Peter Cook
@doodlepeter.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Illustrator/science writer-cartoonist/once-and-future-comics author. Father of a young man with cerebral palsy. Toronto, Canada. Portfolio site: illustrationist.ca Mastodon: [email protected]
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Astonishing to watch Mark Carney’s speech and Trump’s ramblings one after the other.
January 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Astonishing to watch Mark Carney’s speech and Trump’s ramblings one after the other.
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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Sam has been standing at this window all day but still can't think of anything to proclaim.
January 14, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Sam has been standing at this window all day but still can't think of anything to proclaim.
For this last evening of 2025's #ArtAdventCalendar , here's a piece of mine from 2022 of a calm winter's night where everyone can just start to…relax….Happy Holidays all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For this last evening of 2025's #ArtAdventCalendar , here's a piece of mine from 2022 of a calm winter's night where everyone can just start to…relax….Happy Holidays all!
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whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all
#ArtAdventCalendar My parents' holiday card from yrs ago—drawn by me—inspired by events at their cottage that year. One night a family of raccoons got in thru a screen door & raided the fridge. When my mom went to check out the noise, Ma Raccoon+1 kit ran for it, while 2 kits tried to hide in place!
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar My parents' holiday card from yrs ago—drawn by me—inspired by events at their cottage that year. One night a family of raccoons got in thru a screen door & raided the fridge. When my mom went to check out the noise, Ma Raccoon+1 kit ran for it, while 2 kits tried to hide in place!
#ArtAdvent My parents' holiday card from yrs ago—drawn by me—inspired by true events at their cottage that year. One night a family of raccoons got in thru a screen door & raided the fridge. When my mom went to check out the noise, Ma Raccoon+1 kit ran for it, while 2 kits tried to shelter in place!
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
#ArtAdvent My parents' holiday card from yrs ago—drawn by me—inspired by true events at their cottage that year. One night a family of raccoons got in thru a screen door & raided the fridge. When my mom went to check out the noise, Ma Raccoon+1 kit ran for it, while 2 kits tried to shelter in place!
@jambookshopuk.bsky.social Hey! Look what just arrived! Looking forward to digging into this!
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@jambookshopuk.bsky.social Hey! Look what just arrived! Looking forward to digging into this!
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Another successful Halloween. Son dressed and face-painted as Jinu of KPop Demon Hunters, with Derpy (accompanied by Sussy) serving as the delivery exit for the candy tube. Lots of fun hearing kids (and parents) call out the tiger by name, a couple even getting their photos taken with it.
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Another successful Halloween. Son dressed and face-painted as Jinu of KPop Demon Hunters, with Derpy (accompanied by Sussy) serving as the delivery exit for the candy tube. Lots of fun hearing kids (and parents) call out the tiger by name, a couple even getting their photos taken with it.
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I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
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Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
July 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...
No cheating: post your Lock Screen.
July 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
No cheating: post your Lock Screen.
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Before #InsectWeek passes me by (working on an arachnid 😅) here’s a bug—a true bug, water boatman (Corixidae)—I made in bronze and silver, articulated to show that, surprisingly, these swimmers are good fliers! 1/2 #SciArt
June 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Before #InsectWeek passes me by (working on an arachnid 😅) here’s a bug—a true bug, water boatman (Corixidae)—I made in bronze and silver, articulated to show that, surprisingly, these swimmers are good fliers! 1/2 #SciArt
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"Daddy what did you do in the Meme Wars?"
"Mostly entertaining the tropes"
"Mostly entertaining the tropes"
June 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"Daddy what did you do in the Meme Wars?"
"Mostly entertaining the tropes"
"Mostly entertaining the tropes"
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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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oh no you guys, not the robots
April 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
oh no you guys, not the robots
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![Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.
BECKY [on phone]:
Yeah, hiya...
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BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.
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BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?
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[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility
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BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.
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VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?
BECKY:
Becky
PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -
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PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -
TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…
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PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
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BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.
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PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?
TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiei7pigtocoghwiww3vhhm4lj2os2ifvc7yzggcj7jn6gresjpdkq@jpeg)
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This better receive a lot of attention during this election. This guy is poison, and Cons better be made to answer for having him as their candidate.
Matt Strauss is also financially indebted to Elon Musk, who announced last year that he is funding Strauss's defamation suit against Queen's University.
March 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This better receive a lot of attention during this election. This guy is poison, and Cons better be made to answer for having him as their candidate.
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Sarla Thukral 1st Indian woman to fly an aircraft. In 1936 earned pilot's license age 21 & flew Gypsy Moth solo with over 1000 hours in air. Tried to train for commercial pilot's license but #WWII prevented it. Later became artist & businesswoman d. #OTD 15 Mar 2008 bit.ly/2N4NEJv #WHM2025
March 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Sarla Thukral 1st Indian woman to fly an aircraft. In 1936 earned pilot's license age 21 & flew Gypsy Moth solo with over 1000 hours in air. Tried to train for commercial pilot's license but #WWII prevented it. Later became artist & businesswoman d. #OTD 15 Mar 2008 bit.ly/2N4NEJv #WHM2025
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Lovely thread
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Lovely thread
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I think a fair question to ask Donald Trump, assuming a journalist who was willing to do it could still get anywhere him, would be “If you were secretly working for Vladimir Putin, what do you think you’d be doing differently than you are right now?”
March 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I think a fair question to ask Donald Trump, assuming a journalist who was willing to do it could still get anywhere him, would be “If you were secretly working for Vladimir Putin, what do you think you’d be doing differently than you are right now?”
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Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With US President Donald Trump declaring 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, American citizens have officially chosen the most circuitous and economically painful method possible to...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada
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This is it.
This is the simplicity of it all.
The war we face is between the super army of stupidity + money vs the natural world we live & exist in.
This is the simplicity of it all.
The war we face is between the super army of stupidity + money vs the natural world we live & exist in.
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A US climate denial group with close ties to Donald Trump has been working with far-right politicians to undermine EU green reforms.
📝 My @desmog.bsky.social story with the Guardian 👇🏻
A US climate denial group with close ties to Donald Trump has been working with far-right politicians to undermine EU green reforms.
📝 My @desmog.bsky.social story with the Guardian 👇🏻
Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties
Representatives of Heartland Institute linking up with MEPs to campaign against environmental policies
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is it.
This is the simplicity of it all.
The war we face is between the super army of stupidity + money vs the natural world we live & exist in.
This is the simplicity of it all.
The war we face is between the super army of stupidity + money vs the natural world we live & exist in.