H.K. Andersen

A trail into a forest. The sides are dense with bushes, and small logs lay across the entry of the trail, which help you hop over the muddy bits during rainy season. Trees rise with eerie thin light grey trunks, and leaves only up at the top canopy layer. The back of a child is visible, walking up the inclined trail into the forest. The pic is all in black and white.

Went for a long lovely walk this evening. He used to be so much smaller on evening walks on this trail! But also the trees used to be shorter, so. It gives pics of him here this kind of out-of-time character

Yes, no bomb and also all the people stuck off mountain (there are only two roads up/down and they meet in one intersection, which was closed) still made it up before daycare closing time etc. So disruptive several hours but ended well

There was a bomb threat called into campus today. Whole mountaintop cut off, people sheltering in place, etc. RCMP and neighbourhood lists/groups/chats were superhelpful and timely. NOT A WORD from @sfu.ca

Apparently there's an app? Who knows? There is also email and basic consideration to use

Arthur Danto has this distinction between a Chronicler and a Narrator (Narration and Knowledge); having historians on here means having only chronicles, fact-bit collections that are moment to moment details, and never getting narratives, missing all the long arc predicates that tie things together

There is another facet of expertise, expertise in identifying experts. Collectively we have experts, and identify and accept their expertise

This one I think is more like a very low bar in terms of expertise, it doesn't require specialized expertise

First I should level up my alias game!

Canada to recognise Palestine at UN general assembly, joining France and UK in push for new state New Zealand and Australia were signatories to a declaration that indicates they could follow suit in the coming months

Was not expecting this, thank you Mark Carney 🇨🇦

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

90+% of drivers rate themselves as above average

Oooh then maybe we get an electronic certificate of completion when we finish one

That Applebees is just down the road from the house where I grew up, it is cathartic imagining the kind of chapter you might have been writing there

Impressive! I have already read her work and am a big fan, did not realize she was also a UBC, AND STS student

A painting about two meters by two meters, under visible timbered ceiling against white walls with two deep window alcoves, a meter or so deep. The painting has a black background and is of a game animal, maybe a reindeer? But kind of a skeleton of the animal, its face is like a skull. There are brishes of browns and dark oranges that dont seem directly representational but are somehow very horror esque.

Same as other painting, a different animal, maybe a kind of deer, where the animal is part skeleton, or flesh is melting, or something. Hard to deacribe but the effect is unsettling.

Another unsettling animal thst is mostly skeleton with flesh melting off.

Saw an exhibit of work by Håkon Gullvåg at this sprawling hilltop fortress in Halden, in one of the old storehouses. Teens were enthralled and terrified, they refused to be alone with it. This trio was my favourite, reminded me of The Twisted Ones by @tkingfisher.com

Great cover! Are those mud bubbles from Yellowstone park?

Looking forward to reading this

Just got a spam academic email addressed to "Dr. Unknown." My new pseudonym/Spiderverse villain name

Ooh good idea, submitting sshrc application now for a holodeck

Would also definitely level up my thought experiment game for teaching

Adding: it is frustrating when well intentioned folks spend 4 seconds thinking, then ask, why dont you just do X? Its rhetorical, because they assume you somehow couldn't think of these obvious alternatives & they do not actually want to hear the reasons why you already considered then rejected X

YouTube video by lyinsroar They Might Be Giants - "Particle Man"

Today's #pride celebration small moment. Youngest Child did a poetry analysis thing for class, and chose the lyrics for Particle Man by They Might Be Giants.

Presentation was a huge success, teacher loved it & played the song for the class, now they are all TMBG fans

youtu.be/mLjRouIKYsU?...

A dad and tween kid snuggled in a hammock reading a book, viewed so their heads but not faces are visible. The book could be read if zoomed in. It is about spiders. The hammock is on a small patio with greenery surrounding it. The summer evening sun washes it all in a gentle warm light.

One nice small moment a day for #pride month. Today, listening to these two read out loud in the hammock in the evening, I learned what chelicerae are

Couldn't attend a #NoKings event. And we have never gone to a #pride parade, because none of us like large crowds, loud noise, too much sun etc. We did have really good discussions with kiddos about all this. They see the hope and community, they see how many people want to fight for it. Thank you

#murderbot

Episode 6 show-in-a-show episode of Sanctuary Moon: John Cho's love interest SecUnit says, "I don't have a life story. I have a log, of events..." Danto's Chronicler was an android!

I am really enjoying the Murderbot show, and probably my favorite bit of casting, out of a lot of really great casting, is John Cho in Sanctuary Moon. I now am headcanoning Cowboy Bebop as also some other show in the Murderbot world and it's Planetary Rim's fault there aren't more seasons

You are rocking a very, now it is summer, vibe! I am doing the, still another week of teaching and some professional meetings today, look

A pair of bright red shoes on the authors feet in a book filled office

#pride these shoes did not step on any centipedes today 4/4

I automatically thought, oops, don't step on her! And moved my foot. Which I would never have thought except that last night I finished reading @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Days Of Shattered Faith. It actually changed my automatic response from squash, to spare. World is richer by one tiny 'pede today

Walking to the office today, noticed a tiny centipede on the stairs outside right where I was about to put my foot. Usually would not notice! These crawlies infested the complex a couple years back, but mostly died off 2/nn

Pride month celebration of one small nice moment a day. Today feels like I do this through gritted teeth. My activism is quieter and behind the scenes, not usually in posting, even though I'm also so sad I cannot be in LA dancing on a street corner with all the awesome neighbours. Meantime, this 1/n

A round mango with a very vibrant dark orange colour and swirl patterns on the skin, sitting on a plain wooden table

A small nice moment in a pic for today's Pride celebration. This mango. Best one I have ever eaten

#pride

Going for evening walks this time of year is my favourite, the weather is so nice and the sounds of the band practicing float all over

Exact site of the Caprica City River Market!