I just read someone post “up this morning at the crack of a sparrow’s fart” and it’s just the most whimsical thing. Going to use this expression as often as I can.

Ron MacLean prefaced something with "just a little story" like a full minute ago, and now he's talking about the Winnipeg Monarchs.

False information, misleading images rife in Manitoba-based AI-driven 'news' service In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the rise of Boring News, an AI-generated news outlet, highlights the growing tension between technology and journalism. While it aims to fill local news gaps acr...

It's almost the weekend, which means it's time to read this can't-look-away, bonkers story about a Winnipeg business, known for coupon aggregation, that has churned out tens of thousands of AI-generated stories in recent months.

By @evawasney.bsky.social

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Tuna Mayo Rice Bowl Recipe • 5★ • 5 min This homey dish takes comforting canned tuna to richer, silkier heights Mayonnaise helps to hold the tuna together and toasted sesame oil lends incomparable nuttiness You can adjust the seasonings to ...

This sounds like such an odd combination, but it’s become a go-to comfort meal in our house. Add a cucumber salad dressed with soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar and a pinch of sugar on the side with furikake, sesame seeds, kimchi, avocado.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...

The Sheriff has added another deputy.

Introducing Team Dunstone for the 2026-2027 season:

Lead Ryan Harnden, second Mark Nichols, third Colton Lott, and skip Matt Dunstone.

Getting the Sunday Scaries so hard that you pick a fight with The Pope.

Hungary election results live: Orbán concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority The opposition Tisza party appeared on track to win Sunday's national election, early results showed, in a potential landmark defeat for veteran Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

FUCK YES

"AI in health care can mean shorter wait times and better service."

TELL ME HOW

Artemis II making it home safely went a long way in healing my Challenger Space Shuttle disaster trauma.

Incredible things are possible

Yaaaaaay chutes
SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED

Screenshot of Bluesky settings in the mobile app to turn off autoplay on videos & GIFs. Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay videos & GIFs

Now's a great time to turn off auto play on Bluesky videos.

Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay videos & GIFs

One of my favourite films, and my comfort watch. The 6 minute phone scene with Redford just taking notes and asking questions, the camera moves closer, the newsroom background noise fades away. Perfection.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

As someone who has astigmatism and is nearsighted, I hate LED headlights with the heat of a thousand suns.

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

And so ends the most private group chat in history.

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

A reminder that policing trans women out of sports just creates an interminable witch hunt for all other women in sport.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Lay It Down | Hazlitt People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

This profile of the great John Samson Fellows in @hazlitt.bsky.social is somehow both heartbreaking & heartwarming. I can't stop thinking about it hazlitt.net/longreads/la...

okay, a happy holidays video, we see those all the time

*ten seconds in*

"a british warlord named coroticus"

you have my attention sir

Probably, lol, but at least I won’t see them anymore!

Today is officially my last workday as I retire, and I just celebrated by deleting my Linkedin account. I look forward to never getting another email from that cursed place.

You can’t do a bunch of stupid comedy bits and then play people off when they’re having the biggest moment of their life. It’s bullshit.

I seriously thought I was the only one who had this problem. So much ick

Big news! After almost 35 years of employment, I’m retiring from the Université de Saint-Boniface on March 17. While I’m going to miss my colleagues, I’m really looking forward to this new stage of life (and never having to work in an Excel document again).

Bien, c’est officiel! Le mardi 17 mars sera ma dernière journée de travail à l’Université de Saint-Boniface après presque 35 ans de service. Super hâte d’entamer cette nouvelle étape, mais les collègues USB et CNFS me manqueront énormément.

Feeling quite proud of myself for planning ahead and ordering my kids Easter candy today, since I’m having my knee replacement surgery the Monday before Easter. Please note that my kids are 25 and 29 years old 😂