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Simon Little 🍁

@simonplittle.ca

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East Vancouver caricature, cat dad, Canucks fan and avid walker.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · Nov 12

Hello new followers.
I'm an East Vancouver guy who works in the news. Here, you will find:

😻: many cat photos
🛰️: scifi nerd stuff
📺: trash TV takes
🏒: Canucks love
🌃: Vancouver minutia
🍲: cooking, baking and food
🌘: pagan stuff

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 7m

It's called lalalalalalala

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 8m

A world without effort, energy, learning, trying or excellence: only posting remains

Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 35m

I give you: my billionaire former boss clapping his hands in delight at what has been better described as "Cocomelon for adults"

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 58m

What ever could have given Republicans that idea, I wonder?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1h

Ruben Gallego told me that "They teach in war all plans go to s*** when we first hit contact." This happened with Mike Johnson's gambit on the gov't shutdown. "I think they didn't realize that we weren't going to fold, and they didn't have a plan B after that."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Mike Johnson is getting squeezed on all sides amid the government shutdown

The mild-mannered, pious Johnson has so far avoided an internal rebellion in the House amid the shutdown. But, Eric Garcia writes, his luck might be running out

www.independent.co.uk

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 1h

"When it comes to Covid vaccinations, provinces and territories should..."

Provide vaccinations for free: 59%

Provide vaccinations for free to high risk residents only: 27%

All residents should have to pay for vaccinations: 11%

Nanos / Oct 1, 2025 / n=1502 / Telephone/Online

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 1h

How they tell you this scene wasn't just shot in Canada, it's set there too

A man holds his neck and says 'a bee just stung me, eh?'

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 1h

Gremlin

A floofy grey and cream cat sitting up kind of awkwardly with all her under fur scraggly and sweaty

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 1h

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 15h

START PLANNING THE POTENTIAL PARADE ROUTES

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 1h

Why is he so wet

Slate @slate.com · 2h

The new Tron is like if a Terminator movie wanted you to cheer for Skynet. slate.trib.al/XZ9iQq4

One of Our Oldest Sci-Fi Franchises Is Back. The New Movie Is Woefully Out of Step With Our Moment.

Every generation gets the Tron movie it deserves. That’s bad news for the new one.

slate.trib.al

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 5h

We got leaked audio from Peter Thiel’s off the record antichrist lectures: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 4h

It's cutting off their nose to spite their face. Does the party really not want to talk to the most widely distributed news source in the province? Given the state of media, CP is often the only account that makes it online at many outlets.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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tm @catturd2.bsky.social · 6h

I have just been informed that the Nobel Prize Committee has been eliminated in a targeted peace strike

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 5h

Never mind that like 80 per cent of people who work in broadcast news are not reporters. Producers, writers, directors, camera operators, editors, engineers.... None of these people have time to be writing essays on their job

Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 5h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."