Few people ever find a niche passion that intersects with a niche talent and at an age when they’re unapologetic about both. Before the world says “you should be embarrassed.” He’s gonna end up being a world renowned ornithological researcher or educator.

What a bunch of creeps and cowards.

15 was too tough, so it’s 16 The Wonder Years West Wing Shetland Golden Girls The Wire Fleabag Lodge 49 The Detectorists Reservation Dogs George Gently The Muppet Show Skins (first generation) MASH Trailer Park Boys Andor Call the Midwife

Joined good friends and friendly strangers at an evening with David Byrne and band, a bunch of joyful and insanely talent humans who really know how to put on a show. What a delight in these times.

I have a bagpipe joke, but most people don’t want to hear it.

Power and Inclusiveness Across Deep Time. Our collaboration between archaeology and political science, out today in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is from a recent interview with our new Premier, who apparently thinks “skookum” is only used in the Yukon. I know he makes a big deal about being born and raised here, but apparently he has also never left the territory? 😂

holy shit

Northern album drop.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Accurate.

It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.

And then there were none. The Carney government has officially axed the Documentary Heritage Communities Program, the only federal funding for community archival programs. A drop in the bucket of the federal budget, but hugely influential for local archival and documentation projects. Sigh.

Fantastic news! It appears that an individual has used a program to download the data from the historic places register and created a new site with it! If all the data is accurate, this will become a valuable site for researchers across the country. 🏺 #heritage heritageguide.ca/search?q=New...

Celebrating Imbolc and St. Brigid by catching absolutely no fish but having a very nice walk. May this day start a season of strength and light.

A great resource.

In a new video game, players can join a heist crew to take back looted African artifacts from museums, but there’s even more at stake: Users must learn musical rhythms, consult elders, and participate in ceremonies to reactivate the social meaning of these objects.

"The co-payment model is a scaled-back edition of the previous Conservative government’s failed attempt in 2012 to cut health care for refugee claimants from the “designated countries of origin” that Ottawa considered safe."

Sending all my love to Minnesotans today. You continue to be the best of the best.

“I stopped watching when Rick left.” I have died DEAD. RIP, me. 😵😂

The next dumb ass who exclaims, “But it’s a dry cold!” as we dig out from under already the third significant snowfall of the winter is getting a slap upside the head and a screen taped to their face so they can observe humidity readings from Environment Canada.

The gauge has tapped out. The outdoor temperature is just LLLow.

The most beautiful way to find out that the weather is going to get even colder.

Now comes the time when we celebrate the best Christmas song of all.

This is a great piece about change, adaptation, home, and the awesome people who make schools the everything places.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Awesome, Canada. Just really, really great work. 🙄

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

Omg JJ Fad did a Tiny Desk concert and they sound exactly the same but look like aunties. Gen X is undefeated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvcn...

OK, fine. I care about baseball now.

The best of this year’s carrots.

Lodge 49. So human.

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

“It’s the River Styx.” “Worse, yet—it’s the band Styx.”

The world is pretty dark today, so please give your brain this one delightful minute of relief. You may then return to fighting fascism.

CBC say Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s name correctly challenge.

I had heard about marmochonk, but the photos really are something.

Five fun things to do in my home town this summer 🙂

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

TSUNAMI ADVISORY 1: See tsunami.gov for alert areas. M8.0 080mi SE Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka 1625PDT Jul 29

Me going to work: wears the same dress every day for a week. Me going to a weekend music festival: packs 17 outfits because you just never know.

Mahmood Mamdani credits his roommate *Michael Ignatieff* with helping teach him to write effectively. 🤯 www.warscapes.com/conversation...

In recognition of Canada Day, please enjoy more slightly fuzzy photos of Northern orchids!