It is indeed horrifying that we are going backwards as a country on our climate change commitments.

Liz Renzetti@lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 35m ago

I'm in St. Catharines for the week and all anyone is talking about is the flooding. The consequences of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions everywhere this summer. Floods and fires and heatwaves. It's horrifying that as a country we're going backwards on climate pledges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm in St. Catharines for the week and all anyone is talking about is the flooding. The consequences of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions everywhere this summer. Floods and fires and heatwaves. It's horrifying that as a country we're going backwards on climate pledges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'It was like a tsunami': Massive flooding in St. Catharines, Ont., leaves residents in grief and shock | CBC News

Amid a state of emergency from the fallout of two storms within a week, people in St. Catharines say they're in shock and grief as they deal with severe flooding in their homes and elsewhere in the ci...

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Time for Canada to up its game on renewable energy.

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 15h ago

we are going to need to hit a pace of like 9 GW a year in solar, wind, battery to hit 100% clean grid by 2035 so lets get going

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

I read in the Japan Times that the US intends to close their Winnipeg consulate.

The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · yesterday

The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions — including one in Japan — in a rare downsizing of America's global diplomatic footprint.

I read in the Japan Times that the US intends to close their Winnipeg consulate.

The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · yesterday

The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions — including one in Japan — in a rare downsizing of America's global diplomatic footprint.

Or more awesome!

AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.

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tastewart 🦋@tastewart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.

Gobsmacking. You start to sympathize with the f***capitalism people. TLDR: uber-like contract nursing companies but credit card debt info ON THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES to gauge how low a wage offer they will offer. Desperate people accept lower wages.

Groundwork Collaborative@groundwork.bsky.social · 5d ago

Author @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social breaks down how surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination are affecting working families right now. Some companies are running experiments to see what the highest price or the lowest wage you'll accept. Watch now 👇

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

Behold, a steaming pile of self-serving dung from a recent Globe and Mail op-ed by two business leaders. Reality: the province is suffocating clean energy, no business has “stepped up” to build or fill the pipeline, and oil companies are minting massive profits for themselves, not the federation.

When my mother got cancer in the 1970s, people pushed laetril treatments in Mexico, laying of hands by a miracle worker in the Philippines, and transplant from a pig (just like John Wayne!”). Her hopes were raised and crushed as we researched. I came to despise these people.

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 6d ago

Eye-opening. "If antiparasitics persist in the wellness world, they may shed their COVID origin story eventually & become just another in a long list of cancer remedies they don’t want you to know about… …the drive of snake oil sellers to wring profit from cancer’s misery shows no signs of fading"

“Rare booksellers across Europe are seeing a similar surge in purchase requests which they suspect are coming from AI labs in America.” www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Chanterelle mushroom season in northern Saskatchewan. Just got a pound from my source so @jgutwin.bsky.social got us some cold-smoked steaks, add in a bottle of Gray Monk Syrah CabSauv and various sides, and life is good.

What actually needs to happen is laws that have allowed corporations to be considered “a person (personhood) within the law” need to be stripped away. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News

The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...

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Elbows down, it seems.

The Wire Report@thewirereport.ca · last wk.

BREAKING: The Liberals are preparing to eliminate all funding requirements for U.S. companies under the Online Streaming Act. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...

Germany’s latitude overlaps with southern Saskatchewan south of Waskesiu.

Yale Environment 360@yalee360.bsky.social · last wk.

In a first, Germany drew more power from wind and solar than from fossil fuels last year.

Ironically, at that time a conventional luxury eSUV would have sold like hotcakes, especially to suburban women.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

“.. The Cybertruck sold one-sixth of Musk's 250,000-unit annual projection and posted the steepest sales decline of any U.S. EV nameplate in 2025.” @yahoofinance.com $TSLA 247wallst.com/investing/20...

City of Saskatoon has created an innovative office - the Office of the Matriarch - with an “Auntie Advocate” to make the city safer for Indigenous women and girls. Drawing from traditional culture, the aunties were the strong voices who pinpoint what’s needs fixing.

SaskAttitude@saskattitude3.bsky.social · last wk.

Saskatoon's Auntie Advocate helping to open city's first centre for families of MMIWG2S+. Dorthea Swiftwolf has a vision... #MMIWG2S #MMIP #NoMoreStolen from Eagle Feather News. eaglefeathernews.com/2026/07/22/s...

AI-produced account on Facebook purports to teach English vocabulary. Invents words like 'driphan' and 'pherlotic’ (not to mention the questionable imagery for 'spinster'...)

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.

It’s not just your imagination. A university summer job paid me enough for half an apartment, tuition, and to run a beater car (with the help of a small student loan). Students now have nowhere near the ability to cover costs from wages.

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last wk.

If you look closely, there’s some sort of pattern here. www.ft.com/content/9741...

"...the net present value of the flow of fiscal benefits may recapture between 75 and 117 percent of the upfront costs of the program." Congrats on getting this out and thanks for your work. Excited to read it.

Kevin Milligan@kevinmilligan.bsky.social · last wk.

New paper: Investing in Mothers? The Long-Run Impact of a Universal Child Care Program on Maternal Work and Income Joint with Michael Baker and Jon Gruber. We look at long-run (up to age 54) labour impact on mothers of kids eligible for the Quebec childcare program. www.nber.org/papers/w35514

It's the @mobute.bsky.social tweet all over again

How exactly do you tariff wildfire smoke? The haze in my city is from Washington state fires and I’m wondering how to monetize this.

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

Tomorrow’s AI models are learning from today’s polluted research

The research ecosystems AI models train on are changing in ways policymakers aren't yet attuned to.

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