James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

This morning in Queen's Park, NDP leader, Marit Stiles, noted the chair of #OntarioPlace, who attended Ford’s wedding is brokering a backroom deal at Ontario Place with a nightclub operator who is Ford’s friend and who [supplied the alcohol for the annual Ford Family FordFest]

"Does the Premier not understand how bad this looks?"

Doug Ford's #Conservative government responded to Ms. Stiles with hollering and shouting.

#Circus #Ontario #onpoli #topoli #dofo

I can't wrap my ahead around how anyone can be opposed to the HPV vaccine. With over 200 million doses delivered over 15 years, its safety is pretty clear. And guess what? It's literally a vaccine against cancer. Against CANCER. Is this not what we dreamed of for decades? And yet.... here we are.

Yet another person that voted for the face-eating leopard party has had their face eaten I see. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/06/bill-gates-maricopa-county-arizona-ptsd/

Pandas cannot fly. They are like penguins in that way. As a matter of fact all black and white animals are flightless (ex. zebras, orcas, people from old movies, etc.)

#AusGründen

Well that was fun! A watercolor painter named Tom Vaughan (@tlvee) contacted me a bit ago and asked whether it would be OK if he made a painting from one of my photographs (from Pierce Point Rd in Pt. Reyes with Paul Porter last November). I said yes, and this is what he posted in response today. I think it's lovely. He took some liberties, adding the tree and converting dusk to daylight, but that's part of what makes it his own.

Here is his watercolor, alongside my photo.

Leave it to the folks on Fox News to propose literally anything but increased gun control to prevent the next mass shooting. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-guest-plan-to-kill-everyone-you-meet-1234731021/

I’m just going to say it. I hate reality TV...Really.

As the only person still regularly masking at work, I feel pretty triumphant when I got a message from a colleague who sat next to me at the seminar that he just tested positive for COVID. 😷

Wear a mask. It’s good for blocking viruses and hiding yawns.

@cjmoorehead @AlisonCreekside @gemelliz OMG so true - the Fords really are our Harkonnens. Still looking looking for a suitable Atreides contender, alas...

Texas has reverted to the Wild West, because ya know, it's so much "safer" when every yahoo is armed with a gun.
#Allen #Texas #shooting

Jeff, a semicolon, and an Oxford comma go to a bar.

They both had a great time.

I know I’m always on about this when cops or other folks kill some agitated person, but for real y’all — we in the ER see people who are angry, threatening, violent, and scary EVERY shift, and we kill zero of them. We don’t shoot them. We don’t choke them to death. Most of the time we talk them down and that’s it. Sometimes we restrain them, but we do it safely.

I have very scary people blow up at me. Often I literally pull up a chair and we talk it out. Please, we can be better.

Two Jumbo Jets Cracking A Joke And Having A Good Laugh.