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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6h

why does "goblin squat" make more sense, though

🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8h

Arrrggghhh I misheard my personal trainer when he first had me do goblet squats. I've been calling them goblin squats for MONTHS and he never corrected me

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 1d

This was such a great talk last night!

genomebc.bsky.social @genomebc.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 Big day! Tonight is the Don Rix Distinguished Keynote with Dr. Chris Mason—exploring how humans and microbes adapt to space. Who’s ready?

#DRDK2025 #SpaceBiology

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 3d

We cancelled Prime a few months ago as part of our attempt to buy Canadian products from Canadian companies whenever possible. After a brief adjustment period where I had to find alternative sources for a few things, I don’t miss Amazon at all www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6d

Good analysis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism

Experts say White House presented ‘association as causation’ and based conclusions on ‘poor quality studies’

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6d

The last line is awesome. Mark worked on this so we’re going to a local cast & crew preview showing next week. Expectations are low after the last movie (which Mark also worked on), but as I said last night, “hey, at least Gillian Anderson’s in it”

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 7d

New Tron movie looks pretty co - aw, shit is Jared Leto in this?

Saint John, New Brunswick - Initial excitement over the latest entry in Disney’s sci-fi Tron franchise was ruined when it was discovered it also stars Jared Leto. During a recent family movie night, a...

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6d

Before my field zoologist phase, I read a lot of James Herriot and wanted to be a vet. That's my "road not taken" that I still think about the most. I'd say "it's never too late" and I guess it technically isn't, but at this point I have absolutely no wish to go back to formal education!

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6d

(The phase ended the first time we learned about genetics in high-school biology. Which is probably for the best - I like camping occasionally, but I'm definitely better suited to indoor science!)

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 6d

A true icon - we shall not see her like again.

I went through a phase in my early teens of wanting to be a field zoologist, and therefore read many of her books at a very impressionable age. One of my all-time heroes

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Dame Jane Goodall obituary

Pioneering scientist whose breakthrough studies of chimpanzees changed how the animals were perceived and led to greater protection

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 7d

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News

The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 7d

Ah yes, remember those classic "we accept the Canucks not winning" riots?

“people [are saying] ‘we are never winning something.’ The Whitecaps are not winning, the Canucks are not winning. I have the feeling that Vancouver people, they accept not winning” said Müller

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Whitecaps star Müller wants to change Vancouver's loser mentality | Sports

It'll be an historic night when the Vancouver Whitecaps take on Vancouver FC in the Canadian Championship final at BC Place on Wednesday.

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8d

AI can take my em-dashes from my cold dead hands www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

The humble em dash is being used as a tell that something is written by a large language model. But it’s James Shackell’s favourite piece of punctuation, and he’s not ready to lose it

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8d

Oh I love S&S! Maybe you should try the version with sea monsters in it ;) I only read Northanger Abbey recently and really liked that one too

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8d

I need to get better at DNFing books. I read somewhere that you should give it "100 minus your age in years" pages and stop if you're not enjoying it. The opportunity cost of not reading books you'll actually enjoy increases with age! Can't wait to be 99 and yelling "nope, next!" at 50 books per day

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8d

The various references to the book in other media I've enjoyed (shout out to the Thursday Next series in particular) led me to believe it would be funny, or at least have a sympathetic protagonist, but nope. Just a joyless slog full of run-on sentences & multi-page paragraphs. At least it was short

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8d

I finally got around to reading "The Trial" recently and did not enjoy it at all. Really, the only thing I got out of it is that I can now use the word Kafkaesque safe in the knowledge that I can reply "tch, of *course* I've actually read Kafka" if anyone challenges me

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 8d

How is You Know Who still getting even worse? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift

The author has rebuffed conciliatory remarks made by the Harry Potter actor, saying Watson has ‘enthusiastically participated’ in the ‘trashing of women’s rights’

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 19d

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

OTTAWA - U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has vowed to improve anti-American sentiment he sees in Canada, no matter how many illegal tariffs, forced annexations, or literal bombs it takes to do it.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 12d

Netanyahu calls Canadian recognition of Palestine the worst thing anyone has ever done to Palestine

NEW YORK - In a speech before the UN General Assembly, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Canada officially recognizing Palestine as a state is worse than anything else he could imagine happe...

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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 12d

Robocat User's Guide. www.patreon.com/posts/roboca...

Title: Robocat User's Guide
1. Sleep mode. (Robocat sleeps. A fly flies by.)
2. Alert notification. (Robocat notices the fly: "MEOW!"
3. Debug mode. (Robocat tries to catch the fly.
4. Upload. (Robocat eats the fly. Nomnomnom.)
5. Download. (Robocat vomits out dozens of flies. Bleck!)

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 14d

Amazing! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial

Surgical procedure to treat devastating illness slowed progress of disease by 75% in patients after three years

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Pay no attention’: global health agencies dismiss false Trump claim on everyday painkillers

Medical experts and regulators say US president should not be questioning established science

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 15d

Lamb is definitely worth watching! The editing is absolutely masterful - they actually do make it look like the animals are acting

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... yesssss it’s so good! Really charismatic and creepy. Plus the best ovine acting performance since that weird Icelandic movie Lamb

The most evil TV villain ever? Alien: Earth’s ‘demon sheep eye’ is a work of true genius

Sure, the xenomorph is an all-time great screen baddie – but it’s no match for the eyeball-octopus parasite stuffed in a sheep’s head

www.theguardian.com

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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · 19d

If it ends up being an England v Canada final I can’t not support England, but I’ll be happy (and also sad) either way!

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