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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips

@chriscyphillips.bsky.social
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Likes thinking about fossils, fungi, sweaty men, biking, and falling through deep time into a better future. Edmonton/amiskwaciwâskahikan (Treaty Six Territory) ccyp.ca

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/09/2026
All the spaceships from For All Mankind and Star City in one article! That's a lot of spaceships from an alternative universe, and concept art, and cool stuff. 🖖 This is just a (very long) overview, but expect to dive deep into the creation of these designs in the coming weeks and months.
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All the spaceships from For All Mankind & Star City | The Spaceshipper
As a reminder, For All Mankind has been renewed for a sixth and final season, set to air in 2027. Filming wrapped up in August 2026. And we'
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Matteo Farinella (he/him) @matteofarinella.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My advice as a science illustrator is that if you ever get a chance to draw the Cambrian explosion, you should go all in and spend hours researching every single one of these insane animals. 🦞🐙🦀🦑 Evolution is such a trip. I'm so grateful to have briefly existed on this gorgeous planet. 🤯 #sciart
Cambrian Explosion by Matteo Farinella
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’re not going down without a fight
A bunch of people protesting in front of the Academy of natural sciences
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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At the beginning of the month Drexel University made public that they want to close the Academy of Natural Sciences at the end of the month. The academy is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas and this would end more than 200 years of research and outreach.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 10/11/2024
normal-horoscopes on tumblr: "Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumash_people)

[image is of a nicely rounded whale carved out of a dark rock, it has a prominent fin on its back, a winning smile, and a very upbeat appearance.]
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
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Paths for People @pathsforpeople.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Support for bike lanes was near-universal — even people who came to ask the city to rethink a planned 79 Street bike lane in Hollyrood acknowledged their benefit and one motorist took the time to voice his support for them” edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Hands off our bike lanes, says critical mass of Edmonton cyclists
Amid rumours city scaling back bike lanes ahead of provincial bike lane legislation, Edmonton cyclists tell council to get their elbows up
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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Between the Province threatening to reduce traffic safety by removing bike lanes, & the CoE suggesting they don't want to finish the best parts of the Active Transportation Network Expansion, there is a lot going on. Join us for a protest ride this Friday, #yegbike! buff.ly/RLTWFCl
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cigarrinha Brasileira. Brazilian treehopper in the sketchbook. #InverteFest #sketchbook #sciart
sketchbook page photo with a black and white pen drawing of the Brazilian treehopper, a strange insect with a complex globular formation on its thorax, like a strange horn with three tips and bulbs alongside it
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Edmonton Bike Coalition @yegbike.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The City is proposing to cancel many of the planned routes from the $100 million project. Please register to speak on August 26 if you can! Register in OPPOSITION to item 7.6 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Agenda & reports are here: pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx... #yegbike
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Active Transportation Implementation Acceleration Program Update - Infrastructure Committee - August 26, 2026
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 19/07/2026
The legendary Syd Mead (1933-2019) was born 93 years ago today.
Syd MeadThe Sulaco - Aliens, 40 today!Light cycle (Tron, 1982)Spinner - Blade Runner, 1982
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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Love me some purple mushrooms! Not sure what species this is but I'm confident it's some type of Cortinarius #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature #naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #mushroomsofbluesky #cortinarius 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫
Growing out of slightly sloped soil, a short but stout mushroom takes in bright light from a thinly overcast sky. Its stipe is white, fibrous, and marked by occasional spots of orange. The cap, which still sits connected to the stipe by thin, hair-like fibers, is purple, wet, and shiny, reflecting the light and forest canopy above it.

