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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 18d

STATE/BANQUET

How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
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and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit

Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war

www.theguardian.com

Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 18d

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... "Municipalities are owed $254 million in outstanding property taxes from oil and gas companies, while another $200 million has been written off in the past decade..." this isn't Edmonton & Calgary, these are rural municipalities.

Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy aims to deal with the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes and orphaned wells. A pitch in Warburg didn’t go as planned

thenarwhal.ca

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 20d

Sun Day sunday.earth/welcome

Sun Day | Commit to a future free from fossil fuels on a solar-powered planet.

Together, we will change the future of climate change. Join the largest movement for climate action. sun-day.world

sunday.earth

Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 20d

drawtheline.world/canada?r=CA&... For people, peace, planet.

Canada | Draw the Line - For people, for peace, for the planet

We refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth, gut our public services, fuel climate collapse, attack migrants, exploit Indigenous lands, and prop up a geno...

drawtheline.world

Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 20d

A head of Draw the Line and Sun-Day, here's a fun read on solar punk www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Solarpunk Is Not About Pretty Aesthetics. It's About the End of Capitalism

At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radically different societal and economic structure.

www.vice.com

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 26d

Welcome to Sun Day (Sept 21) sunday.earth/welcome via @ayanaeliza.bsky.social

Events

Together, we will change the future of climate change. Join the largest movement for climate action.

sunday.earth

Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · 26d

What do you wish $100,000,000 was spent on in SK this summer?

Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: Sask. government paid $100M too much for new firefighting planes, B.C.-based manufacturer says. From Geoff Leo
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sask. government paid $100M too much for new firefighting planes, B.C.-based manufacturer says | CBC News

Coulson Aircrane says the Saskatchewan government has agreed to pay more than twice what it should have for four firefighting aircraft — a decision the B.C.-based company says will cost Saskatchewan t...

www.cbc.ca

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 29

“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 29

Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”

A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall

An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.

www.thestar.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · Aug 29

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/1996...

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

newrepublic.com

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨BREAKING: Apparently, we've written a paper about how dog ownership causes extreme weather 🐶🌪️ 😂

Or at least that’s what some 'news' headlines are suggesting in the US...

While I appreciate the media's interest in our recent study in PNAS Nexus, in reality, we found something very different...

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?

⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡

Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · Aug 21

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda via @momentumdash.bsky.social

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Eliza Barclay @elizabarclay.bsky.social · Aug 20

The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Chinese might dominate polar oceanography if the NSF follows through with plans to retire the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, our only research icebreaker for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

www.science.org

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · Aug 11

A viral chocolate goes bacterial www.msn.com/en-us/foodan...

MSN

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 11

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 11

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · Aug 11

Such a delight to walk alongside @mrapomquet.bsky.social this weekend. 10 years since his first SK trail walk with our dear friend Hugh and the history & folklore society. Read a review of his book about that first walk: reviews.skbooks.com/good-walk-the/

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Aug 5

If CO₂ is plant food and so essential to life on Earth as this administration claims, why are they destroying the satellites that track CO₂?

NASA's carbon tracking satellites are on Trump's chopping block

The satellites targeted for removal are the only ones monitoring Earth's greenhouse gases.

mashable.com

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Until scientists have more answers, cancer survivors are recommended to take extra precautions to avoid respiratory infections" and maybe the rest of us can help them out too by trying to not spread our own germs through masking, cleaning, and vaccination.

Sheep in Fog @brebis.bsky.social · Aug 1

“You’ve awakened the flames and then it dies back down,” he says. “But now you’ve got 100 times the embers that you had before” — making it more likely to turn into an inferno.

‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu

Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.

www.nature.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 26

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm trying to imagine if any other industry 'borrowed' this much money and didn't pay it back or provide a rationale for their socio-economic impact. Maybe schools or hospitals fall in this category?

Brett Bergie (she/her) @brettbergie.bsky.social · Jul 28

“When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay their land rent, the provincial government will pay it for them. More than 99% of the time, the government never gets its money back.”
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-...

Alberta covered $150M in oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent | The Narwhal

Issue of oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent in Alberta is ‘intertwined’ with unpaid municipal taxes, cleanup bills: law professor

thenarwhal.ca

Adt @adtgrg.bsky.social · Jul 22

People thought they could explain and conquer nature — yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. -Vaclav Havel www.dadychery.org/2012/03/25/p...

Politics and Conscience: An Essay by Vaclav Havel – Haiti Chery

www.dadychery.org