Stephanie Harris

I am proud and honoured to announce that today I was awarded the Canadian Curling Association World Peace Prize.

We had our work party last week. The DJ had packed up and left the room before the clock finished chiming 11. I’ve never seen anyone leave a place so fast.

Well. That was a lovely letter to wake up to.

It deserves alt text.

HUUUUGE Black bear caught on our garden cam in our backyard in Jersey the other night.

Short answer is probably not. They’re still unbelievably shitty.

Pretty sure I’m out of a job if Reform get into power. Which is not the worst thing that would happen under that government but it does annoy me.

I just hope they put their winter tires on

The great thing about being a dual citizen is you get to be bitterly disappointed by two governments. At least my Canadian MP seems to have some integrity.

Labour what the fuck is wrong with you

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and I really am old enough to remember those far-off days before 2011 or so when most people *didn’t* assume that big tech was the Face of Creeping Evil - tech fucked up bad! by means of actually being evil all the time!

🍂👀LEAF HUNTING🙌🍁

In Japan 'autumn foliage', depending on the reading, is known as 'momiji' (紅葉) or 'kōyō' (紅葉).
Originally the terms referred to any tree that changed colour for autumn, but over time they became synonymous with the maple (楓 'kaede')🍁

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #紅葉 #楓 #momiji

When the partygate stuff came out a couple of months later he did at least admit he was wrong. Sadly he’s now moved onto believing that immigration has always been top of people’s concerns in this country. He lives in Switzerland. I had to show him actual polling data before he’d believe me.

In October 2021 I got into an argument with my brother for daring to suggest that BJ was a narcissist with no interest in the wellbeing of the country. He called me naive.

Ah, humanity. Famously over-reliant on Earth.

Jesus, famously risk averse.

RNLI > US coast Guard

When I (a Canadian) bought my first UK car it was February and snowy. I asked about winter tires and the guy said yeah, we don’t do that in this country.

Cats as co-authors is an entirely reasonable part of scholarly practice.

For goodness sake Labour, do something about the cost of electricity. My house is freezing. I grew up in Canada where it regularly gets to -20 and we heated our homes with electric radiators without a second thought.

This is very encouraging. Mine expires in a couple of weeks and I’m travelling at Christmas. The fact I have to send both in is rather disconcerting.

Most impewtant threat you’ll read today

Not holding my breath to see him sue them for one billion dollars

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

My Facebook post of @ChiquitaBrands and @Chiquita posting "We've just overthrown the government of Brazil", to which the later replied "We apologize to those who have served a misleading message from a fake Chiquita account. We have not overthrown a government since 1954"

3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.

Slow clap to Canada

Ok but I read this in the voice of Jamie McCrimmon

Oh I was not prepared to see this

This is very interesting. What particularly resonates is the discussion of the need to demonstrate academic impact and the (ahem) impact that has on messaging.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️