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Kyle Geske
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Peg city weirdo. Game dev educator. Open Democracy MB co-founder. Born and raised on Treaty 1 land in #Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Kyle Geske @stungeye.com · Aug 22
👋 Coder, artist, educator, and father from Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

I teach game development at Red River College Polytechnic and run the civic tech non-profit Open Democracy MB.

Avid reader and fair-weather cyclist. Blogging at stungeye.com since 2002.
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Death blowing bubbles, 18th century

The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg Germany.

#MementoMori
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Michael Alford ~ Repulsion 66
#OpArt #AbstractArt
January 12, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination, a diagram from Edward Livingston Youmans' Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects (1856). ⠀
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Order as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/chemistry-of-combustion-and-illumination
January 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Here's a wild tabletop model of the original proposed use of the land. Those extra buildings are a mix of corporate, retail, and residential. Unfortunately I can't find an original source for this photo. I got it from the Winnipeg skyscraper blog, where it doesn't have attribution either.
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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🕹️🎮 video game repair #winnipeg 🎮🕹️
missyrambles.bsky.social The Video Game Girl @missyrambles.bsky.social · 1d
Hi hello!
Nook Repairs is here and ready to get you gaming again!
Specializing in video game repairs we have the tools needed to help you get back in the game!
1115 Henderson Hwy, on the second floor!
Wednesday-Saturday 11-6
No appointment needed.
Affordable, honest, and happy to help!
January 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Help us build a solidarity network for Hopeful Technologists ☀️hopeful.technology
January 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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i’m also often thinking of that door, only superseded by this gate
art nouveau gate
January 10, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Excellent history lesson from Rebecca Chambers. #Winnipeg #WestBroadway
Eventually the decision to allow demolition came to a vote for the board. I was the lone holdout against demolition that eventually resulted in Great West Life partnering with the YMCA to renovate and expand the house into a 100-space daycare, with 90 of those spaces reserved for their own employees. I recall thinking at the time, “What was so difficult about that? Why couldn’t they have repurposed it long ago instead of fighting us for so long?” But it shouldn’t have surprised me. Because the history of Great West Life/Canada Life in West Broadway is one of ceaseless unneighbourliness and willful ignorance to the needs of the community in which they conduct their business. The area upon which Canada Life now stands was once home to Shea’s Brewery, Osborne Stadium and the Winnipeg Amphitheatre, a hallowed and unheated building from where the first hockey game ever broadcast by radio was played. It was also home to an apartment building and eight heritage homes on the first block of Whitehall Avenue. All eventually made way for 450 vehicles to park. In the 1970s, Great West Life petitioned the city to demolish not only the homes on the remaining block of Whitehall, but also the homes on Good Street and on the east side of Balmoral. Their design promised condominiums and rental units, and only a modest increase in parking spaces. Of course, we got none of the housing, and parking in a decidedly immodest quantity.
January 10, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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metismamamb.bsky.social
This just in (from me):

Down with parking!
Up with curling!

(With parking for curlers)

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: More and more parking spaces amid empty promises
The history of Great West Life/Canada Life in West Broadway is one of ceaseless unneighbourliness and willful ignorance to the needs of the community in which they conduct their business.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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This is the sort of technology I get excited about now: a Google Maps-overlaid catalog of the city's tree inventory.

data.winnipeg.ca/Parks/Tree-I...
Tree Inventory Map using New Visual Experience | Open Data | City of Winnipeg
Detailed list and map of all public trees located in the City of Winnipeg, including botanical name, common name and precise location.
data.winnipeg.ca
January 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Starting my 13th yearly holiday social media vacation. 👋

I'll leave you with my picks for top #Manitoba #hiphop tracks of 2025.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6nM...

Back around NYE to drop two more 2025 MB music #playlists. Peace to your pieces.
Flow State (Manitoba 2025) - YouTube
prairie hip hop for real
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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For me, December is crazy inspiring.

The past few Decembers I've been exploring the 300ish #Manitoban musical acts that released music in the past year.

So much talent here. I'll be posting currated playlists of my fav new MB music 'round year end.
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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At $65 dollars/night the yurts are still such a steal.

Rent a yurt in a Manitoba Provincial Park this summer!

I'm partial to the Nutimik ones, but there are many lovely options!
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Four Tet DJ set. Watch a master at work.

Chills. Can only imagine what this would have felt like live.
Four Tet at The Loop - Dekmantel Festival 2025
YouTube video by Dekmantel
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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@grittycitywpg.bsky.social Thanks for the heads up on the new Buck album in your newsletter! It's incredible. I hadn't really kept up with his music beyond the 00s. There was a time in the early 00s where it felt like he was at the Pyramid every other month. So many good shows.
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Absolutely criminal that this music video from FINN only has 193 views. Love this track. Incredible #Winnipeg music.
Pushin Official Music Video
YouTube video by FIINN
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Dragonsweeper (danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper) was one of my favourite games of 2025.

Check out this mobile-friendly remake! It's a minesweeper roguelike.
brianna.town Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 25d
OUT NOW: Dungeon Puzzle Sweeper!

The perfect game to play at the airport or under the dinner table this holiday season 🎄 It auto-saves, has online leaderboards, and it's optimized for mobile!

Free on itch! britown.itch.io/sweeper

Please repost and tell your friends!

#gamedev #indiegame #itch
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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elegance
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Skate Story is out now. Try the free demo. Eat the moon.
Skate Story on Steam
Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey ...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#Winnipeg made guitar pedals that look like Hilroy Scribblers. :)

winnipegelectricalco.myshopify.com/collections/...
Four Winnipeg Electrical Company guitar pedals made to look like classic Canadian school exercise books called Hilroy Scribblers.
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Push The Button ▶️
Push The Button by W. B. Nesbit (1905) If you have a lot of questions and are worrying for answers, Push the button. If you want to know the ages of the youthful ballet dancers, Push the button. If you want to know the reason for a vexing lot of things, The worries of the commoners and discontent of kings, And why you have to coax the youthful wonder ere she sings, Push the button. Would you get some information as to stocks or bonds or grain? Push the button. Do you want to make a million? Do you want to catch a train? Push the button. Is it something as to fashion — as to bonnet, gloves or dress? Does the Christmas problem worry you and fill you with distress? Do you wonder if the damsel will reject you or say “Yes?” Push the button. For the price of lamb or lobster, beef or veal or pork or mutton, Push the button. For the work of all the authors, from old Chaucer down to Hutton, Push the button. Now the information bureau is a thing of cogs and wheels. At the shifting of a lever all its knowledge it reveals. If you’d like to know the outcome of your doings and your deals, Push the button. There’s a button for your likings, for your longings and your joys — Push the button. And you needn’t go to school so long as you’ve got the strength to shove — Push the button. If you want to ask a question, and the dial don’t reply. If the thing is out of gearing and its works have gone awry. Do not go to the inventor and in anger ask him why — Push the button.
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Love this!

A colour palette compilation zine: d-unveiled.itch.io/the-color-pa...
An image announcing "The Color Palette Compilation Zine." At the top is a banner of cartoon doodles. The text below reads: "The Color Palette Compilation Zine started coming together in July 2023 when over 20 artists submitted work made with a single color palette to be collected into a zine! Each of the included artists have given each other the permission to sell this zine at zine fairs/fests and local shops. We hope that by coming together in this way, our work can be seen by more people than any one of us would have been able to reach on our own. If you’re reading this, thank you for your interest in our work!" At the bottom is a row of five color swatches displaying the zine's palette: Yellow-Orange (F6BD60), Cream (F7EDE2), Light Pink (F5CAC3), Muted Teal (84A59D), and Salmon Pink (F28482)
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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crescent
December 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Here for this. Issue 01 was dope. The photo zine is a lovely addition. Lots of #Winnipeg / #Canadian hiphop talent on this one. Twenty buck for disc and zine.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM