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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish

@allistronomy.bsky.social
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She/Her. YQU ➡️ YEG ➡️ YYC. 💚💛 EAS&Physics. GIS, saxophone, cycling, fountain pens, random thoughts from my life. Winter lover, go Oilers go 💙🧡🗺️✒️🎷

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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 7h
Happy Canadian thanksgiving! We celebrated by breaking out one of the bottles of champagne I brought back from France, at a sumptuous dinner with the in-laws, my brother, and his beagle (the guest of honour)
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would trust the Fabricland ladies with my credit card info more than most websites. There’s no way they would allow it to end up on the dark web.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When AI destroys all computers and everything connected to the internet, Fabricland will still be standing and thriving. Apart from the actual pay machine, it’s like travelling back in time. They have to manually enter discounts! They must save so much on IT overhead.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's called the locomotive. And we're gonna drive it right through your god damn bedroom.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Watching For All Mankind after watching The Americans is so weird. Apple TV just fully stole their Russian actor roster
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s such a silly idea. Like maybe Ottawa would be more interested in listening if we actually participated in democracy, rather than continuously electing the same useless MPs just because they are conservative. Also both major party leaders are Albertan!
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Poll suggests remain campaigns are gaining traction as Alberta referendum nears” Technically yes, but that makes it sound like Remain wasn’t already overwhelmingly winning in all polls? They have traction!
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Queen of Thailand did a solo flight as a fighter jet pilot yesterday. This is 100% the kind of thing I would want to do if I was rich and powerful. No chronically online social media rants or lobbying to oppress people, just cool side quests
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the only media related to AI that I would ever willingly consume.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I like that they treat “sandwiches” as a single boring food. Like have you ever seen a sandwich? It’s just a format, a giant category that includes so many possible variations and combinations!
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the last few weeks, I’ve seen people say things like “Frat bros are a known *quantity* on campus” and “I’m *lambasted* by the outpouring of support”. It’s getting so bad that I’m wondering if I am the illiterate one, because THESE DON’T MAKE SENSE AT ALL but others just let it slide or agree???
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
T-minus one month until wedding Breaking in our Bride and Groom North Face Hut Booties for some extra comfort in this stressful time
A pair of feet wearing black slippers, beside a pair of feet wearing white slippers
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I still don’t like Colin O’Brady, but I respect him a little bit more after watching The Last First.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’d be cool if the Alberta government spent money on advertising availability of COVID vaccines, instead of spending millions advertising “a sovereign Alberta inside a united Canada” for a referendum that almost no one actually wanted.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Super awesome pattern recognition, very valuable for lots of science. Very dumb when applied to words. We didn’t need that.
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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They preach "Alberta First" while promising the Americans our water, oil, and land. I joined Edmonton's Mayor Andrew Knack on CBC's Power & Politics to call out the hypocrisy of the Alberta separatist movement. You don’t defend Alberta by putting our province up for sale to the United States.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It works well too because I don’t want to be conscious and aware for the results and analysis. Give me my doses, I’m going to pop some Tylenol and go right to bed.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People should be embarrassed to post things like this. Like how can you loudly broadcast that you feel zero curiosity about the world, with no shame??
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
will you people shut the fuck up
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
forbes.com
Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Booked my Covid/Flu shot for Oct 19. I’ll take it off from work, stand in line to vote, and just have the absolute worst Monday possible.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They really did. It was fresh, it introduced so many more questions about that world, and the inclusion of more modern features was so well done (I laughed so hard at the wind turbine). And the soundtrack with dramatic choral “beep beeps”! It deserved better, but at least we got it in the end
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was so good. I loved all the clever little details, and the fact they even included classical music so it was still Looney Tunes.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bought Coyote Vs. Acme, and watched it with family. It’s outrageous that they ever even considered deleting this, it’s fabulous and laugh out loud funny. It has so much heart, and it’s such a great contribution to an iconic IP.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s crazy how desperate places are for tourists. There are packages for a whole week in Vegas, flights and accommodation included, that are cheaper than me flying to my hometown in the same province. Not that we’ll be taking advantage of those.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maybe I should have printed some engagement photos?? Nah, this and the alley in Chicago where I first saw a live rat are way more important.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Printing photos of our trips for a photo album. For the Louvre, I made sure to get the closed Galerie D’Apollon interior shot AND the exterior shot and I’m going to put them side by side
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love how territorial we are over area codes, even though they are incredibly low stakes now. Alberta has had full provincial area codes for almost 20 years now, and we still have 780 and 403 snobs (though ngl, 780 FOR LIFE BABYYYYY!)
