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Albert Andersen

@albertan-yeg.bsky.social
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Edmonton-based software developer @ MSFT (views my own). Kumihimo braids, Japan travel, Warhammer nonsense. I was AlbertAn before I became an Albertan.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have a lot of art around the house that I greatly enjoy, and I’m shocked at how much an original oil canvas classes up the place.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My office background art gallery. Mountains by @slavocech.bsky.social, treasure box guarded by Ainu embroidery, a diorama of Ainu forest spirits, an Abstract Iwate Iron Bird, and newest addition: original oil painting by @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My rallying cry. We must reject these nine noxious questions, which are cynically designed to incite discrimination and foment distrust in our courts, our county, and our fellow Canadians. Say no to the nine. And please read snd share. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Canada #Alberta #notothenine
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Alberta's Referendum Questions - The Noxious Nine - Alberta Views
Nine disingenuous, malicious referendum questions, push-polls, designed to incite social division and undermine confidence in the country.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Petition to rename the fifteenth century Italian explorer Canado Vespucci.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Keeping housing affordable makes for a great city.
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Clayton Flesher @claytonflesher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Apocrypals is back!!!!! Apocrypals is back!!!!! I missed you @apocrypals.bsky.social. @benitocereno.bsky.social @theisb.bsky.social
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
gets incredible air here
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#yegfringe hot take: riffs on Shakespeare are likely to be basic. Go for the Classics — performers only gonna remake the Oresteia if it really means something to them, and the extra distance from the source material leaves more room to breathe.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another day, another hour standing out in the pouring rain, calf deep in runoff, trying to keep the storm drain clear and stop the flooding getting any worse. As my neighbour and I declare victory, I wave, “same time next storm?”
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rat dad ==> GATEway Fate @splinterhamato.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
oh god oh fuck
A bluesky notification reading “Tonberry followed you”, from three minutes prior.  Their icon is a picture of a Tonberry from final fantasy, a weird little green dude in a brown robe with a featureless face consisting of only two yellow dot eyes.  It’s holding a lantern, for being spooky, and a knife (for ending your life). It offers me the option to follow the tonberry back, which is generally not how this works, but can be useful in getting through the ARR bonus dungeon Wanderer’s Palace (Hard).
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry the Cat, who has outstayed 6 prime ministers (and counting) at no. 10, bringing out a dead mouse for the cameras as Burnham takes up residency in his house. The subtext is hard to miss. Larry has produced for us a powerful work of performance art.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Greg: I put it to you, Pandora, that your approach to the task of literally just holding a closed box is basically that of - and I've written it down - "a baffled old grandma who can't remember where the top of the stairs is" Pandora: I did it though! Alex: We do have one more bit of footage
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Vance Muscat
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hot Scramble Summer!
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Does anyone else want an "On October 18th: ✅Remain in Canada, ❌The rest of the bullshit" lawn sign?
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Bonertown @thisisbonertown.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What a man. A dragon-man.
Trogdor cosplay at Fanime 2026 in the Dealers Hall.  Photo taken May 23, 2026.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
@justthezooofus.bsky.social feeling slightly betrayed that the episode wasn’t “Casters on Castors” and actually about beavers.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
So. Uh. What are we doing with the downtown event park for the next month and a half? The one that we’re spending tens of millions of @cityofedmonton.bsky.social public taxpayer dollars to subsidize?
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
As someone who only pays attention to the Oilers during playoffs: New goal, who dis?
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Westjet gate agent: you’re back early Pilot: Saskatchewan’s haunted Gate agent: what? Pilot: *loading a pistol and getting back on the Q400* Saskatchewan’s haunted
A snowy prairie landscape as seen from an airplane. A lumpy lake is covered in ice except for a line and two dots that look like a spooky smiling face.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.
A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Seen tacked to a community board on my walk
laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads:

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG?

