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Brian Cole 🇨🇦

@briancole5.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 🍁 Working stiff, amateur photographer, developing activist. I support Israel, Ukraine, Greenland, NATO and Mark Carney. I do not support IRGC, Trump, Republicans, Zuck, Musk or Bezos.

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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 1h
Free education on a variety of topics !
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 3h
Amid the push to build Canadian, a Quebec train factory is booming #Canada Once on the brink of possible closure, Alstom's plant in La Pocatière, Que., is now growing www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'There’s pride in building trains at home': Quebec plant sees a comeback | CBC News
A Quebec train factory battered by years of layoffs is expanding as governments push to buy Canadian. Alstom's La Pocatière plant is hiring and scaling up for major domestic rail contracts, including ...
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Fun Tom @funtomvids.bsky.social · 17h
🔴 I've seen conversations comparing Pierre Poilievre and Jamil Jivani as leaders of the Conservative Party of Canada... The fact is that NEITHER of them are appealing nor acceptable propositions. 🙅🏻‍♂️ The choice is a conundrum. It's like asking somebody whether they'd rather be shot or hanged.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Hockey Sweater is one of the most famous books in Canadian history. The story of a boy who received the wrong hockey sweater from Eaton's has been featured on our currency, gone to space, and been turned into an iconic NFB short. This is the story. 🧵 1/12
Crowded vintage locker-room illustration of children in red-and-blue hockey sweaters tying skates, checking a team roster and chatting amid scattered sticks and helmets, with the book title "The Hockey Sweater" and credit "Story by Roch Carrier, illustrations by Sheldon Cohen."
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 17h
Yup, America has gone backwards by decades.
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NotAllFunnyAndGames @ginamyhill-jones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Disinformation… what is it and how to tell if you’ve fallen for it… And I have a few times. They are HARD at it now, rage bait flying fast and furious….
cyber.gc.ca
How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300) - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300)
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Goodbye to American products. We're done with those.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our money will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, and, eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse.”
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Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Poll: Canadians and Americans agree, Trump was in the wrong with trade war
Americans say President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada aren’t worth higher prices, as Canadians remain in lockstep behind Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a reason why Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has hit a remarkable 70% approval rating and his #tradewar adversary is at rock bottom. One is doing what is best for his country and the other is doing what is worst. Leadership matters in a war, especially when one country trusts its leader.
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Steve the Muppet Wrangler @beardog63.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck no! KD cream soda....this is wrong on so many levels!
A glass of Kraft Dinner cream soda next to its can
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For #MacroMonday we have a bee drinking goldenrod nectar. #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #Canon #R7 #bee #goldenrod #nature #yellow #closeup
Closeup photo of a bee drinking from yellow goldenrod
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1/11 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERVIEWS CANADA'S MARK CARNEY 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney is systematically breaking Canada's reliance on a predatory US. Carney, in a wide ranging interview, meets with NYT reporters. Source: The New York Times #WorldPolitics #CdnPoli #USPol #TradeWar #OSINT
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump...
I imagine that you are always such a huge asshole
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/09/2026
Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq
On the left: a photograph of Alberta’s flag, which features the provincial shield of arms, waving in front of the Alberta Legislature building in Edmonton. On the right: text that reads “Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis.”
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
youtu.be/rqjnGyX3LNo?...
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Introducing Pierre-minem #pierrepoilievre #cringe #ai #conservative #politics #canada
YouTube video by Lisab0923
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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't buy American produce. Another example: Driscoll's sent millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals to Canada and the company tried to cover it up. #BoycottUSA #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you use Facebook or Instagram you are supporting censorship.
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
America, you are getting ripped off, from inside the house. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Amid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumers
Guardian investigation: 7-Eleven and Circle K stores often fail to honor advertised prices – charging more at pump and register for gas, snacks, and other items
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 24/09/2026
Stop texting me, I’m trying to do a MapQuest tutorial!
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Stop texting me, I’m trying to do a MapQuest tutorial!
Stop texting me, I’m trying to do a MapQuest tutorial! 📰 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥: newsletter.todmaffin.com 👕 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛: shop.todmaffin.com 🎙️ 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧: mirrorfalls.com ☕ Help support my work: support.todmaffin.com 🔗 Follow me on social: links.todmaffin.com ✉️ Contact my team: contact.todmaffin.com
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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 24/09/2026
The shooter who targeted a Belleville, Ont., synagogue shouted "you're going to die for the Jews" before he opened fire on a police officer outside. cheknews.ca/belleville-ont-synagogu…
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Belleville, Ont., synagogue shooting was a hate-motivated attack, police say
The shooter who targeted a Belleville, Ont., synagogue shouted "you're going to die for the Jews" before he opened fire on a police officer outside.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And here we go: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...
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Donate to Help Us Rebuild and Secure Sons of Jacob Synagogue, organized by Hadas Brajtman
We need your help to raise $90,000 to make Sons of Jacob Synagogue s… Hadas Brajtman needs your support for Help Us Rebuild and Secure Sons of Jacob Synagogue
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ford can spin and blame the feds all he wants, numbers don't lie. Ontario's staring down a $13B deficit, record unemployment, costs skyrocketing, public services starving.
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Ontario posts deficit as health care, education spending surges
The province reported health-sector investments rose by $6.6 billion, or 7.2 per cent, compared to 2024-25.
