Oh my god this is so cute 😭 thank u @thenarwhal.ca

Bruce Fanjoy has launched a petition to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top security clearance. It's open for a couple of months. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Cracking up at the official hospital signage now that Gen Z have entered the workforce

Jesus fuck, this story

If you want to do your part for Canadian digital sovereignty from the US, then drop OneDrive, Dropbox, and whatever the hell Apple users use, and get Sync, the Canadian cloud service. I've been using it for a few months and it's just as good as the others.

Big Boy vs. Metal Big Boy plus someone's dog is there (artwork by Takashi Okazaki)

Big Boy vs. Iron Man (artwork by @ronaldwim.bsky.social)

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

Deer uses *HIGH BEAMS* Hawk counters with *ARCTIC BLAST* ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

Big Boy vs. Cylon Penguin (artwork by @beckycloonan.bsky.social)

Dudes (gender-non-specific) rock

Pot roast day

Snowstorms are my favourite Toronto weather bc I get to scoff about how mild they are compared to growing up in the prairies. I am nobody's friend in this climate

The one where a child repeatedly sees visions of the Big Boy coming to unleash a cleansing fire

In elementary school we weren't allowed to stay indoors for recess unless it hit -30. But ok

At the James Acaster show in Toronto. They're calling it the most median-age-37-years-old show of all time (complimentary)

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

It’s time for the most important film awards show of the season: the 2025 Trashies! Who will take home the Golden Trash Can Lid this year? What’s with all the dual roles? And will anyone explain who Damocles is to Nick? Listen to find out!

...where did they get a scared human's sweat

Return of the Big Boy and His Dreadful Son (artwork by Jorge Coelho)

Oh my god it's happening dot gif youtu.be/oKlf7-c-4Bk?...

hi! i would like to reup my request for ANY AND ALL PEOPLE FIGHTING DATA CENTERS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES TO PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME i am now covering data center conflicts for @heatmap.news my email is [email protected]

RIP king

Shout out to the teacher sitting in front of me at today's all-staff who spent the full 2hrs online shopping for Labubus

The Final* Big Boy Showdown (artwork by @mooncalfe1.bsky.social) *finality TBC

It's still super dark & the world feels bleak AF, so let's do something fun: another COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY. See below 👇 for available cookbooks—some recent, some older. Pay shipping & it's yours. First come, first served (but if I've sent you one before, maybe wait & see if someone else might benefit!)

Today is garbage so I'm baking a cake. Fuck it

Shout out to this café for playing Closing Time at 10am, very funny mood

Ottawa and Gatineau

This is a good headline anyways, but it is truly the headline *of the year 2025* and so deserves to win.

Big Boy Junior (artwork by @nidoog.bsky.social)

🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆 Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day. 16 headlines. Only 1 winner. A reminder of the nominees: bsky.app/profile/paul...

Big Boy eats Seafood Soup (artwork by @simonjgane.bsky.social)

Had to make this or else it was going to be stuck in my head for the next 2 weeks

I can’t believe it’s only a week to Christmas

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

👇 🇨🇦 Parliamentary petition (aka the kind they actually read) to disallow Alberta from pushing through anti-trans bills

"Business owner shuts down Democracy rather than interact with workers as equals in a union" is a bit on the nose, but here we are

Space, the final Big Boy frontier (artwork by @benjaminmarra.bsky.social)

SLAMS LAPTOP SHUT UNTIL 2026

bill c12 is canada's worst anti-migrant bill in DECADES has been passed in the house of commons and is now in the senate (final stages before becoming law) please email senators! migrantrights.ca/actionslist/... sc from link and from @harshawalia.bsky.social #stopbillc12

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 17,1953

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

It’s your last day to get a slice of the $500-million bread price-fixing settlement - Today is the last day to get a slice of the $500-million settlement in the class-action suit related to Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company George Weston Ltd., of alleged industry-wide price fixing of bread.

Because I am very hip and current, I'd like to run with yesterday's Game Awards vibe and recommend the soundtrack for Astro Bot from 2024 as your Friday listening. Follow me for more cutting-edge, extremely timely observations

Big Boy From Beyond The Stars (artwork by @monarobot.bsky.social)

Well that didn't take long lol

Happy anniversary, to those who celebrate h/t @calphonso.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/tor...