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Human dignity is my guiding principle. Politics, cities, a dash of wholesome. Toronto/Tkaronto is home base.
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This is too funny, but on this my actual birthday I present this absolute gem, which I only learned about 3 years later.
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre! Right answers only.
The Pink Panther, pointing to himself
October 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Hmm who knew that lambasting experts at every turn and following the advice of your uneducated idiot daughter had consequences.
Cover of "Our Carnivore Diet" book by Mikhaila and Jordan Peterson
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Cover of "Our Carnivore Diet" book by Mikhaila and Jordan Peterson
October 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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💯
Open box of Triscuits
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Chat is this good
Screenshot of NPR/PBS News/Marist poll showing 3 in 10 people now say that Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track
October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Acceptance of political violence is growing among all Americans.
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
Screenshot of poll showing 3 in 10 people now say that Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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What a disappointing dumb fuck Burr turned out to be. He's impressed that there's Starbucks and Burger King? Try saying something -- anything -- on stage about your fellow Netflix writer and comedian Abdul Aziz Al-Muzaini.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
Screencap from a Hollywood reporter article that says: When he flew into Saudi Arabia, Burr’s nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. “You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I’m thinking like: ‘Is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut next to a Burger King next to McDonald’s …? They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”
September 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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300% even! He'll pay YOU to take drugs!
Screenshot of headline saying "Trump claims Pfizer deal will cut drug prices by '300% or more'"
September 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The worst thing you can do to an authoritarian is to ridicule him.
September 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The other thing.
Still from the film Birth of a Nation showing a hooded Klanmsan on horseback.
September 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Important to highlight that this was indeed intentional. There was simply no military justification, let alone a morally acceptable one, for withholding food and aid when Hamas was by all accounts severely weakened as of the beginning of the year.

This is genocide.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/w...
Screenshot of a NYT article from Jan. 25, 2025: "Cease-Fire Deal With Israel Comes as Hamas Is Severely Weakened Israel’s 15-month bombardment of Gaza has destroyed much of Hamas’s military wing. It has also degraded the Iran-backed proxy network that helps sustain the militant group."
July 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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He stayed up all night studying for his final on how to catch mice. Sadly he’s only a B student. #Caturday
Orange tabby passed out on top of a notebook and reading glasses
July 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Boy I hope I never become a meme 😂
Dwight and Pam from The Office as the CEO-HR lovebirds
July 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Shrinkflation hits the pineapple market.
Photo of a pineapple next to a regular sized banana showing the pineapple to be about 2/3rds the size of the banana.
July 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Chef’s kiss to the NYT for including this:
Screenshot of article paragraph, with the last sentence highlighted: “On Wednesday, Mr. Musk unveiled the latest version of Grok, called Grok 4, in a livestream on X. The livestream, which began an hour later than scheduled, demonstrated the chatbot’s ability to solve complex problems and respond to voice commands. It ended after an employee onstage with Mr. Musk declared, “It’s a good model, sir.””
July 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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You don't say.
Globe and Mail headline: "Trump to slap 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico in August"
July 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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"A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."

What a time to be coincidentally re-reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz."
Tweet from Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran? 1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage. 2. The enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue. 3. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Someone finally spoke up.
Tweet by @IranInt_En on 10:30 AM · Jun 20, 2025 #BREAKING UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi issues stark warning against any direct hit at Iran's nuclear plant in Bushehr and Tehran, citing grave radiation risks.
June 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The worst person you know meme
June 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I hate that every word of this is accurate. Trump has proven himself to be mercurial and unreliable. There is no path forward for the regime to try to preserve itself but war. Ironically the only people who might have the slightest effect on war becoming inevitable are MAGA nuts like MTG. #Iran
Tweet by Trita Parsi @tparsi 12:00 PM · Jun 17, 2025 Something happened yesterday, and Trump is now determined to take the country to a war of choice. He can change his mind at the last minute, as he did in 2019, but short of that, there will be war. It is important to understand that capitulation is most likely not an option for Iran for a variety of reasons. First, Trump's conduct in the past ten days has destroyed any confidence Tehran has in him and his desire for a peaceful outcome. For the Iranians to ever back down from their long-standing position to never give up enrichment, they must have confidence that backing down ends the conflict. They have no such confidence in Trump at this moment. They don't think he will stop there. Second, Tehran has lost confidence in Trump's ability or willingness to say no to Israel (that confidence existed earlier to some extent). And Israel will not be content with even a complete dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program. If the nuclear program is destroyed, Israel will turn to Iran's missile program. It will not accept Iran having missiles that can wreak havoc on Israel - as Iran has done in the last few days. Without missiles, an air force, and a nuclear deterrent, Iran will be completely exposed and defenseless. Once that is achieved, the Israelis will push for regime change or regime collapse. And after that, as the Israelis have done in Syria after Assad fell, they will push to destroy the rest of Iran's conventional military so that Iran won't be able to challenge Israel's emerging regional military hegemony for decades to come. Iran's territorial integrity will also be put at risk. As a result, Tehran does not view capitulation - even if they desired it, which I don't think they do - as a stable outcome. In their view, their only chance is to fight back. By making the war as costly as possible for the US - even if they will lose it - they think they can either deter Trump, or make him cut the war short. As he did in Yemen. Thus, if new talks take place and Trump insists on capitulation, he will get war. Iran will pay an immeasurable price. As will the region. But the US will also pay a very heavy price. Scores of American soldiers may be killed. Oil prices will skyrocket, and gas prices in hot summer months in the US will soar. Inflation will go up. Trump's Iran war may destroy his presidency as Bush's Iraq invasion destroyed his. Iran will lose. But so will the US. Israel is perhaps the only country that will benefit from this war of choice.
June 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Propaganda is not considered a legitimate reason. This is a war crime, but of course we’re long past such distinctions when it comes to Israel.
June 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Lmao. Efficient markets something something.

These two headlines are currently side-by-side on the Globe's website.
Screenshot of two headlines. The one on the left says "Bare shelves are just weeks away as trade war disrupts flow of goods." The one on the right says "S&P 500 on longest winning streak in 20 years as U.S. stocks erase slump set off by Trump’s sweeping tariffs."
May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Well this makes me happy. Happy Friday. #bloomscrolling
A photo of two very cute daffodils with crisp white petals and bright orange middles in a garden. Other colourful flowers in the far background.
May 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Are these the world’s greatest whiskers or what.
My friend Izzy the tuxedo cat
April 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM