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Nerd Nite Edmonton

@nerdniteyeg.bsky.social
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Be there, be square! Nerd Nite is a monthly event where three speakers with various areas of expertise teach you about what they love. Whether you know about the topics or not, you'll be sure to find new info, interests, and friends at Nerd Nite Edmonton!

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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Like I just love Allison. She's funny and she gets it!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
He's going to talk about fecundity and homosexuality!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Zita Dube-Lockhart opens us up! Opens the night I mean.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
He defines it as imagination+skill+purpose
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I made him repeat this for the video. He has officially lost me.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So many "holy shit"s, at least one "Jesus Christ" and one "that's dangerous"
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Chicago organised itself by using architects, who are smart and organized. They won the bid but ran out of time, so it had to be 1883.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"That's okay, we've all got drinks." "So have I," says Uncle Steve, pulling a can of Pabst out of his Rubbermaid tote.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Up next: Uncle Steve? Steve Pirot to discuss the Chicago World's Fair!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Back on track. Naming stars in Cree, and if there are more exoplanets found around it, they will be given Cree family names.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Awkward as always, Ross introduces Amanda Green, a Canadian Space Ambassador!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Check out our lineup for Nerd Nite Edmonton #93 on May 28th. It's gonna be Mayyyy! edmonton.nerdnite.com/2026/05/06/n...
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Nerd Nite 93: Space Canucks, the 1893 World's fair, and Lego. Yep, it's gonna be one of THOSE nites... See you May 28! edmonton.nerdnite.com/2026/05/06/n...
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
They used their propaganda to make their probes seem cool while dropping sick burns on American probes (shown here snoozing)
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
For example, this soviet satellite making its way downtown
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Rofl
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Points of divergence could be an election going a different way, or a ear, or simply a letter going missing. "The literature of causality"
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Apparently Grover Cleveland got surgery in a boat? Which seems like a pretty dumb idea. Olav is here to talk about alternate histories.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Before: electronics were in a box. After: integrated into the structure. At question time I'm going to ask if they were inspired by octopuses or spiders, whose brains are also in their limbs.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
They also test on campus, hence snow. I don't remember if there is snow on Mars in real life, but there is in the brilliant film "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" which you probably don't care about.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
In asking what citizens care about, they got ... A lot of responses.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We are live with @mastermaq.ca at his second #nerdnite!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Nerd Nite #90 is coming up on November 27th. Get your tickets now! edmonton.nerdnite.com/2025/11/10/n...
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
"Sorry if I'm nervous, I'm still shaking off the last presentation"
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
(to myself) fear is the mind killer
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Aaaaand we're back! @breetaylor0.bsky.social
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
(Not related to sovereign citizens)
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Miss me with the SSI and hit me with the SSRIs amirite? No? Ok
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"not the first time I've spoken about this subject but the first time with sake ... "
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Portable weather monitoring stations have to be super quick to put up and take down when they're used to monitor fires, in case the fire shifts and you gotta book
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Does anyone remember 2023? Uh, it's hazy ...
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
First official weather station in the high Arctic is one of the longest running scientific experiments in the world!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The brewmaster's senses must transcend the data.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"no one's gonna die, you won't go blind, at the worst you get a really gross batch no one's gonna drink"
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
An infinite number of ways to make sake? What?!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Graaaaaaphs
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@heathermacken.bsky.social let's goooo
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Anyway we gotta make people care. Hence,
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
But he's here to talk about Arch Madness (alas there are no arches. It's just a pun. We just don't have that many arches in Edmonton)
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Ok well obviously no game is gonna solve the patriarchy. But ...
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Each storyline is about 80 hours of gametime... Much longer than you'd ever be able to get dudes to sit through a lecture on feminism
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"the story IS the feminist agenda, Janthis"
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So ... What could games do?
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Of course, the pitfall is that our systems don't have a lot of room for these interventions.
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