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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Several guys named Lowe, each pronouncing it a different way

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sort of a holiday-themed take on the Leopards Eating Faces meme

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't know about racist thoughts, but I feel strongly that Jonathan still believes his robust health and longevity is down to the way he properly balanced the bodily humors under that shell and gave offerings to the appropriate spirits of the nether worlds

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can see that, but it feels to me like you kind of realize this is now a bit at 5 and then it becomes a truly funny bit at 6. (YMMV as they used to say on the old, fun internet)

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I feel like the old, good internet could've hosted a fun, rollicking debate about which rake smack indicates the point where this scene flips from weirdly tedious to hilarious and unforgettable. Possibly by No. 6, definitely by No. 7.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look, any half-decent therapist will tell you that a trial separation is a messy affair

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean it’s more fun watching the Jays in the World Series, but the Yanks with more errors than hits through 12 innings of playoff ball is still a decent consolation prize

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I run into this argument all the time as well — someone brought it up at a conference Q&A I was at last week. Glad to have some handy math to point these folks at

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We really don’t have to fall in line with the artless dweeb brigade on this topic, folks

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My man looks like a rejected DC Comics villain called the Peevish Salamander

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe not the most immediate concern, but someone should get in touch with this French publisher avec un peu de vitesse and explain the difference between looking something up in an encyclopedia and copying passages from an encyclopedia

Screencap of the end of the story reading:

Guillaume Allary, founder of the publisher Allary Editions, said forbidding authors from using A.I. was like barring them from ordinary search engines.

“We’re at the beginning of a redefinition of what an author is,” said Mr. Allary, adding that writers would start using A.I., much as Renaissance artists worked with entire teams of people. This reimagining, he said, would mean doing away with “the romantic image of the writer alone with his pen.”

For now, Mr. Allary did not see a clear solution. “As long as the contract between the reader and the writer isn’t clear,” he said, “there will be scandals.”

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe not the most immediate concern, but someone this French publisher avec un peu de vitesse and explain the difference between looking something up in an encyclopedia and copying passages from an encyclopedia

Screencap of final three paragraphs of the Times story, reading: "Guillaume Allary, founder of the publisher Allary Editions, said forbidding authors from using A.I. was like barring them from ordinary search engines.

“We’re at the beginning of a redefinition of what an author is,” said Mr. Allary, adding that writers would start using A.I., much as Renaissance artists worked with entire teams of people. This reimagining, he said, would mean doing away with “the romantic image of the writer alone with his pen.”

For now, Mr. Allary did not see a clear solution. “As long as the contract between the reader and the writer isn’t clear,” he said, “there will be scandals.”

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot

We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s called Super Intelligence for a reason, folks

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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 · 24/09/2026

It's such a ludicrous read on the season too. He worded an observation about how contracts work in an interview a bit clumsily. Meanwhile he played all season like a guy doing everything he could to contribute away from the plate in the midst of a slump that was clearly driving him crazy

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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 · 18/09/2026

Ask not how your country can define “mandate” for you. Ask how you can define “mandate” for your country

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Young John F. Kennedy Smiles

ALT: Young John F. Kennedy Smiles

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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 · 12/09/2026

It’s a thin strand of hope but the 2026 Orioles are totally capable of blowing this lead

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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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