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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

How it’s going in Alberta: The government recently expanded eligibility for mail in ballots, so now ballots are arriving in people’s homes with this declaration to sign 👇 “I declare that I am unable to vote at an advance voting place or a voting place on […] [Original post on beige.party]

Elector's Declaration

1. I declare that I am unable to vote at an advance voting place or a voting place on Election Day.

2. I declare that I have not previously voted in this election, and that I am an eligible ele virtue of being:
• a Canadian citizen,
• at least 18 years of age, and
• ordinarily resident at the Alberta address noted above.

2. I make this declaration believing it to be true and of the same force and effect as if l it under oath.

Elector, sign and date below in ink.

Penalty for False Declaration
A person who commits a corrupt practice is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more
than $50, 000 or to imprisonment for not more than 2 years or to both fine and imprisonment

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

In Edmonton, a houseless man is suing the city $7,000 in damages for taking his belongings. “Dwayne Cardinal, 55, is seeking summary judgment in his lawsuit against the city, arguing the evidence establishes that city workers unlawfully took his tent, tarps […] [Original post on beige.party]

A quite tidy encampment site on a gravelled area under a spruce tree. A bright orange traps is folded and hanging neatly from a fence. There are a number of items - a bedroll and backpacks - put together in a tidy collection to the side. Everything looks clean and cared for to my eye, much like when my camping family is setting or breaking camp.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@chris “Negotiating” with America right now is to hear: Sure I hit you hard, but if you hit me back that will be seen as an escalation and we will have to hit you even harder. #CdnPoli #USPol

A classic post from “A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck” @juliusGoat@mastodon.social

"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.

You take a step toward him. He takes a step back.

"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@catelli.bsky.social The only real way to deal with someone like Trump is to be very firmly grounded in principle: stay on firm ground with a balanced resilient stance. Trump’s erratic flip-flops are feints meant to get opponents off-balance trying to dodge them […] [Original post on beige.party]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Tomatoes are finally ripening on the vine which means Caprese Salad season, yay! I love being able to eat straight from the garden. #Yeg #YegGarden #YegFood #garden

A Caprese Salad: chunks of tomato, basil leaves, and bocconcini (soft cheese) drizzled with olive oil and good quality balsamic vinegar. Bright and fresh, presented in a shallow hand made bowl with blue glaze.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Yesterday - and a couple of other times this week - we found a sleepy visitor when we opened our patio umbrella! I think it’s a Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans), one of Alberta’s 16 native species. These bats migrate out of the province in the winter […] [Original post on beige.party]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

@juliusgoat.bsky.social Remembering Sinead O’Connor, whose “anger confronts those who observe it with a moral duty that each of us carry, to pay our own share of the price of abuse, rather than avoid the cost and force the victims to carry the full burden all by […] [Original post on beige.party]

(screenshot from the article)

In my life I've sought out teachers who help me understand how to live in this truth.

And it strikes me that the first person who taught me that might have been Sinead O'Connor, who once said "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." It's a quote that's being attributed to her, though a bit of digging tells me that she herself was quoting Jiddu Krishnamurti, and reading about him makes me think I ought to read even more about him. So it seems even teachers have teachers, which strikes me as a comforting thought.

This morning I'm sitting in appreciation for our teachers, especially our early teachers, and offering a farewell to a great one, who deserved much more than she got, and got much that she never deserved.

She did well for as long as she could, and now she is gone.

She will be remembered. She will be missed.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

@tryangregory.bsky.social Despite all the early rhetoric about elbows, Carney et al don’t seem to grasp the essential dynamic at play…

A Twitter post from A. R. Moxon aka @JuliusGoat

Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.

You take a step toward him. He takes a step back.

Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.

2:05 PM • Mar 23, 2019 • Twitter for iPhone

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I’m sharing my apartment in Pompei with hundreds of sisters. Much tinier than the ones back home, about 1-1.5 mm long #ants #italy

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Today is - another - grey rainy day in Edmonton. Record-breaking rain for June in this usually semi-arid city, so here are some bright, pretty flowers from my garden to cheer me up. #BloomScrolling #yeg #YegWeather #YegGarden

A purple poppy, on a skinny fuzzy stem, the mostly closed flower is deep purple - almost black - brightening to a luminous violet at the petal tips

A losely structured rose (Madame something?) half open shows a gorgeous pink that leans toward reddish fuscia in the shadows and a violet cast in the light.

A stand of lupin flowers: seven columns of flowers are visible, each consisting of a stalk with many smaller flowers on it. The columns range from pale whitish pink to deep pink. One of them is still developing and is topped by a cone of buds. In the background is a profusion of daisies.

