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Philip Koop 🇨🇦
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Computer programming / financial risk management.
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But relativity has been a real-life conservative bete noire for years. For example, this is not satire: www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_re...
The theory of relativity is defended with religious-like zeal, such that no college faculty tenure, Ph.D degree, or Nobel Prize is ever awarded to anyone who dares criticize the theory, as the example of denying a Nobel Prize to the most accomplished physicist of the 20th century, Robert Dicke, illustrates. Other critics of the theory are Nikola Tesla, who called it a "...magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists, not scientists..."[6
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Not Kipling either
The poster for The Man Who Would Be King
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The gag from Once Upon a Time in the West except it's "did you bring a Z for me" and "you brought three too many"
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The smol cat has found the smol box
A small female tabby cat sits inside a box, filling it almost completely
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Wawawawawa
The Wawa town sign. Population 3,700.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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These Island raccoons are noticeably smaller, and much more shy, than the ones back in Toronto.
A juvenile raccoon and its mother sitting on top of a fence.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I can't remember - have I shared this image with you before?
A bicycle on its side because the front wheel has lodged in a slot cut in the road, covered by leaves.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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If only actual philosophers of mathematics had the self-confidence of a Nate.
I am truly very sorry, but we do not know, fully, what numbers are. The problem of mathematical ontology is not solved.
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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OK, this is kind of cheating because these guys always look pissed 🪶
A juvenile Cooper's hawk perched on a branch, with its body toward the camera but its head turned away. You can't help anthropomorphize it, it just looks angry.
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Maybe the next shot is better though. 🪶
The same birds, the same feeder, but a wingbeat later and the bird trying to land is now trying to get away
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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This feeder ain't big enough for the both of us 🪶
A blue jay tries to land on a feeder but another jay is already there
November 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Common raven is uncommonly angry
A common raven perched on a branch screaming
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Of Ozmandias’ First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Shattered Visage, whose wrinkled Lip Brought Death into the World, and our Despair With loss of Trunk, till one greater King Of Kings, whose Frown and Sneer of cold Command Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat Sing Heav’ly Muse, that on the secret Sands Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Sculptor, who first stamped these lifeless Things
October 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Meditations
A woman with her back to the camera, sitting on a rock in lotus pose, overlooking Salish Sea
October 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Highway H2O revisited. There's much less traffic on the canal than usual. Wonder if that's tariff -related
A HWY H2O sign that says the length of the Welland Canal from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie is 43km
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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T is for ...
The cover of "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women" by John Knox
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The worst person in the world just made a good point meme
October 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Highway H2O
A roadsign saying HWY H2O
October 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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High water
The ship Musala southbound at Welland Canal Lock 2
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Billie Whitlaw is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why she would participate in such a disjointed, unaccessible production.
Billie Whitlaw in Happy Days, still only half-buried
October 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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My complication has a little complication
The plastic surgery scene from Brazil
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Gene Hackman in the movie The Conversation, hiding under the vanity next to his toilet.
October 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Nice view of Mt. Baker today
Mt. Baker as seen from the Sydney waterfront
October 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Here's one reason our cats are indoor cats.
A fluffed up tabby cat sits on the floor looking out through the window at a naturally fluffy orange cat sitting on a patio table.
October 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM