Trish Paton
@trishpaton.bsky.social
Saskatchewan, farm/town split. Photography, books, frustrating machinery, single malts, craft beer, watercolour & sketching. Profession: research & evaluation. Boards: Canadian Evaluation Society, Saskatchewan & Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief
This is one reason I still love social media. In the midst of a 48 hour elder care disaster, this gave me a few minutes of “OMG that’s so cool” boost. 💜💙
Did you know there's a 500-million-year-old species that lives in the deep sea called Paleodictyon, but we only know it from trace fossils and marks on the seafloor and have absolutely no idea what the animal is?
It could be a sponge or a foram or a xenophyophore or something totally different.
It could be a sponge or a foram or a xenophyophore or something totally different.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is one reason I still love social media. In the midst of a 48 hour elder care disaster, this gave me a few minutes of “OMG that’s so cool” boost. 💜💙
Last night supper; I’ve still got a few tomatoes ripe for eating. I just take a big thick slice and pretend it’s a hamburger patty. Brandywine variety, which I maintain is one of the best tasting varieties. Heritage plant, and fruits can be weird and a bit finicky. But delicious.
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Last night supper; I’ve still got a few tomatoes ripe for eating. I just take a big thick slice and pretend it’s a hamburger patty. Brandywine variety, which I maintain is one of the best tasting varieties. Heritage plant, and fruits can be weird and a bit finicky. But delicious.
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In which Mike tells a heartwarming and fun story about Thanksgiving and pie. Read it - it will do your heart good.
OK - pie discourse - best pie story:
In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).*
The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In which Mike tells a heartwarming and fun story about Thanksgiving and pie. Read it - it will do your heart good.
Astounding achievement!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Astounding achievement!!
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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
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#YQR #Saskatchewan
🌟 GIVEAWAY 🌟
Over 40 species of forbs & grasses
📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕑 10 a.m.to12 p.m.
📍Albert Branch RPL
mâmawêyatitân centre
3355 6th Avenue, Regina
#natureregina #nativeseeds #giveaway #nativeplants
🌟 GIVEAWAY 🌟
Over 40 species of forbs & grasses
📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕑 10 a.m.to12 p.m.
📍Albert Branch RPL
mâmawêyatitân centre
3355 6th Avenue, Regina
#natureregina #nativeseeds #giveaway #nativeplants
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
#YQR #Saskatchewan
🌟 GIVEAWAY 🌟
Over 40 species of forbs & grasses
📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕑 10 a.m.to12 p.m.
📍Albert Branch RPL
mâmawêyatitân centre
3355 6th Avenue, Regina
#natureregina #nativeseeds #giveaway #nativeplants
🌟 GIVEAWAY 🌟
Over 40 species of forbs & grasses
📅 Saturday, November 29, 2025
🕑 10 a.m.to12 p.m.
📍Albert Branch RPL
mâmawêyatitân centre
3355 6th Avenue, Regina
#natureregina #nativeseeds #giveaway #nativeplants
Wow! 🥰
Tomorrow I'm going to check out a show and sale held by the Printmakers of the Salish Sea and I will be losing my mind about the linocut quality. There are so many skilled reduction linocut artists involved. Excited to see their work. Look at this! It's a reduction linocut! By Anne Jones:
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Wow! 🥰
Got to be very short, based on the typeface above/below that d say between 18 & 21 characters & spaces.
I wonder what that phrase is. "Ball is in his court"? "Up to him"?
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Got to be very short, based on the typeface above/below that d say between 18 & 21 characters & spaces.
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
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Shout out to Solange. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app
@suzette11233.bsky.social
@beigewunder.blacksky.app
@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app
@lizzslockeroom.bsky.social
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@ebonyteach.blacksky.app
@suzette11233.bsky.social
@beigewunder.blacksky.app
@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app
@lizzslockeroom.bsky.social
peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/sol...
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Same TIL! What a story - and as Ian says down thread, just 4 days short of 92 years apart. Wild!
TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883
How the Fitzgerald Sank Twice
An excerpt
greatlakespeopleandplaces.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Same TIL! What a story - and as Ian says down thread, just 4 days short of 92 years apart. Wild!
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She called all of it a year and a half ago.
From the archives:
Politicians aren’t doctors, and they shouldn’t pretend to be. canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/20/p... @faejohnstone.bsky.social
Politicians aren’t doctors, and they shouldn’t pretend to be. canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/20/p... @faejohnstone.bsky.social
Politicians aren’t doctors and they shouldn’t pretend to be.
