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Ryan McGreal
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Off course but constantly correcting. One of Penny’s favourite scent clouds. (he/him)
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Not the point but I did read this post in Elrond’s voice.
Screencap from The Lord of the Rings when Elrond is telling Gandalf about the time Isildur decided to keep the ring instead of casting it into the fire of Mount Doom.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Someone should make a biopic about Kurt Vonnegut and cast either Nick Offerman or Pedro Pascal in the lead role
Photo of Kurt Vonnegut, looking kind of like a face mash of Nick Offerman and Pedro Pascal
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Penny bestriding her domain
Photo looking up an outdoor staircase on the Bruce Trail in Hamilton, Ontario, with a goldendoodle standing at the top with the late morning sun illuminating the dog’s silhouette from behind.
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Meanwhile
Chart of the VIX Index, a measure of market volatility. It spikes upward today.
October 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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This seems fine.
Chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past month. It drops off a cliff today. Chart of the Standard and Poor 500 index over the past month. It drops off a cliff today.
October 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Cupboard butter update, as requested
Photo of a half-pound of butter standing on a kitchen counter with a butter knife sticking out of it to indicate that the butter is hard. A caption at the bottom of the photo reads, “WINTER IS COMING”
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Screenshot from the movie Be Kind, Rewend in which the video store employees discover why their videocassettes have stopped playing movies. Mos Def’s character says to Jack Black’s character: “You’re magnetized! You erased these tapes.”
September 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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“It is a glorch!”
Closeup of Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation with what appears to be a large pimple on his nose. In the original teleplay, he said, “It is a gorch!”
September 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Screenshot from the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Rings when Sam and Frodo are watching a company of elves heading toward the Grey Havens to leave Middle Earth forever. Sam says to Frodo, “I don’t know why … it makes me sad.”
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Screenshot from the end of Dr. Strangelove when he suddenly stands up from his wheelchair and shouts, “Mein Führer, I can walk!”
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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But holy bananapants that’s nothing compared to the air quality in downtown Toronto!
Air quality chart for downtown Toronto, Ontario showing that the air quality index (AQI) is higher than 10, indicating “Very High”. Vertical bars in the chart represent measurements of air quality over time, and starting today they’re just a wall of dark brown running the full height of the chart.
July 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Air quality in downtown Hamilton is poor today #HamOnt
Air quality chart for downtown Hamilton, Ontario showing a current air quality index (AQI) of 8, which is in the High range. Vertical bars in the chart represent measurements over time, and the measurements for today start yellow and advance to red, indicating moderate to poor air quality.
July 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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If the incoming @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social president was a man, would the @thespec1846.bsky.social article about her open with a lede paragraph describing his clothing and appearance? #HamOnt
Cropped photo of a newspaper article from the Hamilton Spectator, published on July 3, 2025. The opening paragraph reads: “Sitting in front of an impressive hearth in the provost's office, widely considered the best at the uni-versity, wearing a smart navy suit dress, Susan Tighe has the tailored look of an academic leader.”
July 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Four-panel screenshot from Arrested Development in which Tobias and Lindsay are talking. In the first panel, Tobias says, “They said the country had weapons of mass destruction and invading it would be a cakewalk and we would be greeted as liberators.” In the second panel, Lindsay says, “Well, did it work for those people?” In the third panel, Tobias says, “No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but…” And in the fourth panel, Tobias turns to her and continues, “…but it might work for us.”
June 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Found an owl on the Bruce Trail #HamOnt
Photo of an eastern screech owl (I think) standing on a branch
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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According to the Government of Canada, #HamOnt has an air quality index of 9
Screenshot from Government of Canada Air Quality page showing an air quality index of 9, measured downtown at 4:00 pm
June 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The air quality in southwestern Ontario is 7, and the source of the air pollution is the hundreds of wildfires raging thousands of kilometres away.

Are we really just going to normalize this?

We are in a climate emergency, and we should start acting like it.
June 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Another data point in the hypothesis that we are living in the bleakest timeline (with apologies to both Abed and Dr. Pangloss).
Animated gif from the TV show community in which Troy returns with pizzas to discover that study group has descended into utter chaos.
June 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Maybe the planet is trying to tell us something?

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Screenshot from the Globe and Mail. The headline reads: “Wildfires force Alberta oil sands producers to evacuate workers, stop some oil flows” published June 2, 2025
June 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The sun is looking eerily red and hazy over Hamilton, Ontario #HamOnt
Photo of the reddish hazy sun
June 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Lilac overhanging the sidewalk in Kirkendall #Hamont
Closeup photo of lilac flowers with a residential sidewalk visible in the background in Hamilton, Ontario
May 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The irony is not lost on me that I’m struggling to sustain the attention required to read this nevertheless genuinely enthralling book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Photo of the book The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
May 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Mark Carney during Trump’s trade comments
Screenshot of Jim Halpert from The Office looking wanly into the camera
May 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Did you mean to publish this?
Screenshot of the Globe and Mail article. The headline reads: “WORKING FILE, DON’T PUBLISH: Honda EV plans”
May 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Lilac on Aberdeen #Hamont
Closeup photo of a flowering lilac in Hamilton, Ontario
May 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM