Sunday Snippets: Fall

Less than four months till 2027 and we are sliding from summer to fall. Summer is my favorite season but with each summer getting hotter, it's hard to enjoy it as I once did.

Summerween, Augtober, and the Death of Summer

There’s a recurring theme rolling through social media, where the solution is to ‘disassociate from extreme heat…’

And in order to do that, you need to run-not-walk to target, marshalls, homegoods, and michaels to buy fall themed items.

So, we’re disassociating from extreme heat by enabling systems (consumerism and fossil fuels) that perpetuate EXTREME HEAT.

[stage directions: SCREAMING OFF STAGE LEFT]

Does Meat Make the Man?

25 Years Since 9/11, When Will The Immigrant Victims Be Remembered?

Gate A-4

We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.

The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed

Officials demand answers after violent ICE confrontation with Frederick protesters

How To Love The World When It’s Like This

Op-Ed: ICE Is Building the Future of Immigration Enforcement

Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness

College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Trump’s female army

Lifeguards and Angels

"we are not the dam trying to stop the river; we are the river that they are trying to dam, and whatever they build we will overtop it and flow in in the end."

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Abolition After Katrina

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily

She Was Absolved of a Heinous Crime. Why Won’t They Leave Her Alone?

Lovely Dolly-isms

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

Could Heat Disasters Kill 100,000 People This Year?

NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll

Baltimore’s Poe House launches emergency $50K fundraising campaign

Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada

ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back

People talked about this rural ranching dire need for medical services, and the medical service or hospital could also provide jobs, could also treat people that need medical services in the town. So trying to think about actually what the needs of a community are can only be answered at the local level, but just one example of there are desperate needs for things that are not extractive, that are not just a new national retailer coming in. National retailers, the Walmarts, the Dollar stores, they actually have a lot in common with immigration camps or prisons that they come in, they promise jobs. They promise bright new funds that are going to be spread out through your community, but they don’t actually work....We don’t need mass investment in better prisons. We need mass investment in our communities.

Sunday Snippets: April 5th

April 5th is a big day of in person protests, if you're able. From Indivisible with more information.

COVID is still evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems, scientists say

Editorial board resigns after journal cancels special issue on Palestine

Tesla shares plunge 15%, suffering steepest drop in five years

Time to Ditch the COVID-era Judginess

10 Reasons Not to Shop Amazon

Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

African HIV vaccine trial stopped due to Trump cuts

My Search For Refaat Alareer’s Body

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors

Take a Look: A Dark Scottish Isle Where Starlight Reigns Supreme

12 Women on Living Alone

With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Dire situation on vanishing Tangier Island captured by new documentary

French academic denied entry to US for ‘personal opinion’ on Trump

Strikes in Gaza kill 85 overnight, bringing the total since Israel broke ceasefire to nearly 600

Sunday Snippets: Have you contacted your reps yet?

For those in the US, have you contacted your state and federal reps lately? To ask them to vote against that man's cabinet picks? To help continue to fund climate change efforts? We may be stuck with that man, but we have ways of fighting back.

Massive ice core is a ‘time machine’ that could help solve an ancient climate mystery, scientists say

How do you love your neighbors when your houses are on fire?

How these suburban moms in Ukraine manage grief by training to down Russian drones

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?

Why are so many Indigenous Panamanians contracting HIV — and dying of AIDS?

How dare women go to college? DeSantis' new university trustee pick will fix it. | Opinion

This is What it's Like to Be A Medical Student at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza

Canadian man's home security camera captures the sight and sound of a meteorite strike

The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

Beyond Doomscrolling

Flowers For Rosa

Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump

Sunday Snippets: Holidays

Looking forward to the end of the year slowdown!

The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal

What Is It This Time?

Trans woman forced to cut hair and ‘remove breast tissue’ by Qatari officials

Discovery of human remains at Winnipeg landfill reignites decade-long trauma for family of missing woman

Of No Small Account: A Lilliputian-sized Diary from World War I, Part 2

‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine

We're not lion: The 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are a good laugh

Tehran Doctor Tortured And Killed For Treating Wounded Protesters

U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis with a stamp

Room With a View: The Best Hotel Views Around the World

Gov. Kate Brown commutes sentences of all 17 people on Oregon’s death row

Sunday Snippets: Four

My kiddo is four years old already. It's hard to believe.

This eerie and beautiful abandoned village in Canada has just gone up for sale

30 Funny And Adorable Pictures Of Animal Parents With Their Babies

People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine — not to stay, but to lend their support

A LIFE OF CREATIVITY AND EMPATHY

An organizing side hustle earns adjunct professor up to $250 an hour and about $100,000 a year

Angela Davis on the power of protest: ‘We can’t do anything without optimism’

What’s Wrong with the Way We Work

Piscataway Conoy Tribe wants to rename Indian Head Highway

Russian soldiers murder volunteers helping starving animals near Kyiv

HOW DID THIS MANY DEATHS BECOME NORMAL?

Endurance: Explorer Shackleton’s ship found after a century

A rescue team evacuates premature American twins from Kyiv in a daring mission

My Miscarriage, in Photos

Sunday Snippets: Yay Halloween!

The hubs and I went as mechanics. We also dressed up our fuzzy children. They were not as happy as I was.

Yup, there it is

6,000 aboriginal children died in residential school system, report finds

#TamirRice

Happenings in Canada

Whoa

The Illusion of Simplicity

Just hope the organization store doesn’t decide to redesign their containers — you’ll have to start all over again with new ones if you want everything to match.

This isn’t the kind of possibility I was hoping for.

This isn’t freedom from stuff, this is hoarding disguised as simplicity.

3 Ways to Say Goodbye to Busyness

5 Black Churches in the Ferguson Area Have Burned Since Last Week, Media Shrugs

LOLOLOL

Aww, poor guy!

The Syrian Refugee Struggle No One’s Talking About

Might need to sit down and watch The Knick now Also Clive Owen is forever on my list.

Facts that I didn't know

Such a classic

This actually does make a lot of sense

Let’s be honest. What he really wanted to say was “She was asking for it”.

An off-duty cop shot my brother inside a hospital. I want to know why.

Not Okay

Women can’t have it all – because the game is rigged

When commentators speak of women's 'work-life balance', they're not talking about how much time a woman will have, at the end of the day, to work on her memoirs, or travel the world. ‘Life', for women, is simply another word for work, a route-march through child-rearing and domestic labour which is assumed to be the ultimate destination of every woman’s passions. 'Life', for men, is meant to be bigger than that.
Disgusted, but not surprised

How to be a good ally

#FeesMustFall

Canada, looking good

This is horrifying

You will be surprised to learn that our friend Larry has also argued that “Biblically speaking, there is no such thing as ‘marital rape.’” In a post titled “Christian Husbands — You don’t pay for the milk when you own the cow!” Solomon insists a wife’s “body does belong to her husband,” and that any requests for sex deferral should be made “humbly and gently.” After all, “sex is not about being in the mood, and it is not about feelings, it is about doing what is right.”