Sunday Funday: Some good cartoons plus Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Today was another "No Kings" day in the US. I've seen some criticism that these protests aren't happening often enough, but maybe this is as much as Americans can manage for the time being - after all, they also have to be ready to mobilize against ICE on a moment's notice too.  

Anyway, here are a few good cartoons:

Interesting posts

Quite fascinating

Holy shit!

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— RedDirtGirl (@reddirtgirl.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 10:28 AM

And this

Since there is a scarcity of it here, it is good to know there is hope for finding intelligent life elsewhere. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/s...

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— lornepw.bsky.social (@lornepw.bsky.social) October 13, 2026 at 7:23 AM

And this too

“Trying to figure out what AI writing looks like is turning writer and reader into adversaries.” Colin Horgan unpacks how the AI-writing witch hunt has produced a new kind of reader: skeptical, antagonistic, and unwilling to give humans the benefit of the doubt. thewalrus.ca/readers-think-th...

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— The Walrus (@thewalrus.ca) October 13, 2026 at 4:36 AM

The noise the audience makes right before they break into applause. It's truly an "ah" moment,. Not a deliberate "aaaw" but a reflex, a small, sudden inhalation. It's a human response to a Delightful Suprise. Like opening a perfect never-thought-of-before gift. An actual breathtaking moment. It seems we're not used to truly humble, earnest, kind, AND funny. Authenticity is in short supply, lately. Also! What a well structured piece. Now I wanna read his books.

- Ed "ScriptGoodness" Goodman

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Truth

"There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity." ~ Isaac Asimov #MarcodeAngelis

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— The Wolfpack (@wolfpack11720.bsky.social) October 1, 2026 at 10:37 AM

Funny posts

Search for DART mission on Google. Trust me.

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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"Do the Zacharias" sounds like a goofy dance, doesn't it.

I look forward to knowing how many Zacharias are in a Scaramucci. ... Ok, that sounded way better in my head.

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— war-god.bsky.social (@war-god.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM

And the incompetent staff work that allowed her to be hired in the first place continued as she left - the Washington Post noted a map of a controversial Washington golf course on Trump's desk in photos she posted while she was on her way out the door.

Have you heard the phrase, "he can't find his ass with both hands"?

So Maralago Fats totally misses the Beast and instead goes for a dementia stroll while thesecret service scurries around him to redirect him back to the car. He’s basically little more than a barely walking , talking Trump steak.

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— Whyzayker (@whyzayker.bsky.social) October 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

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— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) October 9, 2026 at 4:11 AM

This is some kamikaze shit right here. Gives new meaning to “divine wind.”

- Lakota Man

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A few years ago, Elon re-invented the bus. Now he's re-inventing the helicopter.

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

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— Alex Hern (@hern.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 5:05 AM

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) October 17, 2026 at 8:55 AM

Walking the line in my auto factory and screaming at all the workers to make the cars stupider and more dangerous. They love this, it helps motivate them. "It's going to be able drive upside down," I yell through a megaphone. "It's going to be able to fart."

— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Fucking dead. ☠️☠️☠️

- The Opinionated Ogre

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Speaking of stupid:

We've probably got two solid years worth of complete dogshit entertainment coming thanks to spineless media execs overindexing on phony resurgence of reactionary cultural demand

— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) October 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM

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— kenofseattle (@kenofseattle.bsky.social) October 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Must be true

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— Mike D Treacherous Canadian- I guess. (@michaeldonaldson.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM

I’m pretty sure I’ve done all six of these things this week already.

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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The mascot never imagined that approaching that security guard would make history. Original post

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— Massimo (mirror) (@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social) October 7, 2026 at 9:36 AM

I remember thinking it was weird when Dolly Parton's "head of security", nephew Bryan Seaver, issued a lengthy video about her passing. Apparently its getting weirder still.

Today in "sentences never before constructed in the history of the world"

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— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) October 17, 2026 at 12:35 PM

Speaking of headlines:

Siri, find me a headline that condenses the Freedom Convoy and Alberta Separation movements down to a single phrase. #ableg #cdnpoli

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— 💀 Clawdric Moanses 🧛 (@audricmoses.bsky.social) October 12, 2026 at 4:21 PM

Speaking of the Freedumb Convoy

- Nathan Sager

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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I don't know, but when you find yourself arguing etymology with a dictionary, maybe you need to think about getting another hobby

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

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— Mar Hicks (@histoftech.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM

One can only hope.

- Andrew Heard

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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October in Canada: Morning: winter jacket. Afternoon: T-shirt. Evening: winter jacket again. Your car becomes a mobile closet until April. #MadeOfMaple

- MadeofMaple

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When things are just too much:

Getting Old(er)

Remember this?

- It's Official - I Am Old!

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Wear ‘em? In the 60s in PUBLIC SCHOOL our skirts had to hit our knees. Wasn’t until 1970 we all wore jeans on Senior day, too many to expel.🤓 power to the people lesson right there 💁🏼‍♀️

- Dawn Renee (Tyslan) aka Drene'

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You got that right 👍

- Kim37

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The outstanding problem of cryogenics isn't whether future advances in technology will enable you to be unfrozen and brought back to life 10,000 years from now. The outstanding problem of cryogenics is whether 250 consecutive generations of security guards earning $7.25 an hour will remember to check the thermostat every night. -John Alejandro King (The Covert Comic)

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Nothing gives me more joy than having a 93-year old woman in my house doing a jigsaw puzzle and yelling over her shoulder at the TV political ads, “You’re all full of shit!”

- Shari Simpson

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Carney Hat Trick - posts about our PM
At the Calgary rally, Carney stopped his speech after noticing a medical emergency in the crowd, then talked about Nico while the emergency was being handled.

O Canada breaks out as PM Carney arrives at pro-unity event in Red Deer

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— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) October 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM

TrumpWatch - posts about the world's most anticipated event

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— Helen Pappas❤️💙 (@hpappas.bsky.social) October 8, 2026 at 2:06 PM

Animal Crackers

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Snails of Scotland

This took me a second.. 😅

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— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM

Too cute….

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— I 💙 Dogs (@dogs100.bsky.social) October 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM

Doggone it! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/rj...

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— Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ (@snarkysillysad.bsky.social) October 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM

Dogs check back on their owners during walks because you are their safe base, a habit that goes back to wolf pack behavior and shows how strong the bond really is.

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— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) October 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM

You’ve probably seen this little girl and her dog before, but most people miss the story hidden in the title... This is Compulsory Education, painted by Briton Rivière in 1887. A little girl in a white dress with a blue sash has wrapped her arms around the neck of an enormous bloodhound and opened a book in front of him. She has decided it’s time for his lesson: he has clearly not agreed to any of this, and yet there he stands, ears drooping, eyes full of patient suffering, letting her teach him to read. In 1880, a new law had made school a must for every child in England between the ages of five and ten, and the change was hotly debated. So in Rivière’s painting, a little girl who has to sit through lessons has clearly decided that her best friend should have to as well. The painting was also turned into a print for Pears soap, and that advertisement became so popular that people across Britain knew the image, even though the original painting then disappeared from public view for many years. Today it hangs in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Sydney, where that dog is still sitting through his lesson, like every dog who has ever put up with a child’s love and never walked away, because that’s what the best creatures on earth have always done for us... I started my newsletter because the past is full of masterpieces like this one, and so few people ever stop to give them the attention they deserve. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, simply subscribe! And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible. Thanks for reading.

- James Lucas

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— WholesomeMemes (@wholesomememe.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 12:31 PM