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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦

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B2B tech content marketing strategist and still sometime journalist. andrewwahl.ca Proud husband and dad. Cottage DIYer 🛠️ Jays fan ⚾️ Canadian indie rocker🤘🏻 Craft beer quaffer 🍻 Sci-fi nerd 👽 Fierce ally of good people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧🌎 (He/Him)

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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · Nov 12

Please enjoy 19.2 hours of Ultimate 1990s Canadian Alt-Rock. 🇨🇦 (And let me know if I missed anything!)
#NowPlaying #CanadianRock #CanadianIndie
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Ultimate 1990s Canadian Alt-Rock

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WheatNOil @wheatnoil.bsky.social · 3h

It’s not even choking.

You’re up against the best team money can buy who rolled through last and this playoffs against whoever they faced and they pushed them to extra innings in game 7 with two hobbled starters & a bunch of guys who started in the minors.

They deserve all the respect.

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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 45m

I appreciate they have a different lived experience, but…

The Dodgers are a ridiculously stacked, wealthy team that doesn’t reflect much about LA’s challenges.

No city “deserves” a sports trophy no matter how unjust or traumatic their politics.

I cheer for the Jays team, not Toronto the city.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h

Los Angeles suffered tremendously because of the wildfires. The president of the United States has wanted to make the immigrants who make the city suffer and declared war on the city. But all throughout it, L.A. makes it work daily. It’s a place where people go to make it. LA deserves this.

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Kitchie 🍁North of the Wall🍁 💙💛🦒 she/her @kitchieg.bsky.social · 3h

Dodgers win it in 11 innings of game 7 against a team they expected to humiliate and take in 4. #WellDoneBlueJays you'll always be my champions!!!

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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 58m

I was thinking the same thing.

Did they win the World Series? No.

But they didn’t lose. Dodgers won based on two (of four) extra-inning wins, both of which could have gone either way.

If LA didn’t have Yamamoto, things would have been much different.

Jays are still champions.

Cheryl White @ladyscorcher.bsky.social · 3h

I think we should have a parade for the blue jays. Look what they did for all of us. ❤️

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rob quigley ppm_319 @robppm319.bsky.social · 1d

i'd like to think Mr. Candy approved this spot.
it is halloween so who knooooows?

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Jays have the chance to win the World Series on what would have been John Candy's 75th birthday.
Make it happen.

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Ben Steiner @bensteiner00.bsky.social · 1d

Could this be the last night for Rockin’ Rick?

He’s been jamming out and hyping up Jays fans since 1989 and is hanging up his drum sticks this year.

He was here in ‘92 and ‘93 — another World Series tonight?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 1d

A tricker-or-treater, maybe 7, at the door just now: “If you go to our house there is a little baseball game going on!”

Yep, here too, kid. Here too.

Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 1d

Stay strong!

Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 1d

But do you really have all 50 left for that one lucky kid? 🎃 Those are just way too snackable.

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 1d

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

CBS News kills its climate unit

David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

heated.world

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

Almost 40% of CPC voters polled see Trump in tariff negotiations as "methodical & strategic" as opposed to "irrational & erratic". In contrast, 5% of both Liberal & NDP voters think Trump's "methodical & strategic" in his negotiations. So a big group of Canadians don't have Trump's number. #CdnPoli

We need to see Trump with clarity. Any Canadian who doesn’t blame Trump first and foremost is the equivalent of someone who blames the sitting government for wildfires or hurricanes. At a certain point, embracing this administration acquires the whiff of disloyalty to one’s country.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

The cover of "The AI Con" against an orange background

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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The ⁦‪@TorontoStar‬⁩’s ⁦‪@MoiraWelsh‬⁩ on how the government doesn’t know what kind of jobs Skills Development Fund program users are getting — because the data isn’t tracked.
#onpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund doesn’t track the type of work recipients got, insider says

No one in charge of the $2.5 billion program knows whether the employment numbers are for full-time, part-time or temporary work.

www.thestar.com

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Bobby Big Wheel @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 2d

French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders

Beginning Nov. 1, when SNAP benefits are expected to be suspended, Je T’aime Patisserie will offer free breakfast to anyone who presents their EBT card from 7:30-10 a.m.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

This looks like a concentration camp.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 2d

a perfect apples-to-apples comparison between evenly-sized countries, great stuff SI

Sports Illustrated on Threads:
More people are watching the World Series in Japan than Canada

BobNightengale:
World series TV viewership for the first two games
Us 12.6 million
Japan 10.7 million
Canada 7 million

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 3d

Just a 22-year-old who started the season in low-A ball mowing down the most expensive offence money can buy in the World Series

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 3d

If you looked at Trey Yesavage's repertoire in a 3D tunnel, you wouldn't even know he was right-handed.

His splitter goes *the wrong way*. It's like a throwback to screwballs before they stopped teaching kids screwballs in the 90s because it was melting their ligaments

A Yesavage splitter to Ohtani is shown with arm side (away from a lefty) movement

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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 3d

What does “on an equal basis” mean? Equal to China?

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Mike Wilner @wilnerness.bsky.social · 3d

11 Ks for Trey Yesavage ties his own #Bluejays record for most strikeouts in a post-season start. He did that in his playoff debut vs. NYY in the ALDS.

it also ties Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers for the most Ks by a rookie in a World Series game. This is wild.

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Ben Nicholson-Smith @bnsbaseball.bsky.social · 3d

That was the first time in World Series history that two players have hit back-to-back home runs to start a game.

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Andrew Wahl 🇨🇦 @andrewwahl.bsky.social · 3d

Okay Blue Jays, play a good clean game!

Okay, Rogers, play a good clean stream!

(With my $30/mo SportsNet+ subscription renewing today, this game is costing me either $15 or $10.)

#GoJays