Sunday Funday: Fun with Politics, plus Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er). Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Fun with Politics 

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Spot on 👏 What happened to the "tolerant left"?

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— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) November 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM

There is a collective hallucination about the past 15 years about how Democrats as a political party "went too woke" when what actually happened was major US retailers and corporations saw a competitive benefit to marketing directly to LGBTQ and non-white people and the right wing went insane

— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) November 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM

People who use “woke” as a derogatory term are deliberately vague about it because it sounds better than admitting they’re actually in favor of institutional racism, sexism, oppression, and cruelty.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) November 12, 2026 at 9:13 AM

Does anyone else follow the NYT Pitchbot account? He always hits it exactly right.

I still got it

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— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) November 14, 2026 at 9:09 AM

Miles Taylor is the guy "Anonymous" who wrote a Trump One takedown, for which MAGA will never forgive him. And Katie Miller is....Katie Miller

Twitter is a middle school cafeteria where nobody ever graduates.

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— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.lol) November 13, 2026 at 10:37 AM

Florida Residents Lose It After DEI Law Backfires and Takes Their Beloved St. Patrick’s Day Parade Down With It #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

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— Leopards Ate My Face (@leopardfeasts.bsky.social) November 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM

You simply cannot make this shit up 😳😡🤬

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— rprobbins.bsky.social (@rprobbins.bsky.social) November 13, 2026 at 4:46 AM

The great thing about Trump is he refuses to go away. Republicans might try to edge away from him, but he will only hug them tighter. Like a virulent strain of antibiotic-resistant syphilis he has infected the GOP forever

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— Pat Bagley (@bagleycartoons.bsky.social) November 10, 2026 at 1:12 PM

Rule of thumb No. 28,554: If a single paragraph contains the words “Witkoff,” “Kushner,” “Russia,” and “peace,” you can automatically assume, without the slightest doubt, that it's nothing but empty talk and political showmanship, completely detached from reality and not worth the paper it's written on or even the pixels it takes up on your screen.

- Illia Ponomarenko

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That ridiculous ballroom:

Americans are now shocked at what a monstrosity it will be. And the ladies in their evening gowns will be tramping in from the bus stop

Ha ha!

Be the first real job he’s ever had!!

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— Monty 🇨🇦 (@onlymonty.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM

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- Glen Lancaster 🇨🇦

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True, dat

Trump helped normalize everyday people acting like total assholes all the time. Here's hoping we can roll back that astounding gracelessness and normalize interacting in good faith and apologizing for mistakes and other kinds of functional adult behavior.

— Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) November 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM

Interesting Posts
Here's an great list of websites. When I try to embed this list as a Substack post, it defaults to the original Portuguese. So here is the translated version. The list is from a post by Rafaela - who also has interesting posts about writing and other stuff

8 sites to open instead of scrolling through your feed (and leave more curious than when you entered):
radio.garden you spin the globe and listen to live radio from any city in the world. You can easily spend half an hour jumping from country to country without even realizing it, lol.
window-swap.com a view from someone's window in another country.
neal.fun/deep-sea you scroll down to the bottom of the ocean and see what lives at each depth.
atlasobscura.com strange and curious places from all over the world.
museudapessoa.org life stories of ordinary people, told by themselves.
apod.nasa.gov a photo of the universe each day, with an explanation, since 1995.
openculture.com free courses, audiobooks, and movies.
cosmos.so for finding beautiful images

Ever wondered what a planck is? Plus other big and small stuff

Are you closer to the biggest thing in the universe or the smallest?

- ScienceClock

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In 1805, a young man fell to his death on a mountain in England. When they finally found him, three months later, he wasn’t alone… His name was Charles Gough, a young artist who set off that April to cross Helvellyn, one of the highest mountains in the Lake District, taking his little dog Foxie with him. Somewhere on the way, he fell and died, far from any path or house, and for weeks nobody knew what had happened to him. Then, on 27 July, a shepherd working near the lonely mountain lake of Red Tarn heard a dog barking. When he followed the sound, he found Gough’s body, and beside it, still keeping watch, was Foxie. She had stayed with her master through all those months, alone on the mountain, and she had even given birth to a puppy there, which sadly didn’t survive. The story moved all of England: two of the greatest poets of the day, William Wordsworth and Walter Scott, each wrote a poem about it without knowing the other was doing the same, and Scott wrote these lines as if he were speaking to the dog herself: “How long didst thou think that his silence was slumber? When the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start?” More than twenty years later, inspired by Scott’s poem, the young Edwin Landseer painted the scene and called it Attachment. It depicts a dead man lying among the rocks, and a small dog pressing herself against his chest, as if she could still wake him… Foxie didn’t understand death, but she understood love better than most people ever will. She didn’t know her master was gone, she only knew that he was hers, and that she would not leave him. And that is the miracle every dog offers us, whether we deserve it or not: a love that lasts forever and asks for nothing. Wordsworth said it best, and his words are still carved on a memorial stone on the mountain today: “How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime; And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate!” I started this newsletter because the past is full of masterpieces and stories like this one, and too few people ever stop to show us why they matter. That’s what I try to do here on Substack every week. 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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Strangely mesmerizing

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Funny posts

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— Pierre Polyester (@canadian-critic.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 6:19 AM

I guess Microsoft is getting fixed now, slowly...

Microsoft engineers currently experiencing the same level of frustration as anybody who attempted to slightly move an image in a Word document

— Alice Lilly (@aliceolilly.bsky.social) November 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM

Loved it! 🤣🤣🤣🫶🏼🇨🇦

- Caroline Boudakian

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- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Ladies, Gentlemen, those in between or undecided. Today is the anniversary of the Oregon Highways Division's finest hour. youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...

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— Dread Pirate Sex Badger (@badgercult.bsky.social) November 12, 2026 at 7:54 AM

- Joel J Miller

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- Joel J Miller

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Getting Old(er)

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— Pierre Polyester (@canadian-critic.bsky.social) November 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM

- Jason Thompson

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When my 98 year old mother was asked to what she attributed her longevity, she replied, "Punishment from God,"

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Carney Hat Trick - posts about our PM

Every time I hear Carney speak, I get smarter. Carney always respects the office even when he can't respect the man

Mark Carney on whether he'll pose for the family photo with Putin: "Yes, I will participate in the photo. Out of respect for the host. The repudiation of Putin and Russia is seen in our sanctions policy. It's seen in the decision to ban Russian athletes from participation in Canada."

- Scott Robertson

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TrumpWatch - the world's most anticipated event

Animal Crackers

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— 🇨🇦 NanaGale in Alberta (@nanagale.bsky.social) November 8, 2026 at 6:25 AM

- KGB Report by Kevin G. Barkes

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Delivery drivers and dogs: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/animalsbei...

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— Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ (@snarkysillysad.bsky.social) November 12, 2026 at 6:15 AM

Dogs having Fun 😃

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— ContempraInn 🌹 (@contemprainn.bsky.social) November 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM

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