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Today is Chip Wilson day. What better occasion to vote against the billionaire class and for the working class?

OK during the process of poking around yesterday and today I linked many people to Occupation:klezmer musician so I can go back and find the ones without EN wikipedia articles later. even a lot of articles I wrote about historical figures were not linked to this... www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?...

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Pages that link to "Q3197853" - Wikidata

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A Trains Woman @trainswoman.bsky.social · 15h

A question that should be asked of every candidate and party in the upcoming election: What is your plan to keep transit funded?

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 15h

Elections have a way of clarifying who matters to political parties (car owners) and whose priorities can wait for another day (transit advocates). My dispatch from Day 1 on David Eby’s four day mid-election road trip. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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ANALYSIS | Eby puts needs of car owners ahead of transit advocates in ruling out Metro Vancouver vehicle levy | CBC News

For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline. But all that w...

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 15h

salute to Germans once again, my friend Zoë Aqua has an article with them but not in English

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Zoë Aqua – Wikipedia

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 16h

definitely a lot of klezmer musicians I am big fan of would not meet notability requirements on EN wikipedia. but many would who don't have articles. and at the risk of being spicy a few b-list aggressive self-promoters DO have articles 🫣

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 16h

doing a mini survey of which klezmer artists are and aren't on wikipedia/wikidata these days (most aren't) and was amused to see @danblacksberg.bsky.social has a German wikipedia article but not an English one 😅🇩🇪

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Daniel Blacksberg – Wikipedia

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 16h

hate to step up for such a weasel but it's Sturko not Struko

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Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social · 21h

This morning, both the BC Conservatives and the BC NDP ruled out a vehicle levy to fund public transit in Metro Vancouver. This despite the vehicle levy being commonly used in other cities, including Montreal, Seattle, and the bustling metropolis of Gatineau, Quebec.

a map of potential huge transit cuts from spring 2025 with text overlaid that says "is transit doomed to always be in crisis?"

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 22h

I already forgot about this till now but unfortunately your DMs are closed to me

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🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 23h

today in things that would go in the jewsletter if it wasn't on hiatus, this panel of historic-and-present-day yiddish left organizations on Oct 15th www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Liberate and Rewew

🍎LIBERATE & RENEW: YIDDISH LEFT LEGACY ORGANIZATIONS THRIVING TODAY!📅 Thursday, October 15⌚ 7:30-9:00pm ET📍 On Zoom🫶 Co-presented by Rad Yiddish, Boston…

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 02/10/2026

Just waited 35 minutes for a 49 so I am receptive to this message

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 02/10/2026

Francisco (Cisco) was an immigrant from Peru who moved to Canada to build 'a better life and future' here. He leaves behind a husband and many grieving family members and friends. Friends are fundraising to cover the costs of repatriating his remains to Peru: www.gofundme.com/f/bringing-c...

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Donate to Bringing Cisco Home: Support for His Family, organized by Alexa Vidal

Help Us Bring Cisco Home to Peru ❤️ With heavy hearts, we are asking for y… Alexa Vidal needs your support for Bringing Cisco Home: Support for His Family

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 01/10/2026

Heck ya! What a get for the Greens.

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Empty Homes 🤝 ABC After voting down increases to the Empty Homes Tax, and creating new loopholes for developers to leave empty homes vacant, and giving $3.8M to developers in EHT earmarked for affordable housing... ABC signs are now popping up in front of empty apartments and lots across the city.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 01/10/2026

Great summary, send this to anyone confused by all the parties in the upcoming Vancouver election 😯✅

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm going to Victoria (BC) in mid-October for a literary event. Wondering if anyone has recommendations for any antique stores, thrift stores, or flea markets I should check out if I'm looking for vintage photos, ephemera, etc. related to Victoria's Chinatown / Chinese Canadian history.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 01/10/2026

I work in libraries and my old boss was very much against negative signs that are the first thing someone sees. like our (closed) office door didn't have our department name on it, only a big sign saying NO ENTRY TO PUBLIC which she had replaced thankfully with new yellow paint and our dept logo

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 01/10/2026

oh wow this is a must listen.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 01/10/2026

I think that the only major operetta of his that YIVO hasn't digitized is Die Drei Matunes (the three gifts) which is his adaptation of an I.L. Peretz story. NYPL has it and I wrote to them to ask if it was digitized, more out of curiosity, and they said no, not yet 🤔

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Salute to this shuttered store on Fraser Street in Vancouver with its sign

