Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

The “hop suisse” is giving me curling flashbacks

From the weekend desk, on yesterday’s crazy storm. In sum, not a fun time to be a group that puts on outdoor summer events, or a City of Edmonton rec centre/underpass edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Interesting: AI summaries mean Google is now indisputably a content creator and can be held libel (in Germany, at least) for incorrect AI information. www.dw.com/en/german-co...

No … it doesn’t?

Finished my fourth or fifth rewatch of HBO’s Rome, great show. Watched season one on my downtime in actual Rome, what a fantastic week that was.

Quick tutorial on how to opt out of Meta's new feature which allows anyone to tag your Instagram handle to generate AI images of you. @evystadium.bsky.social on Muse Image in 40 seconds:

Wonder if one potential upshot of this is more heat pump adoption in Alberta. www.pembina.org/media-releas...

Very strange: Edmonton mayor Andrew Knack hired former NDP MP Blake Desjarlais as his chief of staff earlier this year, to much fanfare. Three months later, he's gone. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

New from me: the man accused of murdering two men in Edmonton’s Chinatown four years ago took the stand at his trial today and described the lead up to the killings, including being transported to the city by RCMP in breach of a court order edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Meta is building a data centre in Sturgeon County that will draw almost as much power as the entire city of Edmonton. To be powered by its own natural gas plant apple.news/AV4-NlP80QhG...

From @jonnywakefield.bsky.social — "More than 1,500 days after he was arrested for the murders of two men in Edmonton’s Chinatown, it was Bone’s latest chance to tell his side of the story." edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape

Son of former Edmonton councillor arrested in Norway-led police probe into dark web child sex abuse edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Absolutely gutting news. Heartbroken for everyone affected.

The initial reaction from senior sports federation officials in Europe is that reinstating Russia while the occupation of Ukraine is ongoing will likely lead to a mass European boycott of the LA Olympics, and there will be pressure on Canada to join it.

“Are we going to have a final flourish from somebody, a great crescendo to this game?” God I love soccer announcers

EGYPT???

Alberta's top court has upheld a decision staying the sexual interference prosecution of a man who, for all intents & purposes, has no way of communicating. Kendal Longclaws, 34, has been deaf since birth & never learned to communicate beyond rudimentary hand signals

Um what was this crowd shot about hmm

“This team was so over hyped…demolished by Belgium here.” I’ve watched dozens of games and haven’t heard an announcer go in on a team like this

I’ve really gotta post with more confidence

Feeling like one of those games where one team is quite a bit better at soccer than the other team

Spain-Portugal has been a wonderful antidote to England-Mexico

“Yes Mr. Prime minister and can you tell us the sound the submarine makes”

Oh my goooooood lol

11 minutes you sick bastards

You can tell that this game will destroy at least one nation's psyche and that's what sports are all about baby

Got to the half and the ref was like “are you ready for some OFFICIATING”

VIVA

The TSN announcer basically calling it for England at this point which seems wildly premature

INNIT

Oh my god

How many times a career does an England manager get to bust out the Henry V speech at halftime

Mexico let me be the first to tell you this is not ideal

I did a “why is Norway so good at Winter Olympics” story in Italy and came away a total convert. Hopefully their World Cup success makes youth sports everywhere less screwed up nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...

Calgary has a very good zoo

They, once again, fought like lions 🫡

I fear sadness awaits us on the other side of the hydration break

Lopsided in favour of … Canada? Huh

Cabo Verde … from somewhere on Highway 2 in central Alberta, please know I will always think of you fondly

This Salah guy is good at kicking

Are the goalies or kickers around to scream during penalties? Like for distraction intimidation etc

A goalie sub BAH GAWD

Tidy piece of work from @liamnewbigging.bsky.social, who found an eight-plex in Edmonton that was built with CMHC affordable housing financing that's being used exclusively as an AirBnB. edmontonjournal.com/news/hotel-e...

News: the Alberta Court of Appeal has more than doubled the sentence for a man convicted of raping an Edmonton woman in 1981. John Edward Beausoleil was arrested after police retested evidence using modern DNA tools. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...

I love British English because there's a 3-4 second delay for me on certain nouns or phrases, like "car club what the hell are you talking about" and then it clicks. Very satisfying.

Watching the football

I've read an above average amount of Church history, but it's still wild to me how schisms start over things like what direction a priest faces during worship, or who gets to hold the bread www.bbc.com/news/article...

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