Tim Winkelmans 🇨🇦🫛🦉🎮
@twinkel.bsky.social
Retired educator and public servant, plays Magic the Gathering, watches a few birds, collects stamps, strives for a decent vegetable garden, known to read books. DM replies rare. Original pictures: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Not too late for your 2026 goals
Source: cinemaisdreamy
Source: cinemaisdreamy
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Not too late for your 2026 goals
Source: cinemaisdreamy
Source: cinemaisdreamy
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BackyardBirds
February 5, 2026 at 2:14 AM
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #BackyardBirds
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TRAGIC BREAKING NEWS: Our nation’s Olympic hopeful in the Luge event, (Jack Holloway) will not be competing for a medal this year.
He did not complete his time trial, as Holloway pulled a mussel. Quite a few actually. Absolute peckish muppet.
He did not complete his time trial, as Holloway pulled a mussel. Quite a few actually. Absolute peckish muppet.
February 4, 2026 at 12:04 AM
TRAGIC BREAKING NEWS: Our nation’s Olympic hopeful in the Luge event, (Jack Holloway) will not be competing for a medal this year.
He did not complete his time trial, as Holloway pulled a mussel. Quite a few actually. Absolute peckish muppet.
He did not complete his time trial, as Holloway pulled a mussel. Quite a few actually. Absolute peckish muppet.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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DEAD MAN'S WIRE takes some clear scene-for-scene inspiration from Sidney Lumet's DOG DAY AFTERNOON — but then, they're both based-on-a-true-crime thrillers about ordinary people taking hostages and winning unlikely fandoms. We compare and contrast this week: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
#509: Captive Audiences, Pt. 2 — Dead Man's Wire by The Next Picture Show
Even without the Al Pacino connection, Gus Van Sant's new dramatization of a real-life 1970s hostage situation turned public spectacle was destined for comparisons to Dog Day Afternoon.
cms.megaphone.fm
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM
DEAD MAN'S WIRE takes some clear scene-for-scene inspiration from Sidney Lumet's DOG DAY AFTERNOON — but then, they're both based-on-a-true-crime thrillers about ordinary people taking hostages and winning unlikely fandoms. We compare and contrast this week: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
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A new 500 Songs paid-backer-only Patreon bonus is now up! Pythagoreanism! Benny Hill! Dolly Parton! Wahabbism! Peter Gabriel! Anthony Newley! Jimi Hendrix! Nigel Hawthorne! Osama bin Laden! It can only be Yusuf/Cat Stevens, and "Father and Son"!
500 Songs Bonus: "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens | Andrew Hickey
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January 26, 2026 at 1:23 AM
A new 500 Songs paid-backer-only Patreon bonus is now up! Pythagoreanism! Benny Hill! Dolly Parton! Wahabbism! Peter Gabriel! Anthony Newley! Jimi Hendrix! Nigel Hawthorne! Osama bin Laden! It can only be Yusuf/Cat Stevens, and "Father and Son"!
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January 24, 2026
January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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January 4, 2025
January 4, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the administration’s message about its strikes on Venezuela to the Sunday talk shows this morning.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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I don't know if the game designer was trying to make some kind of hilariously cynical theological point, or if they were trying to trap children in an endless Jesus loop so the Sunday school teacher could slip out back and smoke up with the priest. Either way it will either enrage or delight gamers.
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I don't know if the game designer was trying to make some kind of hilariously cynical theological point, or if they were trying to trap children in an endless Jesus loop so the Sunday school teacher could slip out back and smoke up with the priest. Either way it will either enrage or delight gamers.
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Unbelievable how fast they moved. The vote was yesterday and already the machinery of ego is grinding.
A national cultural institution bent, renamed, and defaced at record speed to flatter a narcissistic felon.
Another stain on our history & country 🤬
www.independent.co.uk/news/kennedy...
A national cultural institution bent, renamed, and defaced at record speed to flatter a narcissistic felon.
Another stain on our history & country 🤬
www.independent.co.uk/news/kennedy...
The Kennedy Center starts work to add Trump's name onto the building
The Kennedy Center is starting to add President Donald Trump's name to the building
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Unbelievable how fast they moved. The vote was yesterday and already the machinery of ego is grinding.
A national cultural institution bent, renamed, and defaced at record speed to flatter a narcissistic felon.
Another stain on our history & country 🤬
www.independent.co.uk/news/kennedy...
A national cultural institution bent, renamed, and defaced at record speed to flatter a narcissistic felon.
Another stain on our history & country 🤬
www.independent.co.uk/news/kennedy...
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FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
#riverotters river otter action near Sidney , British Columbia
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
#riverotters river otter action near Sidney , British Columbia
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I’ve never heard of a Wreckhouse Wind Warning, is that bad? It sounds bad.
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’ve never heard of a Wreckhouse Wind Warning, is that bad? It sounds bad.
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Heather Cox Richardson on the U.S. NSS
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
From her synopsis:
“...this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada.
“...the U.S. wants Europe to take over most of NATO’s defense capabilities by 2027.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
From her synopsis:
“...this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada.
“...the U.S. wants Europe to take over most of NATO’s defense capabilities by 2027.”
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Heather Cox Richardson on the U.S. NSS
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
From her synopsis:
“...this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada.
“...the U.S. wants Europe to take over most of NATO’s defense capabilities by 2027.”
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
From her synopsis:
“...this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada.
“...the U.S. wants Europe to take over most of NATO’s defense capabilities by 2027.”