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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s a good thing the Jays are having a nice final game because the games that actually mean something today are all defaulting to the most boring possible outcomes.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With the Jays eliminated, my favourite MLB playoff race is the AL West, where one of these teams will, at BEST, tie the all-time record for fewest wins (82) by an MLB division winner. More likely, the record is broken — and the prospect of the ENTIRE division ending under .500 is still in play.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Blue Jays fans when the team pulls off a much-needed win despite many, many things about the season still going sideways.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Might not last the night but wildly, incredibly — the 2026 Toronto Blue Jays are currently in a playoff spot.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Checking in on the Jays/Yankees

Ejection: Yankees manager Aaron Boone ejected by HP umpire Vic Carapazza

Ken Wantanabe from Godzilla: “Let them fight”

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gregg Alexander of the New Radicals has two (!) new songs out right now — a version of "The Game of Love" (which he originally wrote) with Michelle Branch, and the main theme of the One Night Only movie — and is a 56 year old man. Still all about the bucket hat. Brand game strong.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Shout-out to the Sportsnet team for finding the most exhausted looking photo of Ross Atkins imaginable for their trade deadline promo.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

No previews (aside from the Dune 3 sneak peak). No commercials. Human introducing the movie. Humans greeting and thanking us on the way out. 70mm film projection. Odysseus was right: civilization CAN return.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Won’t be able to get to the Odyssey until next weekend, sadly, but kind of amazing that there are only 41 screens worldwide showing it in 70mm IMAX and HALIFAX, of all places, is home to one of them. Take advantage of it, Nova Scotians.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wild vibe shift between the AL and NL podiums at the MLB All-Star Game press conference today.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Really hard to gauge what's happening in Nova Scotia politics right now. Here's three recent polls documented by @canadianpolling.bsky.social — the PC spread is 11 points, with the Liberal spread 12 points and the NDP 18 (!)

PCNS 40%, NDP 31%, SNL 22%, Abacus, June 26-July 2, sample size 600, online

NDP 45%, PCNS 29%, NSL 23%, Narrative, June 10-17, sample size 733, online

PCNS 38%, NSL 34%, NDP 22%, MQO, July 3-9, sample size 488, online/telephone

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Take these two PCJ Final Jeopardy questions as another case in point. The first is a little obtuse, and grounded in specialist knowledge of a song's origins, but still gives you enough to guess from. (It's a song about the 1950s, John Lennon's son was at least a conversational age, etc.)

SONG ORIGINS
"This song grew out of a conversation with Sean Lennon & his friend, who argued that 'Nothing happened in the '50s'"

ICONIC SONGS
"Scribbled on airline stationery, the words 'Belladonna' and "Castanetta' appear in an early draft of that song."

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Runaway highlight of tonight’s CBC Nova Scotia News was the word “Jizbots” in this clip about a Scrabble tournament in Thailand.

CBC Nova Scotia News clip featuring two people playing scrabble. One of them has his tiles arranged to spell “Jizbots”

Scrabble tiles in a player’s stash that are laid out to read “Jizbots”

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Yep - during the Ted Leo + Pharmacists vs Fucked Up Battle of the Bands after party.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Not a political comment so much as a reality one: If you genuinely think that Donald Trump "cares so much about everybody," you really, really need to stop and question who, exactly, you consider to be "everybody."

Screencap of Noah Syndergaard on Fox News. His quote: "It's like a dream come true. I'm riding on bliss in this interview with you right now. I don't understand the negativity he gets. He cares so much about everybody."

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! (Ok - mostly just pretty good. But we love a pretty good time at the movies!)

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Real Blade Runner-era Rutger Hauer vibes from Robert Pattison in the new Dune trailer...

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Who, for what it's worth, seems to be doing ok at keeping the good vibes intact on this miserable slog of an US WBC team.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Somehow was even worse than the strike three called against Soto in the seventh.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Sunday night swingin’ and Sinnin’

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Fascinated by the Spielberg-forward marketing campaign for Disclosure Day. It's Universal taking a page from its Christopher Nolan and Jordan Peele playbook and applying it to a legacy director — and I'm very curious to see how it goes.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Tim Houston trying to get to the bottom of why all these people are yelling at him.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Tim Houston does seem the type to be much more concerned with HOW people are angry with him than WHY, doesn’t he?

