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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you drop a deep-cut reference to Canadian alt-rock this clever, I think you can just bring your phone to the nearest embassy and we'll give you a passport

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chris murphy kick

ALT: chris murphy kick

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even moreso for those of us on the Anthropic claim whose meth dealer looted our garages for the supplies to cook their meth

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two spokespeople at the adjacent Hampton Inn & Suites welcomed the expanded shopping district. “Come play with us,” they told reporters

Two friendly twin girls in a totally normal hotel hallway in an image one might use to illustrate the opening of a new hotel, if that hotel was haunted and/or cursed

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always enjoy hearing about someone’s first experience of Copenhagen’s bike infrastructure. It’s maybe a bit like the first time someone with cochlear implants encounters the full normal auditory spectrum

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As I’ve grown older I’ve gravitated to the gritty vets still getting it done in the final stages of their careers as my favourite players. Really liked Tulo as a Jay. And I adored watching George Springer play every day for 6 years. Played with his whole heart and a lot of joy. So long pal

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LADY MACBETH: Infirm of purpose! Give me the fucking daggers

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There’s a guy in the first pic quite clearly wearing a Masters ballcap backwards, so, you know, yes

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The truth is that every baseball game is meaningless, it just takes longer each season for some fans to come to this realization than others

Sartre reviews the previous day's box scores while sipping coffee and smoking a pipe at a Paris cafe

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Stupid Canadian wolf bird call

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ain’t no political flex like the trophies-in-a-regional-bonspiel flex

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In conclusion, Alberta is a land of contrasts

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Baseball is still a delight, especially in early fall, even when your team is no longer a contender

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There’s a certain kind of Jays fan I never see posting about baseball on here until a night like this one and I’m happy for you folks that you got what you wanted I guess?

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Toronto Blue Jays George Springer

Alt: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder George Springer wondering, as Lisa Simpson once put it, why they would come to our concert just to boo us

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah that’s about it for the 2026 Blue Jays. They’ll play the last 5 games with one healthy starting pitcher under the age of 40, which is a big part of why they are in danger of finishing under .500 for the year

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

U of C poli-sci prof Pablo Policzer (a good friend and wise counsel) has a great piece in the Calgary Herald suggesting his colleagues are underestimating the calamity of Alberta separating in their report to the government on costs calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Screencap from the linked article reads: "The report treats economics as though it comes first and politics second, as if costs could be worked out separately from how government would work. But the causation runs the other way: whether Alberta gets anything like the numbers proposed depends on what kind of political community it becomes, including whether power stays checked, revenue stays transparent and government stays answerable to people."

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is pretty much straight-up what the “integrity in women’s sports” transphobe crowd would have you believe is a common occurrence

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've known @maxfawcett.bsky.social for many years and admired his work and sometimes worried a bit about his willingness to pick fights with randos on the internet, so I'm startled to learn that it's his mildly colloquial use of the term "mandate" that has seemingly all of US Bluesky in a tizzy

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine going back in time to 2003 and explaining to a roomful of progressives that in 2026 Karl Rove would break with the Republican Party on legit ethical principles

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Against a very weak field, you do still probably have to win as many as you lose to make the postseason

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 2026 Blue Jays are trying to teach all of baseball’s deep existential lessons in a single wildcard race

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is roughly 98 percent of the reason why Alberta’s UCP government sabotaged a booming clean energy industry, which not even Texas was blinkered enough to do

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My dream of becoming Special Trade Diversification Envoy to a hill town in Andalusia is closer to fruition than ever!

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Your 2026 Toronto Blue Jays! (pictured L-R: bullpen, starting pitching, offence)

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Jays may or may not make the postseason but if you’re on the bandwagon you should get to know more about delightfully weird goofball, ambitious amateur artist and Cy Young contender Dylan Cease

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Country Feedback. But the one I listen to most often is Begin the Begin

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Alberta's UCP government continues to go well beyond other jurisidictions in ensuring that energy projects leave no long-term environmental scars. No, no, not *those* energy projects -- just solar panels pvbuzz.com/alberta-pane...

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Alberta’s new $14-per-panel recycling fee adds $1M to solar projects - PVBuzzMedia

Alberta will introduce a $14-per-panel solar recycling fee Oct. 1. BRC-Canada says it could add roughly $1 million to an average solar project.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Perhaps not, but there's some real innovation in the deployment of quotation marks at the end there

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

MLB should also allow each team to ban one of its own players from having their challenges accepted in any and all circumstances and the Jays should invoke that ban on Andres Gimenez immediately

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really wasn’t that long ago that a major GOP official misspelling “potato” was a gaffe of almost career-ending magnitude. You can explain the basics of exchange rates to a literal kindergarten class

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Really didn’t understand until just now how hard things have become for post-Brexit Britain

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For bandwagon fans wondering if what they just saw should've been called a balk, the answer is nobody knows. And never has. Balks are like a mischievous forest sprite alighting upon a lilypad when the moon is full. And then telling the lilypad it started its pitching motion.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Someone make sure Dylan Cease sees this

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is somehow a response to a post about record high diesel prices

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the best suggestion I’ve heard for persuading Canadian tourists to start visiting the US again. I might even buy a bottle of bourbon to celebrate at that kind of party

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One would hope this might reduce the emphasis publishers put on social media follower counts when deciding on whether to acquire books and how much of their shrinking budgets to spend on such titles, if one is inclined to actually still have hope in such things

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When you confuse badassery with dumbassery, painful hilarity ensues. A childhood full of Warner Bros. cartoons taught me that

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Elmer Fudd Traps Bugs Bunny with a Carrot

ALT: Elmer Fudd Traps Bugs Bunny with a Carrot

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really makes for a tidy little triptych of the state of observable reality right now (plus a screencap of what I see on Google Maps here at a Nova Scotia IP address as fact check)

Screencap of a Google blog post showing how the lake that has been named Lake Ontario for 400 years or more is now labelled otherwise in the United States and has gained a parenthetical addition in the non-Canadian parts of the world, for I guess the same reason you might acknowledge that the months of the year have different names in Turkmenistan to satisfy a mad dictator (but generally don't do that because why would you do that?)

Screencap of Lake Ontario from Google Maps, showing how it is labelled Lake Ontario, to indicate that it goes by the name of Lake Ontario, because it is called Lake Ontario and always has been and what a time to be alive

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“There are so many odious characteristics of the second coming of Trump … that it’s easy to overlook the sticky, suffocating, ankle-deep stupidity animating so much of this.” Truth. I remind myself regularly that the President believes stealth aircraft are invisible like Wonder Woman’s plane

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The thing about nuclear power is you need that firm, reliable, baseload generation to balance finicky intermittent renewables and also something something too cheap to meter

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is quite a dig at Eisenhower Republicans

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MAGA folks will likely miss the dry wit being employed here

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One fun way to greet this silly news would be to goose the streaming numbers on all platforms for this very pretty song by eastern-Ontario-based singer-songwriter and all-around nice guy Jim Bryson www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbZA...

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Jim Bryson - Ontario

YouTube video by thevergeonline

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Drains into Lake I-Know-You-Are-But-What-Am-I down the Strait of Nuh-Uh

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

No great surprise at this result, but Danielle Smith and the UCP effectively destroyed an entire high-growth industry in Alberta in the name of pure ideological axe-grinding pvbuzz.com/albertas-ren...

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Alberta’s renewable energy deals have collapsed 99%. What happens next? - PVBuzzMedia

Only 38 MW of new solar capacity was added, the lowest annual growth since 2019.

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