Doing uncle shit on the patio of the Keating Channel Pub. A+ spot.
Non-alcoholic Guinness is pretty good, tbh.
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The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole." Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Doing uncle shit on the patio of the Keating Channel Pub. A+ spot.
Non-alcoholic Guinness is pretty good, tbh.
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
04.08.2025 00:02 β π 4980 π 1654 π¬ 48 π 33Hope you were in a place with two washrooms.
04.08.2025 00:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This time of year I am ~constantly~ at risk of eating so many grapes that I will hurt myself.
03.08.2025 23:52 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0Get his ass
03.08.2025 18:04 β π 1437 π 299 π¬ 15 π 20When you're trying to make plans with a person, and they say that they "might just" do something, I get really annoyed.
03.08.2025 16:31 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sad boi Charles Leclerc is going to be soooooo sad after this race is over. #F1
03.08.2025 14:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β€οΈ
03.08.2025 13:08 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lando Norris doing Lando Norris things. #F1
03.08.2025 13:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ruth Buscombe Appreciation Society
03.08.2025 12:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ideally when the problem is the fascist president of the federal government running concentration camps and engaging in rampant corruption, opposition wouldn't be quite so focused on the Democratic mayoral primary of one city
02.08.2025 21:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe instead of people watching and judging your country, you should focus on working harder to fix your country? Y'know, what with the concentration camps and the rampant corruption and all.
02.08.2025 21:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it'd be nice if Americans got as mad about the fascism as they seem to get about a Canadian judging them
02.08.2025 21:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have an opinion about the USA because your fascist president's policies impact me. And I don't need to wait for an invitation to talk about it.
How about instead of getting butthurt about non-Americans posting their thoughts online, you focus on fixing your country?
As depicted this new barn sits on top of the existing Rose Garden and the Oval Office itself.
02.08.2025 20:15 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0Dozens of Palestinians were killed, many while waiting for food aid, amid a deepening starvation crisis and despite Israeli assurances of a humanitarian pause in some areas of the territory.
02.08.2025 20:07 β π 544 π 249 π¬ 41 π 23An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
01.08.2025 18:28 β π 1218 π 751 π¬ 39 π 91Dune, 1965
02.08.2025 08:31 β π 6973 π 2264 π¬ 56 π 107my favorite bluesky arguments are the long drawn-out ones where person a responds via direct reply and person b exclusively answers through quote-posts. it's like seeing two people arguing on the street with one person facing sideways and shouting into the open door of a baskin robbins
02.08.2025 14:31 β π 7030 π 892 π¬ 91 π 47if i ever get the kind of brain injury that causes me to call bill maher an βoracleβ i donβt care how you do it just make it quick
02.08.2025 19:43 β π 2028 π 201 π¬ 49 π 2I stand in solidarity with all of the other countries that didn't elect Donald Trump, but are suffering the consequences of his regime.
If you think I'm going to send money to the richest country on earth that just elected a fascist, you're crazy.
more tu quoque
02.08.2025 15:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Harper was bad for Canada, but if you're arguing that he's in any way comparable to the corruption, authoritarianism and lawlessness of Trump, you're insane.
02.08.2025 15:15 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We have so many examples of positive masculinity for young men to model, what the fuck are people even talking about anymore
02.08.2025 01:49 β π 131 π 18 π¬ 7 π 1sounds like you're saying most Americans suck
02.08.2025 14:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Everything about this story is horrific:
1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
if tu quoque helps you cope
02.08.2025 14:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Americans had a choice between fascism and competent middle-of-the-road government, and anybody who's focused on Harris is mad at the wrong option.
02.08.2025 14:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You seem to be under the impression that things just happen. The global inflection point is being caused by the despicable choices of the American electorate. They're the only ones dumb and selfish enough to elect Donald Trump a second time.
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