James McLeod
@jamespmcleod.ca
The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
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James McLeod
@jamespmcleod.ca
· Oct 18
imo you can't train an AI to have a long dark night of the soul
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important update to Ontario's involuntary hospitalization regime:
November 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
important update to Ontario's involuntary hospitalization regime:
fwiw if I was doing political comms for Steven Guilbault I would've told him, "skip the letter and just post this pic"
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
fwiw if I was doing political comms for Steven Guilbault I would've told him, "skip the letter and just post this pic"
I don't think this is about appeasing Alberta. I think the Alberta MOU part of an ongoing effort to convince Canadians that the prime minister cares about the economy more than anything else.
And if you can pull that off, you actually might pick up seats.
And if you can pull that off, you actually might pick up seats.
Appeasing Alberta is a fool’s gambit. It never pays off.
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I don't think this is about appeasing Alberta. I think the Alberta MOU part of an ongoing effort to convince Canadians that the prime minister cares about the economy more than anything else.
And if you can pull that off, you actually might pick up seats.
And if you can pull that off, you actually might pick up seats.
The most American thing in the world is making their most important holiday basically a celebration of eating a really enormous meal, and scheduling it on a Thursday so that they can leave Friday open for an orgy of consumerism.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The most American thing in the world is making their most important holiday basically a celebration of eating a really enormous meal, and scheduling it on a Thursday so that they can leave Friday open for an orgy of consumerism.
The most satisfying people to block are the ones who show up in your replies and say something sarcastic and derisive.
You spend 3 seconds trying to think of a response and then you realize that you have the option to simply never spend another shred of cognitive energy on this person ever again.
You spend 3 seconds trying to think of a response and then you realize that you have the option to simply never spend another shred of cognitive energy on this person ever again.
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The most satisfying people to block are the ones who show up in your replies and say something sarcastic and derisive.
You spend 3 seconds trying to think of a response and then you realize that you have the option to simply never spend another shred of cognitive energy on this person ever again.
You spend 3 seconds trying to think of a response and then you realize that you have the option to simply never spend another shred of cognitive energy on this person ever again.
It'll be interesting if Carney gains or loses seats in the next election. Both seem like plausible outcomes to me.
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It'll be interesting if Carney gains or loses seats in the next election. Both seem like plausible outcomes to me.
Sometimes it actually ~does~ hurt to ask.
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sometimes it actually ~does~ hurt to ask.
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Anyway there's an NDP leadership debate tonight and hooboy if there were ever a time for the NDP to offer up some alternatives, this is it
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Anyway there's an NDP leadership debate tonight and hooboy if there were ever a time for the NDP to offer up some alternatives, this is it
Of all the things that you can do for Indigenous people as a minister of the Crown...
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand reproaches Senate foreign affairs committee for not beginning Thursday's hearing with a land acknowledgement.
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Of all the things that you can do for Indigenous people as a minister of the Crown...
Castle Frank Station should have an artist in residence.
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Castle Frank Station should have an artist in residence.
Many worthy contenders, but Yonge and Eglinton has to be the most cursed intersection in Toronto.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Many worthy contenders, but Yonge and Eglinton has to be the most cursed intersection in Toronto.
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the script writers are doing extra this season, using such a small cast of characters to do so much. the naked portrait painter being the same person to secretly record the president? come on bro
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
the script writers are doing extra this season, using such a small cast of characters to do so much. the naked portrait painter being the same person to secretly record the president? come on bro
We are officially one month away from Boxing Day.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We are officially one month away from Boxing Day.
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
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The way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving is like that one friend who's way, way, way too into a niche hobby.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving is like that one friend who's way, way, way too into a niche hobby.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
Like yeah man it's cool, but making it your whole personality? You're making me feel weird about it now.
Had the chance to chat with @vincebeiser.bsky.social briefly at the Balsillie Prize ceremony last night, and I've already read this book.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
Congratulations to @vincebeiser.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 #BalsilliePrize for Public Policy for his book Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future. Beiser was selected by a jury composed of Samantha Nutt, Taki Sarantakis & Scott Young.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Had the chance to chat with @vincebeiser.bsky.social briefly at the Balsillie Prize ceremony last night, and I've already read this book.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
It's such a nuanced look at the critical minerals industry. We need these metals to slow and reverse climate change. But we cannot ignore the environmental cost.
[Foreign Affairs busily drafting an article about regime change in Brazil]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
[Foreign Affairs busily drafting an article about regime change in Brazil]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
fwiw this is the same magazine that published an overwrought 750-word description of Christopher Hitchens' body, which includes the phrase "extraordinary genital endowment" and that was way back in the halcyon days of 2008 www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/10...
my unpopular opinion is that more reporters should publish nudes next to their stories www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Vanity Fair’s Soon-To-Be-Published Hollywood Issue Includes an Intimate Portrait of Olivia Nuzzi
Vanity Fair plans to run an abstract nude portrait of Olivia Nuzzi in its upcoming issue along with an excerpt of Nuzzi's forthcoming book <em>American Canto</em>
www.artnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
fwiw this is the same magazine that published an overwrought 750-word description of Christopher Hitchens' body, which includes the phrase "extraordinary genital endowment" and that was way back in the halcyon days of 2008 www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/10...
Rush Hour 4: Chris Tucker gets fired from his job at the FBI because somebody decided that he looked like a DEI hire. Jackie Chan gets detained by ICE.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Rush Hour 4: Chris Tucker gets fired from his job at the FBI because somebody decided that he looked like a DEI hire. Jackie Chan gets detained by ICE.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
The pedophile businessman villain goes free.
It's the internet and the phones that did it.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's the internet and the phones that did it.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
There's so much discussion and theories about trends and forces. So much overthinking. But in hindsight it'll be blindingly obvious that it was the smartphones and the internet that caused it all.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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If I'm being completely honest, I don't really know what it means when somebody says that they're autistic.
September 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If I'm being completely honest, I don't really know what it means when somebody says that they're autistic.