Kid #2 wrote down some rules. 💀

At 7:58 local time on December 26, 2004 an earthquake of magnitude 9.1 happened offshore the western shore of Sumatra (Indonesia). The earthquake itself caused little damage, but it generated a series of tsunamis reaching up to 30 meters in height and flooding coastlines around the Indian Ocean ...

Didn’t Canada ban incandescent bulbs a decade ago? What’s going on?! @wealthofflows.bsky.social

Make a Bond movie academic: Skyfall: Increases in advection fog in Atlantic Canada - spatial modelling scenarios of AMOC variations.

All #SnowCrudKicker videos are BOGO for Boxing Day, with free shipping!

Make a Bond movie academic: Skyfall: An assessment on the polar vortex and how rapidly decending air from the mesosphere would burn the earth tomorrow and the day after.

Make a Bond movie academic: Moonraker: How raking the moon won't stop forest fires

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️ careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...

Make a Bond movie academic: Moonraker: How raking the moon won't stop forest fires

Without question, listening to "Fireside" Al Maitlan's The Shepherd is my favourite holiday traition.

No you can’t say uni but you can say uno. Now wouldn’t an edit button be nice?

Watching White Christmas and the same three ads (Infiniti, Ram Trucks, Trivago) jus played ten times in a row in a single commercial break.

Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️ careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...

Alright folks - only 364 shopping days until Xmas!

Shrinkflation

Merry Christmas. Here’s a picture of my bubby’s brooch.

This is it. I found the dumbest fucking thing you will read today. Apparently free public transport for people under 18 will cause "an issue" because when those people turn 18, they will have been "conditioned" not to pay. By that logic, toddlers should pay rent and board.

I think probably the biggest difference between the USA and Canada is that our lotteries are much smaller. www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/b...

lol my meat probe wants to know my Bluesky shitposting. Fill yer boots, little buddy

Covidy Christmas?

What about Quantim? I’ll be here all week.

Shrinkflation

An even better frozen soap bubble

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

See the thing about Dan is that he's awesome. Go work with him.

I should add that I do NOT want to receive genAI-written cover letters.

Opportunity for a PhD or postdoc with geological engineering or modelling experience and interests in mountain #geohazards - focused on landslide-triggered #tsunamis. A chance to work with some of the best! ⚒️🧪🌊🇨🇦

Strongly recommend this opportunity with the waterSHED Lab. An excellent place to do graduate or postdoc research. 🌊🏔️

🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share! nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/news/laun...

I know this isn’t exactly breaking news but MY LORD cybertrucks are ugly. Holy cow.

“Only 53% of students achieved an “acceptable” score on the Provincial Achievement Test, or PAT, down from 72% who achieved acceptable in 2019, before the pandemic and new curriculum.” Class sizes also playing a role. Real harm is being done here. Our kids deserve better.

Reminds me of this

Happy Last-Minute-Review-Request Day to all those who celebrate 🧪

This looks to be a great thread of incredible satellite imagery!

If you are interested in studying participatory cryosphere science or permafrost science feel free to reach out about these opportunities. Will be recirculating in early January. Also for international scholars there's a new funding opportunity for postdocs where these projects could apply as well!

From a friend in Whitehorse where it was -49C this morning (without the windchill)

When does an anecdote become data? Asking for one friend.

Piracy

Lovely to see. If only more people with money cared about their community like this, we’d be in a much better place.

Lovely to see. If only more people with money cared about their community like this, we’d be in a much better place.

ElbowsUp

Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada. www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

I wonder if Pinker knows that everyone knows that he’s in the Epstein files

That’s a fucking one point six kilometers to everyone outside the US of A

belated chag sameach

I am Grok. Grok I am. That Grok-I-Am! That Grok-I-Am! I do not like that Grok-I-Am! Do you like green thieves and slop? I do not like them, Grok-I-am. I don't want your AI in Word, I don't want it, it reeks of turd, I will not use your AI in Firefox, I will not, will not, give two fucks.

The current discourse between an AI bro and lots of people who don’t want any of that shit in their products is wild.

Oh that? Just me Christmas music the way it was meant to be played - as sea shanties

One of my favourite holiday traditions - making sour cherry whisky. On L is already strained, on R is still with the cherries.