A deep red dahlia flower partly obscured by foliage, with a just opening bud in the background.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@number6 He’s measuring other windows because pumping air out one window creates low pressure that will be filled from the rest of the house, which will be filled through all the other openings. This is why farmers cooling livestock barns have giant enclosed […] [Original post on beige.party]

A large ceiling fan mounted directly to the ceiling of a room.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@paco I love that at lines 10800 and 11000 there are a couple of careful checkmarks in pencil…

Close up of the image above next to two lines referencing files there are tidy pencil checkmarks

FILE IP=W/EFR/OLDMAST
FILE DF=W/EFR/SRTMAST

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@DemocracyMattersALot “I would just like to put it out there that people who say “bad guys” should not be in charge of anything other than their own action figures.” Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum’s words deserve to be seen and ridiculed in full… #USPol #Police

wonkette.com

As Judd Legum at Popular Information notes, after Trump initially changed the rule, he got heaps of praise from Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, who was just so goll darn happy that police officers could once again have "so much fun" chasing the "bad guys" who, um, need to get a tail light replaced or something.

During a Cabinet meeting, he said:
<extended quote>
"On a lighter note for everybody here, one of the rules that under President Trump we were able to change for the US Park Police was they could do a pursuit. I was shocked to find out when we were talking to him, like, 'Oh, you pull somebody over and they just drive away and you can't pursue them. I mean, like - and they said, 'no, we can't? I said, 'Oh, rules' — we got that rule changed in 24 hours because of President Trump's leadership. The next night, they had so much fun. They pulled people over, they started to take off, they chased them, they stopped them. And then the bad guys, some of these guys were in cars that had stolen plates. So they'd take the plate off, they steal them off somebody else's car. They know the plate doesn't match, they know they're doing something. The bad guys in the car said you're not supposed to chase us, like, you're breaking the rules. The bad guys are telling us to — 'No, no, we're back in action? So it's like — and so the morale is high. They all wanted to say 'thank you' to you."
<end quote>

I would just like to put it out there that people who say "bad guys" should not be in charge of anything other than their own action figures.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Amazed that someone somehow managed to have enough momentum to cause this at this location. I don’t know any details about the circumstances, but really this isn’t just a ‘woopsie’ … you’ve to be trying hard for this to be the outcome. I have noticed an unusual […] [Original post on beige.party]

A car is lying on its side on top of a sidewalk, a pole, and a concrete and glass barrier threaded in amongst street corner poles for traffic signal in a cluttered downtown urban environment.

Caption reads: The Wednesday morning crash, which involved an SUV, caused extensive damage near the LRT tracks near the station located beside the Stanley Milner Library in downtown Edmonton. (David Bajer/CBC)

The same corner from Google maps. There is a train station, a public library, with people waiting at the street corner that was the resting place for the vehicle.
Recorded June 2025, address 10203 100 St NW

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Feels a bit like I’ve gone camping… <haven’t used this tent in years, did a trial set up with 18 in advance of a graduation camp out with friends>

View of a backyard with fire-table, lawn trees and gardens, and a bit of garage visible. The scene is dominated by a very large tent in grey, red, and black with all its doors and windows open.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

First and last day of school… having all the feels. 💕🎉😊😢😁😆

A very excited little boy about to head of for their very first day of school. Wearing a backpack, this very confident youngster has a super excited wide open laughing smile.

Now a young adult, they are replicating the pose as best they can on their last day of school, managing to capture a slightly goofy wide open laugh.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

@HarryRasmussen Yay Mamdani! Boo messing with images. That picture sets off all my photo trickers senses. It think it’s because they have blurred the people in the background which creates the appearance of a focal depth that’s just not really possible. Here’s […] [Original post on beige.party]

A photo of Mamdani standing in front of about 5 rows of people on a steep set of bleachers.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

I drifted groggily awake listening to the faint drip-drip of rain from the eaves, hauled myself out of bed and meandered to the kitchen. Out the window was a beautiful crisp sunny day that snapped me fully awake and turned the fog in my head to dread. A glance at […] [Original post on beige.party]

Three tiny drops of water on a peddled counter top form a severe and unimpressed frowny face.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

@chris “Oh, it’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it?”

Still from Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail, the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A small white rabbit sits outside its lair surrounded by the bleached bones of its victims, including a human skull.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

@skinnylatte It’s funny - before I read the article I looked at the header picture and thought: that guy in the middle looks like a real ass. “All sources suggested that much of the trouble can be attributed to Mercor’s 23-year-old billionaire CEO Brendan Foody […] [Original post on beige.party]

Posed photo of the three founders: Foody is in the middle.

