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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 03/10/2026

From a bluesky post I've learned a new word today! ** 'cken'ell ** It's a British expression of astonishment, I believe. Pronounced "kin-NELL".

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 01/10/2026

Found in an Amazon review. Thanks for really cheering me up, [name redacted]!

Review for a tablet: THE PROTECTIVE PACKAGING LAYER IS BLUE. REMOVE IT FOR FULL COLOR ACCURACY.
IF YOU BUY THIS, DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID. REMOVE THE PROTECTIVE LAYER.

This tablet comes with a plastic film to protect its screen while in transport. This plastic film is BLUE. For a year straight, I thought this tablet had weak/unbalanced lighting that made everything slightly blue, but it was actually the protective layer I didn't remove because I didn't want to scratch it.

Remove the layer and replace it with an actual screen protector. It will greatly improve the visual accuracy.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 01/10/2026

Forget the goat vs bird debate - is this "praying hands" or "high five"?

The two hands pressed together emoji. Is this two people giving a high five, or one person with hands in prayer?

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🩵💙🩵 Beth 🩵💙🩵 @bethtoja.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every dime of that pay goes directly back into the economy. I don’t know what people don’t understand about that. Higher wages allows people to purchase the very things that companies sell. If they all raised wages, they would all sell more shit. How difficult is that to understand?

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 29/09/2026

*opens mailbox* Hmm... let's see what's on sale at the supermarket-- What the hell? SOUP in a BAG?? God, what would Bruce McCulloch think of this? #kidsinthehall #soupinabag

An image clipped from a supermarket flyer in Ontario, offering soup sold in a plastic packet instead of in an aluminum can.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 26/09/2026

Gotta try to have fun somehow when you're stuck indoors. #actionfigures #diorama

An action figure photographed "casting a spell". Samir Scrollwarder from Mythic Legions throws a Magic Missile atcha!

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 25/09/2026

"Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup of ambition And yawn and stretch and try to come to life

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 24/09/2026

"Is that the key for the TLR building?" "No, that's the key for Room 52." Ohh, I crack me up.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 24/09/2026

This innocent pic gave me shivers. I mean, the mayor's a good dude and all. But there's this one horror themed RPG, and your first exposure to its cosmic horrors is when your character is "invited to a night at the opera". Before you know it, you're holster-deep in slime and Fish-Men. #DeltaGreen

Screenshot from a recent video by Mayor Zohran Mamdani where he invites the viewer to a night at the opera - which is the codeword for "secret mission to save the world from Lovecraftian nightmares" in the role-playing game Delta Green.

The mayor of course was just talking about the musical art form.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 22/09/2026

Not gonna brag but I can find Waldo AND Odlaw in <1 minute more than half the time!

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 19/09/2026

You find some cool stuff on Bluesky. On Thursday I take this picture (sunflower) and on Saturday I find an entire account of similar things!

Sunflower growing from the sidewalk in Lansdowne in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 19/09/2026

A rabbit appears! (This was right on my front walk)

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 16/09/2026

I have to choose the one game I spent more quarters on than all the others combined.

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Kevin Morgan @mrgan.com · 10/09/2026

I’m seein’ double. Four Priuses!

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 10/09/2026

Terrific movie but Isaac Newton would be pissed off.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 10/09/2026

How did the Loch Ness Monster commit all those Jack The Ripper murders undetected??

A skit from the movie "Amazon Women On The Moon", with a giant fiberglass plesiosaur dressed in 19th century gentlemen's outfit.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 09/09/2026

Sometimes if I'm in an eerie mood, the best thing is to sit down to a gothic movie by William Castle. Yessir, a gothic Castle is the best. Especially late at night, when everyone's had a few and is feeling relaxed.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/09/2026

If the people working at Anthropic et al sincerely believe that GenAI will kill 10% of humanity in the next decade, why can't we try them for conspiracy to murder?

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 09/09/2026

That Fantastic Four movie had the BEST theme. The part where it goes "bump ba-bump-ump" is stuck in my head

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

krispy kreme may be evil but the thing donut is far and away the best one, "apple clobber", c'mon

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 05/09/2026

Repost with a title screen that's iconic to you

The screen for the 1990 PC game "Stunts".

