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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 21m

Not funny funny but the funniest part of this whole misunderstanding is saying that China's slowing growth rate as they reach over 50% market share for EVs is a sign of China "cracking"

"Ha! China isnt on pace to have 200% market share! Sure sign of EV retreat"

Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 32m

WSJ shows to be exactly as clueless about EVs as you'd expect of US media, the one (last?) area of the world that doesn't "GET" EVs (!)

#alwaysbecharging

"Rest of World" will soon outpace US hard, and probably: forever!

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 3h

This is a crazy story (and also making me think I should really look into a helmet camera).
Why wasn't the driver charged with something for so directly lying to the police by completely making up a false story about what happened?

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 6h

and as you say, maybe it can help someone else by showing that they can do this too, or paving a path to make it just a little bit easier for someone who faces barriers.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 6h

I love this.
I think for me honesty is also very freeing (and a reflection of the amazing gift if you are able to be free) - what can be more free than feeling like you can show up as your whole self (or at least something close to that) and be accepted rather than having to pretend away parts.

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 12h

I’ve maybe taken this to an extreme with my book. Again, I regret nothing. It was worth doing because I think it can help others.

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 12h

There is power in making yourself vulnerable.

Yes, it’s scary but it’s often worth the risk.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 7h

This could be a fun homework assignment in a class - film a video that would prank your professor (ie you have to be giving exactly wrong but specific details on something from class)

Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 7h

I heard about the "giving bad advice" prank where you pretend to be telling someone bad advice in the area of your partners expertise and if only there was some reasonable context the quantum version would be hilarious
"ohh yeah, entanglement means you can send faster than light communication"

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 7h

My husbands would have to be telling someone something like "yeah dont bother getting solar panels, they are worthless because the sun doesn't shine at night...yeah its pointless that they are building these big farms of them too"

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 7h

I heard about the "giving bad advice" prank where you pretend to be telling someone bad advice in the area of your partners expertise and if only there was some reasonable context the quantum version would be hilarious
"ohh yeah, entanglement means you can send faster than light communication"

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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 20h

Canada and *especially* Alberta, bearing in mind the industry has racked up $300 billion+ in unfunded closure liabilities that are tracking to land on taxpayers’ laps.

@gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social — if you weren’t aware, consider tuning in this Thursdag: www.energyvsclimate.com/invite-drill...

You're Invited - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis with Martin Olszynski | Oct 16 at 4pm ET

Who'll be left paying the tab? Martin Olszynski, Associate Professor and Chair in Energy, Resources, & Sustainability at the University of Calgary, joins Energy vs Climate to unpack Alberta's mountin...

www.energyvsclimate.com

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 1d

China's gasoline demand peaked in 2021. www.iea.org/commentaries...

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 1d

I'd really like to see some reporting on this including studies of what has happened in other regions.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 1d

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we all have private friend chats we wouldn't necessarily want spread all over the internet but when I think about mine its because I'm saying something like "this analysis from these people is dumb" or "this policy is stupid" not racist/pro rape/whatever this is.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

What is it we're supposed to do again, when they tell us who they are?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I guess I know my dads cell number too (my mom never would answer hers so I never learned it)

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

Which numbers do you have memorized now?

For me: my dads landline (same as when I was a kid)
My dads work # (was best way to reach someone during the day)
Husbands cell

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 2d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

yeah definitely problematic to consider in the US...

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

I do find it quite funny how like 9 times out of 10 when I go somewhere in Calgary by car there is a place to park on the street within approx 1 block of my destination. This is, not normal.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

We often call it a "crown" corporation.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

I was born and raised on the land of the Patwin people (and TIL the name of the county, Yolo, is the Patwin word for grass/rushes)

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on Treaty 7 land, Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). YYC is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).

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Erin Sherman 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 2d

It's easy to hate the October yellowjacket. But you try losing your purpose and realizing all that's left is stubborn survival until cold and starvation take you.

🐝 #insects
🍂 #fall
💀 #spookyseason

A yellowjacket, lying still on a skullcap leaf in a misty, chilly rain. A blurry splash of pink obedient plant flowers graces the upper left background.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently up to 50% of patients don’t complete the full course of treatment and it’s understandable (sadly I think anyone who has a PhD is likely to complete it. Not because of anything to do with intelligence or anything, just we are really good at suffering for 5 years for some abstract gain)

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 2d

There is a version of the marshmallow test for breast cancer patients (it’s much less fun - you have to take a pill to block all your hormones for 5 years and the prize is you are less likely to die and you get no marshmallows) and sometimes I wish I was better at failing the marshmallow test.

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