Kevin Solez

19 Mar

14 Aug

#Brewing was such an ordinary part of life in ancient #Egypt that texts spelling out the procedure have not yet been discovered. Models deposited in tombs, such as these at the Royal Ontario Museum from the tomb of Mentuhotep II at the end of the 3rd millennium BCE, are some of our best evidence.

cbc.caN.L. has a hard bread shortage — but why do we eat it in the first place? | CBC NewsGrocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador have been struggling to keep hard bread in stock since a fire at the Purity factory in March put a crimp in the company’s baking operations.

10 Aug

What a delightful story about Newfoundland hardtack, including its millennia-long history! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

kevinsolez.caUpdates and Blog PostsREFLECTING ON NOLAN’S ODYSSEY WITH SPOILERS I saw Christopher Nolan’s _The Odyssey_ with my wife on August 2nd, and I thought it was great. When I taught Classics and Pop Culture, I wou…

9 Aug

Please enjoy my take on Nolan's _The Odyssey_: "Reflecting on Nolan's Odyssey with Spoilers" kevinsolez.ca/updates-and-...

30 July

I'm not sure what, but I think we need to do something in support of those who work in public health. Public health is that branch of science that has the greatest impact on extending lifespan of human beings at the community level. #PublicHealth #Canada #UnitedStates

30 July

Their prominent, epoch-making interventions include water treatment, food inspection, inoculation, and fluoridated water. Each of those measures is being dismantled in the United States and Canada (in #Alberta, at least). #PublicHealth #Canada #UnitedStates

30 July

Well-known practitioners of the science are being vilified. Public health practitioners don't deserve an iota of our ill will. They deserve our thanks. Bang your pots. #PublicHealth #Canada #UnitedStates

baptistnews.comMen-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust – Baptist News Globalthe Christian manosphere believes men need to be in top physical and spiritual shape. So they’re proposing “lust-free” gyms.

24 July

Here you will read a description of the main feeder line for today's rise of #fascism in North #America. Don't be put off by the nature of the source; it seeks to critique the movement, but it does so from within the #church, which is disorienting for secular people. baptistnews.com/article/men-...

19 July

Edmonton vibes #yeg #theatrenetwork #Edmonton #Alberta #KatoukiTaverna

17 July

#Alberta made a contribution to world literature today with the phrase "Fuck your fascist pancakes" uttered by a protester to the Premier during the KDays annual pancake breakfast at the Alberta Legislature. #Canada

17 July

This phrase is brought to you by @mikaylaresists.bsky.social

15 July

Eat your breakfast!

exchanges.uiowa.eduAncient Exchanges Archive — Exchanges

10 July

Wonderful! Ancient Exchanges has made the publications of their issues from 2020-2024 available! I trust that my name will be restored to Kevin from "Kegin" in the Spring 2022 issue for "Honour's Table," a translation of Xenophanes Fragment 1. #AncientBluesky exchanges.uiowa.edu/ancient-exch...

10 July

Lac la Biche today, 3 pm, 20°C. First photo at lake level and second of the same area from the road at about 10m elevation.

9 July

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 VOTE REMAIN & NO TO THE NINE 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #Alberta #Canada #Referendum

indigenousinsider.substack.comWild Rose Country Is Burning, Right Out in the OpenAn Alberta girl, a Cree, Iroquois, and French woman, on watching her home slide somewhere she doesn’t recognize.

8 July

Read @brandimorin.bsky.social !!! #Alberta #Canada indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/wild-rose-...

8 July

#FIFA2026 #WorldCup2026

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8 July

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Vote Remain & No to the Nine 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #Alberta #Referendum #Canada

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6 July

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It has become abundantly clear to me that the only way to handle this problem is to bar unserious people from participating. We as the public can do that by ignoring them, by talking about other shit, and by never, ever treating their absurd and risible ideas as serious.

6 July

In honour of my pathologist father Kim Solez's move to Professor Emeritus at @ualberta.bsky.social, I presented him with two silly little list poems, one of which I made into a meme. Here I am caught in the act + the meme. I hope you, too, find it amusing.

3 July

This is very cool. I speculated that unusual sounds in alpine languages may be due to the retrievability of sounds in that acoustic environment, and this language is more evidence of the same.

30 June

LOL, this Canadian-South African rapprochement has legs!

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Ah, youre mistaking us for a people who didnt tear the page with "sportsmanship" on it from the dictionary. A fine gesture on your part, so thanks anyway!

