James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

If you take a social media sabbatical, don’t announce it. Just make your last post something fun like “I wonder if there’s a bear in this cave?”

Mike Pence’s presidential announcement got 5 retweets.

Can this picture of my dog’s butt beat that?

Reminder: @elonmusk could decide that bonding with some of the worst scumbags in the world, and meddling with global affairs, just isn't worth losing more billions over. He can donate Twitter to the @Wikimedia foundation, take a big tax write-off, and go off and populate Mars.

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot - Crashes have surged in the past four years, reflecting the hazards associated with increa... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

OMG. Pierre Poilievre actually said that he missed the raising of the Pride flag outside the House of Commons because he was "up late fighting inflation"! What a douchebag. #cdnpoli

https://globalnews.ca/news/9754836/poilievre-pride-working-late-inflation/

We just added the active fires in Canada, the smoke, and the air quality to the CBC News Climate Dashboard. => https://cbc.ca/climate

you're not the boss of me anymore

We seem to be posting weevils today. Here, have a weevil.

#weevil #weevils #coleoptera #insects #arthropods #photography

To my North American friends east of the Mississippi:

Use N95 masks outdoors when AQI is greater than 100. And if you don't have air purifiers in your home, get them. Honeywell and Coway have reliable models I feel comfortable recommending.

Do not take poor air quality lightly.

We've become hardened experts at living with wildfire and smoke in California over the last 8 years. You don't have to learn the hard way.

Stay safe and take good care ❤️

#AirQuality #Fires #Smoke

There's a lot wrong here, but also: there's no plausible explanation for this that doesn't involve a misappropriation of state funds.

After days of silence, officials in Florida have finally confirmed that the DeSantis administration orchestrated two recent charter flights that carried groups of migrants from New Mexico to Sacramento.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/politics/desantis-florida-migrant-flights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I’m so angry by the golf news that I will boycott golf by continuing to ignore golf.

The people "on the left" excited by Kennedy running, are the same people "on the left" who have complicated opinions about why Putin was right to invade, and the same people "on the left" who thought we should hear QAnon out about vaccines, and the same people "on the left" who thought we should "work with" *checks notes* fascist militia Boogaloo Bois to, something something.

Maybe they just aren't "people on the left" at all. And it's the exact same people, every time; curious that.

🔥East Coast friends: if the #Wildfire smoke is thick in your area, build a Corsi-Rosenthal box filter. These are inexpensive to build and very effective, and they filter and exchange the air in your house very efficiently. We use them extensively here in the western US when the fire smoke is bad. See this resource for how to build one:

https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/

The fish shop is selling half price flat fish.

Cheap skates.

Conservative parents are like "Yes my child is totally straight, I just need to shield their sensitive eyes from any books and/or rainbows because I know for a fact that will immediately turn them gay. The kid is straight as an arrow though."

All those red dots indicate record-breaking temperatures in the forecast for Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

The new CBC News Climate Dashboard lets you quickly visualize things like this and explore historical trends:

🔗 : https://cbc.ca/climate

Amazing work by @naelshiab et al. on this project.

“In a change never recorded in the past century, the probability that children and adolescents [in the U.S.] will live to age 20 is now decreasing.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/american-life-expectancy-decline-covid/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjI2MjkwNzczIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4NTU5MjAwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4Njg4Nzk5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg1NTkyMDAwLCJqdGkiOiJjZWNlMGZhNC04MTU4LTQ0MmItODJhNC0xNWQxZGJjZTM0MTIiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vb3BpbmlvbnMvMjAyMy8wNi8wMS9hbWVyaWNhbi1saWZlLWV4cGVjdGFuY3ktZGVjbGluZS1jb3ZpZC8ifQ.paNP8Mx7oE3UOdQo-AemKJcP1qr6IYA5vpK5-jqDeyE