Sunday Funday: Documenting the Decline and Fall, plus Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Credit to the great Beetle Moses 

Finally its the weekend after a long week, so its time to relax....Oops, feels like summer's over already

Documenting the Decline and Fall 

People are giving up on the United States now:

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Trump went to Ireland and it did not go well. I think Carney has demonstrated to the rest of the world that Trump does not have to be respected. Then again, King Charles also showed the way with that bell gift to Trump during his royal visit in April.

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Interesting posts
One of my minor claims to fame is that I actually saw Dave Brubeck once, when he was playing in an Italian restaurant in Toronto and I was in town for a conference. It was great

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I never thought Lightfoot could be creepy

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Oddball History

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Academia Time

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Apropos of nothing Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun So you can have a: lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. The Elements of Eolquence by Mark Forsyth

- Glen Lancaster 🇨🇦

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This is fun - I had never heard some of these:

Maybe entertaining to those of you in or from North America: https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html I’m in Canada, and my results were 54% MA, I guess close enough geographically? Friends thus far got exactly where they’re from - it’s a thorough 60 questions, and seems quite accurate I now know, too, that what we call the night before Halloween (Mat Night) is fairly unique to anglophone Quebec; people stole doormats, hence the name. Mat Night wasn’t an option on the quiz for the question about what I call the night before Halloween, so I went down a rabbit hole. TIL! The question that probably surprised me the most was what we in Montreal call a sunshower. Some of those answers are … yikes.

- Jodi Ettenberg

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Funny posts

I love Josh Johnson. Here he takes on Trump’s weird renaming of Lake Ontario and how quickly rich oligarchs bent a knee and complied. Very sharp, and very funny

- Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD

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I normally try to avoid sad posts but I felt this one!

- Michael Woudenberg

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— WholesomeMemes (@wholesomememe.bsky.social) September 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM

That would probably help create real change in the world. 😂

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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Getting Old(er)

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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— WholesomeMemes (@wholesomememe.bsky.social) September 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM

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Carney Hat Trick - posts about our PM
Here's Carney with Forever Canadian movement leader Thomas Lukaszuk

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TrumpWatch - lots of posts this week about the world's most anticipated event

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I bought a bell so that when It Happens I can go out on my front porch and let everyone in a quarter-mile radius know about it.

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— Pop-up Leftist Cwab Depot (@fancycwabs.bsky.social) September 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM

- Canada Resists

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Animal Crackers
"He will kill you and we won't help"

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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If you love goats, you’ll love this one ☺️ share it someone who loves baby goats 🐐 https://raisini.substack.com/p/our-existence-is-a-blip

- RAISINI

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— WholesomeMemes (@wholesomememe.bsky.social) September 7, 2026 at 7:30 AM

And this is why I must have a donkey

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— Democrat Cats (@democratcats.bsky.social) September 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM

LOL. Adorable footage. I appreciate the way mum admonishes the child. 😂

- René Volpi

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"Hig will sit on my steps and howl until I open the door and acknowledge him. Also, Hig is not my dog."...

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— FunnyVia (@funnyvia.com) September 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM

Scientists have discovered a black hole that absorbs all food falling to the floor

- Science Is Fun

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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