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When you work with people who experiment on colleagues while developing new science activities for kids…

Chat messages:

“if anybody wants to see their face bacteria pls come in the next hour”

“a normal message you see everyday”

Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There’s a gut punch scene in Ernie’s Big Mess when Ernie is sleeping on the street after Bert kicks him out. Bert looks out the window wondering, with obvious worry, where his buddy is. I would pause on that page when reading to my kids and let the questions and emotions play out.

Scene from “Ernie’s Big Mess.”

Ernie is sleeping on the street after Bert kicks him out. Bert looks out the window wondering, with obvious guilt, where his buddy is.

It reads “Sesame Street is quiet. Everyone is sleeping. Everyone but Bert.”

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These are a few favourites chez nous.

What are you so grumpy about - Tom Lichtenheld

the Munschworks Grand Treasury - Robert Munsch

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lego Margaret Hamilton has long been one of my bookshelf companions. RIP

Lego scene of Margaret Hamilton beside a stack of lego books which was her code for the Apollo 11 missions.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BSS + Metric + Stars. Decent show. I know it’s Monday night in Ottawa, but that was one of the lowest energy crowds I’ve experienced in 40 years of concerts. Someone actually told me to sit down at one point. And, well, I don’t know why you’re even here, but fine.

1.5 million of the 2 million members of Broken Social Scene on stage in Ottawa

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

3 year old Robert Quigley smoking a cigar in 1928.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like many Gen X-ers, I had nuclear war dreams in the 1980s (okay, I still do). Series of images that begin with the oven clock in my childhood home going backwards, Bad Bart breaking in, grocery store chaos (thanks “The Day After”), bombs, and the Morlocks from The Time Machine (1960).

Morlocks from the 1960 movie The Time Machine based on HG Wells’ novel.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“You’ve got four good men, and one bad one–me! I’m Bad Bart!”

Sesame Street scene with Wanted poster for Bad Bart. The sheriff is looking for 5 good men to capture Bad Bart. Everyone is shivering terrified when they realize Bad Bart himself has joined the posse.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Skill testing question. Who dis?

Man about 60, give or take. Salt and pepper moustache, male pattern baldness. Glasses. Button down shirt and blazer.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This feels like a scene from a never-before-released claymation Beastie Boys music video.

Playdoh farmers striking breakdance-like poses while sitting on Lego tractors.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spend the morning 30 minutes north of Ottawa; spend the afternoon 30 minutes south. Annual Metcalfe Fair day.

Blue tractor with Ferris wheel in background.

Playdoh farmers and Lego tractors. First place finisher in the “model float”Junior Division competition.

Metcalfe Fair from the top of the Ferris wheel.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting into Gatineau Park this morning was easy. We’re early risers. Getting out was an ordeal. But worth it.

Trail in a forest of fall coloured leaves.

A view of the fall-coloured Gatineau hills.

Speck of the moon among fall coloured leaves and a bright blue sky.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Canadians of a certain age will understand.

Barnett Newman
Voice of Fire, 1967
As displayed in the National Gallery of Canada

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dad Brag: The 16 y/o took 1st in her XC race today - and outran the bike pacer. 🤣 Earned herself a ribbon and a pumpkin. She’s a bit miffed that the bike pacer, who said if anyone outruns him they get his bike, did not hand over his bike.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing makes my wife as anxious as the L&M catalogue showing up in my mail.

Long & McQuade Musical Instruments Gear Guide.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The Boyfriend” episode of Seinfeld (aka the Keith Hernandez spitting episode) is closer in time to the Kennedy assassination than it is to today.

Scene from Seinfeld. Keith Hernandez walks by Newman and Kramer moments before Kramer is spit on. A “second spitter” lurks in the bushes in the background.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Politics and Expertise. And Cats.

Black cat hovers over a copy of Zeynep Pamuk’s Politics and Expertise.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ottawa, sometimes you’re alright.

Two haggard trees in a background of greens and yellows.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay, this one is harder than I expected. The fingerings and notes are straightforward, but nailing an octave in F in the opening is not quite beginner level. 🎺

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bus ghosts you for nearly 40 minutes, then 5 scheduled to arrive in the next 23 minutes - including 2 in the next 2 minutes. Welcome to Ottawa, where you can’t get there from here.

Bus schedule showing buses at 8:08, 8:46, 8:48, 8:53, 9:03, 9:09

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Uh. Me too. And I looked it up. Guidance differs by municipal, provincial and federal elections. What are we even doing here?

Municipal ballot guidance.

Different ways to mark your ballot

When you arrive at your voting place, an election worker will provide you with a ballot listing the candidates running in your ward.
You will then be directed to a privacy voting screen to mark your ballot.

