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brian @unlikely.ca · 26/09/2026

Important question: has a Manitoban band ever covered Louie Louie but changed the lyrics to Louis Riel?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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brian @unlikely.ca · 23/09/2026

It’s Winnipeg in 2026, and YES YOU CAN still get a tasty slice downtown for a toonie, including tax. 🍕

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brian @unlikely.ca · 22/09/2026

3rd Degree Winnipegger achievement unlocked: obtain a haircut under Portage & Main ✅

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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

Thank you everyone for selecting the Late Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin for this incredible and actual honour worthy of everyone’s attention. #bsky38 @bsky38.com

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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s kinda wild that we used to all pirate music and now we all pay for streaming and somehow regular musicians make less money now.

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 21/09/2026

excited to share this illustration i did for 3 Oceans Puzzle Co.! i don’t do a lot of client work anymore, but who am i to resist puffins and a cute little newfie fishing village? you can get this as a really cool wooden puzzle on their site, and i have prints available too! (links below) #art

a fun colourful and textured illustration of one puffin bringing a beakful of fish to three other puffins on a cliff near a brightly-coloured fishing village on the atlantic ocean. humpback whales breach in the background near an iceberg, and a lighthouse shines through the fog. distant seagulls play among the clouds

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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

AI just can’t compute Winnipeg.

Search Assistant (Duck Duck Go): “The mayor of Winnipeg in 1987 was Stephen Juba, who served from 1957 to 1959 and again from 1960 to 1977. Auto-generated from sources. May be inaccurate.”

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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

What would it be like to live in a human economy?

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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

His movie Universal Language is an absurdist pleasure to experience - an awkward love letter to an alternate Winnipeg where the bilingualism is French & Farsi, neighbourhoods are named after the colour of their apartment blocks (beige district, grey district), and Lois Riel is on the currency.

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Cam Regier @camregier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And yet... www.winnipeg.ca/police/commu...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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brian @unlikely.ca · 10/09/2026

We’re just not clicking on html image maps like we used to.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 09/09/2026

Not an artist, sometimes does artist-like things. Rough prototype of Happy Rock for a little upcoming project celebrating Manitoba. (Drawn in Inkscape, no AI)

A cartoon rock in a tophat and with a red towel draped over one arm waves happily towards the viewer. It’s Happy Rock, roadside mascot of Gladstone Manitoba.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 08/09/2026

Coneflower rush hour, Winnipeg

Closeup of a vibrant yellow coneflower being visited simultaneously by a fly, a bee, and a monarch butterfly.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

Compared to nukes, tech shutdowns are *amazing*. Thanks to Big Tech, America - and *only* America - can brick almost any country on earth, shutting down its administration, agriculture and industry without firing a single shot. 45/

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Recognize beauty around you. Realize you can’t control everything. Reflect on how choices can make change. Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided.

Photo of sign against a dark green wall which reads:
REFUSE
TO BE STORED IN
BLACK PLASTIC SACKS
AND PLACED IN THE
CONTAINERS PROVIDED

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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 03/09/2026

Anybody interested in the Canadian government's proposed social media ban for young people (which should be everybody) should pay attention to this.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 26/08/2026

Bully and victim could stop schoolyard violence. It’s not clear that they will.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

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Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey Canadians — honey farmers are really getting hit hard by the tariff news. The US is the market for 60% of Canada’s honey. Honey doesn’t expire. They literally ate 3,000-year-old Egyptian honey & it was fine. Stock up on honey. Give it as gifts! Someone got 50 jars as wedding guest gifts.

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Canada Honey Producers Face 50% U.S. Tariff: What It Could Mean For Prices And Beekeepers

A 50% U.S. tariff on Canadian honey is set to take effect August 19, 2026, and beekeepers across the Prairies are watching the deadline with growing concern.

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The Angry Woman 🇨🇦 @theangrywoman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you're not reading labels and avoiding the purchase of anything from the US, please know that you're purchasing your Country's demise.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 22/08/2026

“A new iron curtain drawn across the 49th parallel. Cut all diplomatic ties as we expel all American dignitaries and issue a nation-wide travel advisory for any others left inside. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide.”

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Sulynn Audition Footage

YouTube video by Propagandhi

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brian @unlikely.ca · 22/08/2026

I take a simple quiet pride from personally removing thousands of dollars from the US economy over the past year and a half through spitefully rejecting their products at every opportunity. I look forward to doubling down.

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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 "However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal."

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

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brian @unlikely.ca · 19/08/2026

Social procurement model in Manitoba

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brian @unlikely.ca · 18/08/2026

Accidentally googled something (instead of using a functional search engine) and got this popup across half my screen. Noped out of there reeeaaalll quick.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 17/08/2026

“DISCOUNT EVERYTHING” - revisiting the same building, approximately 20 years apart #Winnipeg

Vacant downtown building featuring a classic neon sign “Clifford’s” and “for lease” signs as well as a wheatpaste street art image of furniture merchant Nick Hill and the caption “DISCOUNT EVERYTHING”

Photo of the same building 20ish years later, still boarded up and for sale, but the Cliffords sign long replaced with a more
modern “Hakim Optical Factoery” sign. No fun street art.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 17/08/2026

Amazon: from bookseller to book destroyer. Don’t give them money.

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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Imagine that, making people happy increases their productivity?! Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent mashable.com/article/micr...

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Microsoft Japan's 4-day work week boosted productivity by 40 percent

Ditch Fridays, and also long, stupid meetings.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 13/08/2026

Catching The Sadies last night at Blue Note was a pure joy.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 10/08/2026

Hi, my name is Brian, and it’s been 590 days since my last purchase from Amazon.

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