[photo of a coyote]

DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE.
OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???:
—NO ACTION REQUIRED
—IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!)
-HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT
-LET HER COOK
—NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;)
—KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS
-(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY)
—YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
 Circa 2013 haunted machine translation for the restaurant open hours of Sukibayashi Jiro (son’s branch)
From a normal restaurant website

Business Hours: Lunch 11:30-14:00, dinner 17:30-21:00 / Committing suicide in water believing in an easy passage into eternity rest
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I have a policy joke, but it’s stalled in committee.
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2girlsandagame.bsky.social @2girlsandagame.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
No words! Brad Gushue ends his competitive #curling career on a perfect hit and roll to force @TeamBradJacobs to make the runback for the win. 4th place finish at the #Brier2026 - what a run! Thanks for all the memories @BradGushue
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Well... THAT was a shot!
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Late 16th c contact with Portuguese traders spawned an early iteration of Japonisme with commissions of lacquered goods for export, before the Edo government significantly limited foreign trade in the early 17th c. A lovely namban-lacquer tankard held at the V&A in London.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Review of The Samurai exhibition at the British Museum: An impressive collection of samurai arms, armour, arts and memorabilia, structured around the samurai successively as warriors, aristocrats, and legends.
A dramatic suit of samurai armour. The helmet is decorated either a Dragon’s head.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
yes but that does not excuse their imperialism in kuwait, iraq, and afghanistan
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spookily scarily pitt girl 👻🎃👻 @opg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Petition to 🥌🇨🇦 that the team with more yellow in their jerseys needs to be playing yellow stones, and the teams with more red need to play red stones. Swap the handles if you need to.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
oh my gd
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@gameofstonespod.bsky.social if you want a hot take investigative journalism angle: why are the TSN player portraits so hideous? These athletes look like real humans on the ice and great in the “power pose” promos, and like total goblins in the team portrait graphics. For years.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨POST AN EMERGENCY CAT PIC🚨 We call her NegaSmudge because she is a void reincarnation of the little white neighbour cat Smudge who moved away a few years back, but apparently her real name is Ivy.
A small black cat is looking away from the camera. The profile shown makes it look like her face is a blank black void. There is a lot of snow and ice around.
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Porco is pretty hard to beat, but Spirited Away takes the crown. I first saw it in the theatre in Japan, when I could only track about 30% of the dialogue. Very mysterious and transporting experience. It’s held up to a dozen reaches in the years since.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“I stopped watching when Rick left.” I have died DEAD. RIP, me. 😵😂
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Our post-Christmas after-dinner conversation has ranged from the taste of winterpeen to the rarity of fossilized buttholes. WE ARE VERY SOPHISTICATED
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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green thumb creations🌿 @gardenofknots.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#ArtAdventCalendar day 2🍊 2 unique pieces, 1 pattern the 1st a darker toned night light & the other a lighter, brighter sun catcher
my hand holding a stained glass night light of 2 oranges with leaves against a dark blue background the night light plugged in and turned on the same orange design but this time it’s a stained glass sun catcher and the oranges are against a light blue backgroundthe light refracting through the sun catcher against a white wall
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Ailoth The Bard @ailoththebard.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Dec 2! A watercolor painting I made in Fall 2022, but posting this again now because I'm still really happy with it :) [ #ArtAdventCalendar #Art #Watercolor]
[Image ID: A Watercolor painting I made in 2022 of a orange and red ghost holding a pumpkin, surrounded by large pumpkins in the background and green pumpkin leaves. / End ID]
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Albert Andersen @albertan-yeg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A Tohoku themed sip: urushi kakuhai from @matsuzawa.bsky.social and red lacquered guinomi from Tekiseisha in Iwate; sake from next door in Akita prefecture in a souvenir ‘barrel’.
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Dr. Meredith Wills ⚾️⚾️👀 @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Extra innings in Toronto may end up precipitating an ICE crackdown in LA.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 02/11/2025
Springer hit him back! LOL
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