Devon Paul

@devonp

Geek, politics junkie, lawyer, Canadian. Everything is my own views, nothing to do with my employer. He/him.

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Devon Paul@devonp· 4d

Had an absolute blast tonight. Metric, with Broken Social Scene and Stars opening for them. Just start to finish bangers. Got to see the show with good friends too.

A concert scene. The stage lights are yellow and purple. A lot of people are on stage.

Devon Paul@devonp· 21d

Time for my twelfth flight in three weeks.

In the foreground, an airplane wing and the taxiway. In the middle ground, and Air Canada turboprop plane. In the background a terminal building and other planes.

Devon Paul@devonp· 26d

Went wading in the Arctic Ocean today!

A man standing with his arms raised and outspread up to his knees in water with a stoney stretch of shore behind him.

Devon Paul@devonp· Jul 8

It was very cool to visit the Old Town Glassworks in Yellowknife today. It's a worker owned cooperative and focused on turning discarded glass into beautiful drinking vessels and other things. I even got to etch some of my own to take home.

A tall green glass made from the bottom portion of a bottle with etched art of muskoxen and stars.

Devon Paul@devonp· Jul 4

12:40am in Yellowknife goes hard.

A sunset over a road with streetlights. The clouds are lit in shades of rich orange and red.

Devon Paul@devonp· May 23

The Enterprise-D next to a comet, with a star small in the distance. At the top of the image the text "The One With the Borg".

Devon Paul@devonp· Mar 29

Byzantine-style religious architecture and decorative art is just next level. The Byzantine-style gold field mosaics preserved in Italy are astonishing. This picture I took in the Capella Palatina in Palermo, which was decorated in the 12th century.

Decorated interior of a chapel. Every available wall and ceiling is covered in mosaic, much of it gold-field mosaic showing biblical scenes, dominated at the far end by a mosaic of Christ Pantokrator.

Devon Paul@devonp· Feb 14

My new @effinbirds.com shirts arrived today and they make me so happy.

Three T-shirts. Two are grey, one powder blue. One says "Can You Not", one says "I Am A Goddamned Delight" and one says "you cannot be fucking serious"

Devon Paul@devonp· Feb 12

Fellow lawyers will recognize a court that is PISSED here. Divisional Court doesn't call decisions it is reviewing "nothing short of shocking" very often. www.canlii.org/en/on/onscdc...

[124] This said, the summary dismissal of the Applicant’s human rights complaint in this case was nothing short of shocking. The Applicant’s position – set out in detail in his Complaint to the HRTO – was that K.S. needed placement in a Regular Class with 1:1 support. He alleged that this had been denied to K.S. by the board, with a resulting failure to provide “appropriate” special education programs and services to K.S., denying him his right to receive an education by reason of his disabilities.

Devon Paul@devonp· Jan 23

It's happening!

A movie sign for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Devon Paul@devonp· Jan 22

Emergency cat pics you say? Here's Marcus enjoying the view out the window from his favourite chair.

A brown tabby cat with a white face, chest, and socks sitting party curled up facing camera left I. A green chair. He has one leg extended outwards over his tail.

Devon Paul@devonp· Aug 26

"View full thread" remains undefeated.

On top, a picture of a gorilla in front of a crowd, a quote skeet of a skeet saying "I literally once had a harem of partners. The only reason it fell apart is because the women suddenly decided they werent ok with having to do std panels regularly. I was okay with doing it. So anytime someone tells me that women are more mature than men I laugh bc no, they are not." After the jump, the skeet "What exactly do you think the role of the judge is here? For that matter, what do you think the elements of defamation are in the U.S.?"

Devon Paul@devonp· Jul 15

And now for a timeline cleanse, some mallard ducklings that I saw on Middle Cove Beach in Newfoundland last week. #birds

Two fluffy yellow and brown mallard ducklings standing on grey stones in the sun.

Devon Paul@devonp· Jul 6

#bunalert at Long Point Lighthouse near Twillingate, NL.

A brown rabbit with grass sticking out of its mouth, in a field of grass and wildflowers, looking camera right.

Devon Paul@devonp· Jun 27

I got to see some beautiful things in St. John's today. I also got hailed on, twice, so a classic Newfoundland kind of day.

Purple and blue lupins in a grassy landscape in the foreground, and St. John's harbour out of focus in the background, all under a blue sky with white, fluffy, clouds above.

