Thread. Climate doom scrolling. Nation building. /s

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️@dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 2h ago

What people don't get yet is the changes that cause extreme drought also cause extreme moisture. It can flip flop back and forth from year to year without any good way to predict what is coming. We are giving up the predictable world that human civilization evolved in.

Droughts and excess rain.

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️@dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1h ago

These kinds of things are also common now. The real problem is "normal" doesn't exist any more. Possibly we can adapt to a new more chaotic version of normal, but it really is an emergency that we need to stop making worse. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

🤦 “When I moved here to Alberta, 30 years back with two small kids, we moved because homes were unaffordable in Vancouver and Toronto and jobs were easily available,” “Now the struggle is we have these immigrants that are coming in, they are taking away our children’s and grandchildren’s jobs."

Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 42m ago

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Good point.

Shawn 🇨🇦@shawnkcgy.bsky.social · 31m ago

Considering how fast she had her security remove Mikayla, she’s lying again. Anytime that traitorous woman opens her mouth out comes a lie.

Simpler times. When families watched "The News", often together ... at least parts of it. Recall seeing the coffins from American soldiers coming back from Vietnam, and Nixon resigning ..

Markham Hislop@markhamhislop.bsky.social · 51m ago

Lloyd Robertson - The Long Lost "Golden Age" of Canadian TV News @jdvorkin, @UofT: Robertson probably wouldn't be hired by today's TV networks. #cdnpoli #lloydrobertson youtu.be/rHRfcR-YgtE

Alberta Energy Rebate Program emailed me, I have not submitted my application and there is a new payment method available, Interac e-transfer using info from my 2025 CRA NOA. They have all the info why can't they just send $$. But $100 could buy us a couple of steaks. Torn.

"GM and SAIC say they will jointly develop new electric vehicles and intelligent vehicle technologies, even as President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that Chinese EVs pose national security risks because of the data they collect and transmit." Very interesting read! 👇

Markham Hislop@markhamhislop.bsky.social · 1h ago

GM Deal with China Exposes Trump Hypocrisy Toward Canada SAIC is state-owned. GM has been in a joint venture for ~30 years. Now the JV's extended for 20 more years. That ok but Canada's diplomatic relationship with China is "evil"? #cdnpoli #uspoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/gm-deal-wi...

They must be stopped Coming to Some of Pennsylvania’s Most Picturesque Places: Data Centers In the Pocono Mountains, residents fear planned data centers could ruin beloved landscapes and pristine waterways. insideclimatenews.org/news/0508202...

Coming to Some of Pennsylvania’s Most Picturesque Places: Data Centers - Inside Climate News

In the Pocono Mountains, residents fear planned data centers could ruin beloved landscapes and pristine waterways.

insideclimatenews.org

✊💯

💢Marx Was Right.🕊@paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2h ago

Taxpayers subsidizing O&G to increase wildfires. What the Hell? “This project defies common sense,” Lewis said. “This is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.”

Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · 3h ago

Controversial West Coast pipeline one step closer to being fast-tracked www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/04/n...

Walked the dogs, fed the mosquitoes. Perfect weather for them skeeters in YEG. Ugh.

Huh? "Most of us have probably accepted that fact. What other option is there? So it gets rationalized. It’s only a few days. The wind will come and skies will clear. Let’s hope for rain. Let’s hope communities are saved." What other option? Transitioning away from fossil fuels decades ago maybe.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

I've seen comments "An angry, scared population predisposed to violence against “others” could eventually support simply murdering these “invaders”. ..as heat becomes unbearable in certain regions and crops fail, the waves of mass migration will continue." collapse2050.substack.com/p/the-massac...

The Massacres are Coming

We are on a dangerous path

collapse2050.substack.com

A higher concentration of atmospheric CO2 impairs human thought and cognitive performance. As electrical signaling slows down, the brain loses its ability to process complex information quickly. collapse2050.substack.com/p/co2-make-d...

CO2 Make Dumb

Low atmospheric CO2: a prerequisite to human brain evolution

collapse2050.substack.com

Great news out of Michigan, congratulations Abdul. Now on to victory in November! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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How about: 💔👇 "What's the province done to cause this?" "The memo said a recommendation for the city to advocate for additional supervised consumption services or overdose prevention sites is “no longer applicable” with provincial policy directions leading to the closure of sites in Alberta."

