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The Major Oak has died. The huge tree which has grown in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, for at least 1,000 years, failed to produce any leaves this year, after becoming stressed by a series of hot, dry summers. #majoroak #climatecrisis 😢🌳 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nerd's Parents Afraid Son Will Fall In With Popular Crowd https://theonion.com/nerds-parents-afraid-son-will-fall-in-with-popular-crow-1819566449/

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

breakfast beans, baby

Congrats to my old friend, OG Anunoby

It should be easier to find native plants at garden centres IMO

humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up

I smell like cut flowers :)

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Literally a story about how the ultra-rich are incentivising the rest of us to turn on each other. And that has been the underlying cause of much of the most damaging disinformation we have seen in recent years. This sort of thing only gets worse as wealth inequality gets worse. #CDNpoli #ABpoli

"Global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world...That electricity use produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillion gallons of water."

Almost 5yo: Mom, did you know two plus two is four? Not many people know that.

Yup, boot him

Good morning! ❤️

Both kids are home sick, and I hear the older one yell "Yay! Fat ghosts!" Not going to investigate.

I made berry muffins with flour (unbleached hard) from the Arva Flour Mill. Husband and sons say they're the best. I haven't had one yet, but the crumb looks perfect.

Canada thistle goes hard (derogatory)

Wordle 1,807 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

And *boy* did Canadians find a Third Way bullshitter to move into 24 Sussex Drive: Mark Carney, an austerity-crazed central banker who will endorse *incredibly* progressive policies...provided he never has to *do* any of them. 7/

Whoa, midnight moths

Do not ask me to help promote a product, ask me if I’d like to participate in further advertorial, and then pretend my feedback shaped your “policy” toward the product, please. That’s dishonest, and, per your own marketing, your faculty are not stupid.

Just got a survey from my university asking how I use AI in research, wanting details on barriers to use as well as burdens that AI has reduced for me. Not one question about barriers or burdens that the use of AI has created. So the unstated position is that it must be good. This is advertorial.

"Ottawa is also advancing a number of major projects which are expected to increase planet-warming carbon pollution at home and abroad, including a bitumen pipeline to Canada's West Coast and numerous LNG export terminals." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

[after the heat death of the universe] The annoying thing about Bluesky...

Perhaps the sodden dead rat on the driveway is a good omen.

perfect rainy-day watch

hazard pay for our beaver comrades or we're striking

✨️ Falconwatch Volunteer Orientation ✨️ Are you interested in helping the downtown Peregrine Falcon chicks fledge safely? Consider volunteering with Falconwatch! RSVP to [email protected] 📅 Mon May 25, 2026 | 5:30 PM 📍 100 Main St W #HamOnt: 2nd Floor, Room 2035/2036

A favorite poem by Robert Creeley, on this, the day of his centenary.

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

I opened my window too fast to say hi to a bird and pinched my finger between the panes.

$200K is life changing money for most Ontarians, but nothing for the Ford class. Let this issue have all the runway it wants to lodge in the memory of the fickle Ontario voter.

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

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Hot & steamy

Lowercasing caps on the seasons like it's my job (it is).

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Robins built a nest over our garage floodlights (again). We disabled the lights, of course. Mama robin is warming the clutch of eggs 💛

“Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways and risk human health, all in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Today is Décadi the 20th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate the weeding hoe.#JacobinDay More information on the weeding hoe

Lilas Joseph-Charles Franchère c. 1911

Not just a migraine, but a migraine with 💥🎨〰️ȁ̵̢̢͉͓̠̗͈͇͇̽̊͘ͅù̶͎͖̥͖̤̽̀̀͂͗͛̾͘͠r̷͈̼̟͓͈̙͉̲͖̾̆̑̑̂͂̓̐͝â̴̧̨̧̘̮͈̦̳̳͚̓̅̈́̂͊〰️🎨💥

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Real Estate: It’s Not Like You’ll Have To Pay It Off

If the rest of our lives are to be spent in ever worsening conditions of corporate takeover, environmental collapse, and fascist "government", wouldn't it be nice to ride it out under a Yorkshire Horse Chestnut? Sheep permitting.