Cathie from Canada: Sunday Funday: More cartoons, plus the Riders win & the Knicks win! Funny posts and neat posts, Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Starting with a few cartoons:

Knicks win!

and New York went nuts!

Look who threw out the first pitch at the SkyDome tonight: astronaut Jeremy Hansen. And he threw a strike! @bluejays.com @mlb.com
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— Steve Paikin (@spaikin.bsky.social) June 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM

“Do you know what I love most about baseball? … the pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt… and that’s just in the hot dogs.”
~ David Letterman
#quotes #baseball
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— Derby Gisclair (@derbygisclair.bsky.social) June 4, 2026 at 4:37 PM

“You know, I never realized how boring this game is.”
—Homer Simpson, watching a baseball game sober
— Bob-Parker54 (@bob-parker.bsky.social) June 4, 2026 at 10:33 PM

Even pushing Shopping Carts can be a sport

Funny posts
I don’t know what British comedy show this Lee Mack clip is from, but it is hysterical

Trump gets no respect

He signs his posts like history will mistake them for the Gettysburg Address instead of a tweet written while he was on the toilet.
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— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.lol) June 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM

They’re talking about nominating this photographer for a Pulitzer

A little preview of Independence Day.
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— Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) June 13, 2026 at 8:28 AM

Why are all history teachers left-wing https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/2A2amYotul

– Canadian Returnee

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Here is an excerpt from The Good Allies by Tim Cook

Neat posts
Here are today’s posts about Mamdani showing the world how to be a mayor

I hope the Hockney family sees this post because it shows how great art can be so real.

Farewell, David Hockney, and thank you.

You painted a hill I used to have to cycle up when I was a student in York, going home to East Yorkshire once a month – a terrible, merciless, grinding wretch of a hill that left me walking like a merchant seaman for a week after I did it the first time.

I’m grateful to you because your painting pulled no punches. It’s exactly that dire, in a way that’s suddenly so lovely when you get to the top, because (a) oh wow, look at the vale of York, and (b) HOORAY! THAT BLOODY HILL IS OVER WITH.

You saw this – and of course so much else, across your incredible career. But for this, I’m personally grateful. Thank you.

– Mike Sowden

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China story – “nature always bats last”

India story – I was today years old when I heard of the Ratnagiri geoglyphs

In the comments, there is some debate about whether these are actually “a map” or not, but whatever it is, its magnificent. Here’s an instagram video:

A Walk Through Time was created for the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis:
And speaking of interesting maps:
Night on Mars: “Dark they were, and golden-eyed”
NASA Perseverance rover captures what a Martian night really looks like from the ground
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— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) June 6, 2026 at 3:12 PM
In environmental news:
“France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France’s government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
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— alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social (@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social) June 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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— Ars Technica (@arstechnica.com) June 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Such a great story
The city of Los Angeles tried to arrest Ron Finley for planting carrots.
He grew up in South Central. Drive-throughs were on every corner. The dialysis clinics were multiplying. In 2003 he drove 45 minutes to buy a tomato.
He had built a fashion line in his garage. The Dropdead Collexion ended up in Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom. He knew how to make things beautiful. And he knew what it meant when a neighborhood was denied beauty.
In 2010 he looked at the 10-foot strip of city-owned land between the sidewalk and the street outside his house. Old toilets. Broken furniture. Used condoms. The city owned that strip and had left it to rot.
He planted pomegranate and banana and almond and orange and tomato and blackberry and kale and strawberries.
The city cited him for it.
He refused to remove the garden.
They issued a warrant for his arrest.
He gathered 900 signatures.
The city backed down.
In 2013 Los Angeles changed the law.
Vacant lots became gardens. Children learned to grow food. Gardeners trained and took the knowledge home.
Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the city, he said. And you get strawberries.
Behind the city’s oldest library in South Central he is building an urban garden oasis: a greenhouse, a café in a shipping container, a community garden where people can grow and sell and share.
If you’re not growing your own food, you’re eating someone else’s agenda.
Image Credit: Emily Berl/The New York Times
– Khalilah L. Liptrot
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Carney Hat Trick – posts about our prime minister
Carney is visiting County Mayo this weekend:
The local news in County Mayo, Ireland has coverage on Mark Carney’s upcoming visit:
“Excitement has been building for weeks to welcome home arguably Aughagower’s most famous son.” https://t.co/BuoIjKHSnl
— Kate McKenna (@katemckenna8) June 8, 2026
This speech was on St. Patrick’s Day but I just saw it:
TrumpWatch – posts about the world’s most anticipated event
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— Maybe It Will Happen Today (@today-maybe.bsky.social) May 28, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Animal Crackers
(hint: look at the paw behind the TV)
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) June 12, 2026 at 8:39 AM