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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 13h

Starting to think Slafkovsky isn’t PP1 material.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 14h

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for everything except the Habs PP

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Rob @lowermainlandrob.bsky.social · 2d

The #Habs are looking much better than a 1W-1L record in two games. It's going to be a fun season watching this team. #GoHabsGo

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 2d

That was bananas

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Brian Wilde @bwildemtl.bsky.social · 10d

Am I excited to get going this season?

Why yes I am.

I just wrote my Wilde Cards for opening night’s Call Of The Wilde for Global TV.

Hope you’ll read along this season.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 11d

It’s remarkable that despite a new owner, GM and coach that the Ottawa Senators remain such a bush league organization. Cousins just tried to break Demidov’s wrist after all that. Hodgson, MacEwan etc all delivering cheap shots all night. Embarrassing.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 15d

Was this in MTL?

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 15d

One Battle After Another is a masterpiece. My favourite movie since Parasite. Can’t wait to see it again.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 16d

that kid looks younger than 25!

Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 16d

First thing I thought of too. Wild.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 16d

Scott Laughton has the same statline tonight (2G, 2A) that he had in 20 regular season games for the Leafs after they acquired him last season.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 18d

Haha

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 20d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post
every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · 19d

Just want Ivan Demidov to survive the preseason.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love Wikipedia and loved reading this today: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

www.theverge.com

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · Sep 7

The amount of different water bottles kids have these days is very funny as a person who drank exclusively from hoses and water fountains as a kid. Positive development, for sure.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is wonderful.

Dave Stubbs @davestubbs.bsky.social · Sep 6

My personal appreciation of late Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden. Hockey was but a part of life to this NHL legend, to whom the world was a giant place, every corner of it worth exploring. www.nhl.com/news/ken-dry...

Dryden remembered for off-ice exploits as much as 6 Cup wins with Canadiens | NHL.com

Late Hall of Fame goalie also left mark as author, laywer, Parliament member, Maple Leafs president

www.nhl.com

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · Sep 6

Shocked and saddened to wake up to. the news of the passing of Ken Dryden.

He was a true gentleman who exuded warmth, class and intelligence. I’m so proud to have had a chance to chat with him a few times over the years.

He also posted video game stats in his brief, but extraordinary career.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · Sep 4

So good.

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Conor McKenna @conormckenna.bsky.social · Aug 31

FELIX! That was awesome.

The US Open is the best.

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Jack Han @jhanhky.bsky.social · Aug 27

Recently on jhanhky.substack.com :

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 27

The photos in the post below are by Gabriele Galimberti and I interviewed him about them after they went viral in the wake of the Uvalde tragedy. Was a fascinating interview www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Aug 8

Victoria Mboko tops Naomi Osaka in 3 sets to win in Canada as a wild card, her first title and 3rd Canadian to win

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