"then we won"

We could do this in Canada. Here in BC, especially, it would be extremely easy to implement. Most builders are already installing heat pumps. And many companies are now selling solar. @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis #solar #heatpumps #bcpoli #vanpoli

Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.

Wow! Big move out of UK today. This is how we should be responding to oil price shocks 👏👏 Britain responds to Iran war energy shock by requiring solar panels and heat pumps in all new homes. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/i...

If you think that acknowledging that marginalized people exist is "promoting some people over others," you're probably well on the road to fascism. This is not "political neutrality." It is very political to erase queer people from public view.

A respectful message for Canadian Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social. I spoke out loudly for Canada to elect you, because of your intelligence, experience, and emphasis on nation-building. Any successful nation-building HAS TO GO ALL IN on renewable energy, and car/oil independence in cities.

"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...

Nowruz seems to be the right time to start reading Persians: The Age of the Great Kings.

I’m thinking now would be a good time to launch a Manhattan Project-like effort to build a different energy reality, one not dependent on oil.

Jose Saramago's invented position of lackey-in-chief, "which may not have existed at the time, but seemed to us appropriate, given the fellow's own corporeal odor, which he positively oozed, a mixture of presumption and false humility" seems like a title that could be regularly applied.

Rogan mentions cannabis being legal in Canada. Poilievre replies, “been legal for 10 years, yeah.” Rogan applauds Canada for voting to legalize marijuana. He says it's about "personal freedom." Poilievre agrees it’s about personal choice. (Poilievre voted against cannabis legalization lol)

I don’t understand. Does Poilievre’s team hate him? Has he never drunk a beer? Has logic/savvy become pay-as-you-go? Why is he proud of having poured the worst head ever on a pint of Guinness? Will anyone in this man’s life save him from himself? THIS is the guy who won’t get security clearance?

"I spend most of my time trolling through half a dozen or so books, all the while imagining there's another one out there I should be reading, if I could only just put my finger on it." – Moyra Davey, Index Cards: Selected Essays. (I can tell that this will be a meaningful book.)

There's a long wait-list for Karen Hao's AI Empire at the local library, so I'm filling the time/prepping for it by re-reading Tim Wu's The Master Switch, which seems more relevant than ever.

There are consequences for threatening a good neighbour. Keep up the good work Canada! (Glorious Canada/FB) #Canada #USBoycott #Never51

"Wait for the second or even the third edition of news. To be the slave of your impressions argues for want of capacity and is not far from being the slave of your passions." – Gracian

Carney eyes Bloc MP to complete his collection

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

“Tourism boycotts do come up over one issue or another, but in my 37 yrs in the travel industry, I have never seen anything like what the Canadians have pulled off,” Amir Eylon, President & CEO of Longwoods Intl, told Forbes. “This is one that’s being felt and it’s not going away quickly.” 🇨🇦💪🏻

I have Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine running on a loop in my head. Thank you, Country Joe McDonald and RIP.

10/10 take. no notes

What a stunning sentence: "I wasn't until I was assigned the family tree project at the age of nine, the same age as my mother when she became a refugee, that I began to understand that she had survived a war." From Tastes Like War, a memoir by Grace M. Cho.

A cool thing is that religious death cults like American Evangelicals are so obsessed with their paranoid and unhinged fears l that when they are granted even a bit of power they move heaven and earth to manifest them in the world and create the Armageddon they have always desired.

Now it all makes sense. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Fox: “Due to the temporary global oil gap, we may also unsanction other Russian oil.”

I just finished reading Frankenstein for the first time. Spoiler alert: Frankenstein both is and isn't the monster.

I'm reading a history of Asia Minor and I have lost count of the number of times the description of some significant relic is followed by the phrase "now in the possession of the British Museum."

I am really digging Sinéad Keenan's performance in the wonderfully weird comedy How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.

As the price of oil & gas explodes, I recently read about how the price impact is almost entirely speculative, as the *supply* of oil and gas hardly budges, particularly in places like Canada. It's all just straight up profits for the gas companies. Remember that as you fill up the tank this week.

A few true words: "At some point, a person figured out that the performance of sadness was a currency, and art has bowed at its altar ever since." Hanif Abdurraqib in his essay Rumours and the Currency of Heartbreak.

is everyone on glue

I had never before read Hanif Abdurraqib but now that I am, I find myself underlining almost every living and lovely sentence in his essays in They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us All.

Thread.

Another quote from George Orwell, suggesting that we have not progressed far from the prevailing attitudes of the mid-20th Century (and even earlier): "From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned."

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties." – George Orwell, Notes of Nationalism

“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.” George Orwell, who ably provides aphorisms for the present.

In Canada, you can just say you need to give up your military style weapons and most people... just do it. Also helps that there's hardly any here. Because they're really, really hard to get.

JFC. (Follow the link).

"...our love of truth will always triumph over our love of power. I must believe that to go on living." – Maria Popova in her wonderful book Traversal.

A must-read for Canadians.

I'm not seeing a lot of response to Trump and tariffs from the Vichy congress ...err., sorry, Republican congress.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

Seeing a lot of coverage from Alberta suggesting that Smith's MAGA-driven referendum questions are being asked to please her supporters. Is it not also possible they are being asked because this is who Smith is and what she believes?

A key point here is that Trump has no idea what he’s talking about. He’s just bloviating. That should be reflected in the news coverage, but it won’t be.

Absolutely batshit. Dangerous fucking batshit.

I just learned that Neptune is more than 4 million kilometres away from earth, proving that at age 73 reality still has the power to astonish me.

"...self-education, like the self-information that drives the modern Internet, is always blinkered by one's existing interests and beliefs, beyond which lies the immensity of all possible knowledge, the very existence of which remains unknown." –– Maria Popova in her book Traversal

There’s a whole lot of personal cognitive dissonance in reading books that touch on the historic promise of the American revolution while watching those promises being stripped away.

"Wine is like music. It. connects you to your soul." A quote from season 2 of Drops of God (which is very different from season 1).

Cannot make this stuff up. They're going to use freedom.gov to let people browse Nazi shit that's blocked in their home country.

I am 50 pages into Maria Popova's massive, immersive book Traversal and I can say it is a marvel.