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Canadian news columnist formerly CBC.ca, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, author, feminist, bookish person, centre-left. Am considering a Substack while I re-read Infinite Jest about screens that became drugs.

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Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“

Who has made this 🤣

07.12.2025 13:49 — 👍 17697    🔁 3588    💬 91    📌 103
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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2 “Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year...

A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

07.12.2025 09:45 — 👍 161    🔁 75    💬 4    📌 6

This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?

07.12.2025 20:29 — 👍 147    🔁 20    💬 11    📌 2
Secretary Sean Duffy tweets: "No better way to bring in the Christmas spirit than at the @WhiteHouse with the legendary Andrea Bocelli!🎄

Even luckier to have my stunning wife as my date❤️" 

There's a photo of him and his wife at the White House

Secretary Sean Duffy tweets: "No better way to bring in the Christmas spirit than at the @WhiteHouse with the legendary Andrea Bocelli!🎄 Even luckier to have my stunning wife as my date❤️" There's a photo of him and his wife at the White House

A close-up of Sean Duffy's shoe. There appears to be a big gap between his foot and the shoe

A close-up of Sean Duffy's shoe. There appears to be a big gap between his foot and the shoe

when you're a size 8 but the 10 was on sale

07.12.2025 19:39 — 👍 9596    🔁 1005    💬 476    📌 169

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

07.12.2025 01:29 — 👍 5874    🔁 639    💬 172    📌 182

This is a Martin Parr tribute photo, surely. Parr never made his subjects smile. These Trump freaks CANNOT smile, their filler faces almost in stasis.

07.12.2025 14:28 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rhode Island

07.12.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OMG

07.12.2025 14:01 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Since his FIFA peace trophy looks like someone with their head in their hands it makes pics like this even funnier

07.12.2025 13:57 — 👍 81    🔁 14    💬 13    📌 4
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RIP Martin Parr. I worked with him once on a story about the NHS. I interviewed and he photographed Britain's busiest and least busy GP. I think he was brilliant and this is one of my favorites of his.

07.12.2025 13:08 — 👍 224    🔁 38    💬 9    📌 1

It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all

07.12.2025 00:23 — 👍 5243    🔁 939    💬 63    📌 26

FIFA just gave me an EGOT. #humbled #grateful

06.12.2025 15:12 — 👍 4178    🔁 377    💬 168    📌 19

"Finally, the tart's on the jewels, not the other way round!" Courtiers laugh heartily at latest amusing sally of amusing King about one's mistress now Queen ha ha ha.

06.12.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cakey Dollops! A Not Unpleasant Trickling Sensation! Found a use for those custardy blaps, says Framley woman.

06.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Sculpture in white of two women lying side by side embracing on a rectangular bed

Sculpture in white of two women lying side by side embracing on a rectangular bed

Memorial To A Marriage, 2002, sculpture by New York based artist Patricia Cronin #WomensArt

06.12.2025 06:50 — 👍 543    🔁 78    💬 0    📌 4
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Not The Onion

05.12.2025 21:55 — 👍 53    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 2

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

05.12.2025 22:08 — 👍 7196    🔁 1473    💬 566    📌 116

Our Dumb Century was dreadfully significant in the development of my sense of humor, there are too many great gags to name but starting off the most significant event of the 20th century with a typesetting joke is peak

05.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 1194    🔁 101    💬 45    📌 7
Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002.

Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids

Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.

Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002. Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

05.12.2025 19:27 — 👍 4134    🔁 770    💬 22    📌 50
Trump gently picking up the FIFA peace prize medal.

Trump gently picking up the FIFA peace prize medal.

Trump putting the medal around his neck like a little baby

Trump putting the medal around his neck like a little baby

how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on

05.12.2025 19:35 — 👍 2735    🔁 282    💬 113    📌 55

FIFA: is the trophy ready yet
Artist: sure is boss; extremely embarrassed and cringing on behalf of the entire world just like you wanted boss
FIFA: ... what
Artist: ...
FIFA: maybe nobody will notice

05.12.2025 19:40 — 👍 346    🔁 27    💬 10    📌 1
FIFA peace prize

FIFA peace prize

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

05.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 4341    🔁 904    💬 84    📌 181

Lol, okay.

05.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 189    🔁 28    💬 17    📌 0

hey who wants two tickets to cambodia vs ecuador at the ketchum Idaho high school football field

05.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 736    🔁 106    💬 30    📌 6

Clown shit.

People in 100 years are going to learn about this moment in history in disbelief.

05.12.2025 17:35 — 👍 877    🔁 121    💬 55    📌 11

It's true that Canada doesn't do a great job of tracking immigrant hopefuls who commit crimes. Prime Minister Carney has to spend more to fix that. But Opposition MPs don't savage government ministers in public, a la MAGA, to make that point which can be made in a civilized way. Doesn't track here.

05.12.2025 14:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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