Andrew Burke
@ajlburke.bsky.social
Software guy and nerdy digital artist from Halifax Nova Scotia. He did Bloomsday Halifax and Starshipsstarthere.
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Over The Top: breaking a stalemate by sending waves of soldiers out of the trenches & straight towards the enemy. Almost all were killed, including Sgt Edwin Walter Dorey. Christ Church Cemetery, Dartmouth.
#RemembranceDay #Passchendaele #LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay #Passchendaele #LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Over The Top: breaking a stalemate by sending waves of soldiers out of the trenches & straight towards the enemy. Almost all were killed, including Sgt Edwin Walter Dorey. Christ Church Cemetery, Dartmouth.
#RemembranceDay #Passchendaele #LestWeForget
#RemembranceDay #Passchendaele #LestWeForget
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HMCS Ville de Quebec (FFH 332) Halifax-class frigate coming into Halifax, Nova Scotia following deployment - November 10, 2025 SRC: INT- NovaScotiaWebcams.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
HMCS Ville de Quebec (FFH 332) Halifax-class frigate coming into Halifax, Nova Scotia following deployment - November 10, 2025 SRC: INT- NovaScotiaWebcams.com
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RCAF Pilot Officer Bruce Henry Webb Stevens was serving with RAF's No. 70 Squadron. He went out over Italy in a Vickers Wellington & never returned. 4 RAF officers went missing with him. He is memorialized at the Alamein War Memorial, Egypt and on his family's stone in Camp Hill.
#RemembranceDay
#RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
RCAF Pilot Officer Bruce Henry Webb Stevens was serving with RAF's No. 70 Squadron. He went out over Italy in a Vickers Wellington & never returned. 4 RAF officers went missing with him. He is memorialized at the Alamein War Memorial, Egypt and on his family's stone in Camp Hill.
#RemembranceDay
#RemembranceDay
Love how they had to switch to a bright orange ball so everyone could see it against the snow
This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Love how they had to switch to a bright orange ball so everyone could see it against the snow
Considering everything going on, I'm happy to have a "meh" government
Satisfaction With The Budget:
Satisfied: 37%
Dissatisfied: 36%
Neutral: 20%
Innovative / Nov 7, 2025 / n=800 / Online
Satisfied: 37%
Dissatisfied: 36%
Neutral: 20%
Innovative / Nov 7, 2025 / n=800 / Online
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Considering everything going on, I'm happy to have a "meh" government
Hah the Touch Bar is [chef's kiss]
1990's Macintosh PowerPortable was the bridge between the original Macintosh Portable, and the upcoming PowerBook 100. While the original Portable and PowerBook were essentially speed-bumped original Macintoshes, the PowerPortable held all the power of a Macintosh II in its stylish (if large) case.
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hah the Touch Bar is [chef's kiss]
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The Iliad’s main theme is that macho-men are stubborn, pig-headed sulks, whose sulkiness leads to deaths and disaster.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The Iliad’s main theme is that macho-men are stubborn, pig-headed sulks, whose sulkiness leads to deaths and disaster.
Last night my AirPods case fell out of my pocket on my way home, but I was able to use FindMy to locate them again. In the dark and rain. Half a km from my house. This is at least the third time that app/tech has saved me hundreds of dollars.
A very simple idea using very advanced technology.
A very simple idea using very advanced technology.
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Last night my AirPods case fell out of my pocket on my way home, but I was able to use FindMy to locate them again. In the dark and rain. Half a km from my house. This is at least the third time that app/tech has saved me hundreds of dollars.
A very simple idea using very advanced technology.
A very simple idea using very advanced technology.
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Yeah, really, that’s the thing: don’t assume that OpenAI has a strategy or a masterstroke idea. This is a company that is basically running a 24/7 no IT loads refused multi-billion dollar burn rate hackathon until it runs out of cash and investors to swindle
bsky.app/profile/chan...
bsky.app/profile/chan...
Only $15m?
I must be cynical as I expected that number to be much larger. My experience on Tiktok these days and blocking every 3 accounts due to Sora slop invading my feed.
Do you suppose the strategy is to kill Tiktok by flooding it with slop?
Never mind, that assumes they have strategy.
I must be cynical as I expected that number to be much larger. My experience on Tiktok these days and blocking every 3 accounts due to Sora slop invading my feed.
Do you suppose the strategy is to kill Tiktok by flooding it with slop?
Never mind, that assumes they have strategy.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Yeah, really, that’s the thing: don’t assume that OpenAI has a strategy or a masterstroke idea. This is a company that is basically running a 24/7 no IT loads refused multi-billion dollar burn rate hackathon until it runs out of cash and investors to swindle
bsky.app/profile/chan...
bsky.app/profile/chan...
