Calvin Binnema

Doesn’t sound like someone who wants to save the world.

“See, I told you, I did not have sex with that woman. It was … nevermind”

Howard Hughes demonstrated this decades ago already, but still we won’t see it.

I stopped watching sports if I cared about one of the teams. It’s easier when you only hear about it.

What if that happened in week one … you would’ve created the wrong stuff. Day 4 stuff (sun, moon, and stars) would be missing.

😆 you’re right. All good though. It’s what happens when you read the message in the notification but don’t tap it to reply. Lucky it was a benign message

Great. I’ll drive to the arrivals and hope to see you

Is there a shuttle to take them from their car to the stadium?

It doesn’t phase me

Would’ve not would of

Got a similar pic from our house, but it’s on my camera. Two dark clouds like angry eyes.

It's a two-way race for mayor.

Polls from today either put Knack and Cartmell in a dead heat, or Cartmell slightly ahead.

The UCP has changed donor rules, created unpopular parties, all to stack the deck for Tim, their preferred candidate.

And it might work, unless we show up

If you follow all the tips to stay safe and you still die on the road, what further suggestions do you have?

Of course he can’t lower the temperature since it is trump and ABC raising it

Who will feed them?

How is it that he was invited in the first place? Did Poilievre win after all? Complying in advance

She showed her hand before they even got to the picket line. Disgusting

Excellent. Atrocious that government takes sides in a labour dispute.

“We know it’s the right thing to do. We just won’t unless you give us even more tax breaks.” More, more, more is all the rich can think about.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Harsh but fair. It also lines up with what I've learned studying the dynamics of collapse over the years.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We did a short ride along the same trail this morning, but we turned around at the Henday lookout. Lazy today - for obvious reasons.

Aw man, you beat me to it. Tomorrow I hope. Just 28 km for me.

In Alberta we have distracted driving laws, so that should take care of that, right? Right?

A pied-billed grebe swims in the water with the evening sun shining on it. A wake trails the grebe as it swims

The same pied-billed grebe as in the first image, but now it holds a minnow in its beak after a successful dive.

I caught a fish! No, a pied-billed grebe caught a minnow and I caught it catching it. Well, OK, I got a before and after of a successful dive by a pied-billed grebe.
#grebe #birdphotography #fishing

Discrediting genocide scholars who call out Israel’s genocide in Gaza as antisemitic threatens to erode the foundation of genocide studies: the ongoing need to define, prevent, punish and reconstruct the history of genocide. Suggesting that this endeavor is motivated instead by malign interests and sentiments — that it is driven by the very hatred and prejudice that was at the root of the Holocaust — is not only morally scandalous, it provides an opening for a politics of denialism and impunity as well. By the same token, when those who have dedicated their careers to teaching and commemorating the Holocaust insist on ignoring or denying Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, they threaten to undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for in the past several decades. That is, the dignity of every human being, respect for the rule of law and the urgent need never to let inhumanity take over the hearts of people and steer the actions of nations in the name of security, national interest and sheer vengeance.

a billion times this

Precipitation is so localized. I haven’t been recording our rainfall until this year. I’m sure my gauge isn’t super accurate and my reading it may be off by a ml or so each time, but our June total in NE Edmonton was around 124 ml.

This raises so many philosophical questions for me

Ironically, the attributes we hate in our fellow humans, we admire in our leaders.

But watch for traffic

Picture of a common grackle with its blue, purple, and yellow iridescent feathers reflecting the sunlight; the grackle is perched on a bullrush stalk.

I was lucky to get such a good view of a common grackle at Telford Lake about a month ago.
#telfordlake #commongrackle #birdphotography