Prediction - republicans have a new leader/President by the midterms

Carney on Canada becoming a leader in green technology: "You just have to look at where China and others are going. We have an enormous opportunity in this country to leapfrog the United States. The United States has taken its eye off the ball on this."

'Afterglow At Durdle Door' What began as a very uninspiring sunset at this iconic location, transformed as the afterglow emerged. Beautifully illuminating the sea arch, adding much needed depth and mood to the scene.

Finally hockey is done for the extended weekend and it’s perfect “grab a beer and read on the couch” weather…yay!

Chinese Yuan hits strongest level against the U.S. Dollar in almost 15 months 🤯👀💸

By way of context the annual USAID budget was $23 billion.

The succeeding in question

When Trump says (again and again and again) that the Ukraine peace deal is closer than ever is it because every day that passes Putin and Trump get closer to dying? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022

Wow this reminds me strongly of some late 1930s European political posters, can’t remember the country, hmm what could it be?

Overmono’s Good Lies - keep coming back to it, super unique sounding album, super atmospheric with real punch throughout and some phenomenal songs (So U Kno is a stone cold classic). Their Fabric mix is incredible as well.

Amadou and Mariam bringing the joy and beats to a freaking horrible winter day in Toronto…freezing rain combining beautifully with vast slush puddles to make driving really exciting. The plus is that Kid 2’s team is in the silver stick semi finals. The minus is I gotta drive him there tomorrow!

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1 #ShareGoodNewsToo

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. - One image analyst - one biologist interested in working on lymphatics! Reach out if you are interested 👍

Ah freezing rain forecast - a perfect day to drive out to Mississauga for day 2 of hockey tournament! (2 wins out of 2 so far, playoffs here we come, fingers crossed etc etc).

I forgot about this and it is excellent: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEvW...

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Well that goal has been coming. Latvia dominating so far…eek!

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

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It’s been a year since I started my band, 1023 megabytes. Still not one gig.

Tolstoy: War and Peace Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment Trump: War and Crime My hope for 2026: Peace and Punishment.

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Freaking fantastic winter day today - and very grateful that Kid 2’s hockey tournament is tomorrow and not today, and fingers crossed the QEW gets cleared and salted by then!!

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Correction The recordings began on December 26, 1976, which is 49 years ago. Sorry folks 😩

Two stories side by side in WashPost

The 2025 season in 25 pictures 📸 These 25 images capture what results and statistics cannot: the emotion, the tension and the fragile beauty of a year on the road. 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/features/...

Repeat after me: GENE 👏 EXPRESSION 👏 PROFILING 👏 DOES 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 VIRTUAL 👏 CELL 👏 MAKE 👏

Anyone have any clue why Trump is actually bombing Nigeria? And no, it’s not to protect Christians. Just oil again?

Well, that’s the best turkey I’ve had in years! Thanks Sanagans butchers!!

Soon the hour is coming when I convert a perfectly cooked turkey into a mangled heap of poorly-carved meat! Yay!

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

Year review: Highlight - a 40k walk with the family in the Cairngorms. Biggest surprise - finding that the pope is a hopeful and progressive force for good right now. As an avowed atheist I found this weirdly inspiring and encouraging. Unity across the spectrum.

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

What a day for some shinny!

What an odd selection. I’m struggling to believe this is true! Just doesn’t seem to reflect what I remember listening to except Jenny Ondioline and Kim and Jessie and Spacemen 3

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

(You can’t darn poly because wool and cotton and linen fibers can grab on to each other and form little friction grapples by the nature of their shape, but synthetics are absolutely smooth, so they can only grab oils, which aren’t useful for darning.) See? Irregularities help. (Silk sucks to darn!)

The new Cold War between Europe and its allies and USA/Russia is intensifying. How long before we see expulsions of diplomats etc etc? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

“We represent liberty” is quite the position for an aggressor threatening to occupy your territory. I’ll try that when i steal a car.

This is saying “America is now effectively an enemy to all current European governments and intends to treat Europe the way it treated Soviet bloc countries during the Cold War”. Astonishing - and it is now clear that Europe has to close all US bases in Europe and expel all US military.

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

It is time to throw every American soldier out of Europe, close their bases. They’re our enemies now not our allies and defenders. Throw them all out. Tomorrow.