Part 2, features some goals and crowd celebration. Cheering in the packed area must have been incredible back then. Scanned from 8mm film #History #Film #Habs #Leafs #NHL

Can't take your camera to the game these days, but at some point in the 1964-65 season a fan took theirs to see the Canadiens play the Maple Leafs. A second clip with goals below! Scanned from 8mm film Can anyone ID the game? #History #Film #Habs #Leafs #NHL

In honor of Halloween, here's what costumes looked like in 1953. I love how they didn't need anything fancy, although I'm not sure the plastic bag masks were a great idea These kids are ready for some trick-or-treating! Hope you are too! Scanned from 8mm film #Film #History #Halloween

Here are some different sorts of felines. Large cat exhibits from the Calgary Zoo in 1957. It's interesting how much standards have changed. The current habitats are such an upgrade! Scanned from 8mm film #Film #History #Calgary

Smith is going to be so mad. I hope her and her separatist friends all choke on it

Oh wow. Organizers of Alberta's 'Forever Canadian' petition say they collected 456,365 signatures.

Every teacher in Alberta needs to descend on Demetrios Nicolaides‘ riding and pound on doors until he’s recalled

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved Scanned from 8mm films #Film #History #Cats

Haven’t seen a Yamamoto attack on an Allied city this successful since [pulled offstage by a giant cane]

Looking at the Edmonton election results and with Cartmell and Nickel both now gone, I’m curious who is going to emerge as the next “them” on council? Is it too much to hope that our upcoming council will actually be mostly functional, with minimal grandstanding?

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

This is why they ban The Diary of Anne Frank.

We are definitely in an era where a disturbing portion of our news sounds like deranged, satirical Mad Libs.

Dear NDP. Now is when you say that if elected, you will cap class sizes at 25 over an 3 year period to allow for the required capacity buildout. That’s all you have to do here. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

looks like a few people at the Education protest today!

DROP EVERYTHING! You don't need to do those chores. Brunch can wait. We have 15% OFF ALL FICTION* ALL WEEKEND!! Get your skates on #yeg #booksky friends, and get to the store before your faves are cleaned out. **cannot be applied with already discounted titles

So much of my timeline assumed everyone know what was going on that it took me a couple days to figure out what everyone was sub-posting about

I feel like at least three episodes of Star Trek use exactly this method to overcome an AI antagonist

Narnia has to be here somewhere

I wish more steampunk was Jules Verne optimism and curiosity with Charles Dickens aesthetics. Instead it's all Charles Dickens misery and suffering with Jules Verne aesthetics.

This is powerful, and coincides with the idea that unified action is impossible without a plausible offer that *almost everyone’s* life will improve. Trying not to be rhetorical, which societies are plausibly offering this today? h/t @sharonk.bsky.social

The OG Baldur's Gate

Interestingly, Springsteen’s only #1 hit is his writers credit on Manfred Mann’s cover of his “Blinded by the Light”. Anyone who’s only heard the 3-minute radio cut should listen to the 7 minute album version in all its meandering Prog Rock synth glory. Almost a different song

Picked up a couple new followers over the weekend, probably from depressing politics posts. Those are a drag. So, instead, here's a film of someone skiing on the Columbia Icefields in 1960. Shot on 8mm film #Film #History

Right after the war in Ukraine broke out I read an amazing thread on the Other Place on how authoritarianism is incompatible with knowledge industries. The more valuable the industry, the closer to the inner circle the crony assigned to it must be

How is it possible that both the people 20 years older than me and the people 20 years younger than me are equally computer illiterate?

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy. I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together. We need a government that serves the many, not the money. Join in. lewisforleader.ca/ youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY

It’s a lovely little romance with a bunch of actors before they became household names. The home video edit, which is what shows on streaming, is an almost entire different movie from the theatrical release, which has been almost entirely memory holed.

I’ve been playing board games online with voice chat recently, and it feels like a blast from the chill internet past. Never know who’ll you‘ll get paired with Played a game with a guy from the Philippines last night and we had a great time just chatting about our different lives

Elephants! In Saskatchewan! A couple clips from 1955 of a circus setting up in a small town on the prairies. These were scanned from 16mm film #Film #History

I will come to your event or institution and give you a talk about sea monsters :) Contact me if interested.

The problem with this is that no one who’s not also monitoring the Worst Places will believe anything that the Worst Places monitor proposes. And it’s generally not stuff that you can walk people through without full immersion.

I think I achieved the absolute perfect social media engagement balance today. Made a reply that’s taken off a little bit and been giving me 15-20 notifications an hour. Absolutely perfect level of endorphins without being overwhelming

It’s television, but the Westworld season 1 soundtrack is phenomenal. Ramin Djawadi‘s covers in particular are clever and subversive. The western reimagining of Paint it Black is particularly inspired

We're going to travel in style today on the Princess of Nanaimo, sailing out of Vancouver. Certainly seems more stylish than the current ferries! Shot on 16mm film in 1952 #Film #History #Vancouver

Let's visit the Toronto Zoo today. Shot in 1976 on Super8 film, this is a nice selection of critters. Elephants! Rhinos! Giraffes! Tigers! Leopards! Lions! #Film #History #Toronto

GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN

Given the smoky weekend I just had, I'm going to post some dramatic clips of an oil well blowout in northern Alberta from 1974. Scanned from Super8 film #Film #History

The big thing I didn't predict about the desire of Capital to replace us, was not understanding that they'd settle for replacing us with substantially *inferior* "ai"

Been a little while since I've posted some of these, so Let's go visit Expo '67 in Montreal Theses were scanned from 8mm film First up is the viewing tower, and the view from it #Film #History #Montreal

“Fascism is the wrong answer. But it responds to the question” Boils down the central struggle of non-fascist politics right now. People are looking for answers to very specific problems they are experiencing. The fascists are happy to fill that need and we need our own answers beyond “fascism bad”

If you’re proud of what you’re doing show your face ::clap clap:: If you’re proud of what you’re doing show your face ::clap clap:: If you’re proud of what you’re doing and you don’t care who you’re screwing, Or that everyone is booing show your face ::clap clap::

Any legal observer offering an opinion on this should come with notes as to their calls on Roe v. Wade and presidential immunity, so we know what their recent record looks like.

Really neat independent maker who could use some exposure and sales

behold: a woman

It’s funny how perceptions can flip. Ozzy Ozbourne was the poster child for living the rock star life. If he’d died in his 20s or 30s it would have been the least surprising news ever. Yet somehow he kicks the bucket at 76 and it’s a genuine shock to the system

July Talk at K-Days!

Policy work: standing against the bathwater with a butterfly net, trying desperately to catch the babies.