One of the sharpest tools governments have is banning fossil fuel advertising. It costs nothing, has strong legal precedent (tobacco) and has big impacts. www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

just like i think people shouldn’t use an amazon-owned goodreads, a netflix-owned letterboxd should be abandoned too

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

You can’t justify the need for light rail by counting people taking the bus.

You can’t justify the need for a train by counting people walking and cycling over the Malahat.

An old man is comatose, his wife fled the country, and someone else is removing the carpeting. This is like minute 53 of a Law & Order.

Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵

Beaverton Editorial Board Official Op-Ed: No.

I cycled to work the longer way today. At 5.5 miles, that's further than most UK car trips - yet it took me just 22 minutes We urgently need to unblock and enable the millions of short active trips that are being blocked every day because of our collective car dependency. Our health depends on it

Fuck, man, when I was in college I could write a 10 page paper on *anything*! I didn't even need the CliffNotes! Just gimme, like, a one-paragraph description of the subject. Is the fine art of bullshitting dying alongside literacy?

EVs are winning because a trip 90 km out of town costs $3 in energy. Six people in a minivan = $0.50 each is hardly worth splitting ‘gas money’.

I, for one, welcome our new gay baseball overlords.

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

You guys are never gonna believe this, but going to a brick-and-mortar running store and getting sized by employees who know what they're doing and can recommend brands and models for you is a WAY better strategy than Googling "Nike running shoes" and buying whatever's on sale

What I’m taking away from this is that the boycott is working.

Maybe Canada shouldn't become part of the EU, but we can certainly adopt their regulatory approach.

*clears throat* California Whine

It’s funny to ask Canada to put American alcohol back on the shelves but not be aware of which government is doing it. It’s not “the Canadian government“, it’s the provinces (most of them, at least).

Its working!

Respectfully, Mr Schiff, two options: Article II, Section 4: The President ... shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors Or the 25th S4 that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

A cycling advocate and transportation planner for the city of Boston was identified as the cyclist who was struck and killed in a crash near Roxbury Crossing this morning.

My friend is dead. A driver, through neglect, recklessness or malice, has killed Louisa. I’m beside myself with grief and filled with righteous anger at a city that has stalled and slow-walked safety improvements for all road users. Louisa should be here with us.

we can’t afford to restrain oil and gas, but we can afford the human and economic impact of more deadly and destructive natural disasters

Gosh I wonder what will happen next!

Their America: Driving a large SUV 20 minutes to the chain grocery store to buy second-rate jarred salsa and sad chips for “couples game night.” My America: Riding a Dutch bike 2 blocks to a Mexican market to get three different fresh salsas, chips, and guacamole to feed my gay-ass tabletop group.

Tolkien wrote a YA novel where the villain was Smaug, an evil dragon that hoarded wealth & polluted the earth. Everyone working in tech who loves that book & that author has missed its point. These are also the same people who assert that thinking about literature is a waste of time. 🤬🤬

Canadian bottle holder.

every bike is a cargo bike. my friends never cease to amaze me.

Americans’ perception of Canada is always fascinating. This list is no exception.

Everyone knows that riding a bike for transportation makes you cooler and hotter that other people. And, after repeated tests, I can now confidently state that riding a *Dutch bike* for transportation increases the effect by at least 2x.

This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers

The federal liberals and the BCNDP. One has to assume they want this, because: 1 they know this is the result 2 they have other options 3 they keep choosing to create more of this.

Did my first longish drive with the IONIC 6 today. Holy shit, what a ride! I'm telling you: Decent EVs are a world ahead of clunky ICE cars. Yeah, yeah, I know: Not everyone can afford a buy right now. But here's the thing: These are the future. There ain't no going back. Embrace it!

Let plug-in solar cook! It's perfectly safe!

Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope @katemac.bsky.social @thepolycrisis.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/78cVf8D...

Pipeline derangement syndrome: belief in the fever dream that global economies, especially Asia, are hungry for Canadian oil and LNG. Characterized by wild claims not backed up by a shred of data. See, @ABDanielleSmith, @fordnation, and @MarkJCarney.

I take transit weekly versus biking for transport almost daily. Cycling is just really competitive on speed/directness for short/medium-distance trips. Also, marginal cost. I don’t have a monthly pass. $7.50 round trip by transit feels noticeably more expensive vs. $0 by bike.

I created a throwaway FB profile recently to keep track of local FB groups in the lead up to fall municipal elections. The algorithm serves up pure toxic radicalism, and it is all local.

Flavor Flav shared that he’s secured “the tickets, the glam, wardrobe” for the entire US women’s hockey team to attend the 2026 ESPY’s. In an update, Paris Hilton is now covering the hotel rooms for every player. Talk about a bunch of words I never thought I’d say.

One hit against and ten runs for feels more like the baseball I was expecting this year...

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

very excited to be in conversation with EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL about her forthcoming novel, Exit Party, for @writersfest.bc.ca on Sep. 15. writersfest.bc.ca/event/emily-...

I am not exaggerating when I say that we are deeply, deeply cooked. I just don't believe democracy, or even the Enlightenment itself, survives without literacy.

Also, I'll die on this hill: free car storage on residential streets has made them all so ugly. Store your personal property somewhere else, it ruins the vibe and makes it feel like humans don't belong on the sidewalks that were literally built for them.

Offside xkcd.com/3268/

That the US has been unable to remove this sick old man from its highest office is an indictment of the nation as a whole.

I wish we could crush cars for minor traffic violations.