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Matt Carter

@mic-control.bsky.social

Sports info coordinator with the Vancouver Island University Mariners. Baritone saxophonist, radio host, craft beer fan, and generally stoked.

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Great @toomanyzooz.bsky.social show in Errington (!) last night!

12.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s the thing with sports: when you’re in the high-pressure playoff spaces, it might feel like hell. But that’s the greatest thing about sports fandom: you get to feel it. You get to live and die. Feel it, live it, embrace it. You might never forget it, and how many things are like that?

11.10.2025 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remembering the Children – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation β€” CHLY 101.7FM: Listener Supported in Nanaimo BC. In honour of the fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR) , also known as Orange Shirt Day, CHLY 101.7FM in partnership with APTN and others, will air commercial free Spe...

In honour of Orange Shirt Day, CHLY 101.7FM in partnership with APTN, will air Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a 90 minute commemorative gathering, live from Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Hear it from 4:30PM to 6PM on Tuesday September 30th on our station.

30.09.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

30.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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Lower Than Cowards The surrender of America’s elites

In which @adamserwer.bsky.social makes a useful distinction between "chickenshit" and "cowardice." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

25.09.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 15

Met the moment

24.09.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if Kimmel knew he would be that emotional in the monologue. I'm glad. He could have been a bulletproof smartass, but instead he was a human who was genuinely touched by the support he received in the face of actual authoritarian bullshit, and he was appropriately mad about the bullshit.

24.09.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 265    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0
How the FCC torpedoed Jimmy Kimmel | About That
YouTube video by CBC News How the FCC torpedoed Jimmy Kimmel | About That

CBC’s About That w/ Andrew Chang does a really good job explaining the FCC’s role in the Jimmy Kimmel purge and why that is very bad here:

20.09.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 13

All for today's Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and David Letterman haymakers

19.09.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era

youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg

19.09.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2312    πŸ” 788    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 162
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

18.09.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 26802    πŸ” 8858    πŸ’¬ 868    πŸ“Œ 508
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David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: β€œBeating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedyβ€”not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

18.09.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3466    πŸ” 965    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 48
FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweightβ€”it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweightβ€”it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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18.09.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 31486    πŸ” 8202    πŸ’¬ 861    πŸ“Œ 408
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Pretty happy to crack open this beauty from Driftwood after aging it for 10 years. Definitely worth the wait! #BCCraftBeer

09.09.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Frog fountain sprays water towards the camera

Frog fountain sprays water towards the camera

Frog fountain at The Butchart Gardens

15.08.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunsets are beauties from up here eh

11.08.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great tunes from Camille Miller and the OG Guilty Birds Band at the Nanaimo Bar

01.08.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ottawa Bluesfest!
πŸ“Έ Olympus Trip 35
🎞️Kodak Tri-X 400
Developed in Nanaimo by Aviva Stein-Wotten

30.07.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Imperial Stout in a small beer glass

Imperial Stout in a small beer glass

Bayview Brewing folks excited for their food and beer

Bayview Brewing folks excited for their food and beer

A cook means over a smoky grill as he cooks steak

A cook means over a smoky grill as he cooks steak

A singer points at the camera

A singer points at the camera

Shout-out to The Drake in Victoria for their Thirsty Chef celebration -- one of my favourite events of the year!

29.07.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This Spanish buildup is something else -- entertaining game so far

27.07.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well, that was an awesome day

26.07.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😭

24.07.2025 04:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Walking path beside the shoreline

Walking path beside the shoreline

Wide angle photo of trees stretching upwards

Wide angle photo of trees stretching upwards

Sunset behind trees and a grass field

Sunset behind trees and a grass field

Three people walk along a park path in front of tall trees

Three people walk along a park path in front of tall trees

Nice evening for a walk 'round Rathtrevor Provincial Park #ParksvilleBC #VancouverIsland

23.07.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster of a young saxophone player

Poster of a young saxophone player

This Friday: celebrating my birthday with great friends and some of the finest #Nanaimo musicians at Big Bang Cider!

-Dan Marshall (Shakamoraine)
-Scot Rounding (The Kiltlifters)
-Dave St. Jean (Dope Soda)
-Myc Sharratt & Anatol McGinnis
-an opening DJ set with DJ Doc @chly.ca
See you there! ❀️

23.07.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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love to see all of them showing up

22.07.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5173    πŸ” 1157    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 116

Never in the history of prose has there been more evidence of joy while writing about pain

22.07.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey mom, I made the photo album!

Great photos, @residualimage.bsky.social -- hope you had a great time in Nanaimo πŸ™ŒπŸ“Έ

22.07.2025 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one yearsβ€”including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, β€œYou don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. β€œI’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

21.07.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 12845    πŸ” 3736    πŸ’¬ 393    πŸ“Œ 222
Two homemade boats prepare to race in front of a pedestrian bridge full of people

Two homemade boats prepare to race in front of a pedestrian bridge full of people

A 'silly boat' is cheered on by a large crowd on shore

A 'silly boat' is cheered on by a large crowd on shore

A handmade boat made to look like a small house is paddled away from shore

A handmade boat made to look like a small house is paddled away from shore

A team of Silly Boat racers is cheered on by a large crowd on shore

A team of Silly Boat racers is cheered on by a large crowd on shore

No better day in #Nanaimo than the day for Silly Boat races

21.07.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi. Hey. Mike here. When media companies cancel Late Night shows to appease fascist presidents, America fucking ends.

18.07.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4596    πŸ” 724    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 27

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