Warren Opheim
@warrenopheim.bsky.social
Edmonton ➡️ Vancouver ➡️ Comox Valley
I’m so cool, I was wearing today’s retro clothing 40 years ago.
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I’m so cool, I was wearing today’s retro clothing 40 years ago.
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I turned 63 today.
Fuck ya. It gets better all the time.
Keep kicking at the darkness my friends.
It is bleeding daylight.
Fuck ya. It gets better all the time.
Keep kicking at the darkness my friends.
It is bleeding daylight.
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I turned 63 today.
Fuck ya. It gets better all the time.
Keep kicking at the darkness my friends.
It is bleeding daylight.
Fuck ya. It gets better all the time.
Keep kicking at the darkness my friends.
It is bleeding daylight.
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The real problem with AI generation as a tool for liberating everyone’s creativity is that most people’s “great ideas” that their lack of skills are holding back suck shit
Still waiting for this fucking technology to write the next great American novel instead of just defiling the memory of people to do racism or making Sonic the Hedgehog enjoy meth
OpenAI announced that it has "paused" users' ability to generate videos of Martin Luther King Jr. on its artificial intelligence video tool Sora, following backlash over "disrespectful depictions." https://cnn.it/4qxP0KX
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The real problem with AI generation as a tool for liberating everyone’s creativity is that most people’s “great ideas” that their lack of skills are holding back suck shit
Just signed up for a subscription three weeks ago.
September 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Just signed up for a subscription three weeks ago.
It’s not anti-USA, it’s pro-Canadian.
Stop making every little thing be about your whining, space-wasting self.
Stop making every little thing be about your whining, space-wasting self.
MAGA ambassador Pete Hoosktra is telling Canada that he doesn't like the term "elbows up." He says it's anti-American.
Sorry Pete, your president might be able to fire Jimmy Kimmel but you don't get to tell Canadians how to talk.
Elbows up Mother-stucker.
Sorry Pete, your president might be able to fire Jimmy Kimmel but you don't get to tell Canadians how to talk.
Elbows up Mother-stucker.
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
It’s not anti-USA, it’s pro-Canadian.
Stop making every little thing be about your whining, space-wasting self.
Stop making every little thing be about your whining, space-wasting self.
I wanna open a 50’s-themed donut shop and call it Don’t Be Cruller.
September 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I wanna open a 50’s-themed donut shop and call it Don’t Be Cruller.
I agree, and what a resumé!
Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘People think music was better in the old days, to which I say: bollocks!’
Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘People think music was better in the old days, to which I say: bollocks!’
The drummer for the Britpop band on why Oasis aren’t his nemesis, his failed bid to become a UK Labour MP and how he finally conquered maths
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I agree, and what a resumé!
Sex Toy Throwers is my new band name.
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Sex Toy Throwers is my new band name.
Well, I’m an idiot.
Those lyrics are from “C” Moon Cry Like a Baby, not White Hot Day.
Revoke my SM fan club membership.
Those lyrics are from “C” Moon Cry Like a Baby, not White Hot Day.
Revoke my SM fan club membership.
July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Well, I’m an idiot.
Those lyrics are from “C” Moon Cry Like a Baby, not White Hot Day.
Revoke my SM fan club membership.
Those lyrics are from “C” Moon Cry Like a Baby, not White Hot Day.
Revoke my SM fan club membership.
More of an ironic anti-protest song, but still in the spirit of things, I think.
(What happened to protest songs, anyway? The time is ripe.)
#JulyYouAreASong
#MusicChallenge
(What happened to protest songs, anyway? The time is ripe.)
#JulyYouAreASong
#MusicChallenge
Bob Geldof The Great Song Of Indifference
YouTube video by Mauna Loa Tube
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
More of an ironic anti-protest song, but still in the spirit of things, I think.
(What happened to protest songs, anyway? The time is ripe.)
#JulyYouAreASong
#MusicChallenge
(What happened to protest songs, anyway? The time is ripe.)
#JulyYouAreASong
#MusicChallenge
White Hot Day (2002 Remastered)
YouTube video by Simple Minds - Topic
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
July 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Duran Duran would have made a great cover of Sunshine Superman, I’ll bet.
