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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨

Acrylic painting of an angry looking white cat staring at the viewer with one paw on a blue vase, about to push it off a mantle.

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Flashback to my wearable Puppet Show ring/bracelet and earrings set. The first pair of earrings are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The stage has a painted scrim and silk curtains. Sterling silver and bronze.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been *before* an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries. The second-best time is *now*. 52/

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 20/08/2026

I'm sorry but "a huge number of NYC cabs now are remaindered EVs running grey market software written by some dude in a garage" is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

To Americans apologizing to random Canadians today: 1. Write down three things you care about in your local community. 2. Find groups dedicated to that cause. 3. Check their website/FB, etc. 4. Determine how you can best help them with their current needs. 5. Go make a difference locally.

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Chris Tihor @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

LAST CHANCE to fix #BillC22 surveillance powers that threaten Canadians' rights and privacy! Major companies and civil society groups are raising the alarm. Demand the Senate #ReformC22 now! 👉 openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky @openmedia.org

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Tell the Senate: Reform Bill C-22

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 19/08/2026

To any normal, reasonable person, it is objectively creepy and bizarre behaviour to send someone to spy on a political opponent during a vacation with her partner, while she is not conducting political or partisan work of any kind, @supriya.bsky.social writes.

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Ford's PCs spied on Bonnie Crombie's beach vacation. That's just creepy

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Take a moment to really look at Vermeer's Milkmaid - the stream of milk, the stillness of the room, the way light plays over every surface in hundreds of tiny, colourful dots. Even the simplest every day moment can contain a world of beauty. 🤍 👁️ id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108369

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Some flowers from the front lawns at the Fairmont Empress. It’s a spectacular show this year - a riot of colour

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity

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Chris Tihor @ironiciconic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Climate change has been so successfully politicized that simply naming its causes can be interpreted as taking a political position. But providing context is not advocacy. It is journalism. When journalism tells us what is happening without explaining why, it leaves an information vacuum."

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Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?

When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfo...

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#Canada #Snowbirds over #YYJ yesterday evening. Two retirees beside us and one of them said “It’s almost like 3D!” Um.

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Watching “Escape to the Country” and loving the fact that in the UK a “modern home” is one built in the 1930s.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 28/07/2026

📚 Why bypass a traditional publisher? At 16, Simone O. Elias chose the open-access route for her 2nd book, PORCELAIN RAGE: A MANIFESTO FOR THE GEN Z WOMAN, making it free & available to everyone through the Internet Archive. Learn more about Elias & the book: blog.archive.org/2026/07/27/s... 🧵

Promotional graphic for a "Porcelain Rage" book talk on August 4th, doors at 5:30pm and talk at 6:00pm, held in person at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF. The event features Simone O. Elias in conversation with writer and podcaster Sonia Mansfield, discussing why Elias wrote a manifesto for her generation and chose to release it as an open access book through the Internet Archive rather than a traditional publisher. The graphic includes photos of both authors, a stack of books, the Internet Archive lectern icon, and the pink-and-green Porcelain Rage cover art.

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Center For Humane Technology @humanetech.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

AI is reshaping the most intimate parts of our lives and eroding our fundamental human capacities in the process. CHT is committed to protecting those capacities. Read our executive director Julie Guirado's letter about the work we're doing on AI and what makes us human: bit.ly/3T7VMuC

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That feeling you’re having about AI? It's telling you something important.

A letter from CHT’s Executive Director

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 17/07/2026

It's very hard not to love @doctorow.pluralistic.net when he gets stuck into something. This video really lays out the AI bubble clearly!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/07/2026

Substack is 100% doing another round of big cash payouts for reputation laundering. A fair number of people accepting that money aren't hurting for it so I'm not clear on why they're doing it. BTW, if you're still on Substack, why, but also, here's a resource to get off: leavesubstack.com

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Real mail that isn’t bills or government stuff? Yes please.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 12/07/2026

People say you can’t love others if you don’t love yourself, but that’s not true Everyone has times when they can’t love themselves. Even then, you can still love someone else deeply If you can’t love yourself right now, please don’t worry One day, you’ll be able to love both yourself and others🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Anyone else taking refuge in this show, lately? Adorable cozy stuff with lots of floof. What's not to love? #MustLoveDogs #CanCon #CanadianTV #Winnepeg #DogRescue

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Must Love Dogs | Official Trailer

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/05/2026

I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”

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Nuha 🌙 نهى @nuhahaha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yup. We’re looking for ANOTHER narrative designer to join our project! Come work on Star Wars!! ✨ www.respawn.com/careers/narr...

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Activating my Irish passport in 10..9..8.. I’d rather live in a place where artists are treated like this, even if that doesn’t include me.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

The coverplate of the book HOOKLAND FRAGMENTS VOLUME ONE by David Southwell featuring a picture of the Ghost Bear of Hookland by Maria Strutz and the following blurb:

I firmly believe David Southwell’s Hookland to be one of the great
imaginative achievements of our age. One that will one day be
spoken of the way Lovecraft’s Mythos is now. Hookland is the
folklore of the county that exists on the edge of our vision, an
unseen but sensed Britain that is at once familiar and strange.
It is the land just to the left of where we live. David’s work is
made even more remarkable by his open invitation for all to
come and play there. Though of course visitors to Hookland
must be wary, the county exacts its price from us all. – R.J.
Barker, award-winning author of bestsellers such as The Bone
Ships and Gods of Wyrdwood.

As a visitor I am more frequently in Hookland than the barrows
and chalk downs of my childhood. – Roger Clarke, best-selling
author of A Natural History of Ghosts.

Hookland is gold standard eldritch world building. – Ian
Simmons, Fortean Times news editor.

This a shimmering place of deep time, cold wars, old gods and
ever renewing mysteries.The heartland and home county of the
restless and the outsider, a lamp glow to welcome the lost, a
pole star for those who dare to step into the dark and follow its
glorious glowing ghostlight. – Rose Ruane. Artist and writer of
Birding and This Is Yesterday.

Hookland has been called many things. Psychic shrapnel
embedded in place. A re-wilding of folklore. The English Eerie
told in strange fragments. According to its creator David
Southwell, nothing in Hookland is made up, just remembered
differently.

Hookland Fragments Volume One offers both an introduction to
Hookland and an exploration of its agenda of re-enchantment
as resistance.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/07/2026

Seen on r/adnd and r/OSR, a 3D build of the 1979 AD&D White Plume Mountain dungeon by u/Robster3000, including the terraced zoo of charmed monsters, the floating stream, the turnstile, and the rotating funhouse corridor oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8215838... www.reddit.com/r/adnd/comme...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sometimes in life you just need to stop and yell in a basket on the sidewalk. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a longhaired tabby kitten sitting inside an overturned basket that is lying on a sidewalk in the sun. The kitten is meowing.

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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

An important update from Compulsion Games.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you are one of the many valuable workers callously laid off for corporate interests today, please consider applying to our hardship fund.

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Ben is Unionized and Writes Stuff @beewubs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

No union employees at Blizzard were impacted by today’s bloodbath—and I sincerely doubt that was because the powers that be think that we’re all vital. Odds are, they wanted easy cuts. Status Quo makes you not easy. The best time to unionize was a year ago. The second best time to unionize is now.

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Made around 1580–1600, this gold pendant was a bridal gift - every inch of it tells you so. At its centre, two clasped hands hold a large diamond, a gesture of union. 💎 👁️ id.rijksmuseum.nl/200114306

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

The photo shows a Lower Paleolithic Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. Likely made by an early neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) population or an alternative Middle Pleistocene hominin species (H. heidelbergensis s.l.). The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to seemingly retain the shell in a central position. The shell’s central display has often been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. A recent study (“The West Tofts handaxe: A remarkably average, structurally flawed, utilitarian biface” by Emily Flanders and Alastair Key) concluded it was likely ‘an average utilitarian tool’ in the eyes of its Acheulean maker, and that the aesthetic intent is assumed by the present-day beholder, and not supported by objective evidence.

Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm. Weight 0.375kg.

Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

New acrylic paint from #Canadian company Kroma! 🇨🇦 I switched to Kroma years ago & will never go back to the stuff I used to buy from the big US company. #NotSorry #Canada #BuyCanadian #supportSmallBusinesses #BuyBC #ArtSupplies #MakeArt #Painting #CanadianArtist

Some jars and tubes of acrylic paint from Canadian company Kroma.

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I feel this. When I was at Aveda, we played 'soothing' music for clients - it was a pre-fab compilation - but one track started with a murder of crows cawing like they were auditioning for The Birds... it always scared at least one client getting a facial LOL

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I once had a month to make something for an art show on Queen St W in Toronto called An Unnatural History. So I wrote a book of faerie tales and taught myself how to bind books and do drypoint copper plate etching because I cannot do anything halfway...

Six tiny etchings of fairies and unusual creatures. Black ink on off-white archival printmaking paper.

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Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

When things are rough, I either lose all inclination to make art, or I am compelled to paint like my life depends on it. This was started two years ago and today I got back to it. It's really hard to photograph!

An abstract painting in pale yellows, greens, greys, blues and purples.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Cats in a boat by Adam Zagorski, 1924. #cats #Caturday

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