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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

As soon as my wife sent me a link to a Cameo from Ernie on Christmas, I knew it was going to be him joining her campaign to get a second dog.

The latest salvo in @ponddrop.bsky.social campaign to get a second dog #BlueJays

Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

On the #Raptors broadcast is Kia and Leo's on-air relationship a bit? Or do they really hate each other as much as it sounds like?

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

One of my favourite leather designers has come up with a ridiculous/awesome shark bag. Just putting it out there in case anyone wants to commission me to make one for them... vasileandpavel.com/en-ca/produc...

NEW from me... New Brunswick gas prices plunge, but industry contemplates fighting it - again Holt government’s latest move in gas war has dropped prices to a low not seen since August 2021 (!) What happens next still to be determined tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

🎶That's the power of love🎶 Couples-based cardiac care improves healthy behaviours and mental health. My story for @medscape.com 🧪#medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Good news for St Stephen, looks like a hotel might actually get built. Though I'm trying really hard not to respond to this with the Charlie Brown football gif. chco.tv/new-hotel-an...

Good news for runners - a long-term study of male marathoners has found that endurance running does not appear to cause lasting damage to your heart. My story for @medscape.com 🧪#cardiosky #medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Good news for runners - a long-term study of male marathoners has found that endurance running does not appear to cause lasting damage to your heart. My story for @medscape.com 🧪#cardiosky #medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

In a year since the US election NB borders saw 577,000 fewer Canadians coming back from the US. A 32% year over year reduction. But recent months have seen less of a decline in YoY traffic than the peak of the 51st state rhetoric.

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

The ad agencies who are producing this sludge should be blacklisted by all of the unions representing human actors and human film industry trades. History will remember you as scabs to the human race.

I got to visit some of these caves last week with the @wcsj2025.bsky.social Really fascinating site...and a picture I took there is now the background wallpaper on my phone.

Haven't even started my safari at Dinokeng game reserve yet and saw these guys just on the drive in to the lodge.

What is the point of having the World Cup draw before they have determined all of the teams that will actually be taking part?

A visit to the Sterkfontain Caves at the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site today with @wcsj2025.bsky.social #WCSJ2025

An early morning trip to the Nelson Mandela statue at the Union Building in Pretoria with colleagues from @wcsj2025.bsky.social Huge thanks to Kevin who played tour guide and gave his moving reflections on Mandela's legacy. #WCSJ2025

Ok BirdSky, what is this bird I saw in Pretoria this morning?

An early morning trip to the Nelson Mandela statue at the Union Building in Pretoria with colleagues from @wcsj2025.bsky.social Huge thanks to Kevin who played tour guide and gave his moving reflections on Mandela's legacy. #WCSJ2025

Has any prime minister ever gotten less political value out of a giant investment than Justin Trudeau got from TMX? Obviously environmental groups/voters were never going to like it, and most everyone else just pretends it never happened because it complicates the narrative.

By the end of this century 100-year floods could be hitting the northeastern US every year. My story for @livescience.com 🧪 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

By the end of this century 100-year floods could be hitting the northeastern US every year. My story for @livescience.com 🧪 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Interesting walking tour of Johannesburg street art today

I feel like this buffalo is judging me for spending him on frivolous nonsense

The creator of an AI therapy app shut it down after deciding it's too dangerous. Here's why he thinks therapy bots aren't safe fortune.com/2025/11/28/y... @fortune.com More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

As someone about to board a 14-hour overnight flight you can be damn sure I'll be reclining my seat. And the person in front of me is welcome to do so as well. Come at me pope.

‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.

CRA wrongly demanded that both my wife and her sister pay back some of the CERB they got. My wife spent months fighting them and won. Her sister didn't have the stomach for the fight and paid back thousands that was rightfully hers and that she couldn't afford to lose.

Canada needs money so desperately the government is going after low income people who took pandemic benefits in good faith. But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.

YHZ -> EWR -> JNB Off to @wcsj2025.bsky.social

“I was just following otters.”

Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share #science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education

Nerrrrrrrrrrrds! To celebrate getting 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I am offering some of you fine folks the chance to join me on a 2026 shark research expedition. Really! Enter here: forms.gle/iq3YQG31kbAC... Terms and conditions in thread below:

Why does Google Docs always add a nonexistent blank page to the end of every document that I print?

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

Trivia season begins at the Herring pub in St. Andrew's tonight

Today, in the continuing adventures of how my town uses its emergency alert app.

Remember last year, when bioGraphic and Hakai Magazine were both facing uncertain futures? Your donations saved the day--we raised $140,000 and lived to publish another day! Now we need help balancing our 2026 budget. Please donate via the link below, and snag some cool stickers to boot!

Today, in the continuing adventures of how my town uses its emergency alert app.

N.B. government announces St. Stephen collaborative care clinic 🔗: chco.tv/n-b-governme...

What's the current best practice for addressing a cover letter when you don't know who, specifically, is going to read it? Are we still doing To Whom It May Concern?

A high-performing innovation ecosystem is essential to the well-being of all people in Canada. Our newest report details the state of science, technology, and innovation in Canada, including key drivers shaping the ecosystem, and barriers and knowledge gaps. 🧪 go.cca-reports.ca/4jPxfm0