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Dave Palmer
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Organic chemist, enzymologist, professor, cat dad. PEI ➡️ Queen's U ➡️ UIUC ➡️ USask. 🇨🇦✌️🙂 (he/him)
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November 30 / December 1
Cary Grant serving a glass of warm milk (that might be poisoned!) to Joan Fontaine in Suspicion (1942). Cary Grant enjoying a moment next to a Christmas tree with Loretta Young in The Bishop’s Wife (1947).
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Also: 1950 Dirk Bogarde is extremely present-day Harry Styles
Dirk Bogarde in So Long at the Fair (1950). Harry Styles in Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Jarring to see Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins show up in another movie! 😂
Actor David Tomlinson, known almost exclusively for his role in Mary Poppins, as the disappeared brother in So Long at the Fair.
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character.
Wrong answers only.
The Gorn from Star Trek TOS. A man in a low budget lizard costume wearing a glittering leather tunic.
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Highly relevant cartoon I just saw this morning in a thread of Kate Beaton comics. Heathcliff in the novel is unquestionably a dick.
Kate Beaton comic in which Charlotte and Emily Brontë swoon over glowering, hostile men and Anne keeps pointing out that they are obviously dicks. Charlotte says “no wonder nobody buys your books”.
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Took the comforter off the bed as we move into down duvet season. It is now occupied in predictable #Caturday fashion.
A comforter patterned with wild flowers sits in a pile on the floor. A closeup reveals a grey cat ensconced in a “cave” in the pile.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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A frostier version, with the same wishes.
A lightly snowy path curving into a winter wood. Taken in Prince Albert National Park.
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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“It’s frozen pizza, Jim, but not as we know it.”
A scene from Star Trek (The Original Series) episode “Operation: Annihilate!” in which an alien is trapped under glass.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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⚠️ 🦌 🚗
Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.
A bull elk crosses the road along with his family of about 25.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo!
An adult doe appears to look out over a balcony of a brutalist building. It is actually a small green space next to an office building between the hospital and the river.
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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“A wig? How dare you!”
A scene from Star Trek featuring Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk, who is holding a woman by the arm as she looks at him in surprise. She is wearing an enormous wig, as was the style at the time.
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Brothers spending the day in bed
🤜🤛
Two grey cats on a bed, with their paws next to each other.
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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SOON
Dramatic closeup of the raven in the quoted post.
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My research group has *once again* triumphed in our department’s pumpkin carving contest. My students are, by objective measures, the best. (Conveniently for Halloween, our building is a gothic castle.)
🧪 🎃 🏰 🔥 🏆
A pumpkin carved with the silhouette of the Thorvaldson Building, ancestral home of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan. Spooky lit display of the same pumpkin.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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He’d have an enormous schwanzstucker, zats for sure!
Scene from Star Trek (the original series) episode “The Galileo Seven”, showing Mr. Spock and two rando crewmen discovering a gigantic spear thrown by a very large alien hominid.
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Thinking about whether this moved to the left or right inevitable led me here:
A normal distribution with two dots for eyes, labeled "Normal, perhaps paranormal", and a "skewed right" distribution with blue eyeshadow and red lipstick, labeled "Just a jump to the left and then a step to the right".
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Excuse me sir, but is this your foot? #Caturday
A small grey cat sits on my lap. I am holding his back foot vertically. The same cat, but I am booping his nose with my finger.
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I hope nothing goes wrong at the local atomic plant! This is fine, right?
A dial with zones labeled low, normal, high, overload, and Danger. The needle has just moved into the danger zone!
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Robert Vaughn is definitely going to murder someone and somewhere, somehow, Columbo already knows it
Robert Vaughn wearing a dark suit jacket over a white shirt with a very wide collar and a red scarf knotted about his neck. He is looking sideways in a suspicious, scheming fashion.
October 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Prince of Darkness (1987, dir. John Carpenter). 🎥 Scene from a typical physics professor’s office, with a nonsense molecular model on the desk next to the rotary phone, and a group of undergrads who are all definitely not 40 years old. Anyway, Satan is in a beaker in a nearby church basement. 😁👍
Screen capture from Prince of Darkness.
October 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Snoozy boy (with dad)
A grey cat curled up on a sofa next to his cat-dad.
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Wonderful encounter! Silent and gorgeous. 🦊😍😍
October 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Oh my god
A view looking up at the Remai Modern Gallery in Saskatoon. A view looking across South Saskatchewan River at the Remai Modern Gallery in Saskatoon.
October 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I thought making everything in a pumpkin spice flavour was dumb, but I don’t understand this at all
A grocery store display with bags of Selena Gomez Oreos.
September 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is a first for me. Here’s a German woman who thinks everyone should go to a public school. And here’s the warning that she could be a member of the nefarious and secretive terrorist organization known only as ANTIFA! 🤣🤣🤣
Screenshot of a Bluesky post with a moderator’s warning that it could be misleading because she is “suspected of being part of the terrorist organization called Antifa. Please report any suspicious behaviour.”
September 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM