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🍁Mel🇨🇦 @melhathnofury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Here’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.

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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 11/05/2026

this looks like an extra tough captcha test

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Crescent Earth and some delicious lens flare

The Moon eclipsing the Sun, with the corona and zodiacal light forming a diffuse glow behind the satellite

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Red Nose Studio @rednosestudio.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Respect the Baklava. #yiayia

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”

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Mike McIntyre @mikemcintyrewpg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Typically, I “stick to sports” since moving over from two decades on the Crime & Justice beat in 2016. But it was impossible to ignore what was going on around me during this week’s #NHLJets coverage in the Twin Cities. So I wrote about it. My feature: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

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Donald Trump’s ICE storm in the Twin Cities has residents looking over their shoulders and united in civic rage

MINNEAPOLIS — The Uber driver has just pulled away from Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, his Honda Accord headed downtown, when he turns to the backseat passenger with a grim look on his fa...

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Jeffrey Thorsteinson @jthorsteinson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Check out this old menu from the #HotelFortGarry.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Big Tech these days in a nutshell

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

✨ Vintage Christmas wrapping paper ✨ - here's a nice thread featuring some beautiful designs from the midcentury era (1940s-60s). Hope this gets you in the mood for Christmas-y stuff. #wardsmorguefile

A fun stylized illustration of Christmas bell ornaments in wild designs of red, silver, white and green.

Stylized Christmas tree designs in a repeated pattern, with red and gold stripes going in a diagonal direction.

Red and white and black pattern in triangles and stars with sparkly bits.

Fun stylized illustration of lots of ornaments in blues and gold.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

We are all made of stars! Gassy, aging, tired, probably exploding soon

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 21/10/2025

Today in image research discoveries: Members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units, 1964.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled

Trent Reznor looking like Trent Reznor from age 18-60

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/07/2025

The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is what social media should have always been

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thanks jibjab hot dog.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Regular reminder that it doesn't have to be like this and you can deactivate AI overviews in your Google searches!

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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 06/06/2025

Manitoba Public Insurance made public Thursday its decision to pull the plug on Project Nova, a $164-million “failure” intended to modernize outdated business and information technology systems.

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MPI vows to dive deep into ‘failure’

‘Ineffective governance’ cited in Project Nova

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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

A newspaper clipping from Mike Ryoko part one:

Jackie's Debut a Unique Day
All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball.
I hung around and listened because baseball was about the most important thing in the world, and if anything was going to ruin it, I was worried.
Most of the things they said, I didn't understand, although it all sounded terrible. But could one man bring such ruin?
They said he could and would. And the next day he was going to be in Wrigley Field for the first time, on the same diamond as Hack, Nicholson, Cavarretta, Schmitz, Pafko, and all my other idols.
I had to see Jackie Robinson, the man who was going to somehow wreck everything. So the next day, another kid and I started walking to the ballpark early.
We always walked to save the streetcar fare. It was five or six miles, but I felt about baseball the way Abe Lincoln felt about education.
Usually, we could get there just at noon, find a seat in the grandstand, and watch some batting practice. But not that Sunday, May 18, 1947.
By noon, Wrigley Field was almost filled. The crowd outside spilled off the sidewalk and into the streets. Scalpers were asking top dollar for box seats and getting it.

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I had never seen anything like it. Not just the size, although it was a new record, more than 47,000. But this was twenty-five years ago, and in 1947 few blacks were seen in the Loop, much less up on the white North Side at a Cub game.
That day, they came by the thousands, pouring off the northbound Ls and out of their cars.
They didn't wear baseball-game clothes. They had on church clothes and funeral clothes·suits, white shirts, ties, gleaming shoes, and straw hats. I've never seen so many straw hats.
As big as it was, the crowd was orderly. Almost unnaturally so. People didn't jostle each other.
The whites tried to look as if nothing unusual was happening, while the blacks tried to look casual and dignified. So everybody looked slightly ill at ease.
For most, it was probably the first time they had been that close to each other in such great numbers.
We managed to get in, scramble up a ramp, and find a place to stand behind the last row of grandstand seats. Then they shut the gates. No place remained to stand.
Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar. They applauded, long, rolling applause. A tall, middle-aged black man stood next to me, a smile of almost painful joy on his face, beating his palms together so hard they must have hurt.

