Both Canada and the USA cancelled events in their national capitals on their national holidays due to extreme weather.
But pipelines!
But Secure, stable, fossil fuel deliveries!
But divisiveness!
But Jobs!
But The Economeeehhhhh!!
#endfossilfuels #climateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadaDay #fourthOfJuly
🚨 Well that's that. The Barents Sea had its earliest melt-out of #Arctic sea ice on record this summer!
ICYMI: I wrote up a blog on this extreme event: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/. This is already one of the fastest changing climates in the world.
Fascism will always test where your own moral compass truly points towards/away from. It will test your personal character & integrity, often.
So, about Gander.Social
- I didn’t even know it existed until 5 minutes ago
- I created an account just to secure my username (Hi I’m renata the one and only)
- I don’t know, I’m unsure about it, Mastodon just has the right vibes for me but I’ll give it a try? I like trying new things
Update: NOPE, not verifying myself with a corporate email or Canada Post for social media, what the fucking fuck. This is ridiculous. Thanks fedi for existing.
"If all satellites in orbit suddenly lost the ability to manoeuvre and control their orientation, how long would it take for two to come close enough to crash? In 2018, before megaconstellations began launching, the CRASH Clock value was 164 days. It has been steadily dropping since then. Our new research finds that as of May 2026, it is at 2.5 days."
(Forgot to mention the version I photographed is not our usual one, in that Isabelle pureed & strained the strawberries in mine so that there were no seeds as I’m prepping for my colonoscopy tomorrow.)
If you're looking for Canadian-made tools and #gardening tools, look for brands such as Benchmark, Jobmate, Husky, Home Handyman, Craftsman. They are all designed and manufactured via Maxtech, a Canadian company.
Home Hardware stores have a good selection of tools made by this company -- under the brand Benchmark. #Canadian Tire and other hardware stores contract out private label tools from Maxtech, hence the varying brand names.
I'm eyeing their battery-powered pruning shears.
#CanadaDay #buyCanadian
Happy Canada Day, to all who celebrate!
Cartoon by Matias Debrasi perfectly captures America today.
I really don’t get ppl who post stuff from xitter, bs or whatever on here. Like, if I wanted to be exposed to garbage takes from another site, I’d be there instead of here.
When you think about it, the internet nearly overturned the capitalist world order with its unlimited potential for communication and knowledge-sharing. But our rulers have taken steps to defend their power and ensure that it’ll never come to pass.
For greater clarity, the 50C was a humidex reading, not temperature. Actual temp must have been high 30s. The heatwave itself was memorable because for at least a week the daily low never went below 30C.
My attempts at search having failed, I’m wondering if any Torontonians remember That Day It Was 50C. Was in the 1990s, want to say 1995, but maybe 1996. Was preceded by a long (2+ week) heat wave, but that specific day was insane. Anyone else remember? I remember lineups outside every establishment on Yonge that had AC.
Well, I just got let go from my job after 2.5years so it’s time to find the next thing.
I have almost 30 years experience with #PHP and for many years was one of the community’s loudest voices about testing and code quality.
I like helping teams turn business requirements into working software and refactor applications and modernize them to conform to patterns and practices that lead to better outcomes.
I am looking for 100% remote roles where I can use my PHP (with a bit of Python ) skills to help your project get better.
I am in the North American Eastern time zone and have dealt with jobs where folks were both in EU time zones and North American Pacific time zone.
I am eligible to work in Canada and I also have a consulting business so non-Canadian companies could use me.
@inquiline Historian John Barry wrote an excellent history of the 1918 flu pandemic and one of the strangest observations he makes in that book is that there’s almost no cultural trace of the disease. Where are the songs, poems, films, and novels portraying the days when people died in scores?
There’s almost no trace.
That seemed bizarre to me, but it’s pretty much what we’ve done with Covid
Yeah you build the entire Death Star from Legos?
These scientists BUILT AN ENTIRE CELL THAT REPLICATES.
Residents of Milford, Michigan showed up to oppose the renewal of Flock Safety cameras in their town.
The board unanimously voted to cancel one contract for 5 cameras.
The other contract comes up for a vote in August, and citizens are organizing against that one, too.
https://www.tiktok.com/@thearcherdispatch/video/7652025569793641759
Sometimes I can't believe how lucky I am to live in such a stunningly beautiful place
80% of people in Canada say political parties should follow the same privacy rules as businesses and public institutions! Yet political parties remain among the least trusted institutions when it comes to handling personal data. Sign to regulate them: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237
The Ford government just deleted every long-term care inspection report from before 2023 from their website, obfuscating a vital public record, especially from the devastating pandemic era. But we have 10,000 of those reports, and we're making them publicly available. https://thelocal.to/long-term-care-deleted-reports-ford-government-transparency-accountability/