If you don’t feel like clicking through to my profile and scrolling, here are screengrabs of the four posts, by @jillybobww.bsky.social, @needhibhalla.bsky.social, @celestelabedz.bsky.social and @drandrewthaler.bsky.social, all worth following! There are other good takes out there, too, of course.

A list of studies that show how LNG exports displace not coal but renewable energy: 1. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 2. drilled.media/news/DOE-LNG... 3. www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rus...

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

Our Costco is near a community college and a major hospital. A high rise on top would make a lot of sense.

The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now. I. Told. You. So. Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole. Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)

"[E]veryone I know and love is dead." "[F]rom April 2016 to March 2025 more than 53,800 Canadians were killed after overdosing on opioids." "[T]hey wanted to save lives." "[A]fter about one year none of its compassion club members had died." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Drugs #Courts

People are supposed to get hurt when they misallocate capital, the one exception is depository institutions because they have demand deposits in them.

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24. pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...

LRT: for real, do not let people ignore the context of that. It's Lynch as the character of Agent Cole giving his response to transphobia among agents with regards to the trans woman who is now the FBI chief of staff. It's a great quote! But it's deliberately about not being a transphobic POS.

yup, even as their expertise is CRYSTAL clear www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

i think the song of the season is "self-important billionaires going on talking head programs to complain about how the mayor-elect of new york city won't give them the time of day because he knows they're just vultures" lol

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

A new analysis shows that no evidence exists for using graded exercise therapy for #MECFS - an issue that has come to the forefront again with #LongCovid research, reports @medscape.com. Read the full Medscape article here: wb.md/4oWpDRk

@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund: pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...

But this lawsuit is so much bigger than me or PressProgress This lawsuit could have chilling implications for journalism and democracy in Canada Caylan Ford is also asking the court to protect politicians’ secrets and prevent journalists from reporting on documents leaked by whistleblowers

Important story for those interested in Canadian journalism and issues around media and free expression... and for anyone who doesn't think people should be sued for accurately reporting words politicians say.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

This company shouldn't exist.

a world in which dipshits think they need to do shit like rainbow capitalism is much better than one in which they don't

I watched a clip of him this morning where he was like, "I haven't used chatgpt because no one's held a gun to my head to make me use chatgpt" lmao

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

I wrote about the need for a Youth Climate Corps in 2023, & it has only grown greater. Instead of investing in the military industrial complex, policing, and more state oppression, we need a robust climate corps! Young people deserve good work and a dignified future. rabble.ca/columnists/w...

Seriously, this guy (and his cronies) can also fuck all the way off.

At this point leaders promising this stuff should just go out and set fire to some forests and shoot a few endangered animals right after their announcement. It would at least be honest.

this always gets pushback but try living in a state with a "part time" legislature that receives a small salary and you wind up with a government run by bail bondsman and guys who own boat dealerships

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

I want to see a Family Ties reboot called "Keaton" about a mid 50's Alex Keaton selling his soul out to MAGA while secretly hating himself.

Something of a theme on this set.

the police are defunding us in several ways #vanpoli

"biological pronouns" is an insane phrase

2 or 4 are the best but I can’t tell which of them b/c the presence of a human model confuses my brain. I think I like 4 the best. No idea which is most expensive or lease. I would pay nothing for 1 or 3.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum “Am I dyin’?’ YES. ‘Will I die?’ YES. Granny Weatherwax thought this over. ‘But from your point of view, everyone is dying and everyone will die, right?’ YES. ‘So you aren’t actually bein’ a lot of help, strictly speakin’.’”

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

...(onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). 2. The Vancouver Sun article & the Pacific Public Health Foundation's own materials also promote the use of wastewater surveillance for finding drugs (pacificpublichealth.ca/projects/was...) "at a localized level". 51/?

FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities. www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...

Donald Duck: the orange juice made with pure rage.

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

And why exactly is the sex at birth, as opposed to their sex now, at all relevant to identifying, say, a fifty year old woman on DOCUMENTS THAT IDENTIFY HER. I had blue eyes at birth. You know what my driver’s license says? Hazel. Because they changed, and one is useless for identifying me.

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There are a wide range of institutions (including several major climate advocacy groups) encouraging "responsible" and "ethical" use of generative chatbots, eg 'checking outputs' This only worsens the harm: the people most compelled to trust ChatGPT are also the least likely to check.

"Kelly Shue of Yale School of Management, one of the paper’s authors, says they are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing." Or, stay with me, IT COULD NOT.

One million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 31 years. One trillion seconds is 31,688 years. To be a trillionaire, an 80 year old would earn over 1.4m dollars every single hour from birth to death.

Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

This piece by my friend and fellow co-founder of Defend Public Health @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is a must-read. In it he shares the reasons why public health practitioners and allies must rise up to meet this moment. Public health has had to fight deniers for centuries, and we must do it now.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

this is a pretty great comparison between llms and a tiny living intelligence, ants