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Jamie Shaw
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Culture, Politics, Cannabis, Science, Non-profits, Social Evolution, Stuff. 🇨🇦

Avatar art by Michael Walsh. (Yes, that Michael Walsh).
Yeah, I didn’t know we needed grape jelly flavoured popcorn either, but it’s actually delicious 🤤
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is what Big Tech wants bosses to think can replace their workers. A code-driven version of you having a stroke. They think it’s an improvement 😏.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hallowe’en Parade. From a criminally underrated album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_r...
Lou Reed - Halloween Parade - New York Album
YouTube video by Brian Eno
m.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Beach melon.
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Ten years ago I was partying with Tommy Chong and Ludacris at my company’s event in Victoria celebrating the official legalization of weed in Canada.

It had been a long struggle just to get there, and we still don’t have sensible regulations. 😓
October 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This is a pretty sweet chill spot in Pattaya to enjoy your weed. Nice Thai guy owns it.

If you ever find yourself stuck in Pattaya. 😂
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Okay, Pattaya is the cesspool I thought it was, but the Sanctuary of Truth? Holy shit!

The scale of this achievement is something else. How it’s not considered a world wonder I’ll never know. 🤯
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
All day we were saying Hua Hin was better than Jomtien, then Jomtien does this:
October 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Wine and Cannabis: garden, cafe, drinks, snacks, ice cream, and of course, wine and cannabis. #HuaHin #Weed
October 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders’ 😂😂😂😂 What do you think the tariffs did?

You know what? Fuuuuck you.

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...
Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business
Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.
edition.cnn.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Great spot in Hua Hin 😮‍💨
October 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Monkeys
October 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
If they really believed the rapture was coming they would have maxed out their credit cards.
September 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
For the record, I do not smell like a small town church - unless it burned down in a weed fire…
She smelled like a small-town church but she looked like a queen
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
So, what I learned today is Americans don’t care who gets shot, as long as it isn’t a white dude who thought getting shot was just part of being American.
September 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Can’t seem to send it privately here. Let me know what you think if you decide to try it!
September 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Dragon Fruit
September 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Him: I’m just saying, I really value our friendship.
Me: It goes great with Bailey’s probably.
August 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Salmon Floyd
August 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Slightly diminish a band: They Might Be Very Large.
August 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Was scrolling so fast I somehow read ‘getting gored at the Old Spaghetti Factory’… and people wonder why I need Indica 😂
August 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
People are just misunderstanding this because the measles and smallpox are too small to see.
“But how could the good Germans let the Nazis take control?”
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Phillip K. Dick
Arkady and Boris Sturgestsky
Cixin Liu
Harry Harrison
Douglas Adams
Stephen King
Gary Larson
Ben Bova
James S. A. Corey
Ernest Hemmingway

The five books thing is an interesting qualifier. Not necessarily my top ten favourite authors, but not completely off either.
There's a ton more but not everyone has written five or more books.

JRR Tolkien
Max Barry
Albert Camus
Philip K. Dick
Neil Gaiman
Michael Crichton
Dr. Seuss
R.L. Stine
Ray Bradbury
Larry Niven
Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books

Tom Robbins
Jeanette Winterson
Chuck Palahniuk
Jonathan Carrol
Harry Crews
Phillip K Dick
John Irving
Haruki Murakami
Amy Tan
Barbara Kingsolver
July 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM