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Catherine 💖💜💙

@handsomemango.bsky.social
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Collage artist, cat parent, maker of cool pinback buttons (on Faire and Etsy). Founder Bi+ Arts Festival. Into bi+ history, vegetarian cooking, live music, weird films, corgis, dachshunds, and observing everyday life in downtown Toronto.

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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Getting busy with market prep. Tomorrow is a small event with the OPS Pride Network and November 1st I’ll be at the Tranzac for the Rendezvous with Madness night market. Come say hi - I’ll have loads of new buttons and stickers.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Friends! There’s still time to bid on various goodies at our silent auction in support of the Bi+ Arts Festival. www.32auctions.com/biartsfestival2025
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Dorianne Emmerton (she/her) @dorianne.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
#Toronto! Celebrate great work by bi+ writers this Friday! Fantasy, realism, poetry, and more! Featuring: Kamila Rina; Kathy Friedman; J.M. Frey; Jacqueline Chia; Sanchari Sur; and Rachel A. Rosen. In the atrium at the new Glad Day Lit venue at 32 Lisgar, 6:30 pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/bi-arts-fe...
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Bi+ Arts Festival Author's Showcase
Featuring poetry and fiction by fantastic bi+ authors.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Happy to help raise $$ to pay #queerartists at this years Bi+ Arts Festival. Cool stuff to bid on including some of my stickers and a new tshirt! #bipride #bisexual Bid at www.32auctions.com/biartsfestiv...
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Dorianne Emmerton (she/her) @dorianne.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Bi+ Arts Festival fundraising auction has amazing items from local #Toronto businesses. Drag brunch, party tickets, gift certificates, craft workshops, 1:1 sessions with queer artists, books, zines, & more. New items daily! All $$ raised goes to pay artists. www.32auctions.com/biartsfestiv...)
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2 tickets to Nightwood Theatre
Auction item '2 tickets to Nightwood Theatre' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I wish!
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Off tonight to see #alabamashakes at Budweiser Stage. What should I wear? It’s gonna be 10 Celsius when the sun goes down. Brrrrr.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
My cat, Luna, enjoying Top Boy on Netflix.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Everywhere is a bit different. In NYC if you wanted a double double you’d order a “light and sweet.” How do you order #coffee where you live?
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Thank you!
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Hey friends- translation pls- when they say “white coffee two sugars” (in a UK tv series) is the same as our (Canadian) double double?
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sugar factory! Gobbling up the sugar with a big scoop. Such a delight to watch.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I’m at the beach! (Sugar Beach which is right downtown Toronto for those not in the know). It’s one of my fave places. I like to sit here and watch them unload the sugar from the tankers. #yyz #toronto #selfcare
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ordered samples of two new tees I’ve listed on Etsy. I’m dying, just dying of laughter. What do you think?
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
And from another angle.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Rearranged living room coming along nicely. Might sound weird but rearranging and painting is one of my mental health coping strategies. I look on it as a fresh start.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Might have to watch some baby hippo antics to cheer myself up
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
In a half assed attempt to fend off feeling like a loser (ie my business tanking because of no longer having access to the US market which was about 60 percent of my Etsy and 90 percent of my wholesale customers) I decided to rearrange the apartment. I’m now in the what fresh hell is this stage.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Truth.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Settled in with Breaking Bad and wanted to enjoy a nice Coke Zero (woohoo living a wild life) but arthritis (?) and a fibro flare (? or whatever this is) means I can’t get the bottle open. At all. Hands not working correctly. :(
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Happy 32nd wedding anniversary to my sweet sister @frannymacster.bsky.social and her husband (let's call him mr. anonymous i don't think he's on this platform). xoxo love you both! Let me dig out some photos.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Stop calling me out! #adhd life
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Is she actually a #vampire? I think the answer is pretty clear. (Also, Breaking Bad in the background, my go to when I’m low on spoons). Negotiations with the cartel in progress. :)
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Got my govt issued official non-driver ID in the mail today - and as I opened it I thought, I hope I don’t look like a turnip. Happy to report no resemblance.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A weekly roundup: I made lots of buttons, met a cute dog, got my 5 year cancer checkup, and experimented with making DIY collage kits. Hanging in there.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Outside Dupont north metro
Sandwich man posters next to Dupont circle metro stop
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Relatable. Also can we change a few nights a week to once or twice a month. And kinda depressing tbh cos this #spoonie life is lonely.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Oh the joy of being dizzy all the time - the sheer number of things I’ve either dropped or tripped over in the last short while is boggling.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And I quote Doug Ford (a rare instance) — “the cheese slips off the cracker” I’m definitely gonna start using this phrase.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
It's a laugh / cry / laugh moment. She understood the assignment.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I can report that cake was nibbled on. Lesbians, not nibbled on (at least not by me). It was nice, even if it took 25+ minutes in line to get a drink. Saw an old friend I have not seen since pre-Covid lockdown days. I might go back. For Toronto peeps, it's Cake Cabaret at Danforth and Pape.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Well, fuck.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
From James Clear's 3-2-1 newsletter - "Life is always progressing to the next stage. As you enter a new season, habits that previously served you well may need to be refreshed or adjusted. Which one of your current habits have you outgrown and is in need of a change?"
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Off to an event tonight featuring two of my favourite things: lesbians + cake. I’ll report back later :)
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Do you know any high end gays? I love this character so much.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you need some music to heal you, lift you up and give you a wee bit of hope - can’t go wrong with this set, still magical 4 years on. youtu.be/H2I6V0NlaHg
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Fred again.. - Studio Live (London, April 2021)
YouTube video by Fred again . .
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Whenever I get a delivery I tell Luna “hey bebe, I ordered you a box” so she thinks it came specifically for her. #sneakycatmom
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Duris Non Frangor 📎 CAntiFa🍁 @a-witty-twit.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Polite as Fuck... 🇨🇦
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just a little PSA for my Canadians.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Just entered a giveaway for a years worth of ice cream (and a canoe). Wish me luck! Peak Canada here, eh?
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My sister reports smog/forest-fire-hangover skies in Ireland, from the same prairie fires giving us bad air in Toronto. It’s wild but also a great reminder of our interconnectedness. #smog #airquality #forestfire
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Got a box of old magazines from the 1950s on FB marketplace and totally loving the old ads.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Should add, sorry wasn't clear, this is number of pumpkins in attendance at a pumpkin parade. Not at a summer BBQ. :-)
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Was looking up how to book a BBQ at a city of Toronto beach, and found this gem of info. Here's page two of the city's application form. I'm dying laughing. The city takes their pumpkins seriously.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Been sick all week which means lots of naps, tylenol, and all five seasons of Breaking Bad. Do you have a fave series to watch when under the weather?
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
How old am I?? This old.
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
good morning to all my brain-addled humans - this weekend has been super challenging with brain fog and fatigue - lots to do but can't remember how to do stuff - ie texts to answer but i don't know where to find the messages on my phone so i can respond. #brainfog #amconfused #verytired
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Catherine 💖💜💙 @handsomemango.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Spot the cat bookshelf edition
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