Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

Anyone else receive a demand from Bluesky today for their birthdate and a block when not filled in?

CEO Makes Laughable Claims at Lethbridge Chamber: Locals Bust a Gut

Someone fouling the local theatre with, I don't know, excrement or something

Good article. The writer decries the spectre of universities charging expensive tuition for degrees completed by AI, but I wonder why anyone would pay for four years of tuition when, if they had all the assignments in advance, they could 'complete' a 'degree' in at most a week or one long day.

This is an informative thread that offers both what you can do and affirms that your individual and group actions do make a difference. Take a dally on this:

What is wrong with people? Everyone knows this is exactly the opposite of the right thing to do. Are we just going to spend the final few years of a liveable earth doing exactly the opposite of the right things?

I just resigned in September for end of December, and in my letter I mentioned that I thought the U could be including in its daily newsletter a banner that simply reminds people that Covid isn’t over. No reply. I didn’t expect one.

Astonishing. Most u of c faculty aren’t masking, including in crowded elevators, but I don’t know their vaccine status. (They should still mask, of course, with or without vaccines.)

Siblings think that because I have a PhD I can’t possibly know anything. I’m “negative.” Neither of them went to U.

BRO and SIL have had it at least 5-6X, S and BIL about 3X. In 2020-22 I sent them at longish intervals (so as not to overwhelm) good, accessible info; the result was they decided “Pamela’s so negative” and started trying operant conditioning on me, rewarding me for + posts and punishing me for -..🫢

I cut and pasted this basic info into a text to my siblings. S said she’d asked her doctor about the Covid vaccine and was told she was healthy and just get the flu vaxx. SIL replied that they’ve been busy out and about but are practicing good hand hygiene. BRO no reply. I cannot get thru to them.

Albertans, here are your new and freedom-UCP govt-approved emojis and also banned ones:

I tink my favs are “confusing solar panel” (banned) and “job-creating beverage” (promoted).

What is B.B. doing now? I’ve lost track of him.

If you would like to write to the premier to express your thoughts about this situation, her email is premier@gov.ab.ca. I just sent her a letter.

Because as every baby playing peek-a-boo figures out, if you put your ‘blankie’ over your head nobody can see you.

Albertans, especially in Calgary and Edmonton, do everything you can NOT to get seriously sick or injured right now. The Emergency Departments are overwhelmed.

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I would have just said to the student that the assignment was to write an analytical essay (if that’s what it was) and she wrote a personal essay instead. F.

Just did all about 60 metres of sidewalk plus parking pad in one go at -17 C, feels like -26, and it only seemed like about -5 in the knee-length Aritzia 🇨🇦 down coat I bought at the end of last year’s extreme cold spell that I thought I might have little use for in the future. Happy to be wrong.

The hike. “The quiet is mesmerizing — just shy of holy.”

Signed.

From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story Tāme Iti’s colourful memoir covers his decades-long fight for Indigenous rights in New Zealand and takes aim at ‘saboteurs’ in the government

From ‘terrorist’ to national treasure, renowned Māori activist finally tells his own story

Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...

NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports

So if UCP laws harm me, an innocent, law-abiding Albertan, I should ignore them. Ignoring them won’t fix the real problems like smashed healthcare, but putting tape over UCP slogans on future license plates that will make me look stupid and harm my reputation and self-respect is ok then. Great.

My Letter to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Refusing the Prize for my book — Tithi Bhattacharya Dear colleagues on the MLA Executive Council, I am writing to express my deepest gratitude to you and the members of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies Committee for…

My Letter to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Refusing the Prize for my book — Tithi Bhattacharya

www.tithibhattacharya.net/new-blog/202...

"We're bringing back the 70s station wagon. You will be a kid in the back again. Your parents are young and healthy and will take care of you. You are safe from the scary world."

Imagine if a ten-year-old tried to negotiate essentially that..

The UCP is turning Alberta into a sick joke.

Mraiche’s relative the Justice Minister wants this bill to “give Alberta’s justice minister immunity from sanctions from the Law Society of Alberta, which regulates lawyers, for any actions they perform ‘as part of their official duties.’”

For a break in making up an exam I walked over to look out the window, and there’s a squirrel 🐿️ right there two feet from my face with his eye screwed on backwards at the sight of my suddenly looming face.