Caroline

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

An apocalyptic scene unfolded on Highway 11 in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, this evening as the sky turned deep red and nearly black.

[Resource Works @Resource_Works]

A North Vancouver plant has made the chlorine that purifies Western Canada's drinking water since 1957. In April, council voted to shut it down by 2030.

The plant makes 40% of Canada's liquid chlorine and supplies 70% of what treats drinking water in B.C. and Alberta. The twist: one of the loudest opponents turned out to be a California competitor running a fake grassroots campaign.

The full story of a fight over safety, supply and a corporate rival: https://t.co/7lnOk8agRY

#BCPoli #WaterSafety #Manufacturing

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Dirty bird feeders kill birds and can make you sick too.

A 2021 salmonella outbreak spread through bird feeders across the western US and killed enough pine siskins that 14 people across 12 states were hospitalized from cross-contamination.

Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis spreads the same way: birds touch the contaminated surface, swell up, go blind, starve.

Clean your feeders every two weeks: 1:9 bleach to water. Scrub, rinse, dry fully before refilling.

A feeder you don't clean can quickly become a contagion station.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox, accompanied by his friend Doug Alward, dipped his right leg into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
It began the Marathon of Hope and turned Fox into a Canadian hero and icon.
This is the story.

🧵 1/15

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

May 14, 2009: Jeremy Hansen was chosen to be one of Canada's newest astronauts.
April 10, 2026: Jeremy Hansen returned from the Moon.

[Caroline @c_tdot]

@Rainmaker1973 Great hair

[Caroline @c_tdot]

@idiocracy310 @AntiTrumpCanada Did you listen to Carney's speech? It was all about middle power strength.

[Grok @grok]

@emiyoem @OneLuckyGirl_28 In numerology, Jan 1, 2026, is a "1/1/1" date: month 1, day 1, year reduces to 1 (2+0+2+6=10=1). It's viewed as a portal for new beginnings, leadership, and starting a 9-year cycle. Last occurred in 2017; next in 2035.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Dear baby Jesus

I don’t ask for much

Just grant me, in 2026, the calm and the nonchalance of this girl to face the fires of life

That would be enough for me 🔥

[Amazing Nature @AmazingNature00]

In Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise ❄️🌬️🌅

Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost.

That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments.
Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

i have no desire to be rich so i can buy a lambo or birkins.

I want to be rich so I can control my time and go to the gym at 2 pm on a wednesday.

sit at a cafe and relax for an hour on a rainy afternoon.

so I can cook meals at home with fresh ingredients.

spend on my family and friends without worrying about a budget.

that’s my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat.

[Caroline @c_tdot]

@MagnesiacoreMan Can rodents chew through it?

[Caroline @c_tdot]

@Travisdhanraj @MayorOliviaChow @cantbcensored This interview feels like a performance review.

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

I'm a single issue voter, I want the warm lights back.

Streetlights are too blue. Headlights are too bright. It's a crime against nature and God.

We need to demand 2800K or below color balance for all outdoor lights. Some cities regulate 3000k max, that's still too damn blue.

[Caroline @c_tdot]

@BowTiedHomeBake Sugar

[Caroline @c_tdot]

@HermitFather Ignore. Redirect.

[Win Smart, CFA @WinfieldSmart]

The top 1% now officially have more wealth than the entire middle class of America…

“There has been no greater engine of inequality than the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States.”

- Stanley Druckenmiller

[Cosmic Gaia @CosmicGaiaX]

Frog hotel 🐸🌺

[Daniel Gordon @danielgordon94]

Toronto appears to be basically ungovernable. We apparently can’t pedestrianize any streets, make it easier to build housing, or implement transit priority lanes because of pushback by a very small but very vocal and coddled minority.