Youth Independent Mobility should really be a key metric in a city's success. We all win.
Wife: “What does charity mean in Christian theology?”
“Love, mostly.”
Wife: “Okay. And in Judaism it’s tzedakah, which is justice, and in neither case should it matter if you get a tax deduction.”
“Right.”
Not exactly sacraments, but Mennonites on liturgy and worship I would start with Eleanor Kreider, Carol Penner, Irma Fast Dueck
Way back in 2018 I did a walking tour of Vancouver with @brenttoderian.bsky.social and he explained how that city overcame this problem. You need family-sized units & also, crucially, *good urban schools*.
Re-upping this as daily temps are set to plunge in Edmonton. Zero frostbite amputations is an achievable goal we all can work towards. City Council and the Government of Alberta can lead here by overhauling their winter emergency response efforts #yegcc #ableg
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There is ZERO chance a new pipeline doesn't contribute to #ClimateChange. Literally ZERO. That's not refutable. You have to outright ignore #Scope3 (the product's end use) let alone all that #CarbonCapture boondoggle nonsense.
#MarkCarney won't tell Canadians the truth.
#cdnpoli #ClimateChange
“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?"
My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.)
The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope?
Because Greta is right ..
I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your theological game.
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
“Cheers & applause erupted from the audience in the Rocky View County council chamber on Tuesday after councillors voted 6-1 to reject a plan for an AI data centre complex, citing concerns about its proposed location & potential impacts”
#abpoli #ableg
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“The decision to override Charter rights fails this test.”
The Anglican, Lutheran and United Churches in Alberta have written to Danielle Smith condemning her use of the notwithstanding clause to punch down on the vulnerable Albertans.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.
Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
6/6 The labour federation is urging Albertans to sign up and "be part of the 3.5 per cent solution!"
"Let’s get ready to resist!"
RichardJR -- Albertans please join the AFL's "Ready To Resist" campaign. We must stand up against the UCP assault!
Alberta Federation of Labour afl.org/action-pages...
"At 11 a.m. on May 15, 1919, Winnipeg workers from the city’s building and metal trades put down their tools and walked off the job. They were joined by unionized workers from other occupations. But incredibly, thousands of non‐unionized workers also left their jobs to join the general strike."
said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.
For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.
If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
I don't pay taxes just so that the Zucks and Musks of the world can use it to burn down the world.
The sooner national governments stop bailing out the plagiarism-ecocide industry with money better spent on schools, healthcare, and public services, the better.
“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”
collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
If American evangelicals were actually biblical literalists, ICE wouldn’t exist.
Danielle Smith's 4-year contract for Bruce (Spanky) McAllister to belittle Albertans is $737,000 in salary and $88,000 in pension benefits, for a total of $825,000 paid to do what he did at public forums.
It's a disgrace.
#ableg
petition for law schools to start hiring bible profs with expertise in hermeneutics.
interpreting texts is an exercise of power - something clarence clearly understands, btw. but all of us need to clock how appeals to “originalism” (and walk backs like these) are exercises of power too.
Good morning to the men who are doing the work of dismantling the toxic structures installed in them by violence!
I’m beyond bored with forced car dependency.
Forced car dependency is bad and we really need to interrogate & fix it.
Designing our cities around cars is unsafe, expensive, bad for the climate & our own health.
We can do better.
One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
i know we have to "push back" or whatever but this administration has us saying the goofiest, most obvious shit. late night hosts are allowed to make jokes. actually, WE pay tariffs. no, that's not how tylenol works. could be solving climate change but instead we're debunking middle school rumors
