scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.ca
Gay Irish-Canadian AuADHD Buddhist journalist.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
Chaotic good.
JEDI consultant with Breakfast Culture.
He/him.
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scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.ca
· Nov 28
I was foolishly invited to a swanky business awards dinner Tuesday night where I mingled with the Great and the Good and found myself chatting with a proud Trump voter. Look at me, all patient and understanding of the other side! Here’s a little thread of my adventure in reasoning 👇🏼
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The headline every day should be that across the nation, across every district of voters, across all wings of the party, there aren’t even a *dozen* elected Republicans who oppose any of this.
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The headline every day should be that across the nation, across every district of voters, across all wings of the party, there aren’t even a *dozen* elected Republicans who oppose any of this.
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Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Oh my god. She's 1000% right. This makes so much sense.
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
(Credit: Saradoesbookstuff on insta)
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Talking of Native screen content, just saw this... and OMG, make it:
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Talking of Native screen content, just saw this... and OMG, make it:
Donald Trump is such a saggy bag of shit that he can’t even muster a simple “Happy Thanksgiving” 😡
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Donald Trump is such a saggy bag of shit that he can’t even muster a simple “Happy Thanksgiving” 😡
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Many of us weren't well supervised in the 80s. Our parents gave us house keys, dropped us at school, and hoped for the best.
Okay. So I just finished S1 of Stranger Things!
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I feel like none of the children in the entire series are properly supervised though 😂
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I feel like none of the children in the entire series are properly supervised though 😂
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Many of us weren't well supervised in the 80s. Our parents gave us house keys, dropped us at school, and hoped for the best.
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It‘s not great that the best gloss on Carney’s pipeline deal is that he’s either pulling a fast one on the premier of Alberta or on the people of Canada.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It‘s not great that the best gloss on Carney’s pipeline deal is that he’s either pulling a fast one on the premier of Alberta or on the people of Canada.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
This is violence.
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is violence.
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No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
No it fucking won't.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
They've been gorging themselves on grievance porn for decades now. Nothing any government does is going to calm them.
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People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Reminded this evening of the first (AND STILL GREATEST) TikTok I ever saw 😃
Tik Tok Mr. Sandman Cat
YouTube video by TehWaffal
youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Reminded this evening of the first (AND STILL GREATEST) TikTok I ever saw 😃
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The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning.
The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning.
The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
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liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy
Angry, devastating summary from @brockm.bsky.social 🔥
Sarah Beckstrom Died for Donald Trump’s Vanity
Sarah Beckstrom was twenty years old.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Angry, devastating summary from @brockm.bsky.social 🔥
It’s a nice sign of progress that a gay TV drama can drop (tomorrow!) and be described as “spicy” instead of the previous “controversial” 😃👍🏼
One-on-one with the cast of the spicy new series 'Heated Rivalry'
YouTube video by CP24
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It’s a nice sign of progress that a gay TV drama can drop (tomorrow!) and be described as “spicy” instead of the previous “controversial” 😃👍🏼
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This is a very concerning story. Cold Lake First Nation is living in 3rd world conditions. They have been completely frozen out by Mark Carney/Danielle Smith's plan to drive a 400 km pipeline carbon capture facility on their land.
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
Carney-Smith deal will bring carbon capture to Cold Lake. They don't want it
Alberta First Nations are being shut out of a sprawling carbon capture and storage project on their traditional territories that is a key part of Thursday's Alberta-Ottawa pipeline deal, chiefs say.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is a very concerning story. Cold Lake First Nation is living in 3rd world conditions. They have been completely frozen out by Mark Carney/Danielle Smith's plan to drive a 400 km pipeline carbon capture facility on their land.
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
This won't end well Mark.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/n...
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The Glinner article in The Observer (I ain't posting it but if you want to find it I've given you the relevant info) is WILD! The journalist is genuinely transphobic and STILL thinks Glinner is a mentally unwell danger who should stop.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The Glinner article in The Observer (I ain't posting it but if you want to find it I've given you the relevant info) is WILD! The journalist is genuinely transphobic and STILL thinks Glinner is a mentally unwell danger who should stop.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Corporate landlords are driving gentrification by deliberately targeting Black and other racialized neighbourhoods across Canada. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach
New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents
breachmedia.ca
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Corporate landlords are driving gentrification by deliberately targeting Black and other racialized neighbourhoods across Canada. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
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I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
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now that 4/5 commercials on tv are about some useless AI ponzi scheme, i think about this @dennycarter.bsky.social piece more and more. and its gonna get so much worse. the next democratic admin really needs to treat AI like the crisis that it is. brain poison
badfaithtimes.com/the-machines...
badfaithtimes.com/the-machines...
The Machines Are Making Us Sick
Ghosts of 80s culture telling people to "come back" to 1985 sounds like something invented by a tech-savvy suicide cult
badfaithtimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
now that 4/5 commercials on tv are about some useless AI ponzi scheme, i think about this @dennycarter.bsky.social piece more and more. and its gonna get so much worse. the next democratic admin really needs to treat AI like the crisis that it is. brain poison
badfaithtimes.com/the-machines...
badfaithtimes.com/the-machines...
Mark Carney is, says @maxfawcett.bsky.social in this lowering-the-temperature piece, "effectively daring Danielle Smith to do the work required to get her coveted pipeline built, knowing full well she can’t actually do it.”
Feels like that “four-dimensional chess” cope again but fingers crossed 🤞🏼
Feels like that “four-dimensional chess” cope again but fingers crossed 🤞🏼
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Mark Carney is, says @maxfawcett.bsky.social in this lowering-the-temperature piece, "effectively daring Danielle Smith to do the work required to get her coveted pipeline built, knowing full well she can’t actually do it.”
Feels like that “four-dimensional chess” cope again but fingers crossed 🤞🏼
Feels like that “four-dimensional chess” cope again but fingers crossed 🤞🏼
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The face I make when I see you defending liberal politicians who don't care if you die.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The face I make when I see you defending liberal politicians who don't care if you die.
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Sony throwing this movie away for pennies is the biggest fumble in entertainment history since Fox signed away the merch rights to Lucas for Star Wars
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Sony throwing this movie away for pennies is the biggest fumble in entertainment history since Fox signed away the merch rights to Lucas for Star Wars
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Bad deal, bad plan, economic dead end for a province that desperately needs diversification, not continued Dutch Disease.
Canada rolls back climate rules in energy deal with Alberta reut.rs/3MaNsXf
Canada rolls back climate rules in energy deal with Alberta
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an agreement with Alberta's premier on Thursday that rolls back certain climate rules to spur investment in energy production, while encouraging construction of a new oil pipeline to the West Coast.
reut.rs
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Bad deal, bad plan, economic dead end for a province that desperately needs diversification, not continued Dutch Disease.
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Given that’s there’s a non-zero chance the pipeline never happens but Carney gets blamed for supporting it and failing to get it done, I’m going to call this one a questionable move!
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Given that’s there’s a non-zero chance the pipeline never happens but Carney gets blamed for supporting it and failing to get it done, I’m going to call this one a questionable move!