Well, this is big news!!! "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end" […]

We need to revive "ROFL" in our social media… TFW I'm all out of LOLs.

New statement from the BC Conservative Party… #bcpoli #canpoli

I’m watching Louis Theroux’s “Inside the Manosphere,” and all I can see is Tom Vu… #documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMtBmlA8pjE

“Author” is the wrong word here…

Once again, the Onion sustains me.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/116548559295109884 Long live degenerate art!!

I logged in to #bsky. Utter performative hot-take trash… I’ve grown fond of no one caring what my opinion or polemic is here. Feels more like community.

First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead. #meta #metaglasses #ar #privacy #surveillance #vermont

"Turn to the open window and look down To drink past all deceiving Your last dark rapture from the mystical throng And say farewell, farewell to Yukon leaving" #YxY

Whelp, im going! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-art-gallery-expo-86-9.7185663

I guess it's "Public Education" be damned. ---- "Don Avison, a former deputy minister of education and former board chair for Emily Carr University, has been tasked with suggesting fixes that don’t rely on additional provincial funding." --- me: Students, Insitituions, and previous NDP […]

Must be one of those Paw Patrol pup… Chase, right? I hope it's Chase, presumably inside.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-MjWAm1zKQ1KHZ-meDfUWQA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Organ donors save lives. #heroes

I’m just sayin!! #audiobooks #audiobooks #library

Happy New Year to those who celebrate… 🎉

André Lavoie has a new article on Lawrence Durrell in Montréal's Le Devoir, and the ILDS conference in Vancouver this coming summer has a lovely mention! He was also kind enough to reach out to me and to Isabelle Keller-Privat as well as the Montréal playwright Serge Boucher for comments […]

The place where the #SkyTrain, the #metro system of #Vancouver, splits into two routes, the bridge that crosses the #FraserRiver southbound, or continues to the east... #photo #photography #urban #train #metro #skytrain#metro#Vancouver#fraserriver#photo#photography#urban#train#translink #saturday

Beautiful, long walk in the sunlight from rhe université along the Canal du Midi today. #toulouse

Walked past an interesting home in Albi today… Feels Roman. #ironwork #design

My first visit to Albi, and the cathedral is stunning. The scale of it is amazing, then the colour, then the Last Judgment…

@skeletor Found in the wild in Toulouse…

On this day in 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe took a photo of our planet from approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) away. "Commissioned by NASA and resulting from the advocacy of astronomer and author Carl Sagan, the photograph was […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Yes. (I realize this breaks Betteridge's law of headlines for the same reason that Betteridge's law of headlines usually works—the editors are afraid if the answer) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y85xdyw3o

ai, didn't read. brilliant. #artificialintelligence #AI

RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbcottawa_mirror/116047817711987750 It’s pretty common to wrap some elective courses in a “hook.” The purpose is the methodology, critical thinking, writing, analytic skills, etc. The theme just sparks attention or gives a way to relate the course to issues […]

If you’re looking for a great open-source project to use _and_ sponsor, check out @pandoc. I’ve been using Pandoc for years, it’s a huge time-saver for publishing documents from Markdown and an essential tool in my workflow. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc #pandoc #opensource #floss #publishing

Time to bring the cray cray, Florida Man Edition. You can't judge a house by the outside. I won't spoil this Certified Bonkers McBonkerspants (TM) home just yet. Just click and be prepared to ice your retinas... #FridayNightZillow zillow.com/homedetails/...

Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?

Tomorrow is my talk for the astronomy portion of the Physics & Astronomy Department at UBC, but it's open to the public, if you're in Vancouver tomorrow (Monday) at 4pm "The Kuiper Belt vs. the Billionaire Space Race" https://phas.ubc.ca/kuiper-belt-vs-billionaire-space-race Now I guess I […]

Solidarity to union members and students facing cuts at North Island College. VIU and NIC have a friendly rivalry, but more importantly, we each serve as access-focused post-secondary institutions for portions of Vancouver Island north of Victoria. The list of program suspensions is long. And […]

If you’re going to make a typo in the headline, go big and make sure it’s a Freudian slip… #associatedpress #korea

Greater Victoria Public Library, public library system in British Columbia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Victoria_Public_Library #libraries #books #map

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

RE: https://floss.social/@LabPlot/115861023934943166 “Top secondary students and later top university students are also nearly 90% different people…. Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, and chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during […]

Friends, if I didn't mail you the chapbook for #Christmas, you can have the #blog! A braided story on #fantasy, #classics, & entangling commercial & creative #writing: "Tying Three Loops: A Spell for the Modrybedd" […] [Original post on mas.to]

“Turn to the open window and look down To drink past all deceiving Your last dark rapture from the mystical throng And say farewell, farewell to Edmonton leaving" #yeg

As a child of the 80s, this is not top of my list for appliance names…

pet peeve. when articles mention a report or study and don't link the report or study! "A 9.0 magnitude earthquake could eclipse all past B.C. disasters combined: provincial report” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/earthquake-b-c-impact-9.7029762 The report appears to be “The […]

Friends, if I didn't mail you the chapbook for #Christmas, you can have the #blog! A braided story on #fantasy, #classics, & entangling commercial & creative #writing: "Tying Three Loops: A Spell for the Modrybedd" […] [Original post on mas.to]

If you have never worked a retail during the holidays, it can be the most challenging time of the year. Please extend some extra patience and grace to those that are.

I live up the street from an e-scooter shop. E-scooters are not legal on roads, sidewalks, bike-lanes, parks, or school grounds in my municipality. Every child has one…. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/e-scooters-rules-safety-9.7009066

Well, that's unambiguous…

Well, it looks like I'm firing up the ol' coal-powered web log… Before a new piece this month, here's some CNF first published in The Quarantine Review. It's about #adoption, academic travels in northern #BC, and discovering a beloved childhood author was an abuser […] [Original post on mas.to]

Erin Allday: Older adults are slowly abandoning this hobby — but the health payoff is huge. "Reading is associated with reductions in stress and improved mood. And though the actual science is limited, scientists generally agree that reading can boost brain health by essentially working it like […]

I just realized the current stable version of Python is 3.14.1, which makes it Pi-thon

RE: https://worldkey.io/@LibrarianRA/115615889765601197 The single greatest moment in television history. Moon landings and #got, eat your hearts out.

I recently attended a presentation by people from Anthropic at work about their large language models. One undercurrent in the presentation was that thinking is hard - wouldn't it be nice if it was easier? I'm sorry to say, but that's your job […]