Photo looking up at part of a sign above a storefront that says
4. Medicine Stuff
5. Beverage Items
6. Chocolate Items
And part of a phone number below

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zaftl ꙳ זאַפֿטל @zaftlzussman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

does anyone have a resource for ashkenazic hebrew? prayers with ashkenazic hebrew phonetically written, pronunciation guides, or videos

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Nah, I think it was a pretty normal convenience store/grocery that went out of business, like about a quarter of this strip sadly

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Could be, it's a strip with mostly mom and pop immigrant run shops

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Salute to this shuttered store on Fraser Street in Vancouver with its sign

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Statement from Tsawwassen First Nation

Tsawwassen First Nation is deeply saddened to confirm that an incident occurred during today’s Truth and Reconciliation Walk.

Emergency responders remain on site. We ask members of the public to avoid the area and allow responders to carry out their work.

Out of respect for Tsawwassen First Nation families and ongoing response efforts, we will not be providing additional details at this time. Further information will be shared when appropriate.

Tsawwassen First Nation extends its sincere gratitude to the Delta Police Department, emergency responders, and community members who assisted during the incident.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City

On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

was trying to remember where I know Hello Nurse from and I guess it was an old Animaniacs line sitting around in the cobwebs of my 1990s memories

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Michael Schwandt @michaelschwandt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"10 of Vancouver’s 89 public elementary schools are located within 300 metres — the distance from major roadways in which pollution levels are most concentrated — of the Clark-Knight corridor route to the port." An excellent article by @annecasselman.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/port-of-vanc...

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The Vancouver families breathing in diesel truck fumes | The Narwhal

East Vancouver neighbourhoods shoulder the health burden of thousands of diesel trucks heading to and from the Port of Vancouver every week

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

salute to them, in the running along with Put a Yid On It as the clunkiest festival name. but great lineup

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

poking around in this German newspaper archive actually caused me to correct my wikipedia article a bit. even though almost every biography says he fled the outbreak of the war to Vienna, there's an article from 1913 expounding on his beautiful cello playing at Ziegler's theatre in Vienna.🥸🕵️

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

Rathaus also wrote a kind of retrospective about his uncle a year after his death in a Berlin Jewish newspaper. So far it hits the same points as a lot of the Yiddish-language biographical mentions and I suspect they were drawing on it. sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodica...

screenshot of the opening paragraph of an old German-language newspaper article titled Ein Musikant Gottes - Chune Wolfsthal zum Gedächtnis
about a musician born in Galicia

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zine makers and self-publishers: If you still haven't seen it I made this spreadsheet everyone can use to share their results and experiences at fairs and zine fests so other publishers can manage expectations and learn from you. Add your stats and reflections! www.tinyurl.com/artbookfairsales

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Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

I mean, they have Jordan Peterson as a columnist Sad that due to the hollowing out of news, the only daily newspapers in my city are part of this chain (Vancouver Sun/The Province)

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 30/09/2026

ross glick, the betar us cofounder who definitely didn't do revenge porn (www.rossglick.com/legal-notice), brought a bunch of judeofascists to storm and shutdown mahmoud khalil's book release last night

forward.com

Protesters stormed Mahmoud Khalil’s book release. His Israeli editor confronted them.

The memoir focuses on Khalil's time in ICE detention after leading pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The main funder of Tablet is the widow of Zalman Bernstein, a far-right financier who was a major funder of Israeli settlements. The whole purpose of the magazine is to turn Jewish Boomers into fascists.

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 30/09/2026

huh interesting, the composer Karol Rathaus was Wolfsthal's newphew and wrote an essay of his recollections of him. It's in this archive but I couldn't find it fully digitized online, so I wrote to them.

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Chune Wolfsthal | Queens College

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 29/09/2026

started this during the WikiConference in Edmonton. as a spinoff of the Chune Wolfsthal article, I realized this guy is even more famous but doesn't have a wiki bio in any language. He started the first permanent Yiddish theatre in Lemberg (Lviv) which became the most popular in Europe for a time🥸

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Yankev Ber Gimpel - Wikipedia

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 29/09/2026

now (as someone who learned Bahasa Indonesia) I'm thinking of the great French words that entered the language via Dutch and became assimilated to the point you never even think of the origin of many. trotoar and sepeda being some great examples en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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List of loanwords in Indonesian - Wikipedia

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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 29/09/2026

Philologos! that brings me back

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 29/09/2026

Holy smokes, a constitutional earthquake in the Safe Supply debate

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