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Eloi Champagne

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Chef, direction technique et technologie de production | Head of Technical Direction and Production Technology | ONF/NFB — Art + Vie | Life + Tech — #Art #Animation #filmmaking #XR #VFX #AI #storytelling #science The views expressed are my own.

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Animation World Network @animationworld.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#NFB Brings Gaussian Splats Animation Session to #SIGGRAPH2026, covering Gaussian-based animation workflows, hybrid pipelines and production uses from acquisition through delivery, with examples from NFB works in progress and technical explorations. bit.ly/3QZqNjI #AnimationWorld #VFXWorld
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Eloi Champagne @echampagne.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Great read.
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The Games Industry Doesn’t Have a Talent Problem. It Has an Opportunity Problem.
How the games industry started confusing self-sacrifice with professionalism.
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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Veteran producer Marcy Page's beautiful short 'Virgin Fandango' celebrates women using painstaking animation on Portuguese-style tiles. #MarcyPage #VirginFandango #NFB
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Bela Visão: 'Virgin Fandango' Producer Marcy Page Reveals the Process of Her Tile-Animated Celebration of Historic Women
Veteran producer Marcy Page's beautiful short 'Virgin Fandango' celebrates women using painstaking animation on Portuguese-style tiles. #MarcyPage #VirginFandango #NFB
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Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye.com · 21/04/2026
What’s next for immersive art? This 121-page report I wrote attempts to answer this by listening to what immersive artists have to say. The IDFA DocLab Immersive Think Tank Report is out now, & it's a roadmap to a community-driven, indie XR distribution network. professionals.idfa.nl/stories/idfa...
IDFA DocLab Immersive Think Tank Report: Cross-sector insights and reflections on the future of immersive, AI, and interactive art.
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sodec.bsky.social @sodec.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
📣La SODEC est fière d’annoncer la cohorte de la 10e édition de l’Atelier Grand Nord XR (AGN XR). Félicitations aux participantes et participants de cette édition anniversaire ! 🎬 sodec.gouv.qc.ca?p=46190
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L’Atelier Grand Nord XR dévoile sa cohorte pour célébrer ses 10 ans - SODEC
La SODEC dévoile la nouvelle cohorte de productrices et producteurs francophones sélectionnés pour la 10ᵉ édition d’Atelier Grand Nord XR (AGN XR).
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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Netflix Animation Studios is launching an 110k sq. ft. Vancouver office with 450 full-time staff in a major investment in "Hollywood North." #NetflixAnimationStudios #Vancouver
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Netflix Animation Studios Expands Vancouver Footprint with New 110,000 sq. ft. Office
Netflix Animation Studios is launching an 110k sq. ft. Vancouver office with 450 full-time staff in a major investment in "Hollywood North." #NetflixAnimationStudios #Vancouver
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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Lanny Smoot, one of Disney's most prolific inventors, is the first Keynote speaker announced for SIGGRAPH 2026. #LannySmoot #Disney #SIGGRAPH
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Disney Inventor Lanny Smoot Sets SIGGRAPH '26 Keynote Speech
Lanny Smoot, one of Disney's most prolific inventors, is the first Keynote speaker announced for SIGGRAPH 2026. #LannySmoot #Disney #SIGGRAPH
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate
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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The National Film Board of Canada is making Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Oscar-winning short 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' available to viewers around the world for free! #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls #AcademyAwards #NFB
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NFB Oscar-Winning Short 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' Now Streaming for Free Worldwide
The National Film Board of Canada is making Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Oscar-winning short 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' available to viewers around the world for free! #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls #AcademyAwards #NFB
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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
'KPop Demon Hunters' and 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' Win the Best Animated Feature and Short Oscars
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ Win the Best Animated Feature and Short Oscars
'KPop Demon Hunters' and 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' Win the Best Animated Feature and Short Oscars
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/03/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character,” Tim Wu writes. “That protection is finally starting to weaken.”
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Opinion | Social Media Isn’t Just Speech. It’s Also a Defective, Hazardous Product.
Don’t let the First Amendment arguments fool you.
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (2025) Eerie stop motion animation fable in which a rich old man recounts how he came to be wealthy. The best of the nominees for this year's Best Animated Short Film Oscar. Written and directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
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befores & afters magazine @beforesmag.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
At the VFX Oscar Bake-Off this year, there was an audible 'OMG' gasp from the pro audience at two points in the 'Jurassic World Rebirth' presentation from VFX supervisor David Vickery. They are in this new reel from ILM: beforesandafters.com/2026/03/03/i...
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Nadine Viau @nadineviau.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
A must‑watch! THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, an #NFB stop-motion animated short by #montreal animation duo Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski - via @variety.com #animatedshort #nfb #NFBanimation via @variety.com variety.com/2026/biz/new...
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National Film Board of Canada Champions Animators and Storytellers With ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’
Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski discuss crafting the Oscar-nominated modern stop-motion fable
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all,” Oren Cass writes. “Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences.”
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Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
Regulating the industry is useful. Shaming it is crucial.
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Nadine Viau @nadineviau.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
✨ INTERVIEW – ENTREVUE ✨ 📿 The #NFB animated short 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐬 by 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐤 𝐒𝐳𝐜𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards. 🙏 Thank you to Nick Spake @cartooncontender.bsky.social for this interview!
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Animation Magazine @animag.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Blender Foundation has announced that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron. www.animationmagazine.net/2026/01/netf...
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
In his films, text becomes material: letters blur, scatter, vanish, and take on new life. Japanese animator Ryo Orikasa explains how he transforms literature, poetry, and silence into animated form. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ry...
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Animating Poetry: The Word-Based Films Of Ryo Orikasa
Ryo Orikasa discusses how he transforms literature, poetry, and written language into animated form through text, sound, and silence.
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Radio-Canada Info @info.radio-canada.ca · 22/01/2026
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Oscars : Deux films québécois nommés, un nombre record de mentions pour Sinners
Les courts métrages La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles et Perfectly a Strangeness sont en lice.
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Women in Animation has opened applications for a new online portfolio review program, offering feedback from industry pros to early-career women and nonbinary artists across animation, VFX, and games. The application window is open through Jan 27. www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-right...
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Women In Animation Opens New Online Portfolio Reviews
The program offers live, virtual feedback from industry professionals to early-career women and nonbinary artists across animation, VFX, and games.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’ @mashagessen.bsky.social examines how the President governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force are meant to send. open.spotify.com/episode/78mi... youtu.be/U6DbiSMi6ik?...
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Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’ | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Big news: We’ve partnered with ASIFA-East as the exclusive media partner for the 56th Annual ASIFA-East Animation Festival, one of the oldest in the U.S., where we'll debut the Cartoon Brew Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/asifa...
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ASIFA-East Festival, Cartoon Brew Unveil Media Partnership
We're also excited to announce that we're sponsoring a new honor at the festival, the Cartoon Brew Award for Excellence in Filmmaking.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Please join me in welcoming to the public domain such works as the 1930 Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, several Nancy Drew books, some songs you've heard of (Dream a Little Dream of Me; Georgia on My Mind), and more: blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...
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Welcome to the Public Domain in 2026 | Internet Archive Blogs
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Nadine Viau @nadineviau.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
✨FYC -ANIMATED SHORT FILM ✨ 📿𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐬 (#ONF/#NFB) →By allowing room for experimentation and spontaneity, 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐤 𝐒𝐳𝐜𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢 discovered that mistakes transformed the creative process. 👀 Français → bit.ly/4p791Wo @echampagne.bsky.social @nfb-jennifer.bsky.social
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Anarchists of Animation: How the Creators of The Girl Who Cried Pearls Broke Every Rule—and Made Magic - NFB Blog
Dive into the unique creative process of The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ filmmakers, Lavis and Szczerbowski, who embrace experimentation and spontaneity.
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Animation World Network @animationworld.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
#NFB EP Christine Noël on #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls and Shaping the Future of #Animation - the executive producer discusses Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s #stopmotion film, her support for diverse creators and efforts to sustain the NFB’s legacy of innovation. bit.ly/48yMXOb #AnimationWorld
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/11/2025
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Marco de Blois @marcodeb.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Voici qui est, ma foi, fort amusant : en 1948, soit 40 ans avant l'explosion de l'image de synthèse et 75 ans avant l'IA, on s'inquiétait que l'animation de marionnettes, en raison de sa perfection, pourrait un jour faire disparaître les acteurs en chair et en os... (Parallèle 50, 4 mars 1948, p.5)
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Marco de Blois @marcodeb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Pour célébrer l'Halloween, je vous propose cette pub sociétale de l'ONF, réalisée et interprétée par Grant Munro, sur les dangers du tabac. Rétrospectivement, le propos du film apparait en contradiction avec son objectif, car on apprend ici que la fumée de cigarette élimine les vampires !