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Doug Ford is bankrupting Ontario ! #ONpoli #DougFraud
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump loses ANOTHER court case. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
ctvnews.ca
Judge blocks Trump's ban and says CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have White House access restored
A U.S. judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House grounds, ordering early Thursday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 23/09/2026
OTTAWA – The city council in Canada’s national capital has started the process of renaming a street bearing the last name of U.S. President Donald Trump. 
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City of Ottawa to rename Trump Avenue as trade war continues
OTTAWA – The city council in Canada’s national capital has started the process of renaming a street bearing the last name of U.S. President Donald Trump. 
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ken Danby's paintings were some of the most spectacular of the 20th century. From his hyper-realistic portrait of Gordon Lightfoot, to his iconic At The Crease, his work is known by Canadians coast-to-coast. This is the story of a great Canadian artist. 🧵 1/10
A black-and-white portrait photograph from the 1970s of a man with tousled dark hair, a neatly trimmed mustache and beard, and a thoughtful expression, gazing off-camera. He is seated in a warmly lit wood-paneled room lined with framed artwork, vintage posters, and a wall clock. He wears an open-collared light blue denim shirt, with one hand visible in his lap.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 22/09/2026
These are on sale at the UN gift shop.
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What a buffoon.
Brain of a fucking potato on this guy
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not much changed 🤣 I’m pretty sure they did this to shut him up 🤭 Trump is hailing his new deal with Greenland and Denmark — but a deal already existed. So what changed? The United States signed a security arrangement with Denmark and Greenland in 1951 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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Trump is hailing his new deal with Greenland and Denmark. Here's what's changed from the old agreement | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new security agreement with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Tuesday. But the U.S. already had a security arrangement with the two parties dating back 75 ye...
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He did what? He threatened to annihilate another country, in a speech at the UN ?? They should have thrown him out on his a*s immediately.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canada leaving billions on the table by not processing more crops at home, new agri-food study says The reports suggests that "redirecting just 10 per cent of Canada’s raw crop exports to domestic value-added processing could /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada leaving billions on the table by not processing more crops at home, new agri-food study says | CBC News
Canada could add billions to its GDP and create thousands of jobs if a small slice of crop exports are kept at home for processing in domestic plants, according to a new report.
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you remember hearing radio ads for "The Simple Investor" and "Todd C. Slater"? You won't hear them any more. www.cp24.com/local/toront...
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Ontario real estate investors in limbo as ‘Simple Investor’ property firm suspends payments
Hundreds of real estate investors in a company run by a media-savvy realtor that owns dozens of buildings across Ontario got a shock over the weekend when they were told their rent payments are in lim...
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The kids are fighting. techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Meta's AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com | TechCrunch
Muse isn't welcome as a shopper anymore.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tell me again that Trump isn't working against the West.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nik Nanos: "To see Harper, for all intents and purposes, endorse the strategy of the federal government is a killer for Pierre Poilievre. What's Pierre Poilievre supposed to say other than nothing?" #cdnpoli
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Holy crap. www.intelligencer.ca/news/bellevi...
intelligencer.ca
Belleville police officer, suspect hospitalized after synagogue shooting
An armoured Belleville Police vehicle was also dispatched while police launched aerial drones scanning backyards across the neighbourhood.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
People aren’t buying what Trump’s selling on his own social media platform these days. Brutal.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBaa...
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Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ukraine pounded Russia. www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...
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Ukraine fires over 1,000 drones at Russia, including hundreds launched at Moscow
Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of i...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join the rallies against Doug Ford being held across Ontario. September 26. Find your community listed below.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The funniest thing about Poilievre's response, 'Mark Carney doesn't get it' — actually, you don't get it. This instinctive ideological aversion to Europe as though we're suddenly all going to be forced to speak Flemish and wear wooden shoes. It's ridiculous and out of step with where people are at"
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gift link in case you missed it “Trump is playing chicken with a mirror and calling the approaching collision a victory.” www.autonews.com/opinion/colu...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: The global energy crisis is escalating. Saudi Aramco has told at least two European oil refiners they will receive no Saudi crude next month following attacks on the kingdom’s main pipeline to the Red Sea, Bloomberg reports.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Photograph, scrape them off the trees, along with their eggs, put them in a bag and notify CFIA. The invasive spotted lanternfly has been detected in Canada for the first time – in Windsor The fly is known to kill grapevines and impact other crops and trees www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The invasive spotted lanternfly has been detected in Canada for the first time – in Windsor | CBC News
An invasive insect known to kill grapevines and impact other crops and trees has been detected for the first time in Canada by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). And that first detection happ...
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Brian Cole 🇨🇦 @briancole5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only is this Trump's next move to screw with the midterms, but this article also shows how Howard Lutnick is destroying the Commerce Department and the Census Bureau. www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/p...
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Trump’s Commerce Secretary under pressure to use his powers to block voting machines | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s election fraud crusade has an unlikely new vehicle: the Commerce Department.
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Highly recommend you read the whole speech, built on the metaphor of strong, resilient trees (a reference close to my heart). The man know how to deliver a speech. He begins with Goethe’s oak, then this: “Canada and the European Union can anchor our ground . .
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Prime Minister Carney delivers an address to the European Parliament
Thank you for granting me the honour of addressing you all at the beginning of this decisive session.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16/09/2026
LAST CHANCES TO MEET EFFIN’ BIRDS IN 2026: Sept 18-20 Edmonton Expo Sept 24-26 FanX Salt Lake Oct 17 The Toronto Shitshow Nov 21-22 VA Comicon Details at effinbirds.com/appearances Keep your eyes on that page for my 2027 appearances, coming soon!
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Appearances
A daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and...
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