Kent Fellows

we dare you to find a museum more ready

Correctly viewed, the Phantom Menace is an excellent and deep 130 minute advertisment for an (excellent) N64 game.

Part of a huge conversation we need to have. Why are corporations allowed more rights to their image than we are to our own? Women trying to get nudes - real or doctored - removed online is onerous or impossible. But Mickey Mouse?

It's so not the point, but this war may unintentionally lead to more decarbonization than any actual net zero policies in the developed world. Which is depressing for many reasons.

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Writing is thinking, and done well, it is an amazing way to invite people into a part of your mind to let them take a look around a bit.

I still find it interesting that Sunshine Sketches is his most popular fiction book. The humor in Arcadian Adventures probably stands up better to the test of time.

Worth noting that his textbook "Elements of Political Science" almost certainly outsold any of his fiction books.

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Do you think it's immasculating for Musk that they used ChatGPT rather than Grok?

I'm pretty open with my criticisms (when I have them) of Alberta oil and gas economics. But I know people with the academic equivalent of PTSD from former royalty reviews. So I'm gonna do a bit of self-censoring here.

"Our province's strong finances are due to our government's responsible stewardship, the unique hard work ethic of Albertans and also an unrelated war."

Alberta's post-payout royalty rate on oil sands production maxes out at 40% of profits at a WTI price of $120CAD/bbl (~$90USD/bbl).

Donald J. Trump Y @realDonald Trump Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!President DJT 362 ReTruths 1.25k Likes 3/8/26, 6:54 PM

posts u make when things r definitely going well

ask me what i learned in college and i won’t recite academic knowledge — i’ll tell you “it taught me how to think critically”

This galaxy brain it’s-all-about-China’s-oil talking point drives me *insane*

Only reason China was able to buy so much discounted crude from Ven/Irn/Ruz was because of US sanctions, largely imposed by the Trump admin(!), which scared off other buyers and left them all to China.

Smithers worshipping Mr. Burns in a golden muscle suit

Fox News video of President Trump welcoming home the coffins of fallen soldiers this weekend

Not at all, still a big fan of standard time... just want it to be even more standard.

a black and white drawing of a room with many clocks on the wall ALT: a black and white drawing of a room with many clocks on the wall

My very unpopular proposal to replace daylight savings time:

We should all just be on GMT.

Local business hours would adjust (and could vary throughout the year). The last 20 years of tech advancements solve any potential coordination failures and in fact make coordination on GMT more efficient.

Moreover: if the original challenge was supposed to be probative, why issue it for Claude and not, say, celery or my coffee cup?

a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies . ALT: a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .

"If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn't have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap."

-David Mitchell (the "are we the baddies" guy)

How I arrived on BlueSky

I sense a great disturbance in the force. It's as if many soles are doing web searches for Windows Like Linux distros.

I refuse to answer this question on the grounds it may incriminate me.

But: One of the reasons I specialized in Industrial Organization and not trade was that grad level trade at UofC was only ever offered before 10am.

That's more than three Scaramuccis (imperial) or almost a Truss and a half (metric).

For some of you, this would mean much less sunlight. For me, much much more.

Good News: After researching parts and maintainance manuals I finally got an afternoon off to work on the pitman arm shaft seal (3591) on my 1963 Lincoln. The seal is in great shape.

Bad News: the seal was in great shape before I even started because the leak is coming from somewhere else (3B730).