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brian @unlikely.ca · 05/10/2026

MCA’s verse on Professor Booty on Check Your Head is clapping back at MC Serch for that track. Probably the only real diss verse Beasties did?

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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 · 25/09/2026

A moody Manitoba morning, as the song goes.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 24/09/2026

I sent it to my dumb cousin in TO, who is also qualified. He scanned the QR but says he won’t email theuglyposters@outlook.com because the whole experience made him realize he’s beautiful on the inside after all. What a dummy.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 24/09/2026

You know, it’s kind of nice to be seen and know that someone out there has questions. Will not be following a sketchy QR code, however. Anyone brave enough?

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brian @unlikely.ca · 23/09/2026

Actually pretty slick visual and sound design for a local market car company ad in 1984.

Red, green, and blue laser lines bounce around the screen on a black field of stars as 4 larger stars appear mid-screen, soon to morph into the word PARK.

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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

Imagine this but good.

A VERY poorly hand-drawn draft of a passport cover that states “MANITOBA Unofficial Travel Passport + Sticker Book” featuring a questionable looking bison on rollerskates and a jetpack zooming down the Trans Canada highway. Why not?

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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

Sunny the Giant Banana and Breezy Bluejay have entered the chat. Why not?

5 Manitoba characters stand saluting or waving: Flintabbatey Flonatin, Sunny the Giant Banana (with Breezy Bluejay), Happy Rock, and Can D Man.

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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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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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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

Millions/billions/trillions being spent on this very problem: “The hard part is making AI reliable enough that they can depend on it every day” If someone were to invent the computer they could really make a killing.

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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

The film is full of sight gags and in-jokes that only Winnipeggers can fully appreciate (though the comedy and drama of the film don’t depend on these moments, it’s just an extra layer to experience)

Still frame from Universal Language. A man standing in an empty shopping mall looks up mural depicting Brian Pallister and Justin Trudeau with a caption in farsi, subtitle translation: A STRONG ECONOMY HELPS TO PREVENT FEELINGS OF WORTHLESSNESS

Still frame from Universal Language. A large mural depicting Portage Place with a caption in farsi, subtitle translation: PORTAGE PLACE SHOPPING MALL IMPROVING DOWNTOWN WINNIPEG SINCE 1987

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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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brian @unlikely.ca · 21/09/2026

We need to abolish time. We clearly can’t manage it responsibly.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 20/09/2026

FieldStation42. Real ones know.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 17/09/2026

Of the 3 here I’m least happy with Can D Man, because he looks too much like a carbon copy of the original. I’ll have to redo it to introduce some original personality.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 17/09/2026

Thanks for putting this one on my radar. Nabbed a lucky find at the Devil May Care record sale last weekend! Amazing condition/sound for what seems to be an early Canadian repress.

Cover of Roberta Flack’s debut album First Take.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 17/09/2026

Crafty Option: Cut out the letters and rearrange them to BULKY LEECH. (Best anagram I could find)

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

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

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brian @unlikely.ca · 15/09/2026

Everyone’s got the yuck for ‘buyck.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 15/09/2026

Good time to dig out an old $1 or $2 bill?

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brian @unlikely.ca · 13/09/2026

Kid you was definitely on to something, custom photo balloons could be such a fun thing!

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brian @unlikely.ca · 12/09/2026

Thanks! Open to suggestions for other characters representing MB communities. A friend had an idea that there should be a MB roadside attraction passport, so I may try to expand into other roadside attractions/objects that could go together on that.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 12/09/2026

Alright, spent some time on these guys over a couple coffees at Colosimo and Postal. Starting to look better! ☕️☕️ #winnipeg #manitoba

Cartoon versions of Flintabbatey Flonatin, Happy Rock, and Can D Man hang out in front of a background reminiscent of the Manitoba license plate.

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brian @unlikely.ca · 11/09/2026

Microsoft probably: “An Anthropic whistleblower says their models could end humanity in a matter of weeks. Given enough new compute, we can get it down to a matter of seconds.”

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brian @unlikely.ca · 10/09/2026

Day 2, and a draft of another famous Manitoba guy, Flintabbatey Flonatin, for the same project. (Again drawn in Inkscape, no AI)

A cartoon version of Flin Flon’s roadside mascot and namesake, Flintabbatey Flonaton

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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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