@ChetanHeer19 @GregBalloch My thought exactly. "What was that? Oh, the puck? Yeah, you guys take care of that for a sec, I'm kinda busy over here."
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@ColinHodd
From a place called Musquash, NB, currently living in Dartmouth, NS. Freelance writer, mostly for https://t.co/xnvaLWNAsX. Second job as a goalie coach. He/Him
Nova Scotia, Canada Katılım Şubat 2012
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@GregBalloch Best part for me is after you made the save you looked to make sure the puck didn’t bounce off the post and in and you continued fixing the net so calmly 😆
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Happy 1-year anniversary to me making a save while fixing the net
Gregory Balloch@GregBalloch
Anyway, here's the best save I made. It happened while I was fixing the net. (The audio is also quite good on this)
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@Girrl_Friday I've definitely stepped in it before by coming in hot and trying to score points. I'll probably do it again.
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@Girrl_Friday I am guilty of doing this, but I really wish we had developed social norms around coming screaming into conversations we aren't directly involved in. The internet lets us just jump right into everyone's business before we know anything at all about the situation.
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@OneKenBoi I keep wondering how many people who voted for Trump really understand what they just did. Some of them, for sure. But this dissaffectation with reality and the mania that's followed is impossible to understand.
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genuinely believe there is not a single person who voted for that man who is not either stupid or evil. 2016? i get it. could NEVER be me, but i get it. 2020? already lost my sympathy. 2024? you are completely detached from reality and/or actively bloodthirsty.
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@FridayInHalifax An excellent Batman line in a movie replete with them. Personal favourite:
“Get out of here or that suit's gonna be full of blood.”
Batman: “Mine or yours?”
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@KevinisInGoal Whenever this happens to me I try to pretend I’m just in a club with other like-minded geniuses. It really soothes the ego.
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Been informed there are already “Poke-Chetkov” t-shirts back in Raleigh and I’ve never been sadder to learn I’m not as original as I’d hoped while also being overjoyed to know these shirts exist and his style is being celebrated 😊
Kevin Woodley@KevinisInGoal
Gonna call him Pyotr Poke-Chetkov from now on … cost him on tying goal but the Carolina keeper sure is fun to watch
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Here's a three-step comprehensive decision-making guide for your Halloween costume:
1. Should I wear a Klan costume, yes or no?
-> If brain said no, no.
-> If brain said yes, no.
-> If brain said "everyone is too sensitive these days!", no.
2. No.
3. Absolutely not, you moron.
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How will we pay for bridge maintenance?
Tim Houston@TimHoustonNS
The MacKay and Macdonald bridge tolls are nothing more than a tax on getting to work or getting home to see your family, and a re-elected PC Government will scrap the bridge tolls. We're saving you money, time, and getting you moving! Let's make it happen. ✅
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@TheSilentG Agreed. Convenient how “the enemy” always ends up being a minority group without a lot of power, eh? A whole bunch of grown-ass adults lining up to punch down.
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@ColinHodd These aren’t the enemy. They’re the people that have been failed by the government. They’re the people we should be helping.
Also I would add the disabled to that list.
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The poor. The homeless. Immigrants. LGTBQ+ people. These are the targets of our current grievance-fueled conservative politics.
Grow. Up. None of our problems can be laid at the feet of these people. Be an adult and look for solutions that aren’t scapegoating and bullying.
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@AndrewBerkshire He’s fascinating to watch. If you had no context for him and saw him score a goal, you’d assume that must be a perennial 40-goal scorer.
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@DartmouthDerek Lovely to watch people use personal bigotry and frustration with their lot in life to justify the same old bullshit. Beyond their immorality, these approaches do not, and have never, worked. People will be shocked to find that their problems are not solved by hate and violence.
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Just call then what they are: concentration camps.
Axios@axios
Americans split on idea of putting immigrants in militarized "camps" trib.al/8G9zpbg
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@liz_hallett @realfatapollo Yeah, I mean sincerely, it was good to have multiple sane-seeming options. You made important contributions to the conversation the whole time.
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@BDingz They’re about as bad as I expected. No freelance contract in 2024 is great but the Postmedia one was laughable. Sorry you got let go from two gigs.
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@FridayInHalifax Yeah. It's classic pareidolia. There are patterns to be interpreted and there are multiple explanations that *could* fit the data. But there's that pesky reality that means that for a lot of things there is actualy an answer and usually it's very mundane.
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@ColinHodd Right? And its easy enough to find out how say google embed ads work on a page, or how it reacts to your own behaviour, but no one wants to put in the effort
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When did we let airlines make the argument that they're not selling you a ticket for a particular flight at a particular time? Because that's what they fall back on now and it's ridiculous. We pay money upfront, they make whatever changes they like and say too bad.
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@PerilousWood @FridayInHalifax Agreed. Sometimes it's interesting, but sometimes it's not. Since they're all pretend, you can get some mileage out of using them as metaphors or analogues to real-world evil, but there are diminishing returns for sure.
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@ColinHodd @FridayInHalifax Yeah, also why I don't really get a narrative of 'actually superheroes are evil'. Like, okay, so they're doing the shit the CIA are doing now but using magic powers. I mean guys, what am I getting out of this?
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@FridayInHalifax Not saying it's a good impulse, but I struggle to connect with media that's like "Did you know the world SUCKS!?" without strong counternarrative. It's why I don't consume a lot of true stories about people whose lives were hard. I'm definitely missing out on excellent stories.
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