✨NEW EPISODE✨ Some doors are best left unopened... buuuuut we're opening them anyway, for better or worse. It's time to brave the Sun Doors! LISTEN: trailspod.online/s3/11

Only a bit >24 hours left to join CSFFA for 2026 and participate in voting for this year's Aurora Awards! After the membership deadline tomorrow you won't be able to get the voter package. If you D/L the voter package by then you keep the ebooks *forever*! Only $10 at www.csffa.ca/become-a-member/

Congratulations to Neruda Arts as it celebrates its 25th year of bringing culture from around the world to our community. Thanks to Isabel Cisterna for her incredible leadership and another successful Kultrun World Music Festival 👏👏👏

I counted 183 people on the first weekend @gotransit.bsky.social train to Stratford this morning! Hopefully the first of many, now just need to run more of them and get the tracks between Kitchener and Stratford back into a state where they're suitable for 100+kph running!

🦈 Chomp! Emus knock giant inflatable shark sprinkler onto unsuspecting ducklings. Emus unrepentant. (Don't worry, no ducklings were harmed!)

Good morning with #FlowersOnFriday

In case your day needs a little break to watch a crane drinking water, looking exactly like a dunking/drinking bird toy, Stiltchild's got you covered. 🪶

Tonight there will be another NEW episode of Surviving Earth, but before that let me show you the concept design of one of the cranky Hyperodapedon from last week’s episode. I love rhynchosaurs, so it was a dream come true when I was asked to create this creature design #paleoart #sciart

Slowing down for a bit to meet Palaeochersis, the one known turtle from the Los Colorados formation! Relatives of this guy have interesting armour on their necks and tails, so I speculatively added them here. #sciart #paleoart

I turned Rock Paper Scissors into a non-zero-sum puzzle game. This may or may not be a sensible thing to do with one’s time. nonzerosum.games/loc... #GameDev #PuzzleGame #GameTheory #NonZeroSum

Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV

Here it is! 4.2 billion years in the making - Evolution. I had the privilege to be part of an incredible team who brought these stories to life. And of course, I got to look after a whole new host of delightful creatures - can't wait for you to meet them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8s...

I'm not going to get my hopes up, obviously, but imagine if the fascist project in this country actually collapses in the wake of Count Binface. I think I'd collapse from the sheer joy of it all. I should put aside a bottle of champagne... just in case.

I was reminded by my cloud drive that eight years ago today, while I was a student working reception at my university's Welcome Centre, I had some unexpected visitors. Obviously, I offered them a prospectus and a tour of the campus, but they didn't seem massively interested.

Family Pastimes Board Game company is for sale. The owners want to retire. I have good memories of playing a cooperative game called Mountaineering as a kid. They also have a Spirit Wrestlers game about Doukhobors. familypastimes.com

#til that #venus has a "quasi-moon" named #zoozve. it was originally named "2002VE" but an artist misread the numbers. The name stuck! 🪐 👍 😁 #space #cosmos #planetaryscience https://www.planetary.org/articles/venus-quasi-moon-zoozve

Hannah Montana Linux updated after 18 years - Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2026/07/10/hannah-montana-linux-updated-after-18-years.html

This is absolutely one of my favourite things in human history, and also an explanation of the complications of studying history/archaeology in a nutshell.

If, like me, you’re not British and you only kinda sorta knew what was going on with Binface, this is both an excellent primer and a surprisingly touching piece about the real person beneath the bin.

BREAKING: Bonnie Tyler, who topped the charts with epic "Total Eclipse of the Heart," has died at 75.

The beautiful metro stations of Montreal r/brutalism

Seems a good time to remember that most of what sucks about Canada right now is the responsibility of the provinces and most of the provinces are run by Conservatives.

"#LydiasLaw is very important to me because it demands accountability. It demands proper oversight. It demands true justice. And it demands that survivors are taken care of." - Stacey Jacob, sexual assault survivor #onpoli

In the 44 years that the Canadian Charter for Rights and Freedoms has existed, Premier Ford is the first Premier in Ontario to use the Notwithstanding Clause to override important Charter Rights. (1/3⬇️)

This! I have been extremely fortunate in my family resources and that is why I am housed, alive, and well enough to be gainfully employed and paying taxes now. My entire political philosophy is "people should not have to be as lucky as I have been."