A view of four identical large ships moored in St. John's harbour, with the town behind. Prominent in the view of the city are a large grey stone church with a green roof, the Basilica Cathedral of St. John, and a large house shaped building with glass between its segments, The Rooms. The water is blue, the sky is mostly white and fluffy clouds with some blue.

A view down the length of St. John's harbour, with the Narrows just out of view on the left. The water is cerulean blue, matching the sky, which is mostly cloudless. A pop of bright red comes from four ships moored on the right side of the picture.

Devon Paul@devonp· May 18

Photo taken by me, a couple days ago.

A brown and white tabby cat in the shrimp position on a green chair, having a big yawn.

Devon Paul@devonp· May 6

Casa Loma has entered the chat.

An outdoor picture showing the exterior of a building. The building is made off grey stone and has a crenellated roofline.

Devon Paul@devonp· Apr 14

The arcaded sidewalks in Bologna are incredible!

An arcaded sidewalk with a high vaulted roof and a terrazzo floor. The walls and some of the pillars are the colour of terracotta while the vault and other pillars are ochre yellow. The arcade curves to the left. In the background, a woman and a dog a walking in the arcade.

An arcaded sidewalk with a high, groin-vaulted, ceiling. The ceiling is yellow-ochre and the two nearest pillars are brick coloured. The floor is terrazzo. An ivy plant grows out of the grill on a window in the foreground. In the background, outside the arcade, is the brick facade of a church. There are bollards between the pillars.

Devon Paul@devonp· Mar 29

This is my guy right this moment. But he was rescued at six weeks old so can't possibly remember his life outside.

A brown tabby cat stretched out long on a pair of jeans-clad legs.

Devon Paul@devonp· Mar 11

I got you.

A brown tabby cat with white socks and muzzle lying on his side, partially curled up, on a pair of legs in black jeans. His front paws are tucked over each other and his tail is curled back over his rear legs.

Devon Paul@devonp· Feb 11

Same here in Canada.

A screen capture from Google Maps showing the Gulf of Mexico labelled as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

Devon Paul@devonp· Feb 1

I wore my @effinbirds.com shirt today, and it was a good day.

A charcoal grey shirt with a drawing of a duck on it along with the words "Are you done being an asshole or do you need a few more minutes?" on it

Devon Paul@devonp· Jan 25

He's such a good boy.

A brown tabby cat with a white muzzle, white whiskers and green eyes sits next to a jeans-clad outstretched leg.

Devon Paul@devonp· Dec 25

I got this gorgeous three-volume set of The History of Middle Earth for Christmas and it's glorious.

A box set of three volumes, bound in black with gold lettering.

Devon Paul@devonp· Dec 2

So you felt like stealing this from someone in the replies, did you?

A screenshot of use huwmarshall.bsky.com replying "Halley's Kermit" approximate half an hour beforehand.

Devon Paul@devonp· Nov 28

I want dinner, but also I have this guy who has been sleeping on my legs for like two hours. I can't eat until he decides to wake up and wander off.

A brown tabby cat sleeping stretched out on a pair of jeans-clad legs.

Devon Paul@devonp· Nov 28

A screenshot, in case what I am quoteskeeting gets removed:

A skeet from @davidpakman.bsky.social that says "The fact that China doesn't like people switching to Bluesky seems like another sign that it's a great thing". At the time of the screenshot, it has 789 replies, 4.5 reskeets, 233 quotes and 41,900 likes.

Devon Paul@devonp· Nov 2

The four-panel NPC meme. In the top left panel, the grey skinned character says "social Darwinism is good actually". In the top right panel, the white skinned character says "those males deemed weaker and more inadequate than their competition don't get to mate." The third panel is just the grey skinned character's face. In the fourth panel, the grey skinned character has angry eyebrows and red eyes with the text "NOT LIKE THAT"

Devon Paul@devonp· Oct 31

I was at Rome's Palazzo Massimo museum a few days ago, and saw these beautiful mosaic tesserae. They made me think of @guygavrielkay.bsky.social's Sarantine Mosaic and a mosaicist being moved to tears by the quality of some tesserae.

A museum display of glass and ceramic tesserae, tiles for use in a mosaic, with a grey background. The tesserae are arranged in coloured groups: white, red, yellow, blue and green. The tesserae are in a variety of shapes, including triangles, diamonds, rectangles, oblongs, and semi-circles.

Devon Paul@devonp· Oct 18

15th century side-eye.