Dennis K.

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

niche grievance alert: the Commercial-Broadway Expo Line platform should have a sign for how soon the Millennium Line is departing same with the Seabus in the Waterfront Station, frankly I NEED TO KNOW WHETHER ONE MINUTE OF RUNNING WILL SAVE ME 5-15 MINUTES OF WAITING

In 1991, a subatomic particle traveling *just* under the speed of light — and I do mean "just" — slammed into Earth's atmosphere with the energy of a major league basebal pitch! But... where did it come from? And how? A thing I wrote: www.scientificamerican.com/article/wher... 🔭 🧪

Thanks to @elakdawalla.bsky.social for calling out this fakery. My undergrad science brain felt it wasn't real but my lizard brain yearned to believe!

NEW ODD LOTS: Trump has walked into a "strategic trap" by going to war in Iran, and the energy fallout will be immense. Our chat with the great @gbrew24.bsky.social out now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop

It's Whitecaps end of season availability just now with Jesper Sørensen & Axel Schuster. Will have comments in this thread. Jesper believes the team will be even better next year. Feels they need to learn from the two final defeats and be the team that wins small margins #VWFC

This is not an issue of cropping! They accidentally used the raw plate without VFX that removed the crew. In the proper version you still See John Hamm step back but no crew behind him.

Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep naturally past dawn. Daylight Saving Time makes us wake by alarm in darkness. Tell lawmakers to ditch DST! 🔗👇

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Oh my god, I was unaware my friend Dianna (aka physicsgirl) had improved so much so recently! This video made my heart swell, even as it laid bare just how awful this devastating disease is.

Phil pours some cold water on the sensational reporting about alien life on another planet 👍

A sacred institution now filing for bankruptcy ... is there ANYTHING Millennials won't ruin?? @theonion.com

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the increase to the capital gains inclusion rate is postponed until Jan 1 2026 (i.e., indefinitely)

Canadian int'l and former Colorado Rapids center back Moïse Bombito listed as the *fastest* player in Europe's top five leagues, ahead of Kylian Mbappe, by TransferRoom LA Galaxy winger Joseph Paintsil listed as the second fastest player in the world

If @vancouverwhitecaps.bsky.social is not willing to post stuff here, maybe I will start doing it to get them to do it... Info released for the preseason. Also, MLS schedule comes out tomorrow. www.whitecapsfc.com/news/vwfc-co...

what am I even supposed to do with data breach notifications at this point "ah, yes, I'll just put that over here, with the rest of the data breaches"

"I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice." Einstein sent a letter to Max Born #OTD in 1926, in which he gave his oft-quoted objection to the probabilistic interpretation of the wavefunction in quantum mechanics. 🧪 ⚛️ You may be surprised by where this is headed. (1/n)

Massive away win for the little fella.

You better fucking watch this video, it cost us $375 million.

every few years I’m reminded that Bluetooth is an eldritch spell drawing down the unifying power of a dead king so that I can hear my little tunes

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. 🧪 🎃 The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~. 🧵 Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Not a supernova but a white dwarf - that's the postulated end game for our sun.

UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

Poisson distributions are everywhere in nature. If you count raindrops falling on a chessboard, the number of "hits" within a given square follows the Poisson, with a mean lambda equal to the rainfall intensity <- Poisson Scatter Theorem

Canucks announce new seats are finally coming to Rogers Arena...next year. Team has announced installation will be done by the beginning of next season. They'd originally planned to start installation this past summer - but the company they originally hired went bankrupt.

+1 Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #9,219,432!

Some style lessons from Gerard Basquiat, a Haitian immigrant whose son helped define the New York art scene and neo-expressionism. 🧵 (1/18)

Two very cool things: a) I wrote about lunar swirls, one of my favorite features on the Moon! and 2) the article features a shot I took thru my own telescope, so now I'm a published photographer in Scientific American! www.scientificamerican.com/article/luna... 🔭🧪