It's a fun day reminding myself that the worst people are indeed on Xitter.

Is this all the same guy with multiple accounts?

Dear Santa, for Christmas, please send me a smarter kind of racist to play with.

A lot of Indian haters out today. Guess they're mad about the latest Amir Khan movie.

These guys can't help themselves.

Fun facts for all the racists blaming immigration (primarily from India) on Canada's measles woes: -measles vaccination rate in India: 97% (2024) -rate in Canada: 82.5% (2023) So if you want to play this game (and I don't), more Indian immigrants would make us LESS vulnerable to measles.

These people are so fucking fragile. Notice how she immediately assumes the "mouth breathers" and xenophobes are "conservatives." I didn't say it. Points for subtle self-knowledge.

"Alternative sources." Oh fuck off.

This is the reasoning basis of the measles immigrant blaming: a lack of understanding of what "elimination" means in the disease context.

Oh the geniuses are out in force this morning.

Bots and trolls don't understand a lot of things, among them how tenure works.

Never mind. Last minute cancellation!

Here's the video of my audio interview on CBC radio's "All In A Day" earlier this afternoon. youtu.be/aJ4pDpPK8Pk

Beth leaves out the part where these "question askers" address me as "cuck" and "cocksucker." Beth also doesn't understand the difference between elimination and eradication. Nor that antibodies of common vaccine preventable diseases are more common in immigrants than locals.

Social media is filled with a certain kind of dumbass. You know, the kind of dumbass who's the smartest dumbass among their social group of other dumbasses. So their slightly superior dumbassery gets celebrated by lesser dumbasses.

Some people (you know who): "Vaccines are dangerous! You can't make me or my kids take them! We refuse to take them! I'm unvaccinated and PROUD!" Same people: "All these measles... it's because of unvaccinated IMMIGRANTS!"

Nope, it doesn't take rocket science. But it does take a kind of science. One that you are clearly ignorant of.

Like I can't figure out which butthurt Xitter troll this is.

These guys, man.

OMG. Another lieutenant in the Dunning Kruger brigade confuses elimination with eradication.

It's a regular Algonquin Roundtable over on Xitter.

The year is 2045. A grizzled and bitter old man in what was once a thriving Alberta suburb looks out onto the husk of land, peppered with idle drilling platforms and tent settlements. He makes a fist and mutters to no one, "Damn those 2020 lockdowns!"

When I was 4 years old my 3 year old sister died in bed beside me because Mom and Dad didn't trust the measles vaccine. My older brother and I were rushed to the hospital for blood transfusions because we were close to dying as well. Seeing this now decades later infuriates me.

Of course, the mouth breathing crowd wants to blame Canada's measles outbreaks on recent immigrants. Here's why that accusation is unfounded. Thread [1/6]

I hear the new mayor of New York is going to institute Shania Law. That's where everyone is obligated to stop, once a day, and declare loudly, "Man! I feel like a woman!"

Peeps, I'll be on CBC radio's "All In A Day" with Alan Neal this afternoon at 5:10pm. You're not done with me yet.

My latest at Canada Healthwatch: "Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)" canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/11/i...

Breaking news: nobody likes you.

The last surviving Canadian veteran of WWI (John Babcock) died in 2010. Last one from any country (UK's Florence Green) died in 2012. In a long list of stupid inventions, war is among the stupidest. Today, remember those lost to this stupidity, and hope there will be no more.

I see the Dunning-Kruger brigade is out for its morning walk and poop.

Obviously, I don't know the man. And it's probably a bad idea to psychoanalyze strangers from a distance. But since Melon Musk is such an ubiquitous and powerful presence in all our lives, I think it might be justified in this instance. Thread [1/7]

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

The fact that Melon Musk is seriously butthurt about this means that we absolutely have to repost it, continuously.

so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway

Here's the screen grab of my interview on CTV this morning. youtu.be/o9LZnfv3vsM

Peeps, I'm going to be live on CTV Ottawa's "Your Morning" in a few minutes. I think.

Good morning.

The deeply cynical part of me wants to say that they only found this bit of spine because it would otherwise inconvenience Peter Thiel..... who is, of course, the Worst Person in the World.

Love it when the newspaper publishes a photo of me with the caption, "Embarrassing and sad."

Idiots abound, even over on Threads.

Pleased to have been interviewed by Elizabeth Payne for "'Embarrassing and sad': Canada loses measles elimination status after nearly 30 years" ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

My latest post: "Canada’s Measles Setback Is a Symptom of a Larger Illness" medium.com/@deonandan/c...

Peeps, I'll be live on CTV's "Your Morning" in Ottawa tomorrow morning at 7:10AM, talking about..... Canada losing our measles elimination status. Fun times. No Ross Perot mentions this time.