Camilla Monk

A road near Moncton, NB, Canada

My guiltiest pleasure is reading X threads where MAGA bros from red-hot states hype themselves for their glorious conquest of Greenland and Canada. Then I drive back home, and think "Unless they're from Alaska, they're not ready."

I am in splendid company!

Things Hollywood can never make look convincing, no matter how high the budget is: old family photos, placards at protests.

If you think gun control a problem in the US, wait until you come to Canada...

Whoever first came up with "Blunder Woman" for Kristi Noem deserves a raise.

The TV meal celebrating Trump's $148 million clown coin scam. Mashed potatoes scooped up with an ice cream spoon.

It's so on brand that the dinner celebrating Trump's $148 million clown coin scam looked like a TV meal.

painting of two capybaras in the forest roasting marshmellows on a campfire

campingbaras

prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

A chocolate egg with a filling made of pistacchio paste and pan fried, crispy kataifi (angel hair). Unmolding the shells was a nightmare! 🥲 They don't look great, but they're delicious!

Attempting Dubai chocolate Easter eggs to gift to The Child's daycare teacher and friends.

Reconstructing and reimagining a tiny chunk of Marseille's harbor in Sketchup for THE COUNT. #iamwriting
I may be preaching in the desert, but I'll never stop encouraging fiction writers to use 3D, especially where action scenes are concerned. :)

That's the spirit!

Possibly the best thing I've read this week! XD I was actually thinking of having promo T-shirts that say The Count ↑, the legend ↓

In Unrelated this week I need to work on THE COUNT (but global news anxiety is preying on me...)

I'm happy to be back to something that might appeal to a mixed audience.

Northern Border 'quiet crisis' brews as expert floats unconventional solution to combat human smuggling As a 'quiet crisis' unfolds along the U.S.-Canada border, one expert advocates for the harnessing of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence to combat human smuggling.

Okay, I have a new game called predict the future: this year ICE will award a FAT border AI surveillance contract to Musk. www.foxnews.com/us/northern-...

Stargazing 4 xkcd.com/3072

You're almost there, Donald! A little more effort, and you will have evaporated 20% of the US stock market since taking office... 3 months ago. Win, win, win!

And, still regarding the NASDAQ debacle, it may comfort Trump voters that while their 401Ks are going down the drain, he and his cronies likely shorted those stocks before announcing tariffs and are getting richer by the second.

One-year evolution of the NASDAQ index.

1 year of NASDAQ with the agent orange.
Feb 20, the day the collapse begins, was when he turned on Zelensky and claimed Ukraine had started the war, in a show of subservience to Putin. That same day he also repeated Canada would soon be the 51st state, and that tariffs would bring "lots of money."

Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands!

THE PLOT AGAINST THE KING, by Kash Patel, is a prime example of possibly relying on bot farms to manipulate Amazon ratings: look at the massive difference in rating (4.7 vs 2.6) and the number of reviews between Amazon and Goodreads. You will rarely see such a massive discrepancy...

Yep! "If it works, hit it until it breaks!"

This. Never mind that he keeps backtracking on almost every decision he announces; he's destroyed the brand either until he leaves or permanently if he doesn't.

What's up with the surge of advertorials for BYD on CNN? That's half a dozen since February, and two days in a row, now.
@cnn.com

I never knew I needed a salary man eraser. #takemymoney

Shower thoughts: the German-Soviet pact of 1939 that ushered in WWII lasted all of two years before USSR was invaded by Germany, too...

Throwback to that time when a friend gave us some of his cat's hair for our naked rat, and this happened.