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Fake librarian, real person.
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Each year, Canada's female athlete of the year is presented with the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award.
The namesake of that award was one of the greatest athletes in Canadian history.
Hockey, track and field, baseball, she exceled at nearly every sport.
This is her amazing story.

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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today was a weird day to listen to Reality Winner’s autobiography.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Defrosting a mystery pork tenderloin. It’s not a brand I’ve ever seen before, doesn’t have a store sticker on it, yet somehow is in our freezer.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I’m so glad that my work email is a public document so that I rarely write anything stupid in either professional or private emails.
These guys sure were prolific emailers.
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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At 10:57 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, George Lawrence Price stepped out into a village street in Belgium.
As he did, a German sniper shot him in the chest.
He died one minute later and became the last Canadian soldier to die in the First World War.
This is his story.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The good part about the dogs’ witching hour is it’s about the time that I want a nap. If I napped I wouldn’t sleep tonight then my entire week is messed up.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the
Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king
King: oh criminy
King: this again
King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire
Joyce Carol Oates:
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Being stabbed in the back by poor pillow placement but all the animals are asleep so I can’t move.
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Happy Friday. Only 20 days until Thanksgiving, 48 until Christmas, 216 until the World Cup, and 366,829 until the dark lord Krenonk returns to Earth to assume his rightful place atop his fiery throne.
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#uglydogs Anyone in Minnesota around 2000?
Okay, question for my Minnesotans: One year when I lived there (maybe like … around 2000?) I went to this St. Paul New Year’s Eve thing with my friends, it was a collection of events in a centralized spot, I remember at one venue there was swing dancing (because … it was then). (1/2)
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I didn’t enjoy the 4 am wake up call (which is early for a Sunday) but I am enjoying the dogs calming down an hour earlier this evening. #uglydogs
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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As previously announced, our November book is Whack Job by Rachel McCarthy James. We'll meet on Tuesday, 11/25, at 8 pm at the Taproom to discuss. Bone up on axe murder facts to avoid those awkward political conversations this holiday season. #lfk #booksky @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
A brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture.For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill.Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology—one that has been with us since prehistory. And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees, hunt for food, and whittle tools, they also used it to murder. Over time, this particular use has endured: as the axe evolved over centuries to fit the needs of new agricultural, architectural, and social development, so have our lethal uses for it.Whack Job is the story of the axe, first as a convenient danger and then an anachronism, as told through the murders it has been employed in throughout history: from the first axe murder nearly half a million years ago, to the brutal harnessing of the axe in warfare, to its use in King Henry VIII's favorite method of execution, to Lizzie Borden and the birth of modern pop culture. Whack Job sheds brilliant light on this familiar implement, this most human of weapons. This is a critical examination of violence, an exploration of how technology shapes human conflict, the cruel and sacred rituals of execution and battle, and the ways humanity fits even the most savage impulses into narratives of the past and present.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Full comic! If you want the full strips delivered to your email as soon as they’re published, add your email at the bottom of the comic and click “Follow.” It’s pretty cool, like Substack! social.tinyview.com/qwPIgwXdQXb
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A cold front is blowing through and it smells like McDonalds outside.
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’m thinking about this a week later and had to listen to Rocky Horror. It’s one of those shows whose music actually tells the whole story. I saw the movie on VHS at 8 because it was one of my mom’s favorites.
I remember being ridiculed as a young Theater Kid as we were all sitting around talking about our favorite show tunes and I was super-adamant in my love for Science Fiction/Double Feature. Everyone was going long on obscure Sondheim but I dug in my heels
I feel like this warrants occasional reiteration: for all its campy, culty cache, the music of Rocky Horror Picture Show is unironically, objectively fucking great.
October 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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We meet at the Taproom tomorrow, 10/28, at 8 pm to discuss Katabasis. We'll see you then. #lfk #booksky
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
50k done! It rained the entire time and I fully appreciated the aid tents with heat and hot food.
October 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
50k tomorrow, so it finally started be be autumn with rain all weekend.
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Cheyenne has a better sex toy store than Lawrence.
The sun is at its peak in Wyoming.

I 25 College Drive, Cheyenne,
10/23/2025, 12:45:29 PM
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I was not expecting a RL Stine blurb when I opened up Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey.
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#lfk Stanley James has this for their sauces and it’s so satisfying to squeeze.
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m not paying $5 for a lottery ticket to win money, I’m definitely not paying $250 to get into a marathon lottery where I have to run 26 miles and pay for travel.
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I think this is the first cold weather advisory this fall and I am here for it.
EAX issues Frost Advisory valid at Oct 22, 3:00 AM CDT for Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway, Worth [MO] till Oct 22, 9:00 AM CDT
at Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:48:26 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
October 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM