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Another successful Halloween. Son dressed and face-painted as Jinu of KPop Demon Hunters, with Derpy (accompanied by Sussy) serving as the delivery exit for the candy tube. Lots of fun hearing kids (and parents) call out the tiger by name, a couple even getting their photos taken with it.

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

No cheating: post your Lock Screen.

Before #InsectWeek passes me by (working on an arachnid 😅) here’s a bug—a true bug, water boatman (Corixidae)—I made in bronze and silver, articulated to show that, surprisingly, these swimmers are good fliers! 1/2 #SciArt

"Daddy what did you do in the Meme Wars?" "Mostly entertaining the tropes"

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

oh no you guys, not the robots

Happy Easter

This better receive a lot of attention during this election. This guy is poison, and Cons better be made to answer for having him as their candidate.

Today at the dog park: the most vivid rainbow I’ve ever seen, and the first double rainbow I’ve seen to boot. #yyz #rainbow

Sarla Thukral 1st Indian woman to fly an aircraft. In 1936 earned pilot's license age 21 & flew Gypsy Moth solo with over 1000 hours in air. Tried to train for commercial pilot's license but #WWII prevented it. Later became artist & businesswoman d. #OTD 15 Mar 2008 bit.ly/2N4NEJv #WHM2025

Lovely thread

I think a fair question to ask Donald Trump, assuming a journalist who was willing to do it could still get anywhere him, would be “If you were secretly working for Vladimir Putin, what do you think you’d be doing differently than you are right now?”

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada

This is it. This is the simplicity of it all. The war we face is between the super army of stupidity + money vs the natural world we live & exist in.

It's cold & wet out there. Read this. It's important. Made for @privateeyenews.bsky.social 10 years ago & shared every winter.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21: Having completed their, uh, tradition, on the longest night of the year, in -15ºC, the beavers held a light show. Happy Solstice all!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21: The final animal! Of course, it seems obvious now that the beavers would choose the endangered Haida Ermine as their pile topper. Well done, engineers. And now, to complete this “Solstice Pile of all Canadian Animals” tradition, there’s one last #ArtAdventCalendar post.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 catch-up on Day 21: The wind is swirling around and the newly-added animal looks positively off-balance. I can only reassure myself on the expert calculations of this team of rodent engineers. I wonder what the pile topper will be?

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 catch-up on Day 21: Alas, clouds have come in and darkened the sunset. Harsh construction site lighting has come on. The beavers state that they’ll be on the job until the tower is complete.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 catch-up on Day 21: Late afternoon and a cold wind is picking up in Toronto. As if to mock the oncoming cold snap, the beaver engineers are adding more arctic animals to the tower.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 17 catch-up on Day 21: Early afternoon on the shortest day of the year—deadline—finds the work continuing at a frantic pace, in a race against the sun!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 16 catch-up: How does the night crew stay focused on the graveyard shift? Coffee, of course! Being beavers, let’s face it, it’s probably spiked with poplar sap.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15 catch-up: The night crew is doing overtime as they face an unforgiving timeline! Solstice is upon us!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14 catch-up: Beaver Engineer Pro Tip: You’re always welcome to Like & Subscribe, but whatever you do, don’t hit the lynx.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day13 catch-up: Oh, snap! Today’s session is a reminder that this is a dangerous undertaking. But beaver engineers are trained professionals, with access to industry-leading chain-mail mittens.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 catch-up. Conditions were slippery after rain all day, so the night crew used extreme caution placing the latest addition. But that’s about the most dangerous thing they could add at this point, right? Right?

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 catch-up. That’s a red flag if I’ve ever seen one! Two, in fact! But is it because of the dangerous animal they just added to the pile…or is something even more dangerous on its way?

Very late for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10. At this point I’d worry about heights, but I’m told this crew knows what they’re doing—despite being a semi-aquatic, terrestrial species!

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13 As we're getting closer to the holiday I'm sharing a Yulegoat and a couple Nisse 🐐🎄 #art #yulegoat #scandinavian #christmas #wintersoltice

Overtime for the crew tonight with #ArtAdventCalendar Day 9. Yet another piece of winter clothing is carefully applied by a beaver engineer, who are known as much for their keen fashion sense as they are for building enormous stacks of animals.

Behind schedule #ArtAdventCalendar Day 8: Construction on the Solstice Tower continues, and stability is paramount. As the weather turns frigid and high winds sweep over Toronto, a beaver engineer checks windspeed at the present tower height. #yyz

It may be Day 11 of #ArtAdventCalendar for the rest of the world, but this crew is beavering away on the blueprints for Day 7.

A somewhat tardy entry for Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar. The beaver engineers have issued press release on a piece of birch bark, inscribed only with the words “We know, we know.”

Three days late #ArtAdventCalendar Day 5 sees the beaver crews working well into the night to catch up. But, I ask you, are corners being cut? It’s starting to look tippy!

A very late #ArtAdventCalendar Day 4. The beaver crew have apologized for being behind schedule, but this is Toronto, where many construction projects are WAY behind schedule. More snow has arrived, to welcome the latest addition into place!

Footage of Day 3’s #ArtAdventCalendar construction action was delayed, but our intrepid crew of Castor canadensis clearly has not been!

Daylight on Day 2’s #ArtAdventCalendar reveals that they’ve been busy overnight. Wait, does that platform have wheels?

Late on Day 1 of the 2024 #ArtAdventCalendar , I got a missive from the local beavers, engineers all, announcing their participation with some kind of so-called "tradition" they are planning to celebrate the Solstice.

If they’re going to accuse road safety folk of waging a war on the car, let’s actually talk about who’s operating in good faith & who isn’t. And some history. If they accuse cyclists and pedestrians of waging war, a war they should get. My column this wknd. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

(In best David Attenborough voice) Two male tree-dogs in their native habitat, 2 meters above the ground. Note the camouflage patterns (some more successful than others), as they try to blend into the background, preparing to ambush any unwary prey. (photos by Jess and me)

@himmapaan.bsky.social 🤪

@tzoq.bsky.social Long time no chat! How are the pups doing? It’s been almost a year since we lost Photon, but a litter was born north of Kingston very recently…🙂