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Well, for one thing, I’m happy because its finally summer.
And also I’ve been noticing my Sunday Funday posts often get more visitors than the more serious posts.
So I think its time I put together more Funday-type posts two or three times a week, for the rest of the summer at least. Hope you enjoy them!
Isn’t this neat?
Next, there’s a flap going on now in Calgary about noise levels from music events during the Stampede – not just the music as such, but the drunken louts staggering around all night. Calgary city council is planning to shut down the loudest music at midnight though still allowing some music until 1 am. But Poilievre and Smith are, of course, on the wrong side of this issue.
Smith, Poilievre blast noise restrictions for Calgary Stampede tents. Alberta premier says ‘fun police have struck again in Calgary’
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/…Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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— National Newswatch (@nationalnewswatch.com) June 21, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Agree and also, imagine a premier slamming (with the help of Poilievre) Calgary city council for putting a noise limit on drunks so people can sleep at some point during stampede. Calgary has the latest noise limits in the World…and she talks overreach from the Feds ffs
— MacScot🇨🇦 (@mlm7.bsky.social) June 22, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Calgary Mayor calls out PP
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— Jeff’s Fact Checker (@thunderbayed.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 8:53 AM
On his Alberta Politics substack, David Climenhaga is following this story and Smith’s interference:
…Mr. Farkas and Calgary City Council should tell the premier to take a hike. And it sounds as if that’s exactly what the mayor is going to do.
She won’t, but at least that’ll remind Calgarians living near the Stampede’s music tents just how committed to democracy the UCP really is.
And if any of Jason Kenney’s old ear plugs are still lying around the cabinet room at the Alberta Legislature, maybe the taxpayers who have to live with the noise can get Ms. Smith to send them some….
Read the whole piece for an appreciation of how unhinged this debate is getting, including how the new provincial sheriffs tried to “sign an MOU” with Calgary police to pinky-swear they won’t act like “fun police” but still somehow get a grip on the drunken howling.
I think the people of Washington are finally beginning to understand that Trump and his gang hate them. So far he has ruined the Oval Office, the Rose Garden, the Kennedy Center, the East Wing, the White House lawns, and the Reflecting Pool, plus putting giant Trump banners on government office buildings.
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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Now he’s gunning for the columns in front of the White House
Coming up is the Arch d’Trump
deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-t…
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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
They have put a fence around that Reflecting Pool now, plus tarps to hide it from the public, just like they did with the Kennedy Center – so no more photos of dead ducks, I guess.
It’s not easy being green
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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 3:37 PM
1) Good use of ‘credulous’
2) Excellent point
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— James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Any minute now, Trump is going to get bored and surrender and move on… In the meantime, he’s a growth industry for Washington lawyers who are suing him over everything he is doing.
Yeah, well, we’ll see…
Next, a great non-politics piece by Hans Dayal, who worked on The X-Files when the series was filmed in Vancouver: The Show That Left
… When a production shoots here, we get the wages: the crews, the stages, the lumber, the catering and the hotel rooms. Real money, a great deal of it — close to $900M a year moves through our incentives, and roughly eighty percent of it goes to productions we will never own. We built one of the best screen workforces on the continent with that money. I am not pretending the wages do not matter. They are how my friends and colleagues pay their mortgages, feed their children and find meaning in their lives. They are how I stayed alive and learned to do this work.
But the wages are all we get. The residuals, the licensing, the revivals, the twenty-year afterlife of a thing that keeps earning — that belongs to whoever holds the rights, and that has never been us.
Look at what The X-Files became after it left. Two movies. A universe. A revival. The reboot I am standing on the heels of right now. Syndication in every country on earth. We made it – the look of it, the mood of it, the rain that was sometimes the whole point of it – and we captured the wages for five seasons and not one dollar of the long tail. We serviced the asset. We never held it. And the proof is that the asset came back to us as a job, not as something we own.
That is what it means to rent an industry rather than own one. And renters leave. 1998 told us so, and we have spent twenty-eight years deciding not to hear it.
And yet here is the thing the ledger misses, the thing I keep turning over on this set. We did keep something. Not the rights, not the residuals — the people. I have worked with dozens of crew members from the original series. They taught me how this is done, in the patient, unwritten way this work is always passed along, and I am using some of what they gave me right now, on a production carrying the same name they worked on a quarter century ago. That transmission is real, and it is the most valuable thing this province has ever built in those years. It does not show up in any incentive report. It walks onto set every morning, and it stays….
Animal Crackers
watched a dodo video of a rescued feral kitten get rescued and then slowly turn into a little loverboy and they loved the kitten so much and he was so happy and it made me feel good so I said “aww” and reached over to pet Maxwell who promptly bit the palm of my hand as hard as he could.
— Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Congratulations, you have been chosen by the Cat Distribution System! Please do not resist . 😍
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— omgisme (@omgisme.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Waiting to see his friend 🤗
TT: @croesycanineservices
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— Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 8:03 PM
World Cup stories
Ronaldo: 20 years and 11 days between his first and latest World Cup goal.
Messi: 20 years and 11 days too.Same week in Germany 2006, same arc to here.
The chants their fans wrote across both careers — every line translated: fanzaful.com/chants
— Fanzaful (@fanzaful.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I was today year’s old when I learned about the Disgrace of Gijón
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy…
Really American: Trump PANICS As BRUTAL World Cup EPSTEIN CHANTS Go VIRAL!
Chip Franklin reporting
260K Views, 13K Likes, June 22 2026
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— Palookaville (@youwasmybrother.bsky.social) June 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Today’s Pride Update
