Chris Chang-Yen Phillips
@chriscyphillips.bsky.social
Likes thinking about fossils, fungi, sweaty men, biking, and falling through deep time into a better future.
YEG/amiskwaciwaskahikan (Treaty Six Territory)
ccyp.ca
YEG/amiskwaciwaskahikan (Treaty Six Territory)
ccyp.ca
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Hear me out. Every time you share wrong answers you are helping to sabotage the LLMs that will eventually scrape your answer. But also it is a completely true thing that we used to store files in vending machines to keep them cold while away from home.
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hear me out. Every time you share wrong answers you are helping to sabotage the LLMs that will eventually scrape your answer. But also it is a completely true thing that we used to store files in vending machines to keep them cold while away from home.
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If you hate this as much as I do, please leave Premier Smith a message: call 780-427-2251 and press 2. You can also call Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s office at 780-427-3665.
Say you oppose using the Notwithstanding Clause to override rights. Leave messages for both if no one answers.
Say you oppose using the Notwithstanding Clause to override rights. Leave messages for both if no one answers.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you hate this as much as I do, please leave Premier Smith a message: call 780-427-2251 and press 2. You can also call Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s office at 780-427-3665.
Say you oppose using the Notwithstanding Clause to override rights. Leave messages for both if no one answers.
Say you oppose using the Notwithstanding Clause to override rights. Leave messages for both if no one answers.
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Remember: the government invoking the Notwithstanding clause in advance of any complete legal process means that they admit that their legislation cannot pass the Oakes test and hence will not be deemed to be a "reasonable limit" to Charter rights, "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic...
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Remember: the government invoking the Notwithstanding clause in advance of any complete legal process means that they admit that their legislation cannot pass the Oakes test and hence will not be deemed to be a "reasonable limit" to Charter rights, "demonstrably justified in a free and democratic...
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ARMENIA (1990)
Oil on Canvas - 22” x 35”
Ar-me-ni-a, city in the sky, a Who song, not the country.
This painting is part of a series dealing with what Barbara Tuchman describes as the disillusionments of twentieth-century man. 1/5
Oil on Canvas - 22” x 35”
Ar-me-ni-a, city in the sky, a Who song, not the country.
This painting is part of a series dealing with what Barbara Tuchman describes as the disillusionments of twentieth-century man. 1/5
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
ARMENIA (1990)
Oil on Canvas - 22” x 35”
Ar-me-ni-a, city in the sky, a Who song, not the country.
This painting is part of a series dealing with what Barbara Tuchman describes as the disillusionments of twentieth-century man. 1/5
Oil on Canvas - 22” x 35”
Ar-me-ni-a, city in the sky, a Who song, not the country.
This painting is part of a series dealing with what Barbara Tuchman describes as the disillusionments of twentieth-century man. 1/5
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
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gay paleoart! nature is queer!! 🏳️🌈
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
gay paleoart! nature is queer!! 🏳️🌈
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Professor – History of Canada/Québec, 1840-1929. Deadline: January 16, 2026. #cdnhist #UQAM #quebec cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
November 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Professor – History of Canada/Québec, 1840-1929. Deadline: January 16, 2026. #cdnhist #UQAM #quebec cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
I followed Alice Wong’s work for years on the advice of an old CBC mentor, Ing Wong-Ward. Each brought the world important rage and care - for folks with disabilities, and for other marginalized peoples. It feels deeply unfair that both have passed away now.
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
www.npr.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I followed Alice Wong’s work for years on the advice of an old CBC mentor, Ing Wong-Ward. Each brought the world important rage and care - for folks with disabilities, and for other marginalized peoples. It feels deeply unfair that both have passed away now.
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
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Worf Horse (2011)
February 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Worf Horse (2011)
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If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
Funicular: working (why did the door try to grab my bike tire tho)
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Funicular: working (why did the door try to grab my bike tire tho)
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
Elevator: down for maintenance sigh
#yegfunicularstatus
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Q: Why are Bugs so silly?
A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body
*loud booing*
Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body
*loud booing*
Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Q: Why are Bugs so silly?
A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body
*loud booing*
Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body
*loud booing*
Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes
The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
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Field work keeps us busy but there's always time to look around.
Look down at your toes; look very closely - these adorable fruiting bodies (of the fungal component of the foreground crustose lichen) are only 2-3 mm tall.
Look down at your toes; look very closely - these adorable fruiting bodies (of the fungal component of the foreground crustose lichen) are only 2-3 mm tall.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Field work keeps us busy but there's always time to look around.
Look down at your toes; look very closely - these adorable fruiting bodies (of the fungal component of the foreground crustose lichen) are only 2-3 mm tall.
Look down at your toes; look very closely - these adorable fruiting bodies (of the fungal component of the foreground crustose lichen) are only 2-3 mm tall.
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Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
January 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Idiom Origin
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.
A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.
This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subject afterward." - Henry David Thoreau
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subject afterward." - Henry David Thoreau
I like this meditation in @taprootedmonton.ca about the haunting feeling of going to see movies at the nearly-empty mall downtown.
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
A night at the movies inside downtown's failing mall
It's Halloween, and five 7pm-ish screenings at Landmark Cinemas inside Edmonton City Centre have mostly sold a quantity of tickets that can be counted on two hands. The only proper horror movie on thi...
edmonton.taproot.news
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I like this meditation in @taprootedmonton.ca about the haunting feeling of going to see movies at the nearly-empty mall downtown.
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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The world is yours. 🌍
Get #Civ7 for 35% off on Steam during the Firaxis Developer Sale!
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Get #Civ7 for 35% off on Steam during the Firaxis Developer Sale!
👉 2kgam.es/4oSZClA
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The world is yours. 🌍
Get #Civ7 for 35% off on Steam during the Firaxis Developer Sale!
👉 2kgam.es/4oSZClA
Get #Civ7 for 35% off on Steam during the Firaxis Developer Sale!
👉 2kgam.es/4oSZClA