The next Beneath/Beyond public talk is happening Monday, July 13 at 7PM! Join SNOLAB Research Scientist, Dr. Vijay Iyer, and Dr. Ziqing Hong from @utoronto.ca as they explore how scientists are engineering the coldest and quietest environments on Earth. Register here: indico.snolab.ca/event/66/

Lots of new folks here! 👋 I've spent 20+ years working as a violence prevention educator. - Find my free bystander intervention webinars here : linktr.ee/JulieSLalonde - Hire me for trainings : yellowmanteau.com - My memoir "Resilience is Futile" is available globally wherever books are sold✌️

📢 We're hiring a PhD student (4 years) in computational chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin. Research on molecular dynamics, molecular kinetics, rare events & machine learning. Apply by 3 Aug 2026: jobs.fu-berlin.de/job/Research... #CompChem

The schooner Clipper City in the New York Harbor on July 3rd, 2026. #Photography #TallShip #NYC

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

British politics has reached the silly season.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Count Binface has a music video campaign song. youtu.be/p9FRnsfsOkQ

An Ishikawa Prefecture airport damaged during the 2024 earthquake has been given a Pokemon-themed rebrand with over 100 paintings of Pokemon characters and limited-edition merchandise and meals. 👉 ebx.sh/9UFpWO

I love the Footsoldiers Armaments across the board, but one of my favourite things is that when you have an Affliction, you switch to the Grey Warden version, including the cape. The Grey Warden version doesn't have a cape.

The construction moratorium in the Region of Waterloo will end as new water supplies become available. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

We often talk about complex protein folds but what does that really mean? Turns out we don't have a good metric for it. So we made a game to make one! Head over to our website to vote on which fold you think is more complex and why! pacesalab.com/foldcomplexi...

Mya Cymbaluk playing drums in Uptown Waterloo. youtu.be/m5s_qxv3ehw

Holy crap y’all, you’ve really purposely downloaded our voices ten THOUSAND times! Are you okay?? But for real, thankyou for joining us on the podcast in this past year, it’s so much fun to do this show. Here’s to ten thousand more!

Montréal WorldCon 2027 would like to honor Kelley Armstrong (@kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social), James Alan Gardner, and the late Mike Glicksohn as inductees for the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association's Hall of Fame! www.csffa.ca/the-csffa-ha...

What's your favorite underrated, underutilized, or otherwise rarely seen mechanic in JRPGs? for me it's the grimoire stones in Etrian Odyssey Untold 2, which let you basically give any character any skill including some enemy skills, and let you level up skills past their base maximum temporarily

@ericmigi.com Thanks for making tech that motivated me to build things. I love the toy projects that bring people close, like this watch face. Submit a small doodle, and vote on doodles to end up on peoples wrists for a week. apps.repebble.com/the-tile_4c6... @repebble.com #pebble #repebble

Hey BCers! Want to help advance plug in solar? BC Hydro is recruiting! They're looking for buildings, stratas, and residents to participate in site assessments and demonstration projects. Sign up today on their Partnership Opportunities page. www.bchydro.com/powersmart/r...

With old friend and ex - @utcaee.bsky.social colleague ( and now distinguished faculty member and construction engineer extraordinaire at @uwaterloo.ca), Carl Haas.

Can't attend in person? All of our research documenting Toronto's Queer Spaces can be accessed on our website including our new interactive map where you can explore how these spaces have evolved and moved over time! torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/toronto-quee...

If you're wondering what animals models I've consulted on for the Jurassic World Evolution 3 game

As promised… ‘Far From Ourselves’ Singing one of my songs for today’s #Songwritingsunday

The great songwriter Frank Loesser born on this day. My favourite song he wrote and the story behind it! #FrankLoesser

The melon arch is meloning