Cathie from Canada: Tabarnak!!! Plus, Sunday Funday with funny-odd and funny-haha posts, Hating AI, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Oh, tabarnak! The Habs lose tonight – On to Monday!
The video low-lights of Saturday’s game are here. I’m not posting the clip because I don’t really want to watch it again.

This is a pretty good game review on the Raw NHL website, from Sabres writer Matthew Fairburn

Canadiens fans were ready to party on Saturday night. The holiday weekend brought even more people into the city. Thousands of fans were outside the Bell Centre watching the game, and the 20,962 fans filled the arena with ear-splitting noise before puck drop. Montreal police warned fans outside the building not to bring any pyrotechnics or fireworks, concerned about the kind of scene a Game 6 win would create in the city’s streets.
But the Sabres, who came into this game 4-1 on the road in the playoffs, scored seven unanswered goals to thwart that party and keep their season alive with another road win to bring the series back home for Game 7.
“Well we’re in the process of seeing if we can play here on Monday,” Ruff quipped.
…“It’s probably the worst game we’ve played, so we’re only going up,” Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki said. “It’s going to be important for guys to look themselves in the mirror and say that we’ve got an opportunity to win one game and move on to the third round. So we’ll take that any time.”…

More comments and analysis:

In my observation, the team that wins its way into a Game 7 is invigorated, while the team that loses their way into it – because they lost game 6 – has a tougher time keeping their edge. But astronaut Jeremy Hanson would call bullshit on that, wouldn’t he!

Moving on – here are tonight’s funny-odd and funny-haha posts

Trump and his tech bro entourage are back from China and I’m seeing more posts and cartoons about how Xi was the winner of this trip, and Trump was the loser. Even the wind was on China’s side:

I’m seeing so many cartoons about how Trump’s China trip failed, and his whole presidency is collapsing. #ETTD (Everything Trump Touches Dies)

This is now known as the “Napoleon” cover from The Economist

Some other cartoons:

Trump just can’t stop with the damned tarrifs. This is from Todd Maffin:

Moving on:

🌿 It turns out plants have been talking to each other for roughly 400 million years, and nobody thought to mention it to us.

Here is what happens. A caterpillar lands on a leaf and starts eating. The plant, which has no brain, no mouth, and no real options, does the only thing available to it: releases a cocktail of chemicals into the air. A signal. An alarm. A tiny molecular cry of distress drifting across the garden.

The plant next door picks it up.

And this is the part that stops you mid-biscuit. That neighboring plant, which has been attacked by nothing, threatened by nothing, bothered by absolutely nothing this Saturday afternoon, quietly begins producing toxins. Just in case. Because the neighbor said so.

No language. No sound. No evolutionary reason to trust anyone.

And yet there it is. A conversation so old it was already ancient when the dinosaurs showed up and ruined everything.

We built cities. We invented Wi-Fi. We wrote symphonies. The begonias have been doing this since before we had thumbs.

– Gandalv

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I always preferred the English spelling of “diarrhea” which is “diarrhoea” because it really looks like you’ve lost control of your vowels.

– Colin Devonshire

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Me: I love a beautiful spring day! It’s so wonderf–

bug flies into my mouth

– Hollie Harris

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Well here’s a positive take on my life, I’m at the age where I can cross off ‘Dying Young’ from my list of things to worry about 😂

– Brad Davenport

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Everybody hates AI
Apparently this was a surprise to an Honorary Degree recipient at the University of Central Florida:

beautiful to see this meme in real life

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) May 11, 2026 at 7:57 AM

And here too:

Unbelievably stupid – the White House for posting AI slop, and MAGA for believing it

a synthesis of AI opinions: people who choose whether to use it and choose how to use it like it a lot, and people who are compelled to use it or forced to use it for certain tasks resent the shit out of it

— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) May 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM

– Kier Atkinson 🇨🇦

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Now that’s funny!😆

– The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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And using AI for good!

Carney Hat Trick – posts about our prime minister

First, mark this date!

Baby otter at a UK rescue center learns to dive after overcoming its fear of water.😍

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— omgisme (@omgisme.bsky.social) May 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM

F*cking Kangaroos!

Bark in the Park! I knew the Mariners were a great team