadian pipeline speculation. Are federal capital investments in this new pipeline contingent on the parallel carbon capture and storage project, for which there is no federal capital investment planned but rather just carbon price backstops which only kick in on actual sequestered carbon? If […]

Anyone have an Amiga in the early 90s and remember a MOD that I can only call "Make It So" since its main feature was a sample of Picard played like "make it so make it make it so" with beeps and boops from the show like common chirps and the like, along with a sample of Data saying something? […]

Fuck

Nice strike

Oscar-level performance by Moroccan goal tender.

Dammit!

Are there any international soccer teams that clearly/obviously refuse, as a team, to embellish on player to player contact, even if officiating results in it being an obvious disadvantage? Like, they clearly have some self-respect?

Nice story of the evolution and birth on Canada's new flag in the middle of the 20th century and its connection to a Calgary son. https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/canadian-flag-history-george-stanley?mc_cid=1291b64e32 #yyc #canada #history Sprawl Calgary does thoughtful slow journalism.

@virtuous_sloth I use an extension called (deep breath) "Maximize Into Empty Workspaces." It does what it says: as soon as you maximize a given window, it pops into its own workspace.

I listened to 20 hours and 32 minutes of Mark Carney reading his 2021 book Value(s). That includes hours in the teen chapters where he drones on and on as a technocrat. I would be happy if the author of this book were Prime Minister. Unfortunately they are not. #canada #politics #economics

This is a 30-minute video about the concept of system justification, which is the phenomenon when some people oppressed by a system still feel a need to defend or justify it. I don't think it claims to explain everything, but I do like that it treats poor conservatives like actual humans. I'm a […]

An epiphany I've had about reconciling MMT (which is simply a description of how fiat money works) and the way most orthodox economists, politicians, the mainstream (corporate) press, and indeed the popular culture view the finances of a sovereign nation's national government.... Finance and […]

OMG Paradise S2E4 was a tear-jerker.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Bodhioshea/116825084287193732 Amen:

Starting July 2 in Alberta, when you renew your driver's license, your healthcare number gets added, this consolidating the two. In addition, you are required to show a passport, birth certificate, and/or landed immediate documents. Your DL will then state whether you are a citizen or not. This […]

Rewatching the last episode of season 1 of Paradise so I recall what happened before watching the second season. I recall one impression from the first season which echoed what the librarian said near the end. It was about how the same power dynamics from before on the outside were replicated […]

Tür-ki-ye! Tür-ki-ye! Tür-ki-ye!

Beautiful save but that poor shoulder.

About to take a tour of the Kerby Centre in Calgary. Or perhaps it is now Unison at Kerby Centre? It is a senior citizen centre that provides all sorts of supports for people 50+. My brother told me the age range which surprised me. Mind you, I'll be 58 this summer and if pressed I would have […]

Catching up on SNL and watching the last show of the season (S51E20). Paul McCartney played a new (to me) song. As I was listening, some of his singing style and the song's pacing reminded me of Johnny Cash singing Hurt in the last year of June and his life. I had to go listen to it again and it […]

... catching myself reaching for remote to replay on the TV at the pub. #reflex #worldcup

Switzerland and Canada are definitely not passing teams like, say, Brazil.

4 × 3 June 24, 2026 146 points • No mistakes 🌟🟪🟪 🌟🟨🟨 🌟🟩🟩 🟦🌟🟦 https://hankgreen.com/fourbythree

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/116805872032934018

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/116805872032934018 I am a proud Luddite

The kids are alright.... The new Luddites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpV97A5I90

You know what's weird? It occurred to me that humanity /never/ not been able to value and take care of any and all people. We may not have always done it, but it has never not been possible. Yet in my lifetime somehow a seeming majority of westerners have internalized the 'fact' that sometimes […]

Hey @shifter, would it be possible for this video to be made (independently) available to your patreon supporters? https://site.canadiancivil.com/calgarys-rezoning-repeal-with-tom-babin/

Just read a post from Anil Dash about the unique challenges (for someone with a lot of followers, perhaps?) of the Fediverse culture; in a word, scolds, but also oddly people who follow him. In contrast to other platforms where the assholery is from non-followers. And of course the post has […]

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116800631776738879 Our political-economic system invariably consolidates power and makes more and more honest people precarious then desperate.

Look! Sealant Team 6 is guarding the Strait of Warm-Ooze. 🤣🤣 #trump #ReflectingPool #algae #uspol #uspolitics

Recently got an EV and decided to get a level 2 circuit in the garage. City inspection required the installation of a load manager (aka load shedder) which measures the current upstream of the main electrical panel and will cut off the EV circuit if that upstream current reaches 80% of the panel […]

The US has landed gentry... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbcVCDr6PZI

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@AndrewHenry/116788414385208676 Powerful story

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116783742749782719 "Very collectable. Sad." LoL

I'm delighted every time I remember having learned that the Greek letters omicron (O,ο) and omega (Ω, ω) are literally little-o and big-O. o-micron and o-mega

Oh Haiti!

Hmmmm... besides talks likely going slow or nowhere, MoU or not, another question is how much open is the Strait of Hormuz? I suspect the traffic so far is ships leaving the gulf and not new ones entering... https://xcancel.com/jackprandelli/status/2067542035905626503

I listened to 20 hours and 32 minutes of Mark Carney reading his 2021 book Value(s). That includes hours in the teen chapters where he drones on and on as a technocrat. I would be happy if the author of this book were Prime Minister. Unfortunately they are not. #canada #politics #economics

Where is Max Headroom when you need him? https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack #hack #fifa #worldcup

The scale of the damage is pretty incredible. As you can imagine, the main Russian milbloggers are pretty silent about Ukraine's strikes. (Probably the most extensive and successful to date.)

Not gonna lie, seeing the top on an oil storage tank rise above an explosive cloud of smoke is spectacular.

hats off to the Ukrainians, who have wrecked the Kapotnya oil refinery in Moscow for the second day in a row.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/116761812993053134 The cabal is real and they are more pathetic than you might think.