Over at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....

Canadians are too mean? Lol I don't think so actually.

I am most concerned that countries are not mean enough to the US

Update: Guys, I just raked up a few bags of pine needles. I’m about 50 km north of Kenoji Lake. I’ll just wait here until someone builds a road. I have to warn you though, there are a lot more pine needles. I barely made a dent!

Canada not doing basic forest maintenance... Ontario's boreal forest alone is larger than the entire state of California!

BRB going out to remove forest debris from an area larger than the EU. Wish me luck.

Trump to increase tariffs on Canada due to wildfires. Yet his admin CUT USFS firefighting workforce by 1000s, while also reducing preventative operations. Fires in northern MN started by lightning have since spread to Canada. Canada has sent firefighting crews to help battle the fires in the U.S.

guy looks like Elmer Fudd opened the arc of the covenant

Everyone knows that ancient Greeks, and their gods, and their neighbours around the Mediterranean were all pale Anglo-Saxons and that they spoke with an RP accent. Same goes for the Romans.

The “this is straight-up Nazi shit” line gets overused sometimes. But not all the time.

The internal polling must be truly cataclysmic.

FIFA has appointed Slovenia’s Slavko Vincic as the WC final referee, 6yrs after he was arrested at a “sex party” involving drugs & prostitution & later released without charge Police held 9 women & 26 men & seized 4 packets of cocaine, 10 pistols, 3 protective vests, & more than $11k from the party

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

"Do you think it's easy to set priorities?" Turns out that Stéphane Dion was onto something. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This administration, supposedly representing the “real” salt of the earth Americans, is filled with people like this who have no idea how Americans actually live. For context, each Taco Bell outlet serves about 900 people PER DAY and there are over 300 Taco Bells in Michigan.

5/ The other part of this balancing act is that if AB is seen to have won a veto over national carbon emissions policy via a knife-at-the-throat strategy, I think QC might well start to wonder why it mostly gave up kinfe-at-the-throat politics. Short-term wins don't always equal long-term peace.

1/ I think the best you can say for Carney's climate politics act so far, is that he has made the calculation that keeping the country together by denying oxygen (so to speak) to the Alberta sovereignty movement is worth a couple of years of backsliding on climate. It's not a crazy calculus.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Did one of those golf balls hit him in the head by any chance?

Referee Slavko Vincic gets emotional after being announced the referee for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final.

This is about Hegseth’s testosterone program. Fox is a disgusting, toxic, revolving network that platforms the worst of humanity, peddles in lies, and pays people well to put it all on full display. But this seems to be what their viewers want, which says a lot about them as well.

at least ten Trump administration officials have pre-IPO positions in #$SPCX, in case you need more reasons to want to see it crash

My seven candidates to take over as Spurs captain if Cristian Romero does depart this summer. Which would you go for or have I missed someone out? www.football.london/tottenham-ho...

Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

For whom are we making the oil

I truly cannot believe that I need to say this in 2026, but no, the City of Ottawa should not be welcoming or partnering with a virulently homophobic organization. Period. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In historic first, Dollarama opens second cash

Trump's lies hurt us all but they feel almost targeted to help Ossoff. Or he's just uniquely fit for the moment.

Just rake-stepping all the way down.

Just briefly on that unbelievably stupid Falklands thing iandunt.substack.com/p/football-e...

So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story

So, so dangerous escalation. The whole Middle East could destabilize by attacking water infrastructure. Doesn't help the US President is openly threatening non-military assets as a negotiating tactic.

Remembering that time when the Dave Matthew’s Band bus driver decided it would be a good idea to dump 800 lbs of band poop onto the heads of passengers in a boat passing underneath the bus. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/o...

To recap, FIFA Added tv timeouts Divided game into four quarters Added a half-time spectacular for the final Created championship rings Corruptly rescinded a red card All to appeal to a US audience & its mad king that is, at best, apathetic to soccer and stopped watching the second the US lost

lmao, they created championship rings to pander to the Americans

Now they’re saying “exaggerates”??? Who changed that? Coward.

Wow

Eating a salad in Obama’s America vs Trump’s.

HOST: Are you going to watch Trump’s speech? CALLER: No… I’ll get a summary from Meidas.

Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win. But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.

I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.

Didn't watch the Trump speech but I don't need to watch to know that CNN's headline is making it way more sane than it was

So basically ICE recruited and armed a nutcase with a temper and a history violence, and set him loose on the public. And someone died as a result.

"Brouillette tackled his teenage daughter and smashed spaghetti in her hair, and during another outburst, he dragged his daughter around the house as she cried, she said."

“According to Ashley Brouillette, he once threw boiling water at her while she was holding their child — an incident her mother Avis Collins also recounted.”

A few weeks ago I shared my view that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket should be made illegal. Today it was announced that Kalshi is now taking bets on FDA drug approvals and clinical trial outcomes. These markets are metastasizing and nothing good can come of it.

Well golly, maybe THIS time it will turn out to be true. (It will not turn out to be true.)

Muting my own Falklands thread, lol.