Andrew D. Bass
@andrewdbass.bsky.social
Former physicist, now principally a husband/dad/friend who paddles and takes snaps. Photos are my own.
Among other things-
"The plan would throw a wrench into travel for the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico next year."
I guess this post will count against me should I want to visit the states. Ho hum.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The plan would throw a wrench into travel for the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico next year."
I guess this post will count against me should I want to visit the states. Ho hum.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Among other things-
"The plan would throw a wrench into travel for the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico next year."
I guess this post will count against me should I want to visit the states. Ho hum.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The plan would throw a wrench into travel for the World Cup, which the US is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico next year."
I guess this post will count against me should I want to visit the states. Ho hum.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Took a free ride on the REM from the Du Ruisseau (on the new Deux-Montagnes branch), through downtown Montreal, to the South Shore and back again. A very nice ride and I even got a model train! The line properly opens on Monday, when you'll have to pay (and won't get a cardboard model). #trains
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Took a free ride on the REM from the Du Ruisseau (on the new Deux-Montagnes branch), through downtown Montreal, to the South Shore and back again. A very nice ride and I even got a model train! The line properly opens on Monday, when you'll have to pay (and won't get a cardboard model). #trains
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There’s a lot of confusion circulating on industrial carbon pricing and food prices in Canada.
Our fact sheet lays out why this cost-effective policy has essentially no impact on the price of groceries and other products.
Here’s a short 🧵
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
Our fact sheet lays out why this cost-effective policy has essentially no impact on the price of groceries and other products.
Here’s a short 🧵
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
FACT SHEET: Industrial carbon pricing in Canada
Industrial carbon pricing is Canada’s most important policy for cutting carbon pollution and creating a competitive clean economy.
climateinstitute.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
There’s a lot of confusion circulating on industrial carbon pricing and food prices in Canada.
Our fact sheet lays out why this cost-effective policy has essentially no impact on the price of groceries and other products.
Here’s a short 🧵
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
Our fact sheet lays out why this cost-effective policy has essentially no impact on the price of groceries and other products.
Here’s a short 🧵
climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh...
Reposted by Andrew D. Bass
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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Me reading some poetry about bloody cats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3V...
Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot. Read by Count Arthur Strong.
YouTube video by Faber Books
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Me reading some poetry about bloody cats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3V...
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The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Reform Party now takes cryptocurrency donations. Ireland banned them. The UK welcomes them. And Farage calls it freedom. It’s not. It’s money without accountability – and that’s a threat to democracy, argues Prof Richard Murphy.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
My son John's recent paper shows how to autonomously land quadcopter drones on a surface moving at high speed. Here's a video summary.
youtube.com/watch?v=tTUV...
youtube.com/watch?v=tTUV...
Autonomous Drone Landing on HIGH-SPEED Truck
YouTube video by Createk Engineering Lab
youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My son John's recent paper shows how to autonomously land quadcopter drones on a surface moving at high speed. Here's a video summary.
youtube.com/watch?v=tTUV...
youtube.com/watch?v=tTUV...
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Found this in my feed and it moved me tears - someone has come up with incredibly moving images from Gaza to illustrate my song Hundred Year Hunger
#RePost charisdanger from Instagram: youtu.be/RjVyaSMPP6I
Existence is resistance
Edited by me, a filmmaker in diaspora
#RePost charisdanger from Instagram: youtu.be/RjVyaSMPP6I
Existence is resistance
Edited by me, a filmmaker in diaspora
Found this in my feed and it moved me tears...
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
youtu.be
September 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Found this in my feed and it moved me tears - someone has come up with incredibly moving images from Gaza to illustrate my song Hundred Year Hunger
#RePost charisdanger from Instagram: youtu.be/RjVyaSMPP6I
Existence is resistance
Edited by me, a filmmaker in diaspora
#RePost charisdanger from Instagram: youtu.be/RjVyaSMPP6I
Existence is resistance
Edited by me, a filmmaker in diaspora
Great use of a pencil case in a video.
September 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Great use of a pencil case in a video.
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The lyrics of Lou Reed’s song Sick of You (from New York, 1989) floated into my mind. Quite an uncanny set of scenarios.
