Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets

It’s the “Paid for by the Government of Ontario” at the end of the damage control radio ads about the Greenbelt corruption that really bothers me.

If you want to lie to me, that’s one thing. But don’t spend my money to do it. #onpoli

Update: Two of the three people who ought to resign over the Greenbelt controversy have done so, and the lands have not yet been returned. Problem not yet solved. #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/steve-clark-resigns-greenbelt-1.6956402

If you are a TV exec, or know one, please, please, please make this happen.

#reality #TV #TVshow

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." -- Charlie Chaplin

"Unless you're 30,000 feet in the air." -- This lucky airborne photographer

@Amy_Hupe when I feel really low and situations big and little really suck sometimes I’m able to take a breath and make next moment a little bit better. One of ways I’ve often done this in the past is helping someone else smile or feel better. The last few years with increased social isolation has made these ephemeral bits of domestic magic harder to come by. Here’s a picture of Saffron I grew last fall … not really practical, just for joy.

#Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66387537

"The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health.
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU's climate change service Copernicus.
It reached 20.96C (69.73F) - far above the average for this time of year."
#ClimateChange #SurfaceTemperatureBroken

“Her arrest was part of a crackdown on non-violent Indigenous-led protests opposing the expansion and rerouting…a 1,097-mile tar sands oil pipeline with a dismal safety record, that crosses more than 200 water bodies”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/mylene-vialard-us-pipeline-protester-convicted

Happy Labor Day! ✊🪧

#HappyLaborDay #LaborDay #union #UnionStrong #work

"Typically, when a cabinet minister resigns Premier #DougFord immediately appoints a new minister to take their place.
The lack of a labour day appointment suggests a larger reorganization is in the works."

#greenbeltscandal #onpoli

via Colin D'Mello @globalnews

Watch to the end.😘👌

My favourite autumn meme! IDK the artist, does anyone else? I love it so much

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠

Let's talk #zooplankton nets. Why, on a large ship, do we use a net with very small diameter (0.4 m), but it is long (2 m)? Efficiency! These nets filter better, while not collecting *too much. #Eutrophic systems like #LakeErie clog nets with algae, so less volume is better. We target sizes using different Nitex meshes, most often 63 or 153 μm in the #GreatLakes. To measure volume, we use a flow meter mounted just off-center in the net mouth (know why?). #Science

Please keep doing what you can to #goTowardVegan diet. Thank you. We’re all in it together. 💚🌎✨

“Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows”

#environment #ClimateCrisis #goVegan

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-diet-cuts-environmental-damage-climate-heating-emissions-study

@babs_at_masto @girls_can @radiolab

seconded.

“Perhaps remnants of our evolutionary past lead us to assume that friendship happens organically. Because it once did. But it doesn’t anymore. If we want to make and keep friends, we need to swim against the tides of disconnection that have been gradually contaminating us for centuries...”
#connection #friendship #loneliness