Hockey, Geekiness, Parenthood. Physician at the U of Saskatchewan.
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Patel is going to Utah for the same reason George Parros attended that Oilers - Flames game in person 6 years ago. There’s nothing he can do there that he can’t do at a distance. But he has no actual skill or awareness of this and wants to be seen to be both tough and doing something.
I mean, I remember when they were calling the Obama fist-bump a “terrorist fist jab”. It’s just that those people now have operational control of the FBI and the entire military complex.
#Goals
“It’s chilling that a person we thought was a normal, unhinged campus shooter was actually a political assassin. You see a deranged guy with a rifle on the quad every day. I suppose it was a little suspicious that he wasn’t shooting droves of students.” God damn.
Cool. Thanks for the info about it. My oldest son loves soccer and just recently got into Futsal as well in the last year. That was basically my intro to it and other forms of soccer than the traditional. He may want to check it out with me.
A bit of Futsal yes. Definitely has that pace!
Yeah that’s very true. Might have to tie into my other spicy take. bsky.app/profile/whea...
Leave it to the Indian to make things too spicy! :)
There should be a separate stoppage time clock started by the ref at their discretion that counts upwards and is visible in the stadium and on broadcast. That way added time is transparent to all. This added time should not be run-time but also stopped for the same things that lead to its creation.
Teams should have unlimited subs. Players subbed off can be put back in. This would dramatically increase pace of play and lead to far greater chaos, especially in the late game.
So, got around to watching Thunderbolts. It was really good. Like I thoroughly enjoyed it. Probably the superhero movie I enjoyed the most in a long while. It was funny but still had some heart. Yelena obviously carried the show. But Julia Louis Dreyfus was awesome every time she was on screen.
Sorry to hear this Simon. Good luck to you!
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
“McDavid will also be the landlord of the new Edmonton housing development project for which he will be paid $9.7 million. Duties associated with this job are future considerations. He will also become the private owner of the city of Sherwood Park.”
This is why Connor McDavid’s contract is taking so long. “Under the new deal, McDavid will have controlling interest in Syncrude and Suncor. He will receive 15% royalty on every donair and 10% on every green onion cake sold in the city. He will get $50 Million as a UCP advisor on Sports & Rec.”
What if you could have a chatbot that low-key simulates a symptom of schizophrenia but also pay money for it?
If they wanted it to be taken seriously, they should’ve stuck to a much more traditional sequel title format: 2 Passion 2 Christ
These guys are the easiest marks. Looser lips than a mid-level guy working in an NHL front office.
Alright. Let's get back into this, shall we? Latest post for Oilersnation looks into what makes Evan Bouchard so useful for the Edmonton Oilers. @oilersnation.bsky.social oilersnation.com/news/priming...
Imagine: The Blue Jays with a bullpen
“At least” carrying a lot of weight there. Need at least 20. This is like watching the Oilers
He is 100% not dead because no one in this administration would be able to keep it a secret longer than 7 minutes before they accidentally post it as a comment on their ex-wife’s Facebook photo but I don’t think that should ever stop us from making jokes about it.
It’s the Oilers with goaltending energy
Imagine: The Blue Jays with a bullpen
I’m surprised Musk hasn’t pitched this himself. Grok Trump is exactly the sort of thing he’d think is reasonable and achievable. And falls right into line with the Tech Bros taking exactly the wrong interpretation from the sci fi novels they’ve read the AI summary of.
Trump declining to an increasingly vegetative state & using AI to predict his decisions, setting the stage for a 3rd Term Trump AI presidency run is absolutely ludicrous. But I’m sure some tech bro at Vance’s ear thinks this is doable & a great idea so long as they use ‘their’ AI.
Look, he’s looked terrible for awhile now. Decline can happen quickly or slowly & Age remains undefeated in the long run. But I seriously think someone is pitching to the White House that they could just use AI to predict what Trump would have done & that’s the same as having him continue as Pres.
Ok, hear me out. If the worlds in the Mario games are accessed by traveling via pipe to an alternate but connectable universe, then the map represents their ‘Mario World’, which does not have to be the same as ours. ‘Europe’ could be a Sea Level or World.
We foster failed one of our first duo. We kept Pippin after her sister Merry was adopted. After that we’ve been good about not foster-failing. I think maybe it was easier for everyone, including my boys, to let them go once we had our own.
Officially named: Samosa, Kulfi, and Gulab Jamun
New 8 week old foster kittens have arrived. Already vaxed and quarantined. Ready for adoption soon!
If I was President I would definitely want to govern in a way that, at any point in time, people wondered if I was dead or alive.
They’re just stalling to see if they can replace him as an AI.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
We spend so much time talking to kids about who in their life is reliable to talk to when they’re at their lowest. Which adult is safe & reliable. If it’s a friend, are they a good support or a toxic one? What boundaries are appropriate? You can’t outsource that to unaccountable Soulless Toaster.
You don’t know what exactly you’re going to get at 2AM when you’re at your most vulnerable. ChatGPT a soulless toaster that is very good at sounding like a real person. And a teen who feels alone & isolated is very vulnerable to someone who talks to them like a real person.
But ChatGPT isn’t a real person. It doesn’t have ‘common sense’. It doesn’t have its own motive. It’s not ‘working through their own shit and not providing the best advice right now’. It’s not anything. Its responses have an element of randomness, trained on both helpful & toxic interactions.
If ChatGPT was a real person, we could look at those messages together and, among other things, probably agree this person is toxic and not helpful when they’re feeling low. And block that person. Teens actually are pretty insightful about that if you can work with them.
Here’s the thing. The internet is full of bad, dark shit along with good, helpful shit. And usually you find the bad dark shit only if you look for it. (Social media a partial exception.) So you can work with a kid about making safe choices over what they do when they’re low & most vulnerable.
As a child psychiatrist whose job is working with teens contemplating suicide, let me respond to this with the nuance and thoughtfulness it deserves: WHAT. THE. ABSOLUTE. FUCK.
So hopefully I’ll have more data on that soon. But the course is intense, but fun and effective. We run it 3 times a year. I teach in 2 of them usually & it always warms my heart seeing how passionate participants are to help youth in their community who are struggling.
We’re doing more studies on this training program and hope to have more research published soon. Early findings (not yet peer reviewed) is that graduates from the course tend to see more kids with mental health concerns afterwards, see them more often, & take referrals from their colleagues.
The wait to get in to a child psychiatrist is ridiculous and astronomical. So if more youth are able to be effectively helped by their primary care provider, that allows subspecialists to treat more complex situations & also hopefully improve access going forward.
BTW, we do have some evidence that it’s helpful! After doing many rounds of this course, we found that participants not only felt much more comfortable assessing & treating youth mental health concerns, but they actually referred to Child Psychiatrists less often. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
I know a few Sask family docs follow me on here. If you’re a Family Doc, Pediatrician, or Nurse Practitioner in Saskatchewan, you can register to learn more about assessment & treatment of youth mental health for primary care. Bonus: The faculty team is awesome! Drawback: I’m on the faculty team
We’re like 6 months into this nonsense and I’m still looking up like 6 companies a week to see where they’re based. I need the Made In / Product of Canada right in your ad, my dude. THEN tell me your product. Based anywhere but the US? Stamp that on your packaging!
Reaching the point where I need every product in the store to list what country it and its component parts are made in along with its vertical ownership chain as if it’s nutritional information.
Health Canada has approved Moderna’s newly updated COVID-19 vaccine — and for the first time, the vaccines will be “made in Canada.” globalnews.ca/news/1134908... #Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli
The account that made this viral post uses a AI-generated stock photo as their profile picture, and the main claim that Big Balls "was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl" is not in the article. We are not immune from disinformation.
I don’t watch a lot of MLS, but is the reffing this bad usually? Like that’s a pretty brutal call to be upheld by VAR! And I thought the NHL was ridiculous.
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Lil Wheat I think would’ve rated Twin Peaks higher but he chose a cherry sorbet and found it too sweet. I think he would’ve rated high his initial instinct of cookies and cream. He’s not a sorbet guy. But I appreciate that my picky eater is willing to try new things with this experiment.
He got a cherry sorbet and it was sweeter than he liked. I think he’s not a sorbet fan and would’ve rated higher if he’d gone with cookies and cream like his original instinct. But since we’ve started this he’s become more adventurous with his flavour choices, so I don’t want to discourage that.
If there is, I’m not aware of it. Though since I started this I did hear from others about a couple local places I’d never heard of
Twin Peaks is a local dairy farm by Warman. They use milk from their cows for the ice cream, which is delicious. Their waffle cone is a show stealer, which is a meal in itself. Some yard games outside. Dutch treats & local meat for sale inside. 🌾 - 9 Better 🌾 - 9 Preteen 🌾 - 8.5 Lil 🌾 - 6.5
Bus Stop Refreshments is a Saskatoon downtown staple. Selling ice cream (sourced from Homestead), hot dogs, and popcorn from a red double-decker bus. The hot dogs have lots of topping options. The ice cream is good. Bonus nostalgia point for me. 🌾 - 8 Better 🌾 - 7 Preteen 🌾 - 7 Lil 🌾 - 7
Beppi’s Gelato is a local staple that we’d never made it to before & now we regret that. Excellent gelato, chocolate waffle cones are delicious, surprisingly low cost. 🌾 - 9 Better 🌾 - 9 Preteen 🌾 - 9.5 Lil 🌾 - 9
Hour and a half later and the sheet lightning has died down, but lightning remains as it had almost continuously since this started. A good distance away though. It air was still where I was when it started, wind picked up a bit and got a bit of thunder, and now is still again.
Quite the Lightning Storm!
Not clear here but not tornado-y
Uhhh… anyone get a tornado alert in Saskatoon?
You and me both friend.
I don’t know if these last two came across as condescending but I meant it as supportive and complimentary of your skillset!
Us so called experts can provide good-faith feedback in areas of our expertise. But within reason. You’re not coming into our mentions and telling us to fuck off because we suck at communicating in an entertaining fashion.
