Reposted by Andrew IrwinYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...dailykos.comLarge language muddleA cartoon by Tom Tomorrow. 21537169
Reposted by Andrew IrwinThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites theonion.com/hhs-replaces-childhood… 371938414
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A useless thing I still have in my office: a 25’ VGA cable. 011
Reposted by Andrew IrwinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says. 331657977
Reposted by Andrew IrwinMichael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines 615288239435
Reposted by Andrew IrwinMichael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Just heard that Jorge Sarmiento passed away. One of the true pioneers in ocean biogeochemistry. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...princeton.eduRemembering Jorge Sarmiento, a ‘giant’ in climate studiesClimate scientist Jorge Sarmiento was Princeton's George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, and a professor of geosciences, emeritus. 0218
Reposted by Andrew IrwinProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026🌊 The ocean absorbs >90% of Earth’s excess heat, and our ability to track it depends on a fragile global network of floats, ships and sensors. New research warns that cuts to the Global Ocean Observing System could make climate signals indistinguishable from noise. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comCritical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate ChangeInternational collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ... 4295164
Reposted by Andrew IrwinProf Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Fantastic review on the ocean carbon cycle and climate led by Laure Resplandy that pulls together impressive budgets and tackles some key narratives 🌊 www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1... 36621
Reposted by Andrew IrwinJoel Chan @kjoules.org · 13/05/2026Hongbin Liu today pled guilty to 1 count of conspiracy for a public servant to accept an advantage, and 2 counts of offering an advantage to a public servant, after he accepted a bribe of HK$40,000 and then gave $5,000 & $1,000 bribes to colleagues. • Placed in remand; he awaits sentencing May 28 143
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Watching 63 up. Never get tired of that series. youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comThe 7 Up Series Documentary - YouTube 010
Reposted by Andrew IrwinMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Carl warned us 6623034894
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Cars use a tunnel now. Pedestrians walk above ground. 010
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Fun to stand on a runway. Never done that before. GIB runway 09. 350
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Alliteration prize of the day: “Consumers crunched by climbing cucumber costs” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caWhy are veggies so expensive? Consumers crunched by climbing cucumber costs | CBC NewsFresh veggies cost 7.8 per cent more in March compared to March last year, according to Statistics Canada's most recent inflation numbers. And the worst offender? The mighty cucumber. 021
Reposted by Andrew IrwinAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...open.substack.comThis Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend. 519136866144
Reposted by Andrew IrwinTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Everything you need to know about the ‘spaceport’ in Nova Scotia by Marie Lumsdenhalifaxexaminer.caEverything you need to know about the 'spaceport' in Nova Scotia - Halifax ExaminerYou see, almost none of the government and corporate propaganda is true. 12516
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e2fb8ba...theglobeandmail.comGrades are failing first-year students. Let’s scrap themA pass-fail first year would encourage exploration across disciplines, and allow time to adapt to university 010
Reposted by Andrew IrwinJohn Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/04/2026No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending. 910164553631
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026First strip mall in Canada. leasidelife.com/an-ode-to-su...leasidelife.comAn ode to Sunnybrook Plaza - Leaside LifeIt’s gone now. Built in 1952 as the first suburban strip mall in Canada, Sunnybrook Plaza at Bayview and Eglinton had a good run. But it’s gone now. 031
Reposted by Andrew IrwinBartek Ciszkowski @justbartek.ca · 21/03/2026I was at a seed swap today and someone was saying it'd be great if there was a map of public fruit/flowering trees. Well, Halifax *does* publish the data but it's not user friendly (data-hrm.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/HRM...) So here's a little map that's more user friendly justbartek.ca/hfxtrees 85017
Reposted by Andrew IrwinThe French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I don't know which countries the US will go to war with in the next 100 years, but I do know they will all be armed with US manufactured weapons. 641316238
Reposted by Andrew IrwinRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 421212397198
Reposted by Andrew IrwinDan Izzo @izzos.net · 19/02/2026Whelp...never using an in-room coffee machine in a hotel again 15073852641
Reposted by Andrew IrwinTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026A trifecta of AI stupidity Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.socialhalifaxexaminer.caA trifecta of AI stupidity - Halifax ExaminerRidiculous questions, terrible ethics, and an attempt to claim chatbot interactions should be covered by attorney-client privilege. 1126
Reposted by Andrew IrwinLindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Today’s Canadian artwork is “Placentia Bay Boat in Winter” created by Christopher Pratt in 1995. 0143
Reposted by Andrew IrwinDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this. 7046611114
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026It’s hard to believe the Atlantic time zone is real. How far East of New York?? 030
Reposted by Andrew Irwin—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 02/02/2026Biometric locks for phones aren’t just convenient for you, they are convenient for the cops. “explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/w...theintercept.comWashington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics NowThe search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent. 14522411299
Reposted by Andrew IrwinCaitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/01/2026In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this: 50172431830
Reposted by Andrew IrwinGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime. 6303561012728
Reposted by Andrew IrwinPawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It is profoundly ironic that the whole stated purpose of mass gun ownership in the US - which carries it with the associated cost of frequent mass shootings, including in schools - is to protect against oppressive tyrannical government and yet... 1202677715
Reposted by Andrew IrwinGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026you don’t have to write “police involved shooting.” use english. It’s not hard 571137140
Reposted by Andrew IrwinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/01/2026I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA. 31598042993
Reposted by Andrew IrwinMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement. 7693758011750
Reposted by Andrew IrwinTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I really am just trying to model that it's ok to say things. We should be using our voices and we should not be looking away. And the more of us that say things, the faster things change. 321343111
Reposted by Andrew IrwinAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... " 813203996508
Andrew Irwin @andrewirwin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026In New Brunswick in a new factory after the old one burned in 2024. 010
Reposted by Andrew IrwinDr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026This is what 9300m looks like in the deep sea. Small, free-moving bristle worms swim through dense fields of slender tube worms. The bristle worms are only a few centimeters long, while the tube worms grow tubes up to 30cm, creating a crowded, living landscape on the deep seafloor. 1337
Reposted by Andrew IrwinTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada Morning File by mehalifaxexaminer.caThe ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada - Halifax ExaminerDo we really think that a Canadian government that can't find the moral clarity to act against a child abuse platform will resist a multi-pronged American assault on Canadian sovereignty? 74725
Reposted by Andrew IrwinPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric. It’s not. /1 12664141621
Reposted by Andrew IrwinMike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity. 30387604189
Reposted by Andrew IrwinEllen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 08/01/2026see video (it shows him leaving) bsky.app/profile/mike... 28320
Reposted by Andrew IrwinTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 06/01/2026The arrest of Mark Carney will bring peace, prosperity, and freedom to North America Morning File by mehalifaxexaminer.caThe arrest of Mark Carney will bring peace, prosperity, and freedom to North America - Halifax ExaminerAs with the once-independent countries of Texas and California before it, Canada rightly should become a state under the flag of the United States. 86527