Mélodie B. Plourde

But yes the smoke sucks. In Calgary we breathe 100s of more smoke hours now than we did just 8 years ago. I assure you literally NOTHING has changed about how we manage forests in that time. What's changed, irrefutably, you total imbecile, is the temperature of the planet /6 bsky.app/profile/bigc...

Recently I discovered several accounts on FB/IG that make use of my photos as models for AI treatment, and the result is too close to the source, in the sense that it now competes with my photos.

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Moins d'îlots de chaleur, moins de congestion, de pollution et de bruit : les avantages d'une ville verte sont nombreux.

Comment tu dis ça? L'expression du français en région - Une initiative de la FQM Dans ce balado en 5 épisodes, Gabrielle Thouin et Gabriel Martin prennent la route pour explorer les multiples façons de parler le français au Québec.

Pour rester encore un peu dans l'esprit des vacances, je vous recommande l'écoute du balado "Comment tu dis ça?".

Un véritable road trip 🚗 dans les régions du Québec 🗺️, on ne dit pas non à ça!

Pour découvrir les épisodes, c'est par ici 👉 www.commenttudisca.ca

#langueQC

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Ça m’effraie tellement de voir ça. Ça se passe en ce moment même. Dans l’indifférence la plus totale.

My theory: We have to return to the packaging of the 1960s. Glass, cardboard, foil trays, wax paper. Any single-use plastics must be fully biodegradable.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Quelle tristesse…

From @thelancet.com" Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.

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… and he’s right to say it.

Nuclear will not solve the problem. However, in large urban areas it's an important stopgap as we build the infrastructure for something better.

IMHO, the climate crisis is so severe that we can't be precious about finding perfect solutions.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

A little background 🧵 1/

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Canada’s the only country having over 60% with a tertiary education.

This isn’t a numbers competition: it explains Canada’s values, “Education can promote gender equality, reduce child marriage, promote peace”

Education promotes decency.

#CanadaNice

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Revealed: Exodus of Quebec doctors to private sector accelerates despite new law More than three months after Quebec adopted a law to reverse the exodus of family physicians and medical specialists from the public system to the private-for-profit sector, more doctors than ever hav...

1) BREAKING: Santé Québec has authorized 246 doctors' requests since April to become "non-participants" of the medicare system — and thus legally allowed to charge patients from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars for services. See my exposé below.
www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

Remember the purpose of government and the purpose of businesses are different. Businesses exist to make a profit; governments exist to provide services. A business should be efficient; a government should be effective.

Pretty cool summary of existing (expérimental) research - Thanks!

Straczynski expressed the highest regard for Trias and ABC, but he said that he believes "network paranoia" has led them to use Q5. "It is a truly insidious organization, I make no bones about it at all. A lot of their research and theories are strictly from voodoo, Straczynski continued. "I think they reinforce stereotypes--sexist and racist. I think they are not helping television, they are diminishing it."

In addition to Janine's new look, described in notes on one DIC character drawing as "generally less harsh & "slutty," she will have a warmer, more nurturing relationship with Slimer, a childlike comic character who sometimes dissolves into slime.

The show also will contain less satire and less subtle, sophisticated verbal humor. "I've written a few shows for this season, and they weren't as much fun as last season," lamented "Real Ghostbusters" writer Michael Reaves. As one of numerous examples of this change, the Q5 report notes that some jokes that writers had included about college days and "no intelligent life in New Jersey" would go over the heads of young children. A phrase such as "create the proper ambiance," the report suggests, could be phrased more simply: "Make this room look like a little boy's.

A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

An orange cat loafing. The setting sun protecting light through a barred window creates the impression of a battery charge bar glowing on the cat's back.

He's charged

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

We should come to terms with the fact that forest, shrubland, grassland, and wetland ecosystems cannot offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions.

But we should still protect and restore them for biodiversity and other ecosystem benefits.

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

"Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans."

www.propublica.org/article/wate...

People seem to think it pulls the latest info, but it doesn’t. It invents something based on what it already knows.

To take it back to food logistics though, I think we just get really preoccupied w the idea that for "cavemen," getting food = hunting & gathering. We forget there's a lot of work after that.

Neanderthals knew better. They put a LOT of thought & effort into getting the most out of their kills.

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread Gender identity–driven violence is the most common ideological theme across ‘lone-actor’ extremist manifestos in a recent study.

I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread theconversation.com/i-analyzed-m... by @karmvirpadda.bsky.social

"What emerges is a chilling picture of how deep-seated misogyny, disguised as grievance and moral outrage, can escalate ideological violence."

A chart showing bigass roots on a whole bunch of plants.

There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

One like, one clam fact

AlphaFold - A practical guide AlphaFold - A practical guide

Recently I learnt that EMBL-EBI has a free online course about AlphaFold — how it works, strengths and limitations, how to use it — and it's very good!

There are also little quizzes and interactives.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

A Montreal IGA grocery store turned its rooftop into a lush organic farm, growing 40+ varieties of produce sold right downstairs. It’s fresh, local, and sustainable—proof that urban grocery stores can nourish both people and the planet. More of this, please. 🌱👏
montreal.citynews.ca/2024/08/02/c...