Somehow, I’d never seen a Scarlet Tanager before and of course I wanted to but, since I am not a birder, I can’t look for them. The only option available for me was hoping some day one will fly down from the canopy to confront me. Well my phone camera didn’t do it justice, but yesterday it happened

Tech Bro loserdom forces nation to yearn for Finance Bros

I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

Day 7 of my #Coverbirds Birdathon for @birdscanada.bsky.social How about a cookbook? Today’s coverbird is the Black-billed Magpie! Birds are part of Nature’s Clean-up Crew. So, why not a cookbook about carrion? #birds

Great investigative reporting here about the troubling amoral comms practices and influence Jeff Ballingall, the go-to political comms strategist of right-wing politicians and big industry.

there was an entire infrastructure of working class education and art that is now gone; "working men's clubs" in the UK were intended for education as much as recreation.

Good god the kicker:

BREAKING NYT: The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.

Just read the Yale report on Trust in Higher Education. You will be shocked, no doubt, to learn that it did not occur IN THE SLIGHTEST to a committee at a top American university looking at trust in American higher ed to use any other country's experiences to pose intelligent counterfactuals.

This is amazing... Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA." Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."

The US has been even more unserious and hypocritical about this than one would think, given everything else. It seems like it’s only dumb luck it hasn’t kicked off another pandemic already.

I for one enjoyed this episode. I have been aware of the incoherent, dedicated spitefest that is the Canadaland subreddit and it seemed obvious that it wasn’t strictly authentic but it is still surprising (and funny) how parochial, pathetic and petty the reality turned out to be.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Oh. Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child. Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

I guess the US indictment didn't go anywhere, but there's pretty compelling evidence that Roaming Millennial breached Canadian sanctions. Disappointing to see our law enforcement unable or unwilling to address this, yet again.

It’s actually more honest than the real one

My god it works perfectly

Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.

A Hall of Famer here:

"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images." Well this isn't good 😮 arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

They don't even require masking in NICUs. It's immoral.

This White Ash is a victim of Emerald Ash Borer and turned out to be 100 years old when I counted the rings. I felled it with an axe whose handle is made of a Rock Elm that was a victim of Dutch Elm Disease. I am starting to dislike these invasive species.

The US becoming a revisionist power is insane. Like legitimately it is the stupidest fucking thing that has ever happened.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

A Bellingcat and @mongabay.com investigation has identified nine Facebook groups, in which coded language has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade bans on the platform for years. Facebook says it prohibits any form of animal trading on its platform. youtube.com/shorts/uwQNZ...

Not good. The Carney government cannot wish-cast foreign interference away. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

"This is an archetypical populist formulation. And we encounter this style of politics everywhere now. This tendency toward promising easy fixes on things like healthcare and affordability, often uninformed by basic facts and diligence, has earned the epithet 'slopulism.'"

Whass up MAGA? Wait for Trump to screw with your SS checks.

A species of Japanese cockroach that lives in forests (good), typically consumes wood (okay) and ...appears to engage in pair bonding after eating one another's wings and mating (jaw-dropping). Reminder: this is an invertebrate. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information. t.co/ZugFOj7983

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

The answer is Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus) on soft wet snow, which makes their prints look bigger than usual.

Another photo that should help.

Last snow of the season (probably) snow tracking challenge:

Between now (-12°C, ankle deep snow) and tomorrow afternoon, the temperature is forecasted to rise 29 degrees with risk of a thunderstorm then go down to -7 °C tomorrow night and snow again. The snowman my daughter and I made yesterday:

if this happens i will walk into the sea

Could be said about most run of the mill criminal extremists active right now, but it happens to be about people with nuclear weapons.

. @edzitron.com I don't think that it's getting enough air that the girls school in Iran was very likely targeted by AI directed weaponry

Drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others in less than a year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

I saw someone here warn against anthropomorphizing Trump, and it's the best description I've seen of the way the media covers him.

A new Secure Line is out! We talk about the government’s various statements on Iran, whether Indian foreign interference continues to be a thing (yes), and what's up with the recent S&I senior official shuffle: Join us for a nat sec bitch sesh. open.spotify.com/episode/2eu8...

Nobody tells you before you have a kid that you will (seemingly) suddenly be subjected to a stochastic , high-frequency stream of unwelcome media depictions and descriptions of children dying.

The rules-based international order is not your mean, nagging mum, preventing you doing cool, fun things The rules-based international order is you, as a grown up with a significant amount of power, agreeing yourself not to do idiotic stuff that imperils everyone around you

Bellingcat is one of the absolute best news organizations at conducting forensic investigations of this type.