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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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Oil Pipelines getting sick of Danielle Smith talking about them all the time (Podcast)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Convention season is about to start, just as a new variant of COVID is spreading that people describe as like swallowing razor blades. Socials are going to be full of con pictures. Are we going to see any masks in them? I want to believe y'all care.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

TBH, the more I hear from J Jorby Jorberson, the more I think it was wayyyyy too easy for a mediocre white dude to Gish gallop his way into academia back in the day.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 10 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 20 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 20 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 20 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

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 22 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.)

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Poor Opabinia.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Whom amongst us

submitted 25 days ago • 83 comments

Deposition xkcd.com/3088

submitted 24 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.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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 25 days ago • 13 comments