On my walk home I couldn't help but stop to discover more, necessarily putting my nose right up to the wall. It must have been quite the sight to passerbys. #skpoli #flatlanders #yxe

The fossils contribute to its aesthetic appeal. It contains numerous fossil gastropods, brachiopods, cephalopods, trilobites, corals, stromatoporoids, Receptaculites, and others.

I went on a "safari" yesterday in downtown Saskatoon organized by the Saskatoon Heritage Society. The facades of many of the grand buildings here are Tyndall Stone, a highly fossiliferous dolomite limestone quarried in Manitoba and transported by rail to the city in the very early 20th century.

#skpoli #flatlanders

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As Adam Tooze has pointed out, it is now China who is setting out the terms of modernity. They bet on "green". The U.S. is being hobbled by a reactionary political coalition of fossil capital, monopoly tech, and national security hawks.

#yxe Last chance to pull out Creeping Bluebell — they are going to seed now. They'll be back next year...their root system is extensive and they need to be dug out of the garden, but at least you can stop the spread. This is the most pernicious invasive plant in Saskatoon.

Poilievre keeps running with this GDP per capita argument, but it's very weak.

CBS Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season

I'll settle with you for the $16 million the F.C.C. wants if you fire Colbert. Such a fucking fascist move. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel and The Crypto Fascists of Silicon Valley Andreesen and other broligarchs are horrible, mediocre, insecure people with no redeeming human qualities who don't get the respect they feel they're due. So they try to force us instead.

They are fascists. Dougald Lamont gets it right. dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/marc-andre...

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Capitulation

I find this abandonment of basic moral principles to be astounding, but indicative of the force of self preservation. It is a fear of the future that is stoked by the populist right wing that serves their power grab.

The most common retort from local climate change deniers is why should we take on the expense of transitioning to an electric economy when our impact is so minimal to the phenomenon of global warming.

Pentagon policy chief’s rogue decisions have irked US allies and the Trump administration Even for an administration with a knack for moving fast and breaking things, Elbridge Colby’s moves at the Pentagon have caused frustration and friction.

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The very least to be done is to pull them out before they go to seed. Their root system is resilient and they'll return next season, so the difficult task of digging them out is necessary in any garden. Stop the spread! #yxe

We are being invaded, and it's war. Creeping Bluebell is choking out Lily of the Valley in our gardens. It is overlooked because it is pretty, but there is no perfumed scent to it and it is far inferior to the historically esteemed Lily of the Valley.

Fascism has always bee closer to the surface of American society than you think.

From Democracy to “Safety” | Los Angeles Review of Books Kristen R. Ghodsee considers the anti-communist contexts that birthed the alt-right, in a review of Quinn Slobodian’s new book “Hayek’s Bastards.”

that weighs heavy in the hand, the material for a self-minted coin, for exchange in a world stripped of the collective ties of obligation and care.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...

From Democracy to “Safety” | Los Angeles Review of Books Kristen R. Ghodsee considers the anti-communist contexts that birthed the alt-right, in a review of Quinn Slobodian’s new book “Hayek’s Bastards.”

"They preached “a flight from democracy to safety: to gold, to family, to Christianity, a plea to divest from state money and into the metal...

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I'm sure the penalties and repairs puts the cost of the CCS boondoggle above $2 billion.

Rule by referenda is not democratic...not when issues are decided by emotion.

In American history leading up to the Civil War there were many northerners who abided the economic arguments for the continuation of slavery, until the imperative of social obligation manifest in the language of personal conscience. So it is today with climate change.

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Any expansion of oil and gas development without a commensurate plan to reduce carbon emissions is insane. It just is. Why don't Conservatives just come out and admit they don't believe in climate change. It will make the vote a simple one.