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I have always believed this and do more now than ever. People will always try to hold you back and most of the time the reasons are about them, not you.
I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I have always believed this and do more now than ever. People will always try to hold you back and most of the time the reasons are about them, not you.
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Adam Yauch saying “Gitche Gumee” is my new vocal stim
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Adam Yauch saying “Gitche Gumee” is my new vocal stim
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the legend lived
[Beastie Boys] ON
from the chippewa on
[Beastie Boys] DOWN
[Beastie Boys] ON
from the chippewa on
[Beastie Boys] DOWN
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
the legend lived
[Beastie Boys] ON
from the chippewa on
[Beastie Boys] DOWN
[Beastie Boys] ON
from the chippewa on
[Beastie Boys] DOWN
Just got my latest flu and covid shots. Sometimes these knock me down about 12 hours later - so I'm clearing things to sleep in a bit.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Just got my latest flu and covid shots. Sometimes these knock me down about 12 hours later - so I'm clearing things to sleep in a bit.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
All non-Americans on here, brace yourselves.
Okay we've got fours hours until this place is just a flood of posts about 'The Dems' again. Let's enjoy it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
All non-Americans on here, brace yourselves.
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incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
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50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
Wrapping up my last volunteer shift at @halconscificon.bsky.social - this year I discovered that I can add flair to my lanyard. One of the vendors let me pick a button and I went with my favourite Tay song
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wrapping up my last volunteer shift at @halconscificon.bsky.social - this year I discovered that I can add flair to my lanyard. One of the vendors let me pick a button and I went with my favourite Tay song
Well, actually there is some evidence that Musk may have read the Iain Banks Culture books — but clearly he didn't understand them at all.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Well, actually there is some evidence that Musk may have read the Iain Banks Culture books — but clearly he didn't understand them at all.
I'm a paying subscriber to Read Max in part because of his weekly recommendations of weird books and obscure 90s action movies, but mostly because a few times a year he comes out with instant-classic articles like this that perfectly capture a slice of our current cultural moment.
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I'm a paying subscriber to Read Max in part because of his weekly recommendations of weird books and obscure 90s action movies, but mostly because a few times a year he comes out with instant-classic articles like this that perfectly capture a slice of our current cultural moment.
We see so many of these kinds of guys now: had one big hit early on by being a "maverick" and then decides that being a maverick is all that matters, well after it stops working.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We see so many of these kinds of guys now: had one big hit early on by being a "maverick" and then decides that being a maverick is all that matters, well after it stops working.
Upgrading your timeline with some top-tier dancing flapper content
Louise with Georges Charlia in Prix de Beauté (1930).
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Upgrading your timeline with some top-tier dancing flapper content
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In the abstract it's good that NYC still has some 1985-style rich guys, where it's just some potato-shaped blowhard dunce who owns a bunch of parking garages or some shitty family business everyone hates. That scene shouldn't all be hedge fund "poker guys" or whatever. But the 1985 guys suck, too.
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In the abstract it's good that NYC still has some 1985-style rich guys, where it's just some potato-shaped blowhard dunce who owns a bunch of parking garages or some shitty family business everyone hates. That scene shouldn't all be hedge fund "poker guys" or whatever. But the 1985 guys suck, too.
It's #n7day and also the first day of @halconscificon.bsky.social - so when I'm not in my cozy Commander Shepard cosplay I'll be volunteering on the vendor floor. If you see me say hi!
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's #n7day and also the first day of @halconscificon.bsky.social - so when I'm not in my cozy Commander Shepard cosplay I'll be volunteering on the vendor floor. If you see me say hi!
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Sign from Canadian forces base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
"During a rocket attack, Tim Hortons will close immediately... We will reopen approx. 15 minutes after the all clear."
Photo preserved in the Royal Regiment of Canada museum. A hidden gem in Toronto.
(Photo: Curator's own collection)
"During a rocket attack, Tim Hortons will close immediately... We will reopen approx. 15 minutes after the all clear."
Photo preserved in the Royal Regiment of Canada museum. A hidden gem in Toronto.
(Photo: Curator's own collection)
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Sign from Canadian forces base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
"During a rocket attack, Tim Hortons will close immediately... We will reopen approx. 15 minutes after the all clear."
Photo preserved in the Royal Regiment of Canada museum. A hidden gem in Toronto.
(Photo: Curator's own collection)
"During a rocket attack, Tim Hortons will close immediately... We will reopen approx. 15 minutes after the all clear."
Photo preserved in the Royal Regiment of Canada museum. A hidden gem in Toronto.
(Photo: Curator's own collection)