![[Verse 4]
They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
And died being treated at Mt. Sinai
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
Some wired doctor prescribed for stress
My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps
They discovered some animal no one's ever seen
It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
After running over Rudy Giuliani
They say the President's dead, no one can find his head
It's been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit
I'm sick of it
I'm sick of you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwb7aulelog3wpb6o3nwx33e/bafkreicp6jcayvbnnedaksdpol5vuyu72amqylod3gsw6nshwpnoegsmza@jpeg)
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The lyrics of Lou Reed’s song Sick of You (from New York, 1989) floated into my mind. Quite an uncanny set of scenarios.
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People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”
Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy
Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy
Deputy leader says archbishop should stay out of matter after Stephen Cottrell calls policy isolationist and kneejerk
Reform UK has engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all asylum seekers who arrive in small boats, after the church’s most senior bishop called the proposal “isolationist, short-term [and] kneejerk”.
Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, hit back against the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on Sunday, accusing him of interfering in domestic politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”
A Black Crowned Night Heron on the banks of a very low rivière Magog in Sherbrooke, QC. Late August 2025.
#naturephotography #birds #herons #wildlifephotography
#naturephotography #birds #herons #wildlifephotography
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A Black Crowned Night Heron on the banks of a very low rivière Magog in Sherbrooke, QC. Late August 2025.
#naturephotography #birds #herons #wildlifephotography
#naturephotography #birds #herons #wildlifephotography
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A lucky strike might be fun, but achieving high bowling scores requires consistently knocking down all 10 pins. Here's the physics behind throwing a perfect strike. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44608
The perfect strike in tenpin bowling
How hitting just 4 pins can result in knocking down all 10, over and over.
pubs.aip.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A lucky strike might be fun, but achieving high bowling scores requires consistently knocking down all 10 pins. Here's the physics behind throwing a perfect strike. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44608
Have we passed peak St. George's Cross? Maybe, yes.
August 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Have we passed peak St. George's Cross? Maybe, yes.
Two Cicadas mating.I spotted one of them on the ground. Believing that it was damaged, I picked it up with a stick to discover it attached to his/her partner. I don't think they noticed. #naturephotogaphy #insects #cicadas
August 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Two Cicadas mating.I spotted one of them on the ground. Believing that it was damaged, I picked it up with a stick to discover it attached to his/her partner. I don't think they noticed. #naturephotogaphy #insects #cicadas
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#BrokenNews - UK Educational Standards "At Lowest Ever"
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
August 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
When everything seems grim, (and it pretty much does, right?) I draw some solace by listening to this song from the Roches' 1990 album, "Speak". I take the song as being somewhat aspirational.
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youtu.be/_tDbPF07akE?...
The Roches - Everyone Is Good
YouTube video by TheRochesVEVO
youtu.be
August 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When everything seems grim, (and it pretty much does, right?) I draw some solace by listening to this song from the Roches' 1990 album, "Speak". I take the song as being somewhat aspirational.
youtu.be/_tDbPF07akE?...
youtu.be/_tDbPF07akE?...
Very depressing, even if it's par for the course.
There are a lot of details in yesterday's sweeping executive order, but the bottom line is that it gives political appointees immense power over scientific grants, which have until now been stewarded by career civil servants and experts.
My reporting:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My reporting:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants
Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Very depressing, even if it's par for the course.
Che omaggio!
Modern Columbo
Modern Columbo
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Che omaggio!
Well worth your time.
The algo obviously HATES us talking about this.
So would you do us a favour and share?
UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4
So would you do us a favour and share?
UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4
UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Well worth your time.
Too many journals, too much AI, fraudulent data, authorship for sale, and peer review in crisis. Scientific publishing is broken.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Too many journals, too much AI, fraudulent data, authorship for sale, and peer review in crisis. Scientific publishing is broken.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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From 1939 to 1948, Dorothy Weeks—the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from MIT—led a physics summer internship program that was specifically targeted for women.
doi.org/10.1063/pt.v...
doi.org/10.1063/pt.v...
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
From 1939 to 1948, Dorothy Weeks—the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from MIT—led a physics summer internship program that was specifically targeted for women.
doi.org/10.1063/pt.v...
doi.org/10.1063/pt.v...
All happening on this daisy this afternoon.
July 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
All happening on this daisy this afternoon.