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I want to know no more things. I want to think no more thoughts. Pattern recognition is Satan’s curse.

Why did I just get 3 calls from the same Washington DC number and when I finally answered (why did I do that), they started to speak to me in Mandarin? (I do not speak a lick of Mandarin.)

Anyway, thus ends the ranting musings of an old white male for another morning. Baxkc to walking the kitties!

I am finding it hard to enjoy anything during fascism. I envy people who are.

People should listen to smart women more.

Plants prioritize immunity over growth during recovery from drought conditions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toasting spices for a Yemenise meal tonight!

What is Vinay Prasad afraid of? Coward.

It’s exhausting and lonely being correct first, thanks for asking.

James Gunn’s superhero series #Peacemaker is streaming now in Canada on Crave. The most popular movies and TV shows streaming in Canada right now

So…what he meant was he ran into a domestic violence victim??

I would be less of a bitch if they would not be corrupt dilettantes.

"Being colourful". An age-old excuse for behaviour we know is beyond the norm and that we'd consider unacceptable if it was directed at us. Yet we use this term instead of calling that behaviour whatbit is. Often its used for men, ink those in priviliged positions that hold power over others

A comprehensive list of dangerous books that need to be banned in Alberta and the rest of Canada: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Please feel free to copy my list and distribute widely.

Shot/Chaser

The surgical shirt is off! The cone should be gone in the next day or so. Berton is feeling footloose and fancy free!

Mark Carney is coming into Canadian governance like a banker, liquidating assets he doesn’t think America will need, strengthening security and digital ties with America, and fortifying his merger with Bill C2 which gives the police power to crush all dissent. You can ignore it or help stop it.

Trying to insult a man by implying that he’s gay only lands if that man shares the same internalized bigoted worldview. 💅

It’s almost September, so RFK Jr is soon going to try to convince us of some nonsense regarding the “cause” of autism. I borrowed some graphs from my friend Dr. Nini Muñoz to explore potential causes, including yoga, avocados, and Netflix.

Canada 🇨🇦 is becoming an 🇺🇸 oil company, buckle up: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The Gumby cartoonists were a randy bunch at company picnics.

Watching Canadians being routinely lied to on a daily basis by Carney & co. & believe it, is about the most depressing thing I think I have witnessed and I am not sure how much more of it I can watch.

Opinion | Until alternatives can fully replace animals, their use in research is vital to advancing medicine

After his election, Carney signed an intelligence-sharing agreement with Modi. #cdnpoli

I don’t have the ability to pretend that a little bit of fascism in Canada 🇨🇦 is okay, why do you?

When Indigenous women were killed by a serial killer and left in a landfill there were no tweets from Liberals. A Jewish woman in stabbed in Ottawa & the entire government at the direction of their Israeli handlers are losing it. This country isn’t serious. We’re a vassal state at best.

When Indigenous women were killed by a serial killer and left in a dumpster there were no tweets from Liberals. A Jewish woman in stabbed in Ottawa & the entire government at the direction of their Israeli handlers are losing it. This country isn’t serious. We’re a vassal state at best.

It's a good podcast!

Same government planning to make an 81% cut to programs for violence against women. This is the most cynical virtue-signalling to date. They do not care about women’s safety one bit.

Just a heads up to anyone following this fake ass account lol @gebrelpeter.bsky.social A neurosurgeon would NOT be doing breast enlargement, nor would they refer to it as such 😆 Stealing all your photos from Pinterest is just lazy “Gebrel”. #Loser

Your government just trampled on the Charter Right to Strike and forced Air Canada workers back to work under a corrupt CIRB process using an ex Air Canada lawyer that you had hand picked to crush labour. The shamelessness is awe-inspiring.

RFK Jr.’s push for change carries political risks. Trump is all in.

Harris being a president would have changed nothing and only delayed a circumstance like this. For all of you to care about Indigenous or Native people in America — who would be occupied under Trump OR Kamala — it took him. No president in American history has helped us more than harmed. NONE.

Same government planning to make an 81% cut to programs for violence against women. This is the most cynical virtue-signalling to date. They do not care about women’s safety and the very worst are the women like Ms. Vandenbeld pretending that they do.

Message from an Alberta teacher: "I've been told that kids aren't allowed to bring books from home. No free choice reading. No silent reading time or listening to reading. No library time until books are catalogued and deemed appropriate. Please contact your MLA." @daniellesmithab.bsky.social

Vinay Prasad of the FDA demanded that @joho.bsky.social’s YouTube channel be removed, and it was. Dr. Howard regularly pointed out the numerous flaws in Prasad’s statements about COVID19 vaccines and other topics. You can read about it here.

