Andy Beaton✅

@aiabx
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Just this guy, you know?
#astronomy #cycling #boardgames #stratocaster
he/him/vax/mask

Toronto/Toronno/Trawna
Disturbing things on Bluesky, knocking the dust off this account
Happy Labour Day, fellow workers!
Everyone I envied for going to Burning Man? I take it back.
Took the leap - removed X from my phone and iPad.
It's tough sometimes to be the only one in a crowded room wearing a mask. It can definitely be awkward. So I want to publicly thank @AstroKatie for giving her Starfest keynote talk while masked. I felt like sane person and not some hypochondriac kook.
‘The hero Toronto deserves’: Why this fake soccer referee is issuing yellow cards to bad drivers

Martin Reis says his performance art work, in which he plays referee Avery Goodcall, is meant to draw attention to several urban issues.

Toronto Star
Home from Starfest - any amateur astronomers in the Southern Ontario area should absolutely be aware of this outstanding star party. Dark skies, interesting talks, and hundreds of astronomers who want to hang around with other astronomers. Alcohol may have been consumed.

From Shawn Micallef's book 'Frontier City'

"If you followed #DougFord at the municipal level, there was never a moment to think, "Relax, he'll be fine." It was all there, easy to see." The bullying. The malevolence.

Most telling perhaps is Ford's extraordinary & breathtakingly cruel interaction with the father of an #autistic teen. Doug said an #Etobicoke home for autistic teens “ruined the community”. When the father launched a complaint Doug said he could “go to hell, I don’t even care”.

Mastodon is better than the X-birdsite, but I have to confess people seem to be having more fun on bluesky.
In numerical terms, this must be one of the biggest corrections ever made by a newspaper.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/24/the-big-idea-why-the-laws-of-physics-will-never-explain-the-universe
The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe

We should think of the cosmos as more like an animal than a machine

The Guardian