Richard Switzer
@rswitz.bsky.social
Product guy, bike riding pinko, x-country socialist, hockey-playing Torontonian. CBC, Globe and Mail, TWG, eCampusOntario, Bad Gateway, PaymentEvolution. Old hipster-> hip oldster.
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athlete: so if triathlon is running, biking and swimming, that must mean biathlon is running and biking?
coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so
coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so
February 8, 2026 at 5:58 PM
athlete: so if triathlon is running, biking and swimming, that must mean biathlon is running and biking?
coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so
coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you’d think so
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The big difference is that solar+battery is fit and forget. Once it's installed, whether from China or anywhere else, it's yours and you are independent. No more payments to anyone.
With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.
With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.
There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025.
While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:59 AM
The big difference is that solar+battery is fit and forget. Once it's installed, whether from China or anywhere else, it's yours and you are independent. No more payments to anyone.
With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.
With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.
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In a perfect world, vaccine childhood vaccine mandates wouldn't be necessary. But we live in a world where grifters will sacrifice children for political and financial gain, so we need to protect kids, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com
Should we do away with childhood vaccine mandates?
It would be nice if voluntary programs were sufficient, but that’s not the case
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:36 PM
In a perfect world, vaccine childhood vaccine mandates wouldn't be necessary. But we live in a world where grifters will sacrifice children for political and financial gain, so we need to protect kids, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com
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We need a phrase for when the news headlines are the same every winter yet try to sound like something novel is happening.
Hospitals are overcrowded... so during flu season they become catastrophically so.
Who could have predicted that doing nothing to fix this would lead to the same bad outcome?
Hospitals are overcrowded... so during flu season they become catastrophically so.
Who could have predicted that doing nothing to fix this would lead to the same bad outcome?
Hospital hallways, dining rooms, phsyio spaces turned over to patients during extreme flu season | CBC News
An unusually virulent respiratory illness season in northeastern Ontario is pushing hospitals to their limits like never before, and forcing them to put patients in more unconventional spaces.
www.cbc.ca
January 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
We need a phrase for when the news headlines are the same every winter yet try to sound like something novel is happening.
Hospitals are overcrowded... so during flu season they become catastrophically so.
Who could have predicted that doing nothing to fix this would lead to the same bad outcome?
Hospitals are overcrowded... so during flu season they become catastrophically so.
Who could have predicted that doing nothing to fix this would lead to the same bad outcome?
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i’d die for her
December 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
i’d die for her
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Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
Solar+storage costs continuing to fall faster than the most aggressive forecasts, as it’s done for a decade.
Examples abound of countries putting the equivalent of 1 or 2 nuclear plants online *every year* for a fraction of the cost of nuclear generation.
All we need is courage in government.
Examples abound of countries putting the equivalent of 1 or 2 nuclear plants online *every year* for a fraction of the cost of nuclear generation.
All we need is courage in government.
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Solar+storage costs continuing to fall faster than the most aggressive forecasts, as it’s done for a decade.
Examples abound of countries putting the equivalent of 1 or 2 nuclear plants online *every year* for a fraction of the cost of nuclear generation.
All we need is courage in government.
Examples abound of countries putting the equivalent of 1 or 2 nuclear plants online *every year* for a fraction of the cost of nuclear generation.
All we need is courage in government.
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
That they poop NFT’s is just 👌
At Art Basel, Beeple's installation displays robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg pooping NFTs.
Genius we always need more Art 💙🤖.
Genius we always need more Art 💙🤖.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That they poop NFT’s is just 👌
Uh-huh. So you’re creating new incentives for differences of opinion. Because why should politicians be the only ones to exploit that.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Uh-huh. So you’re creating new incentives for differences of opinion. Because why should politicians be the only ones to exploit that.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Did you know that the term ‘jaywalking’ was invented by marketing companies hired by car manufacturers in the early 1900’s to shame pedestrians when cars started killing them? I didn’t. youtube.com/shorts/N8Xwk...
@terryoinfluence.bsky.social #VisionZero
@terryoinfluence.bsky.social #VisionZero
How Jaywalking Became a Crime | Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
YouTube video by Apostrophe Podcast Network
youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that the term ‘jaywalking’ was invented by marketing companies hired by car manufacturers in the early 1900’s to shame pedestrians when cars started killing them? I didn’t. youtube.com/shorts/N8Xwk...
@terryoinfluence.bsky.social #VisionZero
@terryoinfluence.bsky.social #VisionZero
Game repects game
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Game repects game
According to the US State department Venezuela is a transit hub for about 10 to 13% of Colombian-produced cocaine that enters the United States. Almost all meth and fentanyl comes from Mexico, with China supplying chemicals.
Is Venezuela Flooding the U.S. With Drugs? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...
Is Venezuela Flooding the U.S. With Drugs? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
According to the US State department Venezuela is a transit hub for about 10 to 13% of Colombian-produced cocaine that enters the United States. Almost all meth and fentanyl comes from Mexico, with China supplying chemicals.
Is Venezuela Flooding the U.S. With Drugs? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...
Is Venezuela Flooding the U.S. With Drugs? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...
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so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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would really love it if our elected officials had to publicly define socialism and then explain why they voted against it
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
would really love it if our elected officials had to publicly define socialism and then explain why they voted against it
Big fan of this sort of reporting - and the medium.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Big fan of this sort of reporting - and the medium.
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One of my favorite artists is having a show of her art and if you are in NYC anytime between now and April you should go see it
I’m having my first ever museum solo show at Posterhouse: The Museum of Poster Art. It’s open now until April
posterhouse.org/exhibition/u...
posterhouse.org/exhibition/u...
Utopia in Our Time: The Posters of Molly Crabapple | Poster House
Enchanting, haunting, and poignant, beloved illustrator Molly Crabapple’s posters showcase the resilience of community, the power in solidarity, and the spirit of celebration. Deeply intersectional…
posterhouse.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
One of my favorite artists is having a show of her art and if you are in NYC anytime between now and April you should go see it
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German taxpayers are handing BMW €273m to once again attempt to push hydrogen-powered cars, when battery prices have once again dropped >50% in the past ~18 month and CATL is on its 5th-gen LFP battery.
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
Wasserstoff-Autos: BMW erhält staatliche Förderung zur Entwicklung
Hat der Einsatz von Wasserstoff eine Zukunft bei der Autoentwicklung? BMW glaubt nach wie vor daran. Jetzt erhält der Konzern eine staatliche Förderung für die Weiterentwicklung der Technologie.
www.spiegel.de
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
German taxpayers are handing BMW €273m to once again attempt to push hydrogen-powered cars, when battery prices have once again dropped >50% in the past ~18 month and CATL is on its 5th-gen LFP battery.
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
CATL, BYD et al must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sigh.
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Pipelines that will be obsolete before completed is a waste of taxpayer money
The Asian market we're aiming those pipelines for are using less oil every year and converting their industries to electric
Solar and wind farms are where the action is
The Asian market we're aiming those pipelines for are using less oil every year and converting their industries to electric
Solar and wind farms are where the action is
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Pipelines that will be obsolete before completed is a waste of taxpayer money
The Asian market we're aiming those pipelines for are using less oil every year and converting their industries to electric
Solar and wind farms are where the action is
The Asian market we're aiming those pipelines for are using less oil every year and converting their industries to electric
Solar and wind farms are where the action is