scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.ca
Gay Irish-Canadian AuADHD Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
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Chaotic good.
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scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.ca
· Nov 28
I was foolishly invited to a swanky business awards dinner Tuesday night where I mingled with the Great and the Good and found myself chatting with a proud Trump voter. Look at me, all patient and understanding of the other side! Here’s a little thread of my adventure in reasoning 👇🏼
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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What the hell @support.bsky.team? @Sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of our most important writers and thinkers. What is the deal? Why is she suspended?
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
What the hell @support.bsky.team? @Sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of our most important writers and thinkers. What is the deal? Why is she suspended?
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I’m admiring the imagination behind the current “Age of Revelation” but yeah, replacing the X-Men’s most fascinating and joyous new era with yet another future dystopia (caused by one of their most liked characters, no less!) feels disappointing after the Krakoan age 🤷🏼♂️
This Was the Perfect Time for X-Men’s Krakoa Era (And Marvel Totally Blew It)
The X-Men's Krakoa Era came around at the perfect times, and yet somehow Marvel was able to completely drop the ball.
comicbook.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I’m admiring the imagination behind the current “Age of Revelation” but yeah, replacing the X-Men’s most fascinating and joyous new era with yet another future dystopia (caused by one of their most liked characters, no less!) feels disappointing after the Krakoan age 🤷🏼♂️
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
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Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Musk is a mass murderer on a scale with some of the worst monsters of history, so it's not really like the scales are evened by having a moderately well known author eviscerate him on his own platform.
still, you take what you can get.
still, you take what you can get.
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This simply happened and no one in the media speculated why the President would do this or what it means about his involvement
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This simply happened and no one in the media speculated why the President would do this or what it means about his involvement
The students at Berkeley are protesting a homophobe speaking alongside…Rob Schneider. It’s all so desperately stupid, this US era, but good on these kids for standing up for LGBTQ+ people 💚
“Say it loud, say it clear, we don’t want no fascists here!”
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The students at Berkeley are protesting a homophobe speaking alongside…Rob Schneider. It’s all so desperately stupid, this US era, but good on these kids for standing up for LGBTQ+ people 💚
“You never forget your first murder.”
Episode 7 of THE TRAITORS IRELAND is a *goddamn delight* ☘️
Episode 7 of THE TRAITORS IRELAND is a *goddamn delight* ☘️
Here's The Full Cast of The Traitors Ireland | Stellar
What a start to the series..
stellar.ie
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“You never forget your first murder.”
Episode 7 of THE TRAITORS IRELAND is a *goddamn delight* ☘️
Episode 7 of THE TRAITORS IRELAND is a *goddamn delight* ☘️
Kick out the whole sad lot of them after this 👎🏼
Yup. I said this earlier today, but it was only a guess. Thanks for confirming it. It is no coincidence that of the 8 who came forward to do this, none of them are running in 2026. But they ran cover for some who are.
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Kick out the whole sad lot of them after this 👎🏼
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
We’ve watched the burger chains desperately pivot to McChickens, A&W cod burgers, Impossible Whoppers and Beyond Meat but nothing has dented the mass appeal of beef 👇🏼
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
We’ve watched the burger chains desperately pivot to McChickens, A&W cod burgers, Impossible Whoppers and Beyond Meat but nothing has dented the mass appeal of beef 👇🏼
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Dems are handling white people the way they’ve usually only handled marginalized folks and it’s wild to witness
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Dems are handling white people the way they’ve usually only handled marginalized folks and it’s wild to witness
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
Sean’s a great critic and this is the best show. Required reading!
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sean’s a great critic and this is the best show. Required reading!
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Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
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Yes, for $200 a month you can pay rent, eat, pay your bills and party every night
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Yes, for $200 a month you can pay rent, eat, pay your bills and party every night
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I just started Ripley and it’s a B&W photographer’s dream
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I just started Ripley and it’s a B&W photographer’s dream
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WE ARE united. You bobble head.
Don't fucking scold US. We're the voters. We did our fucking jobs less than a week ago. We did a damn good job and we are pretty damn united right now.
Now go do YOUR fucking job. Go scold your dumbass coworkers who didn't stay united with the rest of us. Holy shit.
Don't fucking scold US. We're the voters. We did our fucking jobs less than a week ago. We did a damn good job and we are pretty damn united right now.
Now go do YOUR fucking job. Go scold your dumbass coworkers who didn't stay united with the rest of us. Holy shit.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
WE ARE united. You bobble head.
Don't fucking scold US. We're the voters. We did our fucking jobs less than a week ago. We did a damn good job and we are pretty damn united right now.
Now go do YOUR fucking job. Go scold your dumbass coworkers who didn't stay united with the rest of us. Holy shit.
Don't fucking scold US. We're the voters. We did our fucking jobs less than a week ago. We did a damn good job and we are pretty damn united right now.
Now go do YOUR fucking job. Go scold your dumbass coworkers who didn't stay united with the rest of us. Holy shit.
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LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
Okay, @safety.bsky.app, what the hell is this DM?
![Bluesky @eknys.bsky.social
Today at 9:15 PM
We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended due to security-related restrictions.
To prevent the permanent termination of your account, it is imperative that you complete the verification process within the next 24 hours by using the following link:
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November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Okay, @safety.bsky.app, what the hell is this DM?
Sarah Gailey is one of the best out there right now. Can’t wait for this ⭐️
MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Sarah Gailey is one of the best out there right now. Can’t wait for this ⭐️
This is true and it rocks 👍🏼
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is true and it rocks 👍🏼
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okay cool so quick question are you guys fighting those dangers or capitulating to them
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
okay cool so quick question are you guys fighting those dangers or capitulating to them