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In 1966, Bill Mason released his acclaimed live-action short film Paddle to the Sea with the National Film Board. The Oscar-nominated film became a fixture for Canadian children in schools for decades. This is the story of that film. 📸 NFB 🧵1/10

one of my more crank policy ideas: you should not be able to get a liquor license without some degree of transit accessibility. however, if you and a few other applicants in a walkable area (like 2 or 3) otherwise qualify for one, you should be able to sue to get a stop near you.

Today sucks. My uncle-in-law passed (not unexpected, he has been ill for a few weeks), and I'm sick from Covid/flu shot side effects and keep falling asleep to minecraft videos and having strange incoherent dreams.

Today is Octidi the 28th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate tomatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

Where's the entrance for the specialized ones? 🤔

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Im deeply confused. They claim discovery of crystal structures but dont actually make crystals or show they exist? Like...wtf? You dont have a crystal if you dont have a crystal. We predict shit all day everyday, but I dont claim it is real and publish in Science without way more evidence.

Guess who’s now fostering this mama cat and her five kittens? Once again, name suggestions gratefully accepted

A PN adamamtane for MOFs! Our 1st foray into MOFs. Conceived + executed by student Pinelopi Tsami. Larger, flexible, e-rich (10 lone pairs!), PNMR active vs adamamtane tetrabenzoic acid. Happy to ship you some! Details: doi.org/10.26434/che... @mofpapers.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

I am so excited to welcome the Magic the Gathering team and the D&D team in stepping up to unionize alongside us! ^_^ My coworkers across WOTC are amazing and I'm so happy that we will all have a voice in shaping the policies affecting our teams!

Students avoiding subscripts by making the numbers in chemical formulas smaller fonts. :/

Is Your Child Cringe? Our most recent Crapshot might shine some light on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqa...

I thought this was Spelljammer art at first

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover

FUCK my city needs to get a safe injection site. Called 911 for a couple people who'd passed out in front of the grocery store today, they woke up about the time the ambulance got there. Would LOVE for that to be a paid professional who knows what to do and won't overreact's job

(Funnily enough, Traveller's 1977 text also directly frames many activities that modern RPGs characterise as "GM prep", such as designing NPCs and locations, as forms of solo play – a stance that, if you're been following this blog for any length of time, you may recognise as one I happen to share!)

Taken from "Traveller, Book 1: Characters and Combat" (1977). It's strange to see folks insisting solo RPGs are a post-Forge phenomenon when there's a really obvious example of a game nearly as old as the medium that both acknowledges the practice and provides frameworks explicitly designed for it.

Every day I'm confronted with the reality that a large portion of this hobby's participants looked at that "player showing up to a game of 'Vampire: the Masquerade' with a half-elf druid" anecdote that did the rounds recently and genuinely thought the GM was the bad guy for rejecting that character.

Eventually we're going to have to acknowledge the fact that we're not going to be able to constructively address the GM burnout problem as long as our definition of "bad GMing" includes "having any preferences whatsoever about what kind of game they want to run".

How did it come down to the two WORST minerals? Quartz: Scratches my sample holders up, shows up like stink in mineral samples making it hard to see the other phases Graphite: SUPER slippery, slides out of the sample holder and contaminates other samples, pain to clean up #MineralCup #PXRD

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

In 1968, Canada launched HMCS Bras d'Or. She was an experimental ship that became the fastest warship ever built. Capable of traveling at 63 knots (117 km/h), her trial program was abruptly cancelled only three years later. This is the story. 📸 LAC 🧵1/10

I’m voting #Graphite for #MinCup26! Under high P and T, Kulnitskiy et al. transformed graphite into a carbon landscape of diamond nanoparticles, lonsdaleite fragments, polytypes and twins. Read how changes in layer stacking produce this in @actacrystb.iucr.org : journals.iucr.org/paper?ps5025=

I was talking about student issues with uploading PDFs with a TA, and they blamed covid but I said I see similar issues with my mother using tech — file extensions are hidden by default, file names themselves are sometimes obscured... how are people to know what type of file they are dealing with?

I think a big problem with computer tech is that, in the name of making everything more "user friendly", they have made it difficult or impossible for you, the user, to understand what is happening

reminder to turn off exterior lights and draw curtains and blinds to block interior light! the children of the sky need to be able to see the stars to navigate safely :)

And still some coder friends go “oh yeah sure but I like how more productive I am at writing code for video games”

The series of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate shenanigans that led to Kevin O'Leary forming the greatest CD-ROM shovelware operation of the 1990s, The Learning Company, remains one of the great cautionary tales about hypergrowth capitalism. www.computerchronicles.blog/computer-chr...

fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero

As a Canadian, I feel morally obliged to support #gypsum for its role in the 1820 Plaster War where smugglers very decidedly won. #MinCup26

New at the Video Game Soda Machine Project: remastered soda machines from The Last of Us Part II Remastered!

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naturally after carefully ensuring that I have extracted 100% of all possible character portraits from the game, I go skim through a longplay to figure out who some people are and OH WAIT WHO IS THIS FUCKER?

I need to write some deduping code but right now I'm too lazy I have 206 heads extracted from the GBA version of Star Wars: Episode III but 99% of them are Anakin Skywalker

l pay them extra if they agree to get the emphasis all weird and break up into obviously fake laughter at the end.

Okay, you got me – for the past several years I have at tremendous personal expense secretly been paying YouTube voice actors to do dramatic readings of my 4/10 Tumblr posts as part of a sinister scheme to mildly irritate "Dungeons & Dragons" enthusiasts everywhere.

Notes from last weekend's fiber festival in BC: -Neon yarns still popular -Speckle-dyed yarns relatively rare -Some small-skein fade sets available -No long-gradient yarns spotted, appear to be out of vogue -MANY local dyers selling off stock and replacing it with new Canadian-sourced yarn bases 🇨🇦

End of an era. One of the most iconic locations for US birders is a small picnic table in Patagonia, Arizona, the namesake for one of my favorite birding terms, the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect (see this excerpt from my birding dictionary). I went there last week and found the table had collapsed.

Chromantasy- book genre about dragons doing liquid chromatography

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

I haven't seen anyone on here fawn over the Carlisle 5216 cup for a while and I think perhaps that's where we have gone astray as a community