STATE/BANQUET How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service, among the rocks and the rubble, laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table, ... and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... "Municipalities are owed $254 million in outstanding property taxes from oil and gas companies, while another $200 million has been written off in the past decade..." this isn't Edmonton & Calgary, these are rural municipalities.

A head of Draw the Line and Sun-Day, here's a fun read on solar punk www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Welcome to Sun Day (Sept 21) sunday.earth/welcome via @ayanaeliza.bsky.social

What do you wish $100,000,000 was spent on in SK this summer?

“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

🚨BREAKING: Apparently, we've written a paper about how dog ownership causes extreme weather 🐶🌪️ 😂 Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US... While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other? ⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡ Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda via @momentumdash.bsky.social

The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

The Chinese might dominate polar oceanography if the NSF follows through with plans to retire the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, our only research icebreaker for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

A viral chocolate goes bacterial www.msn.com/en-us/foodan...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

Such a delight to walk alongside @mrapomquet.bsky.social this weekend. 10 years since his first SK trail walk with our dear friend Hugh and the history & folklore society. Read a review of his book about that first walk: reviews.skbooks.com/good-walk-the/

If CO₂ is plant food and so essential to life on Earth as this administration claims, why are they destroying the satellites that track CO₂?

"Until scientists have more answers, cancer survivors are recommended to take extra precautions to avoid respiratory infections" and maybe the rest of us can help them out too by trying to not spread our own germs through masking, cleaning, and vaccination.

Motherfucking wind farms…

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

I'm trying to imagine if any other industry 'borrowed' this much money and didn't pay it back or provide a rationale for their socio-economic impact. Maybe schools or hospitals fall in this category?

People thought they could explain and conquer nature — yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. -Vaclav Havel www.dadychery.org/2012/03/25/p...

“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.” – @@paulocoelho via @momentumdash.bsky.social

Found a tick? You can submit it to eTick.ca for analysis.

I am so excited to read this. Big fan of the urban fox literature so urban moose is next-level political ecology and environmental ethics!

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn via @momentumdash.bsky.social

“Make your faith larger than your fears and your dreams larger than your doubts.” – @robinsharma via @momentumdash.bsky.social

“Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in regard.” – Esther Perel via @momentumdash.bsky.social

Today is the final day to access early bird pricing for #STLHESAPES2025, a leading gathering of educators and scholars advancing #SoTL. Join colleagues committed to interdisciplinary dialogue and impactful research in post-secondary education. Register: www.stlhe.ca/conferences/...

In case you're looking for your next frozen dessert #yxe bit.ly/yxeicecream 2025 updates in progress, please send your recommendations!

I love that part of my job can literally be texting a colleague, "we need sheep" - because dreaming and scheming for people, planet, peace, means just this :)

I donated to liberal & green candidates and I voted for the only candidate who emailed me back about my key issues - NDP. This timeline is brutal.

I lol'd...I'm still lol'ing.

n>1800 respondents.

"They created something collective, and we should understand it as cooperative political art...The Eagles won, and the Chiefs lost. But I’ll remember this as the night when Kendrick Lamar sent Donald Trump home." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Best place to see a sunset in #yxe ? Bonus points if you can specify the time of year.

Series of short films worth watching. tiff.net/events/from-... Did you know that leaflets falling from the sky look like a murmuration of birds? Did you know all the uses for one bucket of water?

We've decided the same. It's a privilege to travel at all, and we're going to focus on places that still offer us new perspectives, just without an American flavour. Unless it's for work, we'll spend our CAD in other economies.

Renny Grilz is an expert on prairie ecological biodiversity and an extremely engaging presenter!! Sask Environmental Society Sustainability Speakers Series Tuesday (tomorrow) 7pm Cliff Wright Library @skenvsociety.bsky.social

May all your showers be lukewarm --> my new favourite curse.

I did not know. "Did you know? There is a Buy and Sell Exchange Zone located in the west visitor parking lot of the SPS HQ for residents to conduct legal property transactions from online sales."

Laughing about climate change. Great podcast about science communication through comedy. eepro.naaee.org/eepodcast/Es...

Meta had a hand in a genocide, Substack monetizes nazis, Shopify monetizes Alex Jones (and Nazi merch), YouTube is part of Google’s adtech monopoly that’s destroying our information ecosystem… There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism and there’s no ethical tech use under the broligarchy

Here’s your lesson for the new year: Do not stop talking about Palestine.

This whole thread is worth considering (yes, there's a typo in the date - 2015). By many measures, Canadians are better off today than we were 10 years ago.

Does anyone know this person? jacobgadzella.ndp.ca

"...a focus on military defence over development will only increase the factors that lead to wars." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/03/n...