Reposted by Kate CookI wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Three Little Free Libraries that look like the house behind them. East York. #TOPhoto #Toronto 14113
Reposted by Kate CookAdam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Particularly the latter. I think he got lucky when U.S. overreach gave him an out from a bad trade deal he was moving toward signing. But the foreign investment summit followed by the EU visit has (at least) been a hell of a communications victory, in terms of conveying that Trump can't isolate us. 3472
Reposted by Kate CookDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The CDC is proposing changes to the National Health Interview Survey & the census survey, which will change the type of info collected & make it harder to interpret changes between surveys. Why it matters: if we don't know a problem exists, we can't fund research to fix it www.ipums.org/aboutipums.orgAbout | IPUMSMission & PurposeJustice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI) at IPUMS 141
Reposted by Kate CookEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026An entire patchwork carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey a few days ago, looking for all the world like spring. Today’s botanical dopamine for your brain 🌿: 481905227
Reposted by Kate CookDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's so wild and wonderful that this robot has been wandering around Mars for FOURTEEN YEARS and we get to watch it trundle about and poke rocks and send home postcards. ❤️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...science.nasa.govCuriosity Postcard Celebrates Rover’s 5,000th Day on Mars - NASA ScienceWhile parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times 271229324
Reposted by Kate CookTransactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Spoilers: all 10 ended up being desk rejected. - 1 paper withdrawn - 1 author was too busy for a call - 1 author no-showed - Authors of 3 papers couldn't answer basic qs - Authors of 3 papers could, but not technical qs - 1 author answered all qs, but paper had a major flaw 26014
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you haven't watching Mary Poppins I a few decades I recommend it. Be warned it's over two hours long. But the bank directors sing a song about [...] 100
Reposted by Kate CookSnowden St. @snowden.st · 08/09/2026If you look at the 2020s MAHA and RW wellness space, and ask "how much of this movement encourages me to eat a Cow Product?", it's a bit of a shock, to some people. Collagen, Bone Broths, low/no carb diets, all the red-faced HGH users, etc. 1548494
Reposted by Kate CookBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was talking last week with a colleague from Hungary involved in academic restoration. He said he was exhausted and overwhelmed by all the choices they had to make, trade offs and interests to weigh, ambiguity about who decided. Authoritarian compliance is easier that the hard work of democracy. 111322
Reposted by Kate Cookalexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this is the secret of the popularity of my posts 422626
Reposted by Kate CookBen (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins 201621316
Reposted by Kate CookEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 02/09/2026Worse still, his actual answer was simply that he would obey his Commander-in-Chief. 2266
Reposted by Kate CookThe One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Every so often, the backyard camera trap produces an image that gives me pause. 🐀 *everybody was kung fu fighting* 837483
Reposted by Kate CookShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It’s fucking bananas the amount of time this govt is spending on bike lanes. The premier & minister of transportation both made videos today. The “we’re in a trade war you negligent culture war blow hards” is correct. 616922
Reposted by Kate CookSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 27/08/2026Hot take, the exact opposite (taking yourself very seriously but not the work) is the exact problem with our politics 10844128
Reposted by Kate CookIt's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026$50 million for rural roads (over 4 years) on top of existing funding levels. Where does this money come from? A reminder that LRT frequency was cut from 5 to 10 minutes to save $1.6 million/yr. 70,000 bus service hours were cut in New Ways to Bus to save $10 million/yr. 86225
Reposted by Kate CookMichelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 25/08/2026Joke's on Trump because Ford's already worked out a secret backroom deal to change Lake Ontario's name to Lake Loblaws-Staples. 1226260
Reposted by Kate Cookiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay, 218104152359
Reposted by Kate Cookjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 19/08/2026it is so fucking weird that until now we heard nothing about this woman and now we get this story being like “she can be seen in the background of every photo taken of trump for the past two years” 892029302
Reposted by Kate CookAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology 181013324
Reposted by Kate CookToon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I’m all for saving money. But this all comes from the wrong place: deferring infrastructure investments is a quick way to kick the can down the road. In 20 years these politicians won’t be here but you’re failing pipes. Roads and community centres will be. And that’s when the bills will be due 1/ 48219
Reposted by Kate CookElysia♡ @ely.pub.moe · 14/08/2026Some of the unedited JPEG photos I took for @bettertransitottawa.ca 's invasion of @strongtownsottawa.ca tonight! Featuring @seandevine9.bsky.social and @jleiper.bsky.social 7124
