@silveryslocan
In 1895, in the remote West Kootenays of British Columbia, a narrow gauge railway was built to reach the richest silver mines in the world. By 1910 rampant exploitation had destroyed everything, a resonate story we should learn from. Click pics, read ALTs.
Top historic painting a Twitter hellscape. Bottom historic painting a pleasant riverside Bluesky. I'll find my original detailed ALT post and repost it.
I still like this one. Visual metaphors for the art-inclined.
I did a comprehensive detailed ALT for this one once. I will find it and post it again. Top historic painting Twitter hellscape. Bottom historic painting pleasant riverside Bluesky.
Possibly the best BlueSky graphic I've seen.
Possibly the best BlueSky graphic I've seen.
screen snap: Listifications • 1h @listifications.app @triflesminutiae.bsky.social has blocked
So should we we sharing what strange random accounts on Bluesky are blocking us? And why? Just tossing this new thing out there.
Welome to China. Where facial recognition is used to track you everywhere, and is used for access to trains and planes and cars. And all purchases are tracked. And access to free social and other media is fire-walled. And paper maps are banned.
Portrait photo of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on a playing card as the Ace of Spades. He looks fine with it.
Zelenskyy has the cards.
Trump past his best-before date by about 78 years.
Sarah, I trust this was helpful! LOL. You're the best.
See? English translation isn't so hard! :-)
My personal favourite on a tube of adhesive was always:
"Do not drink. Hazardous for the health."
Syntax fail, but perfect meaning conveyance.
And, with a position of finality, it probably doesn't work at time of death. That's a fair warning.
The position of something is important. If it's a blood pressure monitor, maybe the cuff?
There is something about measuring pressure. Between 2 and 5 is okay, but more is bad. So pay attention.
Recognition there is something potentially wrong about the "film", and it will be gladly replaced. A QA issue is identified.
Read the damned manual. Right, got that.
The "Warning Come on Please" is truly the best part. A sincere personal expression of concern. Any English reader would react to the importance of this warning.
The Trump-Epstein Files are not going away.
Despite everything Trump does. Including tariffs, ICE just in Blue states, Gaza, Greenland, Venezuela, and Iran, just for starts.
Seriously, it covers the basics on concern about pressure regulation. This is clearly the most important thing, and hey yes there are other important things. English is remarkable in its ability to somehow convey critical meaning even when direct translation completely breaks down. Wonderful.
United Empire Loyalists.
The story of the UEL's at the end of the US Revolutionary War is not well known. Their property was confiscated and they were forced to flee the US, but they fortunately received Crown land grants in Canada to start over. 26min. Excellent.
More:
uel.ca/united-empir...
There is a place for sensible collective sourcing of shared resources and supply chains. Canada gets it. The US thinks socialism or something.
"Tariffs on parts sourced from Canada, Mexico, and overseas are now layered on top of everything else, threatening to push prices and delays even higher."
It's not like it's never happened before. :-)
Ah yes, the White Sea - Baltic Canal. And the Volga-Don canal too. I hear the route is pretty safe...
For those perhaps interested in the russian canal system, especially in a targeting kinda way, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_S...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga%E...
We see a new world order characterized by competition and coercive power politics, featuring military powers, who aim to establish spheres of influence.
How we respond to this moment will define us.
Extract of my speech at our EU Ambassadors Conference ↓
Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden sit together in tribute to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Read Heather Cox Richardson's story and appreciation.
Heather Cox Richardson presents a wonderful account and appreciation of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Three past Presidents attended the funeral. The current President of course couldn't be bothered.
Link:
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The tide is turning. It's important everyone gets involved with the next election and getting the vote out. It is time to volunteer.
"The time I spent in Springfield made it clear to me that I was on the wrong side. That November, I chose not to vote for Trump."
Carney is a unique gift to Canada right now.
Rotary plows were basically locomotives, but the power was directed to the blades and not movement. One or more locomotives were always needed to push them. The rotary engineer used whistle signals.
Photos please! Sn3 here. I've got period Rotary Operating Instructions here somewhere and will look.
Poilievre might be saying Canada now needs a National Energy Program. Who knows what he's saying. Poilievre is a product of Ottawa backroom politics and is not particularly useful.
I've been reading original newspaper accounts from the 1890's of how the Kalso & Slocan Rwy's rotary plow, ex RGS rotary plow #1, had to be dug out because the slides were too deep. So many stories.
