None of it made any sense until I realised they don't work for Canadians, they work for the fossil fuel companies. It's not just the Conservatives, it's the Liberals and the NDP too. Only the rhetoric changes. They are all hell bent on destroying the future as long as $$ flows to their FF friends.
I'm remembering the time I posted this performance of The Pogues Sunny Side of the Street to my workplace Slack as a response to some good news. I hadn't watched the video first, whoops. Shane had puked on himself, but got the job done while remaining on his feet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBJZ...
I went down a rabbit hole this morning, remembering a trip with my UVic Environmental Studies class to Merv Wilkinson's selective logging tree farm on Vancouver Island. We have known about these better options for far too long to have still not implemented them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EoI...
Since the 1940s Vancouver Island's Wildwood has been managed using Scanadinavian-inspired forestry principles that view a forest as more than just a stand of...
I wish I could enjoy the humour in this more.
This is something to watch - FTC going after mobile data broker Kochava for selling extremely detailed data on 100s of millions. Data such as location, revealing home address, work, associates, shopping, the list goes on. All with little or no oversight on purchasers. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Judge: Data broker’s motion to sanction FTC “long on hyperbole, short on facts.”
I'll be posting about the climate crisis (and its consequences), civil disobedience (and its consequences), Canadian politics and related shitfuckery, and occasionally I'll go off on something geeky about drupal, server performance, or who-knows-what. Thanks for being here.
Hello World! Once a mild mannered programmer, growing alarm about Canada's lack of action on the climate crisis has lead me to nonviolent civil disobedience as a moral and democratically compatible way to achieve lasting change in a short period of time with a relatively small number of people.