Best Christmas TV ads
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…
Cathie from Canada
How ya gonna keep ’em in Paree after they’ve been down on the farm?
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…
Today’s News: The Beginning of the End?
Three stories tonight seem to have the same theme — that it may be the beginning of the end for Pierre Poilievre, for Elon Musk and for Donald Trump. First,…
Today’s News: Twitter, We Hardly Knew Ye
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…
From the Substacks – Ukraine, Carol of the Bells, Emergencies Act, Musk, & Academia
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…
Today’s News: "Boo-urns" is trending
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…
Today’s News: Yes, I am still wearing my mask
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,…
Today’s News: From the Substacks
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…
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:…
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…