The corollary to "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics" is that you don't put amateurs in charge of logistics.

https://www.rawstory.com/uss-abraham-lincoln-iran/

“The photo of a banner hung from a barbed wire fence along highway 779 northwest of Edmonton went viral after it was posted online over the Heritage Day long weekend.

“‘The Indians have done nothing in 100 years and now they wanna tell us how to run Alberta,’ the banner said.” https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/banner-message-along-edmonton-area-highway-racist-according-to-first-nations/

How a social media campaign triggered huge migrant surge on Ceuta
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/5/how-a-social-media-campaign-triggered-huge-migrant-surge-on-ceuta?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera

Friend sent me this and I feel attacked

#books #TBR #Tsundoku

South Korea Cancels Two Days of Baseball Amid Sweltering Weather
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/world/asia/south-korea-baseball-heat-wave.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-newyorktimes

Lord Fairley, President of the Employment Appeals Tribunal: "...coherent to describe as “racist” an ideology that promotes the establishment of a state for only one race of people in a territory that contains a large number of people of a different race. Such an ideology, which supports the migration of members of the first group into the territory with the support of an imperial power to dislodge an indigenous population, could...coherently be described as colonial..."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a71b3b8331a9965a2ed46a9/University_of_Bristol_v_Dr_David_Miller__2026__EAT_84.pdf

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/117042787556408624

The US military-industrial complex (and the gullible/bought politicians obsessed with purchasing the latest, most expensive ‘shiny new toys’) have left the US in the position of being poorly equipped for modern warfare.

#Canada should learn from this.

#CDNPoli #CDNMil #CDNNatSec

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal/117042789766520100

More than half of Canadians support new pipelines, mostly for economic reasons.

Alternative Headline: More than half of Canadians have bought into the #Petrostate/ #FossilFools industry propaganda and should probably educate themselves by reading this article.

But since they get their information from captured sources they probably won’t. 🫤

#CDNPoli

As the U.S. tariff war evolves, Canada’s tourism industry sees massive spike
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/as-the-us-tariff-war-evolves-canadas-tourism-industry-sees-massive-spike/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-CTVNews

Outdoor cats quite happy to become indoor cats, study finds
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/outdoor-indoor-cats-home-study-b3027898.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News (UK) @news-uk-Independent

#homelessness #poverty #disability #mentalhealth #compassion #empathy

RE: https://bclocal.news/@national/117042669144756034

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Farmworkers across 22 states will get free access to electrolytes to combat dangerous heat stress
https://www.fastcompany.com/91584914/farmworkers-extreme-heat-stress-free-access-electrolytes-22-states?amp&amp&amp&amp&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Fast Co. News @fast-co-news-FastCompany

No One Can Afford to Make 'Myst' Games Anymore

#GameFinance #GameHistory #GameDevelopment #MystGames #RetroGaming

https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-can-afford-to-make-myst-games-anymore/

Global Warming Has Kicked Into Overdrive, Scientists Warn
https://gizmodo.com/global-warming-has-kicked-into-overdrive-scientists-warn-2000794378?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Earther @earther-Gizmodo

RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/117042823542060640

Archive link: https://archive.ph/KlQbr

Of note:

Synapse Real Estate Corp. is proposing a one-gigawatt data centre project in Olds, Alta., which includes the construction of a 1.4-gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant and 600 diesel generators to provide 1.8 gigawatts of backup power. Once operational, the data centre would draw as much power as the city of Edmonton.

#OldsAB #DataCentres #ABpoli #UCP

Blood oil

#Climate #TheGreatDying2

Lloyd Robertson, longtime anchor of Canada's top TV newscast, dies at 92

Lloyd Robertson, who was chief anchor of CTV National News for 27 years and became one of Canada’s most trusted journalists on the country’s top-rated nightly television newscast, has died.

https://apnews.com/article/canada-ctv-lloyd-robertson-obit-e6f138b7f9452f3a6fc7ff122dc5ce25

Dry lightning, hot weather expected to increase wildfire conditions in B.C. Interior

VERNON — As the damage from the devastating wildfire along Okanagan Lake in British Columbia is being assessed, officials are warning of the potential of more fires as dry lightning storms are forecast for this week. Cliff Chapman with the BC Wildfire…

https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2026/08/05/dry-lightning-hot-weather-expected-to-increase-wildfire-conditions-in-b-c-interior/

This is important. A UK Appeals Tribunal (correctly imo) identifies Zionism as racist, ideological, and imperial as its purpose is to displace an indigenous population.

This also implies it is, at the very least, the framework for genocide, be it cultural, or physical.

Hope @mgeist @GeoffyPJohnston take this to heart.

#palestine #israel #zionism #racism #gaza #genocide

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-appeals-court-upholds-anti-zionist-beliefs-protected-under-equality-law