Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

Low carbon energy/construction techie making bets. Tech pubco director, low-cost efficient beautiful building designer/modeller/builder British Columbia, Canada Joined October 2011

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

4 hours ago

@GG37374104 This is the way, grasshopper.

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Henshi @HenshiG

20 hours ago

A German soldier stopped at the front of the line and stared. He knew that face. It was Janusz Korczak — the beloved Polish-Jewish doctor and writer whose books he had grown up reading. The soldier quietly offered him a way out: “Step aside. Disappear. Live.” Korczak shook his head. He took the hands of the two smallest children beside him… and kept walking toward the train. There had been many such offers. He refused them all. Born Henryk Goldszmit, Korczak was a renowned pediatrician, author of children’s books, and radio voice beloved across Poland. He could have lived a comfortable life. Instead, in 1912 he founded Dom Sierot — an extraordinary orphanage in Warsaw where children ran their own parliament, court, and newspaper. His one sacred rule: A child is not someone who will matter one day. A child matters now. He lived among them for thirty years as their father. When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, Korczak moved the orphanage inside. Friends begged him to escape — he looked Polish, he was famous, he could pass. He refused. “I will not leave my children.” Inside the starving ghetto, he begged for food, carried heavy sacks on his failing back, and tracked every child’s heartbreaking weight loss by candlelight. He was starving too. On August 5, 1942, the soldiers came. Korczak calmly told the 192 children they were going to the countryside for fresh air. He had them dress in their best clothes. Each carried a small bag with a favorite book or doll. Then the old doctor led them out — 192 children walking in calm rows behind him, holding his hands, the smallest in his arms. No crying. No panic. Just quiet dignity as they marched three miles through the ghetto to the Umschlagplatz. At the platform, the final offer came. Once more, Korczak refused. He climbed into the cattle car with his children and staff. They were murdered upon arrival at Treblinka. He could not save their lives. He knew it. So he saved the only thing left: their dignity and their sense of not being alone. In the darkest place on earth, Janusz Korczak gave those children the one thing the Nazis could not take — a hand to hold until the very end. Today at Treblinka, among 17,000 stones, one bears the name: Janusz Korczak and the Children. He had none of his own. He died with 192 of them. May their memory be a blessing.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

15 hours ago

@albafella1 @sten34 You don’t know us on Twitter, but we are glad you are here for us.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

19 hours ago

@secretsqrl123 Dooooeeet trumpie, two great satans can take each other down for a while.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

19 hours ago

@kylegriffin1 Seventeen is no accident.

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derek guy @dieworkwear

a day ago

not for the incel market

Nicky💕 @jas_d_barbie

5 days ago

Sometimes I wonder how the Vaseline company is holding up, because one container basically last you for 70 to 80 years.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

2 days ago

@SamaHoole @vivayo_can Harsh, but as trophy hunting (also morally bad) feeds the locals, what would these peeler’s incomes be without? How about we blame vegans for driving up cashew demand? it’s used in so many vegan recipes.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

2 days ago

@DakdaR22 Balls.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

2 days ago

@WarMonitor3 Hold up, rug pull coming up.

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Bojan Tunguz @tunguz

3 days ago

Yeah, the entire tech industry was just a way for a lot of real estate investors to insanely enrich themselves. And I’m pretty sure that the major reason why remote work never really took off was exactly because of their unholy lobby.

cat @a_musingcat

3 days ago

a vc told me startups keep raising because talent is expensive so i asked why talent is expensive and he said everyone has to pay $4,000 rent to live near the office so i asked what happens when rents go up again and he said the startups have to raise another round so i said it

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

2 days ago

@Kasparov63 Rug pull coming right up.

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Will Kinney @WKCosmo

3 days ago

RIP Wikipedia.

Larry Sanger @lsanger

3 days ago

I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show—and now I’m banned. I told the story in the Washington Examiner, out this morning: washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4638304…

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

3 days ago

@DrJStrategy Well, if that’s true then America is just stupid, or you are wrong and there is much more quid pro quo under the hood than you are acknowledging, and your predecessors are smarter than you. Like soft power for starters. Oh, you and Hegseth don’t believe in soft power, I see.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

3 days ago

@guyfelicella Nice in the moment, boosted your ego, but socially useless.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

3 days ago

@iamtheGh0sty @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Anonymous coward talks tough

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

3 days ago

@CDNPolicyHawk We’re not going to be supporting foreign wars with sea lift are we? Seems inefficient and risky. There are better ways these days…no?

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

3 days ago

@VerminusM Hey, climate change is real, Palestine isn’t!

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Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature

4 days ago

The crayfish in your local creek is one of the reason it's a creek and not a clogged, stagnant ditch. Crayfish shred the leaves that fall into the water into fine particles that feed the aquatic insects, which feed the fish, which feed everything above them. They're the creek's primary processing system. Remove them and the decomposition chain slows, oxygen levels drop, and the whole food web begins to crash. They've been keystone species in North American freshwater systems for millions of years. But now, roughly half of North America's 400-plus crayfish species are endangered or at risk, mostly from habitat degradation and invasive species. If you see a native crayfish in your local creek, leave it be. It's doing keystone work.

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Nigel Protter 🇨🇦 @NigelProtter

4 days ago

@ConceptualJames Literally nobody’s reading this except people with an axe to grind like you and a few hard-core believers. Sometimes you have to let a little water out of the pressure vessel so it doesn’t burst.