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 35 images
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Olympia area, Washington
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Cristian @cristianpintos.com · 30/06/2026
Hundred years of Solitude II #art #drawing #illustration
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If it were not so, the painting of all those rocks would be torture, especially for someone like me with an impatient nature. 2/2 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/do...
Detail from DOORWAY TO THE WEST featuring rough stairs that lead to an uneven stone doorway set in ancient ruins as a solitary flame contained in a transparent sphere floats across the threshold. 
Detail from DOORWAY TO THE WEST with a tighter focus on the stone doorway and the  sunset sky beyond, colored warm yellow over cool placid water.
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
DOORWAY TO THE WEST (2006)
 Acrylic on Panel - 12” x 9” 

Another search for the light. Creating the illusion of texture in paint, the process of actually painting it, can be an act of meditation. 1/2
A solitary flame contained in a transparent sphere floats across the threshold of an uneven stone doorway set in ancient ruins. Shadow cuts across the broken remains of the facade. The sky beyond is partially cloudy, lit golden over placid water defining the horizon. In the immediate foreground, three stone steps lead up to the portal, but the ground is overgrown with wild vegetation. Flowers add an occasional splash of blue, white, and yellow at the stub of wall and on the short path to it.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXTRAORDINARY DAY IN FRANCE 45 DEGREES 345 MONTHLY RECORDS 147 ALL TIME RECORDS 41 STATIONS >43c This is an absolute insanity which completely rewrites European and World climatic history Thread with many pages with the records (courtesy of Meteociel) 👇 Worst tomorrow !
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I get why this seems great & on principle, I agree. I've seen the rampant phone addiction amongst kids & it's frankly jarring. And that's not even talking about the exploitation. But play that out - It would mean giving your ID to people notorious for dogshit infosec. It would be a nightmare!
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CJSR 88.5FM @cjsrfm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Celebrated country singer Corb Lund calls CJSR to talk about the fight against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains and rounding up Water Not Coal petition signatures. Wednesday, June 10 at 3-3:30pm MT 📻 88.5 FM in Edmonton 🛜 stream listen.streamon.fm/cjsr #waterNOTcoal www.cjsr.com/2026/06/corb...
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Corb on coal
WATER NOT COALAiring Wednesday, June 10 at 3-3:30pmListen in when celebrated Canadian country singer/songwriter Corb Lund calls CJSR to talk about the fight against coal mining in the Rocky Mountai…
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 09/06/2026
Please read this update regarding our policies against the use of "Generative AI" technologies in our work, including in non-journalistic tasks. TNN remains steadfastly against "generative AI" as a predatory and damaging technology backed by the worst of the gentry. Thank you for your support!
Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
For the purposes of this policy, we define "Generative AI" as the use of any large language model, diffusion model, or other similar technology developed since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 to generate arbitrary text or media content based on a prompt. This includes “agentic workflows,” MCPs, or any other derivative of “Generative AI” technologies used for any purpose.

Trans News Network has a strict policy against the use of any form of “Generative AI” technologies as defined above. This policy applies to all text, images, or other media that we publish on our website, social media, or physical mediums. Unlike some other newsrooms, this policy also prohibits the use of “Generative AI” in any aspects of marketing, social media, or technical features.

While our newsletter platform (Beehiiv) offers a number of “Generative AI” features, we opt-out of using any of these in the course of our work. In other words, all content attributable to Trans News Network is human-generated. In the rare case that we republish AI content as a matter of reporting on AI use by third parties, the content will be clearly labeled as generated by AI by that third party without any endorsement of said content by Trans News Network.

