Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Here's a comparison I haven't seen elsewhere. Maybe it'll be helpful for people in other countries, illustrating the challenges of distance in Canada's far north.

Evacuees from #Yellowknife need to drive 14.5 hrs to get to Edmonton. This is like evacuees leaving Manhattan, at the Lincoln Tunnel and driving to an #evacuation reception centre in Jacksonville, Florida.

And the route in Canada's north is flat-out highway driving – not urban streets and stop lights.
#wildfires

Governor of #Nevada has activated the #NationalGuard due to #HurricaneHilary

Out of all the advancements in cosmetic surgery, we still can't safely and easily give humans kitty ears yet

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

#StarTrek

The real reason trans-people are banned from playing chess tournaments is because they alone possess the ability to turn a King into a Queen winning the game instantly

When a virus is described
as “seasonal”
I did not realize that meant
that you could catch it
in each of the four seasons.

#StarTrek

The simple choice.

Reminder - if you keep emergency supplies such as emergency rations and potable water, make sure to check your food's expiration date and replace the water regularly.

happy "Elvis is Still Dead Day" to all those who celebrate it.

remember when Elvis sightings were a thing, and fat, weirdly-pompadoured, be-jumpsuited Elvis became sort of a shorthand talisman for the kind of uneasy but vaguely optimistic, post-hippie, pre-millennium/pre-internet fascination with fortean events, UFO's and the supernatural? adjacent from actual cult lore, only mildly overlapping with Fake Real Cults like the Subgenii, often appearing in pop culture imagery before fully metastatizing in its most well-known host, The X Files.

Rotund, Spangled, Perpetually-Young-and-frequently-abducted-by-aliens Elvis was a symbol unto itself that meant a lot of things, and people just stopped using it after the turn of the century. last time i heard anyone mention Elvis in this capacity was in the first "Men In Black" movie ("Elvis is *not* dead, he just went home"). the culture has moved on from this now quaint period of low weirdness that lasted from the mid-80's to the mid-to-late 90's.

if you ever want to read a book that perfectly encapsulates this time period, seek out the book "Buddy Holly is Alive And Well On Ganymede" by Bradley Denton; which was going to be made into a movie starring Jon Heder but never came together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmQpZ7iYDo4