Jason Tremblay

A view of a brewery with a bunch of shiny fermenters, a slot hog, a beat up pump truck. A step ladder is artfully placed between tanks.

Prairie kid in me still needs a Pil every time I hang with my family in Regina. Otherwise, I have the means of production.

We’re just being coy.

These folks were literally talking about growing up pitchable quantities of yeast from cans that contain the engineered yeast. On a public forum.

Realistically, no. The amount of cells we pitch per batch is best expressed in scientific notation. A 400l batch needs something like 4 trillion cells. Within a brewery, there will be some cross contamination, but cultures will still be 99.99% pure.

And baby brewers aren’t old enough to remember those cases from 20 years ago. PCR tests are fast and cheap — I don’t think these folks get how easy it is for Omega to find breweries to threaten.

A gull prances on a railing on Toronto’s waterfront.

And in this case it’s easy to use non-engineered yeasts and make Omega a fucking pariah. Jebus. Anyways, here’s a bird pic.

… not to use Omega’s yeasts again. Repeat until there’s enough of a war chest to target regional breweries and boom. Money and a chilling effect. The new VC owners possibly don’t even care about selling yeast to breweries. They may just want an IP windfall.

And folks saying holy fuck no don’t open up your brewery to civil litigation are getting downvoted. Oh gawd people are dumb about IP law. The troll playbook is fucking straightforward. Target a small brewery using the yeast o, unleash the lawyers, accept a small fee and extract a promise …

Omega Yeast is now requiring breweries to sign licensing and royalty agreements to use their engineered yeasts. Brewers on Reddit are posting how they’ll just prop up the affected yeasts. With accounts that are traceable if not to the brewery, at least to the region.

I do both. I also go both ways on the Oxford comma because I’m an ungovernable gremlin.

A brewery view with a pump truck and ladder insouciantly placed in the foreground with fermenters and brite tanks in the background. The stainless is very shiny.

I let my kid balance the colours in this photo of the brewery. She called it “industrial Wes Anderson.”

4 Horry police officers resign after investigation into sexual relationships The Horry County Police Department officers reportedly resigned in light of code of conduct violations discovered in an investigation.

“Horry” was not my first reading of the headline.

I guess China Mieville knows a lot about monsters.

Threads post with a photo of angry Oscar Isaac: me loving every minute of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein only to realize at the end it didn’t pass the Bechdel test

*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man

Why are people

Remarkably few! But a few years after visiting the Catacombs, eldest daughter became a forensic anthropologist and taught bone lab at the U of A.

A whole lot of long bones stacked on a wall with a row of skulls used to make a wavy pattern. I think a couple Aunt Maries are visible too right and bottom left.

It’s unbelievably cool, and I will continue reading your books so you can spend more time in Paris.

Is it the Catacombs? Because, the Catacombs rock. Best thing about Paris.

18YO me would probably be impressed that I managed to cross off some life goals like leaving Regina, being in a Stanley Cup riot, and meeting a wonderful person I’ve been married to for 30 years. But I don’t he’d be OK about all those beers I didn’t drink this week.

Current me: I’m growing as a person. I just spent 2 days at a brewing conference where I drank no beer.

18YO me: FFS, do I even know you?

Current me: Free beer usually isn’t worth it.

18YO me: IT WAS FREE??!!!?

Who the fuck wears a power suit for their profile pic on Bluesky? That alone should disqualify someone from the app.

Fuck it, here’s some more joy.

Thrillers aren’t my jam, but I watch them with my wife. I found this season more entertaining than the previous one mostly because I tune in to see Oldman chew the scenery. He’s so good in the role I can look past how he improbably shows up at the right place and right time despite London traffic.

Over 5,000 researchers oppose order to share 25 years of federal grant applicant data TORONTO - More than 5,000 researchers have signed an open letter pushing back against a parliamentary committee order that they say draws parallels with the U.S. government's crackdown on equity,

We’ve received more than 5000 signatures on our open letter to stop MPs from accessing private data about scientists, researchers and students in the university sector! This story is still developing-

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A Frum Tweet from 2024: No bodies found at supposed "mass burial" site in Edmonton. The defamation of Canadian history continues to collapse when and where scientifically investigated.

David Frum is a genocide-denying shitstain, and I wish media would stop platforming him. Holy fuck he’s awful.

Hey, good luck! When you work your way up to sanitary welds, I have some fermenters that need some TLC.

One of my kids has received funding as an Indigenous scholar, so we’ve been following along. But I don’t think there’s much appetite for this fight.

Screen grab showing two recent news stories, one from the Globe about dipshit parliamentarians asking for personal data about grant recipients and one from the Sun getting the frenzy started.

Forgot the image.

I’ve seen Confederate flags in Ontario. We’ve always had a simmering Maple MAGA, it’s just become more overt the last few years. We’re also seeing some parliamentarians go after SSHIRC data because they don’t want want to fund “woke” research.

My proudest accomplishment on Reddit is finding a a poorly chopped chive 😂

If I were to write notes for mine: “Ample evidence of a high fibre diet. Sulphur top notes. A hint of natural gas leak. In the finish, middle aged despair.”