Jimmy Thomson

27 Mar

pssst it's rugged and independent to have your own source of energy instead of depending on oil from the oil store like a little baby

Got @whysharksmatter.bsky.social's new book hand-delivered! All about how to support better fishing practices with our own choices.

On store shelves now, or, apparently you can track down David in the wild and he is forced to hand you one.

11h

This would be a good chart to show to people who want to blame vote splitting for the NDP's absolute spanking

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social

One Chart That Explains The 2026 B.C. Election

Nathan Fielder: but you get why it's funny though Me, sweating: it's funny because his fingers are salad Nathan Fielder: but why is it funny *to you*? Me, crying: because fingers are normally made of blood and bone

In a world of Billy Evanses, be the Amanda Seyfried you want to see in the world

Omg all this time I've been spelling it "buck ass naked"

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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nationalobserver.comWainwright fire tests whether military protocols have kept up with a changing climateJohn Vaillant, author of the Pulitzer-nominated Fire Weather, thinks protocols are out of date, and has previously warned senior military leaders as much. After Wainwright, he wonders if that memo mad...

New: Fire experts @johnvaillant.bsky.social and @mikeflannigan.bsky.social say the deadly incident in Wainwright is a sign of how fire behaves in 2026 — and that the military should have known.

globalnews.caRogers plans to charge extra for bill payments with a credit card - National | Globalnews.caRogers says it will begin charging most customers across Canada a 1.6 per cent processing fee next year for bill payments made using a credit card.

Rogers Decries Blood-Sucking Parasite on Canadians

Global News@globalnews.ca

Rogers says the decision "reflects the fees we are charged by credit card companies." globalnews.ca/news/1211865...

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nationalobserver.comOperational gas wells in CFB Wainwright were ordered closed — but the fire came firstThere’s no publicly available evidence gas wells played a role in the fire. But the company that owned wells on the base is distancing itself from control over them.

NEW: A company that was recently responsible for gas wells on CFB Wainwright has issued a blistering statement condemning the Orphan Well Association and Alberta Energy Regulator for not closing wells before the fire that killed four soldiers on Saturday.

wired.comMark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot MeasureMeta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

People who want to see this as evidence billionaires will flee from taxes will see it that way, but another (better) way to see it is one of the world's most odious companies scrambling to put more money in public coffers

nationalobserver.comFirst Nations say loudest ‘no’ in Alberta separation vote, with record turnoutJay Telegdi, the campaign manager who oversaw the vote for the Treaty 8 Sovereign Nations, said the referendum will have a lasting impact on the relationship between Indigenous communities and the pre...

Find me any other example of a vote this one-sided, I'll wait

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com

Polls located in Indigenous communities consistently posted results where the "remain" option won by over 90 per cent.

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Zoe Mason

@zoemas0n.bsky.social

Replying to @zoemas0n.bsky.social

Fort McMurray is the main city servicing the Alberta oilsands, and oil has been at the centre of the separation debate. It’s also probably going to be at the centre of the independence movement going forward — however that looks. (One way: many separatists are already turning on Danielle Smith)

nationalobserver.comAlberta’s separatists aren’t done — but some are done with Danielle SmithFor Alberta's separatists, yesterday's referendum loss is just a setback.

nymag.comThe 75-Year-Old ScreenagersSeniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.

Everyone should get to go in a little plane in their second month on the job. I want to go in a little plane.

Zoe Mason@zoemas0n.bsky.social

Around six weeks ago, I started a new position at the Alberta reporter for @nationalobserver.com. This week, Albertans voted on separation. I spent the past three days in Fort McMurray speaking to people who work in and around Alberta’s oil patch about the referendum.

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amy brown 👻

@amybrown.xyz

genuinely i think this is about half of what's going on in my town. the seniors are alone in their houses getting radicalized by AI slop

Lizzie O'Leary@lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Incredible story. nymag.com/intelligence...