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Ashes of Doom
This short film was produced for The Department of National Health and Welfare to warn against the dangers of cigarette smoking. Set against the backdrop of a typical …
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Marco de Blois @marcodeb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Pour prendre la mesure de l'immense talent de Mary Blair, je propose l'ouvrage de John Canemaker qui lui est consacré.
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Matthieu Dugal @matthieudugal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Un texte de 2018 sur Philip K. Dick, assez prémonitoire de #Sora. «The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides [...] inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.»
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans - Boston Review
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
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Eloi Champagne @echampagne.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...
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L’horizon dans une craque
On accuse cette époque d’être trop radicale, alors qu’elle ne l’est en fait pas assez.
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JEAN-FRANCOIS NADEAU @jfnadeau.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Le 4 octobre 1895, naissance du très grand Buster Keaton. The General, son chef-d’œuvre, est une porte d’entrée vers une œuvre qui mérite d’être aussi estimée que celle de Chaplin.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2025
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Corus has halted production at Nelvana, ending a 50-year run that made Canada a global force in animation with classics like 'Care Bears,' 'Babar,' 'Franklin,' and 'The Magic School Bus.' www.cartoonbrew.com/business/cor...
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Corus Halts Nelvana Production After 50 Years Of Storytelling
Debt-hit Corus halts production at Nelvana, ending decades of beloved Canadian animation from 'Care Bears,' 'Babar,' 'The Magic Schoolbus,' and more.
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Marco de Blois @marcodeb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Cet article explique le rôle extraordinaire qu'a joué l'émission Sesame Street pour le soutien à l'animation indépendante et l'émergence de cette dernière. D'ailleurs, au Canada, je sais que Marv Newland a aussi réalisé des vignettes pour Sesame Street.
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create. This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, maybe ever,” writes Adam Aleksic, an American linguist known online as the Etymology Nerd.
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Opinion | The Insidious Creep of Trump’s Speaking Style
The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well.
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Eloi Champagne @echampagne.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying
It's time for a reckoning.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2025
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
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Eloi Champagne @echampagne.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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NFB Tech Maestro Eloi Champagne on the Making of 'Inkwo' | Animation Magazine
NFB Canada's head of tech development/implementation discusses the making of the stop-motion short 'Inkwo' spotlighted at SIGGRAPH
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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A NOTE FROM THE FRONT: THIS EPSTEIN WITNESS' AFFIDAVIT IMPLICATES TRUMP BIGLY - IN FACT IT'S THE BIGGEST, BEST... MOST DISGUSTING And it's been known about for nearly 10 years. 🧵 1/12
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/07/2025
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
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ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
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Ava Laugh… 🤭 @avalaugh.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰 And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….
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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 20/07/2025
Idées | La CAQ multiplie les «spins», mais il y a des limites au nombre de sapins qu’elle peut nous passer.
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En postvérité, je vous le dis
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Chemin de la Côte-de-Liesse | Place à un nouveau quartier sur l’ancien site de l’Office national du film
Après un long processus de consultations publiques, la Société immobilière du Canada dévoile enfin le plan du quartier qui verra le jour sur le site de l’ancien siège social de l’Office national du fi...
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befores & afters magazine @beforesmag.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Wow, this is cool. Sony Pictures Animation and Imageworks along with Yellowbrick have launched a free educational resource called THIS IS ANIMATION! Find out how to sign up at @beforesmag.bsky.social: beforesandafters.com/2025/05/30/t...
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
From one of the greatest stop-motion films of all time: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), dir. Jiří Trnka, Loutkový Film Praha
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befores & afters magazine @beforesmag.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
TOY STORY!! Excited to reveal a really, really cool ‘Toy Story’ 30th anniversary event is happening at SIGGRAPH this year! Also, we can exclusively reveal there will be some special give-aways and surprises on the day for those who attend the screening. beforesandafters.com/2025/05/11/a...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/04/2025
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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