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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · Oct 10

"Insults" from the internet that apparently I'm supposed to take offense to:

- "Nice shirt."
- "You write about bobsledding."
- "Your favorite baseball team is a minor league team."
- "Your favorite football team is a CFL team."

All just statements of fact, really.

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 4h

This was Tiki for a good hour and a half. Then she realized we hadn’t done weekend morning walk yet and had some thoughts.

We are now on a slightly soggy walk

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 5h

So there used to be the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. They merged in the 1950s and instead of taking one name or the other they went with both

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TSN @tsnofficial.bsky.social · 17h

CFL WEEK 19: Calgary Stampeders vs. Hamilton Tiger-Cats | FULL HIGHLIGHTS

WATCH: youtu.be/win35hrFjo8

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18h

IT'S BIG BOY SEASON

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 18h

Iowa St is down to their 4th string kicker, a 6'8" 310 freshman OL

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 21h

There’s a guy in the group behind us who’s a member at Duke. Recognized me because…well apparently I have a way about me

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Chilly day at Bryan Park’s Champions Course, but putting a jacket on over this would kind of hide the fashion, and you know, priorities!

Me in a purple floral shirt and grey bucket hat

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Oh no, I got a bacon egg and cheese sandwich

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

We’re supposed to be on the course at 8 AM tomorrow, so we’ll see how that goes

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Chilly day at Bryan Park’s Champions Course, but putting a jacket on over this would kind of hide the fashion, and you know, priorities!

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Staged a hostile takeover of the Waffle House TouchTunes this morning

Even if I don’t win at the golf course today I won breakfast and that counts for something

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Right?!

For a dog who presumably cannot tell time, Tiki wakes me up at 6:30 sharp every morning.

It is just a tick infuriating

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Tickets for the FIL World Cup stop in NY are like $25

Kate 🩸’The Brood’🩸 Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1d

But did we ever expect anything less from FIFA ⚽️? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

My August was me being gone most of the time and man it was so nice to just be home for a bit after that. So I totally get it

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

How’s it going up there?

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Oh hey

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

I hope the commissioner is having the worst time watching this

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Damn my calf is calfin’ in this

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

YEAH BABY THE BEST SCORE

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

This was on my street a while back

A Camaro on my street with Goodyear racing eagles on the back for some reason

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

3RD DOWN PUNT BY CORNELL

4:31 - 1st
1st & 10
COR 39
•7 H
20
50
20
Punt
3 plays, 4 yards, 2:33
7
COR HARV
Punt
4:31 - 1st
Garrett Bass-Sulpizio punt for 34 yds
3rd & 25 at COR 20
へ

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

Not a great score but a great time anyway!

Two more rounds this weekend!

(Pictured: @redsoxredshoes.bsky.social, Alex Hayden, me, @yesido84.bsky.social, @sandmanesq.bsky.social - photo by @meghancolleen.bsky.social)

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I had a SpOoPy pony! 👻🎃 @meghancolleen.bsky.social · 1d

Sara I need you to know he was like “I do have a fleece in the car if you want it” and I was like “it’s not Duke branded is it because otherwise no.”

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 1d

I gave her my unbranded fleece!

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I had a SpOoPy pony! 👻🎃 @meghancolleen.bsky.social · 1d

I’m only in it for the good lighting and cute outfits ✨

Also I took a video of kennothy peeing in the bushes for like five minutes I was very impressed

Me in a black bolo, aviator sunglasses and a white baseball hat in a golf cart

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 2d

I’m throwing together a test apple crisp on Monday

Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 2d

That’s the best way to treat surgeons anyway.