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“Social change will not come to us like an avalanche .... Social change will come through seeds growing in well prepared soil--and it is we, like the earthworms, who prepare the soil. We also seed thoughts & knowledge & concern.” - Ursula Franklin

dawg I work for a popular used car lot and someone recently got a 2013 Honda Ridgeline for $19k, but at 27.99% for 84 Months, which makes it a $42,000 13 year old Honda Ridgeline

AI that escapes its sandbox capable of creating organic life … what could possibly go wrong?? nourished.news/story/flw4zy...

The boundless, limitless egos of mediocre white men are going to be the death of us all.

So understanding the difference between a war and a genocide confirms that 1srael is definitely committing genocide!

Upholding international law isn’t optional - it’s our responsibility. #UNGA81

Should be reposted every month....

"So every year you failed to deliver what's necessary, the following year is harder... if the problem gets harder every single year, I don't call that progress. Progress is only when that you make you're either delivering what you need to or you're going over & above that"-@kevinclimate.bsky.social

After talking with his buddy (boss) Putin, Trump has declared that Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil infrastructure are responsible for the increase in diesel prices. TOTAL BS. Trump's Iran war is the cause. Russian diesel exports are so heavily sanctioned that few nations buy them.

Just in case anyone still had any questions, today Trump proved beyond all doubt that has absolutely no idea how the economy, trade, or finance work. It would be genuinely difficult to cram more falsehoods, backwards statements, and sheer gibberish into his statement.

The US once had 17 military bases on Greenland, but has closed all but two. The decisions to close were 100% US decisions. Neither Greenland nor Denmark requested the closures. Luckily for Trump, he base is immune to reality. Hopefully for the rest of us, most American's aren't.

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

In the past, ownership of American broadcast media was limited to Americans. Trump's FCC just approved the takeover of CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Paramount, and a dozen others by a group largely controlled by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Yeah, that's the world we're living in now.

With Trump once again gaslighting America by falsely claiming that the price of "almost everything is way down," it is worth repeating this reality check.

Announcing a purchase from a country that has nothing to sell is peak reality-TV tradecraft. Lukashenko gets the photo op, Canada gets the middle finger, and Moscows fertilizer proxy gets a free foothold. Masterful dealmaking, truly.

What next for the research community following UNEP’s “Limiting Overshoot” report? WCRP’s RIfS Core Project will host two online fora exploring overshoot trajectories, consequences, mitigation and adaptation. More info: https://loom.ly/T0xHuw0 Report: https://loom.ly/9M4aTj8 #LimitingOvershoot

Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit

A humbling reminder from Carl Sagan: Even if you read 1 book a week for your entire life, you'd only scratch the surface of human knowledge.

Because Trump is mad at our closest ally, Canada, he decided to buy potash (a key fertilizer ingredient) from one of the world's most notorious cruel dictators, Belarus' Lukashenko. Typical for Trump, he didn't bother to check before announcing his big deal. Belarus doesn't have any potash to sell.

Zohran Mamdani is 5'10"...

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

‘Warsaw Will Disappear in 2 or 3 Days’: Kremlin Threatens Poland - www.kyivpost.com/post/84548

This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Nice try, but regulatory capture is a function of the entire US.... not just a single man, or state. Nation heal thyself, Eat. The. Rich. End corporate citizenship. End the predator class.

Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.

lronically true, however what follows is a string of dangerously apathetic comments. Wake up, smell the roses and TAKE ACTION otherwise the death spiral continues.

step 2: "oh, look, a systematic issue that I cannot solve individually, no matter what I do." "That means solving it is impossible! Time to feel paralyzed. I am very good at understanding what 'systematic issue' & 'collective action' mean"

ISRAEL: New reporting in Haaretz reveals that Hamas offered to release the hostages at 7pm on October 7th and the Israelis weren't interested. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @zeteo.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS1X...

Please watch this.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease.

A simple decoding of ... Idiotic Maga Trump Logic 😂😆😄

"Here we all are, hot fleas gulping in the dark" - Dylan Moran

Again, absolutely wild that Republicans in Congress, so recently just spluttering mad about Hunter Biden, have decided that the most blatant corruption imaginable is in fact legal for this one guy

“We shouldn’t just cry into our beer about it. We should actually try and do things about it." ☝️ BAS' Professor Michael Meredith for @newscientist.com. He's talking about the impact of El Niño on marine ecosystems - how we should be acting now to build resilience and protection approaches. 🧵 1/3

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Too late. Ed's dead.

As Jeffrey Simpson wrote in The Friendly Dictatorship, they are the most ideological of all the parties, with an ideology that drives them to do anything to get elected. That makes them Canada's natural governing party.

This makes me very angry. I’ve been through so many shitty airports and I am always so impressed when I come back to YVR. Private equity ruins everything. I hate Carney’s great Canadian Fire Sale. I feel like he’s stripping the country for parts.

YVR has been ranked the best airport in North America for 15 of the past 17 years but you know what it really needs? Some billionaires trying to squeeze personal profit out of it. This always makes things better. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

*Don't everybody line up at once blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

Why tho?

"This swirl of toxic policies and governmental overreach opened the door to something beyond bin Laden’s wildest dreams, the rise of an even more effective terrorist who has crippled the U.S. in countless ways and sought to strangle the best of the country... Trump" theintercept.com/2026/09/11/b...

NOTABLE: The majority in today's decision compares ICE's mass detention policy to Japanese internment during World War II — and says that historical blight on America is "limited in scope" compared to the detention policy the Trump administration is pursuing today. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Here’s what I chose to remember about 9/11 on its 25th anniversary. I remember 2003. I remember the shock, the fear, the anger, the grim certainty the world turned on a new axis. You could say every day since then has been 9/12. And I remember how the Bush administration used that to start a war.