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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yes, The Onion knew all along. Barbaric.

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please see last year's Jets for a preview of how that turns out, though to be fair, they were also old.

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Ian McCausland @ianmccausland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's not just #winnipeg. All over Canada people are waking up to the consequences of decades of urban sprawl

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sorry, Dan--in order to vote I have to give them personal information, which is something I no longer do given the situation down south, where our data is wildly out of our control! Best of luck, though!

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please no more photos--we already have three and I instantly want to add these too! :-)

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am so tired of the omnipresent grifting and the slack-jawed media attention it gets.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was never an accident

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines

Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Master of the Flying Guillotine--I was terrified for weeks that a band of horse riding sadists would rip my head off in my sleep in the tiny hamlet in Southern MB I was raised in (and with an older brother who delighted in showing me movies to scare me when our parents weren't around).

en.wikipedia.org

Master of the Flying Guillotine - Wikipedia

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Comity will not save us. Norms have turned out to be no stronger than tissue paper. There is no "shared history" with those who would rewrite it. Lots of folks need to read Karl Popper's formulation of the Paradox of Tolerance and think clearly about how power is wielded and for what ends.

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The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato

First published in 1945 and never out of print, this is the first volume of one of the most famous and influential works of the twentieth century.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, really--I have paid for my music collection three times over (vinyl, cassette, CD, even a few 8-tracks in 1977-78). Is the music industry now going to coerce me into to it again??? 😁

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Will it be finished before the West burns down entirely or just before?

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is so incredibly beautiful. I regularly walk to P&M just to admire it. The MMF has added deeply symbolic beauty to the intersection, and we should all be forever grateful.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Except that in no way does it boggle the mind.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screetshot of study title “Why Do Cars Get A Free Ride?” #CarBrain #Motonormativity

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very well phrased, Bartley--"ghoulish" and "noxiously negative" 2023 sums the situation up concisely and evocatively!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wouldn't hold my breath--the pickings are awfully slim, no?

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.

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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel this. One afternoon several years ago our 20ish son phoned from Montreal to ask me if I knew the genius of "When U Were Mine" by Cyndi Lauper/Prince--a song I had been listening to (once again) on near repeat for a week...

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"we're going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity" is the new "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

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