A decade ago, Ontario stopped burning coal for power. Could past lessons apply to a transition away from natural gas? @karansaxena.bsky.social chats with reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social for this newsletter: “I live in a province that did the impossible.” thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-o...
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Halloween horror! Horrifying: 1. Floating skull 2. Evil fog 3.Slime fiend Utterly horrifying: 1. Floating skull who borrows books and never returns them. 2. Evil fog with some really awful opinions (it is saying we've got the internet so we don't need libraries") 3. Slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys online
A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).
Environmentalists say the decades-old fight to ban tobacco ads has laid the groundwork for outlawing ads promoting fossil fuels. @meyer.bsky.social reports:
Frosty field from a few weeks ago, with some especially frosty brown-eyed susans ♡
An interesting new observation of the natural history of mitochondria tells us for the first time that there are two distinct types of mitochondria, one specialized for biochemical synthesis, the other for energy metabolism. This nontechnical video tells a fascinating story.
Corpse flowers capture the headlines and it’s great 🌿🌱🌳
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Flowers, grassy hills, Loch Muick (pronounced “Mick”), a freshwater lake located within the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies in the Cairngorms National Park.
Loch Muick (pronounced “Mick”), a freshwater lake located within the Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland & the Cairngorms National Park. #nature #geography #photo
A medium sized cream-colored hawk with brown splotches across his midsection, brown wings, and red and brown striped tail perched on a medium sized brown branch. The view is from directly below him looking up, and his is staring straight down at the camera with intense concern.
When the Red-tailed Hawk realizes that he's landed in a tree directly above your head. #birds 🌿
Photo of a leafy shoot and infructescence. The fruits are black and fleshy. Jasminum dichotomum by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.
Fruit types & dispersal modes in #Oleaceae are diverse. Drupes are the rule in Oleeae + Ligustrum & Syringa, but Fraxinus & Fontanesia have samaras, Schrebera & Forsythia have capsules & winged seeds, Myxopyrum & Jasminum have berry-like fruits. 📷: J. dichotomum #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
#FungiFriends
As someone who wrote copiously in defence of decking Richard Spencer and on the ethics of Nazi-punching (short version: it's good), I also agree strongly with Emily that we privilege these memeable moments over the patient (and sometimes dangerous) work of actual politics far too often.
photo shop front with display sign in english reads horrifying goods
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Neil, a hairless rat with hooded markings, is happily banging out the tunes on a purple toy keyboard!
happy anniversary of neil banging out the tunes! :D
Tick Marks xkcd.com/2918
Sitting in a Tree xkcd.com/2919
Title: Some exciting new literary genres 1. Romantasy. A warrior says to a goblin prince “I love you but I must slay the dragon who ate my father!” 2. Gothicookery. A vampire in a kitchen says “Step one: slice an onion by the light of a full moon” 3. Dystopiano music. A figure in a hazmat units sits at a piano in a blasted wasteland playing Beethoven’s pastoral symphony. 4. Whodunnitalian phrasebook. A detective stands by a corpse and says “Assassinato! In una stanza chiusa a chiave!” 5. Sci-Finance. A robot says to a bounty hunter “Our shares in the evil galactic empire are up ten percent!”
‘Some exciting new literary genres’
My latest Guardian Books cartoon.
I am in this photo and I don’t actually care.
is it gay vampire season already? (obvious answer: it is always gay vampire season) 🦇🩸
Gender is a toy, sometimes I put it on a shelf to show it off, sometimes I play with it, sometimes I forget I have it and sometimes I share it with my friends.
