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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦

@pjpartington.bsky.social

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Millennial climate wonk & policy cat-herder. Innovation for net zero. *Aspiring LinkedIn DJ* I've worked on policy from both sides now / from in and out, and still somehow / It's stupid memes that I recall / I really don't know politics at all

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Jun 6

New playlist for all you Canadian music sickos, *double-doubling* up on the CanCon. How is this possible, you ask? We've got Canadian songs covered by Canadian artists. Hurry hard and give'r a go!

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Ve...

Covered in Maple Syrup

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 5h

suddenly noticing all of my gauche belt loops

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 1d

"Rachel Hirleman, whose house backs up to the atom smasher, said... [she] has enjoyed watching the seasons change around it.

“Come wintertime, it starts to look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland—but in a cool way,” she said. “Not everyone gets to have one of those in their backyard.”

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 1d

"Potential buyers have balked when they learned the property came with an atom smasher."

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 1d

"Teens built a skate park, and occasionally still use it. People walk their dogs around the rubble, dodging Miller Lite cans. Eleven summers have come and gone. The atom smasher abides."

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like @shastingssimon.bsky.social would enjoy this piece on reviving a vintage neighbourhood atom smasher. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/we...

One Town’s Quest to Find a Loving Home for Its Atom Smasher

A decade after a landowner pledged to preserve the Westinghouse device, it still hasn’t moved. Now he says he has a buyer and a plan.

www.wsj.com

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 4d

It makes me so sad that these people can’t think of something more interesting to do with a whole extra room. Get a hobby!!!! Start a canoe collection, become a weird puzzle person, build your kids a ball pit, stack all your unread New Yorkers, anything!!

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 4d

This is blowing my mind. Is it some weird hybrid? One fossil kitchen and one electric one? 🤣

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 6d

next time!

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 6d

I don't think there's a sad enough trombone sound for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor | CBC News

Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin.

www.cbc.ca

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 7d

It's happening again, Toronto friends. Come one, come all!

Beaches Brewing, 8pm onwards

A modified cover of Neil Young's seminal album Tonight's the Night reads "Energy Beers: Tonight's the Night" (because it is)

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 7d

SERENITY NOW!

(Sunrise this morning on Lake Ontario)

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 8d

And just maybe an Even More Special Guest will make a rare appearance out of their natural habitat in the NCR….

A mysterious head looms in detail in front of a distant wind turbine. Is it… a cat? A gopher of some kind? It’s a hero for our times, that’s what. And if you come to the event you might be lucky enough to get a selfie if you as really nicely

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 8d

Toronto pals, I *highly* recommend this event that NRCan is hosting for T.O. Climate Week. If hearing from your favourite federal electricity innovation nerds isn’t enough to lock your Friday morning down, we’ve got Microsoft, Toronto Hydro, Alectra, Goldfinch, AND a net-zero venue luma.com/npilhiuw

Powering the Future: Innovative Electricity Transformations in Canada · Luma

Do you spend almost none of your time thinking about energy and electricity, but thinking you probably should spend a little bit more time? Do you have a…

luma.com

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · 11d

Come for the great journalism, stay for the endless hit parade of Shania Twain references

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11d

Ontario bureau chief @elaineanselmi.bsky.social took the prerogative to have a little fun with our latest newsletter, about a proposed nickel mine in Shania Twain’s hometown of Timmins.

thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...

Is mining ‘still the one’ in northern Ontario? | The Narwhal

A past effort to attract fans to Shania Twain’s hometown of Timmins didn’t go well. A proposed nickel mine has the town wondering: can it only go up from here?

thenarwhal.ca

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Sep 5

Purely in the name of fun, here's a chart of all countries that were at 3-4% EV share in 2019 in IEA's database: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not to brag, but my morning run took me past a famous landmark 🏃🌟

Queen streetcars loop-di-looping at their Eastern turnaround point

The cover of Canada's 2025 National Inventory Report, featuring Queen streetcars loop-di-looping at their Eastern turnaround point, but at night this time

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Sep 3

⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought.

New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Sep 2

Was wondering why our outdoor rug is often askew and this morning I got a clue as to why (or at least *how*)

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 20

Bike parking at the Danish Parliament ❤️

Lots of bikes in from of danish parliament

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 18

Wait, are you still in Copenhagen? I'm arriving tomorrow and would love to take you up on one of your headshots if you have any openings 😊

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 17

Perhaps a cousin of the great Baker Bob: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Baking Bread in Lyon

For a newcomer to the city, a boulangerie apprenticeship reveals a way of life.

www.newyorker.com

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’ll admit to being curious about the bacon chocolate churros and the gyro made with “choux oil” 🧐

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P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 16

Yessssss, Moon of the Crusted Snow is the best 🌕🥧❄️

(And its sequel, Moon of the Turning Leaves 🌕🔄🍂 )

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 13

Are they encouraging the kids to fail fast? 🤔

P.J. Partington 🇨🇦 @pjpartington.bsky.social · Aug 13

Free advice to IPCC comms people: "You back there are you back there listening to me am I audible what do I do to make this audible" would make for a title for the next AR cycle