How Edmonton is responding to a record number of overdose deaths | CBC News

Edmonton city councillors say they were shocked to learn that a record number of people fatally overdosed in the city last year.

cbc.ca

"Ms. Vokurka said it is “very difficult to believe” that the Métis Nation’s project will be finished without additional funding. “It’s very challenging. The government left us holding the bag here, and it’s not our fault.” Two contractors .. said they had not been paid in months."

Carrie Tait@carrietait.bsky.social · 8h ago

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said construction on 3 recovery centres on Indigenous land will soon finish on budget, subcontractors facing stacks of unpaid invoices doubt it. Plus: One Indig group fired its contractor www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

Great article on how Smith’s Government is upping their AI misinformation slop by @djclimenhaga.bsky.social. This slop will be hard to sell as the consequences of the USA’s AI boom dominate the information ecosystem. Texas just set a moratorium. 👏👇 #abpoli albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/albe...

Alberta propaganda push suggests UCP is encountering stiffer opposition to AI data centres than it expected - Alberta Politics

The United Conservative Party Government must be encountering stiffer opposition than it expected to its plan to make Alberta North America’s dumping ground for the Artificial Intelligence data centre...

albertapolitics.ca

Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 6h ago

“Nowhere is the US [AI] data center boom bigger than in Texas. But less than a year after declaring Texas the “epicenter of AI development,” Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on all new power grid connections for data centers” #txpoli #abpoli #OOTT #FAFO arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/t...

"Without the environment there is no economy you fucking idiots" - me

worst padded resume / Trojan Horse of all time. But even worse than that is that every Liberal MP is just rolling with it. And do any quit to sit as independents to challenge Carney and protect the Charter? Not a single one. What a bunch of liars and quitters

And KinderMorgan pipeline ended up being 4.6 times more expensive than it's original budget. All these big projects costs estimates turn out to be lies. So $30-$44 billion time 4.6 is $138 billion to $202 billion of #SocializingTheLosses Carney is forcing US to pay. Hell No. #cdnpoli

And for Canadians across this land, it is a kick in the teeth to call this climate bomb of a project “in the national interest”. It is in Big Oil’s interest for sure.

What is our government doing? This project defies common sense - this is corporate welfare on a surreal scale, giving a gift to an industry making $90 billion in excess profits this year, and which still refuses to pay for its own infrastructure.

All over the World. Owned by the same "interests".

My Giddy Aunt (Australia)@mygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 18h ago

The same here in Australia. Our Labor Party is beyond a joke pandering to corp interests on everything: environment, gambling laws, heaps of new data centres, salmon farming, and more. They also pander to zionist and US interests. They barely🤏 represent their voters and members or us generally.

💔💯 "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse." ~Herman Daly

🇨🇦 YYC Albertans Deserve Better - Fire the UCP@vote4trudeau.bsky.social · 16h ago

Economics is a pseudo science. When will economics accept that the environment is the economy. Harm the environment you harm the economy. How many trees burned? How much is each tree worth? How much is breathing fresh unpolluted air, and water worth?

It never ends. But some day it probably will. End.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 19h ago

AI reveals a massive algae boom across the world’s oceans The rapid growth of massive seaweed mats could reshape marine habitats while bringing foul-smelling decay, ecological damage, and economic losses to coastlines www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Corporate media in the age of monopolization isn’t worried about ratings or views, those are secondary to appealing to oligarchs and corporations who will supplement lost viewership in order to ensure control of mainstream discourse and the information diet of politicians and parties

What? Ellis. What communities could these be?

David Shepherd@dshepyeg.bsky.social · 18h ago

In today’s edition of “The UCP Are A Bad Boss,” Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis comes out against…police? Two Ministers & the Premier are calling out EPS for trying to support communities facing increasing levels of hate, online & IRL. Because the UCP always put politics before people. #abpoli

I think people need to give this a read. A lot have not been paying much attention. A great follow, also follow : bsky.app/profile/sust...

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

I hear Carney using Smith’s line when she just blatantly lies & gets caught. Prime Minister Mark Carney did not explicitly admit to lying, but he acknowledged he "imperfectly" described the Gordie Howe International Bridge revenue deal after the released text contradicted his initial statements.