It’s hard to understate how Copenhagen it was in Victoria yesterday. That thousands of people filtered their way to the waterfront on bikes for a 45 minute airshow and then left as smoothly as they arrived is testament to the space-efficiency of the bicycle, and the city’s commitment to enabling it.

Chris Istace 🇨🇦@stasherbc.bsky.social · 6h ago

Saw this photo from yesterday of the free bike valet service yesterday in #VictoriaBC for the free Canadian Snowbirds performance over the ocean along Dallas Road. Wow #YYJ you are doing the #cyclinglife great, setting an example for the rest of #NorthAmerica let alone #Canada. #gobbybike #bikesky

Saw this photo from yesterday of the free bike valet service yesterday in #VictoriaBC for the free Canadian Snowbirds performance over the ocean along Dallas Road. Wow #YYJ you are doing the #cyclinglife great, setting an example for the rest of #NorthAmerica let alone #Canada. #gobbybike #bikesky

Most of BC is experiencing far worse wildfire smoke, not to mention all the homes and businesses burned and lives disrupted by evacuations. Wildfires are becoming more and more severe due to fossil fuels like oil and gas (LNG). Talk about it when discussing the bit of smoke in #yyj

Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦@snarkysteff.bsky.social · 6h ago

Air quality at sea level is holding at “moderate risk” while anything over 100m or so above sea level is hitting “very high” AQI, at 105 in James Bay… But wind has changed direction, from the east, & over the mountains across the sea, it’s nearly 200 AQI. Air is projected to worsen today, #yyj.

I recently made hay over @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy use of the phrase 'human caused' to avoid the climate dimension and blame the fires on the spark that started them. bsky.app/profile/thim... "Some dumb human with a cigarette butt set the whole world on fire.

@johnvaillant.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com, @jeffgoodell.bsky.social are communicators available for comment. This article: globalnews.ca/news/1200346... which bizarrely focuses on the drop in wildfires due to changing agricultural practice, quotes @mikeflannigan.bsky.social.

Companies are benefiting from soaring profits, historically low taxes, and a Congress willing to make middle class salaried workers subsidize low-wage work instead of making the jobs better paid. My latest on the collapsing sense of fairness in our tax system: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

No One Who Works Full Time Should Be on Medicaid

There are a lot of jobs in the US economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but still result in miserably low earnings because of unstable, fluctuat...

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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

And I plan to have a seven-level house with a submarine base, a helicopter pad, a movie theater and a water slide into a dolphin tank bsky.app/profile/fint...

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Climate change never ignites a fire. That’s almost always humans or lightning. But it’s clear when we examine the data that climate heating sets the table for fires that burn faster and larger. Since the 1980s temperatures during fire season in the Pacific NW have warmed around 4°F… 1/

Many thanks to CBC Vancouver for a solid discussion on #wildfire, @mark-carney.bsky.social, and the false promise of carbon capture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUB...

Are wildfires becoming worse?

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Hey Global, I just watched a segment on the Okanagan fires on the tv and you know what the segment ended with? "It is believed these fires are human caused." And this report? It mentions drought, but does not mention climate change nor global warming. COME ON.

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely HUGE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Great and hilarious obliteration of LLM hype and flimflam by @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social that surely needs to be widely shared before a clutch of hype dweebs trying to birth God from a next letter predictor crash the global economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAI...

AI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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The world is on fire & the cause is climate change. But, Felon Trump & his fossil fuel/oil/gas buddies don’t want you to know the truth. @michaelemann.bsky.social explains the real causes of these unprecedented wildfires & what you can do to help slow down climate change. youtu.be/GXL1e1vPn0M?...

Trump DESPERATELY HIDES the TRUTH as the WORLD BURNS!!

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Next Tuesday’s contest in Michigan between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens holds a dubious distinction: No Democratic congressional primary in history has ever attracted so much super PAC cash.

How Michigan became the most expensive Democratic primary ever

Outside groups have now spent more than $60 million trying to help Haley Stevens beat Abdul El-Sayed.

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Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I will go to my grave hating this man's guts and feeling bottomless contempt for all the Very Savvy commentators who still to this day try to impress one another by caping for him.

Compromised Values | Bryce Covert

Joe Manchin’s memoir reveals that the West Virginian Senator worshipped “work” at the expense of supporting his party’s efforts to help working people.

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A synthesis of Republican bad faith and Democratic Party political failure.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Trumpism was successful at assuming power and entrenching it through lockstep corruption. How was it successful? It took advantage of the resentment towards a political system that was unresponsive to them.

One key thing about reactionary centrism is that if you argue for the conservative position on purely savvy electoral grounds long enough ... you start to just believe the conservative position. I'm watching this happen in climate as the RC brigade becomes more & more explicitly pro-fossil fuels.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

Remember when David Hogg was running for DNC chair and the establishment stepped in and said we needed a responsible adult and then gave us Ken Martin, who throws his phone at his staffers? Also the DNC is $2 million in debt. But centrists still demand they should be in charge.

And I am not saying Hogg is the answer, I’m saying the people who claim to know the “correct” way to proceed are fucking morons and all they do is lose.

🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”

🎯🎯🎯This 🧵is spot on. Demonizing Fauci is a dysfunctional moral trauma reaction & needs to be understood as such in order for everything else going on to make proper sense.

"Scientists discovered and developed the COVID vaccines that brought the pandemic to an end. It’s the anti-vaxxers, not the scientific community, who should stand indicted in the light of 2026." This should be the conservative stance btw, from former Bush speech writer @davidfrum.bsky.social

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Trump’s record of dishonesty, callousness, and selfishness during the pandemic is a documented reality. The imputations against Fauci are mostly fantasies". www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Remembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d ago

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,500 people in just over two months, and it is spreading much faster than previous outbreaks, the nation’s health ministry reported on Thursday.

Holy shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter

The eye roll at this @brianstelter.bsky.social piece is hurting my brain here: www.cnn.com/newsletters/... Courtesy of a now deleted @jayrosen.bsky.social post. The press abandoned empiricism and became post-truth because it was easier to flop than fight.

TGIT. Here’s the latest on Mark Zuckerberg, Disney’s FCC fight, Alex Jones, Elon Musk, HuffPost, Byron Allen, “The Walking Dead,” BTS and more…

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But I think @jayrosen.bsky.social gets to the real sin here: pressthink.org/2016/11/miss... "now we can see that underneath it was an even bigger failure: they failed to flag the retreat from empiricism as a pattern that could replicate. That’s more than a missed story." That's the pattern.