Reposted by Kate CookMr. Autumn Mike 🍂☕️🎃 @itsendlessmike.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Back when I worked in publishing, I stumbled upon a whole series of stock images depicting Shakespeare confused by modern technology. 536155
Reposted by Kate CookDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026AI can never replace real stock images Someone dreamed these up and had the courage to hire actors and make them real 372836830
Reposted by Kate CookLiana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026O.o There are gaps in the gardening and culinary marketplace? Really? Has this person been online? Ever? 061
Reposted by Kate CookM. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Crab Canon botfrens.com/collections/12055/cont… 0118
Reposted by Kate CookJørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 9136771737
Reposted by Kate CookDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"data centers" is the new "billionaries" is the new "capitalism": an empty signifier of a term that ppl online can latch onto as the singular cause of society's ills while also fully absolving themselves of any responsibilities to the world around them. 2543168
Reposted by Kate CookDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Kids recreated the Roman testudo formation and it worked exactly like ancient historians described it 14478106
Reposted by Kate CookDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...donmoynihan.substack.comWatching the show trialsAnthony Fauci and the politics of retribution 431437389
Reposted by Kate Cookaugust 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 26/07/2026toronto does libraries right. our current mayor has managed to open every single library branch on all 7 days of the week. i don't believe any other major city has achieved the same in north america, not even nyc. we have the best library system in the world 🤭 911013
Reposted by Kate Cookderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/07/2026the two outfits for men 84161662515
Reposted by Kate CookKing Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks. 9242921050
Reposted by Kate CookMetropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 17/07/2026Happy National Tattoo Day! To celebrate, we asked MTA employees to share their transit-themed tattoos 🚇🚌🚆 930959
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Does anyone have some examples of comments to leave on the OMB thing from non-scientists? 000
Reposted by Kate CookWebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 12/07/2026DeviantArt website in 2005 12753131666
Reposted by Kate CookDaniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Tired: Ottawa is the city that fun forgot. Wired: Ottawa is the city that actively ran fun out of town so a bloated police department wouldn’t have to handle people watching pretty lights. 275
Reposted by Kate CookDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026New at Can We Still Govern: DOGE failed. The civic tech community DOGE displaced have been having frank conversations about what they did right and wrong, and what should come next. From Merici Vinton, who led the building of Direct File. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-did-c...donmoynihan.substack.comWhat Did Civic Tech Learn in the Last Decade?Some Insights About How to Use Tech in Government – and What Comes Next 510738
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This essay described a bunch of things I've been thinking about all the time lately. 210
Reposted by Kate CookBen from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This also applies to its sci-fi counterpart, referring to money as 'credits.' 481
Reposted by Kate CookJen Williams | STONEBOUND out next year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social · 09/07/2026if there is one fantasy writing rule we must all follow, it's referring to money as 'coin' 5302
Reposted by Kate CookAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Maybe it isn’t ideal to find so much meaning in politics, but if you’re in an ideological battle for the future of a political party, it’s unwise to sneer at the faction offering meaning and belonging. 410112
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social · 28/06/2026In other news, I signed up to sell pottery at the neighbourhood art in the park sale today! Hopefully it goes well 😬 120
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social · 28/06/2026lol "we show that deep learning models barely outperform a naive model that predicts only the mean drug and cell line effects, while no complex model outperforms properly tuned tree-based ensemble baselines in relevant settings." www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comCritical evaluation of drug response prediction models with DrEval - Nature CommunicationsSuccessful translation of drug response prediction models to the clinic remains limited. Here, the authors introduce a model evaluation pipeline called DrEval, and report that that deep learning model... 010
Kate Cook @eskay8.bsky.social · 26/06/2026They are also doing a play adaptation of The Hobbit. Just saying. 141
![The photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. The stylus is octagonal in shape, with a dot-punched inscription along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:
'ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf (e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna darlelt quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus'
Translated as
I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.'
This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreiflmumn37zldrqn4gepyqs55kamhvatkkpepk5tq56rqq4pssxb64)
