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Kevin Solez

@kevinsolez.bsky.social
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Humanities Instructor & Researcher, Host of YouTube.com/@HomerHotline | PhD (UBC), MA (Johns Hopkins), BA Hons. (Alberta) | Currently teaching Anthro, English, & Classics | kevinsolez.ca

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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#Brewing was such an ordinary part of life in ancient #Egypt that texts spelling out the procedure have not yet been discovered. Models deposited in tombs, such as these at the Royal Ontario Museum from the tomb of Mentuhotep II at the end of the 3rd millennium BCE, are some of our best evidence.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What a delightful story about Newfoundland hardtack, including its millennia-long history! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.L. has a hard bread shortage — but why do we eat it in the first place? | CBC News
Grocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador have been struggling to keep hard bread in stock since a fire at the Purity factory in March put a crimp in the company’s baking operations.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Please enjoy my take on Nolan's _The Odyssey_: "Reflecting on Nolan's Odyssey with Spoilers" kevinsolez.ca/updates-and-...
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Updates and Blog Posts
REFLECTING ON NOLAN’S ODYSSEY WITH SPOILERS I saw Christopher Nolan’s _The Odyssey_ with my wife on August 2nd, and I thought it was great. When I taught Classics and Pop Culture, I wou…
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Book Recommendation #1, for absolutely no reason at all... "The Many-Minded Man: The "Odyssey," Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic" by @sentantiq.bsky.social Praise, author interviews, and how to order at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... P.S. It's OA.
A teal book cover with title in black at top: The Many-Minded Man and author name at middle: Joel Christensen and a painting of colorful fractured faces at bottom right.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Well-known practitioners of the science are being vilified. Public health practitioners don't deserve an iota of our ill will. They deserve our thanks. Bang your pots. #PublicHealth #Canada #UnitedStates
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Their prominent, epoch-making interventions include water treatment, food inspection, inoculation, and fluoridated water. Each of those measures is being dismantled in the United States and Canada (in #Alberta, at least). #PublicHealth #Canada #UnitedStates
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not sure what, but I think we need to do something in support of those who work in public health. Public health is that branch of science that has the greatest impact on extending lifespan of human beings at the community level. #PublicHealth #Canada #UnitedStates
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Here you will read a description of the main feeder line for today's rise of #fascism in North #America. Don't be put off by the nature of the source; it seeks to critique the movement, but it does so from within the #church, which is disorienting for secular people. baptistnews.com/article/men-...
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Men-only gyms seek to protect Christian men from lust – Baptist News Global
the Christian manosphere believes men need to be in top physical and spiritual shape. So they’re proposing “lust-free” gyms.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Edmonton vibes #yeg #theatrenetwork #Edmonton #Alberta #KatoukiTaverna
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This phrase is brought to you by @mikaylaresists.bsky.social
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Alberta made a contribution to world literature today with the phrase "Fuck your fascist pancakes" uttered by a protester to the Premier during the KDays annual pancake breakfast at the Alberta Legislature. #Canada
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National Pancake Day Fail: Man Flips Pancake
ALT: National Pancake Day Fail: Man Flips Pancake
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Eat your breakfast!
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wonderful! Ancient Exchanges has made the publications of their issues from 2020-2024 available! I trust that my name will be restored to Kevin from "Kegin" in the Spring 2022 issue for "Honour's Table," a translation of Xenophanes Fragment 1. #AncientBluesky exchanges.uiowa.edu/ancient-exch...
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Ancient Exchanges Archive — Exchanges
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Lac la Biche today, 3 pm, 20°C. First photo at lake level and second of the same area from the road at about 10m elevation.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 VOTE REMAIN & NO TO THE NINE 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #Alberta #Canada #Referendum
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Read @brandimorin.bsky.social !!! #Alberta #Canada indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/wild-rose-...
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Wild Rose Country Is Burning, Right Out in the Open
An Alberta girl, a Cree, Iroquois, and French woman, on watching her home slide somewhere she doesn’t recognize.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#FIFA2026 #WorldCup2026
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Vote Remain & No to the Nine 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #Alberta #Referendum #Canada
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It has become abundantly clear to me that the only way to handle this problem is to bar unserious people from participating. We as the public can do that by ignoring them, by talking about other shit, and by never, ever treating their absurd and risible ideas as serious.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In honour of my pathologist father Kim Solez's move to Professor Emeritus at @ualberta.bsky.social, I presented him with two silly little list poems, one of which I made into a meme. Here I am caught in the act + the meme. I hope you, too, find it amusing.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is very cool. I speculated that unusual sounds in alpine languages may be due to the retrievability of sounds in that acoustic environment, and this language is more evidence of the same.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
LOL, this Canadian-South African rapprochement has legs!
