Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation

Every person in every liberal #democracy needs to listen to this. #uspoli flip.it/c92g4k

This is heartbreaking. Acid rock exposure thanks to thawing #permafrost in the #Arctic. 😢 flip.it/hEvRLa

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

🌊 New research alert! Sea otters, it turns out, aren’t fans of farm-fresh oysters in this study - no matter how fresh they are. In fact, researchers found zero evidence of otters dining on oysters, even when these bivalves were grown in farms right in their foraging zones. #seaotters #oysters

This is just dumb. The raison d’etre for #CanadaPost is to provide affordable services to rural and remote communities. Not many remote communities in Germany. #Context matters all you budding economists. 🙄 flip.it/lcuC6D

The sooner we stop listening to the #Broligarchs the better. #PeakAI flip.it/gG4irh

There's only one marine mammal native to Oregon that can shape the future of our nearshore marine ecosystems for the better... and that's the sea otter 🦦 youtu.be/8Ze-SUvEopg?... #seaotters #seaotter #elakhaalliance #oregon #oregoncoast #kelpforest #kelp #marinescience #ocean #whales

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social

These guys are truly batshit crazy. Space jobs to replace those lost to #AI within 10 years? Seems Chat-GPT isn’t the only one suffering from #hallucinations. flip.it/6iY8Xj

Nothing better encapsulates the current state of the US than killing funding for mRNA vaccine development - so Covid, Bird Flu and cancer treatments are now woke and planning to destroy 2 active cutting edge climate monitoring satellites so O&G fuckheads can gaslight the planet #USpoli

Of course this is a field of study. I do love #Science.

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

Congratulations @rhizalyssa.bsky.social and @hakai.org for this valuable, groundbreaking work in coastal disease #Ecology. Clearly, we shld be checking w Alyssa for all things #Seastar. :) Check out the press … www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e270ff4... #SeastarWasting #NorthPacific

Previously unknown subglacial lakes under Greenland’s ice sheet - and probably Antarctica’s - an example of unknown unknowns missing from #climate models. Another reminder that we don’t know as much as we think we do. flip.it/eBD-cf

Spoiler: #FIFA keeps all the sponsorship & advertising revenue while #VanCity pays to maintain a “controlled area” around the venue. All for the vague benefit of ‘future visitors’. Corporate greed is getting increasingly shameless. #BCPoli #DTES flip.it/IoU1Am

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt

Americans decide to preserve B.C.s old growth forests #cdnpoli #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Universal healthcare? Too expensive. Disaster relief? Tight budget. People can’t afford insulin or rent, but they’re building a golden ballroom at the White House. Priorities. Nothing says America First like Versailles cosplay during a housing crisis.👇

“Most of you don’t know what’s hard”. #Gratitude

Yup, clearly hashtags are a thing. Ok, then. 👍👍

Journalism has to choose between political neutrality & truth. If it wants to pursue truth, it's not going to be neutral, it's going to end up on the other side from reactionaries, over & over again. That's been the basic problem for decades now & at the very least we should frame it clearly.

Seems the experts agree with me. (do we use hashtags on sky? #VanPoli, #BCPoli, just in case) Developers, aided by city councils, are often “building the wrong kinds of housing, in the wrong places, for the wrong reason,” say experts. flip.it/sg5gGY

Well isn’t this fun - something that ties all the bits together: pics of #Trump and young girls, money laundering with Russian oligarchs, & evidence tampering to protect the rich and famous. 😮 But the mainstream media lies, right? 🙄 #EatTheRich www.thenorthstar.com/p/cbs-just-e...

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Thrilled to see #BC pushing back on developer greed. You want to help solve the #housing crisis? Build something people want to live in, not invest in. flip.it/aO9VGC

I feel like a lot of people forgot that part where he used to walk into the dressing rooms of teen beauty pageants while the children were changing and it should be brought up more often www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We teach what we teach. The end. The first amendment exist or it doesn’t. We are in the business of education or we aren’t. There’s no middle ground.

Looks like the best place to start in on the #NetworkState is with @gilduran.com Perhaps this podcast … www.thenerdreich.com/ai-empire-an...

While I don’t know much about the Network State yet, this post from one of America’s billionaires is a bit disconcerting … “Trump was the bridge ... future politicians won’t adapt to the internet … new class of leaders, fluent in the feed, untethered from legacy press.” x.com/a16z/status/...

If you need this in your day today, don’t hesitate.

So much ‘shoulding’ in this article by folks stuck in the disastrous ‘growth is everything’ way of thinking. Personally, I’d welcome a return to tariffs, increased food security, and self-sufficiency. Opinion: Forget the G7. We need an FT8 — a Free Trade Eight flip.it/4Xk7Qf

In our new policy brief for @datasociety.bsky.social, @mwoluchem.bsky.social and I break down the myths and industry talking points attached to data centers. Who benefits from unbridled data center growth and who is most at risk when such speculative ventures fail?

This editorial argues for #speed cameras. That’s fine, but I want more intersection cameras, as yellow lites increasingly ignored - at least here in #YVR. I’d even support stop sign cams, given the # of ppl rolling thru them in our neighborhood! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e270ff4...

Privileged, narcissistic old white guy dreams up a bald-faced lie about First Nation values to pursue a random personal goal. Some of these #trump rants just rise above all others for their sheer audacity. www.mediaite.com/media/sports...

What a brave little guy!

"I think it's important that residents are able to have meaningful input and shift how the project is designed, or elements of it, so that their interests are protected and that the project doesn't go ahead if it doesn't meet certain standards." #bcpoli #mining www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’ve been almost posting for a while, but this gets me over the hump. I’m fine with the end of #freetrade. It’s a perfect time to up self-sufficiency. And I like this, but let’s focus on #agriculture Chinese #garlic is awful. China threatens Canada with countermeasures over steel import curbs

Can anyone explain to me what earthly purpose this Franken-turntable might serve? 🙄

So this whole #RemembranceDay thing. #Accomodation and #respect must be 2-way streets. As #Canada always welcomes #immigrants, so immigrants must welcome being #Canadian, as they always have. Canadian #identity IS a thing. Without it we don’t have a country. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

What a simple, great idea. Has anyone suggested this to #Furstenau? It doesn’t look like she, or the BC #GreenParty for that matter, are on BlueSky yet. Maybe we should fix that.

Wait ... your birthday is the same as my brother's? That suddenly explains so much. Thank you. :)

A genuine piece of good news: a giant battery has replaced Hawaii's final coal power plant.

This post reads like rich people satire