Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The Air Canada desk monitors at my gate are running the Windows bubbles screensaver.

🧵 Important thread for writers. Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.

a realization you have pretty quickly as a trans person is that nobody likes being in the bathroom and that everyone is trying their hardest not to notice the other people in there

Wizards living in your fort, Demon-trained sorcerers, Diplomacy and more coming to Dwarf Fortress in 2026. ❄ Watch the winter devlog: youtu.be/cbzttKQofFg

anime is when the dungeon goes up and grimdark western is when the dungeon goes down

True facts.

The photography of Yousuf Karsh has been exhibited across the world. Over 355,000, including 150,000 negatives, were given to Library and Archives Canada. Outside the Chateau Laurier, a bust of Yousuf by sculptor Megerditch Tarakdjian was unveiled in 2017. 🧵 11/12

The last official portraits taken by Yousuf were in May 1993 of President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton. In 1997, he moved to Boston. On July 13, 2002, he died. A private funeral was held and he is buried at Notre-Dame Cemetery in Ottawa. 🧵 10/12

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he continued to take famous portraits of both Canadian and international individuals including Princess Elizabeth, Tyrone Power, Lord Beaverbrook and the Marx Brothers. His 1957 portrait of Ernest Hemingway was highly acclaimed. 🧵 7/12

The portrait has become the most reproduced portrait in the history of photography. It appeared on the cover of Life, and is now on the Bank of England £5 note. In 2022, a signed print was stolen from the Château Laurier. It was recovered in 2025. 🧵 6/12

On Dec. 30, 1941, he took a portrait of Winston Churchill in the Speaker's Chamber of the Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament. To capture the photo, Yousuf removed Churchill's cigar from his mouth right before he took the photo, which made Churchill scowl. 🧵 5/12

Yousuf was sent to Canada by his family, arriving in Halifax on Dec. 31, 1923. He moved to Sherbrooke where his maternal uncle lived. His uncle was a photographer, and gave Yousuf a Box Brownie camera that ignited a love of photography in the young man. 🧵 3/12

Yousuf Karsh was born on Dec. 23, 1908 in the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. Of Armenian-descent, he had two brothers, Jamil and Malak. As a child, he saw some of his family murdered during the Armenian Genocide. His family escaped in 1922. 🧵 2/12

During the 20th century, the greatest portrait photographer was Canadian Yousuf Karsh. From his studio in Ottawa, he captured the portraits of some of the most famous individuals from that century. This is the story of the master photographer. 🧵 1/12

My child is developing a western-Canadian interpretation of rhyming slang. Yes, this includes the Chinook Jargon & francophone loanwords. We’re negotiating if language is intended to convey meaning or not.

I almost forgot that as soon as the Steam Winter Sale ends, the Winter Nerd Olympics begin. Looking forward to Authorblues speedrunning Super Mario World backwards on that first day. gamesdonequick.com/schedule/62

On this day in 2008, the federal government awarded Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus Canadian citizenship.

Happy Holidays ✨ Private moment during festivities. Left: Skia, she/her Right: Alex, they/them #SapphicArt #QueerArt #OCArt #onocs

Cozy☕️ #drawing #anime #digital #krita #gayboys #lgbtqia #gay #love #digital #queer #queerartist #cute

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Does anyone know of any Canadian glassblowing suppliers? I'm looking to get a set of BoroTruView 3.0 Lampworking Glasses 33 and a National 3A-B torch, and some accessories, and all the suppliers I can find are in the US or don't ship to Canada #Glassblowing #Lampworking #Torchworking #beadmaking

Endangered Species Act Under Threat! Final hours to comment! Endangered Species Act regulations comment period ends Monday 12/22 at 11:59 pm ET. Easy-to-use comment guide with direct links to comment: shorturl.at/NL623

Not nearly as important, but the little AI summaries on search engines are useless for gardeners. I’ve scrolled past things assuring me that tropical are hardy to Zone 5.

SEE ALSO: safety professionals Doubly so for safety in research.

We have one more treat for you this week... The rustiest staple we have ever seen in our lives

this is about forcing people with breasts to show them in the way approved of by fascists. it is in itself an act of sexual violence and coersion

Oh crap. My fool-proof organizational method of putting random pieces of paper with important info in the at-the-time most convenient random place in my office has let me down... ...yet again. Someday I will learn my lesson, surely.

If I make the smallest humanly possible adjustment to the hotel shower faucet, the water jumps from lukewarm to scalding with no in between. If I understand physics correctly*, this is due to the quantized nature of energy. *[editor's note: he does not understand physics correctly. not at all.]

More to the point: a glued binding is not tight. It is either cracked, or it is not. Since post-1990ish books are almost all glued, "tight" is usually nonsensical. (Fine presses still sew, and collectors, that is preferable.) Anyway, that's my newest peeve. Next time, I'll go after "flatsigned" 🤢

If what you're looking for is a book that is not "loose" (ie, pages pulling or falling out in groups), "tight" might seem like what you want. I, a full-contact bibliomaniac, can tell you that tightly sewn bindings can warp pages, so I've been hesitant to use "tight" to mean "not loose". (3/4)

Since the invention of eBay and such, some weird phrases have become fashionable in online book listings. There are agreed terms (see Carter's "ABC for Book Collectors") that most professional booksellers use. One popular term right now is... problematic. Let's talk about "tight" binding. (🧵 1/4)

When you're looking for a used book online, sometimes you just want a thing you can read. If so, continue buying books marked "good". If you want a hardcover to keep, however, you probably want a SEWN binding (if possible; most recent books tend to be glued) A sewn binding can be "tight"... (2/4)

Seattle Tacoma metro area! What do you consider the more effective mutual aid groups for the area to be? I donate to orgs regularly, but I am always down to audit my list.

a cancer nurse in a state I've never been to told messaged me and said that reading out Rice Truck aloud as it happened was the only day in her entire 14 year career on chemo ward that nobody cried and it's probably the best compliment I will ever get in my life

For a second I thought this was the mythbusters guy doing a hardcore experiment

Snow!

its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

wild fact I just learned (mostly) from reddit: This person who modeled as the policeman for this Norman Rockwell drawing (Policeman with Boys) was a real policeman, and he's Officer Obie from Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. huh! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out

If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: When Canada Went Metric From the early-1970s to the mid-1980s, Canada made the move to the Metric System (mostly). Listen on all podcast platforms link.chtbl.com/chx Read 👇 canadaehx.com/2020/01/10/c...

Paid my registration for IUCr in Calgary next summer, let me know if you are going to be there. #Crystallography #ChemChat #IUCr

Women want one thing*, and it’s disgusting. *Naked debate clubs about the religious and philosophical nature of vampires with a vampire who is actively drinking from. having sex with, and topping you, as well as providing you with the opportunities to institute socialist principles in vamp society.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/... #Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry

You can find most of the mods here: mod.io/g/openxcom If you want something Vanilla+, the Final Mod Pack is great. If you want a massive expansion on everything, conceptually, The X-Com Files is what you want. And 40k: Rosigma is an ever-expanding Warhammer total conversion featuring EVERYTHING.