Kenton Larsen
@kentonlarsen.bsky.social
Ad and PR writer, communications instructor, and co-host of the Media Nerds and Star Wars Nerds podcasts.
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Kenton Larsen
@kentonlarsen.bsky.social
· Feb 21
When I went to school in Boston, I was the smartest person in the class. When I came back to Canada, I was the dumbest. So, this all makes sense.
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Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦
Is Gen X the greatest generation? Gift article - via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
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December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Is Gen X the greatest generation? Gift article - via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
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It's going to take a lot of work (and advertising) to undo the damage the US has inflicted on its own travel/tourism/hospitality industry: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
How Much More Can the U.S. Travel Industry Take?
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December 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's going to take a lot of work (and advertising) to undo the damage the US has inflicted on its own travel/tourism/hospitality industry: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
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As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
As the year comes to a close, TCM remembers the actors, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Gone, but never forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
Song title and artist: "In the Western Wind and the Sunrise" by Dave Simonett and the Sunrise.
Winnipeg made this beloved Santa statue an institution: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/365bbeb... - gift article via @theglobeandmail.com
Winnipeg made this 10-foot Santa a beloved institution – and banded together to save him
The Santa statue has spread cheer across the seasons every single day for years, with his colourful outfits capturing the city’s spirit
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December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Winnipeg made this beloved Santa statue an institution: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/365bbeb... - gift article via @theglobeandmail.com
Live a life of pure good: Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 21, 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/winnip... - via LinkedIn
Winnipeg communications jobs - Dec. 21, 2025
Bilingual Documentary and French Language Executive, APTN Executive Director, Plume Winnipeg Marketing Manager, KPMG Law Communication Manager, KPMG Social Media Specialist, Bass Pro Shops Marketing M...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Live a life of pure good: Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 21, 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/winnip... - via LinkedIn
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Gil Gerard, the actor from Arkansas best known for his turn as the wisecracking hero of the 1979-81 NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Gil Gerard, Star of ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,’ Dies at 82
Gil Gerard, the actor from Arkansas best known for his turn as the wisecracking hero of the 1979-81 NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died Tuesday. He was 82.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Gil Gerard, the actor from Arkansas best known for his turn as the wisecracking hero of the 1979-81 NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, died Tuesday. He was 82.
“No, Ace, just you.”
a movie poster for stand by me shows a group of young men walking down train tracks
ALT: a movie poster for stand by me shows a group of young men walking down train tracks
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December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“No, Ace, just you.”
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Texas royalty Joe Ely has passed away today.
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Texas royalty Joe Ely has passed away today.
In 1400s Florence, notebooks were sometimes passed along from father to son. One notebook from the era features the original writer’s intro; beneath it, another writes, “Note that you are lying through your teeth like the scoundrel you are, and you are a crazy windbag.” Via:
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In 1400s Florence, notebooks were sometimes passed along from father to son. One notebook from the era features the original writer’s intro; beneath it, another writes, “Note that you are lying through your teeth like the scoundrel you are, and you are a crazy windbag.” Via:
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Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' after starring in the trailblazing sitcom 'All in the Family,' died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. bit.ly/48UWXSi
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' after starring in the trailblazing sitcom 'All in the Family,' died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. bit.ly/48UWXSi
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Somewhere between Pepto Bismol and Crème brûlée sits eggnog.
December 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Somewhere between Pepto Bismol and Crème brûlée sits eggnog.
Classic Canadian year-end journalism: “The top 10 Canadian concerts this year (in Toronto, or on the one vacation I took).”
December 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Classic Canadian year-end journalism: “The top 10 Canadian concerts this year (in Toronto, or on the one vacation I took).”
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How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made. (Spoiler: they are *not* made by two people bumping into each other on the street, as we were led to believe in the 80s.) [kottke.org]
How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are probably my favorite big brand candy (perhaps only bested by Reese’s Pieces), so it was a real treat (groan) to see how the company makes them cups.
But did you know Reese’s purposely ov
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December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made. (Spoiler: they are *not* made by two people bumping into each other on the street, as we were led to believe in the 80s.) [kottke.org]
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For more than a decade, senior editor Alan Taylor has made it an annual tradition to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past 12 months—an effort to seek out and recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us.
Hopeful Images From 2025
Year after year, rounding up his news photos of the year has proven to be an exercise in sorting through difficult and disturbing imagery. For more than a decade now, senior editor Alan Taylor has made it an annual tradition to compose a companion essay of uplifting images from the past 12 months—an effort to seek out and recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For more than a decade, senior editor Alan Taylor has made it an annual tradition to compose an essay of uplifting images from the past 12 months—an effort to seek out and recognize some of the abundant joy and kindness present in the world around us.
College professors use oral exams to combat A.I. - via Washington Post:
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Professors are turning to this old-school method to stop AI use on exams
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
College professors use oral exams to combat A.I. - via Washington Post:
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Kids rarely read whole books anymore. Even in English class. - via @nytimes.com gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Kids rarely read whole books anymore. Even in English class. - via @nytimes.com gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Take Winnipeg Transit to work: Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 14, 2025: www.linkedin.com/pulse/winnip... - via LinkedIn
Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 14, 2025
Development Coordinator, Manitoba Museum Marketing Assistant Director (contract), EY Social and Community Manager, Affirm Director, Product Marketing, Affirm Marketing Specialist, Smartrend Director, ...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Take Winnipeg Transit to work: Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 14, 2025: www.linkedin.com/pulse/winnip... - via LinkedIn
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The New Yorker’s most-liked cartoons of 2025 suggest that we're all really going through something. See your favorites. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AxK3kD
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025
The year’s most-liked gag drawings suggest that you, our readers, are really going through something.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The New Yorker’s most-liked cartoons of 2025 suggest that we're all really going through something. See your favorites. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AxK3kD
In rural Manitoba, a photographer chases combines to find beauty in the chaff - gift article - via Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/365bbeb...
In rural Manitoba, a photographer chases combines to find beauty in the chaff
Tim Smith documents the gruelling work of harvest on the Prairies
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December 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
In rural Manitoba, a photographer chases combines to find beauty in the chaff - gift article - via Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/365bbeb...
Gretzky never could read a cue card.
December 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Gretzky never could read a cue card.
FIFA just awarded me its top prize!
December 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
FIFA just awarded me its top prize!
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Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE
Know your skeletons: Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 7, 2025: www.linkedin.com/pulse/winnip... - via LinkedIn #CreComm
Winnipeg communications jobs - Dec. 7, 2025
Executive Director, A.I.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Know your skeletons: Winnipeg communications jobs - week of Dec. 7, 2025: www.linkedin.com/pulse/winnip... - via LinkedIn #CreComm
Cloud dancer was my nickname in high school.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Cloud dancer was my nickname in high school.