Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦
sambir.bsky.social
Sam Bird 🏔️🍁🇨🇦
@sambir.bsky.social
Geographer. Mostly harmless.
Mountains > oceans. Permafrost is cool. Rivers and lakes are pretty nice too.
Would easing sanctions on Belarus make it easier to circumvent sanctions on Russia? Possibly used to funnel money in and out of Russia with sneakier currency exchanges?
December 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A small impurity incorporated into the matrix of the aggregate? Perhaps tiny piece of metal, chipped off a piece of machinery during quarrying, transport, or manufacturing?
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
How can she claim to want extreme oversight and control of every institution funded with public money and also want to instead give public money to a zillion small private organizations where she'd obviously have no oversight?
She's a liar. A con.
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
What a lying sack of shit. ALWAYS misrepresenting reality.
Sure, let's go back to old timey Alberta values. You know, the ones that actually happened. Where rural Albertans demanded public schools & hospitals be established & funded. The socialist programs the UFA won govt by promising to rural AB.
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Are you illiterate? Don't understand how to use a link? Do you know there's a difference between a manifesto & a single post?
Maybe a brainless troll paid by Russia?
All better reasons than the humiliating possibility that you're unpaid and choose to think your reply is anything other than bullshit.
December 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Yes. That would be a good step forward.
This particular story is about the IOC taking a big step backwards regarding Russia specifically. Difficult to imagine the IOC taking a forward step to address Israeli crimes in Gaza while moving the wrong way with Russia.

It's a single post, not a manifesto.
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The O&G industry knows demand destruction is the real threat to their longevity. It explains their words, actions, and investments.
They are not building for a long term future of increasing demand, only projects that have a quick return on investment.
3/3
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Supply>demand is common for 1&3. The difference is O&G corps have/control expertise that can overcome cost & tech barriers. They'll use those tools so long as they believe demand will 📈 to meet supply.
Govts, political winds, policies come & go.
When no one needs your product, it's over forever.
2/3
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
3 big things slowed expansion of O&G in Canada in the last 20 years:
1) Tech to produce shale oil + OPEC policy
2) long pipeline approvals
3) A pandemic

1 created over supply
2 didn't prevent new production
3 was demand destruction
Cheap renewables = FF demand 📉 & the only durable solution
1/3
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Sounds good to me.
December 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Ok, I guess I can see there is an upside. But I reeeeeeallllly don't wanna see that much dumb-smug-face every day. Why are there only ever clowns on offer? I hate clowns.
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Hey now! Why you have to bring that rain cloud to this happy, hopeful celebration?
December 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I don't think it's possible to save something you've never had?
December 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM