Funny how that works

Not everything has to be heroic. I am definitely not the hero of my own story.

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

In 2022, just as the world began to open after the isolation of a global pandemic, Briana Gervat set out to walk the length of the Western Front.

Slightly diminish a book … Our Mutual Acquaintance

Today's essential read for all Canadians energymixweekender.substack.com/p/on-on-oil-...

Slightly diminish a book: Brideshead Passed By

This is a deeply, *deeply* shameless -- and shameful -- op-ed. Allow me to explain why. #cdnpoli 🧵 🧵 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Sweating Doug Ford announces plan to fill Lake Ontario with beer

28 April 1943 | A French Jewish girl, Michèle Levy, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 505 people murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Current* conditions near Lorain, OH:

One of the greatest exhibits I've ever seen at the AGO and a wonderful window into aspects of Newfoundland culture I knew little about. Highly recommend.

The Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent (CVL 21) underway. Photo: U.S. Navy, Wikimedia Commons #RCN

Big signs - that’ll do the trick. You see, the problem has always been that speeding drivers couldn’t read the posted speed limits.

Good example of how sea level rise causes complex (and expensive) problems for coastal cities long before octopuses and sea urchins take over city hall.

Men are consistently much more positive about nuclear energy than women Support use of nuclear power? Men: +58 net support Women: -12 Is nuclear power safe? Men: +36 net safe Women: -22 Should UK get more energy from nuclear? Men: +47 net more Women: -17 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

ONSC finds that beneficiary designations made under TFSAs and RRIFs are not gratuitous inter vivos transfers and the presumption of resulting trust under Pecore does not apply. Kunka Estate v. Giasson, 2026 ONSC 1842 www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/d...

watership down goes unbelievably fucking hard.

Me: GOD IN HEAVEN why won’t you talk to a lawyer instead of using AI or asking imbeciles you meet online, they are ALWAYS WRONG Also Me: [searching Bluesky for “hip hurts not sure why”]

Streetcar Track Replacement Sunset

Looking for the latest warming stripes for over 1000 countries, regions and cities? #ShowYourStripes Fully updated to 2025: www.ShowYourStripes.info

Silver lining for Hormuz blockade? Everyone wants green. And makers cash in. China's exports of batteries, EVs and solar products shot up in March to $21.9 billion This is a 70% increase over March 2025.

Liberal tent now encompasses any political beliefs anyone has ever, or will ever, have (podcast)

“Unusual”

Interesting thread. I would have blamed oil and gas 'dark money', but maybe it's just social media entrepreneurs making money with rage-bait. O&G interests are trying to take advantage of the Iran war, but maybe not via the AI slop below. www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...

Summit Lake near Lenchoile, Bow River, Canadian Pacific Railway John A. Fraser 1886

Grumman Avenger AS.3 aircraft on the flight deck of the Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent (CVL 21), circa 1953. Photo: U.S. Navy, Wikimedia Commons #RCN

Eugenic ideology shaped laws, abusive institutions, and forced sterilization. Today, federal and provincial disclosure laws still hide the experiences of women and girls in Canada labeled “incorrigible,” blocking access to records. The U. S. #Incorrigibles Ry Marcattilio-McCracken 👇

HMCS Copper Cliff!

Adam asks a fair question here that has been bandied about. Let me offer two arguments against a windfall tax that I would wager FIN officials would make when advising cabinet on what to do. I'll also offer my own assessment of the two arguments. 1/

Carney has announced he’s temporarily dropping the relatively small gas tax. He didn’t need to do that, with Poilievre in a free fall. And all it does is fuel the idea that gas taxes drive gas prices, which they obviously don’t. This was a mistake, similar to letting the carbon tax be reframed.

#cdnpoli alt take: Or… we could let the oil situation accelerate electrification and use the $billions saved by not cutting gas taxes to support families hurt by fuel inflation thru a boost in the CCB and GST credits.

We need to talk a bit about how utterly absurd the March heatwave was in the USA. This heatwave would have been impossible without a boost from climate change, but even with climate change it remains a deeply unlikely event. A thread looking at some of the numbers. 🧵

A point of light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

Legendary line

I knew MTG and Carlson had been critical. I didn't know about Morgan and Jones (Jones!). But 🤣 and 🤬

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

PSA for Canadians trying to do the math on EV « fuel » costs: Take your per kWh electricity cost and *double* it. That’s your « effective gas price » in $/L Eg. $0.15/kWh = $0.30/L effective gas price Compare to this in Vancouver right now… Yup, ICE currently 7x the cost.

RealClimate: Spencer’s Shenanigans: Part II www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Second of three eggs this year.

From An Army at Dawn: a soldier's letter home that he hoped would avoid censorship: "After leaving where we were before we left for here, not knowing we were coming here from there, we couldn't tell whether we had arrived here or not. ..." 1/2

So it's correct an overwhelming percentage of the time under first past the post.

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

Neato! Canadian dashboard: artemis.cdnspace.ca

“We thought we had enough time to stop for a Cinnabon, but before we knew it, we were sprinting across the terminal in our space suits and the rocket had already fired up its thrusters to leave orbit,” said Cmdr. Reid Wiseman