Pink wintergreen.

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Why do we need this personal information grab by the Freedom govt of Alberta? Can’t the police just text David Parker for it?

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Stupid question but if AI data centres are so astonishingly capacious why are hundreds or thousands of them required? Why build more than one?

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Thx to those who have highlighted Patrick Lennox's article in the June issue of Alberta Views magazine. I subscribe, but the issue had gotten covered up on my coffee table and I forgot to read it. The article is terrific, and it's a very 'juicy' issue with tonnes of good material.

It must be very hard to be a bird parent trying to keep eggs or hatchlings warm and safe with the rain pelting your little body constantly for two days straight.

"Nancy Drew and the Case of the Invisible Pipeline." Let's get Nancy on it. "There is no route, so I can't say where a pipeline is going to go," said [Ron] Poole [for the AB Govt]. "I can't even tell you if it's going to go north or south." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you've been meaning to read The Overstory, here's an interview that might entice you into putting the novel at the top of your reading list.

Send a link to this to people who live in the northern Alberta community where the same guy is attempting with the premier’s full cooperation to build a data centre.

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Time for torches and pitchforks, FFS.

Just arrived to pick up a Forever Canadian lawn sign in yyc, and there are a lot of other cars arriving here in the area, a good indicator of people’s patriotism. (there’s lots of street parking though; don’t be deterred).

Here's the husband of Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the new leader of the BC Conservatives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_C...

Something to do on a very, very rainy day in Alberta.

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Reading this novel by Australian prose writer James Bradley. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/555310...

look at him. he doesn't even have any money

Curious as to how they measure intentionality at the referendum place. One of the 60,000 to 90,000 employees puts her hand on your forehand as if checking for a fever?

Also hoary puccoon.

Northern sweet vetch, ladies slippers, milk vetch, buffalo beans, caragana does that count, star-flowered Solomon’s seal, yellow cinquefoil, and a wind that is almost pushing me over, and tree swallows trying to have sex on the barbed wire fence in this fierce wind.

I’ve opened the plastic bin of shorts and am indexing them according to length and purpose. 😁 Summer is here.

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In my reading of things, conservatives of the kind we have now are appalled by people who align their principles and actions and embarrassed by activism of any kind, from clever protest signs to tree sits to climbing the Calgary tower. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

"Despite promising that his caucus would be fighting for Canada and against separatism, Pierre Poilievre’s MPs keep saying things that sound like in-kind donations to the separatist cause." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/29/o...

Oh 👀, another pipeline on the way. I’m surprised there is any earth left in Alberta through which to ram another one, or is this one aboveground? Via google: Alberta has a vast energy infrastructure, with an estimated 449,046 kilometres of pipelines crisscrossing the province.

Incredible! Look at this: Twisting contortionist upfuckery by the racist white guys in Tennessee‘s gubmint.

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She’s not the boss of me. Or any other Albertan:

I love a quiz. This one is well made and provides very brief explanations and analogies and links for added context. And it’s not tricky or difficult.

Tantrum confederation.

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Just had my six-month covid booster. Apparently it’s my 12th vaccine to protect myself against the potentially debilitating disease and after-effects of Covid. Easy-peasy, nothing queasy. Painless. Time well spent.

And therefore we can alter it -- for the better.

"Alberta separatist leader planning to challenge Danielle Smith's leadership or change referendum question" This headline is accurate, but it's hard not to read it as "Danielle Smith planning to challenge Danielle Smith's leadership or change referendum question."

Not the ‘woke’ but the broke mind.

“Seniors will get to paint dots, drink beer, and gamble on horse races next week as St. Albert holds a host of celebratory events for its seniors.” There’s also a wine garden. By contrast a bleep from town of Cochrane says they’re planning a tea, a scams workshop + “intergenerational felting.” 😂🤔

Just finished reading this book, In Trees by Robert Moor. Highly recommend: www.robertmoor.com

“Traces of antidepressants were found in Fraser River juvenile salmon as well. That’s good. Contemplating the effects of climate change, habitat loss and fish farms could give any chinook the blues.” Funny not funny.

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"Grievance junkies" is a very useful conceptual term.

Local woman asks, “To be, or to continue the conversation at a future date further regarding not to being?”

I was trying to explain what ChatGPT is to my mom (she thought it was a messaging app) and after my explanation and some thought, she volunteered, “Oh, so it’s the magic mirror in the beginning of Snow White when it only tells the queen what she wants to hear.” Perfect analogy.

34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.

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I’m grateful for this Substack post. Even an article in The Guardian repeated the figure.

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Bizarre scene at the dam Saturday. Kite surfers, several paddle boarders wearing just bathing suits (not wet suits) in water that melted just two weeks ago, fastest sea-doo I have ever seen veering way too close to the boarders and throwing up a big wake, a half-assed army exercise going on: