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• Post #4142491

  Is an orchard that grows olives for oil at $625/L even still agriculture? It feels like luxury goods production and the land could be used for something better. https://saanichnews.com/2026/07/17/dream-job-on-salt-spring-canadas-only-commercial-olive-farm-up-for-auction/

• Post #3915702

  Besides being in the headline this is unfortunately, left until the last line in the article. "the best way to solve it is to just stop burning fossil fuels." It's the entire story. It's the entire story for many articles about the impacts of #ClimateChange https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire-climate-emissions-smoke-9.7274862 #Canada

• Post #3878982

  One shovel worth of potatoes from the garden today.

• Post #3438020

  "At least ninety percent of the employees at my location were men, yet the women’s restroom used more than twice as much hand soap." https://yeastconfections.substack.com/p/i-fed-the-people-building-the-metaverse

• Post #3438019

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/arts-entertainment-b925nl3mz/-/a-nVX1kCqCTDm0DwdxugWD9w%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 “Meet them where they are at” is redundant. Meet them where they are. I’m never going to a theatre again.

• Post #3438018

  "The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority says it has received all federal permits to allow for the dredging of Vancouver's Burrard Inlet, making room for larger oil tankers." Every day we seem to take another step backwards in #Canada. https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/dredging-of-burrard-inlet-approved-to-make-room-for-big-oil-tankers-12469336 #ClimateChange

• Post #2564814

  I'm shocked. "Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01545-1 See also: stop calling language model output hallucinations. Call it what it is: bullshit. https://scribili.masto.host/@edwiebe/116569004474692332

• Post #2564813

  Newsflash: Earth is flying. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260513221751.htm

• Post #2564804

  "the path to net zero is electrification" ... "the plan, which is called Powering Canada Strong, will lower the cost of electricity for seven in 10 Canadian households by expanding the role that natural gas plays in the energy mix." Elsewhere, such as in the United Kingdom, electricity is more expensive that it has to be because of the use of fossil gas. Further, it's obvious to all except the government that increasing fossil fuel burning is not a...

• Post #2564802

  "While El Niño could lead to very extreme conditions later this year, it's not the reason to freak out. #ElNiño is a natural phenomenon. It comes and goes. #ClimateChange, [by] contrast, gets worse and worse and worse as long as we do not stop burning fossil fuels, and it's already a much stronger influence on many extremes than most natural modes of variability" https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/el-nino-worry-9.7198199 #Canada

• Post #2564801

  “We have normalized a public health emergency by failing to name it as one. Those who contributed the least to this crisis are often those paying the highest health costs, but that is the equity scandal at the heart of everything we are discussing today.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/forecasters-predict-wildfires-floods-severe-heatwaves-from-incoming-el-nino/ #ClimateChange

• Post #2564800

  Radiative Forcing and Ozone Depletion of a Decade of Satellite Megaconstellation Missions https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF007229 #satellitePollution

• Post #2564799

  "the Divine Comedy can now be viewed not only as a literary masterpiece, but also as a geophysical gedankenexperiment that unexpectedly parallels aspects of modern meteoritics while still differing from contemporary scientific models." "can be" covers a lot of ground here. 🤔 https://scitechdaily.com/dantes-inferno-may-secretly-be-about-a-planet-destroying-asteroid-strike/

• Post #2564795

  "the community that believes in the existence of Bigfoot has a database of all the sightings, and it's a dataset that's perfectly suited to this exercise. So by demonstrating how the method works on realistic data, we're taking a step back from the biology itself." https://phys.org/news/2026-05-machine-method-uncertainty-biodiversity-scenarios.html

• Post #2564787

  "One type of wet weather pattern was largely replacing another, meaning the total number of wet systems was not the key factor. The storms themselves are simply becoming more intense in terms of rainfall." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260512202337.htm #ClimateChange

• Post #2416117

  Beyond GDP. "The world is facing a paradox: despite decades of positive economic growth as reflected in rising Gross Domestic Product (GDP), many people report dissatisfaction with economic and political systems, and the planet is experiencing mounting crises. There is a clear dissonance between what GDP measures and what people value, and this dissonance has become particularly acute over the last decade." https://www.un.org/en/beyondGDP

• Post #2294199

  I'm slowly working through the Climate Action Plan of the municipality I live in, #Saanich #BritishColumbia. I appreciate the inclusion of these challenges as a barrier to taking effective action: "There has been escalating lobbying by fossil fuel industries, ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and incentives, and a disconnect between climate policy and fossil fuel expansion aspirations with the use of renewable energy for fossil fuel extraction and exports." 1/2 #Climate...

• Post #1998427

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-VbUdVLoJSLSga4btQGjpvg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 the plan is to use the money to make #ClimateChange worse so, no. #Canada

• Post #1998425

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/montreal-efbss3oiz/-/a-TgLDWvVTT9C8sNOeM08kmg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 An expensive frame.

• Post #1998424

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RunRichRun/116507946653966340 "As the biggest fossil fuel producer, #Canada’s intervention completely missed the mark. Canada’s delegation was the only country that did not name fossil fuels, instead making references to decarbonized energy and net zero by 2050. This belies their participation as one of the coalition of the willing." https://cape.ca/press_release/santa-marta-big-health-gap-while-canada-misses-the-mark/ #ClimateChange

• Post #1998423

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@blackpressmedia/saanich-jruah1srz/-/a-weEXfNsyR6m5qv3df53LRA%3Aa%3A3177150469-%2F0 #VictoriaBC #Saanich #OakBay

• Post #1998421

  The north sky seen from #UVic in April 2026. Each day of the month is shown from the first (top left) to the 30th (bottom right). #VictoriaBC #Timelapse

• Post #1770310

  12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2026 https://spectrum.ieee.org/state-of-ai-index-2026

• Post #1630942

  "The future of electricity is wind and solar, new report says. Canada is lagging behind" Duh. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/solar-wind-ember-renewables-electricity-9.7170953 #Canada #ClimateChange

• Post #1208371

  "Liberal majority government will run 'much more efficiently" https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/james-maloney-liberal-majority-9.7163845 This sort of thing makes me recall "The Tactful Saboteur" Internal sabotage as a means to slow down and regulate government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tactful_Saboteur

• Post #1208370

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/ottawa-dpigmqdrz/-/a-zngLZwFXSGCaiXJ916o5cg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 I see students in first year university classes who cannot write a sentence, who cannot use elementary school math. Applying a grade just for attendance won’t help what’s really wrong.

• Post #1208369

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/calgary-s2m5l3ffz/-/a-rK5SgbOATUOs73f7e_lqiw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Good news!

• Post #1208367

  This is the dream, I guess. In #Canada it seems getting something to work politically means giving up on the things we need to do. "The sooner we move from a debate focused on targets to one focused on how you structurally change the economy and decarbonise in a way that works both economically and politically," she says, "the faster we will move on climate action." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86ey5n9vx9o #ClimateChange

• Post #1208366

  I think the way the Guardian writes out acronyms as proper nouns is weird. Also: more bad news about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Will this encourage governments to act more quickly? No. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought #ClimateChange

• Post #1208360

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@apilsetas/116412103306570205 #ClimateChange