#EenieMeanie is the #1 movie streaming in Canada Shawn Simmons’ heist thriller film starring Samara Weaving is streaming now on Disney+.

I’d like to know more about this aesthetic

There is always a Liberal partisan in my comments with something like this. Every single time.

Let me update you on the status of women in Canada 🇨🇦: albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani...

WTF are we even doing anymore. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

For Albertans: Gilead is the name of the fictional Christofascist state in the Handmaid’s Tale (which she has just banned). #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani...

When I was a part of the AI Task Force Committee for our Animation Negotiations, one of the good things we got was if someone is forced to use A.I., they still have to paid their full staff rate as-if they didn’t. A reminder: if A.I. is making your job harder and more tedious, clock in those hours.

A baby in the UK just died from whooping cough—something vaccines could have prevented. And here in the U.S., we’re headed down the same road. We’ve become the enemy of our own progress, forgetting how deadly these diseases really are

For Americans, the media IQ in Alberta is about 40, if that explains anything.

Nova Scotia officials ask people not to use drones around crew fighting wildfires #NovaScotia globalnews.ca/news/1135789...

No wonder she is banning the book, Alberta JFC:

Hubs: let's go exercise Me: but I'm so tired Hubs: you were the one who wanted to spin like an hour ago! Me: yes, but that was when I was young and still full of hope.

how DARE they give giluani the same death treatment as Princess Diana. dark money and corrupt agents just aren’t what they used to be. have some RESPECT.

It's happened! My newsletter has finally Gone Woke! Trump appointed landlord app AirBnB's co-founder as the Chief Design Officer of the USA, right after DOGE blew up 18F (which did real work). And the UX commentariat cheers, because the vibes of a "seat at the table" play better than the reality.

Ugh, so many of the MAGA/MAHA bros who are now running American healthcare, public health, & health research whined about being “censored” during the COVID pandemic (because health experts didn’t embrace their views!) & now they’re the ones doing actual censorship. Whoever could have predicted this!

What was he doing before the accident? Uhhh, being a hero. Seems legit to me.

🎤 What an unbelievable debut album this was—funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter, tighter than an otter’s pocket, & certainly heavier than a gnat’s thorax Surely one of the great fusion albums of all time, Asha Puthli’s self-titled 1973 album The opening track alone 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/fb5agzeOcnQ?...

I just feel really sad that Carney lied to everyone and is in broad daylight showing us he is not on our side and people need to believe in something so bad, they refuse to see it. I am sad for everyone. I’m sad for my country, which is not long for this world.

legit bought champagne for when the balls drop

Canada 🇨🇦 has become a dangerously naive country, and Canadians willingness to believe anything that aligns with keeping them comfortable is terrifying.

All the same white men telling us Carney is a brilliant strategist are the same ones ignoring he is defunding WAGE, why do you think that is? 🤔

Montreal has spoken. 🍸

50 Years of #TIFF in Toronto, as seen in mesmerizing photos from the Star archives www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

"Bob Katter is an icon of the parliament, so idiosyncratic and "colourful" that even the most progressive MPs have spent a career laughing off his bizarre interventions." Are Queensland politicians not subject to the same Code of Conduct as other public servants??? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Vinay Prasad got the YouTube channel of @joho.bsky.social taken down. Dr. Howard provides facts and truth about science, including debunking Prasad’s false claims about vaccines and COVID19. Dr. Howard is much more calm about this than I would be. This is an affront to free speech.

This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/

Due to ruling with appeals court — illegal tariffs. Ham: 'Enormous amount on the line' as U.S. may repay billions in tariff revenue Political analyst Eric Ham discusses the major tariff ruling, its effect on Trump, and potential gains for Canada in trade talks. www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...

Today is the 2-yr anniversary of my sole Covid infection that led to a bunch of scary symptoms. I'm incredibly thankful (and lucky) not to have been reinfected. But with 2 kids, it's taken re-engineering my whole living space - and yes, often masking in my own home.

Federal government announces support for Prairie businesses facing trade challenges #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

anyone find it weird Giuliani was struck from behind from a high speed vehicle the weekend Dump goes MIA? no??

