”It fucking comes in pints”

Merry Christmas everyone

Tis the season for an old Christmas clip. Here's a moment from Christmas in 1938! I love how recognizable everything is, even 87 years later. Scanned from 8mm film Happy holidays! #History #Film #Christmas

Once you’re reality-optional in one part of your thinking, everything is up for grabs. Faced with the choice between having to come back to reality about fluffy woo beliefs, or dive down the full conspiracy rabbit hole, most people will choose to go full lunatic

The divide between how Canadians see the U.S. and how our political/business leaders see them is wild. It’s one of the biggest divides in perspective I have ever seen. Canadians are clear eyed. Our leaders are not.

Started our Christmas background music playlist tonight, and it’s reminding us of when @courtneymilan.com accidentally influenced us to participate in dinosaur crime

This is among the most democratically dangerous things Danielle Smith has said. She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people." We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.

Another clip from 1942 to celebrate some snowfalls this week. Winter isn't all bad on the prairies. Scanned from 16mm film #History #Film

🎶That's me in the corner, That's me in the spotlight…🎶

Crash! Aftermath of a 1942 accident in Saskatchewan. I'm sure it was the most exciting thing to happen in that area for weeks, and everyone turned out to see. I love the classic RCMP uniform. Scanned from 16mm film #History #Film

Given how many of the players in BvG have gone on to be up to their eyeballs in the corruption of both Trump administrations, anyone doing a “fall of the republic” documentary fifty years from now is absolutely going to stick it as the start of their timeline

It would be funnier if you use an all British cast, but force them to use their “American” accents Hugh Laurie with his accent from “House”. Daniel Craig as the PM talking like Benoit Blanc. Christian Bale doing his Bruce Wayne. Gary Oldman playing three roles with three different American accents

It's the final showdown! Close out the Age of Devotion with a special alt art Paladin board for playing! Bring 3, Ban 1 format. For tickets and more information see boardgames.ca/events #dicethrone #ageofdevotion #organizedplay #op #flgs

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

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