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The story of #Canada is coming into being. As mythistorical as any history, the founding credo quia absurdum is that our forbearance, our smiles, our sorries, our peace, our order, our good governance will suffice as blood money in the court of justice. These are enough, we intone; these are enough.
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Surely entry into a PhD programme is required for maximum punishment by the gods?
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Over here, we say "good game" as an expression of sportsmanship. I think the win was completely unlikely, and so we are overjoyed. I It's nice to have someone in SA to talk about it with, so thank you!
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wild roses, Lac La Biche County, 27 June 2026, 6 PM, 27°C. #photography #Alberta #Canada
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Good game!
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
⚽⚽⚽ Canada ⚽⚽⚽ 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🚨 CBC has officially joined the European Broadcasting Union. This now makes them eligible to participate in Eurovision, and it is reported that they are very likely to do so in 2027 www.ebu.ch/news/2026/06... ❤️🇪🇺🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🇪🇺❤️ ❤️🇪🇺🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🇪🇺❤️
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CBC/Radio-Canada joins EBU as full Member
CBC/Radio-Canada becomes a full member of the European Broadcasting Union and joins the Eurovision News Exchange, strengthening international public media collaboration.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Then everyone put on cowboy hats so large that their words could no longer be heard. 3/3 #poem #Alberta #Canada
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“I shall formally protest the fun police and lobby for their defunding,” declared the chief advisor to the leader of the Conservative party, Pierre Poutine. “We have no fun police! Please make noise at our lake!” pronounced the Council of a small town with big dreams. 2/3 #poem #Alberta #Canada
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
_Country Thunder_ #poem “The noise, the noise!” cried the people with their infants and jobs. “Quiet will prevail,” enacted the Mayor. “Fun police!” shouted the Premier. 1/3 #Alberta #Canada
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Current mood.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“No, and there's two tea bags in there.” “Oh, so, a kind of sun tea lemonade.” “Yeah, lemonade iced tea, I call it.” “I'll take one. How much?” “Two-fifty…I think that's reasonable.” “I'll take one!” 3/3 #poem
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“It's done with honey, not sugar. There's an orange in there along with the lemons. Mint…and another herb from the garden my mom said would taste good.” “You don't remember that one?” 2/3 #poem
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
_True Story Qua Poesie_ #poem The boy at the lemonade stand, adjusting long hair under his hat, says: “D’ya wanna know what's in it?” “Yeah, well, sure!” 1/3
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
But won't it be the longing we felt along the way?
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
How Canadian of you!
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I hear that Canada's next match is vs. South Africa! I fear we may not be nearly as soccer-mad as you!
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Lone player practices his strikes on a day Canada has a chance to win Group B at the World Cup. #photography #Alberta #Canada #WorldCup2026
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I strongly recommend this twenty-five minute film by John Beder, "How to Sue the Klan," currently available on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/video/witnes...
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How to Sue the Klan: The landmark case against racial violence in the US
The civil case of five Black women sets a legal precedent across the United States in the fight against organised hate.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Only the stone inlay survives, so we do not have any of the wood or other materials. Because there are box lyres of about the same size in iconography, and the bull lyres that survive in pieces, scholars think the inlay decorated the box of a lyre.
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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Did you know "Aurora" is the Latin word for "dawn" and the name of the Roman goddess of dawn? Europeans living far from the Arctic Circle often experienced auroras as a faint red glow to the north, closely resembling the reddish glow of an early morning dawn. 🌌✨ #SpaceFacts 4/4
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
You can see an instrument of similar type depicted on the object itself, where several men are seated and drinking, being entertained by a musician.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It is not a "standard," as in an icon raised on a pole for use in mustering armies. It is the sound box of a lyre/harp. There is a near consensus on this issue. So, you can imagine strings strung from the top of it to meet a cross bar mounted some distance above, which are lost.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I filled out the same form for the first time a few months ago.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think they need the information to perform a criminal record check.
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Barry Cooper, quote continued from above: "We’re going to have to rely on the Americans. It will depend on whether or not Saskatchewan and Alberta have leaders who are willing to understand the very serious implications, which means among other things getting the Americans on board.”
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Kevin Solez @kevinsolez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I shouldn't be surprised that the University of Calgary has political scientists like Barry Cooper, who says “Eventually you have to do something. Of course it is treasonous, of course it is illegal, and of course it is going to be very unpleasant, and we’re going to have to have… help from abroad."
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