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Just trying to learn things & collect good data. Employed studying the politics. Passions: baseball, dogs, space, time (He/him) https://www.mun.ca/political-science/people/kelly-blidook/

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Mark de Rosa as Team USA manager (in the World Baseball Classic) makes no sense to me.

What exactly has de Rosa done as a player or coach to achieve this?

08.03.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Since they are honouring famous players from Dominican Republic during WBC, let's not for get Tony Fernandez!

07.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The WBC games so far today have been totally worth watching if you like baseball.

Mexico vs GB was awesome into 8th, & this Puerto Rico vs Colombia game is shaping up as very entertaining too.

07.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can totally accept why this report shouldn’t be made public, but if Furey & Libs are going to trot out β€œit isn’t valuable information anymore” as a talking point - then you can absolutely assume they have partisan reasons to hide it.

06.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My advice to the Administration: With the U.S. uncomfortably close to a recession -- and already in a jobs recession -- don't do anything rash that could make things worse.

06.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 1242 πŸ” 377 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 42

Ah. Yes.

The Woke Wars.

Boy, were they woke.

06.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen stateβ€”embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

05.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 5945 πŸ” 1553 πŸ’¬ 285 πŸ“Œ 532

This is gonna be such a good movie later

04.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting hired as a university professor was largely similar in 1899 too.

Got a friend? - They can probably teach!

03.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus lord

27.02.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cc @kblidook.bsky.social

27.02.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said claims the drone was Russian were β€˜absurd’.”

COME ON!

27.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In some sports, you’d accept behind in score in a given situation.

I.e. in baseball you might choose scenario of being behind by 1 run, but bases loaded with zero out.

In football you might accept 1st-&-goal along with being behind by various points.

Does hockey have any version of this?

27.02.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

small brain: free markets produce free press

normal brain: consolidation of media into monopolies makes the press unfree

large brain: despite media consolidation, media consumption is more diverse than ever

galaxy brain: media fucked because of phone

27.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 1082 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 4

dogs barking thru a fence is basically:

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

THIS IS MY SIDE!

26.02.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Wood board fence, with about 1-foot remaining in mound of snow. Ends of shovel handles sticking out of snow.

Wood board fence, with about 1-foot remaining in mound of snow. Ends of shovel handles sticking out of snow.

I was not in NL for the middle 50-60cm dump of snow during Snowmaggedon 2, but my travel was delayed 2 days by the first 50-60cm dump, & I managed to catch the top-up today.

The dogs on both sides could easily walk across this 6-foot fence, but funnily none of them wants to.

26.02.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Potentially interesting result, but the sample size is probably … what … 100 respondents?

25.02.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really good article. And I know one of the principals quite well and would love to comment more but there is still arbitration and litigation going on.

24.02.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s go with β€œvery little”.

22.02.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A side of me wants to see this go to overtime

22.02.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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19.02.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 36227 πŸ” 14164 πŸ’¬ 471 πŸ“Œ 659

& an extra end in curling today, beside that OT hockey final

19.02.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Epic game

19.02.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Silver is my 2nd favourite colour

19.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

goddammit

19.02.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that momentum is quite possibly is the worst concept

19.02.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Super-duper entertaining tho.

19.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Overtime hockey are the best hockey

19.02.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Baseball is way more random than hockey

19.02.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is probably on the low end of curses i'm responsible for

19.02.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0