29 June

The story of #Canada is coming into being. As mythistorical as any history, the founding credo quia absurdum is that our forbearance, our smiles, our sorries, our peace, our order, our good governance will suffice as blood money in the court of justice. These are enough, we intone; these are enough.

29 June

Wild roses, Lac La Biche County, 27 June 2026, 6 PM, 27°C. #photography #Alberta #Canada

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁

⚽⚽⚽ Canada ⚽⚽⚽ 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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ebu.chCBC/Radio-Canada joins EBU as full MemberCBC/Radio-Canada becomes a full member of the European Broadcasting Union and joins the Eurovision News Exchange, strengthening international public media collaboration.

🚨 CBC has officially joined the European Broadcasting Union. This now makes them eligible to participate in Eurovision, and it is reported that they are very likely to do so in 2027 www.ebu.ch/news/2026/06... ❤️🇪🇺🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🇪🇺❤️ ❤️🇪🇺🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🇪🇺❤️

_Country Thunder_ #poem “The noise, the noise!” cried the people with their infants and jobs. “Quiet will prevail,” enacted the Mayor. “Fun police!” shouted the Premier. 1/3 #Alberta #Canada

“I shall formally protest the fun police and lobby for their defunding,” declared the chief advisor to the leader of the Conservative party, Pierre Poutine. “We have no fun police! Please make noise at our lake!” pronounced the Council of a small town with big dreams. 2/3 #poem #Alberta #Canada

Then everyone put on cowboy hats so large that their words could no longer be heard. 3/3 #poem #Alberta #Canada

26 June

Current mood.

_True Story Qua Poesie_ #poem The boy at the lemonade stand, adjusting long hair under his hat, says: “D’ya wanna know what's in it?” “Yeah, well, sure!” 1/3

“It's done with honey, not sugar. There's an orange in there along with the lemons. Mint…and another herb from the garden my mom said would taste good.” “You don't remember that one?” 2/3 #poem

“No, and there's two tea bags in there.” “Oh, so, a kind of sun tea lemonade.” “Yeah, lemonade iced tea, I call it.” “I'll take one. How much?” “Two-fifty…I think that's reasonable.” “I'll take one!” 3/3 #poem

But won't it be the longing we felt along the way?

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24 June

Lone player practices his strikes on a day Canada has a chance to win Group B at the World Cup. #photography #Alberta #Canada #WorldCup2026

aljazeera.comHow to Sue the Klan: The landmark case against racial violence in the USThe civil case of five Black women sets a legal precedent across the United States in the fight against organised hate.

22 June

I strongly recommend this twenty-five minute film by John Beder, "How to Sue the Klan," currently available on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/video/witnes...

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Did you know "Aurora" is the Latin word for "dawn" and the name of the Roman goddess of dawn? Europeans living far from the Arctic Circle often experienced auroras as a faint red glow to the north, closely resembling the reddish glow of an early morning dawn. 🌌✨ #SpaceFacts 4/4

albertaviews.caShakedown Federalism - Alberta ViewsThis is shakedown federalism. It’s a “do what we say or we are done” extortionist strategy that is rooted in an inflated sense of grievance

“Shakedown Federalism” by Patrick Lennox in @albertaviews.bsky.social, 26 May 2026 albertaviews.ca/shakedown-fe... #Alberta #separatism

I shouldn't be surprised that the University of Calgary has political scientists like Barry Cooper, who says “Eventually you have to do something. Of course it is treasonous, of course it is illegal, and of course it is going to be very unpleasant, and we’re going to have to have… help from abroad."

Barry Cooper, quote continued from above: "We’re going to have to rely on the Americans. It will depend on whether or not Saskatchewan and Alberta have leaders who are willing to understand the very serious implications, which means among other things getting the Americans on board.”

My daughter's revenge because I always tell her to wear a hat.

19 June

Giant cattails with a barely visible spider web between them. #photography #Alberta #Canada

19 June

Morning visitor #photography #Alberta #Canada

priv.gc.caNews release: Joint investigation by Canadian privacy regulators into OpenAI’s ChatGPT leads to better protections for Canadians’ personal information - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

18 June

This problem, i.e. AIs scraping the Internet for information about private citizens, is why you should never ask an #AI about yourself by name or about any other private citizen. #Canada has taken the right action here by forcing #OpenAI to change its practices. www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/...

17 June

Sometimes, one has lots of ideas. #photography #Edmonton #Canada

17 June

Hey, @charlayn.eurosky.social, my parents' light reminds me of one of your sculptures from "A Catalogue of Shapes."