This is what tires looked like in Canada until 1987.

My mother has just given me a framed painting of Tommy Douglas and I'm reworking my entire lecture for Monday just so I can bring it into class.

I haven’t been on Facebook for like a decade but some of you are and you should probably know they are kinda secretly forcing a bot into your private groups that will just invite all of Facebook. Probably bad. Probably a massive safety and privacy breach.

No, because I'd have three dogs and no time to post. Poster's madness is an illness for people with only two dogs.

Y'all, I know that fossils are rocks and I know that dinosaurs are fossils but I've never really thought about how dinosaur bones on display in museums are artistic displays of very heavy historically significant rocks. 🙃

I cannot take a good picture of a hummingbird so you may have to take my word for it. It's bright green with a red throat and I believe it's a reminder to have hope in the darkness.

This is Footnote's "stop depression scrolling and take me for a walk. Index can come too."

I am old enough to remember being told that we were entering a knowledge-based economy and thus needed to invest in education so Canadians could compete on the international stage.

Thread is so delightful. The image of Pitt and Cushing painting miniatures together between takes is one of my favourite things ever. I just love the idea of them being interrupted by work and being like 'oh well - stake through the heart time again, I suppose'.

"Seven active Toronto police officers and one retired officer have been charged in connection with the case, which has resulted in numerous charges including conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking."

Why is there cuts on education in Canada everywhere right now? Healthcare too. Like Coast to Coast… the hell is happening? What the fuck is happening to our tax money?

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

Y'all, the doctor's office called and they want me to get infusions that are basically The Vitamin because it turns out I've been sick because there is actually something wrong & they don't think it's worth the wait till I get a CT scan because of how much it's ruining my life. I cannot stop crying.

Thank you! This is an amazing prompt 😍

...I thought about this and realised the only songs I know about Canadian cities are about how much those cities suck, which feels very Canadian somehow?

People are going about this all wrong. You should rank Canadian cities by the quality of songs about them.

Y'all, either Index or Footnote or both of them got into a bag of candy (not chocolate, not sugar free) and ate the candy and of course the 24 hour vet is closed and the Internet's advice is "monitor your dog for stomach problems" and I'm convinced they're both going to die in my sleep.

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

I'm really enjoying my audio book and the dogs would sure love another walk and that means it's fine if I walk at 11 at night through the woods.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

Y'all, I can't express how exhausted I am. I got my blood draw today. Surely that cannot account for being too tired to do anything but sleep all afternoon. There has to really be something wrong.

"Flight attendants now receive half their hourly wage rate for 60 minutes of ground time on narrow-body aircraft and 70 minutes on wide-body planes. That is to rise to 60 per cent of the hourly wage rate in April, 65 per cent in 2027 and 70 per cent in 2028." Finally. Now do every other airline.

Good morning! Spring Break is half over already. :(

So now I'm reading a book about dinosaurs instead of recording my lecture and I'm feeling a bit reviewer #2 about it. Has the author considered writing the book just slightly differently but in a way that has more Canadians in it?

Footnote and Index are sleeping in ways that make it impossible for me to get out of bed without disturbing one of them and how do I choose?

Got this done on my livestream yesterday. It's a Night Heron. I thought I might make a wallpaper version. • Speedpaint • Artist Links • Website

Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler! Happy Mardi Gras from the…

I want to stand up and walk the dogs but it's snowing and I don't want to go out in the snow. :( But the dogs. The dogs deserve to be happy! But the snow. :(

archival photographic research is so important and beautiful

it's snowing. Why is it snowing? I live on Vancouver Island I should be exempt from snow.

There's something so kind about a student who books a meeting with you to explain that they're dropping your course because they're struggling with the online aspect (me too!) but want to assure you that they enjoyed your lectures and want to take a class with you in the fall. Good choices!

Does anyone else put little videos in their lectures that both allow you to mention how historically accurate Stardew Valley is and to give your poor throat a break? Asking because I certainly do not ever do that.

Alright, I'm recording the lecture I meant to do last week but couldn't because I had too much fun teaching & lost my voice & also b/c I'm going to die from lack of sunlight any day now. Wish me luck! It has references to The Craft (1996) & uses three - THREE - works by @historianmairi.bsky.social

When you go for a walk on a February-melt day, and the dog jumps onto a low retaining wall, and jauntily trots the entire block-long length of it, never once looking at you, until he reaches the corner and suddenly realizes that he is very very stuck...

I'm procrastinating very hard today & that makes me want to get into fights with people on here because some people are just wrong. Anyway I made a really tasty savourty oatmeal today and while I should be filling out some overdue paperwork I think I will read a book. We should all do that instead.

Footnote is so excited she lost her ears again.

Because I'm not teaching tomorrow I spent the afternoon knitting a really complicated lace shawl and I'm sure the AI "art" bros don't think that's art.

$15 for a row counter?! For $15 I can find someone to count the rows for me!!!

Well, I'm not happy with this syllabus but as I tell my students - it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be done. Good night, folks. Have a good February 15th. We're more than halfway through this wretched month.

The "innovative learning AI chat bot" seems evil to me. Yes, yes, I'm looking for guidance on writing learning outcomes, but I think I should use my DOZENS OF YEARS OF EDUCATION to do that.

Does anyone want to suggest a great title for a course in the LGBTQ history of Canada that will get DOZENS AND DOZENS of students to want to take it so I get asked to offer it and make it a repeated course? I am bad at names for things that aren't dogs.

History folks, what are you favourite third-year history type of assignments? I am putting together a syllabus for the fall and I am bored of what I am normally doing. #AcademicSky #history #teaching

The big bad in my latest novel is fighting against the 1% by murdering them and I'm not seeing how she's the bad guy in this.

“I woke up from my nap… and now I’m wearing clothes. CLOTHES. I trusted you. I purred for you. I showed you my belly. And this is how you repay me? In this… onesie of betrayal?” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

I had an absolutely outstanding student meeting during my drop in office hours! We went over the draft of her assignment and it was so clear she had read the required articles and understood them but didn't really get what the assignment was asking her to do butt as we talked through it she got it!

I know I should spend the time no one comes to my office hours today working but instead I think I'll spend that hour knitting while pining for students to come ask for help now instead of in the five minutes I have free between classes.

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...