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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
"Jadzia was the representation but Kira was the goals. She was the bad bitch everyone wanted to be."
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Imagine being trans, not fully understanding what it means, and you see Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: DS9.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Uhuru and Sulu: two qualified people getting the ship where it needs to go. This was like 20 some years past WWII. Imagine being Japanese in America the time. How much would that have meant?
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
SFF is a way to make scary concepts easier to understand. Racism in space is easier to explore than the reality we face today.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Anyway the Star Trek community was the first place she met queer people.
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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
TNG was one of the first things she actually enjoyed. And this led her to community.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
So she found solace in science fiction... In particular, Star Trek: The Next Generation. So she doesn't know this yet, but we're friends now.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
As a child, Allison didn't know any trans people, or see them in the media, and felt like she was the only one who was like she was.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is such a good topic to round off the night. After discussing science stuff, Allison is going to bring it together into nerdy fandoms.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Allison was nervous, so we put her last to increase her insecurities (by accident!!!!)
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Up next tonight: Allison Hadley!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tonight's event is part of the City of Edmonton's series of events designed to support the city's 2SLGBT community.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you want to change a mind, throw a (rhetorical) rope that will allow them to change without feeling like/admitting they are/were being a total asshole.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Next time a conservative says "it's just basically biology" to you, hit him (it's almost always a him) with "how about intermediate biology?"
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bonobos diddle each other to ease social tension and make friends.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Female Japanese macaques are exclusively bisexual and will use that against males. AS THEY SHOULD!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Neat, so are flour beetles! They'll mount and sometimes inseminate male flour beetles. Then if that beetle has sex with a female some of the sperm from the first beetle can get into the female and possibly fertilize her!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fruit flies are apparently also especially gay. Fruit flies will fuck anything.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bruce Bagemihl identified over 450 species engaging in homosexuality.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Homosexuality is natural I'm animals just like it is in people, so tell your Catholic mothers to shut up already
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's the size of an almond in straight men. Smaller in straight women and gay men. Gay women's are the size of straight men's. Also sheep are so so so gay.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Okay so let's get into the third interstitial nucleus of the hypothalamus.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
He has an EP called Gay Pirate. Make sure you don't stream the decidedly not gay American country singer also named Evan Westfal.
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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
Our second speaker is Evan Westfall, who is Professionally Gay.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
So, it's not a mind-body connection: it's mind-body AND connection!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Humans are wired for connection. Isolation isn't just a feeling, it's a biological threat.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The mind-body system (MBS) uses the past to predict the future. Which is great but it means that familiarity = safety, whether or not that's true.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our mind-body system is constantly learning, from: personal experiences, observations, social/cultural conditioning, and environmental/context clues.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Resilience and joy begin with safety.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today we're going to learn about resilience and joy!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Glad you're here!
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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
Jesus Christ he just asked us "what is art"
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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
The plural of LEGO is LEGO and it's all-caps.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
LEGO work because of physics.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The LEGO company started in 1932 as a woodworking business. In 1947, they started manufacturing plastic bricks. By 2015, they were the largest toy company in the world.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
He says he loved writing and drawing but was bad at them, so he turned to LEGO.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
He got free lunch at the LinkedIn headquarters.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Now he is a professional LEGO artist.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Which got him fired.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This man was a finalist in Season 4 of a show called LEGO Masters.
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Now we have Sam Malmberg to discuss LEGO as art.
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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
Oh no. Steve is too personable, the audience is interacting with him!
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The fair went from May to October. People actually did travel from across the world (and time if you are a fan of the novel The Future of Another Timeline).
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Nerd Nite Edmonton @nerdniteyeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So Wild Bill bought all the land around them. Ha!
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