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🇨🇦 permanent resident | 🇺🇸 citizen | she/her pronouns (in bio) “tampa woman becomes official cigarette of the royal canadian mounted police”

photo of an Airbus A321-200 in Air Canada livery on final approach to YVR as seen from an in-flight entertainment display
selfie of the author wearing a purple t-shirt and a big grin while seated out-of-frame from anitmata, who is dressed like your favourite professor
A map of US 101 and I-580 in Marin County. The purple line shows the existing SMART routing. The red line shows the author’s concept for a routing toward the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, diverging just south of Anderson Drive with a viaduct around / through the Marin Resource Recovery Centre, then across Anderson Drive into the I-580 ROW
Sign in a laundromat that is intended to read “Laundry Today or Naked Tomorrow”, but instead reads like “Laundry Naked: Today or Tomorrow”
selfie of the author wearing a black floral shirt and looking rather sleepy
Street signs at Peer Street and Sylvia Place in Niagara Falls, Ontario indicate that the Battle of Lundy’s Lane was fought here in the War of 1812
I’m not like other girls I get attached to everyone almost instantly because I have severe abandonment issues and every thought I have is intrusive and I cannot talk about anything without feeling like a massive disappointment
Eby said earlier that he has asked staff to contact the U.S. Embassy to have his government's statement marking the two countries' friendship removed from the U.S. 250th birthday website, adding he feels "sorry for Americans."
photo of the author looking wistfully out the window of a GO train
“Light of My Life”, a poem by Ian Li, on a TTC train board
SCHELLING POINTS by George W. Bush – now a #w national bestseller
Keele Station tilework
storefront in Toronto with a taco shop downstairs and tattoo parlour upstairs
Ontario farm country at sunset from the window of an airplane
selfie of the author seated on an airplane, wearing a Toronto Blue Jays Pride t-shirt, Tampa Bay Devil Rays ballcap, and butterfly necklace+earrings
Dawn of The Final Day 24 Hours Remain
selfie of the author wearing a black floral t-shirt, butterfly necklace, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays ballcap while standing in front of a trans pride flag
Pillar Three: Rail infrastructure optimization and expansion The majority of cargo moving through the Port is transported by rail, and the current rail networks and supply chain infrastructure servicing the Port will require investment to diversify Canada’s trade. Without targeted expansions of the Port’s rail and other supply chain infrastructure, Canada’s transportation network risks congestion, which increases shipping costs and reduces the competitiveness of Canadian businesses.
Wayfinding signage on the platform level uses non-standard typography, mistakenly referring to the “Waterfront” direction as “Vancouver Centre” and the “YVR Airport” direction as “YVR-Airport”
80g pouch of Japanese tofu portions for easy miso soup
Margaret Thatcher, outside No. 10 Downing Street and standing next to Ronald Reagan, reacts joyously to the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces during the Falklands War, 1982
Thumbs, a white cat with black markings and polydactyl front paws, sits on a heating pad. Her front right leg is wedged between her hind legs and over her tail. She looks completely unfazed.
The author's rendering of Vancouver Island, British Columbia using open-source terrain and bathymetric geodata
pink and blue chalk lines on the wall of the Dunsmuir Tunnel
the bug assassin from Rick and Morty. he just loves killing.
selfie of the author wearing a slightly manic grin about the takeaway curry she is holding
Government of Canada official publication mapping Historic Treaties between the Crown of Canada and Indigenous peoples of Canada, divided into the pre-Confederation (1725-1867) and post-Confederation (1867-1930) historic periods. Modern treaties in British Columbia are *NOT* depicted. Disclaimer: Historic Treaty boundaries are largely unsurveyed and therefore estimated based on treaty texts. Should no geographic description be present within a treaty, illustrative polygons may be used to represent locations where signatory nations assert and/or exercise Section 35 rights. These polygons should not be considered definitive in terms of the specific location of treaty rights. This map does not replace direct communication with Indigenous communities or your legal counsel. Note: The Peace and Friendship Treaties map now includes the asserted territories of treaty signatories located in the province of Quebec. This representation is included for illustrative proposes only, to allow all treaty signatory communities to be considered as part of consultation activities that affect their traditional territories. Sources: - Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Treaties and Aboriginal Government and Implementation Sectors, June 2022; - Natural Resources Canada, National Atlas of Canada, 1: 7,500,000.
map of circuitous rail junctions in and around Hamilton, Ontario. it’s just a complete mess.
