Nevin Thompson

A movie I watched many years ago but can no longer find is Le Chien (The Oak), made several years after the fall of Ceausescu. Remarkable in many ways, including footage shot near a nuclear power plant produced static on the film stock.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, drive, and ride public transportation along the low-traffic streets of Bilbao, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/h speed limit signage and road markings.

Introduced in 2018 and expanded to all roads by 2020, Bilbao was the first European city of more than 300,000 inhabitants to adopt a universal 30 km/h speed limit. Several years on, the results suggest it has delivered broad benefits on safety, public health, travel efficiency, and quality of life.🧵

Pretty normal in Canada is my point.

Visiting Sekigahara Warland 関ヶ原ウォーランド, a theme park in Sekigahara that showcases several scenes of the decisive battle.

More photos and full post:
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#Japan #Travel #Photo #Photography #Sekigahara #Shogun

I stayed on 6th Street last year for SXSW. I needed earplugs to sleep as it’s very busy all night long. The scene of the shooting is also just a few blocks from the Paramount Theatre, which is the hub of SXSW’s film track.

• ~3.2M Afghan refugees are currently in Pakistan
• ~3–4M Afghans are estimated to be in Iran
• Afghanistan already has ~6M+ internally displaced people
• Gulf states host ~30M+ migrant workers

If multiple fronts destabilize at once, even small % moving becomes major regional migration event.

I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me

🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time:

• Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting
• Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf

These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.

The astrophysical nature of black holes—and the human nature of physicists What if black holes aren’t really what we think they are? And what if the bigger problem isn’t the physics at all, but how modern science decides which ideas are allowed to be discussed in public?…

I think we got gravitational collapse wrong. Penrose’s singularity theorem doesn’t apply to physics. No information loss.

I doubt black holes can be saved from this paper’s central theorem. If so, it’s not trivial: the paper has been in review 2.5 months. cosmicave.org/2026/01/18/t...

🧪⚛️🔭#philsky

Good grief! The dog was from Vancouver Island! Ton of wolves here on the Island.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Curious what @sinalana.bsky.social might have to say?

Sunset Market & Floral, Victoria, BC. #photography

Taken with an EOS M6 Mk II and an EF 16-35mm L lens.

Exif data is here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Su...

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

apropos of nothing:

A stark reality has therefore emerged in modern warfare: ...AI is reliably providing an alibi for the prosecution of wholesale methods of killing without, in turn, provoking much by way of substantive political censure or legal accountability.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@thebeanpod.bsky.social How’s the surfing along the coast? My assumption is it’s not ideal? But maybe around Amagozen?

This is a good spot near us

www.castanet.co.jp/surfing/yura...

Surfing is big in Japan, particularly in Shonan, in Kanagawa, which has its own sort of SoCal surf culture. On this stretch of the coast not so much, although where I lived there are a couple of popular surf spots.

If you resent our early spring, I suggest Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (Shinoda Masahiro). Cherry blossoms spark madness and an orgy of violence. A unique horror film, starring preternaturally beautiful Iwashita Shima (Shinoda's spouse & lifelong muse).

cinebeats.wordpress.com/2019/03/10/f...

Early March is the best time of year. Everything has just gotten started so it's pleasant to imagine spring, just around the corner.

Near Kanazawa. This beach stretches for about 50 kilometers.

Tokyo's Burning (1995) - ABC listen Tokyo's Burning was made to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the mass firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 in which 100000 people died and several million were 'de-housed'.The feature includes ey...

Tokyo's Burning was made to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the mass firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 in which 100000 people died and several million were 'de-housed'.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

philedelphia experiment of sailors fused with the steel ship

According to some stories one version of the end of The Philadelphia Experiment, Pere's character would not stay in 1984. He would return the ship to WW2 but end up stuck in a loop as one of the sailors phased into and fused with the ship structure, dying and resurrecting to suffer forever.

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that.

Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened.

A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee."

I only just made it out.

"I think responses [that ask only for the Administration to 'explain itself'] are pathetic. This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved. This is not the case of the missing casus belli."

Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window OTTAWA - After publishing an official statement on behalf of the Canadian government supporting the joint US-Israel bombings in Iran this morning, Prime Minister Carney was spotted happily putting the...

Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window

Managed to catch a lion dance this year.

There is a direct connection between Vancouverism and planning the development of Dubai.

> not only how the urban design of Vancouver was emulated in Dubai Marina, but how Vancouver planning and planners became an integral and lasting influence on the new Middle East.

spacing.ca/vancouver/20...