John Fielder as Mr. Hengist possessed by a mass murdering fear vampire being holds a knife to a female Starfleet crewperson

And unlikeliest Jack the Ripper in space

Ugh “ran in the”

Useless Expo 86 trivia: she was also in the film that ran the the BC pavilion, I *think* in the still-standing part of the Plaza of Nations

Came here to make sure someone said “nightmare fuel”

It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes you knaves

May they be tortured by legion of hobgoblins

A: I know people who ought to hear this and similar
B: Unless you are an expert on energy production in the Klingon Empire

YES! I’ve been trying to articulate this for a while; the infantilization behind the “boys with their toys” narrative that is all over the culture here (how dare you take away my coal/oil job, I need my quad bike that I keep in a facility literally branded “toy storage”) needs to be discussed

Pee-Wee, Real Ghostbusters, Ewoks!

Absolutely the worst, why is this a debate?

I wore the handles of a particularly sturdy conference tote bag to shreds just because it was so good for carrying tupperware. Ten years after that conference, visiting another college town for a different conference, spotted a stranger using the same bag to collect driftwood

Ok, but solid A story, I want to see that

The anxiety I had around this issue when booking a hotel last year 😬

Antares class starship

We all just need to learn and use the numbering system that lives in the background of PeopleSoft, that does order things sensibly (even if the way they implemented century is weird). I love that we even have a term labelled End of Time in there

Our NEW event, the Linguistics Brownbag Series, starts this Friday! 👏

Friday, Oct 17 | 3pm | CHE 212

During this series, we will explore transdisciplinary connections with Linguistics!

This week, we will discuss Marketing with Dr. Ruth Pogacar from Haskayne School of Business.

For the Canadians

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Right there with you

This is a savage takedown of AI writing by showing just how bland and predictive it really is

I’ll be sure to avoid it when I’m in the neighbourhood on Friday

There could be a whole sideline of writing short fiction based on those notes

Twilight Zone, then Lost in Space. I have a feeling this Gertie/Dolly/Sarah phone tag might be the more interesting show though

What class are you in?

I can hear this tweet

This amused my way more than it should, but I am also very sleep deprived

Prefer the version in the original with the modifier on the name directly, that’s more emphatic/focus with uniqueness. The one after the auxiliary can have more of an “also” connotation suggesting other interviewees (to me anyways). The last one there is * for me

Congratulations to Dr. Mahyar Nakhaei who just received his PhD in Linguistics after a great virtual defence of his thesis, “A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian”

Still from the old school Battlestar Galactica with one of the big boss cylons in foreground, and a door in background that looks oddly like the one on Kruge’s bridge

I think they might have stolen that door from the cylons though