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Ben Grant @coachbengrant.bsky.social · 1d

PICK-SIX - It's your last chance of the 2025 season to win free beer! Ask an Argos question. If we answer it on this week's show, you win a six pack of beer courtesy of Something in the Water Brewing. #Argos

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know what, if anything, the Tiger-Cats have done to mark their 75th anniversary this year, but it's disappointing they didn't make it a bigger deal. Maybe Ted's illness pushed such things aside.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 1d

Also Ticats offensive gameplan vs Argos

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 2d

It's curious to see the Mariners in the ALCS, considering that every Mariners fan I know spent the season calling for everybody to be fired and everything to be sold.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 3d

Just like they drew it up.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 3d

But the "attempt" doesn't count as one, as per a lateral, which wreaks havoc on one's spreadsheet.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

Surely there will be someone among the filthy rich of Toronto civic-minded enough to purchase and donate the painting.

Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

From the Hudson’s Bay Company Collection — now being sold after HBC’s bankruptcy.

I feel we should ask City of Toronto or the Toronto Public Library, or the AGO to acquire this painting and keep it public within the city it depicts.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

Creating the curious fact that Woodbine Racetrack and the racetrack on Woodbine Ave were not one and the same racetrack.

Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 4d

The start, Woodbine Race Course, Toronto, October 10, 1907

Known as Woodbine from 1874, in 1963 it was renovated and renamed Greenwood, until its closure in 1993.

Postcard, gift of Norman Attikin
Toronto Public Library

#horseracing #postcard #OnThisDay #OTD #1900s #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 10, 1922 – Argonaut captain Lionel "Big Train" Conacher, an accomplished amateur boxer, faced world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey in a one-round exhibition bout at Christie Street Veterans Hospital for a crowd of local "war amps".

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 10, 1931 – Halfback Bill Darling (L) caught a pass from halfback Teddy Morris to complete the team's first-ever legal forward pass in a league game, a 12-7 road loss to the Hamilton Tigers at the HAAA grounds on Charlton Street.

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Bygone Boatmen @bygoneboatmen.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
100TH ANNIVERSARY ALERT
OCT 10, 1925 – Coach Mike Rodden's Argonauts, scoring all their points in the third quarter, beat the Ottawa Senators 13–5 at Varsity Stadium in the first Argo game broadcast live, "play by play", on the radio – by none other than Foster Hewitt.

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Paul Robichaud @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 4d

My maternal great-grandfather emigrated to Canada a year after this photo was taken to work for Sir Henry Pellatt as gardner, which he did until Sir Henry ran out of money and had to give up the property in 1923.

James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

A fun photograph of Casa Loma (or "Casa Lorna"!) under construction, from a 1912 Star Weekly.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 4d

A fun photograph of Casa Loma (or "Casa Lorna"!) under construction, from a 1912 Star Weekly.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 5d

"We took freedom of speech away because the courts said you had freedom of speech."
How many clauses of the constitution are violated by that single autocratic utterance?

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 6d

Another reason is that he made up the seven wars.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

Pity the poor, downtrodden billionaires! No way can they rake in enough money from defence contracts, government contracts, and AI porn to compensate people they steal from. Why should I profit from my own years of training and research? It's only fair that tech companies profit from it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

Yup. The people who should earn a fortune from the years I have devoted to training and research are people who run AI companies, not me.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

Somewhere in Georgia, there's a retired marine telling his grandkids about how the Canadians almost got him court martialled for flying the flag upside down at a World Series game; and his grandkids are saying, "Sure they did, Grandpa: did you remember to take your medicine?"

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

It's been an imperfect migration, but it continues.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

Indeed. Ab was Albert; Pud was Ernest (not sure where Pud comes from but it wasn't unique). In the days when everybody was a William, George, Richard, James, John, Frederick, Charles, Peter, Robert, or Donald you needed nicknames to keep track of everybody.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 7, 1933 = Star kicking halfback Ab Box suffered neck injuries and facial fractures in the Argos' home opener against Montreal. The damage was pronounced season-ending and career-threatening, but Box returned to action for the playoffs wearing custom-made head protection.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 7, 1922 = Backup QB Allan Arless (L) of the Montreal Winged Wheelers suffered fatal neck injuries during a 16-7 loss to the Argos at the MAAA Grounds. Much to Lionel Conacher's dismay, the false story that Arless was injured tackling him became part of Conacher lore.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY
OCT 7, 1899 = D'Arcy McGee (older brother of hockey's famous Frank) and Pud Kent (pictured) scored second-half touchdowns to pace the Argonauts to an W 11-7 win over the Hamilton Tigers at Toronto's Rosedale Field, the very first league win in the club's history.

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James Fraser (University of Guelph) @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 7d

You are not required to submit to anyone who does not identify themselves to you. That goes back to Miranda and even further.

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