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Matthew Gourlie

@mattgourlie.bsky.social

Night owl with a day job. Sad optimist. Failed writer & lapsed photographer. Soccer fixated. Passionate about good films & music that is fast, noisy or sad, but ideally all three. Punk values and revolutionary ideals. Cathedral Village, Treaty 4 Territory.

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But if they throw the ball down the field how are they going to get to third-and-3… the end goal of the Matt LaFleur offence at all times.

11.11.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CrΓ©peau’s lousy club form hasn’t affected him with Canada. But I think people are overly critical with St. Clair. Bottom line for me is with Canada there’s not a lot between them. Either guy can do the job.

28.10.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

19 of 22 made in shootouts against DSC for Canada. He didn’t save any of those three. They were all missed. And Canada has lost all four shootouts DSC has been in. Now, having said that he’s my No. 1. I’m not worrying about our PK keeper, I hope we can win a game for a start.

28.10.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the 80s the CFL was more exciting because they were innovative and daring and NFL a coaches were risk-adverse dinosaurs. In the last 25-30 years that’s flipped. The CFL has more space, more players and more motion. It should be more exciting and dynamic. And it’s not.

22.09.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman with blonde hair is making a funny face in a room . ALT: a woman with blonde hair is making a funny face in a room .

Got put on hold.

The hold music is Opus No. 1 by Tim
Carleton.

16.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Su Tissue!

25.08.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty cool he did that in a rare TSN match for Villarreal too.

24.08.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The noise that I made when that hit the back of the net. Filthy.

24.08.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts/gigs you saw.

Weezer
Flaming Lips
Dinosaur Jr.
Circle Jerks
Kim Gordon

21.08.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you aware of autopolo?

02.08.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few come to mind… had a row of 13yo girls there to see Leo who didn’t know how Romeo & Juliet ends. Seeing the Notebook in a full theatre of people sobbing was something. And a woman in our row laughed until she fell out of her seat and hit the floor at the Boo Radley quip in Benny & Joon (?!).

02.08.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the root cause of how the first person died in competition at the Olympics.

09.07.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sure, why not...

I decided to go with Coherence as off-the-board pick instead of trying to decide between Knives Out, Oldboy, Cold War, Adaptation & Talk To Her.

24.06.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hate to put this out into the world but this reminds me of San Pedro Sula.

02.06.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the level it took for the CFL to delay a pre-season game by an hour.

02.06.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It feels right to go with this one on the first day of Pride as well… youtu.be/NHjvDXIkZ_w?...

01.06.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was legitimately wondering what Laura Dern's ex had gotten up to and had always thought he'd seemed cool. I caught up, but it took a minute.

29.05.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uh-oh there might be beef at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival.

24.05.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tired of Waking Up Tired? Get the Sleep You Deserve!
YouTube video by The Brick Tired of Waking Up Tired? Get the Sleep You Deserve!

This makes me feel ancient but hopefully The Diodes made a decent chunk of change…

youtu.be/tD_NnpDm4dc?...

02.05.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How an IT worker from Saskatchewan made the best game of the year - The Logic Balatro is up for every video game award going. Its developer, an anonymous former IT worker from Saskatchewan, explains where the idea came from.

My latest for The Logic, an interview with Balatro developer LocalThunk.
thelogic.co/news/balatro...

06.02.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
Pluralistic: Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 – CONCLUSION) (15 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow suggested that Canada tear up the IP laws they were forced to pass to keep access to US markets and sell jailbreaking kits for US software -- third party ink! tractor repair! independent car maintenance! Don't expect it, but would be cool.

pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/b...

02.02.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8

You on your way home? Pity to be so close but it’s ugly out there. Remind me to tell you about the Super Bowl champion I was trying to interview at Chubby’s…

01.02.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Chubby’s never lets you down!

01.02.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think if you gave WA, OR & CA that option, it might be tempting, no? I am sure it will never happen, but seeing the reaction in some quarters to the LA fires gave me pause.

In the meantime, take care of Woobens Pacius for us. I'm hoping he can have a big year for the Rowdies.

31.01.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

31.01.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 18476    πŸ” 6074    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 85

My first thought was Brando before even seeing the choices. I'm 47. But when I saw Bale, I immediately thought of the Machinist, so that reference worked perfectly too.

24.01.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel that. I'm our work admin for Meta & X. I can't really leave, but I wish I could. I would also miss seeing photos of old friends/family on FB, but it's also 90% ads/groups I have zero interest in now so I feel like I'm not seeing that much anyway.

10.01.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My American friend asked me why Trudeau was resigning. I told her it was because Canada lost in the quarter-finals at the world juniors.

06.01.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like knowing that you listen to Sibylle Baier this much is something I'm going to remember every time I see you on TV.

04.12.2024 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Packers fan, Micah has always been a favourite. We didn't have Rasul Douglas for that long either, but I love that guy too.

04.12.2024 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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