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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

FFS

Jacob Collier is a British multi-album Grammy award winner.

He is known for his "audience choir' interactions, skillfully leading thousands of audience members in improvised, multi-part singing. This performance on Oct 27 2025, was his first attempt at the "audience orchestra" concept.

#music

who made this

Stack of 3 Chris Hadfield novels on a wooden cabinet ledge: "The Apollo Murders" on the bottom, "The Defector" in the middle, and "Final Orbit" on top.

Thanks for writing these novels @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social. I was glad to have the excuse of the 3rd to re-read the first 2, & really enjoyed them all.

As US citizens demand full release the DOJ continues to break US law by holding back the Trumpstein files. Released files exposed threats to UK financial security thru the JE/Mountbatten bond. Why aren't gov'ts (looking at you #CarneyLibs) demanding the files to ID nat'l security & criminal threats?

They bombed a girls school. #CarneyLibs might support a felonious grifter (who tore up a nuclear deal w/Iran) & his crew of Incompetents starting an illegal war-by murdering 50+ children-to distract his cultish base from his central role in a sex trafficking pedo ring but this Canuck doesn't. Shame.

Explicit support for an illegal war started by a country that is directly threatening us. This is beyond appeasement, it's total complicity.

All books from CMU Press | booksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks online A network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web!

It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.)
Spread the word #booksky!

www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021

Saying it again, slowly this time, for PP's party: #Not.Being.Fascist.Is.A.GOOD.Thing.

The US President is a repugnant, grifting & unbalanced liar who surrounds himself with self-serving & unqualified sycophants. That he was elected to the highest office in the land once was tragic. But twice? They & the GOP are responsible for global harms that will neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.

Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

Politicians crossing the floor from PP's party to the #CarneyLibs is no surprise. Both parties are pro-fossil fuel, pro-big business, willing to sacrifice the environment & public service, & prioritizing the economy over social good. They're leaving the Cons in opposition for the Con-lites in power.

Carney should expand his inner circle to include more women Prime Minister Mark Carney has a team of well-respected seasoned political advisers but they are all are men. It would be well-advised to include some women in his inner circle.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Wow.

Jolla Phone Pre-order Voucher The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

Just placed my pre-order for the Jolla Phone.

I'm an iPhone user, but with the way American corporations have been behaving, now felt like a good time to invest in privacy-first European alternatives 🇪🇺

Plus, it runs Android apps, so I can test the Chunky Guys app and see how it performs.

#jolla

Round holders made of clear, dark blue, green and turquoise cracked-glass, with lit tea-light candles, casting streaks of light.

Thinking about Tumbler Ridge.

A pre-cancer test for a preventable cancer: very good news! Hopefully it will be available on every health system in Canada.

This was a hard one to make — mostly because we shouldn’t even have to talk about this.

We should be focusing on the victims. The families. The community.

But some selfish, awful people are using this moment for their own political agendas.

We can’t let them do that:

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Condolences to the community of Tumbler Ridge in the aftermath of a horrific mass shooting.

Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.

After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists.

2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

🥇🥇🥇

My condolences for your loss. I was lucky enough to take an undergrad course from your Dad, & many years later, he helped me arrive at the decision to continue my studies. He was a superb academic, entertaining story-teller, & kind man.

There may be no turning back this climate crisis As warming breaches a critical threshold, scientists fear cascading consequences.

The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold.

Climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences.

Mark Your Calendars !

FEBRUARY 28, 2026
Don't forget to look up the planets will drift quietly across the sky, reminding us how beautifully the universe can align.

Hey #CarneyLibs & #CanadianPremiers, how about investing some $ & political will in something like these + solar, wind, & hydro power generation? Plus education & (re-)training programs, so we have systems in place & Canadians who know how to install, operate, & maintain them, when the oil runs out?

Please support this petition calling for a parliamentary investigation into foreign (American) interference in our country. It is sponsored by my former colleague Don Davies

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...