As Samwise says, Well, I’m back! Lately I have been trying to figure out why everything in American politics has become such a shit-show — the Trump disaster, abortion rights,…
Sorry, I have to pause on posting for a little while. I’ll be back.
I found both of these posts so shocking. The first one is a reminder about AIDS and how only within the last 20 years has our society learned to respect…
Threads is finally available on a desktop and it has an “embed this post” button! So I am trying it out with this post — I really really hope I…
Like Arthur Clark said way back when on possibility of extraterrestrial life in the universe: “We’re either alone, or we’re not. And either way you look at it, it’s staggering.”…
I’ve read a number of great substack articles and tweet threads recently by Hamilton Nolan, Dale Smith, Evan Scrimshaw, Robert Reich, and Oliver Willis, among others (and Pogo, of course).…
Funny stuff: How to lure me to my death pic.twitter.com/X0sVRGJOWK — Hermeshuns ? (@hermeshuns) August 13, 2023 I saw these on Bluesky: (Read more…)Moving on to US politics, its clear…
I don’t think there is anything more terrifying than a wildfire. If Canadians are now beginning to grasp the magnitude and imminent danger of climate change, then it is this…
Well, the news has been so crazy lately there is only one way to make sense of it — with political cartoons. Here’s some: My @TinyviewComics cartoon published 7/13/23. #ClimateCrisis…
I was going to do a post about Poilievre and his stumbles tonight, but then I saw posts about rescues of animals in Hawaii — and they are so much…
Here’s someone every Canadian should be following — Canadian historian Craig Baird’s X (twitter) feed (and the dogs in parliament AI photo above is from Craig’s post here) Today in…
Here is Trudeau’s follow-up to the Barbie post that drove Canada’s right wing crazy (and Piers Morgan) Balancing things out: Oppenheimer with Ella. pic.twitter.com/MdcZlhDwaG — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 9,…
Seems like its been one of those crazy weeks, so I found some interesting comments to share. First,Trump just cannot seem to shut up, and everyone is down for it:…
My keyboard driver died. Who knew such a thing could happen? So now I have an inexpensive keyboard plugged into my laptop and its working just fine. But trying to…
Yesterday I read another media demand for the Trudeau government to undertake another “public inquiry” and I’m afraid this is getting to be too much. First, the drumbeat to investigate…
Starting in the evening of July 30, until dawn July 31, may be the best chance to catch a glimpse of the Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower, as long as…
One of the things that Twitter used to do — though sometimes neither thoroughly nor well — was to let everyone keep up with things in a general way. For…
In spite of being late in July, there will be lots of news this week, particularly with the cabinet shuffle coming up. But I have also been learning some new…
In a post about Poilieve’s Shack of Seclusion, Evan Scrimshaw writes about why some people seem to absolutely HATE! Trudeau: …It’s a movement of people who have been radicalized for…
In the last 48 hours: Rome beat its all time temperature record by a whole two degrees Celsius. China beat its all time temperature record by almost two degrees Celsius.…
