Olympics Catch-Up, this week’s funny posts, plus Carney Hat-trick, Epstein Scalp-watch, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Olympic Catch-up
Hey everyone, if you google “olympics” you can watch Nazgul run across the bottom of your screen!

The Olympics are almost over — Canada’s Day 15 results here. For what is coming up on Day 16, click here.

Canada now has 19 medals at the Olympics after this Ivanie Blondin silver.

And with guaranteed medals in curling and hockey, Canada will surpass 20 medals at the Winter Olympics once again.

It’s a streak that started 20 years ago in Italy. And continues.

— Devin Heroux (@devinheroux.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 10:43 AM

Gold!

Silver!

Bronze!
Originally I was disappointed when Homan won the Canadian trials again, and I wasn’t really surprised that she lost the first three games in the Olympics. But then she reached deep and got herself together to win her way into the semi-finals. Then losing there, but coming back again to win Bronze – an absolutely tremendous demonstration of strength, poise and maturity.

And the final figure skating Gala:

Canadian Bronze medalists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier’s Gala skate:

A few Olympic comments:

What a comeback for the Homan team. This should be our new Canadian anthem:
youtu.be/kui3egBkNWA?…

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— Cathie from Canada🍁 (@cathiecanada.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM

Everyone from the Olympics Scandals actually did great at the Olympics

—Canada curling won gold after BoopGate
—Cheating biathlete won five medals
—Credit card fraud biathlete won 3 golds
—Norwegian crotch parachute ski jumper won a bronze

Milano-Cortina 2026: Messy and Thriving

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM

there is still time for USA men’s hockey to get involved in a low-stakes scandal overnight. golf cart theft, public urination, petting one of the bomb-sniffing security dogs despite repeated warnings. just throwing out some options. otherwise i question their desire to win

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM

Unreal press conference strategy from new IOC president Kirsty Coventry where she repeatedly turns to her PR team off stage and personally blames them for not making her aware of various Olympics controversies, saying that “maybe someone needs to be dismissed”

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 9:36 AM

I love how in high-level curling, scoring zero points is generally more valuable than scoring one point

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 1:22 PM

HELLLLOOO VERONA

I’ve just arrived in the ancient city and UNESCO world heritage site and it’s stunning.

The Arena Di Verona is where the Olympic Closing Ceremony takes place tomorrow night. I’ll have coverage from the historic Roman amphitheater.

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— Devin Heroux (@devinheroux.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 10:54 AM

Did you know – all top 8 finishers at an Olympic medal event get an Olympic diploma?

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— Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) February 21, 2026 at 8:57 AM

This week’s funny posts

When a journalist or an announcer in a commercial tries to say “Saskatchewan” and they say it wrong, that’s when we all know they are from Ontario or worse.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 1:41 PM

Doing some research for my next book, and much to my surprise, I found out Albert Einstein was a real person. All this time I thought he was a theoretical physicist.

– David Marlow

Read on Substack

Speaking of crazy sports:

A few comments about the rich:

As a Leftist, this is technology I am pretty excited about!

I think more billionaires should keep trying!

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— Little V (@littlevmills.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 9:29 AM

Here’s a fascinating post:

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer’d but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.

In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: “thou” could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon whom you ſayd it to; to chooſe amiſse had conſequences.

Wende we now tuo hundred ȝeer bifore, to Chauceres tyme. It seemeth ȝit as Englisshe, but it nis nat esy to reden withouten greet connynge.

Yet tuo hundred wintre er, sone after þat the Normans comen to þis londe, is Englisch on muchel wandlunge. Þe tunges work is tobroken, Frensce wordes comeþ in, and þe writunge is al totwemed.

Þy furðor þu underbæc færst, þy gelicor biþ Englisc gesewen þære Deniscan spræce. Englisce bec þæs m. geare ne mæg nan mann rædan buton he sundorlice geleornad sy.

– Colin Gorrie

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And check out Colin Gorrie’s great substack article: How far back in time can you understand English?

Babies born with high refractive error, astigmatism, or albinism see faces as blurry shapes. Without early correction, the visual cortex eventually stops trying to interpret the signal being sent from the eyes. Doctors call it amblyopia.

Paediatric ophthalmologists don’t wait for babies to get old enough to read eye charts though – they use retinoscopy: shine a light into their eyes and watch how it reflects, then they create a prescription and fit tiny frames.

What you’re seeing here in these first few, amazing seconds comes after months of screening, measurement, and fitting.

Science = miracles.

– Angus Hervey

Read on Substack

Carney Hat-trick
Funny posts about our PM

Go Canada🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

– #Francesk🇨🇦

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Epstein Scalp-Watch

Because just about every day now we are seeing the rich and powerful discredited and taken down.

Epstein certainly had a talent for spotting the weaknesses of powerful, vain men.

— Jo Wolff (@jowolff.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 6:40 AM

Boris J.: “We will rediscover muscles that we have not used for decades—the power of independent thought and action” but I’ll need my guy Bannon to help me remove our PM—while keeping a fellow yank pedophile in the loop. It’s all about “restoring our democracy and control of our borders” you see.

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— Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 (@tabathasouthey.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 9:37 AM

All of the billionaires and their wanna-be enablers are now tarred with the brush:

can you imagine if the establishment press treated this madness with the same scorn reserved for progressives advocating for affordable housing regulation?

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— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) February 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM

The possibility that pre-Elon Twitter was limiting the reach of conservative tweets was the greatest story in the history of journalism, while a vast network of sex trafficking pedophiles that included billionaires, celebrities and two presidents is just a big yawn.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 7:45 AM

Still, the media did maintain a proportionate sense of outrage in its coverage of the greatest conceivable crime a human can commit: Storing recipes on an off-books email server while female.

— Union Pacific 8647 (@dsng480.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 7:49 AM

Seems to be endemic to republicans, isn’t it:

Just an amazing string of coincidences that the Republican Party has so many pedophiles, pedophile enablers and pedophile protectors in its ranks.

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— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) February 21, 2026 at 10:18 AM

😕

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM

Joe Rogan is THIS close to getting it about the man who said this was all a hoax.

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— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 10:28 AM

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Animal Crackers
Punch love – what a story!