A new basketball court and very small parking lot is visible behind temporary fencing in the Civic Centre neighbourhood of Port Moody, British Columbia. A sign on the fence advertises at the Government of BC’s Growing Communities Fund helped pay for the basketball court.
dozens of geese in a grassy field on a clear summer evening. a Canadian flag waves overhead.
Step 3: Get Worldwide Buy-in Though other countries were consulted from the start, especially those owning parts of the AI supply chain, Plan A began as a bilateral deal between the US and China. Now that it’s taking firmer shape, negotiations go multilateral. Carrots and sticks are waved about.
Step 2: Pause Training Distinguishing dangerous AIs from safe ones will require more time and understanding, so for now they go with a simple solution: a temporary pause on all new training runs. Both sides can still use datacenters for running AIs that already exist (i.e. inference), but they will retrofit each other's datacenters with devices to verify that they aren't being used for new training runs. The US and China are able to rapidly source enough of these verification devices to retrofit almost every major datacenter. • What if they didn't have inference-only verification ready?
Apple Maps satellite view of the Muttsee dam in Switzerland
“live” completely frozen lobster
‘Buying time’ The next evening, top EU leader António Costa brought nearly 30 heads of government into the European Council headquarters known as “The Space Egg,“ for what became an emotional, five-hour conversation about the U.S. that some called “therapy night.” A tired EU diplomatic service official called Carney’s National Security Council afterward to say the meeting had been a before-and-after moment in Europe’s relationship with America.”
Under Carney, Canadian senior officials began reading clinical studies on impulsivity to understand Trump's psychology, or biographies of his business and media career. They speculated that his bid for Canada was a negotiating tactic aimed at "price discovery." In other words, propose an outrageous idea and test the market reaction.
The Vancouver Sun: Adolf Hitler Dead In Berlin
snow-capped Mount Rainier from the floating bridge on a clear summer day
selfie of the author wearing a Canada Pride ballcap and Toronto Blue Jays t-shirt
selfie of the author wearing Toronto Blue Jays gear (right) and her spouse (left) at the Invasion of Seattle
Džeko was six years old when the Siege of Sarajevo began, lasting for nearly four years. His family home was destroyed, and 15 family members had to live in his grandparents' apartment that measured 35 square metres. He continued to play outside in the neighbourhood of Otoka; on a rare occasion that his mother forbade him to play outside, a missile killed several children on the local football pitch.
Ethnic structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina by municipalities in 2013, Green for Bosniaks, Orange for Croats and Blue for Serbs
looking south from the chines on an overcast summer day in Port Moody.
YouTube thumbnail from TLDR News: Why are the Greens Declining?
The author's custom-rendered base map of western Burrard Inlet, near Downtown Vancouver. While the terrain is rendered and coloured in sharp detail, the bathymetry has visible squared-off tiling artifacts
the author's very poor rendering of a relief map of the Great Lakes region of North America. only the deepest portions of four lakes are depicted as water.
Screenshot of Martin's "Inspect Tile Source" view for a source called "world__relief" showing Antarctica near the International Date Line. The Ross Ice Shelf is depicted as a grassy low-laying depression between icy mountains, rather than… an ice shelf
Toronto Blue Jays "Citrus League" Spring Training '26 hat
Bert Emanuel catches a pass from Shaun King in the 1999 NFC Championship Game
grilled salmon in a glaze on a cedar plank
Jane Lynch meme: I am going to create [a salmon] that is so [planked]
photo of the author offering scritches to a friendly outdoor cat. ellen is wearing a black t-shirt, denim skirt, and NtBtS ballcap; the cat is smokey grey-black with white markings
photo Dale Earnhardt with a speech bubble overlaid
Schematic cross-section through a portion of the Rising Star cave system showing Dinaledi Chamber, location of Homo naledi fossils.
What matters is not the eggs It is the Goose itself True value = The power to keep laying eggs
crab-stuffed salmon medallion grilled in garlic butter with a dinner roll
selfie of the author wearing a brown t-shirt, a lo g denim skirt, and a sun hat while carrying a BC flag tote and crossing a Pride crosswalk
CTV aerial shot of False Creek in Vancouver. Foreground: Science World dressed up as a soccer ball; Canadian flags waving in the breeze. Background: BC Place, the downtown skyline, and the North Shore mountains
Madelines, the cookies
plate of barbecued salmon over white rice with miso soup, a beer, and some furikake (as yet unused)