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Wendy Sawatzky
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shutterbug, bookworm, wordsmith | associate editrix at winnipegfreepress.com | artist at wendysawatzky.com | 🙏🌧️ ⬇️ 🌍
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wendysawatzky.bsky.social
In case you were wondering, Los Angeles baseball team name etymology. I loled.
According to the club, the name originated in 1896 as the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. Heavy construction of electric trolley tracks in front of Eastern Park caused fans to dodge the trolleys to reach the park. Those fans became known as Trolley Dodgers and the team took on the name, which was shortened to Dodgers.
October 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
wendysawatzky.bsky.social
Bigger than the Boston Globe! I don't know whether to laugh or cry. (And I say that as a subscriber to the print edition of The Onion.)
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 21
Some incredibly good news:

One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.

In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.

In short, it’s working.

So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off.
Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.
www.wsj.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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davidjonfuller.bsky.social
I propose Canadian engineers proficient in poutine be sent to the U.K. immediately as part of a comprehensive cheesekeeping force
coachd21.bsky.social Boneless Wings…Lover @coachd21.bsky.social · Jul 5
Here’s a thread of cheese fries you can get at soccer stadiums in the U.K.
July 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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winnipegfreepress.com
Why did Conor Rae have to die?

Police bullets and subsequent IIU investigation leave trail of troubling questions in wake of teen’s death

Marsha McLeod investigates: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
May 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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hildur.bsky.social
I knew that the protective walls they built around Grindavík to protect the village from the lava were big, but I didn't realise just how huge they are. Here seen with trucks and machinery for scale.

Photo by Ragnar Visage for RÚV.
A protective wall made of dirt and sand that crosses a road. On one side is old, moss covered lava, and on the other side is fresh lava. There are cars and heavy machinery that look like toy trucks.
April 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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heardislandgov.bsky.social
Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
wendysawatzky.bsky.social
On today's Free Press letters page, a perspective I endorse unreservedly.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/lett...
December 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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cfidd.bsky.social
I ...what
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.
December 10, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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juliejenkinsnp.bsky.social
This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.
My feed today on BlueSky included a post from Icelandic writer Hildur Knútsdóttir, who saw the original exchange on a Reykjavik Facebook page - someone posted to say that it appeared a cygnet was frozen to the ice and dying. As people worried online about how or whether it would be possible to help, naturalist Kerstin Langerberger replied to the post, saying: “I am on my way with the necessary equipment.” Langenberger brought a friend, some thermoses of warm water, and a surfboard in case the ice failed - the necessary equipment - and thawed then freed the baby swan, which promptly flew off. There are a number of things I appreciate about this story, but it’s Langenberger’s statement that resonates for me. That is what I aspire to, to see injury or difficulty or something gone to trouble and decide: I am on my way with the necessary equipment. But also, to hold on to the understanding that sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help, and that sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert. There are a lot of moments these days that I find it very, very hard to do the next thing, or indeed to do anything. The world is so, so difficult. I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted or just really fucking sad. But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess: I am on my way with the necessary equipment.
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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sharonk.bsky.social
this is what i mean when i said that a lot of normies seem to think chatgpt is an actual agent as opposed to a machine that is trying to predict the token

the latter behavior is useful but not always optimizing for truth
spavel.bsky.social Pavel* @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 1:31 PM
wendysawatzky.bsky.social
Accidentally nudged my friends quest people in Duolingo and now I’m mortified.
December 10, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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The December issue of Winnipeg Gardener is out! Home for the holidays is filled with DIY design tips, gardening news, recipes, & gift ideas.

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December 4, 2024 at 8:07 PM