If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot:
Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.
It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
I just thought everyone should see this
Just spit ballin here, but, in light of this new geo-political landscape most all adults recognize as real, in an effort to help enhance Canada’s ability to become a more self-sustaining sovereignty, maybe this isn’t the best time to be blowing $10B-plus on a f*cken make-work highway tunnel.
How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
Nuclear SMRs were never really meant to work. For the companies it's a pump-and-dump fraud and for the offtakers it's perpetually-around-the-corner greenwashing so they can build filthy fossil gas for data centres today and tomorrow
Oklo the worst of the lot: far-right climate deniers all 'round
I feel as though there should be a law that says if Pierre Poilievre gets defenestrated as CPC leader in January then he has to move to Battle River—Crowfoot and live there until the next election because I think this would teach everyone involved an invaluable lesson about shenanigans.
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
dramatic autumnal sunset, with dark tree branches silhouetted against fiery orange and deep grey clouds.
Compare today’s story @theguardian.com and yesterday’s story in #TheDawnOfEverything
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Meanwhile, on #whaling
The new Japanese factory ship returns to port after a hunt of 25 fin whales
With the classic @greenpeace.org campaign of bearing witness long gone, and @cpwfgermany.bsky.social confrontations also stopped, this skates by with no coverage / interest
The heads of atomic bomb survivor groups in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have expressed hope that newly elected Pope Leo XIV will promote nuclear abolition as his predecessor, Francis, did.
I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining.
Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
Happy #FishyFriday @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social recently transitioned to Oxford University Press, and this article is from our first OUP issue. Great research comparing fishery-dependent and fishery-independent in a marine environment. Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/mcf/article/...
Here's some happy news for a Friday afternoon -
The whaling company that hunts fin whales in Iceland seems unlikely to go whaling this summer
Hoping this holds
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The European Commission is tabling a full shutdown of the EU market to American goods.
Invites Trump to fuck around and find out.
How can we formulate a general theory of evolution that includes the multiple scales of change and their causal connections? Check this paper by Ilya Temkin on hierarchies and Eldredge's @nilese.bsky.social punctuated equilibrium theory @andrejpaleo.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/service...
My Thoughts on Possible Migrations of "R" DNA and Proto-Indo-European
www.academia.edu/127589677/My...
Remember I did once some writing for The Atlantic. "Peddling hoaxes" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A good list of alternative services here, with a link to a directory of even more European services at the end.
Russian state media openly says what I and others warned about, which Trump/Vance/Musk and fans—along with Jeffrey Sachs, Noam Chomsky, and their end of the horseshoe—get badly wrong:
Russia is after conquest, not peace. US weakening Ukraine encourages more Russian attacks, not Russian negotiations.
The ascendancy of Mark Carney to the Canadian premiership and his determination to oppose Trump’s mad imperialist policies, is a cause for celebration. We must hope that he, Merz, Macron and Starmer will begin taking the steps required to wean us off our dependency on Trump’s new ‘House Of Orange’.
Ukrainians know that if a ceasefire has no viable enforcement mechanism and Kyiv stands alone against a militarist Russia, it will create a time-bomb for Ukraine’s future.
The convoy crew held the people of Ottawa hostage and tried to divide people with rage politics.
No wonder they are freaked out by Canadian solidarity and goodwill.
They promote bitterness.
We stand for a better nation.
#elbowsup my friends Canada is strong.
Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!!
youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
That’s not “misuse.” That’s fraud.
These tariffs are an unjustified, direct attack on Canadian workers, families, and businesses. (1/4)
