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GIS wonk occasionally kidnapped by archaeologists, palaeontologists and fish people. Photographer, knapper, and all weather cyclist in a city reputed to be winter 11 months per year. #GIS #archaeology #climate #cycling #yegbike #yegdt #cats #photography
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Seafaring or not, Late #Paleolithic hunter-gatherers along the Bay of Biscay in present-day Spain & France seem to have made the most of stranded sperm, fin, blue, grey, & bowhead #whales - crafting the oldest (yet) known whale bone tools some 20,000 years ago: 🏺🐋 cosmosmagazine.com/history/arch...

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The popular story behind one of the most famous maps ever drawn is (partly) a myth www.maps.com/snow-mistake...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Fun fact: I shared this article with my college's AI workgroup. Their response was to suggest that an AI tool could identify the fake students

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Just a reminder that history is a body of knowledge: a systematic study of change over time. The loss of a building or a statue doesn’t destroy this knowledge. Using these buildings and statues to propagandize a sanitized version of the past can certainly counter or limit history though.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Fun fact: During the 2010s Canada lacked medium lift capabilities in Afghanistan, prompting us to negotiate a deal with the US for Chinooks. However this was taking a while so as a stopgap we leased four civilian Mi-17's, dubbing them CH-178's. Flown by the 427 SOAS

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

"Yes!" "May I see it?" "...No."

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Back when my other half worked in the US in game design, a border agent arbitrarily suspended her work visa as she returned from visiting her parents in Canada because they couldn't understand why she needed to be in the country to work. 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Me: Pass the aux cable. Friend: Okay, but you'd better not play numbers station recordings from the Cold War. (Lincolnshire Poacher plays, followed by an English accented woman's voice reading five digit number sequences.)

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Poor Opabinia.

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Whom amongst us

submitted 17 days ago • 84 comments

Deposition xkcd.com/3088

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

My other half and I met on the bird site. We've subtweeted/subskeeted about each other all kinds of times as we refer to our "other half". But you won't see us coming out and saying each other's user names because people online are weird.

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Trump's defense of accepting a 400 million luxury jet being "Corruption isn't corruption if you do it in plain sight" is like me thinking I can get away with a bank robbery if I made sure all the cameras were on and gave them a big ol wave as I pistol whipped all the tellers

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

submitted 19 days ago • 719 comments

Q: Why can’t flintknappers get dates? A: Because they’re always flaking! #archaeology #archeology #dadjokes

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is something that has been extremely relevant to my life during times of loss or crisis. Everything seems to just kind of go quiet inside.

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Per my previous announcement, this is my new rock. It appears to be a hydrothermal seam in phyllite, which has deposited feldspar, quartz, and all of this lovely pyrite. New rock.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow I will be making an announcement about my cool new rock.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 Sometimes being Autistic means that you learn a loved one has cancer and you feel absolutely nothing you're not a sociopath it's delayed emotional processing & alexithymia

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Well, this is delightful

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically

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I'm A United States Governor, and I Don't Understand Why Canadians Have Stopped Visiting Us www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAbA...

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

Upright bikes have been a game-changer for urban biking around the world since they first “exploded” outside of Europe — I wrote this with @modacitylife.com back in 2014, “In Praise Of The Upright Bike” back when we were still spreading the word in those early years. www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/e...

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

I'm obsessed with how much ancient history wikipedia editors managed to fit into the "yo mama" article

submitted 22 days ago • 57 comments

my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name me:

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