Again, it's a good thing provinces don't have any important responsibilities in our system of government. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The whole thread & linked stories are worth reading. Geothermal & utility-scale batteries are particularly interesting. I imagine we've got some serious geothermal potential

One of the things the neo-Luddite Left really needs to hear a lot more is the Global South *loves* AI. So many people there see it as a an equalizer that makes them more able to compete in the global economy against those of us from wealthy countries.

This article is worth a read to get a look at Draganfly's Flex FPV. Draganfly is a neat firm - I've been interested in their heavy lift agriculture UAV for a while- and now that they've proved out their FPV technology on the US' dime, I think there's a very good case for the CAF acquiring it.

Call me old fashioned, triumphal arches used to be reserved for rules who won wars, not unconditional surrenders. Participation trophy-ass architecture.

But my diamond collection is illiquid, and produces no yield!

When someone on the left says the rest of the world wants to buy Canadian, it's considered gravely impolite to inquire what exactly they're buying. And whether we should therefore be producing and shipping more of it.

Nothing says C18 restoration quite like digging up an exquisite C2 Roman mosaic from Hadrian's Villa and adding a highly speculative, under-inflated elephant to the composition. Meet one of the Vatican's most enthusiastically improved hybrids. #MosaicMonday #AncientRome #AncientBluesky 🏺

The cold grey hand of the pensioner dictatorship.

I like academics but a nontrivial number of them view their job as to be reflexively critical to the point that they are at best useless and too often harmful

One part of the future I haven't caught up to yet: Catherine O'Hara reply GIFs. Schitt's Creek was great, but that's a really weird form of immortality.

When conservatives talk about how Universities hate western society, what they're really talking about is how Universities are to an extent a daycare for people like this, because could you imagine this person holding down a real world job

A detail of the gladiator and wild beast mosaic from the Villa at Nennig, Germany. Located on the right bank of the river Moselle, south of Trier, it is one of the most important Roman artefacts north of the Alps. Protected by a dedicated building, it covers an area of roughly 160m2. #MosaicMonday

I learned more about myself and the world from spending six years in gyms, doing interviews and analysis and some reporting, than I did from graduate school. You can find amazing people wherever you go; don't get hoity-toity about other people's hobbies because you see an easy angle to mock.

We are incredibly lucky, as an aging country with generous social services, that skilled people want to join in. I hope we're smart enough to welcome them aboard, and get our of our own way on building housing, schools, hospitals etc.

OK, a member of the BC legislature nearly got censured for describing some leftists as having a "blood and soil" view of Indigenous rights to land in North America. But was that actually inaccurate, or just politically incorrect to say?

If there's interest in a Bluesky history book club, here's my to read/re-read pile. What's catching your eye.

I was riffing that the Democrats need to call the Trump-Iran deal 'unconditional surrender' loudly regardless of what it contains. Turns out they might not have to stretch the truth!

Good story on the less-than-sexy work that actually gets shit done

Too hot this afternoon, but what a glorious evening. Go for a walk, BC

My working theory for Pakistan's selection as mediator is that US, Iran and Israel all have generals on the payroll, so everyone thought they'd have good visibility into the process.

If Trump ever gets any sort of Iran peace deal, my working assumption is that Democrats can scorch it with 3-4 days of coordinated messaging calling it an "Unconditional Surrender" or similar. The more interesting question is whether they would.

Hat tip for last repost

This is super fun

BC cherries have arrived. You all know what to do.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

Coral reef with many acropora tables #gili #giliislands #lombok #singapore #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #weekend #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #reef #coral

Without a trace of irony, this would be a policy worth reviving through modern security force assistance, political partnerships etc. with East and West African states, particularly given the steady growth of JNIM and ISWAP. There are some efforts already, but they’re due for expansion.

The Supreme Court of Canada struck a nomination because the nominee (following convention) had resigned as a member of the Quebec bar when he was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeal. The dissent noted that the majority's logic would have allowed him had he rejoined the bar for a single day

Assuming he doesn't have to choose from a list the legislature gives him, surely he could find an even more Potemkin Republican if he's going to bother nominally complying with the law at all.

Sports are good and help foster human connection and understanding.

I think there’s arguments for Paintball Duels, both in harm reduction and judicial economy.

careful, i might start following you 😉

Minas Tirith is the sickest fantasy city anyone has ever devised though. Everyone else has been chasing the sheer clarity and scale of this idea for an ancient metropolis.

my food opinion is oh boy, I love eating that stuff

We can do cool things in this city if we want. We can make spaces for people

I should but more Costco stock. Then I can pretend the weekly grocery trip is reinvestment

World Cup is great because I never watch soccer. I can just dip in to games that look fun, and root for the best Cinderella stories overall.

Curaçao has only 158,000 people. It is the smallest nation to compete in the World Cup. It’s national anthem, sung only in the Caribbean Creole language called Papiamento - What, you don’t speak Papiamento? - proudly refers to the tiny island nation as “a boulder in the sea.”

I feel bad for Germany but this is tremendous content

Do other countries have an equivalent of death by CanCon? The beaches seem like a fine band, but hearing their newest song 30x a day on the radio just kills any interest I might have.

Yukon River Alan C. Collier n.d.

I can get omakase from a Japan-trained master chef who makes every piece personally. It's 15 minutes away and a great special j4j4occasion meal. But when I want decent/affordable sushi for lunch, the restaurant is owned by Korean Canadians and the line cooks are Chinese Canadians.

Inter-generational support works much better with parents in their twenties. It means grandparents are in their fifties and still vital enough to help.

Historically, the public square is where you put people in stocks and throw rocks at them. If they're lucky, gallows and gibbets also popular options.

My paternal g’pa, the son of a preacher, told of a time at a Ladies Aid event at a country church when he and his brother (both teen’ish) lit a long fuse on stick of dynamite in the crotch of a tree behind the church, returned to the event, and all attendees snapped heads at them after *boom*

This is a great one. My grandpa told me stories about how when he was a boy, it was the social event of the season when a steamboat came up the Mackenzie. Mail, trade, new arrivals and people leaving all in one. The kids would crowd around the docks hoping to lift someone's bag for a coin.

The world cup curse: I have an uninformed but mildly positive feeling toward both Turkey & Australia. Soccer people, does this mean I hope for a draw so everyone gets a point?

I think they're called the Socceroos because it's more humiliating to lose to a team called the Socceroos