Please note that on some occasions, we may use machine learning algorithms that predate “Generative AI,” such as speech-to-text for assistance with transcribing interviews, OCR for extracting text from images, and other similar use cases. All output from such tools are always verified to be an accurate transcription of the original author by at least one human before publication.
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Miles 🩻 @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Since people were asking for scarf / bandanas of my lens cloth art, I came home to a bag of samples! They’re way better than I thought, here’s the Anomalocaris one
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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”
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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It’s down for maintenance. #yegfunicularstatus
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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
watching The Price which is a fairly mid ep of TNG but it does have this amazing scene where some loser who’s fucking Troi tries to get into a dick-measuring contest with Riker, who straight up beats this dude to a pulp after trying not to play. Kirk coded behaviour I love him so much
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BREAKING: Water not Coal (aka Corb Lund's petition) says it has reached the signatures required under the citizen intiative act. If signatures are counted and approved, it would theoretically lead to an 11th referendum question in Alberta this fall.
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Cinthia Saty 💖💜💙 HARU MATSURI 12 e 13/09 ✨ @cinthiasaty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Shane and Ilya print I made for next cons ✨ #heatedrivalry #shaneandilya #pridemonth #hoquei #rachelreid
Shane and Ilya fron Heated Rivalry illustration by Cinthia Saty. On the upper left corner we have Shane in his Melts uniform starring the audience, on the upper right corner there is Ilya in his Raiders uniform also facing the audience, in the center we have Shane and Ilya shirtless embracing, in the lower center we have Ilya kisses Shane's helmet, on thw lower left corner Shane, in Chibi style with clothes choosen by his stylish faces Ilya, on lower right corner Ilya, in his his flowered shirt is smiling for Shane. The background is red with some letters written on it: Shane, Ilya, Jane, Lily, 1410, 1221
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Blanche @blanchebees.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Bacio cavalleresco #knight #armor #pridemonth
Two male knights about to kiss, their hounskull visor raised. A comet passing through behind them, pink clouds adorning the sunset sky.
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lower decker astra 🖖🏼 @goodboyporthos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy pride month everybody
commander ransom has just been infected with strange energies and is ascending to godhood! he is levitating and has his arms out, blasting rainbow light from his palms while his eyes glow. in the foreground, mariner and dr. t'ana look on.