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hate Ring cameras. I had to hand deliver some mail after a bridal makeup trial, so now people have footage of me awkwardly lurking up to their house like a yassified creep
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burning down the entire world just to avoid hiring a human bard
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the comments on anything related to the Oilers home opener on instagram are inspiring. Mark Carney posted a photo of himself and McDavid and absolutely every comment is ripping them to shreds over the Formenton signing
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It would be super cool if the Edmonton Oilers paid some FUCKING ATTENTION to the outrage over the Cornell 7 and that kind of sexual assault and DID SOMETHING, rather than continuing to play Alex Formenton and pay him $850K this year. Every woman Oilers fan I’ve talked to isn’t watching this season
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A local shoeshine is retiring after 40 years. His spot is decorated with balloons, and a ton of business guys were hanging out enjoying refreshments to wish him well. His stand survived Covid, and a customer even GAVE HIM A KIDNEY This is the kind of community men need www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Shoeshine man gets 'amazing' tip of a lifetime — a new kidney | CBC News
A Calgary shoeshine man was in failing health, on dialysis and almost unable to work, until one of his longtime customers put his best foot forward.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
US Military: “trans people are a threat” Canadian Veterans Affairs: “look at this lovely story about how we supported this woman’s transition” US: only cares about women’s sports to oppress trans people, harassment of WNBA players CBC: fuck it, the girls get Hockey Night in Canada.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the subject of hockey, I’m so excited that Canada is woke enough that the women’s league got to take over Hockey Night in Canada. SUCK IT NHL
static.klipy.com
Mark Carney's Energetic Dance at Liberals Event
Alt: Mark Carney dancing and mouthing the words “Woah is me, I’m so woah!”
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I’m not cheering for the Oilers this year” “Well he’s a tough coach, but this is what they need to do to win” No one is talking about that except for good old boys who really are glossing over the giant elephant in the room!
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hockey season feels really dead this year. I was talking to a fellow Calgarian Oilers fan last night, and both of us are just like “nope, absolutely not this year” It feels like the media is entirely focused on Babcock now, while sweeping Formenton under the rug. He’s what broke the camel’s back.
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Brett Bergie 🏳️‍⚧️ @brettbergie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When we allow governments to erroneously and irresponsibly strip Charter protected rights away from vulnerable communities [we allow] politicians to use lies and stigma […] to impose their ideology and power on those different from them.” Full statements here: www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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Transgender Advocates Call for Inquiry into Alta., Sask. Laws
Trans and gender-diverse advocates from Alberta and Saskatchewan hold a news conference on Parliament Hill to call for a House of Commons inquiry into the suspension of Charter rights for transgender ...
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran... I’m so proud to be Canadian. We may fall short in some services for our LGBTQ+, but we are trying. At a time where other governments are punishing diversity in their militaries, our country proudly displays it as a strength.
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Michelle Backhouse | Veterans Affairs Canada
Captain Michelle Backhouse still thinks about a transgender woman she saw on the boardwalk at Kandahar Airfield in the summer of 2009.She had heard whispers about the woman who worked at an American h...
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really expected to see people, especially in Canada, take cycling deaths more seriously after the Gadreau brothers died. The fact that any politician would be okay saying this is disgusting.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He still needs to excommunicate Vance. I assume he’s saving it for the 2028 run-up.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tony Soprano if anyone ever caught him with his ducks.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He’s an indoor kitty now, but the stray Tom part of him comes out on his face every time he’s caught enjoying it
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We need steamers to eventually clear some of our shows. Disney+, I’m never going to come back and watch the rest of All’s Fair. I got 10 minutes in. Please let me forget it.
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I imagine how incredible it would be for my grandparents to watch me function in the world without cash, just my phone. Then I imagine how pathetic they would think I am as I sit here with 6 different iPhones, 4 hard drives, and a computer because I’ve lost all my photos somewhere
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Allison🇨🇦 & The Blowfish @allistronomy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have a literal stack of iPhones to hunt down old photos. I managed to lose everything from the first 3 months of dating my partner, but good news! Somehow all fhe pictures and memes from COVID survived. Why would I want pictures of us falling in love rather than of the Rideau Cottage Podium
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