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The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole." Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
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Twenty years of every single pro sports game being a support the troops night and we still act shocked when the United States does another war. This is literally their whole culture.

My whole body will be damp until further notice.

Happening today. www.instagram.com/p/DLL28oott1...

The number of maple leaf labels in the dairy aisle is a hilarious result of supply management.

I would read a 10,000-word piece on when we started thinking that bombing another country doesn't count as a real war

I have sent a copy of ‘The Onion’ to every member of Congress. To spread its message to less powerful people, I have also taken out an ad in a lesser newspaper. Read my full letter here: theonion.com/why-im-sendi...

La Salumaria house special for lunch. Best sandwich in Toronto.

The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Happening today. www.instagram.com/p/DLL28oott1...

Not yet 8am and it's hot and muggy already.

Canada cannot participate in the Iran war.

When I lived in the United States, I know people who called themselves Christians who actually prayed for cataclysmic war in the Middle East because it would usher in Judgment Day and they'd get to go to heaven and such.

Trump got played by Netanyahu.

This is the exact thing— these people are just going for broke and achieving personal hatred goals because yolo? They can fuck all kinds of shit up & walk away smiling because we don’t do consequences for government people here

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

Give peace a chance.

"Kiss From A Rose" is a song about eating ass.

Weird thing for cops to do!

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

"The Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze has a lot to say about the history of Nazi Germany, in ways that give you a lot to think about today.

Most of what Sam Altman says is bad, but can I please say something about using people who got a PhD as your benchmark for high intelligence...? fortune.com/2025/06/20/o...

Gestapo

“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”

The latest season of Taskmaster might be one of the best ones yet. Helluva thing for a show in its 19th season.

*prank calling America* "Hello is your democracy running?"

Jason Mantzoukas is a delight.

Originally posted November 15, 2014

if it weren't for elon musk, mark zuckerberg would be the most swagless man on this planet

Wild Friday night plans of a single 40 year old man: Go buy an indulgent sandwich and eat it whilst sitting in the park.

Why are a whole bunch of big accounts dogpiling this guy who has 236 followers?

COOL!

I am growing very tired of people who confidently know the score on everything, and react to nothing with curiosity or humility. (I think I probably encounter so many of these people because I spend so much time on social media, tbh.)

This feels like when Long Island Iced Tea Corp. changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Bl....

If you were to go by sitcoms, you'd really think that "high school reunion" was a much, much bigger part of adult life than it actually is.