More back-sliding on climate: Carney is eliminating the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard that would have mandated 100% EVs by 2035. New target is 75% EVs by 2035, 90% by 2040 but it's not clear if not-yet-finalized policy will achieve this www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...
Learn my technique!
I love to paint winter scenes. It’s fun to paint snow, but you have to get the colors right! Here’s a few tips that help me succeed.
Questions welcomed!
It’s that time again :D
See you tonight, heathens!
#NollaignamBan
During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...
Male mountain bluebird landing on a tiny branch (or perhaps taking off).
Your daily calm.
(male mountain bluebird) #birds #calm #peaceful
(photo credit unknown)
Stabilizing the camera by setting it on the stars rather than the horizon shows how the Earth rotates. I think I like this better. 🤩
Erlanbek Mamatzhan is a Kyrgyz painter born on November 2, 1989. He studied at I. Arabaev University and specializes in landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. His work merges realism, impressionism, and surrealism, with exhibitions in Kyrgyzstan and abroad, including China and Almaty.
Paying people for plasma feels unethical.
But Canada already gets ~80% of its plasma from the U.S. where the system is far more exploitative.
We can't pretend there’s a standard of Canadian moral purity that we haven’t already broken.
from @torontotoday.ca
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We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.
Voyager 1 artist’s depiction.
in case you didn’t know, in a year voyager 1 will be 1 light-DAY away from earth.
it took almost 50 YEARS of travel time to reach that distance and will be the first human-made object to reach this distance.
Such a great series 😍
“It really suited us to portray ourselves as this kind of pinnacle of human evolution,” says paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, who hosts the BBC and NOVA PBS docuseries “Human.” She says Homo sapiens was actually an evolutionary underdog—and shares why Neanderthals get a bad rap.
Dr. Jane Goodall was an extraordinary champion for nature. She holds a special place at Esri as a friend and advocate for using technology to protect and transform our world for the better. Her inspiration will always remain in our hearts.
Rest in peace, power, and warm chimpanzee embrace, dear Jane
There are a few people that are inspirations to almost all scientists that I know, and Jane Goodall was one of them. RIP. 😢
This is figure 1, which shows global and regional PM2.5 pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfires.
Around 354 million people in North America and Europe are likely to have been affected by fine particulate matter pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire season, a paper published in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/42iffKC ⚒️ 🧪
In this country. In Canada FFS.
Raise hell people. Raise hell.
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Oh my goodness it’s a double butterfly week! 🧪🔭
First we got this look of the Butterfly Nebula, a planetary nebula formed at the end of a star’s life. The outer layers are expelled and illuminated by the remnant core, creating something resembling butterfly wings! (1/n)
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s THE BEWITCHING is as decadent as it is terrifying, a showcase for the author’s dark imagination and gorgeous prose. @delreybooks.bsky.social
"While many were created by users...Reuters discovered that a Meta employee had produced at least three, including two Taylor Swift “parody” bots."
Related: I hate how "parody" gets used as a get out of jail free card by unfunny writers and people who steal likenesses and copyrighted material
Another angle of the huge flush of golden oyster mushrooms that recently grew in a dead elm tree. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
![A planetary nebula called NGC 6302 or the Butterfly Nebula. A dark dust lane runs through the centre of the nebula and two broad clouds emerge from either side of the dust lane like the outstretched wings of a butterfly. The nebula appears clumpy and nearly opaque, with a few background stars showing through the cloudy material. The nebula appears in different shades of cream, yellow and orange, with the lightest colours appearing closest to the centre. The background of space is black with a handful of stars that are tinged pink.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3k4iipaz7ara5xvp3p42moe/bafkreidlt2uv4za5ddft7j675zmxvsoyxcqhaqunxw45b5a3aozpzo5pgu)
A planetary nebula called NGC 6302 or the Butterfly Nebula. A dark dust lane runs through the centre of the nebula and two broad clouds emerge from either side of the dust lane like the outstretched wings of a butterfly. The nebula appears clumpy and nearly opaque, with a few background stars showing through the cloudy material. The nebula appears in different shades of cream, yellow and orange, with the lightest colours appearing closest to the centre. The background of space is black with a handful of stars that are tinged pink.]
if you need a bit of calm today, here’s the BEAUTIFUL butterfly nebula from hubble 🦋🌌
