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I'd forgotten the multi-artist version of God Only Knows that was used to launch BBC Music 10 years ago. Brian Wilson was, fittingly, the only one to appears twice. (There's no other cultural organisation that could do anything as gloriously celebratory as this.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLT...

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The Salem Witch Trials may have been caused by rye bread. In 1692, after two young girls in Salem, Massachusetts exhibited severe convulsions and other strange symptoms, village doctor William Griggs diagnosed them as having been bewitched. 🧵⬇️

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I love reading serious stories about guys who believe AGI is real, it feels like a bunch of millionaires plotting to find and capture Santa Claus

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Did you know that you can just borrow an entire cello from the Toronto Public Library for free?? They have a musical instrument lending program. You can just walk into the library and walk out with an accordion. You can borrow a THEREMIN. www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/services/bor...

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I have a new hero. This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

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Toad played the piano, and he did not miss a note.

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Strangely, I have absolutely no mental image of the Portland, Oregon downtown or skyline.

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Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint

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The book proposal I'm currently working on is about a general theory of crises. So far my research is pointing toward the conclusion that the most important thing to do is to understand that you are in a crisis and that the normal rules which serve well in normal conditions may not apply.

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Affirmation Coyote sees you've got what it takes to grab Tuesday and shake it around like your favorite stick.

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My talk is in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sv8... Enjoy!

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Canadians were drinking 93pc less US wine yoy in April. Which is to say, good start

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Y'know, it occurs to me that displaying the profile bio on the side of the screen when you're replying to someone would not be a terrible innovation, at least for the desktop version of bsky.

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The Ontario case was by two guys named Mike. I saw them at a Cabbagetown festival once. Way to go Ontario!

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June 10, 2003: Ontario legalized same-sex marriage after the Halpern v Canada ruling that declared defining marriage in heterosexual-only terms violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada and the third in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.

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WebGPU is enabled in the Safari 26 beta announced today!

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Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.

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TIL!

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Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s. adalovelaceday.subst...

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youtu.be/rPp7HZFNXnM

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Saw @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social live on the weekend, on his Flowers tour. It was good. No surprise on the marquee topic given the news early last week, and well delivered.

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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

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Evergreen

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June 9, 1993: The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Los Angeles Kings. It was the last Stanley Cup won in the Montreal Forum, the last Stanley Cup won by a team composed of only North Americans, and (to date) the last Stanley Cup won by a Canadian team.

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"Like a rolling Stone". I always thought the lyrics were "Through the bumps of time" Last month when we watched A Complete Unknown I finally got it: "Threw the bums a dime". Makes a lot more sense in the story of the song!

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The Blues Brothers introduce Stand By Your Man by calling it a "favourite of the horn section," The song does not actually have any horns in it.

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In 1984, Philip Michael Thomas (star of Miami Vice) invented a new concept -- the EGOT.

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this car has a baguette holder

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Welcome to Saturday! Affirmation Coyote hopes you achieve the balance of getting things done, recreating, and slacking off.

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Seems like after all this time, Markdown hit the sweet spot for markup. And I attended a colloquium at uni about how SGML and its successors were going to change the world.

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