They what WHAT?

Yes, SPLC uses paid informants. To infiltrate and research *violent extremist groups*. Sometimes using funding from the FBI-that-was.

We have entered the Quantum Quilt season, in which the bedclothes are simultaneously too warm and not cozy enough.

What are the chances the children's mother had decided to leave...

Or to square off / square up about something.

Give yourself time to write a terrible draft and then walk away for a day or two and let your subconscious keep working. Then you can come back with fresh eyes and tinker tweak

But the stakes of being terrible when you’re writing a draft are zero because no one knows! It’s just you and you!

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

"Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful declaration harmed children,” the Judge wrote.

“This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law...

“Unserious leaders are unsafe."

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Oh, lordy. I remember watching that with my English mum and Indian dad. They thought it was a popular new cross-cultural film that we might relate to as a family. I was eleven. It was 1985. I'm cringing still.

The thing about Vancouver wanting a world class art gallery is we already have one.

The Museum of Anthropology combines two of the greatest visual contributions this land has shared with the world — West Coast Modernism and Northwest Coast Art — into a singular expression of this region.

The thesis is going one loaf sourdough, one loaf half-wheat, one pan brownies and all the laundry and recycling done, thanks.

(Though I have actually got the Intro & Lit Review coalescing nicely now.)

I was so annoyed about wrong information on the internet that I decided to make a video about how non-trinary neutrinos move and what quantum tunneling is. Andy Weir may be more bestselling than me but I'm more expert lol 🧪⚛️

Buy my book to learn more! 💙📚
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“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

― Carl Sagan

Booked off an extra long weekend for thesis wrangling, so of course I slept horribly and woke with cold symptoms...🙄 Clearly stress induced and not an actual bug. Still, a day of stepping back from writing and deepening into some key framework readings (on the sofa with endless tea) is also good.

Bragworthy!

Thank you, thank you, for sharing Marlowe, Seamus, Riley and all the cats with us. What great lives you gave them. The paradox of loving on these critters so deeply, while knowing their lifespans are just too darn short...

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Good-tired, after an event for incoming first-years. Students at various degrees of nonchalance, and vibrating with the coolness of #University and Actual #Science.

Very glad of the #TruckStop breakfast with @laurieartist.bsky.social - much needed for wrangling steel sign frames and students!

Science is good. We should fund it.

The Artemis capsule descending to Earth, with three red-and-white parachutes deployed and a wide white course cloud behind it.

Humanity: Pretty awesome, sometimes.

Defensive countershading, whispers my brain.

Also TIL from Hadfield: there’s been a 3/4-size travel guitar on the ISS since *2001* (!), it gets played pretty much every day (because music is important!) and it’s — kinda randomly! — from Larrivée and was made in Vancouver. #cancon vancouversun.com/business/ast...

I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

Announcing our 2026 SFU 3MT Winners: Jonas Eschenfelder (1st place); Maggie Ku (runner up); and, Grace Johnson (people's choice).  Congratulations to all the presenters!

The Artemis missioun doth show that the thinges that are trulye the most astoundinge yn thys worlde, the thinges that will echo on thrugh historye, are not technologye, howevir marvelous, but common human braverye, wondir, and love. These will be the themes when thys storye ys tolde for centuryes.

Owwwie! I hope you mend quickly. Enjoy the dopey meanwhile?

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Happy Ace Day, folks!

May your cake be bountiful, and your dragons content.

We have always been here. Not waiting, not substituting, definitely not lonely. Not bystanders. We are an active part of the whole tapestry.

🖤🩶🤍💜

#InternationalAsexualityDay

A group of about two dozen women stand posed on wide stone steps in front of a large building with tall columns and a recessed entrance. They wear long dresses or skirts with fitted bodices, many in light colours, and wide-brimmed hats decorated with feathers or ribbons. Several women hold handbags or gloves. The women are arranged in rows, some seated on the steps and others standing behind them. The building façade features carved stone details and a large doorway with metal grilles.

On this day in 1917, British Columbia extended the vote to many (but not all) women. It was the fourth province to do so after Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Indigenous and Asian women did not get the vote until 1949.

No doubt - and thank you for speaking up!

Ooof. Glad he vacated, and I hope his family is okay!