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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 15h

I'm as ready to jump on a playoff bandwagon as anyone. Go Jays! Go Riders! Go Canadian hockey team whoever can make it to the playoffs!

Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 1d

Go sportsball team!

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 1d

I'm as ready to jump on a playoff bandwagon as anyone. Go Jays! Go Riders! Go Canadian hockey team whoever can make it to the playoffs!

Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 1d

Next week Thursday!

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 1d

Go sportsball team!

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Robin and Arlene Karpan @r-and-a-karpan.bsky.social · 1d

Last night's moonrise in Aberdeen #Saskatchewan. #ThePhotoHour #moonscapes #moonphotography #moonlovers #nightphotography #landscapephotograhy #TMACtravels #satw #stormhour #nightscapes #moon #ExploreSask #ExploreCanada

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 1d

It was a great moon last night during my bike ride. MUCH more impressive in person than it shows up on my cell phone photo.

Full moon rising over an area of prairie bush south of Saskatoon.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

I love Grant Lawrence, especially with The Evaporators.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

Interestingly, the narrator pronounced Saskatchewan perfectly. Go figure.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

I just finished listening to a great audiobook by Alex Hutchinson, The Explorer's Gene. I really enjoyed it and a lot of points struck a chord. One thing annoyed me though, the narrator's pronunciation of various Canadian and indigenous words. e.g. Chipewyan, portage, Iroquois, Regina...

Screenshot of The Explorer's Gene in the app Libby. The cover shows a mountaineer hiking on snow under the weight of a pack with mountain peaks in the background.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

To distinguish various species of flies you have to look very closely at certain features under a microscope, such as the number of hairs on their penis, or the arrangement of certain hairs on a leg.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

Hence the word lenticular to describe something lentil shaped, such as a lens.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

This talk @musaalgharbi.bsky.social on CBC Ideas that just finished was super interesting. Give it a listen.

Why progressives may not be as 'woke' as they think
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 3d

Atwood's father was an entomologist which is my background. She drops little entomology tidbits into some of her writing. That is certainly a bonus but it goes so much beyond that.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 5d

Last week I learned that if you order a "regular coffee" at the McDonald's in Humboldt, it has cream and sugar added. Since when is regular coffee anything other than black? I've been drinking black coffee for nearly 30 years and did not know this. They seemed confused that I sent it back.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 5d

Hell no.

Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 6d

Spotify played The Rolling Stones song Shame, Shame, Shame in my "new release radar". I thought it was the Muppets until I looked at the app. I probably would've preferred the Muppets.

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 10d

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC,
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 7.5
Alberta: HIGH - 6
British Columbia: HIGH - 5.8
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 12.1
New Brunswick: HIGH - 6.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 10.2
North: HIGH - 9.2
Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 11.6
Ontario: HIGH - 6.3
Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 7
Quebec: HIGH - 9.6
Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 12.4

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category, there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 10d

I could play it back to listen in on the whole conversation but I could also punch myself in the head with a sampling drill and I was not going to do that, either.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10d

Anyone want to loan me a couple million dollars?

Chris Alemany @socialbc.ca · 10d

Anyone want to buy a Butterfly World?
#realestate #vancouverisland #butterfly #insects #agriculture #tourism
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/business/butterfly-world-tourist-attraction-in-coombs-up-for-sale-for-225m-8280303

Butterfly World tourist attraction in Coombs up for sale for $2.25M

www.albernivalleynews.com

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10d

Kinda, yeah.

Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10d

A new door has been ordered and will be in Kinistino tomorrow. In the meantime, I get to enjoy the fresh air and the canola dust. Thank goodness it's not barley.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10d

It must be a thing with Claas tractors - this is the second time it's happened. Probably was one of my uncles driving cart the first time.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 10d

Welp, I now have an open air cab on the grain cart tractor. The wind caught the glass door and whipped it open, smashing it into a million tiny pieces.

#agriculture #harvest #saskatchewan #farming

Claas Xerion 4500 tractor missing its glass door. I'm parked in a canola field on the stubble.

View out the place where a glass door used to be. I'm parked in a canola field on a clear blue windy day.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 12d

If I get my chores done today I might go for a drive and bike ride to look for them. I've never seen them in real life before.

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Bryan Sarauer @pawistik.bsky.social · 13d

When I was marking exams and assignments those damn things traveled so many miles back and forth from work to home to work to home to ....

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 13d

Taking work home

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