Sunday, November 09, 2025

"Touchdown Riders!" plus Sunday Funday posts -- Funny stuff, Trump Watch, Animal Crackers


The greatest call in sports is "Touchdown Riders!"
The Saskatchewan Roughriders are going to the Grey Cup next Sunday, to face the Alouettes in Winnipeg! 
It's the first time in 12 years that the Riders won the Western Final. And their third time facing Montreal (and Saskatchewan will never forget the 13th-man fiasco!)
Here's a summary of Saturday's game:

#Riders lost that game at least three times. But they got four chances. Amazing. #CFLWestFinal

— Steve Burgess (@steveburgess53.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I thought this was pretty good too:
Here's a good analysis of the game:
Joel Gasson / 3 Down Nation
The good, the bad, and the dumb of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 24-21 West Final win over B.C.
Just when it looked like the Saskatchewan Roughriders were poised to lose yet another division final and remain one of the CFL’s most cursed teams, they found a way to pull Saturday’s game out of the fire and earn a berth in the 112th Grey Cup in Winnipeg.
Down four points with just over a minute to play, Trevor Harris led his team on what felt like an improbable 76-yard drive that ended with a touchdown pass to Tommy Nield, a name that will now live in Riders infamy forever.
...The best part of this matchup for the Riders was their mental toughness. It wasn’t their night in just about any aspect of the game but they battled to the end and found a way....
And the Riders had the luck they needed, too

It was three times at least.

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Moving on, here's the funny ha-ha and funny odd stuff I found recently:

Now, I know the New York Times is having the usual opinion page problems - trying to pander to the MAGA right while not losing all their normal readers - but really, folks, this weekend they hit a new low. For crying out loud, guys, who thought a column title like Did Women Ruin The Workplace? (gift link) was a clever idea?

What happened, New York Times? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

- Jessica Valenti

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And they kept changing the headline again and again:

They changed the title to “Did liberal feminism ruin the workplace”. But in a matter of a 24-hour time span, they posted this absolutely awful opinion four times. NYT is trying to rage bait with this trash.

- Kristina Kroot

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A major news outlet running a headline 'Did women ruin the workplace?' in a world currently run by some of the most sociopathic, mediocre, and narcissistic men imaginable, who are squeezing every last drop from everyone else while burning the planet alive because they can’t ever be satisfied with what they already have, is certainly a bizarre choice.

- Katie Jgln

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Next up, here's  several "staring into the abyss" clips, that I thought were funny:


Speaking of sports, here's a good one:
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Crossing our fingers that Poilievre is leaving too

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Americans were excited about the Democrat wave in elections this week, plus the new mayor of New York:

I've been calling it the Blue Sharknado.

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— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Can anyone believe this guy now?

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

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— Micah (@rincewind.run) November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM

No one could accuse Donald of being woke.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The final word on the Lincoln Bathroom:
Isn't this great news!

The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau was awarded the 2025 Global Leadership Award in Chicago, 🇺🇸 Ex Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman presented the award It’s a shame I had to learn about this from an algorithm instead of @cbc.ca or @cpac.ca Congratulations Justin! youtube.com/watch?v=jBkJ...

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— ButtigiegDem 🇨🇦 📎 (@buttigiegdem.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Canada maples

🍁 Maples of Canada 🇨🇦 Canada is home to a variety of stunning maple trees, each with its own unique leaf shape and charm! My favorite? 🌿 Red Maple (Acer rubrum) – Vibrant and iconic, it often turns fiery red in autumn 🍁🍂❤️

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— Emma Miller 😁 (@emmadmiller.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM

Just look at this beauty right here, b’y. CCGS Donjek, the first ever arctic and offshore patrol ship for the Canadian Coast Guard rolls out of the module hall at Irving Shipyards in Halifax.

- Northern Variables

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are you sure this is a scam?





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Trump Watch
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One day Trump will be slumped over in his chair dead for like half an hour before anyone knows he's not just asleep.

— Cosmically Funny (@cosmicallyf.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Animal Crackers
I think all the videos I found this week are real, but I guess you can't tell sometimes:
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

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— Cristian Vlad (@cristianvlad.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Imagine a world without dogs... I wouldn't want it.

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— Polar Nerd (@polarnerd.bsky.social) November 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Some dogs from the Medici Palace museum, because dogs.

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— Rick Riordan (@rickriordan.bsky.social) October 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM

The realization....👇😆 #Dogs #BlueSkyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #DogLovers

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— Cat And Dog Tips (@catanddogtips.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM

The difference between cats and dogs is that when you have a dog you have a pet 100% of the time, and when you have a cat you have a pet somewhere between 20-50% of the time, only, and this is the important bit, you do not get any input on their schedule

- Jonathan Edward Durham

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2 comments:

Northern PoV said...

Just caught up with your last few posts.

'AI' is a misnomer. Call it expensive mechanical decision making or spellcheck on steroids, either way it is rapidly becoming one more of humanities end-game activities.

Imagine that 40 years ago we were asked "do you want to send all our manufacturing jobs abroad?".
AI will do to the professional class what offshoring did to the working class with worse results (ie at least they make good TVs in Asia).

The Carney/Soliman embrace of AI could be fatal.

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Cathie from Canada said...

Hmmm ... good points! My own feeling is that AI is one of those "the answer to all our prayers!" bubbles that seem to come along every 20 years or so. Which isn't to say it won't be destructive to our society.
I didn't get into this aspect in this post, but the other problem with AI seems to be that it gets stupider over time - garbage in, garbage out - Casey Newton has written a lot about this.

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