Is that why J.D. Vance killed him? 😏

#Canada has pledged to plant 2 billion trees. Here’s how close we are Canada’s 2 Billion Trees program has reached the milestone of 228M trees planted, with agreements already in place to plant a total of nearly one billion within the coming years. /1 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

It’s brilliant really, pick the most unlikable person in Canada 🇨🇦, Pierre Poilievre, make him the opposition to distract the hell out of not-so-smart Liberals while installing Carney to implement everything a conservative government would anyway and have Canadians fight about it.

One of the most important things healthcare systems across America can do to protect patients, and the workforce that attends to them this winter is to ensure #Covid vaccines are available to healthcare workers. That includes clinics, hospitals,and nursing homes.

Chat GPT just tells people over and over they are brilliant and that’s why it is a white man’s wet dream.

#Canada has an honest-to-goodness treasure hunt on its hands. Organized by the newspaper The Northern Miner, the Great Canadian Treasure Hunt is a cross-country contest pitting Canadians’ deductive skills against the holy grail of geographical guessing games /1 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

What 🇺🇸 fascism looks like when it comes to Canada 🇨🇦. I was in a meeting this week with University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab that revealed that Donald Trump demanded C2 from Carney to align closer to 🇺🇸 law. Please take a moment to watch this:

Even worse are these guys.

My Substack Today! The full life of Captain Kendall. In his life he was a war hero, took part in an ocean manhunt and survived two shipwrecks. Subscribe for free (or paid) and receive these Canadian history stories in your e-mail each week 👇 canadaehx.substack.com/p/the-full-l...

Considering a lobotomy so I can wave a 🇨🇦 flag with my peers while slightly drooling, assured everything is going to be fine while Carney sells Canada piece meal to America.

@golikehellmachine.com I have been meaning to ask, are you telling the reader to go like something called Hell Machine, or representing a machine that can go like hell

Leadership in medicine isn’t just about policy, it’s about never forgetting the patients. Fauci embodied that by always seeing patients. RFK Jr has never known the privilege or responsibility of holding someone’s life in his hands

I have…nine questions

Take an anxiety pill and then read the whole 🧵 in the context of Bill C2.

I am a terrible capitalist and an even worse fascist, I am totally screwed.

Happy Pride 🌈 Calgary 💙💛💚

Professor Kapp realizing he broke the space-time continuum, again.

Not to belabor the point but RFK Jr is going to implement policies that will kill thousands or even millions of people if he is not removed. Thanks to @thewarningses.bsky.social @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for the frank discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxc...

“The government with the lowest approval rating in Canada just gave themselves a $10,000 salary increase. The CAQ continues to distract from failures in housing affordability and healthcare by fear-mongering about public prayer. You really can’t make up how pathetic this all is.”

Have you booked your fall Covid booster 💉? School is back on Tuesday, and tiny humans are like petri dishes.

I think Dale Smith is a good reporter who often speaks truth to power beyond what most journalists dare to but this question has been asked and answered and Carney’s answer lies in Bill C2 in which our digital sovereignty has already been handed over: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-pr...

When you cut the social safety nets, you can expect people to fall and land on the streets.

Okay I have been resisting conspiracy theories, but if he were alive would this not enrage him beyond all measure?

This reminds me that it’s time to order my personalized branded stickers for #ACR25

"People don't like fragility. It makes them nervous. They're scared thinking things just happen. They think there's always something you can do to keep monsters from getting under the bed." @lindaholmes.bsky.social, Evvie Drake Starts Over

Artist: @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social

Canadians are “it can’t happen here” -ing themselves into fascism happening here. Danielle Smith is banning books, Legault is banning praying, Ford is imprisoning homeless people, and Carney is passing C2 which is the Canadian version of the Patriot Act. You have to start paying attention.

Good public health message: “Grateful and so appreciative for the incredible team at The Skin Associates and their fast reactive work on removing this Basal Cell Carcinoma thank you !” Ramsay wrote in the caption of his post. “Please don’t forget your sunscreen this weekend.”

My grandmother was a nurse who came of age in the nightmare years of whooping cough, measles, polio. She understood the power of vaccines to save children's lives. Now the anti-vaxx right wing conspiracy mob have laid out the welcome mat to these killers. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

The online health #misinformation machine www.axios.com/2025/08/31/h... Many of the MAHA's "core ideas — from vaccine skepticism to rejecting seed oils to promoting raw milk — mirror the content health and wellness influencers push today." And their message is science-free BUNK.