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Philip Koop 🇨🇦
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Computer programming / financial risk management.
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A Sir John A MacDonald election poster saying "The Old Flag. The Old Policy, The old Leader"
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Confused rhodo du jour
A small rhododendron covered in pink and white blossoms
December 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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It is cold and rainy today. Sometimes it is good to be a human.
A bedraggled stag sits on our back lawn.
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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The four basic personality types
The four basic personality types: optimist, pessimist, dither, and jerk.
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Last the cats too, I hope!
Sylvester the cat finds only bird seed in the cupboard.
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This is one of the decisive factors that makes me glad we moved. Sure, I used to love our backyard after a fresh snowfall, but you pay for that with 10 days of this.
A view of a snowy yard, bordered by cedars, with trees in the background, taken from a covered deck
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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A guy completely tangled in rope is talking to a rodeo clown and saying "will you help me get untangled if I admit that this is my first rodeo?"
December 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Oskar has also discovered the stereo amplifier.
A large tabby cat is flopped on the floor in front of a gas fireplace.
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Same pair from the front. 🪶
The same eagles on the same perch, but from a front perspective.
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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A pair of bald eagles from our walk today. 🪶
A pair of bald eagles perched on a douglas-fir. They are seen from behind, but the one on the left has its head in profile, and the one on the right is turned even further toward the camera.
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I thought of you on our walk downtown.
A confused rhododendron in bloom.
December 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Raised quite naturally in Joseph Heath's excellent book, Enlightenment 2.0.
With respect to the critique of rationality, many concluded that their mistake lay in thinking that they could criticize technical reason while at the same time preserving the same concepts used by the technocracy. In order to really change things—in order to revolutionize people’s consciousness—it would be necessary to invent a new set of concepts—in effect, a new language—in order to express the ideals and aspirations of the oppressed. This idea was already present in Heidegger, which is why his work is so difficult to understand. Heidegger felt obliged to invent a new language in which to express himself, one that would be uncontaminated by old assumptions about reason and truth. This suggestion was picked up with a vengeance by many feminists, as well as by theorists in the tradition that came to be known as postmodernism. (This is why it is unfair to characterize the work of postmodernists as “bad writing,” despite the fact that a lot of it is actually bad writing. Much of the obscurity is intentional, because it is motivated by this desire to invent a new way of speaking.)
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Happy Sierpińsktree season to all who celebrate.
Happy Sierpińsktree season! Wishing you joy that grows at every scale and celebrations that repeat in all the best ways. Warmest regards, Your friends at Fields
December 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A comic strip. Bloom County character Oliver Wendell Holmes is asking whether there is a fallout shelter nearby.
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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It's the Victoria Christmas Truck parade.
A tractor-trailer covered in Christmas lights passing by the end of our driveway
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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A famous painting, "The Miraculous Lactation of Saint Bernard", by Alonso Cano
December 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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It's the Tour de 6
A map of a 160km bike route somehow (mostly) packed into Toronto city limits.
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I feel that rats are under-represented here, even if we'd like to forget about them. They're pretty successful!

But locally, our most commonly seen critter:
A faun on our patio (black-tailed deer.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Yeah I just tried "vixen news", also didn't work.
Vixen Media Group, commonly referred to as Vixen, is an independent Internet pornography production company located in Los Angeles, California.
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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But relativity has been a real-life conservative bete noire for years. For example, this is not satire: www.conservapedia.com/Theory_of_re...
The theory of relativity is defended with religious-like zeal, such that no college faculty tenure, Ph.D degree, or Nobel Prize is ever awarded to anyone who dares criticize the theory, as the example of denying a Nobel Prize to the most accomplished physicist of the 20th century, Robert Dicke, illustrates. Other critics of the theory are Nikola Tesla, who called it a "...magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists, not scientists..."[6
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Not Kipling either
The poster for The Man Who Would Be King
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The gag from Once Upon a Time in the West except it's "did you bring a Z for me" and "you brought three too many"
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The smol cat has found the smol box
A small female tabby cat sits inside a box, filling it almost completely
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM