A guy in a minivan yelled at us (four people on two bikes), "You're taking up the whole road!" My husband, a quick thinker, yelled back, "How many people you got in there??"
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When you forgot to make women part of the design team
Cats are often entertained by simple things, such rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.
As a sophisticated ape, I require far more complex forms of entertainment such as watching a cat rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
OTTAWA – After receiving criticism this week for abandoning the Trudeau-era climate plan, Prime Minister Mark Carney has assured Canadians worried about the already deadly effects of global warming that he will start taking the dangers it poses seriously,…
imagine if i cancelled the remainder of every university class i taught once the CO2 level in the classroom rose to over 1000 ppm, on the basis of that study referred to in the boost. imagine if professors banded together, equipped ourselves with CO2 sensors, and we all cancelled class time spent above 1000 ppm. then we would get better ventilation on campus. and the students would get better learning experiences!!
I'm a parent with a 9-month old baby looking to chat with other parents. Can you recommend fedi accounts of parents with younger children who talk about parenting? (There may be many silent parents on here.)
Bonus points if they ride bikes / avoid cars, are passionate about climate justice, are COVID conscious / interested in public health, or concerned about LLMs & surveillance capitalism (all relatively common on fedi no doubt, despite conditions in the outside world).
Canada has lost over 60% of its flying insects since the 1970s, leaving tree swallows smaller and less successful at breeding
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/canada-has-lost-over-60-of-its-flying-insects-since-the-1970s-leaving-tree-swallows-smaller-and-less-successful-at-breeding-scientists-found/articleshow/132176920.cms
Birds: 60% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Wild salmon: 89% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Butterflies: 80% decline in Ireland since 1970s
Butterflies: USA lost 20% of butterflies between 2005 and 2025
Flying insects: 75% decline in Germany in 27 years
New video!
The NYT did a sad tear-jerker "They lost the family farm!" story about a wealthy farm family that... still has its farm & money? WHAT?
Yeah, it's not really shocking that the NYT bungles its reporting! But hey, this time it's a farmer yelling about how the NYT doesn't know jack. That's fun & different ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I turned eighteen in 1976. Becoming an adult as opposed to an immancipated minor.
I felt like I had accomplished much. Every day since giving birth to my daughter as a fourteen year old I told myself that keeping us both safe and housed for four years was my purpose.
That goal superceded all others. Success that was mine while the rest of the country celebrated 200 years of dubious unity.
Being Wailaki I understood that America didn't want my kind of person yet we survived. I would grow up in America because America was the victor who forced my surviving family to assimilate. Sort of.
Now fifty years later I celebrate the diversity of today's America. It's clear that those who want an all white country will eventually have to accept their total fail. You only need eyes to see. There is no going back.
Overcoming this current assault will mean a new beginning. The opportunity to be a better country for all.
These flowers in our garden are a promise yet to be revealed like the new America that is coming.
For decades, the KKK marched and protested wearing masks, and Dem lawmakers said, "It's free speech! We have to let them talk!"
Then for a few summers, some Black kids said, "We need a ceasefire in Palestine." And Dem lawmakers passed laws against masked protest.🤡
Now those Dems are quiet again.🤷🏿♂️
[Photo credit also in the Alt text:
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"]
I find this process of making a rainbow gradient by mixing inks endlessly fascinating.
Credit: Tokyo Printing Museum https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ_Vp-XBLMV/
So I don't think I mentioned this on here, but a couple weeks ago, walking to the grocery store, I was surprised to find a couple of *beautiful* metallic green sweat bees peeking out of burrows in a rather weedy, neglected, half-bare corner of yard, right by the sidewalk. Today I saw them again and was taking pictures when one of the residents was coming home. I was like, "Did you know you have BEES" and pointed them out to her, and she was very excited! She mentioned they make sure to leave leaf litter over the winter for better insect habitat. I went on my way and when I glanced back she was also stooping down to take pictures of them.
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae
To the person who suggested putting an emergency mylar blanket over the window (my apologies, can't find you comment anymore), wow that worked well. The indoor temp dropped 4C in 15 minutes, and that was with no direct light aimed at the window. I'm surprised that extent of solar energy was coming through. Nice hack, and one that is easy/cheap to do.
Edited to add: I always thought those blankets are opaque, so expected the effect to be like a blackout curtain. But it turned out they are more like a tinted car window. The amount of light is notably reduced, and the residual light bleeds through with an orange tint. But when there's light outside as backlight, the view across the street is still clear and detailed -- just darker. At night it's effectively opaque. (Though don't make any assumptions re privacy since now the interior is what would be backlit.)
Me <just back from a dog walk in the heat/humidity>: WHEW
Wife: How was your walk?
Me: Sticky!
Brain: you mean...
Me: Wait, let's talk about this
Brain: IT'S STICKY TO WALK AROUND TO WALK AROUND THAT'S RIGHT ON TIME IT'S STICKAAAAAY
Me: goddamn it
Brain: STICKY
STICKY
STICKY
STICKY
Love when it's so humid that you sweat through all your clothes and you take off your clothes and hang them up but it's so humid they don't dry, at all 🙃🙃🙃 #dlws
Adobe is just fucking trolling at this point.
Listen to my PDF as a podcast? What the fuck are you even talking about.
This is a “no bad ideas” whiteboard session about “creative uses for AI” come to life, and it sucks.
White people wildin'.
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That interaction was filmed by John Mutton, the former mayor of Bowmanville. Mutton was the lobbyist dubbed “Mr. X” in a report into the removal of Greenbelt land and was subsequently banned from lobbying the province for a minimum of two years.
Mutton told CBC News he was acting on behalf of an "army of people" who he claims are concerned about alleged animal welfare violations.
Former mayor disputes allegations of harassment
"People came to me to raise the issue," Mutton said. "I’m not in charge of [the protest]. I’m just a guy that’s going out there and talking at the residents' request."
Mutton denied that his actions — or the actions of "concerned" residents — constitute harassment.
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#FashWatchCanada #WhiteNonsense #AndFuckYourRacistAss #ThisIsCanada