Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Same handle on Twitter. Retired academic. Socialist. Interested in education issues, Canadian politics, the environment, science fiction. No DMs.
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The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.”
Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.”…
truthout.org
Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 5d agoin 30 years people are going to wonder how we got caught up in the AI extinction hysteria while a real mass extinction was happening and we did very little to stop it
They’re doing white primitivism amid the resegregation push
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5d agoI see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
This makes for very unpleasant reading, and begs the question of what else US federal law enforcement might be getting up to without thinking to inform the RCMP.
DEA operated 'illegally' in Canada, B.C. Supreme Court judge says
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has stayed an extradition proceeding because U.S. DEA agents 'operated unlawfully and illegally in Canada'
vancouversun.com
Carmahn McCalla: “”(The mural) is about the Jamaican Maroons and how they helped to build Citadel Hill and also our connection to Africa as a people. I want to celebrate the whole diaspora… “I want them to see how rich our culture is in Nova Scotia, across all kinds of different ways.””
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 5d agoA downtown Halifax mural has caught the eye of dozens of people. Located outside of Mary’s African Cuisine on Barrington Street, the mural commemorates the history and traditions of African Nova Scotians. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
On its 50th anniversary, I revisit Marathon Man: a jittery, violent, deliciously paranoid thriller, with one dentist appointment nobody will forget.
Marathon Man is now 50 – and that dentist scene still hurts like hell
Fifty years on, Marathon Man remains a jittery, violent and deliciously paranoid thriller – with one dentist appointment nobody will forget.
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The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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In a new Comment, published this week in #Nature Reviews Clean Technology and co-led with Quirina Rodriguez Mendez, we discuss ten prominent #narratives about the role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in the current academic #discourse. 📚💭 doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Mapping conflicts in carbon removal narratives - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Carbon dioxide removal has been described both as a mitigation necessity and as a risk to mitigation ambition or sustainability in the academic literature. This Comment examines the assumptions underl...
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Wonder if the driver responsible has the insurance necessary, or did King Dug's changes to auto insurance leave everyone involved exposed? #onpoli bsky.app/profile/lady...
Cheryl White@ladyscorcher.bsky.social · last wk.Awful stuff for this family. Life altering injuries and then trying to get justice will be a hard slog too. www.thestar.com/news/gta/fam...
EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed multiple online resources for companies on how to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains, called Scope 3 emissions. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EPA Removes Online Scope 3 Emissions Guidance for Companies
As the Trump administration rolls back environmental rules, it’s also taking down resources that help corporations understand their environmental risk.
bloomberg.com
THEY'RE WINNING. STOP THEM.
Zahra Hirji@zhirji.bsky.social · last wk.EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed multiple online resources for companies on how to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains, called Scope 3 emissions. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NOT SO QUIETLY WE HAVEN'T NOTICED. thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
thenarwhal.ca
Rogerman@rogerman99.bsky.social · last wk.This is bullshit. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
Viktor Hurniak shot for Reuters and UNIAN. Then he enlisted. On one trip to Italy, they brought Ukrainian troops 550 helmets. Friends told him that he was more useful finding equipment than carrying a rifle. "Well, I want to fight," he answered. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/10/h...
Premier Tim Houston’s response to increasing numbers of homeless disabled people & tent-living in an unaffordable world is an unspoken ‘Let them die, then’ as winter nears. It’s not a local problem, but across Canada. No govt even approaches the issue of cost of living at this level.
“Jackie Lowe stood beside NDP Leader Claudia Chender during a news conference aimed at shaming the government into reversing a decision that prevents disabled people... living in tents from receiving a disability supplement of $325 a month.” www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-hou...
Opposition hammers Nova Scotia government over housing issues - Halifax Examiner
“Nova Scotians have been patient. They’ve given the Houston government five years to move the needle on housing," NDP Leader Claudia Chender said.
halifaxexaminer.ca
“Our jobs were changing quickly from being biologists & scientific experts to being administrative staff...We were no longer allowed to give our recommendations.” thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
thenarwhal.ca
Increasing homelessness, lack of affordable housing, only rarely living wages even if you find 2 jobs? You’re being trashed like the environment. You aren’t worth investing in. thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
thenarwhal.ca
‘The economy’ runs our world. Do you seriously think YOU matter anymore than endangered species, if that’s based on how much profit you generate for developers? thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
thenarwhal.ca
“...a new model for environmental assessments...’proponent-led,” leaving developers largely responsible for assessing their own environmental impact & cutting government biologists out of the process almost entirely.” thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
thenarwhal.ca
“...a new model for environmental assessments...’proponent-led,” leaving developers largely responsible for assessing their own environmental impact & cutting government biologists out of the process almost entirely.” thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
thenarwhal.ca
Grizzly pelts & claws are worth a lot of money. Who gets them when a bear is killed under these circumstances? A resignation in protest by a person involved in management because she wasn’t informed of the killing. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
Nelson Wrestles with the Aftermath of Grizzly Family Deaths | The Tyee
The killing of a mother bear and two cubs has prompted calls for more transparency and information.
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1 More excuses for trashing the humanities: they’re not directly profitable: “very focused on the major areas where we need graduates and that will support the economy.” Humanities skills are essential in a text-heavy economy. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
How Ontario's 40,000 new post-secondary spots were allocated
Schools collaborated with the business community to determine local needs, the first time consultations were required.
thestar.com
“World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin.” WATCH those people economic ruin will make very rich. They WANT this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell
Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever
theguardian.com
$5000 for every American would hardly even touch what most people’s medical expenses cost. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate
theguardian.com
Not just war damage to people & structures, but the entire environment - & those utterly helpless beings living in it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How the fate of a small furry animal reveals the ecological tragedy of Israel’s war on Lebanon | Hisham Younes
The Syrian rock hyrax depends on the fragile landscapes of the border region. Alongside other environmentalists, I have been documenting the destruction of its habitat
theguardian.com