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A screen-grab of all the shots in an old Roger Ramjet cartoon. Each shot is numbered, and includes the relevant dialogue under each panel.
Ink and watercolour sketch depicting various poses of a muscular moustachioed trans man and a green-skinned drag queen with curly red hair.
Sketches of a drag queen named Barb A. Fella. She's wearing a skintight tube-dress (probably leather) and thigh-high boots, and her skin is green.
Video still of SpaceX rocket exploding, which does not seem normal for a rocket to do. Surprisingly the caption reads: “That explosion was not unexpected, according to SpaceX.”
Screen grab of text from an article titled “Microsoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees” that highlights the following line: “…agentic AI could drive a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030 as consumers and enterprises adopt AI agents, reaching a staggering 120 quadrillion tokens per month.”
Screen grab of article about how the cost of using AI is more expensive than using actual humans: Uber's CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information in April that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months. That comes after the company had actively incentivized adoption through internal leaderboards ranking teams by AI tool usage. The reports may throw cold water on the bets tech's biggest firms have placed on the technology. While some cling to the promise of an Al "renaissance" or "revolution," the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing or augmenting human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied. That echoes what Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently said in an interview with Axios.
Photo of Luigi Mangione seated in court, wearing a bullet-proof vest over top of a stylish dark green knitted sweater with an open-collared white shirt underneath. He's surrounded by armed guards, but is completely relaxed and confident, staring fearlessly into the camera with one raised eyebrow--and oh my god those eyebrows. Homina-homina-homina.
Illustration showing over a dozen different harmless items that Israel bans from entering Gaza including toys, sewing machines, spices, paper, pencils, fabric, and more.
Black and white photo of the “White Night Riots" on May 21, 1979, in San Francisco. The scene depicts a crowd on the steps outside a courthouse being held back by a handful of riot police wearing helmets and brandishing clubs. Above them on the entrance is a banner that reads: "Stop Attacks On Lesbians & Gays". This riot was sparked by an announcement of a lenient sentencing of Dan White who assassinated both George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of the city's Board of Supervisors.
A 10x10 montage of various sketches. Some are in colour, some in black and white.
Poster with the following text: "Sean Orr has a plan to stop Ken Sim's brutal cuts. TAX THE RICH. Sign up to speak to Sean's motion by 5PM April 1." Includes a photo of Councillor Sean Orr gleefully gesturing to a sign that says: "TAX THE RIGH".
Screen grab of Bernie Sanders' social media post saying: "One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok, CBS, CNN, HBO, Discovery Channel, BET, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, DC Studios, Fandango, Miramax, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, PlutoTV, Showtime, TBS, The CW, TNT, Warner Bros., and more. This is oligarchy."
This is what it feels like to be a trans person in an increasingly authoritarians and autocratic America in 2026. Every path that should lead to safety, to justice, to the simple baseline dignity of existing in public, has been engineered to dead-end. Advocate peacefully through institutions—the courts are captured by conservative super-majorities who will never uphold your rights. Build coalitions and watch the funding dry up as foundations flee and donors go silent, and as organizations like the Human Rights Campaign hemorrhage staff in mass layoffs. Appeal to moderates but the Overton window has already shifted so far that your mere existence is now the "extreme" position. Exhibit any outrage at the indignities perpetrated against you and you confirm the narrative they've spent years constructing that you are violent, dangerous, a threat to children. Stay quiet, get erased quietly. Every option looks like an exit. None of them actually terminates the loop.
Haartez article about BetterHelp.com, with a headline reading: "Locked Down and Uptight? Israeli-founded Online Service Might Be The Solution"
Matas founded BetterHelp in 2013, and sold it two years later to Teladoc, a U.S. company traded on the New York Stock Exchange that specializes in telemedicine services. Coincidentally, BetterHelp's chief competitor, Talkspace, was also founded by Israelis - husband and wife Oren and Roni Frank. So at present, 90% of the online mental health services market in the United States is controlled by companies founded by Israeli entrepreneurs.
Cartoon character Frank Bottom smiling and waving to camera. He’s dressed in a sexy leather spacesuit and sporting a big handlebar moustache.
Screen-grab of podcast transcript from The Daily News by Nora Loreto. The highlighted section reads: "And on site at the moment that Pretti was killed were Rochelle armored vehicles built in Brampton [Ontario] by Ukrainian refugees at a factory owned by an Israeli Ukrainian who spent more than a decade in the IDF."
Red button with the words: “EVICT KEN SIM” and VoteCope.ca
Illustration from 1888 of a bartender pouring cocktails from his shaker into six Nick & Nora glasses which are stacked in a pyramid atop his bar. He's barely paying attention so in reality this probably spilled all over the place. The caption underneath reads: Harry Johnson's style of straining mixed drinks to a party of six. Copyrighted 1888.
Mini-comic titled: Clean Air in Your School and Everywhere. Two masked kids in capes are flying in the air like superheroes, followed by an air-cleaner with a face, like a little robot sidekick. The comic is on a wooden table top.
Racist white lady fake “passing out” in a shop in 2021. Her head is conveniently resting on her purse. Shoppers behind her are ignoring her.
Plane flying a banner that reads: “Israel is starving Gaza” against a blue sky.
consSketch of Hedy Fry, with the words "I'M BAACK!" underneath. She's glaring at the viewer, knowing she'll ghost any constituent who dares try to speak to her about important issues. She'll soon disappear in a puff of smoke.
Animation of a red boot kicking a man off screen. The man is wearing a t-shirt with the logo "ABC Vancouver" on it. The caption at the end reads: "Give ABC the boot. Vote COPE on April 5" and the website votecope.ca
Text graphic, reads: "There is no material difference between having someone beat you up and insult you versus having someone beat you up and apologise." From Nora Loreto's Substack, from her article entitled: "A Carney in Charge of The Circus"
Consumerism has rushed to fill most of what used to be cultural identity, though this isn’t limited to Canadian identity. Indeed, try performing femininity without also having to pay for it. But when Trump acts the bully, the most significant cultural reaction we have is: well, I’m going to buy Canadian! As if Free Trade even allows us to make that decision. The Farmers’ Market is too expensive. I’ll just buy whatever Save on Foods has on sale. Cultural pride, deflated.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. I think that Canadians are probably mostly scoundrels who have long ago given up cultural clubs or religious involvement or community involvement and who therefore no longer feel tethered to the place in which they live. And in such a moment, the scoundrel will, of course, reach to a vacant patriotism that doesn’t mean or do anything.
A comic by Matt Bors in which a medieval peasant says "We should improve society somewhat" while a modern man, emerging from a well, replies, "Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent." The comic has been popularly used as a retort to people who imply one can't make complaints about capitalism or other aspects of social life while participating in those systems.