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"...so at that point in the campaign, Mr. Poilievre reasoned that he had nothing to lose from publishing an A.I.-generated music video of himself slapping his dick while his wife slowly rotated. Sadly, he was mistaken."

Saul Goodman's Aviation Disaster Explanation

Alt: Saul Goodman's Aviation Disaster Explanation

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You go ahead and enjoy your Alaskan Fat Bear competition. Me? I'm taking bets on which raccoon gets bigger: Randy the Raised Garden Curious or Rudy the Ramblin' Grub Buster. They were hard at work eating bugs in my back yard all night long!

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Grocers need to figure out that the lazy abdication of their responsibility to inform customers of the country of origin is just bad marketing strategy. I know I'm not the only Canadian who reads... Country of Origin United States / Mexico ...as... May Contain Listeria, Carcinogens / Yams

Country of Origin
United States / Mexico

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COUNTERPOINT Every rightwing person should go on a vision quest in the wilderness, fasting in meditative solitude until they are eaten by a bear.

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When asked how the company could have allowed such an egregious violation of cross-border poison control protocol in its food exports to Canada, sources with the company shrugged and lit a big fat cigar with a burning one hundred dollar bill while floating languidly in a kidney-shaped pool.

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Vasily Arkhipov - Wikipedia

Vasily Arkhipov was Chief Weapons Officer aboard the submarine at the center of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cut off from Moscow amid American depth charges rattling the hull from all sides, his officers demanded he launch the failing sub's nuclear torpedoes. He refused. This is also a post about AI.

en.wikipedia.org

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There's an "edibility scale" of imported American foodstuffs: it terminates in disease-bearing bagged salads and, at the opposite end, in carcinogenic pesticide-sprayed fruit and berries. If you must eat produce from USA, consider items from the middle of the continuum. Like a ten-pin bowling ball.

Stock photo man in full protective gear spraying pesticide.

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Diane Marie 🇨🇦 @dianemarie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a late-September harvest #Caturday at my place as I try to explain to Olivia that a gardener loves all of his produce — even the gnarly cucumber that got snagged in the netting. She disagrees.

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Reposted by John Roscoe

Hey, I voted today (stupid candy floss referendum). No to the Nine + Option 1.

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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think whether they should."

Young Frankenstein: Puttin' On The Ritz Dance

Alt: Young Frankenstein: Puttin' On The Ritz Dance

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They wouldn't know what to do if they had real support. This grift runs on perpetual indignation and insoluble grievance; they'll be "we brave few" railing against the majority for generations to come; all they needed in the short term was to be taken seriously — thanks to Ms. Smith, they got it!

ALT: Bulldog Chasing RC Car

Bulldog Chasing RC Car

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You have to be well pissed at future generations as yet unborn to pick a gas-burning car over an EV these days. "Oh, bugger your clean air and livable weather you smug, snotty wee gobshites," the driver snarls, buttoning his driving gloves and revving his engine, "I hope you choke on fruit pablum."

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Missiles-schmissiles: your F-35 is now as secure as a F-150 with the keys "hidden" in the driver-side sun visor.

Truck Emitting Black Smoke Filmed

ALT: Truck Emitting Black Smoke Filmed

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is it a sort of headgear made from the rumps of beaver pelts? Or a kind of felt tutu with a "brim" that extends from the hips? Inverted riding chaps for bashful cowpokes, perhaps? Whatever the case, one thing is certain: Pierre Poilievre is an asshat.

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last time I voted in a late October election (long ago) many of my fellow citizens showed up in costume. It felt like grade school again: there we were — storm troopers, princesses, vampires — parading in a line through locker-lined halls where the water fountains are mounted knee-high. Fun fun fun!

cbc.ca

British Columbia's next provincial election set for Oct. 24 after Eby calls early vote | CBC

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

U.S. farmers can make their own potash — just like the old days. All it takes is wood-ash, lots of water, a fire and an army of indentured servants to do the slow, back-breaking work that Mother Nature performed a million years ago deep beneath the ocean that once covered Saskatchewan. Good luck!

Woodcut of peasant boiling potash out of ash water

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Such horrors have you shown me, Virgil; cannot we now return to the land of the living?" "No, Dante! You have yet to see the darkest level of all: a place reserved for they who, knowing the truth, conceal it from others — putting children at risk of suffering or worse." "Oh hey [waving] Jessie!"

"Dante and Virgil" by W. Bouguereau (1850)

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The media focuses on the 14 MLAs who left, but the bigger story, imo, is the majority who were equally aware of Kerry-Lynne Findlay's surrounding herself with spiral-eyed loonies and thought, "I'mma dance with the one whut brought me." Whatever terrible thing comes next, they *richly* deserve it.

Their chief of staff quit after a leaked racist rant about First Nations. Their operations director was fired after another leaked rant about allegedly misusing party funds. Their party executive director was forced out after allegedly hiring a private investigator to spy on current and former members of the party (plus a journalist: me). And their communications director tried blacklisting the media, only to discover, belatedly, he desperately needed them.

In all cases, Findlay denied any knowledge of any malfeasance committed by her people, under her name.

It left the distinct impression she was either clueless, incompetent, dishonest, or all of the above.
https://www.biv.com/news/commentary/rob-shaw-findlays-brief-reign-a-masterclass-in-political-self-destruction-12802331

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Redheads is your #BirdOfTheDay theme, so here's a SW Ontario Cardinal with a Public Service Announcement: Q) What makes Cardinals so red? A) Human blood. Keep your eyes open and your toques on, neighbours. #birds #BirdSky #wildlifePhotography #birdwatching #birdPhotography #Birding #ECK #PSA

A bright crimson cardinal alights on a branch.

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I am a strong Canadian, I am a strong Albertan, I am really mad because Liberals, and dog gone it, people vote for me.

Stuart Smalley making a daily affirmation into a mirror on SNL

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I need Covered Bridge Russet Stix like a cut needs to bleed. But where can I find 'em in SW Ontario?

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What cracks me up about the implosion of the BC Conservative party? Oh, plenty. • It is *so* richly deserved; • the most principled members have already left, so the new leader will preside over the bunch who liked the old leader; • Mr. Polievre knows this resignation is like chum in roiling brine.

Alt: Jaws, chumming the water to attract the shark.

Jaws Tubarao

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The Compton Tortoiseshell Butterfly wears its colours like an evolutionary mullet: all beige-and-grey camouflage business when wings are closed, but it's orange-and-black party time when they're open. #BlueSkyArtShow #MacroPhoto #Butterfly #MacroMonday #thelittlethings #photography #nature #ECK

A Compton Tortoiseshell Butterfly I met near a lake in SW Ontario a week ago.

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