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'Once in a generation moment:' Rare taiga flycatcher spotted in Vancouver #Vancouver
'Once in a generation moment:' Rare taiga flycatcher spotted in Vancouver - BC News
Dozens of birders descended to Vancouver's Sunset Beach Park on Sunday to catch a rare glimpse of a bird that avian enthusiasts say has never been recorded in Canada before.
www.castanet.net
December 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
'Once in a generation moment:' Rare taiga flycatcher spotted in Vancouver #Vancouver
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George Clooney and wife Amal granted French citizenship
George Clooney and wife Amal granted French citizenship
The actor said privacy laws protecting children from paparazzi were a key factor in the family’s decision
George Clooney has been granted French citizenship, along with his wife Amal Clooney and their two children, according to an official decree in France’s government gazette.
The publication confirms an ambition Clooney alluded to early in December when he praised French privacy laws that keep his family shielded from paparazzi. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
George Clooney and wife Amal granted French citizenship
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I understand as much as anyone else that we're trapped in a capitalist system that demands money for everything, but when you've amassed tens of millions of dollars and you still can't bring yourself to speak one truly uncomfortable truth, what's your excuse? I can't think of one.
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I understand as much as anyone else that we're trapped in a capitalist system that demands money for everything, but when you've amassed tens of millions of dollars and you still can't bring yourself to speak one truly uncomfortable truth, what's your excuse? I can't think of one.
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Dear Jon Stewart,
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Dear Jon Stewart,
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
Did everyone get a bunch plastic in their desired configuration for christmas?
December 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Did everyone get a bunch plastic in their desired configuration for christmas?
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During its worst drought in a century, Iraq signs a water security for oil deal with Turkey. The once rich Tigris & Euphrates rivers are drying up from climate change & mismanagement, leading to crop losses & a water crisis. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/21/c...
Grappling with its worst drought in a century, Iraq bets on a controversial oil-for-water deal | CNN
The historic “land between two rivers” faces a crisis as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, helping create the country’s worst w...
edition.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
During its worst drought in a century, Iraq signs a water security for oil deal with Turkey. The once rich Tigris & Euphrates rivers are drying up from climate change & mismanagement, leading to crop losses & a water crisis. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/21/c...
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Actor reshaped French cinema before retreating from global fame into animal rights activism and far-right politics.
Brigitte Bardot, French film icon turned far-right provocateur, dies at 91
Actor reshaped French cinema before retreating from global fame into animal rights activism and far-right politics.
www.aljazeera.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Actor reshaped French cinema before retreating from global fame into animal rights activism and far-right politics.
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New York State Department of Health Confirms Most Flu Cases Ever Recorded in One Week
www.health.ny.gov
December 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Jon Stewart, saint and savant, literally the best libs have to offer, learned and wise, still thinks masks work by conditional magic not physics
still hazy on why miasma theory isn't true
happy to take up another 60 minutes of airtime though. always
still hazy on why miasma theory isn't true
happy to take up another 60 minutes of airtime though. always
We need those who claim to be “left” to stop punching down on the disabled, covid cautious and immune compromised.
Masking is resistance.
It’s community care.
The ruling class wants you sick and weak so you won’t fight back.
Healthcare is being gutted.
There’s never been a better time to mask
Masking is resistance.
It’s community care.
The ruling class wants you sick and weak so you won’t fight back.
Healthcare is being gutted.
There’s never been a better time to mask
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Jon Stewart, saint and savant, literally the best libs have to offer, learned and wise, still thinks masks work by conditional magic not physics
still hazy on why miasma theory isn't true
happy to take up another 60 minutes of airtime though. always
still hazy on why miasma theory isn't true
happy to take up another 60 minutes of airtime though. always
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Night Snow
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Night Snow
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
Maud Lewis
c. 1958
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Trump-backed candidate Asfura declared new president of Honduras
Trump-backed candidate Asfura declared new president of Honduras
Winning margin of 28,000 votes announced a month late but before review of all ‘inconsistent’ ballots was completed
Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura has been declared the winner of Honduras’s presidential election after a vote count that dragged on for almost a month and was marred by fraud allegations and criticism of interference by the US president.
The rightwing Asfura, 67, a construction magnate and former mayor of the capital, Tegucigalpa, secured 40.27% of the vote, against 39.53% for the centre-right Salvador Nasralla, a margin of just 28,000 votes. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Trump-backed candidate Asfura declared new president of Honduras
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
Everybody knows the Leonard Cohen song.
Latest GDP Figures Show Rich Reaping Rewards as Working Class Continue to Suffer Under Trump
Latest GDP Figures Show Rich Reaping Rewards as Working Class Continue to Suffer Under Trump
New data shows US economy grew by 4% in Q3 2025, but experts warn of a split economy with top earners thriving while lower income individuals struggle.
www.commondreams.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Everybody knows the Leonard Cohen song.
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There's the key sentence: "For brave leaders, there could be real political capital to be gained from reducing this mobility as feelings run high over waste, pollution and emissions." Brave leaders anyone? theconversation.com/the-politics...
The politics of the hyper-polluting private transport used by the world’s super-rich is hotting up
Inequality is damaging the cohesion needed to fight climate change.
theconversation.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There's the key sentence: "For brave leaders, there could be real political capital to be gained from reducing this mobility as feelings run high over waste, pollution and emissions." Brave leaders anyone? theconversation.com/the-politics...
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Venezuela passes law enacting harsh penalties for supporters of US blockade https://aje.io/um8pr7
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Venezuela passes law enacting harsh penalties for supporters of US blockade https://aje.io/um8pr7
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Carbon footprint calculators for air travel have been massively underestimating personal emissions with simplistic models that ignore numerous critical factors. A new calculator hopes to rectify this.
#CarbonEmissions #AirTravel 🧪
#CarbonEmissions #AirTravel 🧪
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
www.newscientist.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Carbon footprint calculators for air travel have been massively underestimating personal emissions with simplistic models that ignore numerous critical factors. A new calculator hopes to rectify this.
#CarbonEmissions #AirTravel 🧪
#CarbonEmissions #AirTravel 🧪
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An interesting read for dog-owners - whatever their benefits, this study sets out the enormous impact pet dogs have on wildlife and the environment (the dry pet food industry produces more C02 than the vast majority of countries do, for example)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds
Scale of environmental damage attributed to huge number of dogs globally as well as ‘lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners’
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
An interesting read for dog-owners - whatever their benefits, this study sets out the enormous impact pet dogs have on wildlife and the environment (the dry pet food industry produces more C02 than the vast majority of countries do, for example)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Nutlick's literally betting on the delta between the panic discount businesses get now (+/-20%) & a full refund later (100%) if SCOTUS scotches Trump's IEEPA tariffs.
They get to play this game because Trump used sanctions law as a DIY tax gun & aimed it at US economy. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
They get to play this game because Trump used sanctions law as a DIY tax gun & aimed it at US economy. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Nutlick's literally betting on the delta between the panic discount businesses get now (+/-20%) & a full refund later (100%) if SCOTUS scotches Trump's IEEPA tariffs.
They get to play this game because Trump used sanctions law as a DIY tax gun & aimed it at US economy. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
They get to play this game because Trump used sanctions law as a DIY tax gun & aimed it at US economy. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
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The author's based in BC. I'm going to guess that the timing of that story in relation to the November PR event isn't a coincidence, and both are part of the PR campaign to rewrite history and salvage Dr Henry's campaign to replace Dr Tam as federal CMOH. BC's cozy access-media culture in action.
🧵This "public" Nov 5 forum highlights the hypocrisy of public health institutions. Topics include misinformation and public trust, and an attendee sent me this: questions for the panellists must be submitted in advance (so hard ones on e.g. PPE, aerosols etc can be censored).
ubccdc.med.ubc.ca
ubccdc.med.ubc.ca
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The author's based in BC. I'm going to guess that the timing of that story in relation to the November PR event isn't a coincidence, and both are part of the PR campaign to rewrite history and salvage Dr Henry's campaign to replace Dr Tam as federal CMOH. BC's cozy access-media culture in action.
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This is the silhouette of 1,122-km-wide Dione in front of Saturn—a view captured with Cassini 15 years ago on December 20, 2010. Synthesized color from a single clear-filter greyscale image.
December 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is the silhouette of 1,122-km-wide Dione in front of Saturn—a view captured with Cassini 15 years ago on December 20, 2010. Synthesized color from a single clear-filter greyscale image.
Liberals will lecture you on voting for the lesser evil then have a conniption when you call their party evil.
December 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Liberals will lecture you on voting for the lesser evil then have a conniption when you call their party evil.
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A Trojan horse FOIA case in which Stephen Miller’s old group was trying to get a court to declare that the admin functions of the judicial branch are part of the executive branch has been dismissed by District Judge Trevor McFadden of D.C., a Trump appointee.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Potential Disaster Averted as Bid to Undermine Judicial Branch Fails
Editor’s Note: Don’t miss the news at the end of today’s Morning...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A Trojan horse FOIA case in which Stephen Miller’s old group was trying to get a court to declare that the admin functions of the judicial branch are part of the executive branch has been dismissed by District Judge Trevor McFadden of D.C., a Trump appointee.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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A federal judge nominee said disabled people shouldn’t be wed. In fact, many can’t.
A federal judge nominee said disabled people shouldn’t be wed. In fact, many can’t.
Marriage often nullifies the government benefits they need to get by.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A federal judge nominee said disabled people shouldn’t be wed. In fact, many can’t.
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The Method is just ego, and harmful to cast cohesion. It’s worth exploring why an actor like Stewart, who imho put up two of the greatest performances of the 2010s in Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper gets labeled “difficult” while men who refuse to answer to their own name on set do not
Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.
Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting
YouTube video by The Interview
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The Method is just ego, and harmful to cast cohesion. It’s worth exploring why an actor like Stewart, who imho put up two of the greatest performances of the 2010s in Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper gets labeled “difficult” while men who refuse to answer to their own name on set do not
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My take on the current AI hysteria, not paywalled.
medium.com/p/could-yall...
medium.com/p/could-yall...
Could Y’all PLEASE Stop Pretending to Know What’s Coming With AI?
You know, one thing I’ve noticed lately is that as life in the U.S. becomes more intolerable/unaffordable/generally crazy/etc, the…
medium.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My take on the current AI hysteria, not paywalled.
medium.com/p/could-yall...
medium.com/p/could-yall...