Vern Faulkner (Part owner of Canada)
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Vern Faulkner (Part owner of Canada)
@vernfaulkner.bsky.social
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I'm an old fart who lives off grid, loves symphonic metal, rides a motorbike when the Canadian winters allow. Former award-winning journalist, thinking of coming out of retirement and running old-school D&D games again.
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The Vancouver #Canucks announced today that the Android Ash, as seen on the movie "Alien" is listed as "day-to-day with a mild upper-body injury."

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An image of the decapitated android "Ash" from the movie "Alien"
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Look again. Grammatical error.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Rightho. "Toilet Bowl" it is.
Screenshot of a Google News headline stating that Donald Trump wants the NFL Commanders to name a future stadium after him.
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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An image of a kid in a witch costume, vampire costume, and a kid draped in a sheet. An adult handing out candy says "How cute! A witch, a vampire, and a Trump supporter!"
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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That was... generous.
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Dang, kid. #bluejays
Screen grab from second inning of game five of the World Series, showing Trey Yesavage having thrown 18 of 24 pitches for strikes.
October 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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"What could possibly go wrong with rampant unregulated sports betting?"

Follow the money, dudettes and dudes. Follow the money.
Screengrab of a story headline regarding the Ravens mis-reporting the status of a key player.
October 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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We need the challenge system right the fuck now.
Fucking incompetent umpires again.
#bluejays
October 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Seattle Fans...

Karma, much?
Post of a news story including a video where Seattle fans classlessly booed George Springer after the dude took a 90+MPH fastball to the kneecap.
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A discovered checkmate. My head is killing me, but this was pat-yerself-onna-back nice.
Rook sacrifice too.
Lichess chess position. Played poorly, but dang, I liked this finish. r4r1b/p3pN2/1p2Pk2/n2P2R1/8/1P6/PB2B1PP/6K1 b - - 0 33
October 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Yep. Umpires.
Screengrab showing a clear strike called a ball - in (shock) the Yankees favour.
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This is called "burying the lede."
Screenshot of a news story about MLB putting the Jays into afternoon games, where the writer wonders why, then writes "But the Blue Jays weren't great in afternoon contests this season with just a 35-33 record in day games compared to the Yankees (35-23) and Red Sox (32-24). Toronto was much better in night games with a record of 59-35 while the Yankees were 59-45 and Boston was 57-49. "
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Rounding into mid-season form, I see.
A clip of a newspaper article that states Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube is 'driven bananas' by Leafs embarrassing effort.
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Image of a motorcycle parked by a rock-strewn stream with an open wetland in the background; puffy white clouds hang in a sun-drenched blue sky.
September 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A screenshot of a D&D 2e(ish) homebrew herb for rangers. The substantive text reads: The spores of the Calcena mushroom are effective at bolstering the body’s natural healing mechanisms, allowing any individual who inhales the spores to be relieved of even the most severe pain of wounds such as compound fractures, intestinal damage and the like. Further, the body’s nervous system is altered to minimize bleeding – as a result, an individual below zero Body Points is stabilized for two to eight hours. Unfortunately, the spores also cause (mostly harmless) hallucinations, rendering the subject essentially incapable of competent functioning, and requiring active oversight to prevent them from doing something stupid – like moving.
September 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Bullshit. If we can't trust the grocers to label things properly, we can't trust grocers.
Time to grow a set, and fine these fuckers.
Tag of a headline that says big grocers will not be fined for mis-labelling imported food as Canadian.
September 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I just want to waggle a middle finger at any climate-change denying fuckwits.
A heat map of eastern Canada, captured 13 Aug, 2025. It is mostly red/orange as a heat dome shatters high-temperature records across the region.
August 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Fuck, we are stupid. Maybe .... call me crazy .... but beating the everloving snot out of people might be a problem.
Screen capture of Google News feed regarding the deaths of two boxers in Japan.
August 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Sarcasm. We do that for our fosters. As in "she'd be adoptable if only she were cute."
There is no cute in this kitten, none whatsoever.
July 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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In this screenshot, game notes are in Orange. Natural disasters are in red - the crosshatches mean the event is not visible to anyone but me (world events). The blue crosshatched notes are game events: what NPCs are doing, and where they are.
A screen shot from fantasycalendar.com showing various events laid out for a D&D campaign.
July 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Gigi, our newest foster kitty, might be adorbs.
One really damn cute kitten.
June 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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An image of a caveman throwing a boulder in the air. It lands in a gully, rolls up the other side, past cavemen on the other side of the gully, then lands on the thrower. The cavemen on the other side say, "he says it's called a new weapon called a tariff."
May 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Another element is this:
A fantasy map showing a large circular lake with mountains circling the lake and a little island in the middle.
May 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A poster that reads "Happy Leafs Elimination Day! May 18, 2025." At the top are images of Toronto Maple Leaf players bent over; at the bottom is an image of distraught fans. Further text has checkmarks beside the phrases "No cup since 1976, Two post-season series wins since 2004; overpaid superstars consistently underperforming, and Oh, a game seven loss: that's original." Further phrases read "A tradition of failure" and "Spring arrives when the buds are out."
May 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I suppose I can grasp that. I have art in my head, but no talent. I only was able to express that using Indesign and Photoshop.

Lorday, this is more than 20 years old.
A photo illustration from the Esquimalt News showing a girl in a pirate costume, with a chunk of paper impaled on a sword. The paper is actually the start of the newspaper story on an annual pirate-themed festival called "Buccaneer Days." The story is about the econoomic benefits of same.
May 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM