No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending.

I was at a seed swap today and someone was saying it'd be great if there was a map of public fruit/flowering trees. Well, Halifax *does* publish the data but it's not user friendly (data-hrm.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/HRM...) So here's a little map that's more user friendly justbartek.ca/hfxtrees

I don't know which countries the US will go to war with in the next 100 years, but I do know they will all be armed with US manufactured weapons.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Whelp...never using an in-room coffee machine in a hotel again

A trifecta of AI stupidity Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Today’s Canadian artwork is “Placentia Bay Boat in Winter” created by Christopher Pratt in 1995.

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...

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In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

It is profoundly ironic that the whole stated purpose of mass gun ownership in the US - which carries it with the associated cost of frequent mass shootings, including in schools - is to protect against oppressive tyrannical government and yet...

Air -17C water +3C #Halifax

you don’t have to write “police involved shooting.” use english. It’s not hard

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

I really am just trying to model that it's ok to say things. We should be using our voices and we should not be looking away. And the more of us that say things, the faster things change.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

This is what 9300m looks like in the deep sea. Small, free-moving bristle worms swim through dense fields of slender tube worms. The bristle worms are only a few centimeters long, while the tube worms grow tubes up to 30cm, creating a crowded, living landscape on the deep seafloor.

The ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada Morning File by me

Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

see video (it shows him leaving) bsky.app/profile/mike...

The arrest of Mark Carney will bring peace, prosperity, and freedom to North America Morning File by me

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

The good news with all this Venezuela stuff is that now we now also can't be sure the USA won't try and kidnap Mark Carney to steal our resources too.

Reported deaths in Hong Kong by Covid-19 and influenza, 2025 summary

Here are four of my most popular cartoons on 2025

food.ubc.ca/ubc-cinnamon... My copy of the cookbook has the margarine recipe. Never made any sense to me.

Merry Catmas

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

More on Kennedy's unethical study. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

When it's somewhere else, we tend to agree it's bad when governments pick who universities should hire and in what research areas. When it's here, we fall all over ourselves weeping tears of gratitude, chanting "excellence" in unison between sobs.

The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research. Listen here:

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

At 3:28am (ET) Tuesday, United Launch Alliance launched an Atlas V rocket with the LA-04 payload; sent to space were 27 Amazon Leo satellites. This was the view from Merritt Island. Bonus: Zoom on the top of the streak & you can see the ejected solid rocket boosters. #photography

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Cat-weekend.

Having fun with DeepSeek.

My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"We have no choice" is my favorite admin refrain, because if we have no choices then why are we paying 6- and 7-figure salaries to a class of executive employees whose sole purpose is supposedly strategic decision making.