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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

One of my favorite trails.

Jazz is not too fond of the Grinch.

Cape Spear was lovely

The Misogynistic Abuse Directed at Rory McIlroy’s Wife at the Ryder Cup Is Deeper Than Golf It shows a cultural shift, one in which men feel emboldened to attack women in public without shame or consequence.

Apropos of nothing.

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Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Clarenville-Bonavista RCMP are responding to an active threat on Route 237 near Catalina and are asking area residents to shelter in place, lock their doors, and stay away from windows. Updates will be provided by the RCMP when available.

I’ve seen some folks refer to James Dobson as some coincidental “evil twin” to Fred Rogers, and I would like to clear the record: Dobson was an intentional fundamentalist _reaction_ to Mr. Rogers and his liberal Christian influence on children. It wasn’t an eerie coincidence it was violent rejection

I have one too.

Am I missing any Newfoundland and Labrador people here on BlueSky? I'd love to see more of you here. Tell your friends. Oh, and let's get the #nltraffic hashtag going.

Or safe.

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Actor John Ross with his puppy

Actor John Ross with his husband Tristan Kern de Gonzalez on Valentines Day 2025

This is why we have... why we need Pride.

The shocking loss of older (usually thicker) #Arctic sea ice - comparing changes in late March with the latest 2025 data...

+ Data: nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0...
+ Info: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...

The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.

The Boss.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.

If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.”

The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration.

Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.

Golden retriever with a red scarf.

Jazz got a new scarf today. Red is her colour.

🎶 Smiling, happy goldens running 🎶

Smiling and nodding when Elon says “if we cancel something good we’ll just put it back in like we did with ebola prevention” requires you to believe that Elon Musk both is and should be the emperor.

Heat map-style graphic showing monthly mean global surface air temperature anomalies from January 1850 to February 2025. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. Annotations are shown for the year of each warmest respective month. All of these records have occurred within the 2023 to 2025 period in this dataset. Anomalies here are calculated relative to a 1850-1900 baseline. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp 6.0.0.

I've added a new visualization to my global climate change indicator page. I will update this graphic monthly at zacklabe.com/climate-chan....

It shows monthly mean temperature anomalies relative to pre-industrial levels. Red dots indicate the year of the warmest months.

What trend do you see? 🫠

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Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between January and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 2nd lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 400,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,330,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪

Smiling golden retrievers

Jazz and Rosie are loving St. John's early spring.

Golden retriever staring down a dog statue.

Stare down!