Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him

@chestnutfez.bsky.social

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Winnipegger. Copy editor in sustainable development. Jets fan, much of the time. YIMBY. Musician for joy, not mastery. Just trying to find good Winnipeg/hockey/literature/language stuff on here. All vibes positive until further notice.

A striped cat looking grumpy
Man and woman on a boat on a sunny day
Cartoon coyote holding a sign that reads "I am good at oversharing?"
Newspaper headline reading "FEMA Official Who Claimed He Once Teleported to a Waffle House Is Leaving." Gregg Phillips was in charge of the emergency response agency’s largest division and had come under scrutiny for a series of bizarre claims.
Two books on a shelf--the Oxford English Dictionary and The Brothers Karamazov.
Man in a swimsuit walking beside a pool.
Photo of a man in a suit, along with text describing the hero's journey, from the call to adventure to return.
A glass with gin and tonic and a bottle of gin labeled "Blackfox."
Unwashed patio table with 5 chairs on a semi-cleaned patio.
screenshot reading AI Overview There are two days of the week that naturally contain the word "boobs": Tues[boobs]day Thurs[boobs]day There is also a well-known, classic riddle that asks for the four days of the week that start with the letter "T": Tuesday, Thursday, Today, and Tomorrow
Newspaper heading reading "Court orders Trump's name stripped from Kennedy Center."
Cigarette-dispensing machine from the 1970s.
A track listing from Tidal that reads "Paint it, Black."
Is Laine the missing piece to make the Jets a playoff team again? No. Will he help his line tilt the ice in the team's favour? Also no. Can he still clap bombs? It's been so long since he last did, I'm not even sure. Will it be a fun story in a season likely to be a stinker again? Absolutely.
Orange cat named Gord, looking thoughtful next to his buddy cat, Vito.
Screen cap from CBC News that reads "How an undercover officer befriended a man accused of murdering his wife after she disappeared."
A chicken in a red paprika sauce simmering.
Striped cat on a chair.
Two children in winter on Portage Avenue pulling a sled.
Man wearing all black with hands behind his head.
An orange cat on a chair being licked by a striped cat.
3 cats lounging in a living room.
Children staring with strange eyes.
Hockey player waving his stick.
Newspaper headline reading ‘Investment we need’: mayor announces proposal to turn Marlborough Hotel into housing Expansion of 7-Eleven in Winnipeg also on horizon, Gillingham tells State of the City audience
Bookshelf with books and pictures.
Striped cat sitting in front of two computer monitors, blocking one.
Library waitlist with books by Ian McEwan, Robert McFarlane, and George Saunders.
Online news page saying both "China overturns death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg" and "China upholds death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg"
Man in Canada sportswear drinking beer from a jug.
Man looking surprised in a doorway.
Brief sequence from a hockey game where a player takes himself completely out of position.
Newspaper headline with photo of man in black jacket, reading Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE Trump supporter Júnior Pena falsely claimed migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were ‘all crooks'
Small boy holding flowers near a flower bed
An orange cat on a blue couch.
Woman with dark long hair and dark clothes.
Dan Bongino giving nazi salute from a police car.
Weather forecast for Manitoba showing extreme low temperatures.
Newspaper article reading: Apartment tenants want compensation from landlord after living without heat for three weeks. Tenants in a West Broadway apartment building say they want their landlord to make them “whole again” after they went without heat for weeks over the holidays and into the middle of this month. According to tenants who spoke with the Free Press Tuesday, heat at 641 and 645 Westminster went out on Boxing Day and was not fully restored until last Friday.
Man with beard, text reads "hahaha"?
Cat sitting on a desk.
Cat in a cat bed, putting her foot down...