Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns by Michelle Gamage via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08... #Oceans #mining #sustainability

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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1st lines They came to Sparta, land of caves and valleys, and drove to Menelaus' house. They found him hosting a wedding feat for many guests to celebrate his children's marriages. In Troy he had declared that he would give From The Odyssey by Homer tr by Emily Wilson #1stlines #poetry #Odyssey

1st lines Telemachus insisted, breathing hard, "Antonius, I cannot force my mother out of the house. She gave me birth and raised me. My father is elsewhere --- alive or dead. If I insist my mother has to leave ... From The Odyssey by Homer tr by Emily Wilson #1stlines #poetry #Odyssey

Wildfire smoke is a result of climate change. The oil industry will try to tell us this is not so. firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu... #Canada #wildfire #smoke #climatechange

Took How to Read Water by Trstian Gooley with me canoeing. Got caught in a downpour. The book got more experience of water than it needed. #Booksky #canoeing #rainstorm #BC

Spent the past week in the hospital. Had a stent inserted between kidney and bladder to improve flow. I'm all fixed up now. And this is my first notebook brushwork after getting back.

Did some brush paintings this morning.

passing villages under the moon night train . hare in the moon distant drums deepen the silence (1996) __ (after Buson) perched on a mound of paddy straw crow at dawn . riverlight wings of a kingfisher (1992)

Felice Beato / Shore with Ships on Horizon and Five Figures Standing on Beach, 1871

In the South the mountain-villages bear river-names. -after Wang Chien & Arthur Waley

Bai Juyi, Record of the Thatched Hut on Mount Lu Three spans, a pair of pillars, two rooms, four windows --- the dimensions and expenditures were all designed to fit my taste and means. ... Translated by Burton Watson #translation #China #architecture #Tang

It is worth listening to and understanding Geoffrey Hinton's views on generative AI and its risks. Are we facing regulatory capture? www.ncsl.org/state-legisl... #AI #reglation

More coal is bad policy. In Alberta, Referendums Must Serve Smith's Aims Only by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #Canada #Alberta #coal #climatechange

In Alberta, Referendums Must Serve Smith’s Aims Only | The Tyee

Witness the battle over the Water Not Coal petition as Corb Lund leads a fight to keep it alive.

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1st lines Tell me about a complicated man. Muse tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Triy, and where he went, and who he met, the pain he suffered on the sea, and how he worked ... From The Odyssey by Homer tr by Emily Wilson #1stlines #poetry #Odyssey

1st lines I straighten and adjust robe and headcloth, wipe clean the platform: one pitcher of autumn water, one incense burner. Needless to say, cares and delusions must be gotten rid of; ... 白居易 Po Chü-I translated by Burton Watson. 824 #1stlines #poetry #translation #白居易 #China #Tang #music

In Vancouver we have done some of this, though we have done marginally better than most North American cities. www.thenewatlantis.com/publications... #Canada #US #urban

The Bills That Destroyed Urban America

The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs.

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After 白居易 Bai Juyi (828, poem 100 in the Burton Watson translation) All beings rise out of extinction Nonbeing their point of departure No more sameness #poetry #haiku #derivatives

It will be great to have Bria Fernandes in Victoria, look forward to seeing her art transform the city. www.instagram.com/p/CHd-zapgH5... #Canada #BC #Victoria #Art

A good time to reread the Federalist papers and this is a good way to do so. federalistreader.org #US #Federalist #Booksky

The Federalist Papers — Full Text and Summaries of All 85 Essays

Read all 85 Federalist Papers in an inviting period newspaper setting, with a clear modern reader and brief companion notes.

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July notes. A month spent at home, mostly alone, focussed on writing. foldingnotes.substack.com/p/july-raw-n... #poetry #haiku #haibun #summer

1st lines I lay the ch'in on the curved stand, sit idle, mulling my thoughts. Why bother to pluck the strings? Winds blowing over them will make their own sound. 白居易 Po Chü-I translated by Burton Watson. 824 #1stlines #poetry #translation #白居易 #China #Tang #music

Notebooks containing the first draft of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, 1988 (Ransom Center, Austin, Texas)

Looking forward to the Powell Street Festival tomorrow. My family has deep Japanese roots and this is one place we celebrate them. powellstreetfestival.com #Canada #BC #Vancouver #Nikkei #PowellStreet

Powell Street Festival Society

Powell Street Festival is the largest Japanese Canadian summer festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Celebrating Japanese Canadian art and culture to connect communities.

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1st lines One swath of waning sun spread over the water, half the river cerulean, half the river red: wonderful, this third night of the ninth month, dew like pearls, moon like a new bow. 白居易 Po Chü-I translated by Burton Watson #1stlines #poetry #translation #白居易 #China

Must get over to North Van to see this. The Breathtaking Work of an 'Artist's Artist' by Dorothy Woodend via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2026... #Canada #BC #Vancouver #art #sculpture

The Breathtaking Work of an ‘Artist’s Artist’ | The Tyee

Vancouver sculptor Cameron Kerr interrogates the space between waking and dreaming.

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Emily Wilson on Nolan's Odyssey. Plan to see it anyway, I am reading her translation at the moment. One day I will have to read the Chapman translations. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #poetry #translation #Nolan #Odyssey #Wilson

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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1st lines Ten years a traveller, ever plagued by hunger and chill; three years an admonisher at court, so often ashamed tobe drawing pay unearned. There was wine, but no leisure to drink it, mountains, but I never got to stroll them. 白居易 Po Chü-I tr by Watson #1stlines #poetry #translation #白居易

1st lines Ten thousand threads of thought, two sheets written: before sealing them, I read them over, wonder if they'll do. The palace water clock has just sounded the fifth watch, the lamp in the window, my one light, about to go out. 白居易 Po Chü-I tr by Watson #1stlines #poetry #translation #白居易

1st lines Gates massive, a ninefold silence; windows darkened, the whole room still: a perfect spot to practice mind cultivation. What need to be deep in the mountains? ... 白居易 Po Chü-I (Bai Juyi) tr by Burton Watson 810 CE #1stlines #poetry #China #translation #白居易

Interesting to get an external (BBC) perspective on Canada 0 US relations. I am not travelling to the US, not buying US goods (except for a few books and some online services), and regard the US as Canada's greatest threat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4K... #Canada #US #trade

Why Canada is standing up to Trump | The Global Story

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