Mark Cook
@capemonkey.bsky.social
Works in software, comics nerd, loves funny stuff. He/him 🇨🇦
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Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...
Toronto Will Never Get Over This | Defector
Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Toronto will never get over this: defector.com/toronto-will...
Can anyone tell me why the Lorax was a popular costume this year? Or was it some weird local coincidence? #halloween #trickortreat #drseuss
November 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Can anyone tell me why the Lorax was a popular costume this year? Or was it some weird local coincidence? #halloween #trickortreat #drseuss
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I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.
Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
@mark-carney.bsky.social please just pay for the post office. We spend many more times what Canada Post costs on the military and it doesn’t do Canadians nearly as much good on a day to day basis.
September 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
@mark-carney.bsky.social please just pay for the post office. We spend many more times what Canada Post costs on the military and it doesn’t do Canadians nearly as much good on a day to day basis.
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The way some people are trying to rehabilitate Charlie Kirk's image now that he's dead is fucking wild.
I mean, seriously?
I'm with Maj. Kirk would have cheerfully seen mixed-race folks like me rounded up and dropped off a cliff for being "impure."
Not to mention all his other bullshit.
Fuck him
I mean, seriously?
I'm with Maj. Kirk would have cheerfully seen mixed-race folks like me rounded up and dropped off a cliff for being "impure."
Not to mention all his other bullshit.
Fuck him
"Don't be a ghoul about Charlie Kirk!"
No, white libs. You don't get to tell me that I don't get to talk my shit about a man who on multiple occasions has pushed for an America where folks like me get killed to cleanse the land.
Y'all can kiss my ass with that suggestion.
No, white libs. You don't get to tell me that I don't get to talk my shit about a man who on multiple occasions has pushed for an America where folks like me get killed to cleanse the land.
Y'all can kiss my ass with that suggestion.
September 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The way some people are trying to rehabilitate Charlie Kirk's image now that he's dead is fucking wild.
I mean, seriously?
I'm with Maj. Kirk would have cheerfully seen mixed-race folks like me rounded up and dropped off a cliff for being "impure."
Not to mention all his other bullshit.
Fuck him
I mean, seriously?
I'm with Maj. Kirk would have cheerfully seen mixed-race folks like me rounded up and dropped off a cliff for being "impure."
Not to mention all his other bullshit.
Fuck him
Mike was a great MP, and I expect he will be again.
An update I’m excited to share: whenever the next election is called, I will run to serve as the MP for Kitchener Centre again.
This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.
It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca
This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.
It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca
September 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Mike was a great MP, and I expect he will be again.
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An update I’m excited to share: whenever the next election is called, I will run to serve as the MP for Kitchener Centre again.
This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.
It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca
This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.
It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca
September 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
An update I’m excited to share: whenever the next election is called, I will run to serve as the MP for Kitchener Centre again.
This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.
It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca
This won’t be easy - but the sooner we start, the stronger we’ll be.
It’s why I’m asking for your help now - as a monthly donor, volunteer and more ➡️ www.mikemorrice.ca
An illustration of how AI does not understand what words actually mean:
August 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
An illustration of how AI does not understand what words actually mean:
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Them: you cannot hold back progress. You must accept your new computational overlords who need all your water. New tech is everything
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
July 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Them: you cannot hold back progress. You must accept your new computational overlords who need all your water. New tech is everything
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
Also them: Ew not GREEN tech
How to cool your car quickly from Professor Hannah Fry @fryrsquared.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...
youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...
Cooling down a hot car - with science
YouTube video by Hannah Fry
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June 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
How to cool your car quickly from Professor Hannah Fry @fryrsquared.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...
youtube.com/shorts/oKRcb...
Actually won at a claw machine
May 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Actually won at a claw machine
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motherfucker isn't even sorry, that is the face of a guy who is totally gonna do it again
imagine being loved and accepted for who you are like this wow
May 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
motherfucker isn't even sorry, that is the face of a guy who is totally gonna do it again
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Miss Universe Philippines has a mythology theme going on this year, which is great for anyone whose interests contain both monster girls and mahou shoujo villains (like yours truly).
May 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Miss Universe Philippines has a mythology theme going on this year, which is great for anyone whose interests contain both monster girls and mahou shoujo villains (like yours truly).
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Well, that sucks. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...
April 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Well, that sucks. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/fe...
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(And hey, we might have to start talking about why gelatin salads were a thing, because they were a form of cold food safety. You blanched everything you wanted to go in the gelatin, so those all got clean, then the gelatin itself used boiled water. When the food’s inside the gelatin, it’s aseptic.)
April 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
(And hey, we might have to start talking about why gelatin salads were a thing, because they were a form of cold food safety. You blanched everything you wanted to go in the gelatin, so those all got clean, then the gelatin itself used boiled water. When the food’s inside the gelatin, it’s aseptic.)
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De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf – it hasn’t.
No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
www.newscientist.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
De-extinction company Colossal Biosciences claims to have brought back the dire wolf – it hasn’t.
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Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6
April 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6
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I'm reminded that what got us out of the Depression was socialist policies, a 90% tax rate on the rich and killing millions of fascists.
April 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I'm reminded that what got us out of the Depression was socialist policies, a 90% tax rate on the rich and killing millions of fascists.
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political cartoon circa 1908
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
political cartoon circa 1908
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Explore BattleTech's first alternate universe with BattleTech: Gothic!
BattleTech: Gothic takes place during The Endless War. When humanity's Golden Age collapsed, humanity entered an unending civil war. But they were not alone, for vicious Abominations of flesh and steel rose up to enter the fray!
BattleTech: Gothic takes place during The Endless War. When humanity's Golden Age collapsed, humanity entered an unending civil war. But they were not alone, for vicious Abominations of flesh and steel rose up to enter the fray!
March 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Explore BattleTech's first alternate universe with BattleTech: Gothic!
BattleTech: Gothic takes place during The Endless War. When humanity's Golden Age collapsed, humanity entered an unending civil war. But they were not alone, for vicious Abominations of flesh and steel rose up to enter the fray!
BattleTech: Gothic takes place during The Endless War. When humanity's Golden Age collapsed, humanity entered an unending civil war. But they were not alone, for vicious Abominations of flesh and steel rose up to enter the fray!
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this feels like a bit of a misunderstanding of human psychology though- if the mom doesn't double down then she has to admit to herself that she killed her own kid and I dunno that a lot of people are actually capable of that level of self reflection and honesty
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs?
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
March 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
this feels like a bit of a misunderstanding of human psychology though- if the mom doesn't double down then she has to admit to herself that she killed her own kid and I dunno that a lot of people are actually capable of that level of self reflection and honesty
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I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality.
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
March 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality.
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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What has 10 legs and is coming soon? Give up? It's the cast of Series 19!
#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.
#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.
January 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What has 10 legs and is coming soon? Give up? It's the cast of Series 19!
#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.
#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.