So he isn't dead. Oh well.
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So he isn't dead. Oh well.
If you were to write a sequel to Jaws that's an allegory for our time, you'd have the citizens of Amity elect the shark as mayor. Not a funny talking shark. THE Shark. Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. And it would eat people. And all the business owners would applaud its genius.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. š
Do they not understand that itās a dark, futuristic satire, and not an instruction manual?
If the Democrats ever occupy the White House again, I hope they take full advantage of that decision. But of course they won't.
Stay classy, Trump administration.
Evil and idiocy arenāt mutually exclusive.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
Letās rewatch Death of Stalin.
Iām still hoping heās already departed.
Saving for later.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
He wonāt let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Carney plans to cut 15% to the arts. Here is a letter template to send to politicians to oppose this. nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
Of course he reposts Qanon gibberish. He loves AI slop, especially if it includes a flattering image of himself. In fact, heās a lot like AI slop. President slop. Unhinged, dictatorial, dangerous slop.
Gotta hand it to the artist.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Worth buying a copy of todayās Globe and Mail for.
My colleagues tell me itās difficult to shut off the AI interference. They say it reminds them of Clippy. I was going to upgrade, but after hearing that report, nope. Iāll stick with LibreOffice.
... lovely @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social meditation on embracing accident in our writing: substack.com/@maggiesmith...
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social is in very good form: albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/no-m...
Sums up America in 2025 pretty well Iād say
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
And everyone must use it. RIGHT NOW.
šŖ¬š§æ There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
He's like a black hole of stupidity, ignorance, greed, malice, lust, and evil. If you took the seven deadly sins and concentrated them into something about the size and shape of a human being, he's what you would get. I hate him.
āTis but early days.
Such statements are deeply offensive.
but for these vile guns
AMERICA: āItās a mental health issue.ā REST OF THE WORLD: āWe have those. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA: āItās video games.ā WORLD: āWe have those too. But donāt have mass shootings.ā AMERICA B: āItās cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.ā WORLD: āGod, youāre stupid.ā
These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brainād guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catchā ā
āUnhinged buffoonā rings true.
Iāve heard using nuclear energy to extract crude from the tar sands described as turning gold into lead. Except itās not really gold.
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book ā one by one ā and choke on the lesson theyāre trying to erase. šš„ #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
O, be thou damnād, inexecrable dog!
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Letās be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no senseāitās not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
I think heās smart enough to see whatās happening. But he canāt say it out loud.
Poilievre seems to think so.
Virginia Giuffre isnāt here to tell her story anymore, but she wrote a memoir and itās coming out in October. She deserves to be heard and remembered. #BookSky Details here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712958...
I saw them on a walk to Whithorn!
All that 2nd amendment nonsenseājust cosplay. Unbelievable.
Somebody other than Vladimir Putin must have held onto an unscrubbed version of the Epstein Files, if only because they think they might have to blackmail Trump some day. I look forward to that document being leaked.
This must be fake.
Can those other countries trust the US with any intelligence they've gathered?
How is that their job?
I never imagined they'd eat fish, or go fishing.
āThere is no Epstein listā - Ghislaine Maxwell Well Ghislaine, when you take all the rich and powerful people who regularly spent time with Epstein on his island, planes, boats parties etc and write them all down on a piece of paperā¦ Thatās the Epstein list. Hope this helps.
My copies have arrived! readingandwalking.ca/2025/08/22/m...
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here!
See The Guardianās article on John Roberts.
Iām relieved the target isnāt Canada. This time. Surely the Joint Chiefs would refuse this illegal order. The idea astonishes me. Thatās how naive I am. Anything to get people to forget about the Epstein files.
This is not a good idea.
Has anybody asked Mexico what it thinks?
How can someone this hateful and deranged have so much influence? Well, I suppose itās because the person whose ear she has is equally deranged and hateful.
Iāve never imagined that prairie restoration was anything other than political.
Consistently scares the shit out of me.
I thought Zelenskyy was a Russian speaker?
Heās dead and rotten.
I live in Cathedral, and sometimes I walk to the airport to catch a flight. That intersection is always an adventure. At least there's a sidewalk on the airport side.
Thatās a hopeful sign. I would love for him to cross the Lewvan with me, while we pretend to be people who need walkers, so that he could see that 30 seconds isnāt enough time to cross 8 lanes of traffic for many of us.
Andrew Coyneās screed in yesterdayās Globe and Mail pissed me off. Unpaid work is part of any job, he said, ignoring the difference between wage labour and work performed for a salaryāwhich is still often exploitative.
His post-election remarks demonstrated that heās learned nothing from the last six months. He remains odious, absolutely loathsome, and yet so many people support him. I donāt get it.
Canadians need to refuse to shop there.
To you, Lord Governor, Remains the censure of this hellish villain
If Trump thinks slavery was so great Iāve got some cotton Iād like him to pick
When my book comes out, Iād like to take our mayor out for a walk. He needs to see what itās like to be a pedestrian in this city. Thatās my dream.
Trump: The Liberace of despots.
Has he considered the way his elderly boss nods off in public?
That is one handsome cat.
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
This is crazy talk. The American administration is obviously not serious about peace in Ukraine. Or theyāre even more stupid than anyone could have ever imagined.
Heās beyond stupid, isnāt he?
Also in todayās Globe and Mail. After Ukraineās experience, no country will ever voluntarily surrender its nuclear weapons.
In todayās Globe and Mail. The phrase āDiaper Donā is catching on.
Slavery was much worse than you were taught. White Supremacist terrorism and lynching was much worse than you were taught. Jim Crow and racial segregation was much worse than you were taught. The legacy of slavery is much worse than you were taught.
States will start to reintroduce segregation.
Reading Toni Morrison's Beloved gave me a tiny glimpse into how unbelievably horrific slavery was. It was enough to give me a sense of how astonishing Trump's comment is, even coming from him, someone for whom the bar is lower than a sub-basement.
Everything.
Another cartoon for my non existent book: āThe Trump Experiment - A Study of Failureā
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
More like a Crown Royal bag full of Scrabble tiles.
Jesus Christ, Donald, now you're arguing slavery had its good points? And what does "how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been" mean, exactly? Please, can someone take his phone away, give him a snack, and put him down for his nap?
Here's Donny! Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social
Itās harder to rig an election when paper ballots can be recounted. On this issue, Trump is working against his own interests. Canadaās elections are done with paper ballots and pencils. Our elections are secure as a result.
Apple?
Sometimes you have to check with your boss before you can make a decision.
Trump is doing what his handler instructed him to do during their ride together in the limousine on Friday.
Hard to figger out, ain't it? Them furners jest ain't comin' by. A real haid-scratcher.
Heās become a goth? youtu.be/OKRJfIPiJGY