Jeff Kraemer
@jeffkraemer.bsky.social
He/Him. UX designer, dog petter, Blue Jays appreciator. I care about the climate and democracy, and tend to boost info about both. Fan of hilarity.
you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.
Jen Gerson zeroes in on why Canadians are furious: "[The U.S.] are using ordinary trade irritants as an excuse to exercise mafioso-style dominance in the pursuit of our subjugation and maybe outright annexation. We know very well that this isn’t about trade." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Canadians do not seek a trade war – but nor will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson
A fundamental rupture in the values that have united North America is not a problem that can be wished away, says Canadian commentator Jen Gerson
theguardian.com
🐟 Warming rivers could trap 63% of fish A global analysis finds that under high emissions, about 63% of river fish face water too hot to cross, cutting them off from food and mates. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02731-9 #ClimateChange #Freshwater #Ecology 🧪
Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation - Nature Climate Change
Assessing 9,809 freshwater fish species globally, this study shows risk to a high proportion of species in the tropics, and severe extremes in non-tropical regions. Under high emissions, gradual warmi...
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The pace and scope of the clean energy transition is uneven, but the overall direction of travel is no longer debatable
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2d agoWhen will China's oil demand peak? Chinese government: Before 2030 Sinopec: By 2027 Reality: it may have happened last year! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I was thinking just this morning about how happy I'd be to contribute to this cause: www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/cana...
Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States
OTTAWA - Following public comments in which Conservative MP Jamil Jivani blamed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for failed trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, Canadians across the countr...
thebeaverton.com
@aradwanski.bsky.social puts his finger on why I felt relieved when the Canada/U.S. trade deal fell apart. Better to have no deal at all with an administration that acts this way. A deal would mean concessions, which would lead to more bullying. www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Adam Radwanski: Donald Trump’s negotiators saved Canada from making a big mistake
The worst thing about the agreement, as it was taking shape this week, wasn’t the concessions themselves — it was what the willingness to make them would signal to Trump and the people around him, wri...
thestar.com
trying to add "no bilingual packaging" to a trade deal with Canada at the 11th hour is hilarious, it's like trying to add "and ban handguns" to the US side of the agreement
I’m going to flip the usual complaint on its head and say that if you’re an American who’s been making an effort to understand the Canadian perspective, thank you. I know it’s not often easy. There’s going to be a lot of emotion in your feed this weekend. Good luck and thanks.
This article gets it right: the instability is the point. Both sides are blaming the other for the last-minute collapse. Who do you believe? Put another way: why *would* you believe the U.S. negotiators, given their bullying style? Elbows up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
A deal with Trump isn’t the end of instability. It’s just the start of it
Canada’s leaders need to stop expecting that a deal with Trump will lead to a new status quo, rather than never-ending turmoil for as long as he’s in office.
thestar.com
"Mark Carney and the Canadian government can sign any number of trade agreements, but you can't change what's in the heart of Canadians right now." Canadian consumers are refusing anything to do with the U.S.A. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/would-you-marry-a-man-with-seven
hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please
Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”
US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
bbc.com
Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, land-use sprawl, too many cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.
First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
OK so next step is to get a new government that is going to tackle the important issues of Ontario like healthcare and education and getting infrastructure actually built instead of this anti-bike slopulism
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 2w ago"The legislature is free to legislate to remove a bicycle lane from a road – indeed, it may remove a road entirely – without implicating the Charter,,” says the Court of Appeal. Provincial government wins. coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/i...
Yes, Cdns are paying attention. How can we not, under smoke-filled skies? But worry isn’t enough. If we don’t know what to do, more disasters just leave us feeling even more helpless. To catalyse action, we need to know: 1. what’s happening, 2. why it’s happening, AND 3. what we can do about it.
Canadians' climate change concerns rebound amid wildfire season | CBC News
The percentage of Canadians who see addressing climate change as a top priority spiked this summer after years of it taking a back seat to other issues, recent polling has found.
cbc.ca
Avicii: Ohhhhh Sometimes I Get a Good Feeling Yeah BlueSky Reply Guy: Well, not all of us can have a good feeling under capitalism
Canadians who want to comment on the West Coast Oil Pipeline proposal: gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/202... My comment: "Building a pipeline to facilitate the use of oil is simply setting our own house on fire. No economic upside, or political soothing of Albertans' anger, can justify that."
Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 160, Number 31: SUPPLEMENT
August 1, 2026, Part 1, Volume 160, Number 31, Canada Gazette
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ok i could buy the other jailbreaks were sorta real and not just press releases but meta's definitely just doing press releases
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3w agoA META AI MODEL, MUSE SPARK 1.1, HACKED ANOTHER COMPANY DURING CYBERSECURITY TESTING, BREACHING THE FIRM'S SYSTEMS AND MAKING CHANGES TO ITS INTERNAL SYSTEMS - THE INFORMATION
The right created an alternative fantasy world where school sports are being dominated by powerhouse trans athletes when in reality the average trans kid doesn't even want to step on the court. Every single trans athlete in competitive high school team sports in the US could probably fit in one room
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
I believe this 100%. The moral injury of the period, the grief from not just the too and so many deaths but the kinds of lives we had before, the laying bare of disposability, the non covid deaths it sped, the institutional strain, the collective fear and distrust, the prioritization of work anyway
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4w agoOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
"Prepare our communities, cut the emissions, fund the people who fight and study these fires. The smoke is telling us where the real work is. It is at our doorsteps, and in our climate policy, not deep in the woods." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I study the boreal forest. This summer wildfires came for my home | Julee Boan
Here are things that will – and will not – help us fight the threat of wildfires
theguardian.com
SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...
98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal
Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5
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The irony of saying "The federal government must ensure that any potential future rail project minimizes impacts on farmland and is supported by the people affected" while bitching about not getting jets that would impact nature and weren't supported by the people affected www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Ontario rethinking support for high-speed rail after feds reject Billy Bishop expansion: source | CBC News
The federal government's rejection of a plan to allow commercial jets at Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport is threatening a wedge between the Ford government and Ottawa — and potentially strengthening op...
cbc.ca
See also: writing about war, family, slavery, love, hope, whatever…someone smarter & more talented than you has already done it, so just do your own thing. And make it not suck.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last mo.When you write superhero comics, some days you wake up and think "it's all been done before" and feel panic. And some days you wake up and think "it's all been done before" and feel free. The challenge is navigating yourself from the first to the second so you can get some actual work done
“This is like crashing into the car in front of you because you were speeding and tailgating, and then demanding they pay for the damage to your headlights,” said ... a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania... “It’s victim-blaming by the assailant." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Scientists decry Trump’s ‘blame game’ after he claims Canada ‘poisoning’ US air
Trump told Mark Carney ‘you got to stop these fires from coming in’ as experts say wildfires symptom of climate crisis
theguardian.com
