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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Real Men. And it was a first date.

Poster for the movie Real Men, starring James Belushi and John Ritter. The two leads are looking exasperated while being crushed by the title of the film, rendered as large, cracking stone letters. It is an appropriate metaphor for this movie and their careers.

Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A half-dozen climate change denying, fundamentalist, paleo-conservative MPs went to Carney this morning to ask if it was too late for them to cross the floor. Carney:

Woman from Kombucha Girl meme is giving her “I’ll consider it” face.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Yikes. That’s giving Exorcist stairs vibes.

Very high, very steep stairs beside a stone wall, lit by harsh orange lights at night.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I kid you not: a great double feature my local put on years ago. It worked. Both movies are about obligation, masculinity, and the things men owe each other.

Poster for the movie A River Runs Through It. The faces of the characters played by Tom Skerritt, Brad Pitt, and Craig Sheffer above the title, and below it a silhouetted man fly fishing in a river, in front of a backdrop of trees.

Poster for the movie Reservoir Dogs. Six men, nearly identical in black suits and sunglasses, rendered in a featureless, black and white comic book style walk across a white background beneath the title. The edges are splattered with blood.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Someone should knit Lukes a Christmas sweater with this on it.

The strike zone grid from Blue Jay Nathan Lukes’ 14 pitch at-bat. Red dots all over the zone from foul-offs.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’ve lived between Spadina and the Humber for 30 years, and in Bloor West Village for 15. Never saw one until about 3 years ago. This year there’s a nest in the back yard.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

But he’s touching his chest now…

Doubting Thomas examines the wounds of Christ.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Repost with a favourite book from your childhood.

The cover of the cartoon book Love is Hell by Matt Groening

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Arrgh. That had completely left my brain. Then here’s my substitute (Curtis is the Doctor, obviously).

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only: (Since it has to be wrong, the Doctor is on the right)

Two dissolute men sitting on the front steps of a London townhouse. One is wearing a black leather jacket and is holding a newspaper disinterestedly. The other is wearing a garish ensemble, once posh but now rumpled and drab. They are both staring outwards - despondent, miserable, and exhausted with life.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I love this album. I was recently going through boxes of my mom’s stuff and found my middle school Christmas concerts. Surprisingly good, but not as achey, earnest, and bonkers fun as the Langley School’s. And wow, early 80s Toronto schools were not shy about the Christianity!

A cassette tape case listing songs from a Christmas concert

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This is how it reads in Elon’s head.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I appreciate the thought. But access isn’t a problem (the premier of Ontario is pro-Trump, so US booze went back on the shelves lickety split). No, the point is to deny profits to American companies. I do have a few shots left. I’m not pouring it down the drain - I’m patriotic, not crazy!

A wooden countertop with 4 bottles of alcohol: Mortlach 21 whisky, Tanqueray gin, Radoune gin, and Woodford Reserve bourbon.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

That cancelled tv show you will never stop thinking about.

Six people, a man, a young girl, a police officer, and three others are in a nondescript motel room, not looking at each other. There is a profound sense of unease

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Not the 2014 sitcom called Partners Not the 2012 sitcom called Partners The 1995 sitcom called Partners, starring @mrjoncryer.bsky.social, Maria Pitillo, and Tate Donovan.

Tate Donovan, Maria Pitillo, and Jon Cryer pose together, arms around each other and smiling wholesomely, in a promotional photo. Superimposed at the bottom is the word “Partners”, the name of their sitcom.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

A silhouetted figure stands on a dock at sunset, with a tree arching over, the sky bright with yellows and oranges shining around and through lace-like leaves and reflecting off still waters.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

When I feel quiet When I feel blue… For a while For a while

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

I think I play spelling bee just to raise my blood pressure. Words they’ve denied in the last few weeks: MIDDEN GALAVANTING LARBOARD CATAMITE MAMMALIA NAPHTHALENE And this was unforgivable:

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

A dear departed friend treated me to the goooood seats one day, and it happened to be Sanchez’ debut. I think his 2nd batter was Big Papi, but Sanchez was utterly fearless. Threw fire.

Aaron Sanchez being congratulated by his family in the Blue Jays dugout after his debut

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Saw Dune part 2 tonight. Boy, oh boy, Denis Villeneuve really likes this painting.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

Just typing the name, with no context, gets you a lock.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

My kiddo loves this book, about a girl and her friends fighting a sentient smog trying to burn UnLunDon (and London), and the greedy, shortsighted people helping it. So, Manchin, if he were British, and had magical powers.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

And it’s buddy on the wall. My earliest Avengers.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Reminder for next year: used books make great gifts.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I find this search result implausible.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

I’ve heard that one before. It’s accurate in a lot of ways, and it’s not a good thing. I’m proud to be a Canadian, but there’s a stubborn, reactionary timidity, an attitude that progress is fine, but it has to be slow. When compromise is the highest virtue it becomes a flavour of conservatism.

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Doesn’t he have some raccoons to harass?

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Greg Cooke @cookieinto.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Good evening, Blue Sky! I’m told this is nice space, so I’ll start with a picture of my kid looking at a lake. Optimism!

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