May 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Duran Duran would have made a great cover of Sunshine Superman, I’ll bet.
During my brief career as a teacher, I used this song in my Grade 10 English class. Had to do something to balance out the old hippie curriculum crap like I Am a Rock.
May 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
During my brief career as a teacher, I used this song in my Grade 10 English class. Had to do something to balance out the old hippie curriculum crap like I Am a Rock.
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I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.
May 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I realize I’m just shouting into the wind here, but: please, please, please stop posting screenshots without links, or summarizing breaking news events without links. There’s a serious problem with unsourced assertions all over the world right now, don’t be part of the problem.
I would like to open a mega-superstore for satchels and other assorted bags and call it…
TOTES TOTES
On a completely unrelated note, I also come up with the cleverest of rejoinders days afterward.
TOTES TOTES
On a completely unrelated note, I also come up with the cleverest of rejoinders days afterward.
May 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I would like to open a mega-superstore for satchels and other assorted bags and call it…
TOTES TOTES
On a completely unrelated note, I also come up with the cleverest of rejoinders days afterward.
TOTES TOTES
On a completely unrelated note, I also come up with the cleverest of rejoinders days afterward.
Goodbye, Humphrey, you magnificent well-loved beast.
We’re heartbroken.
We’re heartbroken.
April 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Goodbye, Humphrey, you magnificent well-loved beast.
We’re heartbroken.
We’re heartbroken.
Saw @charlieangus104.bsky.social in Cumberland this evening. Wish he were sticking around.
April 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Saw @charlieangus104.bsky.social in Cumberland this evening. Wish he were sticking around.
RIP Kevan Staples.
(Dig Ms. Pope’s interesting self-censorship.)
(Dig Ms. Pope’s interesting self-censorship.)
SCTV | Pre-Teen World | Rough Trade - High School Confidential
YouTube video by Jacob Kacob
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
RIP Kevan Staples.
(Dig Ms. Pope’s interesting self-censorship.)
(Dig Ms. Pope’s interesting self-censorship.)
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Hey, @telussupport.bsky.social, is this true?
If so, it wouldn’t be hard for this customer of over 35 years and his household to call it a day.
If so, it wouldn’t be hard for this customer of over 35 years and his household to call it a day.
U.S. suitors likely buyers for stake in Telus cell towers, analysts say
Past domestic tower purchases with U.S. companies suggest Ottawa would approve a sale of Telus’s 49.9-per-cent stake in its network
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Hey, @telussupport.bsky.social, is this true?
If so, it wouldn’t be hard for this customer of over 35 years and his household to call it a day.
If so, it wouldn’t be hard for this customer of over 35 years and his household to call it a day.
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.@mark-carney.bsky.social has nothing but slogans.
#HoaxTheFolks
#PierrePoilievre
#CDNPoli
(And remember to use alt text in your posted graphics whenever possible.)
#HoaxTheFolks
#PierrePoilievre
#CDNPoli
(And remember to use alt text in your posted graphics whenever possible.)
March 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
.@mark-carney.bsky.social has nothing but slogans.
#HoaxTheFolks
#PierrePoilievre
#CDNPoli
(And remember to use alt text in your posted graphics whenever possible.)
#HoaxTheFolks
#PierrePoilievre
#CDNPoli
(And remember to use alt text in your posted graphics whenever possible.)
Alberta…
You feeling’ okay?
You feeling’ okay?
March 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Alberta…
You feeling’ okay?
You feeling’ okay?
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And by the way, I need to see Joey Moss Drive replacing Wayne Gretzky Drive here in Edmonton ASAP
February 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
And by the way, I need to see Joey Moss Drive replacing Wayne Gretzky Drive here in Edmonton ASAP
Still sounds like capitulation to me.
Do better, sir.
Do better, sir.
Lots of thoughtful social media criticism of our question for Sunday's Checkup and we listened. The new question: what do you think of Trump's comments about Canada becoming the 51st state? The show's being simulcast on more than 100 NPR stations. It's a chance to make your voice heard.
February 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Still sounds like capitulation to me.
Do better, sir.
Do better, sir.
We shouldn’t be seeing the day lilies budding just yet.
January 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
We shouldn’t be seeing the day lilies budding just yet.