James McLeod
@jamespmcleod.ca
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.
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Pinned
James McLeod
@jamespmcleod.ca
· Oct 18
imo you can't train an AI to have a long dark night of the soul
Many worthy contenders, but Yonge and Eglinton has to be the most cursed intersection in Toronto.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Many worthy contenders, but Yonge and Eglinton has to be the most cursed intersection in Toronto.
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the script writers are doing extra this season, using such a small cast of characters to do so much. the naked portrait painter being the same person to secretly record the president? come on bro
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
the script writers are doing extra this season, using such a small cast of characters to do so much. the naked portrait painter being the same person to secretly record the president? come on bro
We are officially one month away from Boxing Day.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We are officially one month away from Boxing Day.
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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The way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving is like that one friend who's way, way, way too into a niche hobby.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving is like that one friend who's way, way, way too into a niche hobby.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
Had the chance to chat with @vincebeiser.bsky.social briefly at the Balsillie Prize ceremony last night, and I've already read this book.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
Congratulations to @vincebeiser.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 #BalsilliePrize for Public Policy for his book Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future. Beiser was selected by a jury composed of Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis & Scott Young.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Had the chance to chat with @vincebeiser.bsky.social briefly at the Balsillie Prize ceremony last night, and I've already read this book.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
[Foreign Affairs busily drafting an article about regime change in Brazil]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
[Foreign Affairs busily drafting an article about regime change in Brazil]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
fwiw this is the same magazine that published an overwrought 750-word description of Christopher Hitchens' body, which includes the phrase "extraordinary genital endowment" and that was way back in the halcyon days of 2008 www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/10...
my unpopular opinion is that more reporters should publish nudes next to their stories www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Vanity Fair’s Soon-To-Be-Published Hollywood Issue Includes an Intimate Portrait of Olivia Nuzzi
Vanity Fair plans to run an abstract nude portrait of Olivia Nuzzi in its upcoming issue along with an excerpt of Nuzzi's forthcoming book <em>American Canto</em>
www.artnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
fwiw this is the same magazine that published an overwrought 750-word description of Christopher Hitchens' body, which includes the phrase "extraordinary genital endowment" and that was way back in the halcyon days of 2008 www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/10...
Rush Hour 4: Chris Tucker gets fired from his job at the FBI because somebody decided that he looked like a DEI hire. Jackie Chan gets detained by ICE.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Rush Hour 4: Chris Tucker gets fired from his job at the FBI because somebody decided that he looked like a DEI hire. Jackie Chan gets detained by ICE.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
It's the internet and the phones that did it.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's the internet and the phones that did it.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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If I'm being completely honest, I don't really know what it means when somebody says that they're autistic.
September 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If I'm being completely honest, I don't really know what it means when somebody says that they're autistic.
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Utterly, patently ridiculous. We have such great jobs - flexibility, self-management (an employer, no boss), and generally following our interests. Yes, we're specialized, yes we sacrificed income in our 20s to earn PhDs, but good lord is paying profs over 200K ever excessive.
Canadian University salary data is out: Queen's has now passed Toronto in having the highest average professorial salary - $198,875.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Utterly, patently ridiculous. We have such great jobs - flexibility, self-management (an employer, no boss), and generally following our interests. Yes, we're specialized, yes we sacrificed income in our 20s to earn PhDs, but good lord is paying profs over 200K ever excessive.
November's got hands.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
November's got hands.
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Me after every social interaction
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Me after every social interaction
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lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
We've never been more hydrated at any point in human history.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We've never been more hydrated at any point in human history.
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For no reason except that I was looking through a folder of old photos of my computer, here's a real image from a Newfoundland and Labrador public health campaign to encourage new mothers to breastfeed their children.
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
For no reason except that I was looking through a folder of old photos of my computer, here's a real image from a Newfoundland and Labrador public health campaign to encourage new mothers to breastfeed their children.
I post to greedily and too deep.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I post to greedily and too deep.
Mostly this list just goes to show that the Star Wars movie franchise is essentially a pile of mostly crappy movies that are coasting on a truly historic reservoir of nostalgia.
(And yeah, there's something to be said about the TV shows.)
(And yeah, there's something to be said about the TV shows.)
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Mostly this list just goes to show that the Star Wars movie franchise is essentially a pile of mostly crappy movies that are coasting on a truly historic reservoir of nostalgia.
(And yeah, there's something to be said about the TV shows.)
(And yeah, there's something to be said about the TV shows.)
It does seem like a pretty obvious and trivial thing for all of these X accounts to make their location show up as USA just by paying for a VPN.
Planned Parenthood uses a VPN so its twitter location is shown as Germany and now all of MAGA twitter thinks Planned Parenthood is a fake organization based in Europe.
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It does seem like a pretty obvious and trivial thing for all of these X accounts to make their location show up as USA just by paying for a VPN.
America in 2025: A Pennsylvania man spent 43 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit, and after being released by a judge, he was immediately detained by ICE.
youtu.be/D-zPwxSHkyc?...
youtu.be/D-zPwxSHkyc?...
After 43 years in prison, man exonerated in Pennsylvania murder faces deportation
YouTube video by Associated Press
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
America in 2025: A Pennsylvania man spent 43 years in jail for a murder he didn't commit, and after being released by a judge, he was immediately detained by ICE.
youtu.be/D-zPwxSHkyc?...
youtu.be/D-zPwxSHkyc?...