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Every summer I’m thinking about this post and whether to send it to utility regulators 🤬

i did a little Climate Week postmortem on data centers: co2 emissions are far & away the most alarming part of the buildout. but there hasn't been much of a reckoning beyond climate spaces kind of wondering when it'll enter the larger convo, if at all, and what that may look like

Am I understanding that Robert Kraft, whose hobby is paying for sex with sex trafficked victims, is upset with Macklemore for opposing genocide? And the NFL chose to listen to Kraft?

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

So now we’re supposed to hate Canada and love Putin? That’s where we are at with this corrupt gangster government?

US media: Why in the world are people voting for democratic socialists? Financial Times: “US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows.”

Anytime someone online calls themselves an “independent thinker” or “independent researcher,” you know you’re about to read some of the stupidest shit imaginable from someone spectacularly detached from reality. Their “independent” means independent of a functioning frontal cortex.

Climate change is going to fuck up our infrastructure in ways that we can't even imagine in advance -- ways that are not captured in all the faux-precise climate-damage models. We were really stupid to run this uncontrolled, irreversible experiment.

The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

Morning commute on a bike lane that Doug Ford wants to rip out. 21 bikes and 4 cars clearing an intersection in 23 seconds. Which mode fights congestion?

Canada should take the same position as Iran. No deals of any kind with the Trump administration until it’s gone. We do not negotiate away our country to criminals, liars, rapists, traitors and anti-democratic thugs. America isn’t the enemy. Trump is. Fix your house.

Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon

Anyone who wants to take women's rights away is by definition a national security threat. Making a subservient class out of half the population is fascist terrorist activity.

At a recent Harvard Chan Studio event, a panel of environmental health researchers discussed a new global reality: how soaring temperatures are endangering communities, straining health systems, and demanding effective policy solutions.

This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.

politicians would rather ban children from social media than prosecute a single billionaire funding and operating an on demand csam generator

Kawhi Leonard flew out of Toronto the minute the 2019 Championship parade ended. It’s Lowry and DeRozan who were real ones and loved Toronto. Bring them back. #Raptors #Clippers

Important new report www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Rosa Parks' refusal to stand up and give her seat up to a white passenger on the bus was not some random, one time act taken because she was tired. Her action was part of a preconceived NAACP Bus campaign for equality and Parks was a dedicated activist. "Small" actions matters.

Pope Leo decries 'dizzying' profits earned by companies that pollute reut.rs/49KvLH2

That car better be an EV, Toyota and CBS. Fiji is particularly threatened by climate change, extreme heat and storms, and sea level rise #Survivor50

Exactly: “WHO should change its default response. For pathogens with documented person-to-person spread and severe outcomes, the initial assumption should be airborne risk” #publichealth #hantavirus

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough Thank you for being a friend to all animals and for helping the world to cherish us x

The air pollution from ppl burning gas in stationary vehicles while they’re playing on their phones drives me NUTS. Toronto needs to start enforcing its 1-minute idling bylaw @mayoroliviachow.ca and make the penalty steeper. This matters towards public health and climate goals.

As a proud Canadian I’m not OK with the mac & cheese ketchup-shaming of Joe and his kid. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. #survivor50

"MAHA" in a nutshell

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

This.

Kind of weird that the president is a rapist, and a court reaffirmed it, and everyone knows it, and we're all just going about our days like normal.

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️

The Trump family's approach to the United States is based on the classic corporate raider's approach: 1) Take over a troubled yet very valuable target. 2) Strip out everything of value out of it. 3) Load it with debt. 4) Walk away with the loot before it collapses.

Someone tell the car-brains who want to ruin Toronto’s High Park with cars “because disabled people”.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Best ONN in months at least.

My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I’m begging men like this to just kill themselves and leave others alone! Jfc

31 consecutive days where domestic wind and solar generation covered 100 percent of national electricity demand with zero fossil fuel input at any hour of any day. Danish grid operator Energinet confirmed it. Credit @joelthedane.bsky.social matr.net/news/denmark... #energysky

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...