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somedays it can be difficult to differentiate satire from actual news

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

porsches go fast. ferraris are faster. but Teslas are the fascist. 😉 (seen earlier, but stoopidly didn't save the original meme)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 14 days ago • 1047 comments

Lutnick suggesting Trump would consider "meeting Canada half-way" ... Strikes me as more than a little ironic that I'm thinking of the single word uttered by American Gen McAuliffe when the Nazis tried to get him to surrender NUTS!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Trump & Vance just showed the entire world (again) that the USA cannot be trusted or counted upon as allies while under their rule. What we all saw was yet another tantrum from a would-be dictator (Trump) and his christo-fascist sidekick (Vance).

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I voted in the advance polls last week, while dealing with an acute concussion. So, to my fellow Ontarians: I really hope you also made an effort to go vote (hopefully to unseat DoFo).

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Unless something has changed, trying to pressure someone into providing "informed" consent to participate in research when you haven't answered any of their questions about that research, especially in a medical setting, is a big frig'n violation of medical research ethics.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

“A reminder to believe nothing you see or hear on CBC.” Because if you did, they’d keep the power to hold Pierre to account for the things he says and does! And god forbid anyone does that!! Chickenshit, autocratic rhetoric from a guy who keeps boosting bootlicker media

submitted 37 days ago • 79 comments

He nails it.

submitted 37 days ago • 1535 comments

Working on the dissertation, making slow but steady progress taming this beast. And then it all comes to a (hopefully temporary) crashing halt after slipping on ice and smacking my head hard on the pavement. A concussion was something I really did not need to have to deal with right now. Fugh.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

You can’t spell FELON without ELON.

submitted 54 days ago • 570 comments

far too many people: why didn't anyone warn us? me: we fucking tried, repeatedly, for over a decade ...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Musk hasn't been hiding his true beliefs for quite some time, so why are people surprised by this? Add in the comments about "manifest destiny" from the Tangerine Tantrum himself, and ... yeah ... 'Murica is truly fucked now, and the rest of us are going to have to deal with the fallout.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

It's 6-am I've been awake for 22h now, after a 4h sleep last night Why the fuck am I still awake? [totally rhetorical Q there ... I know why ... but hey, let's have some fun! Give me your best quirky absurd reasons and/or memes for why 😉 ]

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Not quite sure how CBC expected it to go, but the interview with Leisure Suit O'Leary on Power & Politics just now really displayed how much of an ignorant, greedy, self-deluded, and treasonous MAGA-toe-sucking piece-of-shit he really is.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

advance planning for a multi-city trip in May (to Montreal & Ottawa) for conferences and meetings. VIA Rail, all legs of trip (return to Toronto), business class: ~$300. Porter, single leg (Tor-Mtl), cheap ticket: $300. Air Canada, single leg (Tor-Mtl), cheap ticket: $200. Hmmmmmm

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Bell Canada. The corporation the does #LetsTalk, claiming to do that thing to break down stigma towards mental health. And then they put out a commercial like this. WTAF? Do I really need to explain the counter-messaging here? www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Wq...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Shamelessly stole this meme from a friend, because it encaptures a lot of the apprehension and anxiety that I think many of us are feeling with 2025 approaching fast, and humour might be needed more than ever to try and cope.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

If you sang this in a psyche ward, would you get kicked out or remanded and medicated? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9F...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Yay ... but ... how and why did it take 9 days for this to happen?

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Overheard PhD-1: Walter? He's kind of like our resident Gandalf. PhD-2: But the raccoons, skunks and rabbits that come up and play with him? He's not Gandalf, he's Radagast. PhD-1: But as the bouncer at the GSU Pub or with students who don't do their assignments? "You shall not pass!!!"

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Bell: Please confirm the technician appointment by clicking on the link in this text message, or the appointment will be cancelled. Me: Uh. I have no data on my phone, and since this is about my home internet being down, I can't use that wifi ... so, uh, how am I supposed to confirm? [I called in]

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Across multiple degrees, I've been a student at UofT for 23 out of the last 29 years, almost half of that time working on the PhD. Plan is to finally defend in Spring 2025. So, unless something goes seriously sideways, I think that I just paid my very last installment of tuition fees ... ever.

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

Waking up to some big news this morning: The ICC has formally issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

what to put as my first post here? Struggled with that. How about a sunset photo from the last time I was "home" (nearly 20 years ago). This memory is a "calm" place for me.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment