Sunday Funday: Some good and funny posts, Paul Fairie's headline contest, Trump Watch, and Animal Crackers

Funny posts

- Carlita Shaw

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— Albino Badguy (@albinobadguy.bsky.social) December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

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— Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) December 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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— Ryannosaurus (@ryannosaurus.bsky.social) December 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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New York, never change:

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A great story:

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I learned a lot watching this:

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And this really taught me a lot too - its by Nancy McClure, Greenland Is Not Some Distant Place

There’s something I say a lot when I’m trying to get people to understand the North and particularly how vast this country actually is. I usually turn it into a question. “If you were to leave Toronto and travel in a straight line north to Alert, Nunavut, how far do you think you’d be going?” People will throw out numbers. They’ll guess. And then I ask the second part. “If you went that exact same distance south, where do you think you’d end up?”
Almost no one ever gets this right. Most people say somewhere in the United States. Maybe the middle of it. Sometimes Mexico.
The actual answer is Bogotá, Colombia. In fact, just a few kilometres south of Bogotá. Every single time I say that, people stop.
Because once you hold that in your head, you can’t pretend the North is abstract anymore. It is a massive part of our country. That distance tells you something about scale, and scale tells you something about vulnerability.
That’s why, when I hear people talk casually about Greenland, I pay attention. With the renewed conversation this week about the United States assigning a new envoy to Greenland, I once again felt very concerned. This isn’t a response to an invitation. It isn’t a request for partnership. It’s the familiar posture of I’m doing this because I want to.
Greenland is not an idea. It is not a strategic blank space. And it is not a prize waiting for a powerful country to notice it. Greenland is primarily Indigenous, specifically Inuit. It is already someone’s home. And for my fellow Canadians it is not very far away. At Canada’s northernmost point, the distance from our coast to Greenland is 26 kilometres, (16 miles). That’s not an ocean separating us. That’s proximity you can almost see across....

Some beauty to share, too:

Anthony Theakston Sculpts a Spirited Flock of Bronze and Ceramic #Birds #art #sculpture Link for more #photos and information: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/anth...

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— Catherine (@shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM

And here:

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2025 headline of the year contest
Every year Calgary political scientist Paul Fairie runs a "headline of the year" contest. 

Here are his 2025 entries:

Here's the bracket:

Voting ends about 2:30 pm MT on December 28 -- then on to the quarterfinals!

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— Paul Fairie (@paulisci.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Total votes are calculated across platforms. On BlueSky, register your vote for an entry with a "like" in the thread below. (Yes, this means you can vote for both in a contest, but you'll be cancelling yourself out essentially.)

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Moving on, here's something to think about:

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM

Some Trump observations:

Maybe this whole “anyone can be president” shtick wasn’t such a great idea.

— Adam Yug (@citizenrma.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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— Get Out The Mid Term Vote (@gotmtv.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM

Tonight, my Uber driver said, “I never hear passengers say nice things about Donald Trump anymore. Several years ago, I would hear praise all the time. No more.” Just one sign things may be changing.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM

On Christmas night, Trump went completely nuts with posts on Truth-Social:

You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun. Almost.

— Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM

This is priceless:

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM

That "million more files" thing is pretty stupid, isn't it.

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— Anti-Fascist Collective 👊🏼👊🏿 (@wtafc.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM

Trump Watch - posts about the world's most anticipated event

We all joke, sort of, about how much we look forward to the day it happens, but the downside of it happening in the next three years is that this asshole takes over. At this point, I think it's a toss-up which would be worse at the job.

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— Gary Legum (@glegum.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM

Seasons greetings.

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— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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Animal Crackers

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Canadian Cobra Chicken

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— Black Panther🍁🦫🇨🇦Aɴᴛɪғᴀ✌️ (@blackpanther25.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM

Happy Boxing Day to all my cat servant friends.

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— Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Apparently, orange cats can be .....something else:

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

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— Emily ✨🎄 (@emilyoram.bsky.social) October 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM

My cousin reads aloud to her dog.  ‎She says he doesn’t understand, but he listens.  ‎His ears perk at her voice, his head tilts at the pauses.  ‎Maybe he doesn’t need to understand.  ‎Maybe he just knows stories are meant to be shared.

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