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Director, Pahkisimon Nuyeʔáh Library System. Five-time Virtua Fighter champion of Winnipeg. Duties as assigned. He/him. See also THUNDERBOLT HOPE, thunderbolthope.ca

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Why you shouldn’t count on SPF for all of your sun protection | CBC News Sunscreen manufacturers assign an precise SPF number using an imprecise method of lab testing, which could be giving Canadians a false sense of security when using sunscreen to protect themselves from...

"There are newer testing techniques that don’t require burning human participants, but they are not yet accepted in Canada or the U.S." That just raises further questions!!

27.02.2026 17:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This four-eared cat is up for adoption, and the applications are rolling in | CBC Radio An Alabama cat that's up for adoption is getting a lot of buzz, thanks in part to its extra set of ears. Stephanie Brown, who is fostering the rare feline, says veterinarians told her this genetic mut...

The ears give him a +1 Constitution buff but he starts each battle with Confusion 2

26.02.2026 20:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SIXTINE COUSIN AGE 26 and it's a ski lady

SIXTINE COUSIN AGE 26 and it's a ski lady

it's-a me, mario. i got-a big-a family. i got-a

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me when a cowboy makes a spurious claim

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Ahead of tonight’s dueling halftime shows, a reminder that the cost of diggy is out of reach for many Americans

08.02.2026 19:58 👍 349 🔁 66 💬 13 📌 2
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

07.02.2026 15:39 👍 8709 🔁 2581 💬 73 📌 69

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

07.02.2026 14:34 👍 17864 🔁 4466 💬 250 📌 110

Having joined the franchise partway through the season, this was the first real opportunity for Atlanta Hawks General Manager Winnie-the-Pooh to begin implementing his vision for the team

04.02.2026 23:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

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dawg you have Jean Chrétien talking like Mao

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Google with AI buttons

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

03.02.2026 00:30 👍 23335 🔁 11641 💬 287 📌 229

Remembering everything about an advertisement except for the product being advertised is, to my mind, the best way to engage with television commercials.

"It's Patrick! He took out life insurance! GOOD for you, son!"
"...Where did he get it from?"
"I don't know, his work or wherever, who cares"

30.01.2026 17:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Virginia Hey Oil of Olay Bugsy Brown 1989
Virginia Hey Oil of Olay Bugsy Brown 1989 YouTube video by Retrontario

I did not remember it taking place in an Australian airport hanger(?), and yet, there they are: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWx...

30.01.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
PORK CHOP CASH

PORK CHOP CASH

When my wife asks why I just took $60 out of the ATM:

13.01.2026 00:37 👍 2458 🔁 493 💬 10 📌 13
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own] An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

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i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

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The Keys to the City of New York Are Made in New Jersey

The Keys to the City of New York Are Made in New Jersey

Springsteen ass headline

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had a dream i was opening Yu-Gi-Oh cards and i got one that was just named "Hot Dog with Wing"
it was a hot dog in a bun with a single angel wing

26.12.2025 15:01 👍 232 🔁 51 💬 9 📌 4

♫ It's the most wonderful time of the year~ ♫

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Not a bad way to spend the afternoon

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One of the (very!) few things keeping me going through deeply mentally rough tween and teen years was a worn old cassette of Peter Gabriel's So, and he had remained a musical north star for me ever since. But if he was involved in Epstein shit, then he's dead to me, and that is all there is to that

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“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

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The Hudson’s Bay Company section of the Flin Flon, Manitoba Canadian Tire, six shelves at the end of an aisle divider between some hockey equipment and some fake Christmas trees.  This is all they are now.  Think about what the maps of Rupert’s Land used to look like.

The Hudson’s Bay Company section of the Flin Flon, Manitoba Canadian Tire, six shelves at the end of an aisle divider between some hockey equipment and some fake Christmas trees. This is all they are now. Think about what the maps of Rupert’s Land used to look like.

That’s how it goes, after three-hundred and fifty-five years: reduced to a single end-row of a different company’s big-box store, crammed between the fake Christmas trees and the hockey sticks, just down the main corridor from the seasonal Pickle Rick mugs. Private equity: Not Even Once

16.12.2025 19:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The exterior of the Prospector Inn in Creighton, Saskatchewan, with three motel-style exterior doors along the side of the building leading to the marked office of the establishment.

The exterior of the Prospector Inn in Creighton, Saskatchewan, with three motel-style exterior doors along the side of the building leading to the marked office of the establishment.

A standard-size 8.5x11 paper taped to the inside of a room window, likely run off of the printer in the hotel office, reading as follows: 
“Laurence checked 
out.  Please don’t 
knock on the door.
Thanks.”

A standard-size 8.5x11 paper taped to the inside of a room window, likely run off of the printer in the hotel office, reading as follows: “Laurence checked out. Please don’t knock on the door. Thanks.”

Environmental storytelling

16.12.2025 18:08 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can't wait to forget I own this and burst out laughing every time I turn my head from my desk to my bulletin boards

14.12.2025 04:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A standard-size manila envelope, labeled '899' and then 
"Winnipeg Jets 
96 Various Years , 
Players + Brands
Mint Condition"

A standard-size manila envelope, labeled '899' and then "Winnipeg Jets 96 Various Years , Players + Brands Mint Condition"

A long-shot photo of the hockey cards in question, protected by three-by-three plastic card-holder pages.  You do not recognize most of these people.

A long-shot photo of the hockey cards in question, protected by three-by-three plastic card-holder pages. You do not recognize most of these people.

Another photo from the auction listing, this time a closer cross-section of some of the cards, including prime let's-remember-some-guys players like Doug Evans, Mark Osborne and Paul MacDermid.  There is, however, one interesting outlier card in the page along the top-middle of the photo.

Another photo from the auction listing, this time a closer cross-section of some of the cards, including prime let's-remember-some-guys players like Doug Evans, Mark Osborne and Paul MacDermid. There is, however, one interesting outlier card in the page along the top-middle of the photo.

A closer crop of the previous photo reveals that the poster has purchased one mint-condition card from the 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum Celebrity Captain series, card #290, which depicts Winnipeg-born singer-songwriter and yoga-studio-enemy Burton Cummings skating on the ice in full Winnipeg Jets gear.  

(A mint-condition copy of this one card alone is worth more than ten dollars.  Not a LOT more than ten dollars, but a savings all the same.)  

What a thing to own!  It will hang carefully in his office at work.

A closer crop of the previous photo reveals that the poster has purchased one mint-condition card from the 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum Celebrity Captain series, card #290, which depicts Winnipeg-born singer-songwriter and yoga-studio-enemy Burton Cummings skating on the ice in full Winnipeg Jets gear. (A mint-condition copy of this one card alone is worth more than ten dollars. Not a LOT more than ten dollars, but a savings all the same.) What a thing to own! It will hang carefully in his office at work.

Today I successfully bid ten Canadian dollars on an envelope of 96 mint-condition Winnipeg Jets hockey cards in a Prince Albert auction, which means I now own 95 cards of various who-cares crumb-bums and trivia questions and then one mint-condition copy of the most important hockey card in the world

14.12.2025 04:43 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0