star trek: lower decks 02x01.
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.
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Paula Kirman @apaulagetics.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Fight Back Now A province-wide day of action against Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP government for pushing Alberta separatism as well as other government policies concerning health care, workers' rights & other issues. Organized by the Alberta Federation of Labour. -- #yeg
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YEG Bike Counter Bot @yegbikebot.jacobdawang.com · 29/05/2026
Thursday, May 28, ↑28.0°C ↓15.1°C Total: 17,372 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 1,635 103 Street N of 100 Avenue: 1,616 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 1,172 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 985 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 980 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 948 MacKinnon Ravine: 766
Scatterplot of daily Edmonton cyclist counts over the past 12 months with LOESS trendline
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Greatest Trek and The Greatest Generation @greatesttrek.com · 28/05/2026
Allamaraine, we’ve just hit 5,000 supporters! Thank you to all the Founders who helped us on our way to becoming an independent production, we couldn’t do it without you! It’s never too late to become a supporter, just head to greatest.supercast.com! #startrek #startrektng #friendsofdesoto
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Michael Burk, MD @mjburkmd.medsky.social · 28/05/2026
Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is a perfect #beachread for anyone looking for ideas. There is great warmth and a feeling of home carved out by a closely 'networked' found family. It's a succinct 150ish pages while never compromising on depth. #Booksky
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A large colony of golden oyster mushrooms grow like a crowded band of yellow trumpets, upturned to the sunlit forest canopy. All photos by me
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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.
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Robert W. McBean 🇨🇦 @rmcbean.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Alberta separation is mostly about fossil fuels and rejecting climate goals.
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
(3/3) Fewer Than 2 in 10 Canadians Want Their Tax Dollars Going To Largely Foreign-Owned Companies To Build More LNG Projects: cape.ca/press_releas... Majority oppose oil/gas subsidies: www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20... But oil & gas interests would like us silenced by this to which I say "No."
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Fewer Than 2 in 10 Canadians Want Their Tax Dollars Going To Largely Foreign-Owned Companies To Build More LNG Projects - CAPE
With Canada’s first LNG export terminal opening in a matter of weeks, fewer than two in 10 Canadians, or 18 per cent, want their tax dollars going to largely foreign-owned oil and gas companies to bui...
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
(2/2) only 30 percent feeling that way about becoming an oil/gas superpower." Different June 2025 poll: '67% of Canadians favour developing clean energy over fossil fuels while 85% wish to maintain or increase federal climate action 72% in AB supported maintaining if not increasing climate action.
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Poll: Two-thirds of Canadians favour developing clean energy over fossil fuels, while 85% wish to maintain or increase federal climate action - Clean Energy Canada
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said that Canada will develop both clean and conventional energy, and given a choice between the two, two-thirds of Canadians say they would prioritize clean over conven...
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
(1/2) No, the majority of Canadians (& Albertans) want renewables instead, they've just felt the need to self silence because of threats to tear the country apart... "In fact 70% of the public [& a majority of Albertans] would feel pride if Canada were to become a renewable energy superpower, vs...
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Canadians Want to Become a Renewable Energy Superpower - Re.Climate
Climate change remains a top concern, and Canadians expect action from leaders.
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Chris Chang-Yen Phillips @chriscyphillips.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Come write about Edmonton history with me at the Edmonton City as Museum Project! citymuseumedmonton.ca/blog/now-hir...
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Now Hiring: ECAMP Writers
The Edmonton City as Museum Project has a new theme, which means we're brewing a new batch of stories for the website. Want to be a writer? Apply by June 24.
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October Joe @octoberjoe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Pink Narcissus dreams of long, languid summer days to come. 12" x 16 Watercolor and Gouache
Mixed media panting depicting a nude male figure half-submerged in a lake, leaning back on the lush shoreline, head tilted back in a dreamlike pose. #queerart #queerportrait #gayart #gayartist #PinkNarcissus #nudist #naturenudism #nudeinnature #octoberjoe #octoberjoeart
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Evolution Soup @evolutionsoup.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Discovery of new fossils in Northwest Canada changes view of early animal evolution @egmitchell.bsky.social @cambrojoe.bsky.social #evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science #canada 👇🏼👇🏾 tinyurl.com/ysumm6cs
Discovery of new fossils in Northwest Canada changes view of early animal evolution
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UCP cabinet ministers Jason Nixon and Nate Glubish aggressively questioned Thomas Lukaszuk in a clear attempt to put the blame for an Alberta separation referendum on him and the NDP. Lukaszuk didn’t budge and inch. daveberta.substack.com/p/what-a-gon...
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What a gong show! MLA committee chaos crashes UCP separation referendum motion
Trigger-happy UCP misfires with Mission Accomplished press release
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Marrella splendens is here in TECHNICOLOR Prints here www.inprnt.com/gallery/near... #sciart
Illustration of Marrella splendens in the style of a psychedelic 1960s concert poster. It's bright orange, magenta, and turquoise, and I do mean BRIGHT. Text gives the animal's taxonomy (Arthropoda, Marrellomorpha, Marrellida, Marrellidae), binomial name, and rough age (Middle Cambrian, circa 520 MYA). I think technically that may not be part of the Middle Cambrian anymore? This piece is from 2014.
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DG ❤️🇨🇦 @dgct2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
📸 🍎 Behind the scenes photos of Connor Storrie on the set of #ForAllMankind 5x08. #tvsky #HeatedRivalry
4 young people on a futuristic space hanger. There are three men and a woman. Three of the people are wearing khaki green shirt and relish uniform. One of the young men has blonde hair that has been buzzed. He has on a yellow shirt and black pants. This is Connor Storrie who is best known for play Russian Ilya Rozanov on Canada's breakout series Heated Rivalry. He plays a Russian special forces officer in Apple TV+ For All Man Kind 5x08.Bunker with 4 men and one women wearing standard relish uniform and tan boots. There is one young man with curly blonde hair that has been buzzed close. He's wearing a yellow t-shirt and burgundy jogging pants with black runners. This is Connor Storrie who is best known for playing Russian Ilya Rozanov on Canada's breakout series Heated Rivalry. This is a behind the scenes photo for Apple+ TV hit syfy drama For All Mankind. This is from 5x08 which aired May 15th.
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If I had a nickel for every time Connor Storrie played a Russian this year, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice. #ForAllMankind
A photo of the tv with Connor in a space gym
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YEG Bike Counter Bot @yegbikebot.jacobdawang.com · 17/05/2026
Friday, 15 May, ↑13.9°C ↓4.0°C, 0.6mm rain Total: 8,173 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 804 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 708 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 612 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 514 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 503 Belgravia Rd Foot Bridge SUP: 404 100 Avenue E of 107 Street: 343
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