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Roberto Quinlan
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ex @r_quinla at the bad place 🇨🇦🇨🇱 uni academic, paleoecologist (mainly 🪰, mostly Anthropocene, some Holocene), aquatic ecologist. I tweet about science, music, politics, living in Dundas/#HamOnt
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Fans in *Saskatoon* rioted after the Blue Jays last won the World Series.
Game 6 is on Halloween. The crowd scenes are gonna look interesting!
#bluejays #WorldSeries
More insane is the laundry list of terrifying side effects and they still expect you to be like "you know what? I think I'll give it a try. What's the big deal with possible GI ulcers, liver failure, kidney failure, permanent incontinence, heart arrhythmia and sudden cardiac arrest?
I have an annual MRI following a stroke 5 years ago. Prior to that I had 2 MRIs over 15 yrs due to persistent migraines & tinnitus (turned out it was a neurovascular issue that later caused the stroke...).
Anyhoo, my point is, nobody, NOBODY gets an MRI "just because", so why did Trump get one?
The president had a MRI but won't say why.

He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.

He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.

He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.

How is any of this ok?
Early morning shadows and frost on front lawns.
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As someone who spent many months in my research career poring over topographical maps for planning fieldwork, coupled w/ reading books about the Canadian WWII liberation of the Netherlands dealing with flooding for both combat defense & offense across a vast flat landscape, ... things are afoot...
🌊 Russia: Massive flooding in Belgorod region after successive Ukrainian strikes on the dam to cut off tens of thousands of Russian soldiers from supply routes.
There was a coyote barking about 2 backyards over. I got my dog to bark back and it sounds like the coyote approached to the next door neighbour's yard. What I didnt expect was that for the next half hour my dog was all amped up, perched up on the furniture barking at the back windows.
Go to 1:00 mark of this classic Bill Burr moment on the Conan O'Brien show. The clip is from more than 10 years ago (!)
youtu.be/7n3WgiMftaU?...
Bill Burr Wants Charities Out Of Sports | CONAN on TBS
YouTube video by Team Coco
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My 16 year old daughter did not know who Colonel Sanders was when I pointed him out. And we ate KFC plenty of times when she was growing up. *head shake*
#bluejays
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I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.
That extra poke in the eye just now was by Alejandro Kirk, who is Mexican. I think there's a parable in there somewhere.
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This is where Pete Langdon at @unisouthampton.bsky.social Geography Dept goes back to Iceland in 2-3 yrs & collects sediment cores from lakes he studied previously for subfossil midges, re-analyzes them for mosquito subfossil remains, and BAM major research paper(s).

Pete, you owe me a beer mate.
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country.
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
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What does the skeet mean by 'first time in English'?

I have Lone Wolf & Cub comics in English that I bought in the mid-1980s.
In our family group chat someone just messaged "Someone in a Mathews jersey won a Game 7"
😅
#BlueJays
Queen's was started by a group of Scots Presbyterians and the university's governance model was based on either the University of Edinburgh or the University of Glasgow (I can't remember which) so OF COURSE the school spirit song shall be Scotland The Brave!
I didn't pay much attention to the football game - spend most of it catching up with people I haven't seen in years, and waiting to listen to the Queen's Band play Scotland the Brave on pipes & drums at halftime, brings back the memories. Often left after halftime to go to our year's keg party.
My final act as I leave Kingston #QueensU Homecoming - buying a fresh baguette from Pan Chancho which I will consume on the drive home as my late lunch/early dinner - yes, I will eat the whole baguette myself, I have walked/cycled across France & Spain so I know it is a fulfilling meal.
I brought my #Queensu Artsci'95 jacket out of storage for Homecoming and at some point this weekend I reached into an inner pocket and found the ticket stubs to the Homecoming games for the 5th and 10th yr reunions in 2000 and 2005.