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Something deeply melancholy about closing the roof after the last game of the year. Like a preserves jar hermetically sealing baseball until spring.

The roof at rogers centre closing one last time

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Max Scherzer, in the last start of his career, needs 3 more strikeouts to tie Verlander and 4 more to surpass him. He looks like he's prepared to pitch until his shoulder sheers clearly right off the joint. He's at 97 pitches and no is even LOOKING at him as if to yank him. This is my World Series

Max Scherzer framed by the shadows of the rogers centre

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Important, final game of the season, ballpark scran update: Puerto Rican-style mojo pork belly poutine

A plastic bowl designed like a baseball containing the specialty mojo pork belly poutine at the Toronto Blue Jays game

Some dork is gonna reply "does it come with a defibrillator" shut up man

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 27/09/2026

Sad to report that my 5-year-old nephew is at the stage where I will say "let's go Blue Jays" and he will respond "let's go Yankees" just to troll Uncle Matthew hahaha ooooh ya got me kiddo heh (suddenly dead-serious, grabbing him by the shoulders) who taught you this, where did you learn that word

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Reposted by ℳatt

[shopping at costco] why do hot dogs come in packs of 192 but the buns come in packs of 146

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh I certainly could've gone my whole life without having to read that sentence

According to St. Clair, the former MAGA influencer with whom Musk has a child, Musk tries desperately to keep his private life private. Musk offered her $15 million and $100,000 a month for 21 years to sign a nondisclosure agreement requiring her not to share the paternity of her son Romulus with anyone except Romulus himself.
Musk first approached her via Twitter, which she says is not unusual for him. She says she’s since heard from many other young women whom Musk approached on Twitter with the offer to donate his sperm to them in his ardent pronatalist attempt to populate the world with his offspring.
“It’s like a Gatling gun of sperm in his DMs,” she says.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pretty funny that everyone worried that the expanded wildcard format could add a losing team to the playoffs, and then it turns out it's not even the expanded wildcard's fault it's just the AL West being historically ass

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think in retrospect this hot dog I ate is the perfect encapsulation of the 2026 Toronto Blue Jays the INGREDIENTS seemed correct and yet in EXECUTION,

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"Windbreaker" might be the biggest disconnect between a word that SOUNDS badass but is not, in fact, badass

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my man.... what is this I'm looking at here

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I saw some (young?) person commenting on a Norm MacDonald clip like "oh man Norm would've killed it in this social media age" buddy I regret to inform you Norm did have Twitter and it was just a series of unfollowable, dull-as-dirt score updates from random NBA games he was watching

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I'm glad Veep (#7) got some shine as best comedy on the list. This is gonna seem wild to say for a show that won a billion Emmys but: Veep is so underrated. Practically no one quotes or rewatches Veep like they do for Office/Parks&Rec/30 Rock/Curb. We should be!

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I am... not sure that humans have exchange rates?

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Okay but do I need to watch this AND the Social Reckoning to understand what's happening when the Tech Plutocrat Cinematic Universe crosses over

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"SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of" is such an unbelievable terrible name for a documentary presumably aimed at people (comedy fans, people over 40, Canadians) who have indeed heard of SCTV

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For too long, people interested in both flagrant Nazism and in watching matches that were too low-quality for a 3-hour RAW episode have had to spend their days hopping from one platform to another. Those days are over

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There's a part in this trailer where Nic Cage's accent drifts so far from a Madden impression he's doing a... Jimmy Stewart impression? It's like if John Madden was a historical figure we have no voice recordings of and they're just taking their best guess at what he would sound like

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We, as a nation, successfully bullied a bank into firing their CEO for her stupid shirt www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9...

CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO
Jane Smith no longer working for Michigan's Family First Credit Union

A screen grab of an Instagram post by Breaking News Canada from Sept. 13 shows the since-deleted Facebook post by Jane Smith that went viral. (@breakingnews.ca/Instagram)

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You guys wanna see what a quarter-of-a-million dollar property in Toronto looks like? www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

A four-car garage on a laneway in Little Portugal recently sold for $257,000. It’s pictured here on Sept. 11, 2026. Gabe Oatley/TorontoToday

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Canadian patriotism and anti-Trump sentiment at an all time high, Canada's premier sporting event, you know there's only one choice for the halftime act: an Alabaman country singer who played Kid Rock's MAGA festival, has lyrics praising Robert E Lee, and promoted an anti-trans Bud Light boycott

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Remember in 2016 when Glenn Beck tried this exact same schtick? He thought Hillary would win so he recalibrated himself with a scarf and glasses to be a "nonpartisan centrist who's sorry about all that stuff he said" Trump won & he IMMEDIATELY grabbed the steering wheel and veered hard right again

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How is it possible that "all of the Team USA 2026 players came back with bad vibes and fried brains" a prevailing story in both hockey AND baseball right now

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POV it's Canadian Thanksgiving 2026

a two-panel comic by me

1. a guy who might be your uncle or cousin at a counter full of food at thanksgiving asks "So... what happened to your Blue Jays, eh?"

2. you start replying "well I guess the story has to start with the injuries but also you've got guys like" and he cuts you off to say SEE FOR ME I THINK THE BIG THING IS VLADDY DOESN'T CARE. note that I've written this text in a lovely way with my mouse in photoshop, which is much more time consuming than just using the text tool, not that anyone cares!

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The Toronto Blue Jays have officially been eliminated from existence

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I've noticed the most common line you will hear from "guy at the bar who wants to say something super transphobic but is just testing the waters first" has become the old chestnut "my friend's a teacher and apparently the kids are all wearing cat ears and using litterboxes"

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It's amazing how many people will tell you with a straight face that "immigration is spiraling out of control under the Liberals" when the government very publicly, 2 years ago, announced they were slashing immigration targets in half and freezing immigration rates at a hard cap until 2028

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(Bruce Buffer voice) IIIIT'S TIIIIIIIIME

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sadly it appears the iconic Loose Pile Of Raw Onions And Crushed Chips Hot Dog ($12.00) at the Rogers Centre will once again be snubbed and overlooked by the ivory tower elites at Michelin

The worst hot dog I've ever had ($12.00)

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WWE's been relying on AI slop for a while now (both for their video segments and merch) but this shirt is truly something. Clearly AI had no idea what to do with the prompt "lemon pepper stepper" so it filled a cowboy boot with ranch dressing surrounded by a halo of offputtingly textured chicken

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The hero worship of truck drivers is one of the weirder things in American society. Like at some point everyone decided that if you drive for a living you're a replaceable cog of the underclass, unless the thing you drive is quite large, then we write folk ballads about your heroism

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Incredible camera work bit from the Tigers broadcast

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Even with safeish picks, LeBron's parlay was a bust. So if you tailed him, you've now lost your money and you're mad at LeBron. When celebrities sell us shoes or Sprite the worst thing that can happen is we buy shoes or Sprite but LeBron James is now selling the Bankruptcy Machine

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Innnnteresting. The Hockey Hall of Fame is obviously the home of the Stanley Cup, symbolism-wise. Mark Walter, the namesake of the PWHL's Walter Trophy, is currently being indicted for tax fraud after selling the Laker to Jared Kushner's brother. New ownership and new trophy??

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This is fucked! Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford is using an Israeli AI app to create an army of snitches and reply-guys. The app finds valid criticism of the candidate on social media, gives you an AI-written reply to post, then gives you rewards

On Sept. 17, we were given another mission, this time targeting the social media platform X. It arrived as a text: “Hey! A new post just went up, and it’s waiting for you on Victory. Jump in, generate a comment with the AI button, drop a like, and share with friends — every action earns points.”

The task was named “Pushing Back on ‘Part of the Problem’ Attacks,” a reference to comments criticizing Bradford for inaction during his eight years on council.

One critic had replied to Bradford's post: “Haven't you been part of the municipal government for awhile, bradbrad? You're part of the problem lol.”

To push back, LogiVote's AI system had recommended seeding a counter-narrative.

The result, generated for us to post: “So tired of hearing the same excuses from city hall, while nothing changes. Brad, you’ve actually stood up for us — don’t let them say you haven’t tried. We need someone who won’t back down.”

The Victory App asked us to enter our X username to verify we complied and award us 25 in-app coins.

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sir if this is a common problem for you I think you should see a doctor

An AI slop anti-Mamdani post complaining about how the city's new public toilets open after 10 minutes implying that it's normal for pooping to last over 10 minutes

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