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@paddygurks.bsky.social

Hoops, ball, politics, urban stuff, movies, music: you know, the basics.

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The same people who voted for Brexit? Please.

01.12.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ingram dribbles too much.

01.12.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles β€” if only the carmakers wanted to sell them A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup β€” but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on

Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.

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Pope Leo XIV stand in the aisle of an airplane with passengers seated. The pope from Chicago is holding a baseball bat in his hands.

Pope Leo XIV stand in the aisle of an airplane with passengers seated. The pope from Chicago is holding a baseball bat in his hands.

β€œA man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? … Baseball!”

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Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media The three nuns say they were taken out of the convent against their will and placed in a care home.

Bad Ass Runaway Nuns

Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media. πŸ˜‚

28.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œCome the fuck in or fuck the fuck off.”

28.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 11
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Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us? That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the β€œglobally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.

I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

27.11.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 36

Chaos clusters.

28.11.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fun little evening side quest: the subway and streetcar network in April 1954, but in contemporary style.

28.11.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I don’t think I ever got to wear my preferred 8 as an adult, but I wore 1 and that was cool. As the worst guy on the team there was a certain irony.

27.11.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do.

27.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like Battle’s shooting but I find his defence suspect.

27.11.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I usually have about four people see what I post so…

27.11.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How many in and outs this year? Crazy.

27.11.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bald guys with big beards y/n?

27.11.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh god baseball writers are back on the whole β€œblah blah was first” which no one cares about because none of them will ever be Woj.

26.11.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Arguing against immigration in Canada is nonsensical because without newcomers the workforce shrinks, services falter, and the economy contracts. We built Canada with immigrants and that’s how we will grow it.

26.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In my teens I briefly flirted with bowler hat wearing, a flirtation that abruptly came to an end the day I also tried to eat an apple and got called a 'Magritte Dickhead' by a particularly cultured bully.

25.11.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Also if they're paid protesters they demonstrably have jobs. Pick a slur, Premier.

25.11.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Forget AI, the fact they knowingly broke search in order to put more adverts in front of you, and that you can see this happening every time you use it, is one of the most maddening things to have happened to the internet in recent years.

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How Americans turned flying into a cesspool β€” The Times and The Sunday Times On my last trip back from Mexico City in 2020, a passenger pulled what is now known in some circles as β€œa Kennedy”. Sitting in the first row of first class on a US airline was an American man, dressed...

This is the thing with flying: the airlines have made it an awful experience and now passengers are following suit.

When you treat people like animals, don’t be surprised when they behave that way.

apple.news/AP2jnJkCzToy...

25.11.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing unites us like the guy guessing what object the ball is behind and winning some grocery money.

25.11.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

23.11.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 25293    πŸ” 3752    πŸ’¬ 1312    πŸ“Œ 1084

Imagine paying $44,000,000,000 to be the guy in the carnival dunk tank

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It’s really far for an old man to fly.

23.11.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Denzel Washington is the greatest actor who has ever lived, which is why GOOD MOVIE is dedicating the month of December to him. Beginning December 6th, we're covering four consecutive Denzel movies. But it's up to you to decide which ones get chosen. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

23.11.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 10

Timely…

23.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

3-6-9, damn you fine
Hoping she can sock it to me one more time
Get low, get low (get low), get low (get low), get low (get low)
To the window (to the window), to the wall (to the wall)
'Til the sweat drop down my balls (my balls)
'Til all these bitches crawl

23.11.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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