Houses were smaller and bedrooms more often shared, even into the 80s. The few friends who had their own rooms were lucky.
11.11.2025 14:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jomro.bsky.social
historian-in-training
Houses were smaller and bedrooms more often shared, even into the 80s. The few friends who had their own rooms were lucky.
11.11.2025 14:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dr. Stephanie Rutherford's work as reality check on coywolves "created, in part, by humans.β
thenarwhal.ca/coywolf-onta...
βWhen I was out on the land, I never saw anybody from the government out there. So how could they say this is their land?
Mixed-Feelings Birthday wishes to all who celebrate
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
canadian science and technology history association conference! pt1
#cdnhist
A parchment gap strengthened and decorated with open buttonhole stitch with Cretan stitch, which are worked in pink and yellow silk threads (Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek / Cod. 22 β Gregorius M., Moralia in Job, t. III / f. 54r).
trc-leiden.nl/trc/index.ph...
30.10.2025 02:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if you read his murder mysteries, you'll see he makes up for limited imagination by being a sex pest. or is there a cause-effect relationship there?
23.10.2025 17:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Last night, Fair Vote Canada hosted a conversation with three Canadians originally from countries with proportional representation.
Check out the full webinar on the Fair Vote Canada YouTube channel: youtu.be/-LmNIet76yE?...
#cdnpoli #electoralreform #proportionalrepresentation @fairvote.ca
I some (many?) remote places, courier companies use Canada Post for the last, most expensive leg.
20.10.2025 22:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Don't mention cabbage rolls. That's village-on-village action through swaths of eastern Europe. Savage
29.09.2025 00:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you have the ism right then you know the dynamics at play. And you're in a better position to fight it.
26.09.2025 23:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Even more deadly, though not as dramatic - tuberculosis. The anti-tb org founded in 1904, dropped "Tuberculosis" for "Lung" in the name in 1973, once smoking became a good replacement.
04.09.2025 13:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And old war. The faces on the walls carved by one regime chiselled out by ancient conquerers.
01.09.2025 12:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wow, thank you! I must report back to my people.
(I was in Siem Reap, briefly, and remember it for rice desserts!)
Where?
We Canadian oldtimers who discuss these weighty matters assumed it and maple walnut are old distinctively Canadian flavours, but where maple walnut continues (though not popular), rum and raisin is extinct.
Now it sounds like it's merely extirpated.
brave sir robin
22.08.2025 15:36 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of the most interesting cities I've visited in so many ways, including food. So much is an interesting mix of French and Viet. eg dairy esp yogurt (distinctive taste, maybe the local forage), civet coffee, street food, cha ca la vong.
22.08.2025 15:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It'll be great to not get bloatware updates that slow my Windows 7 machine. (My tech guys say my freeware antivirus is enough.)
On the side I'm ramping up an all-open-source Ubuntu machine. Pox on all the bigtech houses.
Back in the day when Air Canada was taking over Canadian Airlines (sad), a work friend made this into t-shirts:
Air Canada
We're not happy til you're not happy
Looks like someone boiled a cute little lake to make a totally unnecessary AI image.
It's not as if headshots of these people are hard to get.
"Be like Finland."
Yeah, we know it's not perfect. Even so, it's good shorthand for lots of useful things we could use here.
omg Wade Hemsworth "Black Fly Song"
02.08.2025 01:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hidden Cameras has a great version of Log Driver's Waltz with Rufus Wainwright singing the lead. New layers to an old classic.
02.08.2025 01:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stringband's "Dief will be the Chief Again"
Bossin's "Sulphur Passage"
Hip's "Fifty Mission Cap"
Pity about 54-40. Such a Canadian history band name. But no history in their music afaik
which day? hich?
22.07.2025 15:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0what's hence?
22.07.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
14.07.2025 23:57 β π 6441 π 3431 π¬ 204 π 966radiologists may have been doing it longer. you can read an xray wherever there's good bandwith, often at resorts, where i've met a few from the US
03.07.2025 18:21 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At LAC BAC too. Staff say the intermittent site freezing is from crawling AI bots.
Add this to next year's building move (assuming they can find a site for the library collection). Canada's national archive users are in for upheaval.
www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
the best label. I'm spreading it.
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