According to solar sheep rancher, JR Howard, agrivoltaics is the greatest opportunity for the sheep industry in his lifetime. What started with just 400 sheep grazing on one solar site has now expanded to over 10,000 sheep deployed across multiple installations. nativesolar.com/agrivoltaics...

New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)

The CD I am currently listening to. Bought it 3 dollars a little while ago at a used bookstore. Great purchase.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

The "gotcha" video went viral because MAGA drones, including the 23 year old who made the video, are generally ignorant fools who don't know that daycares have locked doors and strict protocols to protect the privacy and safety of the children within the daycare.

Great year-end column by @djclimenhaga.bsky.social. Normally, I'd provide an extremely modest boost by quoting his own post, but I can't find one for this column. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/what...

"I'm a community person, I think in terms of community before individual. That's the essence of Albertans and to a large extent that's the essence of Canadians as well." Peter Lougheed Something to think about while Smith defunds our healthcare #ableg #abpoli #Alberta

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

For all you fellow stochastic parrot technology haters, this is a fine essay on why we should all hate and shun AI.

The roots of the Wildrose and UCP can be found in Bible Bill Aberhart's SoCreds. As bad a Premier as he was, Smith is far worse.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

@lowcutconnie.bsky.social is a great band that recently cancelled their upcoming March 19 concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Worth a listen and a follow. youtu.be/AC11NAmIvBw?...

Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

Peter Thiel has been telling his entourage that 2026 is the "everything UK" year in which he, Musk and Trump will bring down the government of the UK, and install Nigel Farage as their sock puppet to rule there. Amazingly, this is now an entirely plausible scenario.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

‘Children of Time’ whips, if you like sci-fi at all you should read it. defector.com/the-best-thi...

This must really get up Trump's nose. An insecure and small man, he is still bitter about not being truly accepted by Manhattan elites or Hollywood. I expect he will react with the maturity and self control you would expect from a 5 year old.

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

It drives me nuts when a terrible person dies, and we are all supposed to pretend they were great, like telling the truth is somehow uncouth. Brigette Bardot was a truly despicable racist, homophobe, bigot, and lifelong supporter of fascists. Acknowledge her work, I guess, but don't celebrate her.

Big tech enabling a fascist, authoritarian agenda? This should not surprise anyone who is paying attention. Big tech benefits from the massive panopticon state, fueled by AI and surveillance capitalism.

With a new year almost upon us, everyone paying attention now understands Danielle Smith is a separatist. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/with...

This is not idle speculation. The intercepts of the Witkoff/Kushner/Dmitriev conversations leaked by NATO intel services to various European and US publications show that this is _exactly_ what is going on. It's the most humiliating chapter in the whole history of US diplomacy.

A significant amount of safety research has existed for decades on Human Machine Interfaces proving exactly this. It's exhausting to watch money and effort wasted in a tech hype cycle to constantly undo and redo what we already know in safety engineering.

Some accurate commentary on the real Wuthering Heights, not the romantic claptrap that many imagine in place of the novel. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Asked what he's most hopeful for in the next year vt.tiktok.com/ZS5evc4ER/

Perfect metaphor for what big tech, driven by oligarch techbros who care only about extracting wealth, is doing to society.

I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/i-br... #ableg #abpoli #geopolitics #MerryChristmas

Happy 71st birthday to Annie Lennox. A woman who has excelled in music and never been scared to speak out on political and social issues which concern her! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6644...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Seems significant Hope that X has reached some kind of tipping point.

this is my last strong tether to twitter/x -- 1000x more people tweeting about Japanese and Korean transit, politics, urbanism, culture, movies, art, history in their native languages than here on Bluesky

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

For the final day, 24, of #ArtAdventCalendar, I present this illustration which I call Exploration of Amalthea. The latter is a very small moon of Jupiter in a very close orbit. Jupiter would fill half the sky seen from here! #SciArt #spaceart #Blender3d

my annual posting of @mariadunnmusic.bsky.social's "God Bless Us Everyone". Still trying to get this to be a standard carol for everyone, every Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-f...

One of the best things about the movie, Elf, is the duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, performed by Zooey Deschanel, one of the lead actors in the film, and Leon Redbone during the end credits. The movie is very silly. I watched it on the same day I watched Monkey Man. So, a nice contrast.

Canada is one of the eight countries that today expressed its solidarity with the people of Greenland and Denmark in the face of threats to their territorial integrity from Trump and his newly appointed Reichsstatthalter for Greenland, Jeff Landry.

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

Here we go: TCM REMEMBERS, 2025 edition. See if you can make it through this without getting something in your eye.

I put on a Dave Edmonds CD to listen to while I washed up after dinner, and I swear to gawd I felt like a teenager again for a little while.

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

A little while ago, someone posted a video of Pearl Jam doing a cover with Eddie Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan of the song, The Long Road. I was reminded of the album, Night Songs, by NFAK and Michael Brook. Here's a track from that great album. Still fresh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttQm...

Bari Weiss did not pull the CECOT piece from 60 minutes BC it revealed new information. It didn't. She pulled it bc, as incompetent as she apparently is, she recognized it as an excellent piece of journalism that presented a compelling, fact-checked narrative about a young man being brutalized.

Women who regularly drank tea tended to have significantly higher hip BMD than those who didn't. This may be because compounds in tea called catechins boost the cells responsible for building our bones. Tea consumption also seemed to have a particularly beneficial effect in women with obesity.

The "Weissand effect", a portmanteau of Weiss and Streisand to describe not only the effect of drawing more attention to a thing by trying to censor it but also to fail spectacularly as a result of your actions because of sheer incompetence, ignorance, and blind obeisance to power.

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

Do you have any Xmas music favorites that you play every year that has both a long-time association with Xmas but is not a Christmas Carol. Here is one of mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzff...

The legacy media narrative has been unified in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein abused minors. But how can anyone report that without interviewing Jeffrey Epstein? I asked Alan Dershowitz. —Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times