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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Erin Jessup @erinjessup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
same energy
screencap of a Wikipedia post which reads “The passengers (excluding the hijackers) and crew on board Flight 93 were nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2001.”

tweeted by @ratlimit who adds “I think this was ultimately the right move.”
screencap from a news article with a picture of a large male lion. text below says “CNN reports that, according to@senior park official, Cecil the lion's brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.” the screencap has been tweeted by @BmoreLikeNita, somewhat incredulously repeating “Who is also a lion"
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Erin Jessup @erinjessup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I made the rookie mistake of starting to read this thread out loud to my partner without knowing how long it was. Don't make my mistake: hydrate! rest! stretch! Fascinating.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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What if you just talked to your children
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 25/07/2026
 fipindustries on tumblr:

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general,
they're overdone and simply not as good as the original.
They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.
And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction’s always slurry when they rush the
complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn
it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they
keep just making more and more, please someone stop
the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable,
they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable,
in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i
cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@ben_rosen

INTERVIEWER: can you explain this gap in your resume

ODYSSEUS: ok it's actually a really long story
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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"I'm on the park board" "You ARE the park board"
Miracle Max in Princess Bride IYKYK
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A commendable stand taken against corruption by— … omg
Joseph S. Blatter: Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power.
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James Cook @jamesecook.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
You’ve piloted your last stone temple
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
i think if you dress like this, you deserve to do a little corruption
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Matt Margolis @itsmattslaw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
no no we don’t use AI, we’re an artisanal law practice
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years
A man in the 19th century wearing a chicken suit. It has feathers, a full on tail, and even shoes shaped like chicken feetA chicken suit currently for sale. It's just a smooth white zip-up onesie with no tail, no chicken feet, and just some flappy thing under the arms and some striped leggings. Pathetic
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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The AI bubble as an interpretive dance
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
WOULD THE OWNER OF A BMW, AUDI OR FORD F150 PLEASE HEAD TO THE WINNERS CIRCLE CAR ALARMS ARE THE WINNER OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL BC FERRIES EXPERIENCE BRACKET
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What a crazy coincidence that NONE of these houseplants seem to be cut out for my unique brand of tough love
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
the real estate agent to podcaster pipeline in Vancouver is particularly strong because we have a surplus of confident men who have way less homes to sell than in the past and excess money from said homes they’re almost as common as a dentistry on the ground level of a mediocre mixed-use condo
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Looks like someone put a giant thing of sticky tack on it until you look closely
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Excellent visualization of the true distance between the Earth and our moon: #artemis #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I used to think sports was about if my team wins I will feel happy. But I keep getting reminded that it’s actually mostly about feeling sad in a group
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
4. Bizarrely, the “NFL snapgate cheating scandal” clip becomes insanely viral among millions of people who have never watched an NFL game before? The front page of Reddit is all Pittsburgh Steelers Delay Of Game memes. The front page of a Dutch newspaper is like, “AARON RODGERS DE SNÁPPEN-CHEAT?”
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is still my favourite one:
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
An RSS aggregator called Mazlow’s Hierarchy of Feeds
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sarah @goingonawalk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hudson Williams gives a full body leg up hug to a smiling Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Striking up a hornpipe and a strathspey just to reel something
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۞ Heather B. ۞ @ruxiecat121.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣
A meme

Top half of the image is a still from Disney's The Three Musketeers, showing four Musketeers standing together.

Bottom half of the image is Star Trek TNG's Captain Picard's face during the well-known "there are four lights" scene.
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Julia Lockhart @julialockhart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If they move Egypt v Iran to Vancouver to avoid Seattle Pride, I personally commit to covering myself in pride flags and haunting the event.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
john rustad right now
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two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
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ヘルット @sumofollower.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Tamawashi to be entered into the Guinness Book of Records 2026, for the longest number of consecutive days of tournament participation. "I did it! I'm glad. Where do I get the certificate?" www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/...
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角界の鉄人・玉鷲 連続出場がギネス記録認定「ヤッターという気持ち。超うれしい」 - スポニチ Sponichi Annex スポーツ
角界の鉄人、幕内・玉鷲(41=片男波部屋)が持つ初土俵からの連続出場記録が、ギネス世界記録に認定された。「2026年度版」で紹介されており、この日「ヤッター…
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
TIL there was a musical made about my favourite French film, Amélie, and the songs in the musical are all in English! As musicals go it was fine, but I delighted in remembering my favourite parts of the film. Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs
A Japanese movie poster for the movie Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulin. Amélie is pictured in her bed looking at Nino Quincampoix’s photo album. An airy script at the top says a-me-ri in katakana. Beneath that it says “Shiawase ni naru” in Japanese text, meaning “become happy”.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
Adam Scott meets the Chicago Pope
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
(bob cole voice) Game 7. World Series. Hall of famer against hall of famer. Can’t. Get. Much. Better. Than. This. Oh baby.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The Mariners have the salmon run and I would like to humbly suggest the Bluejays borrow the Vancouver Canadians’ sushi race This would help with national unity youtu.be/SGTph11oTrU
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The ins and outs of the Vancouver Canadians’ sushi race
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I think when you’re talking about the Nobel peace prize you really have to weigh any wins against the very real possibility of actually declaring war on parts of your own population
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I gotta say, the @bcsupremecourt.bsky.social and even the @bccourtofappeal.bsky.social have been accepting stuff I print from CanLII or even copy-and-pasted excepts into a Word doc as good enough for as long as I can remember: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
Excerpt from a BC government news release discussing a new law which would change what it says is the current practice whereby only copies printed by the King’s Printer would be official for court purposes
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Yesterday I hit my 150th donation with Canadian Blood Services. Loved this sweet card from the nurses. Very slowly catching up to @bgreenberg.bsky.social
A greeting card reads, “Dear Gavin, congratulations on your 150th donation from your CBS family” and has hand-written messages from eight authors in different colours. Next to the card is a commemorative pin that has the Canadian Blood Services logo and the number 150
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18/09/2025
Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like?  Of course not. 

The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the “public interest.”Who, in your view, should have the power to draw the line between a “lie” and “free speech”?  Government officials that want to stay in political power or the people that can hold them accountable ?President Biden is right.

Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech.

It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people in to the discussion.

That’s why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship.Free speech is the counterweight—it is democracy’s check on government control.

That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

After all, there’s a straight line from the soap box to the ballot box.  You retain freedom at both or neither.
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Gavin @gavinhoekstra.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Age verification? The first computer game I played was Legend of the Red Dragon. On dialup.
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