Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦

Nature reconsidered: why it's making us anxious As contact with the outdoors declines, discomfort with wild spaces is growing. Scientists tracking the rise of nature anxiety have some ideas on how to reconnect without feeling overwhelmed.

"Children are increasingly growing up in highly sealed, non-natural environments & spend most of their time indoors and in digital environments""There is a lack of physical & sensory experiences, such as climbing, getting dirty or observing animals."
www.dw.com/en/nature-re...

Dunce

Hope she has protection from retaliation and violence

Sorta. It was just fine for 100 years in the USA, also apartheid South Africa, British Empire, Belgium in Africa, Dutch in Indonesia, Canada re residential schools...

This short video by @tomflood.bsky.social
The bicycle
No celebrities
No big budget
Just a bicycle

Makes me happy every time I see it.

Follow Tom for more happiness. His website: www.creativebyrovelo.com
His Instagram: @rovelocreative

(Yes I'm a big fan)

Cartoon by J.A.K.

"Let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence"

Is Trumpism losing steam? As Trumpism forces both major US parties to wonder what they stand for, experts weigh in on November election prospects.

"Is Trumpism losing steam?"
We can hope. But getting beyond caring to know about their latest atrocity or perversion. We have seen what these dangerous people like doing. How has it been so easy to go from "shining city on a hill" to corrupt hell hole?
www.aljazeera.com/video/the-bo...

We don't believe you.
We'll wait and see, with zero expectations. You didn't prosecute the instigator of your 06 Jan 2001 insurrection & attempted coup. We don't think you have fair elections. Your country has a long history of being a ruthless bully to other countries regardless of who's in power.

With a violent, exploitative thread leading directly back to slavery.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you very much.  We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world.  When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...

in his rendering of the past 30yrs, the worst thing that happened to Europe isn't the resurgence of Ru imperialism but Europe's common market and supranational integration. He may have been a tad softer, but I see no substantive difference from JD Vance's 2025 speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...

The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...

Who gave this answer? Grampa or 10 year old?

Q: "What happens if you hold your farts in?"
A: "You get bad breath"

One of the worst benches I've ever seen. If this can actually be called a bench. Bus stop, downtown Kelowna, British Columbia

Secure bicycle parking. Kelowna, British Columbia. Library Parkade.

America can be so mean and cruel.

Starlink: How Elon Musk's company influences geopolitics Devised to facilitate internet connectivity in the most remote regions of the world, Elon Musk’s Starlink has become a vital means of communication in crisis regions and war zones. There are downsides...

So wrong:
Elon Musk's Starlink is often the only way to access the internet in war zones. Musk refused to activate Starlink in Ukraine to enable an attack in Crimea. Donald Trump threatened to switch off the satellites in Ukraine to make them give Russia concessions.
www.dw.com/en/starlink-...

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using toxin from dart frog, UK says There is no innocent explanation for the toxin being found in samples taken from Navalny's body, Foreign Office says.

Russia is a rogue terror country.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

U.S. too often asks Ukraine for concessions, Zelenskyy says before peace talks with Russia | CBC News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced hope on Saturday that U.S.-brokered peace talks in Geneva next week would be substantive, but he said Ukraine was being asked "too often" to make concess...

Trump pressures Ukraine instead of Russia because no doubt Trump has a side deal with Putin for $$$ and Putin has kompromat on him.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

EU leaders welcome US tone shift in Rubio's Munich speech European leaders have cautiously welcomed a softer tone from the US at the Munich Security Conference, but American independence remained top of mind for Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Just because a Trumpist syncophant said some nice words is absolutely no reason for the world to change anything about their approach to the USA. Has their Glorious Leader posted something idiotic yet?
"EU leaders welcome US tone shift in Rubio's Munich speech"
www.dw.com/en/european-...

YouTube video by TopPop Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi (1977) • TopPop

On today's playlist. 70s punk banger. Rough translation.

"Wham! bam! My cat Splash
He's rolling around on my bed
He swallowed his tongue as he drank all my whisky...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln31...

~1990, mental health therapy was defunded across Canada. Nearly no private practice counsellors, psychologists, therapists until then. MH back into hospitals as was pre-1970. Basically if you're not actively dangerous to self or others you don't get more than medication appts every couple of months.

In the WTF department: Americans & a French citizen are flying to the International Space Station with a Russian & Canadian technology. While Russia bombs the life out of Ukraine.
USA: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway
Russian: Andrey Fedyaev
French: Sophie Adenot
www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/news/art...

A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding While announcing that he was rolling back the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made false claims regarding the gover...

Pretty much everything this man says is untrue, deceitful and awful. Everything he touches.
apnews.com/article/gree...

Boer War, South Africa. Concentration camps were invented by the British 1899-1901.

LET'S LOVE EACH OTHER by Rumi (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori Let's love each other let's cherish each other, my friend, before we lose each other. You'll long for me when I'm gone. You'll make a truce with me. So why put me on trial while I'm alive? Why adore the dead but battle the living? You'll kiss the headstone of my grave. Look, I'm lying here still as a corpse, dead as a stone. Kiss my face instead!

Let's love each other.
Rumi, Persia, 16th century

How the Epstein-Barr virus triggers MS in some people Multiple sclerosis is also caused by a virus carried by almost all humans. A new study provides an explanation as to why only certain people develop the disease. This also opens up the possibility of ...

How the Epstein-Barr virus triggers MS
"Multiple sclerosis is also caused by a virus carried by almost all humans. A new study provides an explanation as to why only certain people develop the disease. This also opens up the possibility of a treatment."
www.dw.com/en/how-the-e...?

"The Olympics isn't political" is absolute BS.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App DETROIT, MI - Billionaire Matthew Moroun, whose family recently lobbied the Trump administration to publicly threaten the Gordie Howe International Bridge which competes with their interests, has prai...

Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App

""ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety,” he said. “What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of.”"

Reading yet another memoir of people surviving occupation by Nazi Germany. The last third of these books always read "the jury deliberated for 17 minutes and <name> was executed the next day".