Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦

To be honest, there are a couple of that sort that are damaging the province. 😒 Would be nice if we had a no BS policy. Looking at you Danielle.

Alberta rat control investigating possible rodent sighting in Calgary | CBC News The province is seeking to maintain its famed rat-free status, as it launches a thorough investigation into possible roof rat sighting in the Inglewood neighbourhood.

"Alberta takes its rat-free status seriously"

Why yes, yes we do.

"The presence of either Norway or roof rats in Alberta is not tolerated. A 600-kilometre rat control zone has been in place along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border since the 1950s"

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stream & Broadcasting The Canada Games represent the highest level of national competition for up and coming Canadian athletes

The Canada Summer Games are in St. John's complete with live streaming of the opening ceremonies & impressive young athletes.
Opening ceremonies are at 7 pm.
But of course there is a 3 1/2 hour time difference. Thanks NFLD, now we CFAs have to do the complicated mathing.

www.canadagames.ca/watch

Yukon is the best! Two has got to be better than one. I was too glib and hasty to judge, AI does know how to build a better world.

That works 24/7...unless it gets chilly in Texas and then no gas for power plants but that's different because then reliability isn't important. Who needs power when it gets cold anyway?

He certainly will be when ChatGPT writes the next version of the citizenship study guide.

To be honest, at that point we may need to admit that AI has made the cut.

Wow. That must have been a super big earthquake. Alberta flipped all the way to the coast. How did I sleep through that?

"... progressive solutions"? 🧐 Those words... I don't think they mean what they think they mean. Unless progressive now means squash or solutions means not-solutions?

Amending rules that conflict with policy goals & block Canadian businesses from innovation should be an easy win to support Canadian industry in 2025.

If the Feds can't adapt small rules to build hybrid trucks in <2 years, how do they expect to approve major projects?
@gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social

PEI looks er... excited just to be included on the map.

So, to recap: they spun a "lib backlash to Sweeney" up out of basically nothing & it provided weeks of content for the vast network of people & institutions who get money & attention by shitting on the left, convincing the billionaires that the left (not the f'ing fascists) are the real threat.

Buddy's brain isn't even suitable for soup. Why even pretend these know-nothings are anything other than clown entertainers?

Besides that,
1) no, we in Alberta would not elect republicans. The democrats are right of most attitudes here.
2) what makes fuckwit think we'd accept invasion peacefully?

According to this photographic evidence, I have careered incorrectly.

Madison downloading data from a stream temperature sensor, with a laptop in the foreground showing three summers of data

Rainbow over a glacier in the mountains

Small yellow flowers in the alpine (erigeron aureus)

A view looking down on Conrad Glacier, with Mount Thorington in the background.

Another fantastic #fieldwork trip to Conrad #Glacier for alpine data collection and station maintenance, with the support of CMH and NSERC. @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social

The Most Awful Responsibility – Alex Wellerstein

If that language seems strong to you... well, it is. But those are all quotes from Harry Truman. My new book, out this winter, goes in depth into Truman's moral sentiments about the atomic bomb. He always defended its use — but the suffering clearly troubled him. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...

And for whom not to vote! The most important lesson available is right in front of our faces in fed & prov govt. When there are parties involved, the individual candidate matters very little. Individuals are less likely to be held accountable with parties. The post painted blue can win.

It is a bit of a referendum on municipal political parties. I am not in favour of municipal parties and saying so by voting independents is the option available.
A party affiliated candidate will need to be ESPECIALLY excellent to overcome that hurdle for me.

Reality that is not in step with the news cycle is still reality.
I think bandwagon investing, cheerleading (cheerlagging?), & policy swings have make the oil & gas industry especially prone to self-induced boom & bust cycles.
Yes natural gas boosters, you have some valid points, and also...

The changing world of higher education in a single graph: post-secondary enrolments, in millions, US India and China, 2006 vs. 2024.

I do not like the reality of that.

Artificial intelligence was too easy. It's been here all along. Simply making it faster is not worth the hype and frankly, kind of dangerous.

Real intelligence, now that's a challenge too few have achieved.

It's good content

bsky.app/profile/clim...

At least raising an eyebrow in an expression of credulous disbelief has a chance of stopping the human. 🧐
AI is always going to be just as pleased with providing an answer regardless if it's slop or not.
We'll give the humans the win on this one.

To be fair, I frequently also have this issue when asking people questions. Same base code issues I suspect.

If only there was an example somewhere in Christian history of a victim that had chosen to suffer with resolved quiet dignity instead of whining and crying for attention about every inconvenience as an imagined injustice. But who'd remember & write about that sort of person? Too difficult to find.

Screen shot of two posts in a feed. First one jokes that the cure for male loneliness can be found in a new pair of "sick ass Type O [brand] chucks", with photo of a pair of black sneakers with lime green graphics. Second post shows a graph of average July sea surface temperatures over the years. Spoiler, they are going up, up, up. Text says oceans are absorbing 870,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of heat per day. "

I'm not saying it's guaranteed to solve all the problems at one time, but have we considered tossing the toxic male social influencers into a boiling sea?

They'd think it is a weird trick tho.

OTOH, content. The clickbait need not represent the sentiment.
-The the subtle art of getting a fuck
-The secret trick these men know & why you're missing out!
-Yes, YATA, alpha male lies they told you
-Yes, yes, yes! How to get women to want (to talk to) you

Niigaan Sinclair says we’re at a strange point in reconciliation, where gestures like land acknowledgments and federal apologies feel hollow without real change.

Full discussion on the latest Truth and Politics – listen here: pod.fo/e/307e4b

Google AI overview states, erroneously, "Tu Thanh Ha, as a refugee who arrived in Germany at the age of 11 with his family, is eligible to apply for German citizenship after living there for at least five years..."

Hahaha. What AI nonsense. I've never been to Germany, not as a refugee, not even as a tourist.

I was Googling to find an article I once wrote about a man applying for German citizenship years after his father fled Nazi Germany.

Yet only one of us is telling anyone to shut up.