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🌻🇨🇦 Fighting threats to your galaxy. Coffee fiend. Cannabis. Space stuff. 大麻ある? Team Science.
Oasis. Live. Toronto. 2025. #OasisLive25
August 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This meme could be used non-ironically for <waves vaguely around>:
a man with a beard is drinking from a small cup
ALT: a man with a beard is drinking from a small cup
media.tenor.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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NASA’s Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk

The new image of the famous Sombrero galaxy in near-infrared wavelengths shows dust from the outer ring blocking stellar light from the inner portions of the galaxy.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
science.nasa.gov/missions/web... 🧪🔭
June 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Ad Astra Per Aspera. Godspeed, Marc Garneau. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Marc Garneau, 1st Canadian astronaut in space, dead at age 76 | CBC News
Former astronaut and cabinet minister Marc Garneau has died. He was 76.
www.cbc.ca
June 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
New gear, interesting container ("paint can" lid).
May 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Today we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the individual who determined that stars are composed primarily of hydrogen but was compelled by her advisors to downplay her findings.

tinyurl.com/2rttznhp

#WomenInSTEM #HistSci #Astronomy 🔭
Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars
‘You are young, and wrong. You must retract.’ When fresh-faced zeal confronts experience, it usually loses. Scientists who think they’ve solved everything on day one usually find that they’ve merely w...
tinyurl.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Find a new hobby they said, why don’t you try crocheting they said..
May 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If an organization doesn't have an incident response plan, they best have a disaster recovery plan.

Dealt with too many organizations that have neither this year, and their ability to remain a going concern is uncertain following a cybersecurity incident.

Deep sigh.
May 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Dirtlings, today is National Alien Abduction Day.

Who wants to be abducted?
March 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Lockheed Martin F-35 VP Sales:
March 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Tired: Dumping tea into a harbour

Wired: Dumping Teslas into a harbour
March 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Health Canada updates to cannabis regulations, come into force March 12, 2025: stratcann.com/other/update...
Updates to cannabis rules and regulations now made public
Stay informed about the updates to cannabis regulations that aim to streamline licensing and production for businesses.
stratcann.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Folks melting down on Hellsite / Dead Bird app over Carney being the new Canadian PM and “unelected”.

Laughs in Westminster.
March 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Tired: Smuggling fentanyl into the United States

Wired: Smuggling eggs into the United States
March 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
US infosec peeps:

Thinking of relocating to Canada? Fast track for skilled workers: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
Express Entry: Federal Skilled Worker Program - Canada.ca
Who can apply as a Federal Skilled Worker (Express Entry)
www.canada.ca
March 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Snort.

Apropos:

Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice www.theguardian.com/environment/...
March 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Canadian tariffs will remain until all US tariffs are lifted.

Never play chicken with a country with Canada geese.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Canada Won’t Scrap Tariffs Unless All US Levies Are Lifted, Official Says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not open to lifting Canada’s full package of retaliatory tariffs if US President Donald Trump leaves any tariffs on Canada in place, according to a senior Canadian gov...
www.bloomberg.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Mood
March 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Daughter D: Why should we study the Classics? They're ancient.

Me: Things have changed, people have not.
March 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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As an undergrad lab tech, I was assigned to do a chemical inventory, long overdue, for my biochemistry PI.

And that's when I found a vial of picric acid from the 1970's and got to meet the university's bomb squad.

Let's talk about picric acid & why it sends shivers down the spines of chemists.
February 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
They're the same picture
February 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Masterclass in statesmanship and diplomacy demonstrated today.
February 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Dog Feels Like He Always Has To Be ‘On’ Around Family
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February 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM