99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early Greek and Roman writing didn’t have spaces! Rack that up to stuff I took for granted. Apparently an ad man in the sixties developed the interrobang…
Am I a dog or a bird? Best feet ever. #hairlessfergus #fergusthedog #fergusthedoggy
Spaceship on the membrane between two, not so blue, oceans. #bcferriesjuxtapose
I tend to think that comms advice for scientists is also comms advice for everyone. Here’s an interest look at …
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Our living room is full of display experiments of all the beatiful merch that @makingculture has been creating! Maybe we’ll …
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A draw bridge has an interesting user experience. Both while on it, and waiting for it.
The Supreme Court of Canada, happily, was not moved by Trinity Western University’s claims that they weren’t hurting gay folks. And the Supreme Court was not moved by the claims by TWU that they…
Thanks @oliveridley for the free range, chocolate covered Saskatoons! They are… berry good. #saskatoons
On my view the news media in Canada have, by and large and in the long run, misrepresented the concept of jihad. They have positioned jihad as a form of villainy. In so doing they have portrayed Islam as a peril…
If you read Canadian journalists on the topic, you might not understand that jihad has some very nice meanings. Most Canadian journalists seem to commonly misrepresent the concept. It’s not just them, mind you. There’s lots of misrepresentation of jihad to go around…
Here’s the A Section of the Globe and Mail. It’s the BC edition for June 2nd, 2018. There are 19 …
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This is from coffee in Quadra village yesterday. @acuchanchan was willing to pose while I checked settings on my Nikon – thank you
Thank you for your design and communications help @hannahrhoslyn
So I’ve been experimenting with microblogging on Mastadon, micro.blog and Tumblr. I decided it’s time we have our own self-hosted WordPress microblog…
Unintentional coffee art experiment. Oh Friday. No humans or cats were hurt to do this art. Luckily cc @palmerpa1mer
Sunday is drawing day lately. Good church for atheists and others. (@gildashannon) #buttdrawingforthewin #sherwindraws
How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…
Best socks ever. Thanks friends. Dobby is a free elf.
The Sun is Setting on the British Empire. #CarolTheverge #MarianneNicholson #AGGV #YYJ #VictoriaBC #LkwungenLand #BritishEmpire
I hope everyone (UVic students) votes and votes yes! Yay violence prevention and yay supporting survivors! Yay @anti.violence.project! #UVic #UVSS …
Trick or treat
Who wouldn’t want to drop by and talk about all the cool free events happening this fall on campus by @anti.violence.project
Managed to take this photo of the waning eclipse today after figuring out how to set my phone to manual and squishing it up against a pair of community eclipse-glasses at the coffee shop I was at today. I loved how everyone came out and gathered around and told stories and took turns sharing the glasses. It also helped that the folks I was meeting with were also out looking at the eclipse. See you again in 2024 @wulfnbearhugger
