Mat Hatton

Adrift in a sea of voices. Who am I to tell you who I am?
Onward. Forward.

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"The most important political office is that of private citizen." —Louis Brandeis #onpoli #cdnpoli

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

It's #ElectionDay in #Ontario today. Please (please.) read about each party and candidate: their successes, failures, and controversies. How often are they mired in scandal? Do they lie? A lot? Behind the talking points and promises, who are they looking out for? Do they deliver?

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." —Nadine Gordimer

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." —Moliere

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men." —Rod Serling

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them." —Turkish proverb

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

Not Pasteur doing the world another solid with this insightful quote:
"One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me." —Louis Pasteur

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

@drasian17 I hadn't seen this routine before! Lots of good stuff in here. "Don't be the asshole" is spectacular advice for life.

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

Oooooh, this one is so sharp.

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." —Joseph Conrad

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

Where will the mob direct its collective outrage now? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

"We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts." —George Matthew Adams

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

Make a point this week to notice small acts of kindness. So often these tiny gestures go unnoticed in life.

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

Why didn't anyone tell me that there's a tradition called "Stew Year" where you ring in the new year with delicious stew (and of course continue to celebrate into the new year because leftover stew is arguably better)? Kicking myself!

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

i’m speaking for everyone when i say that drone shows are way better than fireworks

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Merry Christmas.
Cartoon by the wonderful Liz Climo

[greg @greg16676935420]

When you’re wrapping Christmas presents and the scissors start to glide

[Mat Hatton @mathatton]

@TheCinesthetic This has already been mentioned, but I'm posting it again because Boromir's arc wrecks me every time. "They've taken the little ones!"💀

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

I’ve seen a lot of the Toronto running community, but this guy wins.