Today’s hilarious story from the grading archives involves our old friend AI. So the phenomena that my students focus on as they learn evolution and natural selection is horses. Specifically we track how horses changed throughout the Cenozoic Era. 🧪🧬🍎⚒️

Reading in the Wild to take over Calgary’s Central Memorial Park one evening in June www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

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May 20 is World Bee Day. 🧪🐡🐝 There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend

Last year, 1.4 million people visited the CNE. The garbage they left behind would normally take more than 1,000 years to break down in a landfill. Instead, 40 tonnes of it was transformed into soil and donated to an urban farm in Scarborough. 🌻 Marco Chown Oved has the dirt: trib.al/t7mkkaT

A couple of moose out for an afternoon walk.🌲🫎🇨🇦 #moose

Shake it, baby! 🐢

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

OTD 46 years ago: May 18, 1980 the bulging north flank of Mount St. Helens slid away in a massive landslide. The uncorked volcano exploded & blasted rocks horizontally. 9 hours of explosive volcanic activity ensued, killing 57 people & forever altering the landscape and what we know about volcanoes

I remain the only person to have reviewed the Pacific Ocean on Google Maps.

“How could we have known thot stealing stories and feeding them to AI would have consequences?” By READING the stories. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

Rainy day iris #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSpring #OurNeighborhood #BloomScrolling

Dune Cat Budget Version

I've read 37 out of 100 on the list. I have my quarrels with it. www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

Gustave Caillebotte The Yerres, Effect of Rain, 1875, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana.

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read and I’m only halfway through

My painting NORTH WOODS SKY

Humpback whale creates a rainbow: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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HUGE: Alberta judge quashes the separatists' referendum petition, in major victory for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Blackfoot confederation. Justice Shaina Leonard: "the Crown failed to meet its duty to consult"

Of the 694 recorded motions for the current Calgary council term, how are the voting blocs lining up? Data shows that Kim Tyers (Ward 1) and Mike Jamieson (Ward 12) vote the same way 96% of the time. Explore the data: calgarylens.ca/council/alig... #yyc #yyccc

Hey everybody RT this, please? While mural making I haven't had time to fundraise (it would be so cool if there were 2 of me). I wanna do some cool projects this fall so I gotta sell some shirts.

Morning 😂.

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There's a screenshot going around of authors admitting to AI use and one of them appears to write hardcore monsterfucking fics and this makes me sad. If you're not writing monsterfucking fics for the sheer, genuine love of the game then what the hell are we even doing here?

ANNOUNCEMENT After two years of accountability failures, nine of us are suing the Calgary Police, City of Calgary & University of Calgary for brutality & Charter violations suffered May 9, 2024. We will provide a public statement at UofC TFLD Quad, 12:30pm today. drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

Ann Teed Jarvis: We are mothers and we demand an end to war World: Got it, a Mother’s Day ATJ: What? No, we want peace World: Understand, you want cards and flowers ATJ: We want AN END TO WAR World: Chocolates

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

In January, the Doomsday Clock was set to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. Trump’s determined to have unrestricted military access to AI. A recent study found that in simulated war games, leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time.

Every city's a walkable city if you're Godzilla

So this won an award for best news writing and honestly fuck yeah it was a labour of love www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

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“the judge found that the complainant had led a ‘hardscrabble life,’ often appearing in court, so therefore it couldn't be determined that the harm she suffered from the assault was ‘life-altering.’” Is he saying it’s ok to brutalize a woman because she’s used to it? www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

This is how I die, with they words “hey check this out” on my lips & a carpenter’s triangle embedded in my head.

say it with me fellas 🗣️ the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din 🗣️

Four sailors from doomed Franklin expedition identified through DNA #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

The #birds were migrating en masse in the Edmonton area this afternoon. (1/3)

Happy Cartoonist's Day!! With thanks to @extrafabulous.bsky.social for this comic.

Welp. This is a hell of a story. Canadian Mining Journal published what appeared to be an entirely fabricated deep-sea mining paper, with quotes from fictional people and a source paper that does not exist.

I'm going on Master Chef, looking Gordon Ramsay dead in the eye while I pop this in the microwave, then staring at him unblinking for two minutes until it's ready.

Vote for the cutest pets! cahi-icsa.ca/cutest-pets-...

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

19-yr-old Ukrainian drone operator w/ 50 strikes "takes a pink good-luck charm, a toy Labubu, on every combat mission. She pairs it with a pink magazine for her assault rifle ... 'Mom says: "Nastya, you’re a grown woman—what’s with the Labubu?" But I like it,' she explains." tinyurl.com/z2ak7w7e