Three 20-somethings sitting on nondescript leather office lounge furniture, looking at the camera with neutral expressions on their faces.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I am einnjoying a backyard serenade from our local robin

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

@mattblaze “But Blanche said at the press conference that the DOJ is treating Comey the same as it would anyone accused of threatening the president.” Apparently they’ve forgotten about this one… #USPol

A photo of the of the tailgate of a pickup truck bedecked in trump flags that shows an image of Joe Biden hogtied and apparently unconscious in the truck bed. Trump posted the video in 2024 during the election campaign

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

A reminder that American segregation was always polite enough on the surface, by day, so as not to disturb the sensibilities of the ‘good folks’, by day, so long as it wasn’t challenged. Fascism often masks its horrors in domestic propriety. Seems an apropos […] [Original post on beige.party]

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

I thought I just had a slightly nerdy plant… but it turns out they’re an alien… #BloomScolling

A peperomia plant presenting a modest dome of smallish heavily textured round leaves forming the “hair” for the grey pot it sits in, which is adorned with with a slightly smiling dorky face with a pair of round wire rimmed glasses.

However… the plant has produced two flower stalks that stick up like alien antennae.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

@astrokiwi.bsky.social @sundogplanets Brilliant! Right up there with “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial” from 2018 www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094 … but much punnier. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29324

From the linked paper:

Cow-culation: Reentry Impact Risk to Livestock in the Satellite Megaconstellation Era

SAMANTHA M. LAWLER, MICHELE T. BANNISTER, AND LAURA E. REVELL

Campion College and the Department of Physics, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences — Te Kura Matù, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand

Submitted to Acta Prima Aprilia

ABSTRACT

The commercial space industry is launching more satellites into Low Earth Orbit every year. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a thriving dairy and cattle industry. Unfortunately, these indus- tries could come into (high speed) cow-llision, as the rapid launch rate and short operational lifetimes of satellites in megaconstellations like Starlink result in a high reentry rate at NZ's latitudes. This could intersect with NZ's famously large population of livestock. We predict this will be an udder disaster for any cows that are hit, as they are squishy and moo-ve much more slowly than space debris. Using a global bovine density dataset, previously published satellite casualty probability code, and a complete lack of funding to do this calculation carefully enough for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, we calculate a ~ 0.3-1% chance of a cow-sualty in NZ from reentering Starlink Gen2 debris over the next 5 years.

From the end of the article:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work received no financial support, although we wish it did. The existence of this paper was powered by New Zealand cheese. We thank David Hood for help understanding Stats NZ data, and Ewan Wright and Aaron Boley for their reentry casualty probability code. We thank our families for putting up with us writing this in our spare time and putting up with our udderly baaaaad livestock puns. The following individuals contributed to increasing the agricultural pun density of this work: A. Bongarzone, R. Dorsey, J. Forbes, M. Hopkins, F. and S. Lawler, B. Leicester, and E. Wright.

Lastly, we'd like to dedicate this paper to Michael JasonSmith (1977-2 March 2026), who would have been both exasperated by the way we have cludged the cow code documentation, and delighted by the existence of a punny paper about the possible effects of poorly planned space infrastructure on NZ livestock.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

We had a nocturnal visitor! From the abundance of little meadow voles in our yard, there is now one (or two?) fewer. #Yeg #YEGWildlife #Birds #Owls #Birdstodon

In an otherwise undisturbed field of snow: A deep but small hole - about 3 inches across - is surrounded the marks of wing feathers more than a foot away on each side. Another similar set of marks can be seen in the background. It is the sign of an owl that has dived feet first to penetrate the snow to grab a vole while braking its fall with a strong beat of their wings.

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DavidM_yeg @davidm-yeg.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

@tryangregory.bsky.social I am officially amused by the contents of the Canadian Culture Repository: “an assortment of hockey crotica, ten issues of Chatelaine magazine, a selection of institutional apology statements, several of former Prime Minister Justin […] [Original post on beige.party]

An official looking plaque mounted at an entrance, text reads:

A REPOSITORY FOR CANADIAN CULTURE

Only a few years after the territory's union with the United States, Canadian culture, such as it was, faced extinction. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) began a campaign to catalog the remnants. Known as the Canadian Archival Network for Safeguarding Ancestral Voices and Evidence (CANSAVE), temporary outposts were set up across the state to gather relevant artifacts, texts, footage, and testimonies. All of these materials were carefully inventoried before being sent to WELDON.

Today, WELDON serves an important role as both a repository and an exhibition space, presenting ethnographic displays, screenings, and talks. Among the holdings that can be found in the CANSAVE Wing: an assortment of hockey crotica, ten issues of Chatelaine magazine, a selection of institutional apology statements, several of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Halloween costumes, and audio samples of regional pronunciations of "about."

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