alexabboud.bsky.social
Just trying to recapture that old Twitter feeling.
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Canadian here. My sense is people are more upset that Gretzky has a connection to Trump and isn’t saying anything about the threats to our sovereignty, not that he didn’t wear a Canada jersey. Mario Lemieux didn’t wear a jersey either when he was honourary captain and no one said anything.
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You could fill its Sunday edition with things the NYT has gotten wrong.
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Why are you normalizing this idea? There’s no shortage of crises on your own side of the border you could be covering instead.
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Four Nations has been so much fun. I hope they make this a permanent thing in non-Olympic/World Cup years and we never see a meaningless All-Star Game again.
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Just one more selfie from our Premier will solve everything.
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Spier & Mackey?
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Watching Royal Rumble for the first time in decades now that it’s on Netflix.
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Just don’t make me use that verifier app.
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I’ll endorse that as a Canadian.
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It’s awful, and because of simulcast rules we can’t even avoid it by watching the American channels.
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This is all I want from any new condo building
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Have you ever tried Hawkins Cheezies? If not treat yourself.
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More than other networks Fox seems to value having big names a casual/occasional viewer will recognize and assume to be credible when tuning in. Think of all the former Dallas Cowboys they’ve employed, and having Smoltz do color and ARod, Papi, and Jeter the panel for baseball is no different.
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Don’t know what they were thinking. That situation was screaming for an Arch Manning package
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I am so sorry.
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Most likely he’ll announce he’s resigning effective when a new leader is chosen in a few months. With a few exceptions this is how it always goes for parties in power in Canada.
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Teams often play up for a rivalry game.
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It’s 4:20am. Do you know where your mayor is?
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Right. Didn’t pick that up. Another big shift in that era was the decline of physical media accelerating. Blockbuster peaked in 2004 but was already in a tailspin by ‘07 (the bottom didn’t fall out until a few years later thought)
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Somewhere in that era you have social media starting to play a significant role too, not just being a niche activity for young people. Amazing in retrospect how many transformative things happened around then. You could add the financial crisis and how that undermined institutions and confidence too
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Fake punt inside your own 20 (probably ends the game if you fail) then you settle for a FG attempt on 4th and 3? Doesn’t make sense.
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Hotels are going to be a mess too. I assume most fans are checking out tomorrow.
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To me (42 years old) the demarcation is circa 2008. Trying to explain what the world pre-mass adoption of smart phones and social media was like to young adults feels impossible.
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Falcons offense is going to be terrifying once Penix starts hitting those deeper throws more consistently.