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Chris Mathieson
@cognoscento.bsky.social
Father, blacksmith, philosopher, neuroscientist, heritage site manager. What a weird trip, & it’s just getting started. he/him http://cogno.ca/b/about/
Forget trans people in sports, we need to monitor spelling bees and math olympiads for Tylenol doping.

Isn’t that the very definition of unfair advantage?
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Cov+ damnit!
September 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Today, I met Gem.
August 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Since it’s my 50th birthday next week, give me your most unhinged suggestions on what I could do for my “mid-life crisis”.
July 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Less than two weeks until my 50th birthday. DM me if you want to be invited. :)
July 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Microsoft CoPilot is pushy to the point of feeling like a clingy ex.

I’m sorry, MSFT, you’re not getting pity sex out of me.
June 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I have epic neighbours.
June 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This morning’s medications include:

50mg prednisone
1000mg NAC
10mg cetirizine
60mg biphentin
4 puffs 100mcg salbutamol (ventalin)
2 puffs budesonide / glycopyrronium / formoterol fumarate (breztri)
2 puffs 20mcg ipratropium bromide (atrovent)
June 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
When somebody tells you they hung out at The Haçienda in Manchester back-in-the-day, you’re clearly in the presence of someone cooler than most of the people you’ve ever met.
June 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away.
June 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It’s gettin’, it’s gettin’, it’s gettin’ kind of hectic.
June 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If I had a nickel for every astrophysicist I’ve met since I moved to Keremeos, I’d have nearly a dollar.
June 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Boundary-setting sucks sometimes, even if it’s necessary.
May 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
In-laws. Ugh.
May 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In the last few years I’ve developed an awful histamine reaction to all forms of alcohol. An instant snotty, itchy mess.

How am I supposed to let someone get me drunk and take advantage of me now?!?
May 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Was I anxiously attached *before* I married an avoidant on the spectrum? :D
May 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
End of day three in the hospital for Influenza A + Pneumonia + Asthma = breathing crisis.

O2 blood sats are still only 95% with oxygen support, but the infections are clearing and I showered myself today. Huzzah!
May 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Awash in antibiotics.
May 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I try do equal labour around the house and in parenting, emotional and otherwise, but also demand to be equal in setting standards and priorities. Women have a lot of social conditioning to let go of, too.
May 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In Penticton Emerg because my lungs have decided they hate me. Is it out-of-control asthma? A lung infection? Something else?
May 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
May 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Kid finds a nearly 20 year old meme shirt in my closet. Loves it. Chose to wear it to school this morning.

Is he cool? I think he’s cool.
May 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The kid is now playing Ween songs on his acoustic guitar. Right now, it’s this one… bad Mexican accent and all. How did my kid get this weird/cool?!

Cinco de Mayo for the win.

youtu.be/uv-gT9lNa1g
Ween - Buenas Tardes Amigo
YouTube video by leeotubee
youtu.be
May 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A friend who is an elementary school educator attended a series of Pro-D presentations yesterday and one sentence went off like a bomb for her:

"The first symptom of a learning disability is a sore tummy."
May 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Took my ADHD meds on a totally empty stomach. Now I feel like I could wrestle a bear while organizing my spice cupboard alphabetically.
May 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM