I missed this great The Conversation article by the brilliant Jayde Hirniak last September, but it’s a timely article given @jinheum.bsky.social’s recent paper showing the 74ka Toba eruption didn’t have a lasting climatic impact in eastern Africa: theconversation.com/a-massive-er...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived

Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to catastrophic events.

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It really feels like everything that was once wondrous has now ruined any sense of progress, and is now effectively unusable and soon we will be copying books and maps onto velum, paying in gold and paying for hand delivered letters sealed in wax

Ros Taylor@rostaylor.bsky.social · 2h ago

Companies complain they get too many applications, many of them AI-generated. Well, if the solution is to revert to posting them, then so be it. Does at least identify who really, really wants the job.

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4w ago

This from the guy who has to hire people to play his video games for him.

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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Someone strand this man on the moon

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

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...

Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear

The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country

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Huh. Looks like the UCP nomination race in Sherwood Park is between a former UCP MLA and… An avowed separatist. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“There are lineages in the deep sea that have survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions, except potentially what we’re about to do,” deepwater ecology scientist Cherisse Du Preez said. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns | The Tyee

Some creatures that ‘survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions’ might not make it if we go ahead.

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Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta

More sad news from Ukraine today. Oleksiy Yukov, the leader of the Black Tulips group that bravely retrieved the bodies of soldiers - Ukrainians and Russians alike - so that their families could give them a proper burial, has died. Spending a day with Yukov was both inspiring and terrifying. RIP.

Ukrainian volunteer unit braves minefields to bring back remains of the dead

The Black Tulips take pride in helping repatriate those who gave their lives fighting for Ukraine: ‘We’re helping bring our guys – who defended their country – home to their families, to their mothers...

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Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.

Times Colonist@timescolonist.bsky.social · 16h ago

Alberta’s Ministry of Forestry and Parks is facing six workplace safety charges in connection with the death of a man who was killed fighting a wildfire in Jasper National Park. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... #Alberta #Jasper

Alberta ministry charged in connection with death of man who died battling Jasper wildfire

Alberta’s Ministry of Forestry and Parks is facing six workplace safety charges in connection with the death of a man who was killed fighting a wildfire in Jasper National Park.

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My kingdom for people who actually bother to learn about what they're talking about. This "why does Canada look like that" geology video loses all its appeal when the American vlogger fails to understand WHY Great Slave Lake has that name, calling it "unfortunate". 🙃 youtube.com/shorts/Ahkp6...

What Happened To Canada?

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Peak rural MAGA idahonews.com/news/local/f...

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

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

Contractors say Alberta recovery centres face unpaid bills as Premier stands by budget

The construction of addiction treatment centres in three Indigenous communities has been mired in lawsuits

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"Copper price tops $14,000 as US stockpiles swell before tariff call" www.mining.com/web/copper-p...

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Foreign leaders can be so difficult when you kill their families and launch surprise attacks on their countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.

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this man went from Lululemon + some DUI/simple assault, nothing on his CV, to White House and Congress; I'm thinking he's feeling a bit too confident about his chances of getting through this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

TAPPER: One of the files you released was an image of your daughter naked. It was available for a day before it was removed. Your ex-wife's attorney says it could quality as CSAM. That's shockingly reckless behavior MAX MILLER: I wouldn't say it's shockingly reckless. There was no genitalia exposed

Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92

Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92.

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Leader of Canadian white nationalist organization resigns after *squints* "photos surfaced of him discussing his sexuality, supporting Pride events, and singing homoerotic parody songs"

Canadian Anti-Hate Network@antihate.ca · yesterday

A co-founder of Dominion Society of Canada, a group promoting "remigration," has quit. Greg Wycliffe resigned from its board on July 30 after photos and posts revealed his past work at a Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ radio station and participation in Pride events. www.antihate.ca/dominion_soc...

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

The photo of a banner hung from a fence along highway 779 northwest of Edmonton went viral after it was posted online over the Heritage Day long weekend. “The Indians have done nothing in 100 years and now they wanna tell us how to run Alberta,” the banner said.

Banner message along Edmonton area highway deemed ‘racist'

The photo of a banner hung from a barbed wire fence along highway 779 northwest of Edmonton went viral after it was posted online over the Heritage Day long weekend.“The Indians have done nothing in 1...

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"I have cerebral palsy. I am not on AISH. I am not on ADAP. But I have sat across kitchen tables from people who are, watched what this summer has done to their faces, and I have never in all my years writing this column felt as let down by this province as I do right now." #Alberta #abpoli

TAIT: Albertans with disabilities betrayed by Smith government

Please don't call the most vulnerable among us freeloaders from a podium and walk away without proof.

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The left: we want the Epstein files The right: we want the Epstein files The center: we want the Epstein files Trump: best I can do for you is Fauci’s diary, some lies about the reflecting pool, and a failed war in Iran