The idea that by "making a deal" with the Pedo Liar In Chief of the United States we can avoid him using the power of his position against us is ludicrous. Nobody believes this. The only people calling for a deal are willing traitors.

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 3h ago

ICYMI: This story is getting lots of hits on our site today. It argues that @markcarney.bsky.social should avoid any attempt to appease Donald Trump since the U.S. president reneges on any deals he makes: theconversation.com/donald-trump...

Now that he's the guy, I think the electability concerns are gonna fall away very fast. He has the exact right amount of hater energy for this moment.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4h ago

Banger

🇩🇪 Russia launches new provocations ahead of German elections, - Reuters German security services note that information attacks from Russia are primarily targeting rivals of far-right AfD party. Russian resources are trying to discredit representatives of other parties.

#AI #LLM Something I've not seen commented on is the explosion of bot-impeding pages (e.g., via Cloudflare) that now appear before web pages load. The cumulative time waste for human users has got to be in the billions of person-hours. An immense burden imposed on everyone by the AI-bro assholes.

PSA: ANYONE you see saying "voting does nothing" from now to the election is an op. Block them, and tell your friends.

Hey @cityofvancouver.bsky.social thanks for promoting clean air in the creekside community centre! I'm curious - against what standard or other operating parameters are you ensuring clean air?

I expect ~30 TW by 2036, because I understand exponential growth. And yes, the number seems absurd, because our imagination sucks. But the fit to the admittedly sparse data is good, and while I'm not confident of the precise value, I am very confident it will be much higher than 9 TW.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · yesterday

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

Ultimately, Trump yielded, positioning Iran to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran will likely extend negotiations until his departure from office. It’s a regrettable loss of American lives and resources.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 21h ago

The U.S., Iran and Oman are closing in on an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the U.S. aiming for a Wednesday announcement. -Axios

Viewed over 400,000 times on IG and the devil bird app. 👀 "It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say: 'We knew how to protect you, and we didn't do it.'" -Violet Affleck to the UN

www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/a...

As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels

The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.

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I guess while everyone is airing their pandemic grievances I’ll add that as a nurse, the most traumatic thing about the pandemic for me was the lack of appropriate PPE and the denial of airborne spread that STILL happens in healthcare

This is a bad move. We should be investing in molten salt reactors designed in Canada. SMRs are the last gasp of water-cooled nuclear, which is a dead end. Molten salt is the future. We could be a leader on this, like so much else, but choose the wrong path.

Markham Hislop@markhamhislop.bsky.social · yesterday

Canada’s Nuclear Strategy Depends On Foreign Reactors and Foreign Fuel Canada is betting heavily on small modular reactors. Prof Mark Winfield explains why that may create new dependence on foreign reactor designs/enriched uranium fuel. @YorkUniversity youtu.be/F4gpARbRetg

I’ve decided to start a business. I’ll walk around rich neighborhoods at night, recording their comings and goings. Provide detailed information about the exact location of their expensive cars, and when they are most likely vulnerable theft. Then sell the information to anyone. #Flock. #Palantir

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

Unless there's some real just-so stuff going on this would allow the construction of a Maxwell's Demon, which can't exist (because it would require creating information out of nothing). So probably not "heat", but infra-red radiation, which are *not* equivalent (IR can have any angular distribution)

Live Science@livescience.com · yesterday

Physicists find a way to control heat in a way once thought impossible www.livescience.com/physics-math...

The idea that there is such a thing as "domain knowledge" is more controversial than it should be.

the thing is that Wilson seems to not be particularly well-versed in film criticism, which when criticizing a film of the Odyssey is more important than knowledge of the Odyssey.

Eric 👨🏻‍💻@eman41.bsky.social · yesterday

This passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end

This is the same reason why The Godfather sucks as a movie: The characters all talk about being honorable family men but they don't act that way. Total failure.

It's an artefact of an institutional medical culture where 2+2 can be 5 if the right people say it is. Train people to believe that, and it's not just their answer to that one question that you can't trust - you've destroyed their capacity to understand objective reality as distinct from opinion.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In a word: misinformation. Anti-vax misinfo is called out, so we can all point and laugh at a stereotyped "ignorant redneck" whose kid just died of measles for a lie. Aerosol misinformation isn't, as it's spread by the same medical management class that protected Wakefield's lie for over a decade.

Cognitive dysfunction and fatigue remain prevalent at least 3 years post-infection, particularly affecting attention, processing speed, and working memory. Pts included both hospitalized and non-hospitalized.

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP@davidjoffe64.bsky.social · yesterday

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 medicaljournalssweden.se/jrm/article/...

All this. And wherever you live, you DO have bacteria in any water source that has not been treated. Use purification tablets or ultra-filtration (which does work for bacteria and parasites, and is better than nothing, but I use tablets).

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

Also! This is really important. USE everything in your bags, maybe quarterly. This will tell you what you need to add/remove etc. It also makes sure it all works when you need it. if you live in an area that can have viruses in the water, keep purification tablets. Filters don't work.

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

Once again, just relinking my primer on the empty promises and weighty failures of strategic airpower: acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/

Collections: Strategic Airpower 101

This week, I’m going to offer a fairly basic overview of the concept of strategic airpower, akin to our discussions of protracted war and nuclear deterrence. While the immediate impetus for t…

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*tried to escape from the second dimension but ran out of clay

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Yes. AND, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The pro-infection gang is international, and runs from outright alt right-wingers to soft eugenics running thru institutional public health & ID. As @mark-ungrin.bsky.social has noted, the vax n relax gang and anti-vax gang are 2 sides of same coin.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. 𝘑𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘰

If the governor of Kentucky had any guts he'd appoint McConnell's replacement and dare the Gang Of Pedos to send McConnell in his place.

Clean indoor air is helpful against disease all the time, not just episodicly "in a pandemic". We treat drinking water *all the time*, not just during cholera outbreaks. Until we get over this medical/reactive mindset, airborne pandemics will continue. Put engineers in charge of public health!

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

2. Clean indoor air: helpful in a pandemic and good for health and learning at all times (and not just in schools but other buildings too) 3. Effective public health measures: testing, contact tracing, support for isolation, communication, etc 10/12

Extreme silence is itself a signal. Negative space is itself discernible structure