Canada Healthwatch | The most important health news, in one place.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
She called all of it a year and a half ago.
Admin is 💯 correct. The city should lead coordination. That’s also where you get groups together to identify the data everyone is gathering, assess reliability, look at redundancies and gaps, set up data sharing agreements & processes, etc etc etc. It actually improves efficiency greatly.
Admin: I would add that the non-profit service providers see that as our role as well, as a lead coordinator. #yqrcc
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Admin is 💯 correct. The city should lead coordination. That’s also where you get groups together to identify the data everyone is gathering, assess reliability, look at redundancies and gaps, set up data sharing agreements & processes, etc etc etc. It actually improves efficiency greatly.
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Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
www.nationalobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Appreciate @nationalobserver.com underlining the threat these lawsuits pose to our democracy:
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
“One way to help preserve an independent media is to protect them from vindictive US-style lawsuits… we must be free to report fairly without the threat of expensive lawsuits designed solely to shut us up”
Just on the off chance that there are #Calgary #yyc folks out house hunting, or knowing someone who is - my brother & SIL have theirs listed. Great multi-generation setup (built that way), close to schools, groceries, transit.
View: matrix.pillarnine.com/Matrix/Publi...
View: matrix.pillarnine.com/Matrix/Publi...
Email from Nov 15 2025 - Matrix Portal
matrix.pillarnine.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just on the off chance that there are #Calgary #yyc folks out house hunting, or knowing someone who is - my brother & SIL have theirs listed. Great multi-generation setup (built that way), close to schools, groceries, transit.
View: matrix.pillarnine.com/Matrix/Publi...
View: matrix.pillarnine.com/Matrix/Publi...
Saw so much yellow this morning…such a loss. I learned SO MUCH from Alice Wong’s work.
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Saw so much yellow this morning…such a loss. I learned SO MUCH from Alice Wong’s work.
Well, the official close of winter prep season is here; I put the big tractor in the shed.
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Well, the official close of winter prep season is here; I put the big tractor in the shed.
Well, I got YellowBoy in bunkhouse - food is an excellent motivator. He had a few bites and then decided to explore, so when there was enough space between him & the door I got him.
Good omen I hope: he didn’t go ballistic. Wanted out, but seems ok in 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 hope it sticks!
#cat #stray #ProofOfCat
Good omen I hope: he didn’t go ballistic. Wanted out, but seems ok in 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 hope it sticks!
#cat #stray #ProofOfCat
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Well, I got YellowBoy in bunkhouse - food is an excellent motivator. He had a few bites and then decided to explore, so when there was enough space between him & the door I got him.
Good omen I hope: he didn’t go ballistic. Wanted out, but seems ok in 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 hope it sticks!
#cat #stray #ProofOfCat
Good omen I hope: he didn’t go ballistic. Wanted out, but seems ok in 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 hope it sticks!
#cat #stray #ProofOfCat
Well, Mom & I have landed in town for the winter. Bro, SIL & nephew will be at the farm for the winter, arriving tomorrow. Biggest things left to do are the cat shift change - the usual 3 to town, and with dogs arriving the 2 house cats -> bunkhouse. And hoping YellowBoy will go there for winter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Well, Mom & I have landed in town for the winter. Bro, SIL & nephew will be at the farm for the winter, arriving tomorrow. Biggest things left to do are the cat shift change - the usual 3 to town, and with dogs arriving the 2 house cats -> bunkhouse. And hoping YellowBoy will go there for winter.
What in the ever-loving HELL, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. You suspending people without warning or reason is seriously bullshit.
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
What in the ever-loving HELL, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. You suspending people without warning or reason is seriously bullshit.
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Ouch @courtneymilan.com have you seen this re: the Anthropic class action?
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Ouch @courtneymilan.com have you seen this re: the Anthropic class action?
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Spaces are still available for our Nov. 12 session, Analyzing with AI: Options and Considerations. Online at 12:00-1:00 pm CST. Join us here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/analyzing-...
#eval #evaluation #research #analysis
#eval #evaluation #research #analysis
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Spaces are still available for our Nov. 12 session, Analyzing with AI: Options and Considerations. Online at 12:00-1:00 pm CST. Join us here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/analyzing-...
#eval #evaluation #research #analysis
#eval #evaluation #research #analysis