After ordering everyone back to work, Musk has now locked up his office buildings and ordered everyone to stay home for a few days. Nobody knows whether Twitter will reopen or just disappear. So the feeling on Twitter tonight is gloomy. I know Twitter wasn’t perfect, but I liked it
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Cathie from Canada: Today’s News: Christ, what an asshole!
Time for this week’s edition of “Christ, what an asshole!” So this happened: The perfect candidate for voters whose concerns are less about healthcare and the economy than more relevant issues, like vampires and werewolves.π§πΊ https://t.co/UEGkcPkvHm β Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) November 16, 2022 “A Werewolf can kill a Vampire did
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: It is to laugh!
The least surprising news of the day was Trump announcing he would run for president again –to the delight only of cartoonists and Maggie Haberman, I think. “Growing visibly” Maggie? What, is Little Donnie eating more donuts again? Trump is growing visibly with his speech and delivering some ad libs.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: From the bookmarks
Of course dinosaurs and humans never co-existed – dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years before humans developed, and the CBC knows it, as do all paleontologists. But no scientist wants to put their job on the line with our nutty right-wing government over such a stupid issue, just because the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: When the waves turn the minutes to hours
“Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?” Here is a great thread about a great song: 47 years ago today the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior.In this thread I’m going to discuss a few things:– The
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Finally!
Finally … Ford blinked. All unions who had supported @fordnation during 2022 election, came out publicly in support of education workers & against Bill 28. Ontario was on verge of general strike. @fordnation has now pledged to repeal Bill 28 (which only passed 4 days ago). 5/ — Professor Carol
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: The story behind Russia-gate and the Ukraine War
The New York Times has published a major article The Untold Story of “Russia-gate” and the Road to War in Ukraine (gift article link), and the story actually turns out to be remarkably simple — Putin wanted to get Trump elected so Trump could support a plan that would give Putin
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Friday funnies
Just some of the funny stuff collected this week: Darn right, Mercedes. ππ¨π¦All Canadians should write letters to our president in Winnipeg asking for that very thing. β editorsneedlovetoo (@editorsneedlov1) November 3, 2022 Elon Musk continues to demonstrate why he so richly deserves the sobriquet “Christ, what an asshole!”: mocking
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: It’s another edition of "Christ, what an asshole!"
Elon Musk – he will be the gift that keeps on giving, at least until he has bashed Twitter into the ground: The funniest thing about this is that Elon Musk thinks the issue is that Stephen King is balking at the $20 per month fee. pic.twitter.com/BB5rnmaKKb β Shannon Watts
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Hey, its Halloween!
Likely the best video ever: Here are some good Halloween tweets and tweet-stories I have been collecting! BOO, EH! pic.twitter.com/8ew5sWk0tz β Brittlestar (@brittlestar) October 29, 2022 Happy Halloween πͺ @TheSlyStallone pic.twitter.com/cRNfdMcMEI β Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) October 18, 2022 This is first of a Halloween cat every hour for the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Twitter stories
I have collected a few more great twitter stories First, follow this one from @ppirapokin about his Power Rangers adventure in a ramen restaurant — the tweet below is the beginning of the thread, the photo in the second tweet is one that someone else took of the restaurant: pic.twitter.com/otPa6CER0X
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Just catching up on a few of the interesting tweets saved over the week while we were away. Fascinating stuff: If 100 people lived on Earth… Amazing analysis. pic.twitter.com/q8j4SeEDLt β The Figen (@TheFigen_) October 25, 2022 128 performers in wheelchairs. French choreographer Sadek Waff leads a mesmerising hand ballet during
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ukraine update
I will be travelling over the next few days so I may not be able to put up more posts this week Tonight, I am trying to figure out the latest from Ukraine. They likely will have a few more weeks of decent weather until winter strikes, so I hope
Continue readingCathie from Canada: More great stuff
What a week — we really need some great stuff right now, don’t we, and I’ve got some. But first, let’s consider the nominees for this week’s “Christ, what an asshole!” Is it Doug Ford? First he posted a three-amigos tweet that included his fire pit, then twitter exploded because
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Buh-bye
Today we said “buh-bye” to Liz Truss. The tweets were priceless: In light of Liz Truss’ resignation, I made a chart to explain UK politics for anyone confused pic.twitter.com/uBweUvQU0o β Lapis (@DegenerateThing) October 20, 2022 Liz Truss lasted 4.1 Scaramuccis β Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 20, 2022 Just been sent
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Updates
Just a short one tonight. First, about the POEC hearings: A lot of people are looking really really bad in this inquiry and none of them are named Trudeau. β Christopher Byrne π¨π¦ (@CBinVAN) October 18, 2022 And some of what we are hearing is just BS: You mean the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: I think we know where this is going
If there are any two politicians in Canada who always know which way the wind is blowing, it’s Justin Trudeau and Rob Ford. So today Trudeau stood behind Ford and held a straight face — didn’t even roll his eyes once — while Ford talked about how he had stood
Continue readingCathie from Canada: FreeDumb Convoy Greatest Hits
Now that the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings are getting underway, Canada is being reminded of just how awful the convoy crisis was, not only in Ottawa but also across the rest of the country. It was exciting at first, of course — hundreds of people exorcised their January blahs
Continue readingCathie from Canada: From the Bookmarks
Hereβs what prompted it – a scalding observation by The Economist. pic.twitter.com/lf6Rg1PzVv β Paul R Bear (@PaulRBear4) October 14, 2022 Here’s the Daily Mail live feed on YouTube Kwasi Kwarteng served Truss as finance minister for 38 days — reminiscent of how Tony Scaramucci served as White House communications
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "I’m going to punch him out"
I don’t have a lot of stuff to talk about tonight, but I did see some good tweets about the two hearings today – including Nancy Pelosi’s “punch him out” line. Jan 6 Committee hearing: Trump knew he lost but he didn’t want to admit it. damnnnn https://t.co/NvXC1eJxwf β Nicky
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