Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

It's time to banish the notwithstanding clause, the slow killer of Canada's rule of law

https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-banish-the-notwithstanding-clause-the-slow-killer-of-canadas-rule-of-law-215106

> The only solution to the ominous threats posed by the increasing use of the notwithstanding clause is to amend Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This is why we need art

@girls_can

This is excellent. Thankyou!

So in addition to cluttering up low earth orbit, wrecking terrestrial astronomy, creating the potential for a Kessler Syndrome cascade which could close access to space, and creating a national security nightmare, Starlink internet access is a climate catastrophe using up to 30 times the carbon footprint per internet subscriber of land based internet.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394949-starlink-carbon-footprint-up-to-30-times-size-of-land-based-internet/

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.

The traffic got BETTER.

Above average temperatures continued across the entire northern half of the Atlantic Ocean during September 2023. Temperatures were also anomalously warm over much of North and South America. The El Niño is of course striking too.

Data from ERA5 reanalysis at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview.

No, great teachers need adequate supplies, adequate support, a pay raise, and for parents to sit down and and butt out—not a Ted Baker vanity bag. Happy World Teachers’ Day y’all! #boots #TedBaker #teacher #WorldTeachersDay

It would be so much easier for Canadians to ignore US politics if the right-leaning parties here weren’t so eager to import the culture war and campaigning-without-solutions tactics

The oil-soaked bird photo that shocked the world.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231002-the-photo-of-the-deepwater-horizon-bird-that-shocked-the-world

"On 20 April 2010, the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded after a surge of natural gas blasted through its concrete core, spilling 795 million litres (210 million gallons) of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. Two days later, the rig capsized and sank into a valley in the continental shelf."
#Oil #Drilling #WildLife #OilSoaked

We are at the stage of higher education where faculty members are now given option to remove themselves from information directories due to fears of violence.

Social collapse doesn't happen in a day. Very likely historians will look back at this and point to it having already begun.

I'm coming to a point in my life when my ambitions have shrunk, and it feels so glorious.

I am no longer ashamed to say that I love small things. Smaller communities have always been more meaningful to me. Small businesses, modest but achievable goals, political ideologies that scale to thousands instead of millions. My dreams are small enough for me to live inside.

It's my goal to live in such a way that my gravestone can say "she attended well and faithful to a few worthy things."

​ Paying a few dollars a month to use Twitter, which is run by a billionaire.

​ Donating a few dollars a month to help your Mastodon server, which is run by people who care about their communities.

Periodic reminder to check the "About" section on your Mastodon server to see if they have donation links. :)

The #Brazilian president...telling the #UN that market liberalism had plagued #democracy and disfranchised millions, leaving them in poverty and prey to nationalist #totalitarianism.

“The 10 richest #billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 40% of humanity,” he said, adding that there was a lack of political will among those who governed the world “to overcome inequality”.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/world-inching-ever-closer-to-a-great-fracture-says-un-chief

#news #politics #economy #inequality #NeoLiberalism