In Montréal-Nord, the city's workers trashed an entire encampment.

People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson Gotcha. That explains a lot.

"Morphological feathers", "unfriendly chemicals" -- in an Elsevier journal with an impact factor above 3. I guess they don't make enough money to hire copy editors?

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

1: Finally. 2: Why now? Why this pipeline and not the first? I'm guessing it's either opportunism, or not being able to take citizens telling him he's a fraud. Oh, and once they build the pipeline, do Liberals really believe they'll find customers? Or are they burning cash to make Alberta happy?

My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy? Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy Nephew: How??? Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine Nephew: … Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor

Solomon sounds like he's outsourced his thinking to a chatbot. "Technology moves at the speed of innovation"* is right up there with "Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty." (Also, I'm pretty sure the PM is 100% on board with what Solomon's doing.)

Don’t waste money on new fossil infrastructure, folks. Tropical islands can cost effectively transition off of fossil fuels using solar, wind and batteries. No LNG needed.

Is it now woke to care about children forgotten in a car? Maybe an effective altruist explain how preventing 3-4 dozen kids dying a year doesn't represent enough DALYs to justify the cost.

Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"

It sure would be handy to have some way for the government to buy this surplus up, putting money in farmers pockets, minimally process it, pack it up in bags covered with Stars and Stripes, and use it to feed those most at risk of hunger at home and abroad, huh?

World’s wealthiest man and an alleged comedian losing their minds over the 2025 version of “Guys! Guys! I can make the calculator spell BOOBS!”

Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...

Le gouvernement est vraiment en restriction budgétaire! Je reviens du site de vaccination avec ma mère et après 10 minutes de débats, ils n'ont jamais voulu me donner le vaccin COVID 😡 Mon père 71 ans poumons fragile. Ma mère commence traitement immunodépressif en décembre. Vous avez une idée? 😭

It may be hard to believe, but Twitter was once a useful public space instead of a weird monetization scheme for racist ragebait chatbots.

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.

There is an ostrich convoy driving around downtown Vancouver (and other cities) right now, which is not a sentence I have typed before.

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom. Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

ChatGPT gets chocolate wrong again- a beginner on a FB forum asked the bot for help, and, well, there are obvious issues. My recipe for 1kg of 80% chocolate is 800g nibs, 200g sugar. Legally speaking, however... in Canada you can have 5% dairy!

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

Again with alt text:

Either he didn't know what it meant, and was humble... Or he did know, realised most people wouldn't, and gracefully insisted on vocabulary in a more accessible register - requiring extremely quick thinking under pressure. Whatever the case, that's amazing.

While the installer was taking off doors of the old fridge, his assistant was checking financial charts. I assumed it was crypto but didn't ask, given his supervisor was present. There are fewer shoe shines today, so when I see both pharmacists and movers speculate, I am concerned.

Lots of US ecommerce websites either don't ship to Canada, or claim they do and insist on their format of postal code so you can never check out. Why invest more in marketing to Canadians if they never order? It's similar to the thinking about bike lanes. Why build one if no one is cycling yet?

one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.

So yesterday Trump was holding hands with MBS, and today he's demanding the execution of two Senators and four Representatives. Seems like something rubbed off

There's a >90% chance that my cacao supplier didn't see the mold in my shipment. If they took 3 samples, they still had a ~75% chance of missing it. I'm not convinced sampling methods are statistically useful for industrial / bulk cacao, but they really fail for rare defects.

Hot take but the president openly calling for the murder of his political opposition should be grounds for immediate impeachment and removal for office.

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

I think there's a decent chance that the Pope visits Chicago during this presidency and while there asks to see Broadview and I wonder how that plays out.

All too plausible, sadly. I have yet to hear a single politician frame an appropriate restoration agenda.

Thread The money never sleeps. Follow the money.

This is unbelievable. Jesus wept. Massive catastrophe is the making.

i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying

The 2025 International Chocolate Awards winners have just been published. 0 medals for Belgium, 1 for Switzerland, 5 for France, 31 for Italy. The world's best dark chocolate bar is from Peru, the best milk from Colombia. Thailand has dozens of medals. 3 Chinese companies won, including 1 gold.

“The number of first-year students at [UCSD], whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past 5 years...” (The UC system announced that it would no longer consider SAT scores in May 2020. Oops.) 1/

her kink is necrophilia but she likes em barely legal

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍 The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R. The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.

WTAF. I knew people were ignorant, but I didn't imagine it was this bad

The government of Canada needs to directly address why a 95 year old human rights expert and former UN Special Rapporteur was treated as a threat to national security for coming to speak about Israeli genocide. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Add human trafficking to the lengthy list of social ills that would be most meaningfully addressed by reducing poverty.

As with congestion pricing in NYC, the sky didn't fall, and results are very popular. Also noteworthy: revenue estimates were WAY off. In NYC, planners expected more traffic outside the congestion pricing zone, but that didn't happen. We underestimate benefits, and overestimate costs.

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

Stealth tech startup affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch using their recordings of holy glossolalia to train an LLM that speaks the language of angels, as derived from a sea of ecstatic parishioners speaking in tongues. They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26

Way to put out that fire, sir.