I came in to pick up a couple of books and now I can't persuade myself to leave.

Apropos imminent junk crashing into the Moon, here’s my 2024 piece on space junk for @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/mess-up-oute...

Are We Going to Mess Up Outer Space Too? | The Walrus

As nations jockey for military edge in orbit, there is a growing threat from above

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Reuters@reuters.com · yesterday

Piece of SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon Wednesday reut.rs/4wc94nn

It’s That Special Day Again.

Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away

Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away

OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...

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Gonna pay extra to go to a gym with a/c this week. Hot yoga may be a good thing, but hot shoulder presses are not. My ancient Scandinavian blood is pining for the tundra

I think it’s hard to argue either that lockdowns were bad policy or that learning loss wasn’t real. We just have a society that makes no allowances for emergencies and affords no chance of making up. A lot of people are very mad about the effects of that without having any inclination to change it.

Ouf. Started reading "Saving ourselves from Big Car" by David Obst. Have now tried several chapters. A book of lists and clichés. Gonna skip the remedies section and hope for the best

If you are 38 years old or older, I want you to start working on your foot strength and ankle mobility. Unless I hate you. Then I want you to rest for ten years and then suddenly try to hop off a step one day, cold.

Happy emancipation day! Also, the rent is due!

Holiday non-fiction reading recommendations? In the last year I have been reading more "easy" non-fiction. Looking back, it's mainly, but not entirely, popular science writing I would be happy to get recommendations in exchange for this list of titles that I enjoyed

Friday night light. Bidding a fond farewell to July in rural Nova Scotia.

I’m not saying that simply locating Ceuta on a map will explain everything, but it certainly clarifies a few things.

PSA: It’s 11am EDT. You have just 60 minutes to send something to colleagues before becoming the jackass who sends something on the Friday afternoon before a long weekend.

I quotepost this because it made me think about Canadia robber barons and return of this personalized and moralize critique of a particular kind of wealth. Do you know Rockefeller was? If course. Do you who Herbert Holt was? Read on bsky.app/profile/dunc...

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 6d ago

Super interesting. www.ft.com/content/6a35... We’ve moved from income world to wealth world

Grocery margins are low is a frequently rehashed point to argue against Mamdani’s public grocery stores. Grocery is indeed a low margin business. But its median return on invested capital is above that for all firms, so it is NOT a low profitability business. Let me explain. 🧵

A perfect day to stress-test your waterproof hiking gear / tent Or to huddle inside and thank the gods you did not find yourself on a back country trail in this

It's barefoot season. And for the first time, I can see my feet look old. Still strong, well-trained. But you know that thing with the ropey veins in your hands? Happens in feet, too. I was not notified! I want to speak to the management.

Shout out to Carl Harvey at Dal IT support services. I think it was Carl who once told me that I only bring the hard problems to the help desk. I take that as a compliment. Anyhow, he solved a problem for me today. One more e.g. of his top notch record!

The light moves

Staghorn sumac, close up. What wonderful wine-red fuzz!

A 'fringe group' is the same group of people as 'concerned voters' What determines which is which is how much the Government of the Day likes that particular group.

Good piece. Highlights the connections between problems with access to proper archival sources (an underfunded public service) and the cheap and toxic production of invented sources. Gresham's law, historical research edition

Suzanne Rent@suzannerent.bsky.social · last wk.

AI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future Morning File by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Tiny. Bright. Surviving inna harsh place. The scarlet pimpernel

A thing i would appreciate Americans on here dedicate energy to is "what reforms can we make that will make our allies more comfortable we wont go fucking crazy"

Finally worked back through my tabs to this. Here's the key blurb: "Net bridge and crossing related revenues is all revenues collected with respect to the bridge, less all incurred operating costs of the bridge." gordiehoweinternationalbridge.com/proposed-agr...

Proposed Agreement in Principle | Gordie Howe International Bridge

Proposed Agreement in Principle Canada and the United States have reached agreement in principle

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People say this to me sometimes and I feel the same way. Get in there and read all the books! It's free and amazing!

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

I have eaten the bakeapples of the knowledge of good and evil

Surrounded by jaw-dropping mountain scenery, I like to look down occasionally. Dwarf cornel (a bunchberry relative) and heather

The land in Norway is so like Canada in some ways. While I frolic safely up north, southern Norway is seeing a catastrophic forest fire. share.google/Mv8MPrB74NzM...

Helicopters dump water as huge Norway fire destroys homes

The blaze has destroyed more than 100 homes in Drammen and has spread to a nearby forest, authorities say.

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I'm always happy to hike in sheep country