"Petroglyphs", Starved Rock State Park.

OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

It me! Council Overhang, Starved Rock State Park. Photo by @srboisvert.bsky.social.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Observation in the field (airports, one suburban grocery store, a large shopping mall) over this holiday break has confirmed to me that among other problems we have a bona fide Crisis of Spatial Awareness

I, for one, want to live on the grid. I love the grid. I want to pay taxes to the grid. And I want the grid to run on Anything But Carbon energy.

“We have a wildlife reserve and a provincial park right here, and they are getting more and more visitors every year,” said Pharland. “I think people don’t understand why we would hurt this growth in favour of a mine that will run out of resources in 15 years.”

New term starts today. Even on sabbatical, it's discombobulating. (Photo from Starved Rock State Park yesterday.)

Defend Greenland. Defend Europe. Defend Canada. #ArcticDefence

Emblem Christopher Walker 2024

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

When will we have a mayor with this kind of vision in Chicago?? 😭😭😭

I’ve seen this cartoon every year since 2021. And every year I think, incorrectly, that this will be the last year it has any bite….

As much as I would like this statement to be stronger, the way it is so carefully worded is telling. If you're on a bus and the guy sitting next to you just got up and shot someone, you can't tell the guy to get fucked. Because you're still on the bus. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

It’s not fair that the Republicans get to have a Majority Leader and a Minority Leader in the House.

Not the response I wanted from Canada.

Where is Canada's response??

The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders. Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.

Not. At. All.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

9. Take every opportunity you can to participate in civic life. Linger in and enjoy good parks, places, and streets every day, not just during special events. Your very presence and engagement adds life, vitality, and safety to a place, and helps them be more enjoyable for everyone.

Wolf moon. Awoooo.

This doesn't actually surprise me when I reflect on it as someone who grew up in a rural community, but it does fly in the face of conventional understanding.

Yo Priztker Khan, don't let Newsom steal a march on ya!

Global research results show that making streets friendlier for bikes — and sidewalks friendlier for pedestrians — is actually good for business. The rise of “complete streets” and “road diets,” as urban planners call them, has been a huge boon to businesses. www.businessinsider.com/bike-lanes-g...

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Public transit inspiration. #PalacesForThePeople

I had a great time on KQED Forum talking about Collective Effervescence. @kqedforum.bsky.social www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

3 young bucks, hightailing it 🦌

Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brr, look at those heat stack vapor plumes! HNY!

First train pics of 2026

Brilliant.

2026 starts on a very positive. HNY! ❤️

I read 86 books this year -- it's anti-anxiety/insomnia therapy for me. Aside from the entirety of Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series, these were my 5-star books...

An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living. The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options. humantransit.org/2025/12/many...

Since I wrote this in early November the Carney government has admitted they are not on track for 1.5 or 2 degree targets, and said they'd need a "significant change in policy" to get on track, and then promptly signed a pipeline MOU with Alberta and rolled back more climate rules..

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

How Environmental #Racism Still Shapes Black Communities - Ebony www.ebony.com/plantations-...

"If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes."

Kitchen Door with Ursula Christiane Pflug 1966

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Mayor Pete is Smart and Elizabeth Warren is Unlikable?", @meredithconroy.bsky.social & co-authors investigate gender differences of warmth coverage of Democratic primary candidates by the media. 🌟 Available #OpenAccess 🌟 gendersky polisky buff.ly/T7T5a7U

Meta-analysis finds that social norms messaging (telling people what others do or think they should do) has no effect on improving health behaviors once publication bias is accounted for. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Attenborough was keen that the documentary carry a clear message: people, and cities, need nature to be happy and healthy."

You called? Check out Box 1 in this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Been seeing a few people outright claim that studies that outline specific reasons why Large Language Models won't lead to "Artificial General Intelligence" are "whitewashing creationism", because apparently showing that a task isn't feasible somehow affirms the existence of a divine soul