Ol' Sparky

People ask me all the time for my favorite Onion headline, and there are like 200 of them, but my favorite recent print headline is easily this:

Fluoride and kids' IQ: What a decades-long analysis shows medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04... Findings "provide no support for the claim that community water fluoridation has any harmful effect on children's IQ or on adult cognition."

The collapse of the gulf stream will be catastrophic for the entire planet. The crisis in the earth's circulation system continues to be ignored while politicians promote massive oil/gas expansion. We are killing our children's future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What the hell is going on in Canadian media? Why was journalist Tina Yazdani — who was dogged in her coverage of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government — suddenly fired from CityNews without any explanation to the public? This is potential-major-press-freedom-story levels of concerning:

Dogs. Such adorable dorks we don't deserve. Life goal : Be the person your pet believes you to be.

Klein: There's a new company that is marketing that they have robot dogs who will do security at the data center. So even this handful of jobs that were being offered, they're already working to try to figure out how they won't even need those.

Khanna: They’re saying this technology is going to be bigger than nuclear, bigger than electricity, bigger than aviation. Last I checked, we have an FAA for aviation, nuclear energy is regulated, and electricity is regulated.

The Artemis II crew were just amazing to watch go. Christina Koch is everything shown here and a Space Plumber as well. Great photo.

🚨I get the frustration with access, but this is madness…👇 Seems likely to: > costs > overdiagnosis > unnecessary utilization > anxiety > GRIFTING! Alberta moves to allow private diagnostic tests without a doctor’s referral www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... cc @thebreakdownab.bsky.social

I've started adding Alt text for images in the form of the Star Trek episode "Darmok". Because 1, it makes sense and 2, vision impaired people deserve to have fun with memes too:

Good morning 😃

Did you know there is a Wikimedian in space? In 2019, Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch made the first-ever Wikipedia edit from space during her mission on the International Space Station. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

People are comparing Artemis II crew's Donald Trump call with Mark Carney's 😂 flip.it/V2Ijm3

The church of Borgund Stavkirke is one of the most beautiful in Norway 🇳🇴

Did you know there’s a Liberal MP who supported the convoy, spread misinformation about vaccines and more? Well, Carney seems to trust Marilyn Gladu to betray many of the things she previously claimed to believe — but do Canadians? Well, I got some clips together. Here’s Marilyn, in her own words:

ICE is alive and well in Los Angeles, aided and abetted by the County, and the City. They're trafficking people, who increasingly have nothing left to lose. part 1

We grow enough food to feed the world — so why are 733 million people still going hungry? A new study co-authored by Project Drawdown scientists finds that more than half of global crop calories never reach a human plate, diverted instead to livestock feed and biofuels. 🌽 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vch2h4

This is so well done. 👌

Breaking news Explosions in Tehran. t.me/c/1153953290... ❗️🇮🇷 Air defense active in Tehran t.me/Middle_East_... 🇮🇷⚡️ — Iranian local media report explosions in Tehran and sightings of drones; details remain unconfirmed. t.me/intelslava/8... Ceasefire is done.

This is a significant risk with non-curated knowledge bases. Just tossing everything into a datasource means everything gets evaluated the same way. AI can do a lot, but it cannot think critically. In some very specific circumstances we can fake it, but that's not the same thing.

Iran says they won’t negotiate with the US whilst it makes threats They’re basically saying they don’t negotiate with terrorists. 🇮🇷

TOMORROW is the deadline to signup for CANstruction 2026! Get your team signed up and help raise food for people in our community this May at West Edmonton Mall. Register at the link below. Thank YOU! #yeg #edmonton #feedyeg #yegfoodbank #CANYEG https://loom.ly/2MFJz2Q

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

Two‑year‑old Anya and her mother Dasha 💔 🕯were killed yesterday in Odesa when russians struck a residential building with a drone. Anya’s father is in intensive care. On June 23, little Anya would have turned three.

i feel like you all need this

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

Had no idea Dolly Parton did this, but am entirely unsurprised. She's neat.

Our Beyond Food program welcomes the Money Mentors for an informative session on Thursday, April 9! Please register in advance by phone or email, and our contact information is on the attached image. Thank YOU! #yeg #edmonton #yegfoodbank #feedyeg

@astrokatie.com She's just joined BlueSky with that very video I just saw from you :)

I love this crew. So much.

#Artemis II - Radio blackout and passing behind the Moon: What next for Artemis II? 🚀🌕 The Artemis II crew have just broken the record for the furthest distance humans have travelled from Earth. But their mission is far from over, and lots is scheduled in the next few hours: 1/4

The #Artemis II spacecraft is now fully behind the Moon, and will be unreachable for the next 40 minutes or so. This is the expected "loss of signal." During this time, they'll reach their closest approach to the Moon (about 4067 miles) and then their greatest distance from Earth (252,756 miles).

The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