A classic SCTV skit. If you're Canadian and you're in your 50s and you were into Monty Python et al humor as a kid, you'd been a Catherine O'Hara fan since elementary school... gone while still making us laugh. www.facebook.com/share/v/1FHV...

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

This is tragic.

I decided to listen to Pierre Poilievre's speech at the #CPC convention. By the point he hit the phrase "crime-ridden..." I'd heard enough. He's learned nothing from defeat. His message hasn't changed one bit. He will always be a hyperpartisan attack dog. Unfit to govern as PM. #canpoli #cdnpoli

Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.

Did the Laurentian President Violate the Labour Relations Act? lawofwork.ca/did-the-laur...

It's really eerie because today my YouTube feed is primarily clips from the 2024 movie Civil War and prior to today I was watching my usual assortment of Andor, Richard Sharpe, outdoor wilderness survival and SNL clips. I think the algorithm is warning me. #uspoli #usapoli #shitsacomin

ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo

So, I'm guessing no one in the US has actually had a serious non-partisan intellectual conversation of what a "tyrannical federal government" looks like in terms of the actions it takes against its citizens because brothers & sisters, if it isn't this right now, then what is it? #uspoli #usapoli

There's no coherent argument for invading or buying Greenland, and when Trump tried to say one to NYTimes it came out as gibberish from a condo salesman about the pride of ownership. It's basically the same as declaring war on Germany to "own" Ramstein Air Base. No upside, immense downside.

Look at this graph of virus in the wastewater in Toronto if you don't believe me. See that pink spike? That's Flu A, which is killing people every day. The data go up to December 21. What do you think that graph is going to look like after kids go back to school and adults go back to work?

This might be one of the best images I've seen so far today in reaction to the US kidnapping of Maduro. #USpoli #USApoli #LatinAmerica #LatinoAmerica #LatinAmericaPolitics #Venezuela

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This should be a case example in a 21st Century updated version of the statistics textbook "How to Lie With Statistics"

What's going on where the western horizon has a glow to it in the morning? (and if the image quality doesn't make it clear, it isnt due to an incoming band of clouds reflecting the sunrise - 'something else' is reflecting the sunrise)

The Trump EPA has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale compared with a Biden-era assessment, which had already significantly underestimated the dangers of the chemical, a ProPublica investigation found. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

You know, in the run-up to Iraq, people didn't talk this way out loud. Now? MAGA doesn't understand that there's a loud part and a quiet part.

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

The conservative members of the Catholic congregation I attended just *loathed* Pope Francis... welp, they must be having conniptions over Pope Leo... and I love it.

Great that top Canadian universities are hiring top scholars (why wouldn't they?) but the Ontario Progressive Conservative government has starved the post-secondary sector and the province has the lowest per-student funding of any Canadian province. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/educa...

I imagine many people are pleased the first snowfall of the year in the GTA #HamOnt occurred on the weekend because when it occurs on a workday the commute home is a nightmare as we go through the annual ritual of fools having forgotten how to drive in winter road conditions.

Since #BjornLomborg is back in the news, re-upping these:

Game 6 is on Halloween. The crowd scenes are gonna look interesting! #bluejays #WorldSeries

I have an annual MRI following a stroke 5 years ago. Prior to that I had 2 MRIs over 15 yrs due to persistent migraines & tinnitus (turned out it was a neurovascular issue that later caused the stroke...). Anyhoo, my point is, nobody, NOBODY gets an MRI "just because", so why did Trump get one?

Whew. #bluejays #worldseries

Early morning shadows and frost on front lawns.

“Papers, please.”

As someone who spent many months in my research career poring over topographical maps for planning fieldwork, coupled w/ reading books about the Canadian WWII liberation of the Netherlands dealing with flooding for both combat defense & offense across a vast flat landscape, ... things are afoot...

There was a coyote barking about 2 backyards over. I got my dog to bark back and it sounds like the coyote approached to the next door neighbour's yard. What I didnt expect was that for the next half hour my dog was all amped up, perched up on the furniture barking at the back windows.

I was told getting rid of the carbon tax would solve this problem. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

My 16 year old daughter did not know who Colonel Sanders was when I pointed him out. And we ate KFC plenty of times when she was growing up. *head shake* #bluejays

I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.

YEAHHHHH!!!!!! #bluejays

Updating my LEGO White House

This is where Pete Langdon at @unisouthampton.bsky.social Geography Dept goes back to Iceland in 2-3 yrs & collects sediment cores from lakes he studied previously for subfossil midges, re-analyzes them for mosquito subfossil remains, and BAM major research paper(s). Pete, you owe me a beer mate.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country. Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In our family group chat someone just messaged "Someone in a Mathews jersey won a Game 7" 😅 #BlueJays

My final act as I leave Kingston #QueensU Homecoming - buying a fresh baguette from Pan Chancho which I will consume on the drive home as my late lunch/early dinner - yes, I will eat the whole baguette myself, I have walked/cycled across France & Spain so I know it is a fulfilling meal.

I brought my #Queensu Artsci'95 jacket out of storage for Homecoming and at some point this weekend I reached into an inner pocket and found the ticket stubs to the Homecoming games for the 5th and 10th yr reunions in 2000 and 2005.

In Kingston for #Queensu Homecoming. In the early 1990s this locale was home of a revered late-nite eatery by the name of King of Donair. Today, it is named House of Donair. I hope it is of the same unbroken lineage, of sacred donair knowledge passed down through the generations...

Currently in Kingston for #Queensu Homecoming. A story of inflation: In the early 1990s, this Burger King at Princess St & Division in Kingston Ontario offered 5 Whoppers for $5 on Tuesday evenings. Now, they are offering 2 Whoppers for $10 & telling you it is some sort of "deal". Hmmkayyy budday.

You learn something new every day no matter how old you are. I'm walking the dog in Johnson Tew Park & came upon this sign next to a bird house 'Do Not Disturb! Ribbons Protect Bluebirds From Predatory House Sparrows'. Huh, all these decades & I thought house sparrows were harmless to native birds.

It is so hot on one of the last days of September that there's a snake sunning itself on the sidewalk in front of my house. A very rare thing to say here in #HamOnt.

My backyard view while having breakfast this morning.

First tray of empanadas - done! #Chile 🇨🇦🇨🇱

Getting ready to make my first batch of empanadas for my family's 18th de septiembre 🇨🇱 get together today. Chilean-style empanadas includes some raisins, olive, and a slice of hard boiled egg, baked in the oven. #Chile 🇨🇦🇨🇱

Stage 1 of making a lot of empanadas de pino for my family's 18th de septiembre 🇨🇱 get together tomorrow (pino must be made the day before). My mom is making the empanadas de queso and my sister is making the ensalada chilena and pebre. Ohh it's gonna be good. Viva Chile! 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