Hisham Zerriffi

A man wearing a brimmed hat with a guitar in front of a wall. The shadow of the neck of the guitar can be seen beside him. The picture is black and white.

Busker in the Sun

Day two of #ArtAdventCalendar #ClassicMono

Fund the arts because they are a source of joy and human happiness and thought. Not just because a scientist may get an idea off a line in a play. (Though that's great too.)

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Behind any statistic you can trot out for #WorldAIDSDay is a person. A story. A life lived and lost. Don’t know Paul (or Terry) or @ajaxsinger.bsky.social for that matter. But here is one story and like all of them, it’s worth reading. Thanks for sharing it Constantine.

Thanks! When I saw them on this empty beach I was pretty sure they were what would make the picture stand out.

Thank you!

Kids Can Press company logo and logo and image of Franklin character with statement text,”Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity. We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”

Two people in yellow raincoats walking along a beach on a foggy day. There is a large rock just off the coast to the right of the picture. The sand is wavy. In the far background in the mist is a promontory.

Walking along the beach

Day one of #ArtAdventCalendar #MinimalistMonday

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

And this is how family stories that haunt you until the end are born!

Interesting…

Huh, interesting. I don’t have the Christmas connotation but maybe that’s just because it wasn’t a thing in our house

Light blue Dodge Monaco (early 70s?) lowrider with white roof and gold trim parked in an underground garage

🎤

“All my friends know the low rider
The low rider is a little higher

Low rider drives a little slower
Low rider is a real goer
Hey”

🎷🎸

But you have so many nice fancy desserts in Italy!

Oh yeah, this was a special guest is coming to dinner treat

Upward mobility can be measured by empty After Eight boxes?

Ok, so not just me. Posh is exactly the right word for them.

But that adds to the fancy feeling! So sophisticated that they each have their own little envelope.

A green box of After Eight mint chocolates.

This box showed up in our kitchen area at work and it brought back memories.

Anyone else grow up thinking this was the height of rich people decadence?

All I remember is that if my parents sprung for a box of After Eight, it was a special dinner.

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? If man-made dust is unimportant as a major cause of climatic change, then a strong case can be made that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced warming induced...

Wally Broecker, who coined the term "global warming" 50 years ago, would have been 94 years old today.

I am sitting at a table pretending to sip some soup from a big spoon. In the bowl in front of me is the book We Will Rise Again

I'm pretending to devour a pile of my books with a fork and knife. Visible in the bowls next to me are We Will Rise Again and Automatic Noodle.

I am standing at the stove, and am shocked to find that when I opened my soup pot, it was stuffed with my books! I am making the open-mouthed, hand-on-cheek shocked face you might have heard about from the Home Alone posters.

I am pretending to eat a bowl of noodles with chopsticks, but in the bowl is the book Automatic Noodle

Want to cozy up with some tasty books this season? I cooked up two new ones for you in 2025! Automatic Noodle (instant bestseller!) and the anthology We Will Rise Again co-edited with @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social (out 12/2!). Have a feast! #booksky #blackfriday

Another night to sleep on this and I'm solidifying this take

There is a reason industry/govt sees a bit win in trading the regulations that would have forced real emissions reductions (oil and gas cap and CER) for vauge future carbon pricing promises that some are claiming will achieve the same 1/

Musings on the CleanBC Independent Review Panel Report. #1: huge thanks to @danwoy.bsky.social and Merran Smith for combining their deep knowledge and a huge effort to produce a report with essential and detailed advice for BC. I'm supportive overall, with quibbles.

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I will, yet again, make the point that I will judge this government on its actions and not what Carney said about climate in his book or on the Liberal Party election platform.

So far? It’s not looking good folks.

WTAF did I just experience?!?!?

This two part acid-fueled fever dream of improv defies description.

I mean if I told you it blended Fargo, high fantasy, Christian theology, Norse mythology, Dante, Mario, romcom, necromancy, and so much more would that really help?

This the way. We need the people who have grout opinions to get intrigued by home energy systems.

Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations: the future costs of forest carbon offsets | Camilla Moioli - PhD Excited to share the publication of a new chapter from my Ph.D. thesis. An open-access article in Global Environmental Change titled:  “Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations: the future ...

"Mitigation deterrence and unrealistic expectations: the future costs of forest carbon offsets.”

While carbon sequestration in forests may be an important part of climate solutions, it's important to understand how that interacts with energy transition investments. We have a new paper on this:

Carney briefs cabinet on Alberta energy deal to be unveiled Thursday Agreement could open the door for a new heavy oil pipeline to the B.C. coast

It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.

Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
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'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Might need to install Slop Evader on every family member's device because I'm pretty sure they are tired of me say something like:

"Huh, that's cool/neat/fun if it's actually real" every time they show me something online that is even the tiniest bit sketch.

(h/t @404media.co)