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When Robinson stepped into the batter's box, it was as if someone had flicked a switch. The place went silent.
He swung at the first pitch and they erupted as if he had knocked it over the wall. But it was only a high foul that dropped into the box seats. I remember thinking it was strange that a foul could make that many people happy. When he struck out, the low moan was genuine.
I've forgotten most of the details of the game, other than that the Dodgers won and Robinson didn't get a hit or do anything special, although he was cheered on every swing and every routine play.
But two things happened I'll never forget. Robinson played first, and early in the game a Cub star hit a grounder and it was a close play.
Just before the Cub reached first, he swerved to his left. And as he got to the bag, he seemed to slam his foot down hard at Robinson's foot.
It was obvious to everyone that he was trying to run into him or spike him. Robinson took the throw and got clear at the last instant.
I was shocked. That Cub, a hometown boy, was my biggest hero. It was not only an unheroic stunt, but it seemed a rude thing to do in front of people who would cheer for a foul ball. I didn't understand why he had done it. It wasn't at all big league.
I didn't know that while the white fans were relatively polite, the Cubs and most other teams kept up a steady stream of racial abuse from the dugout. I thought that all they did down there was talk about how good Wheaties are.

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Late in the game, Robinson was up again, and he hit another foul ball. This time it came into the stands low and fast, in our direction. Somebody in the seats grabbed for it, but it caromed off his hand and kept coming. There was a flurry of arms as the ball kept bouncing, and suddenly it was between me and my pal. We both grabbed. I had a baseball.
The two of us stood there examining it and chortling. A genuine major-league baseball that had actually been gripped and thrown by a Cub pitcher, hit by a Dodger batter. What a possession.
Then I heard the voice say: "Would you consider selling that?"
It was the black man who had applauded so fiercely.
I mumbled something. I didn't want to sell it.
"I'll give you ten dollars for it," he said.
Ten dollars. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know what ten dollars could buy because I'd never had that much money. But I knew that a lot of men in the neighborhood considered sixty dollars a week to be good pay.
I handed it to him, and he paid me with ten $1 bills.
When I left the ball park, with that much money in my pocket, I was sure that Jackie Robinson wasn't bad for the game.
Since then, I've regretted a few times that I didn't keep the ball. Or that I hadn't given it to him free. I didn't know, then, how hard he probably had to work for that ten dollars.
But Tuesday I was glad I had sold it to him. And if that man is still around, and has that baseball, I'm sure he thinks it was worth every cent.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/04/2025

Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social

A screen capture of the science article on the CBC homepage today, which features a picture of me and a title reading “prominent climate scientist argues it’s time to ditch the myth of neutrality in science.”

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Maggie Macintosh @maggiemacintosh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Oly Backstrom’s new bling has renewed his belief in the power of Project Search — a school-to-workplace transition program for youth with developmental disabilities, which the Winnipeg-based rights activist brought to Canada #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

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Internship program exposes graduating high-schoolers with developmental disabilities in Manitoba to career opportunities

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 03/02/2025

Apropos of nothing, just a reminder that McNally Robinson is independent, 100% Canadian, and family-owned. We pay taxes and those taxes circulate into the local/Canadian economy. We employ Canadians and the two owners are Canadians. Just FYI

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Zandek @snugasabugbear.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

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Tom watson @tomcw.xyz · 20/01/2025

Look, I know, it's blue Monday, it's cold. So cheer yourself by looking at absolute units on @themerl.bsky.social and maybe 'accidentally' buy a t shirt