@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

Unbelievable. We need to demand so much more from our government. This is basic data that was previously available. You don't just scrub the record clean because there's an investigation going on.

Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca

This is a publicly funded government agency refusing to share weather warnings and their own public warnings with a journalist at Global News, one of the larger mainstream news outlets in Canada. I really want you to sit with the bare facts of that.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates

You rubes, you fools, you naive waifs, can’t you see that the future-eating machine is merely devouring the future and therefore your interpretation that the present is endangered is entirely incorrect!

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nationalobserver.comAlberta’s separatists aren’t done — but some are done with Danielle SmithFor Alberta's separatists, yesterday's referendum loss is just a setback.

“Alberta will never be independent as long as Danielle Smith remains premier of the province of Alberta."

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Max Fawcett

@maxfawcett.bsky.social

Now, more than ever, Albertans need to kick their addiction to grievance politics. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/26/o...

nationalobserver.comAlbertans are addicted to their grievances. It’s time to break the cycleConservative politicians like Pierre Poilievre have spent the last decade nurturing the resentments of Albertans towards Ottawa. Now, they need to start challenging the grievances they've deliberately...

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Colin Schultz

@colinschultz.bsky.social

🍁 Attention freelance journalists 🍁 Canada's @nationalobserver.com is looking for your pitches. We have a healthy freelance budget (think potential travel), and are looking to fund interesting, ambitious reporting that dives deep into Canada's climate, energy, and politics.

Can we have the flag back now please

CBC calls it for the remain side. Now we get to see where the referendum movement metastesizes next — maybe they'll do another road trip! Maybe they'll go to space

And now the denial starts

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org

“Don’t worry about it, it’s all bullshit,” shouts one attendee!

Panelist on CBC says emissions reductions regs were like telling people in Ontario we will no longer build cars. It's definitely time for the results to come in, the riffing is getting silly.

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Now she's defending the fact that they are counting the ballots by hand WHO IS THIS WOMAN

Truly if there is an opinion to be held and expressed she will choose the worst version of it and say it badly. Nobody ask her what she thought of the last season of Game of Thrones or she'll show you her Pickle Rick tattoo

Panelist on CBC says emissions reductions regs were like telling people in Ontario we will no longer build cars. It's definitely time for the results to come in, the riffing is getting silly.

Same panelist (who the fuck is this) just said Alberta is a province "whose votes fundamentally don't matter" because it doesn't get to unilaterally choose the federal government. Two of the last three PMs have been from Alberta.

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Max Fawcett

@maxfawcett.bsky.social

Most of the coverage tonight has been a relitigation of Alberta’s grievances. Talking to separatists whining about Trudeau, panelists whining about Trudeau…and nobody ever really trying to introduce facts to their feelings. Pathetic.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social

You don't have to do this, @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social. It's a choice. They want to defund you. They think you're a propaganda arm of an evil government. You will never win them over by showing them grace when they show absolutely none towards you.

Thankfully competently running elections is not high on the list of priorities for the separatists

Tyler Olsen@tyolsen.bsky.social

Alberta seems like they could totally run their own country.

Godspeed to every journalist and producer trying to keep a referendum night livestream alive with a big 0% - 0% at the bottom of the screen, two and a half hours after polls were expected to close.

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nationalobserver.comIn Alberta’s north, fortunes are tied to the fate of the oilsands. So is the referendum voteThe people who live in and around Fort McMurray are particularly exposed to the booms and busts of the oil and gas industry. For well over ten years, that’s translated to plummeting property values an...

@zoemas0n.bsky.social toured the oilsands from the air on referendum day.

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Alessandro Rigolon

@alerigolon.bsky.social

So much conflict and hatred come from the politics of fossil fuel

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com

The oilsands are at the centre of the separatist conversation, but the people who live and work there say they are on the periphery of Alberta's politics. @zoemas0n.bsky.social travelled to Fort McMurray to gauge the appeal of separatism in Alberta’s oilpatch.

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