The most Toronto tweet that has ever happened

[sabotabby]

the fact that heather mallick still has her column is the #1 piece of evidence of what a union can do for you at your workplace

sign a union card todayhttps://t.co/RiHwQVByHo

— Michael O'Shaughnessy (@MDNOShaughnessy) April 22, 2019

Context for non-Canadians: Heather Mallick is among the several local journalists who cannot appear to write a coherent article from start to finish and remains employed despite a surplus of young journalists who would do a better job for much less money. She wrote a column today about stabbing a raccoon with a fork and how the raccoon possibly wanted to have sex with her??? I don't know. It's very incoherent and so many bad things happen in the world that it's really delightful that the entire city can come together to laugh at this.

If you're worried, the raccoon is fine.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

I momentarily got her mixed up with Margaret Wente. In both cases, I admit I’d never considered journalism unions— I just assumed they have blackmail files on the owners of the newspapers.

[conuly]

But is anybody going to hire that raccoon?

[minoanmiss]

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of unions, but true nonetheless.

[joymoose]

She desperately wants to be Tabatha Southey.

[sara]

To be fair, I was honestly worried that I was going to have to fight a raccoon myself this morning.

Now that I think about it that's going to be today's Good Thing: "Raccoon backed down."

[contrarywise]

I was wondering what was up with the raccoons from bits I saw go by on Twitter.
I have a good friend who pokes her local raccoons with a spear to teach them to respect her boundaries, so I can see how a fork wouldn't be particularly impressive to a raccoon.

[joymoose]

The Canadaland podcast just dedicated 1/2 an episode to this.