Author: Cathie from Canada

So one the dude-bros that Musk let back onto Twitter in November was the “social media personality” and wealthy kickboxer Andrew Tate – and it didn’t take long before Tate indulged himself in needless, gratituous, misogynistic insults: Hello @GretaThunberg I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad

The resilience and courage of the Ukraine people is one of the most inspirational events our society has ever seen.  This New York Times photo essay Ukraine Under Attack: Images from the Russian Invasion shows what Ukrainians have had to endure: Kyiv apartment residents manage with makeshift electricity during power outages, November

For millions of people in Canada and in the US, it has been an awful Christmas – terrible weather, monster storms, no power, cancelled flights, people stuck in transit. Dozens of people have died.  The only uplifting aspect in this situation is the stories we are reading now about how

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! — or at least, its the time when companies actually put some thought into their television ads, and when ad companies do their best work too. Here are some this year that I liked. John Lewis & Partners is known in Britain

  One of the lasting impacts of the pandemic, I think, will be the destruction of the “downtown office” concept as an organizing principle for cities.  Historically, it has always taken wars to get North Americans to travel — the Civil War was the first time that significant numbers of

  The chaos on Twitter continues — but I am now thinking it is forcing us to think about social media in a new way.  I am seeing a number of thoughtful posts lately and here are some good ones.  This is a great summary from Ryan Broderick at Garbage

This may take you a minute but just wait, you’ll get it soon: We are starting to get into the “end of the year” takes where people are summarizing what happened this year and what it all means.  First up, a very useful summary from Timothy Snyder’s Thinking About… substack:

I think I should post this before all these tweets get deleted. And to begin, can I just say “Christ, what an asshole!”  Here is how it started with Elon Musk yesterday: Truth resonates … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022 And here is how its going: You reap

This is the time of year I gather cartoons and here are two that seem to represent what we went through in 2022. First, the beginning of 2022: And second, the end: This is from this outstanding article by University of Waterloo statistician Bill Comeau, taking about the importance of

Before I get into the rest of this piece, I just have to follow up my previous Tridemic post with this terrible story: “This baby died on the floor, on the floor of the Emergency Room because there were no stretchers. When I put my dog down it sounded more

From TG, this is the funniest summary ever of the #TwitterGate #TwitterFiles Musk-Tabbi story.  I’m so glad somebody invented emojis:   I am doing this as an image, rather than embedding the tweets, because the Twitter Bird needs to show. To follow the whole thread, click here  The Daily Mail

I loved this! Found it on Mastodon, hand-made by @welshpixie@mastodon.art   Tonight the world of Twitter waited with bated breath for Musk’s big Hunter Biden reveal. Pffft (a wet sqibb sound)! So Elon’s big reveal was that the Biden team asked Twitter to delete revenge porn on Hunter Biden in

Danielle Smith’s “Sovereignty Act” has parallels in history. Known as a Henry VIII act, it allows governments to pass laws without consent of Parliament. Hitler’s “Enabling Act” of 1933 is the most extreme example. The consequences were horrific. https://t.co/14eXSaTTbu — Brian Mason (@bmasonNDP) November 29, 2022 The most useful thread

There was some beautiful stuff happening here: Just a reminder that Canada’s first ever goal in Men’s World Cup history was scored by a kid who fled a war, came to Canada as a refugee, was welcomed by Canadians, learned English, and grew up playing soccer in the snow. It’s

Hey everyone — first of all, please forgive the lack of posts these days – along with thousands of others, I have been searching for a social media platform to keep up with the day’s commentary, as Twitter continues to implode into a racist hellhole.  But the Twitter platform is

Here’s some of the funny stuff I have collected recently. Can you find both the rabbit and the mouse? #LockdownTrivia Can you find the rabbit? pic.twitter.com/xv3bezqEVw — Abraxsys (@Abraxsys) November 24, 2022 Dogs, bruh!   https://doggo.tube/post/701771764593770496/sunny-the-rescue-dog-growing-up-with-his-favorite Happiness.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/x425OoTB0U — Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 20, 2022 The apex predator, one of