Facebook post from David W Hillier: “I don't like posting about politics but I had an interesting conversation last night with Tim Houston. He was at the Lismore Wintertime Review in Pictou County where I met him many times at local events. He came up to me with his wife and no security at my audio engineering table and we had a great chat. I told him about our local Music Nova Scotia funding being cut and the broader issues in all of the Arts and Culture. He was aware of the issues but totally pissed off about the retaliation being people screaming FU and FB garbage comments. I suggested starting from scratch but he didn't think that would work and suggested most folks should forget about the Government handouts and get out there finding new ways to make money! What do you think?”

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Attn Nova Scotians: Interrupter clause tonight, price of gas jumping 9.3 cents.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Nova Scotia's Education Minister, folks. Not exactly making the grade.

Two pie charts labelled "School travel models before/after free transit pass." The first pie chart shows that after the pass was implemented that 33.7% of students took transit, while the second shows that before the pass it was only 11.5%

Education Minister Brendan Maguire speaking at a podium. Quote: "It's a 20% increase in usership. That's what it is."

Education Minister Brendan Maguire at a podium. Quote from journalist (off-camera): "It's a 200% increase, Minister."

Education Minister Brendan Maguire at a podium. Quote: "Um, yes, sorry, I'm not the best at numbers."

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Taking up 54 minutes of the NDP’s hour-long question time with just ONE ANSWER - that’s the level of contempt our premier is showing for the legislative process.

In the NDP’s first designated hour for asking questions, NDP Leader Claudia Chender accused the Progressive Conservatives of not taking seriously the issue of high power bills.

In response, Houston spoke for 54 minutes about the history of the energy file going back more than 15 years, enumerating the failures, according to him, of past NDP and Liberal governments.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If you are in search of a DVD copy of the 2014 Kevin Hart romantic comedy “About Last Night” — the Dartmouth Value Village has you covered.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Tim Houston with some salient advice from the Doug Ford playbook: when in doubt, pour one out.

News headline: NS premier booed at African Heritage Month gala as budget cuts spark upset.

Image of Tim Houston as Mr. Burns and Doug Ford as Mr. Smithers. Quote: "Doug, are they booing me?"

Image of Tim Houston as Mr. Burns and Doug Ford as Mr. Smithers. Quote: "Uh, no, they're saying 'Boo-oze, boo-oze'"

Headline: "Ontario, Nova Scotia sign deal to allow direct-to-consumer alcohol sales."

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So proud of my friend Billy for speaking at the NS Public Bills Committee today about his concerns with amendments to the Community Colleges Act and their potential impacts on NSCC. www.youtube.com/live/4MQgLo5...

Man in grey blazer wearing glasses. Title card: Billy Comeau

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The political leanings of American NHL players are no surprise (see chart) but that doesn't make their lack of solidarity with their female counterparts any less embarrassing.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Happy 40th to the greatest video game series of all time.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Shout it from the rooftops, Sam.

Let’s call this what this is: the worst kind of politics. The Mayor put forward something that virtually everyone else in the room rightly recognized as poorly thought out, poorly prepared, and completely impossible to do in the available timeline and despite all that overwhelming feedback, the Mayor, evidently, still feels everyone else is wrong. This is deeply unserious governance. Council not accepting this barely half-baked motion isn’t the reason he can’t deliver on the flat-tax rate that he promised during the election. This is just a clumsy attempt to scapegoat Council. If the Mayor wanted a lower potential tax bill, he should have moved more cuts, not shown up at the 11th hour with an idea that was impossible to implement.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Like a lot of late-era U2, the band’s surprise new EP would be perfectly fine and forgettable except for the BONO! of it all, which pushes it decidedly into embarrassing territory. “American Obituary” is… something.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Happy 15th anniversary to the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness.

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Ryan McNutt @mcnutt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“The service reduction is required due to repairs needed on the Vincent Coleman vessel, which experienced a mechanical issue last week.”

Clip from the Heritage Minute on the Halifax Explosion featuring Vincent Coleman, with his colleague yelling at him, “Come on, Vince, come on!”

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