Using the black marker provided, completely fill in the oval beside the name of the candidate(s) you wish to vote for. Once you have marked your ballot, place it in the privacy sleeve provided and bring it to an election worker to process through a vote tabulator.

https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/voters/different-ways-mark-your-ballot

Provincial ballot guidance.

Marking your ballot
••••.
When you go to your voting. location, an election official will present you with a ballot that includes a list of candidates running for election in your electoral district. You will then go behind a voting privacy screen to mark your ballet, te screen to mark your ballot. To vote for your chosen
candidate, mark an X in the circle beside their name.

https://www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in-ontario/voting-in-provincial-elections.html#accordionballot

Federal ballot guidance.

Basically any mark in the circle counts.

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=emp&dir=trng/guide/dro/man&document=p2&lang=e

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Off to do a bunch of running for a free banana.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey! My aunt made the crossword!

Crossword clue: Keith who was the first 95-down to cross all five Great Lakes.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OCTranspo: We’ll get you to that destination that’s just 4.9km away! * Might take 50 minutes and involve 20 minutes of walking and/or 20 minutes of waiting and maybe 2 transfers. Also, “schedules”: lol.

OCTranspo travel planner showing various routes that involve a lot of walking or waiting.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JFC, can you be a normal cat for 10 seconds?! Sure, normal, just like you asked boss.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve been playing with a Bach 3C mouthpiece. Harder to play, but fuller sound. Did a few minutes with a 7C today - the standard beginner mouthpiece - and man was that different. Higher notes required less effort, but it felt claustrophobic.

Two trumpet mouthpieces. 7C on the left; 3C on the right.

View looking into the mouthpieces. 7C on the left has a narrower rim diameter which makes it easier to push air through, and thus easier to hit higher notes. 3C has a wider diameter. More effort to push air through properly, but nicer sound, can really dig deep, and builds that embouchure at the high end.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I close my eyes for 2 minutes and open them to find this jerk has claimed my water.

Black cat with paw dipped in a glass of water.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How much would Trump’s $5K for every adult cost? 1.35e12 dollars here, 1.35e12 dollars there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

Calculator result for 270,000,000 times 5,000.

Equals 1.35e12

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

PISA science, math and reading scores of 15 year olds in Canada continue to slide, but remain above the OECD average. Canadian students slightly more likely to report digital distraction, much more likely to report skipping/missing school, than OECD peers. www.oecd.org/content/dam/...

Canadian PISA scores show20 year declines in science math and reading.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Of his (first) five novels, four were much liked, and his readers wanted more stories of the same kind. Instead he gave them Moby Dick, which was thought by most reviewers to be incomprehensible.” (Afterword, Willard Thorp).

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works by Herman Melville

Typee, 1846 Novel
Omoo, 1847 Novel
Mardi, 1849 Novel
Redburn, 1849 Novel
White-Jacket, 1850 Novel
Moby-Dick, 1841 Novel
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, 1852 Novel
Israel Potter, 1855 Novel
The Piazza Tales, 1856 Stories
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, 1857 Novel
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866 Poems
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, 1876 Poem
John Marr and Other Sailors, 1888 Poems
Timoleon and Other Poems, 1891 Poems
Billy Budd, Sailor,1924 Novel

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Picked these up from Black Squirrel in Ottawa. Billy Budd was apparently one of Camus’ favourites, but I never got around to it. Stone’s “passionate bio” of Michelangelo was one of the only few dozen books in my childhood home - possibly the only one I didn’t read 6 times.

Two books. Melville’s Billy Budd and other tales. Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But “onerous, paternalistic informed consent protocol” has more than 5 letters.

Crossword puzzle clue: “First section of a form”

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Canada has warmed rapidly over the past 50 years, consistent with rapid global warming. Since 1970, Canada has warmed nearly twice as fast as the global average, and the Canadian Arctic has warmed three times as fast. Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2026 www.canada.ca/en/environme...

The figure shows four time series of surface temperature anomalies (relative to the 1961–1990 mean) for four different regions: the Canadian Arctic (magenta line), Canada (blue line) the global land area (green line), and the combined global land and ocean area (grey line). The horizontal axis spans the years 1950 to 2023 and the vertical axis ranges from -2 to 4 °C. Linear trend lines are plotted for each time series for the 1970–2023 period only. The slopes of these four trend lines are all positive, indicating warming, and show that the rate of surface warming for Canada is nearly twice the global rate, while the rate of warming for the Canadian Arctic is three times the global rate for the 1970–2023 period.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Canada has warmed over the past 75 years due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. Over this period Canada has warmed by 2.0°C and Canada’s North has warmed by 2.6°C. (2.2, 2.4, 4.2) Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2026 www.canada.ca/en/environme...