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 03/09/2026

Well, this at least will be much harder to counterfeit. Look at how easy it is to spot the phony bill made on the old paper:

Just the bottom third of the vertical dollar, with the rest of the counterfeit bill being blank space.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 02/09/2026

I couldn't make out everything they said on "Shoresy" through my tinnitus, but I liked how these big tough hockey players would tell each other 'Give your mom a hug'.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 30/08/2026

Bastards just doing this to make money in the stock market

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We have more technology, more productive capacity and more wealth than any civilisation in history. Yet we are exhausted, insecure, in debt, struggling to afford homes, food and energy, while a tiny minority accumulate more than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. We. Are. Being. Robbed.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 26/08/2026

Hey, what's your favourite 1980s tune, and can it be abbreviated as E.W.T.R.T.W.?

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 25/08/2026

So, we gonna rename the Great Lakes? Here's my petition: 1. Superior is now Lake Messier 2. Michigan is now Lake Creepy 3. Erie now spelled Eerie 4. Huron stays the same, that name is kickass (which gives me an idea) 5. Ontario is now Lake Kickass 6. Georgian Bay is now Brenda Bay, after HM the Q

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 25/08/2026

Top 5 Simpson quotes: 1. I can see through time! 2. Oh, I'm not a doctor 3. With a dry cool wit like that, I could be an action hero 4. I'm seein' double here! Four Krustys! 5. 782 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield Oh--hiya Maude! The order in which I would rank them is 4, 2, 1, 5, 3.

Lisa from "The Simpsons" feeling under the weather after drinking theme-park-ride water.

"I am the Lizard Queen!" she shouts.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 23/08/2026

I get tree frogs visiting my back deck quite often. There's something charming about how fragile these little guys seem.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 22/08/2026

Me, standing on a chair, looking nauseous: You know, when you said there was going to be a "Slugfest" at the convention, I thought it was going to involve maybe wrestlers or something. My weird buddy: Don't step on any of them.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half full Smaug: My water is a raging FLOOD. My glass is a cavernous MAW!

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 22/08/2026

Describe a movie boringly: Two friends head for a distant recycling centre to dispose of toxic materials. Meanwhile, a hiking friend of theirs accepts a position in government. (This was a trilogy BTW)

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 22/08/2026

Bruce McDonald's "Roadkill" - a Canadian film that really affected me. Even in black and white, the Northern Ontario summer looks incredible - desolate then beautiful then back to eerie again.

Valerie Buhagiar in Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar's "Roadkill" from 1989.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 18/08/2026

I love that the library where I work still has these

An old fashioned due date note card inside a book about Emily Carr.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Today let's all, as a species, agree to stop pretending to believe that right-wing trolls and fascists are arguing in good faith. This will fix at least 50% of all problems immediately. Thank you!

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 12/08/2026

Did they stop making Klondike Bars or am I just shopping at the lowest low-rent grocery stores?

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Orac | buy my miniatures! @mnorac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh damn I didn't know they were printing foil editions of cheeses now

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 11/08/2026

Short horror story: "I have come to claim the Princess's hand!" cried the handsome marquis on his stallion as he entered the palace's courtyard. "And to help me in my heart's quest is my loyal maid-at-arms and intrepid swordswoman, Amelia Bedelia!"

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 10/08/2026

I'd pay so much money for a platform-style video game starring Ryu and you have to use his moves from all his other games to defeat the goblins or turtles or whatever there is. Would there be any difference to using one of the six attack buttons compared to any of the others? No, there would not.

static.klipy.com

Ryu's Journey in Street Fighter 3

ALT: Ryu's Journey in Street Fighter 3

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Bill "They pay me in woims" Galloway @billgalloway.ca · 06/08/2026

I think I prefer the other spinoff show starring her second, more amenable son Cole. Cole's Law just goes better with anything. He's not afraid to get into the crunchy details and let me tell you, some of these cases can get pretty tangy.

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