Today’s news: Its a "Tridemic" now
I guess they’re calling it a “tridemic” now — the triple hammer of Covid, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that is destroying our hospitals. This time, its the children:…
Cathie from Canada
Today’s News: What we learned
Please enjoy my #PierrePoilievre cartoon for Tuesday’s @TorontoStar pic.twitter.com/UHF3AVp4VE — Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis) December 5, 2022 Majority of Canadians favour Emergencies Act invocation, poll shows https://t.co/7S0prdOJIK — The Globe and…
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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…
From the bookmarks – Elon, Matt, Ye, and the gang….
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)!…
Today’s News: WTF is a Henry the 8th act?
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…
Today’s News: Feeling so misunderstood
I don’t understand why Alberta and Saskatchewan feel so misunderstood and persecuted and hard-done-by all the time. Fact of life: Canada’s population is not fairly distributed across the country and…
Beautiful
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…
Today’s News: FluTruxKlan hearings wrap up
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…
Great stuff!
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…
Today’s News: Update about the war in Ukraine
I haven’t posted as much about Ukraine lately so I wanted to assemble an update now. First, this remarkable photo: His eyes say it all. A ??boy from #Kherson who…
Cold weather blues and other news
So pending Twitter’s possible demise, I have now signed up at Mastodon and at Tribel — I’m not sure either of them can work as easily as Twitter did so…
Today’s News: Sometimes I wanna go Where a few hundred people know my name…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Friday funnies
Just some of the funny stuff collected this week: Darn right, Mercedes. ???All Canadians should write letters to our president in Winnipeg asking for that very thing. — editorsneedlovetoo (@editorsneedlov1)…
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…