Gavin McDougald 🇨🇦
@gavinmcdougald.bsky.social
Canadian, Agricultural Technology Lead, Writer, Grand River Liver, Dog Walker & marriage lotto-winner.
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Excerpt from The Hollow Men’ by T. S. Eliot
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Excerpt from The Hollow Men’ by T. S. Eliot
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There's no artist in my lifetime I've followed closely (except maybe Beck?) who has a higher batting average than Fiona Apple.
Fiona Apple - "The Whole Of The Moon" - LIVE
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July 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
There's no artist in my lifetime I've followed closely (except maybe Beck?) who has a higher batting average than Fiona Apple.
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It might be time for me to retire.
One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.
A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man
One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.
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July 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It might be time for me to retire.
“I’m glad he wasn’t seriously hurt,” is not the qualifier I would have put on this dreck.
I can guarantee a global poll right now would lean heavily the other way.
I can guarantee a global poll right now would lean heavily the other way.
Oh, spare us. I’m glad that he wasn’t seriously hurt, but the idea that, after all these years of observing his behavior, the media can still write about Trump’s personality without mentioning that he has demonstrably sociopathic traits, and is, in fact, a sociopath, and …
One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.
July 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I’m glad he wasn’t seriously hurt,” is not the qualifier I would have put on this dreck.
I can guarantee a global poll right now would lean heavily the other way.
I can guarantee a global poll right now would lean heavily the other way.
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Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
July 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
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Eating 6 fries, is like eating 1 Robbins egg!
July 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Eating 6 fries, is like eating 1 Robbins egg!
Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦
July 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦
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Echoing: worth a watch.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Echoing: worth a watch.
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This is awesome
Ipsos poll finds Canadians approving of both LGBTQ+ rights and trans rights in specific more than other countries, and finds support for trans people is still rising slightly here amidst the propaganda campaign that's meeting with successes elsewhere:
globalnews.ca/news/1124973...
globalnews.ca/news/1124973...
Canadians are ‘leading’ in LGBTQ2 support amid global declines: Ipsos - National | Globalnews.ca
Data released Friday by Ipsos in its annual Pride Report showed Canada was among the few nations where support has gone up among 26 countries surveyed.
globalnews.ca
June 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This is awesome
This clown has been in Canada for like 10 minutes and he’s already said so many galactically stupid things.
Stephen Harper was p.m. when Russia was kicked out of the G8 after Putin invaded Crimea!
The fact that Trump doesn’t know this and yet is left to make international policy is insane.

Stephen Harper was p.m. when Russia was kicked out of the G8 after Putin invaded Crimea!
The fact that Trump doesn’t know this and yet is left to make international policy is insane.

Trump is in Canada today for the G7 Summit complaining about Justin Trudeau leading an effort to kick Russia out of the G8. He says Putin is very upset about it and he doesn’t blame him.
June 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This clown has been in Canada for like 10 minutes and he’s already said so many galactically stupid things.
Stephen Harper was p.m. when Russia was kicked out of the G8 after Putin invaded Crimea!
The fact that Trump doesn’t know this and yet is left to make international policy is insane.

Stephen Harper was p.m. when Russia was kicked out of the G8 after Putin invaded Crimea!
The fact that Trump doesn’t know this and yet is left to make international policy is insane.

How odd. When I think of Star Trek, the last thing I think about is "Hate"
Harry Potter fans are fools and weaklings.
Star Trek fans will have absolutely no problem telling you how much they hate Alex Kurtzman, Rick Berman, William Shatner, Gene Roddenberry, Wil Wheaton...
Star Trek fans will have absolutely no problem telling you how much they hate Alex Kurtzman, Rick Berman, William Shatner, Gene Roddenberry, Wil Wheaton...
June 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
How odd. When I think of Star Trek, the last thing I think about is "Hate"
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Can't wait for Jake Tapper's book on how the corporate media conspired to cover up Trump's dictatorship by falsely hyping violence in LA and recirculating WH media talking points
June 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can't wait for Jake Tapper's book on how the corporate media conspired to cover up Trump's dictatorship by falsely hyping violence in LA and recirculating WH media talking points
Tapper promised that he would never have anyone on his show who denied that Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
He had a similar policy around the Congress people who were denying the January 6 was an insurrection.
He didn’t stick to those, but he’s fine sticking it to a dying old man.

He had a similar policy around the Congress people who were denying the January 6 was an insurrection.
He didn’t stick to those, but he’s fine sticking it to a dying old man.

“Jake Tapper has long been more a tool for the nation’s power structure than an effective critic of it.”
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Jake Tapper is the reason America is doomed
"With people like Jake Tapper around, news isn't working the way it's supposed to."
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June 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Tapper promised that he would never have anyone on his show who denied that Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
He had a similar policy around the Congress people who were denying the January 6 was an insurrection.
He didn’t stick to those, but he’s fine sticking it to a dying old man.

He had a similar policy around the Congress people who were denying the January 6 was an insurrection.
He didn’t stick to those, but he’s fine sticking it to a dying old man.

Holy smokes
June 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy smokes
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Curtis Yarvin is the Jordan Peterson of David Dukes.
Bluesky leftists: Silicon Valley elites have embraced eugenics
Reasonable pundits with zero patience for Bluesky hyperventilating: Oh come on now, nobody believes in eugenics these days.
Curtis Yarvin: Eugenics is good actually.
Reasonable pundits with zero patience for Bluesky hyperventilating: Oh come on now, nobody believes in eugenics these days.
Curtis Yarvin: Eugenics is good actually.
May 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Curtis Yarvin is the Jordan Peterson of David Dukes.
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PRO TIP: Next time you murder someone, be like Trump and do it “out in the open.”
TAPPER: You oversaw a probe into Biden's ties to his son Hunter's questionable business dealings. You seemed to think it was your responsibility to look into this sort of thing then
JOHNSON: Important distinction - the Biden crime family earned that title ... Trump does everything out in the open
JOHNSON: Important distinction - the Biden crime family earned that title ... Trump does everything out in the open
May 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
PRO TIP: Next time you murder someone, be like Trump and do it “out in the open.”
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Americans! Have you noticed that the whole world looks upon your president as a substandard clown?
May 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Americans! Have you noticed that the whole world looks upon your president as a substandard clown?
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And this, Canada, is what we need to remember. We don’t just vote for ourselves - we are held as a beacon for the world. We are stewards for democracy. We are not for sale. Not today. Not ever. 🇨🇦 #resistfascism
Ukrainian journalist, Viktor Kravchuk wrote this letter to the Canadian People. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
#StandWithCanada 🇨🇦
#StandWithCanada 🇨🇦
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
And this, Canada, is what we need to remember. We don’t just vote for ourselves - we are held as a beacon for the world. We are stewards for democracy. We are not for sale. Not today. Not ever. 🇨🇦 #resistfascism
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Sen. Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of U.S. global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. I wonder if you're proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family?"
May 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sen. Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of U.S. global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. I wonder if you're proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family?"
Donald Trump now has a bronze statue on it's own little table beside his desk... of himself.
Trump’s #GoldenDome missile shield could cost hundreds of billions. We don’t need a down payment deposit on a boondoggle like this. #Resist
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May 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Donald Trump now has a bronze statue on it's own little table beside his desk... of himself.
@jaketapper.bsky.social gets exposed here for doing double duty in crushing Biden while elevating Trump.
The bottom line is that if Jake wanted to write a Biden book, that's fine, but with the world on fire (that he helped ignite), now is not the time.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
The bottom line is that if Jake wanted to write a Biden book, that's fine, but with the world on fire (that he helped ignite), now is not the time.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
Old News: An Aging President Meets a Complicit Anchorman
"Original Sin," the new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about how Biden's inner circle allegedly covered up his cognitive decline, seems unnecessary in this moment & extraordinarily self-serving
open.substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@jaketapper.bsky.social gets exposed here for doing double duty in crushing Biden while elevating Trump.
The bottom line is that if Jake wanted to write a Biden book, that's fine, but with the world on fire (that he helped ignite), now is not the time.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
The bottom line is that if Jake wanted to write a Biden book, that's fine, but with the world on fire (that he helped ignite), now is not the time.
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...