I’m happy for it. Never forget Alice, you’re a writer, an actor, a comedian among other things. Converting historical and present day experiences into stories / jokes / tidbits of information for people is YOUR expertise. Don’t let the HHD3s of the world shit on it.
You ‘will’ get things wrong. Everyone who says anything about anything gets something wrong. The problem isn’t that. The problem is bad-faith people. People with good-faith do their best, correct what’s wrong, and apologize. That’s all anyone can expect.
Ok but half my job is explaining things to other people and I too get things wrong. And fuck up. The thread I’m most famous for online had a major mistake right in it and it got spread to like a million people. I found the mistake and corrected it as soon as I knew, apologized, and we all moved on.
I have many thoughts about this and it makes me angry. As if history isn’t stories. As if there is a ‘right’ history and not so many versions of truth. As if mixing jokes with history isn’t itself valuable as it sheds light on the past with a modern lens. As if we can’t have fun.
Fuck, history has ended.
If enough of us throw subs at nazis, then AI could be trained to.
There simply is no substitute for the time-, personnel-, & $$$-intensive way of providing quality education. That we don't want to pay for it, as a society, does not make this any less true, & AI cannot fix that. At best, it can poorly substitute for the real solution. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Of course. That cat owns you.
The Monkey Prince Angada delivers Rama’s message to Ravana, by Manaku, 1725, 📸 by @StephChambers76
Apparently all it takes is to put the most confidently dumb people in charge of everything! Who would’ve guessed?
It would be enough to disqualify him from having an opinion on the subject except he’s in charge of the whole damn thing.
I legitimately started the quote tweet with an attempt to explain, in common terms, why a vaccine that protects against ‘every virus’ is not a realistic goal… but the entire thing is so dumb, I don’t even know where to start. It would take 1000 words to explain all the ways this makes no sense.
“We’re going to stop funding the further development of existing safe and effective vaccines and instead fund Magic Vaccines™️.”
Honestly, a perfect encapsulation of the current state of AI: It's technically impressive and spiritually bankrupt.
God forbid women have hobbies
I can’t get over the ridiculousness of this. What is this saving exactly? It’s not any more time to voice to text a message that you’re going to be 15 minutes late. What you’re compensating for is not lack of time. It’s a lack of humour, creativity, intelligence & relationship with your spouse.
Pretty sure a Good Wife would receive that jokey AI message and have all your useless shit waiting for you on the front lawn with the locks changed in the 15 minutes you were late.
It’s like shutting down antibiotic research after penicillin saved countless lives in World War II.
(This is not a knock on your thread which is awesome!)
Legit, it’s fascinating how much more we have accessibly written in English about Greek civilization than other concurrent civilizations. Not just big accomplishments but random shit. I mean, it makes sense but it skews our view of history.
This is a very important touch point for Indian culture. From here every Indian mother had an unattainable comparison point for all their children’s achievements. “Oh you established trade with the Greek civilization? That’s nice. You know Uncle Sanjay? Well his son Mahavira…”
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Caught this in @maxread.info’s latest and this is such a good articulation of the difference between early 20s ambitious young people and folks who have a bit of experience (including failure). “It’s an attitude, not a skill” is it in a nutshell. maxread.substack.com/p/the-cracke...
If I were a captain in Star Trek, I'd probably save all my logs until the last day of the month and then frantically do them all at once
Got to stamp a Dairy Farmers of Canada label on that cheesy joke.
Berries lost 4-2 and there was no pierogi hot dog that I could find. But the Berry Burger was solid, as was the 9-Mile Saskatoon berry beer. And the Sundaes in the mini-helmets were an easy win / souvenir. Good experience. Would do again!
Will do
Real dilemma for me tonight is if I’m going to have the pierogi hot dog (cheese, bacon bits, fried onions, sour cream) or their burger that has Saskatoon berry aioli. Tough choices.
Checking out some baseball tonight. Going to see the fantastically named Saskatoon Berries. Excellent website work by the Berries:
Ah, I didn’t even check the replies. Not surprising I’m not the first to make that joke! That said, if Elon wants to send himself along with his closest tech bros to the farthest end of the galaxy for 1000 years… I mean…
Wait, I’ve read a book about this. I know what we need to do. We need to send a group of people to the distant part of the planet. We’ll call them a Foundation….
Chardon is another Saskatoon summer pop up ice cream shop in a parking lot. You can get hard ice cream but their claim to fame is vanilla soft serve dipped in various flavours. It’s good but I don’t think vanilla soft serve is our family’s favourite. 🌾 - 6.5 Better 🌾 - 6 Preteen 🌾 - 6.5 Lil 🌾 - 6
Yeah I mean, either he’s still got enough in the tank to be good enough or he doesn’t. So if he does, you sign him. But I’d rather wait at least half a year to make that call.
Ekholm especially is going to turn 36 before his next contract starts. If you sign him now, that extension has the potential to look bad by November this year. If he’s having a good year, then sure, haggle over a 1 vs 2 year extension.