Sunday Funday: Thanks for Thanksgiving, Winter is Coming, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

I'm feeling very Canadian this Thanksgiving

Winter is coming

Interesting posts
About Canada

 

- Joanne Pettis 🇨🇦

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Montreal Canadiens bring it!

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My kind of people

My kind of people.

- The In Between

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My kind of bug

Behold the hornet moth (Sesia apiformis), a master of Batesian mimicry, which resembles a stinging hornet as protective coloration. They're harmless, aside from the heart attack they induce when they land on you.

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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A favorite from the archive. The spiral stone wall sculpture created by stonemason John Bainbridge.

- Meghan Godin

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James Lucas writes such interesting substack posts

In December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off part of his own ear, wrapped it in paper, and handed it to a prostitute. A few months later, frightened of himself and of what he might do next, he asked to be admitted to an asylum in Saint-Rémy, in the south of France. He was thirty-six, and he would spend the next year there. In the warmer months he painted the asylum garden, the olive groves, the hills. But winter came, and with it more attacks, and there were long stretches when he could barely go outside. So he painted from prints his brother Theo sent him, black-and-white engravings by artists he loved, and in February 1890 he picked one by Gustave Doré: the exercise yard of Newgate Prison in London. He kept the scene almost exactly as Doré drew it: a ring of men walks in a slow circle on a stone floor, round and round, hemmed in by brick walls that rise so high there's no sky left at the top. What Van Gogh added was color, and he chose the colors of a cold cell: grey-blue, sickly green, a little dull ochre, nothing warm anywhere. In a letter to Theo from the asylum, he explained that working from another artist's prints was really "translating into another language, the one of colors." The man in the middle of the circle, the tall one without a hat, is the only prisoner whose face catches the light, and the only one who isn't looking at the ground. He's looking out, at you. Many believe he has Van Gogh's own features. There's no proof, but it's hard to look at that face, painted by a man living behind bars of his own, and not wonder... I started my newsletter because the past is full of masterpieces like this one, and so few people ever stop to show us why they matter. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, simply subscribe! And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

- James Lucas

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This statue is over 2300 years old. It's one of the very few ancient sculptures left with its original eyes, and I can’t get over how real they look... The Antikythera Ephebe is a Greek bronze of a young man made around 340 to 330 BC, and strangely enough, the reason it survived is because it sank. In antiquity, bronze statues were constantly melted down for their metal, turned into weapons and coins, which is why almost none survive. This one went to the bottom of the sea in a shipwreck around 60 BC and lay there for nearly two thousand years, until sponge divers found it in 1900. But let’s go back to my favorite detail: the eyes. When a bronze statue is made, the eyes are often set separately, inlaid with glass, stone, and colored paste to make them lifelike, and over the centuries almost every ancient bronze has lost them, leaving those hollow, blank sockets we think of as classical. The Ephebe still has his original eyes, made of glass paste, one of only a handful of ancient Greek bronzes in the world that do. And it changes everything because he does not gaze blankly into nothing, he seems to be looking, intently, at something that vanished more than two thousand years ago... I started my newsletter because the past is full of masterpieces like this one, and so few people ever stop to show us why they matter. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, simply subscribe! And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

- James Lucas

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Funny posts

- Ski Doggie

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This is just so good - see the response

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— Mike D Treacherous Canadian- I guess. (@michaeldonaldson.bsky.social) October 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM

Remember when we thought 2020 was the dumpster-fire year to end all dumpster-fire years? 2026: hold my beer.

- Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

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Conversation with my six-year-old son about what we’d do if we were millionaires. “I’d probably buy a massive cinema room,” I said. “How about you?” “I’d buy a machine that cleans the oceans so the fish are saved.” And now I feel like a piece of shit.

- Andy Carter

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Don’t look now, but the tech industry is about to invent books.

- Scott Monty

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Finally, some good news!

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— Futurism (@futurism.com) October 5, 2026 at 11:12 PM

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 6:47 PM

Excluding starches, preservatives, emulsifiers and artificial flavoring, Soylent Green is actually less than two percent people. --John Alejandro King (The Covert Comic)

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Some political stuff

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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mendacious fuckbilled twatypus

Fascism. Who knew? #fascism

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— bluevoter24.bsky.social (@bluevoter24.bsky.social) October 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM

Democrats need to take this one to heart, because after they win the MidTerms, we will all start hearing about how it would be mean and cruel to go after Trump and his toadys for their crimes

I will never sympathize with our oppressors. Know your enemy, Y'all.

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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Getting Old(er)

Some secrets will never be revealed.

- Brains Matter

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Carney Hat Trick - posts about our PM

I didn't know there was a Canada Beer Day but it sounds like fun

From the Canadian farmers growing the barley and hops, to the brewers who turn them into a great pint — happy Canadian Beer Day.

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— Mark Carney (@mark-carney.bsky.social) October 7, 2026 at 5:46 PM

TrumpWatch - posts about the world's most anticipated event

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Animal Crackers
Worth clicking through to see this baby goat discovering snow:

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I was today years old when I learned all this about the Northern Royal Albatross:

New Zealand officials announced today that the first toroa, or northern royal albatross, chicks of the season have left their nests at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head. It marks the start of one of the most extraordinary periods of adolescence in the animal kingdom. These birds won’t touch land for another five years. After seven months of parental feeding, the young albatross launch over the ocean and must immediately learn to survive on their own. They begin by feeding off the eastern coast of New Zealand before crossing roughly 5,600 miles of the Pacific to the Humboldt Current off Chile. Then they keep going. According to experts, juvenile toroa don’t touch ground for an average of five years, so some may go longer, others shorter. They feed at sea and even sleep on the ocean surface for several hours at a time. By the time they finally return to their breeding grounds, they may have circumnavigated the planet.  These huge birds, with wingspans approaching 10 feet, spend about 85% of their lives at sea. They begin breeding around age 8, and established pairs typically raise just one chick every two years. That slow reproductive cycle makes every successful breeding season, and every successful fledgling, important and worthy of celebration. With an estimated population of 17,000 adults, northern royal albatrosses are considered nationally vulnerable in New Zealand. The colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head is the world's only mainland breeding colony. This is also a testament to the hard work of the incredible team that protects the colony and species. Photo: New Zealand Department of Conservation

- Speaking of Species

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A baby giraffe's first zoomies are just what I needed to see tonight. I hope it brings you joy, too.

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— The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@mouthyrenegade.bsky.social) October 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM

New York's subway has a rule that dogs must be "carried in a bag" when entering, which has unintentionally turned the regulation into a kind of creativity contest among New Yorkers.

- George Hixson

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Good Night…,

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— I 💙 Dogs (@dogs100.bsky.social) October 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM

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Friends on CaturDogDay…..

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— I 💙 Dogs (@dogs100.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 5:41 PM

Hope seeing this makes your day better.

- Words about things and stuff

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