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Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social · 21h

Getting ready for Friday night

Photograph from the set of F.W. Murnau's 1926 film Faust, showing actors astride monstrous animals as they prepare to play the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 21h

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps.
1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says:
"Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!"
2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!"
3rd panel: "Good ol' Charlie Brown..."
4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, "How I hate him!"

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How much Canadian content does he think gets produced? That isn't proprietary to other networks in this country? It would be great if Gem could open up the CBC's vaults for some of its old shows that had brief runs and vanished forever, but this particular complaint is entirely out of touch.

theglobeandmail.com

Why does CBC Gem keep buying American during a trade war?

The national public broadcaster’s streaming service has continued to add to its library of U.S. content this past year and half

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you’re going to run national stories in the Winnipeg feed, you should specify they are talking about Ontario.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Opheodrys @opheodrys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This piece by @maxfawcett.bsky.social is outstanding--should be required reading for all CDNs. The US is not in some passing phase or experiencing a temporary glitch that a "turn it off, then on again" Congress will fix. Unfettered capitalism leads to intractable moral & economic decay. 1/3

nationalobserver.com

America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes

Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zombie Apocalypse is upon us. What does that mean for fall fashions?

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*I wonder if it's the native aesthetic of slop-video that it should always be extremely pretty and hypnotically-detailed, while also lacking individual human subjectivity, and avoiding divisive or upsetting stances or statements *Like a cinematic auteur-theory that is also intensely sycophantic

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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 28/09/2026

PSA: Don't forget to buy your Halloween candy early so you have time to buy more after you eat it all.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The adorable Citroën Ami in Auxerre, and handy for navigating these narrow roads.

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Alternate Histories @alternatehistories.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From CineFantastique magazine, January 1987 issue. “Star Trek: The Next Generation. Fans Irate Over Plans for New Series”’ I especially love the “It would be a disaster” guy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026

"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

The view from Canada: Make America Think Again

Rebuilding trust will take generations.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just want everyone to take a second to imagine how Poilievre would have responded if Justin Trudeau had done this while in office. like i just think it would be a fun experiment for us

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OK. I knew Winnipeg was interesting, but I didn’t think we were “Rival sex club linked to pipe bomb” interesting.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Tired: Being 6 and having an imaginary friend Wired: Being 36 and believing your chatbot has feelings and deserves rights

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.”

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

American constitutional law: we're rebuilding Bourbon-style absolute monarchy from first principles, thanks John Roberts! Canadian constitutional law: in theory all law comes from our sovereign; in practice the Crown has zero discretion and if they get any ideas we zap 'em with a cattle prod

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026

I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess.

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Enormous structures are moving through Manitoba to the USA this week.

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MexicanYenta @mexicanyenta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you remember?

A photo of the band Earth, Wind and Fire, and the caption “Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for earth, wind & fire tonight”

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When I went to bed there was a lot of ominous chatter about the White House bracing for some big crisis. I wonder what Trump had to say about that first thing this morning…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK.

EU suggestion of Canadian membership

2 of the letters

Sir, Gerard Baker is right ("Grin and bear it, Andy, and stick with Trump", comment, Sep 18)……

….The problem is that the US is neither as reliable nor as reliably friendly as it once was. If it is willing to impose tariffs on friends, that economy becomes rather less reassuring. If the US prevents the UK regulating to protect our children, those new industries are not as positively transformative as we may have thought. And if Washington no longer thinks European security is its concern, then all that military might counts for little as far as we re concerned. Ultimately, the UK has little choice but to try and limit its dependence on a partner that is far less reliable than it was, and to do so, in part, by working more closely with its European neighbours. Managing this without further irritating the US president must be the ambition.
Anand Menon
Professor of European, KCL; director, the UK in a Changing Europe

Sir, Mark Carney's address to the European parliament was
extraordinarily impressive. It was a vision of what politics can be when it looks beyond the next poll, election or headline. Carney spoke of Europe and Canada building something together based on democracy, freedom, sovereignty and resilience. He offered both a dream and a practical route towards it: co-operation in defence. energy, critical minerals, technology, Al, trade and education. What struck me most was the clarity and scale of his thinking. He spoke of the challenges confronting western democracies but did not simply complain about them: he asked what could be built in response.
His metaphor of the forest was particularly memorable: a single tree mav be brought down by the storm. but a forest will endure because its roots are interconnected. I am 80 and I cannot remember recently hearing a western political leader speak with quite this combination of ambition, seriousness and intellectual clarity.
Thomas Kendall

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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Virgin AGI risk vs Chad Global Warming

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Gina Hinojosa: "While we've been fighting over culture wars ... 15 billionaires have amassed money, power, and all our data and are about to blow up the world. And if we don't come together fast to save ourselves -- this is it"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026

Total unscientific nonsense spread via the media as a means of pretending they are doing some bastardized form of recursive self-improvement. Takes a lot to make me dislike a company more than OpenAI but Dario truly has taken the lead

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's funny to think that in the ur-story about AI superintelligence taking control of physical objects to wipe out humanity, humanity eventually beats the AI so badly that it invents time travel as a last ditch effort to survive

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was going to make a joke about how next they’d make a reality show based on Orwell’s “1984”, then I remembered they already did that like 25 years ago.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every right-wing Facebook post is, "Don't you remember how it used to be, before everything changed?" with an AI image of how it used to be, that looks like this

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Lorne Hanks @lornehanks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Starting my based-on-a-true-story screenplay: “The Legend of Ballsachter”.

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Winnipeg Smokewad @wpg-nate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The only Ed Sheeran I mess with

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Winnipeg Police are asking for public assistance in locating 23 year old Gren Ballsachtler of Winkler, Manitoba. Police confirm he is currently residing somewhere in the north end of the city.
Gren has convinced 3 churches that he is Ed Sheeran and even went as far as performing "The Shape of

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Interesting from commentator Paul Wells. I would have bet the farm it was bored Canadians.

My best information from Carney’s office, after the last WSJ story about Carney, is that they find the WSJ prone to collecting torqued stuff from European sources who wish their lives were more exciting, and running it as gospel. Today some anonymous sources were telling other news organizations the new WSJ story is more of the same

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You can just unfollow people. It’s free and often healthy

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?"

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