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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/01/2026

The irony of ICE detaining and disappearing the original Americans should stop everyone cold. As a Lakota proverb says, when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This system isn’t broken. It’s dead.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/01/2026

Can Any House Truly Be Owned?

Sure, you can purchase this lovely, bespoke ranch house in a scenic neighborhood, but can one actually own anything on this wretched planet we call Earth? Or is everything, like this affordable dream home with a finished basement, eventually reclaimed by the elements as it withers to dust and is lost in the ever-shifting sands of time?

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elcanaco.bsky.social @elcanaco.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is very good for Canadian democracy. We need a strong NDP to put forward solutions to the issues facing Canadians. @ndp.ca #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Canadian legacy media has put Rob Ashton’s name as a competitor in the NDP race to fuck with the race. He is not a contender and I am glad the AI story is out and their shenanigans are exposed. It is between Heather and Avi— choose wisely. #cdnpoli

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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 In a recent poll, Conservatives (who claim to be patriots) show they'd rather bow down to US invaders and kiss the ring of Donald Trump than defend their own country. In other news, water is wet. #cdnpoli #abpoli #AlbertaIndependence #AlbertaSeparation

A screenshot of survey results of a poll discussing the preferred response to U.S. Invasion. The poll question asks: If Canada were ever to face a situation in which the United States used military force against Canadian territory, what do you believe should be Canada's primary response?
Answers choices are:
Don't Know
Avoid military confrontation & make concessions to prevent further harm
Defend itself militarily, even if the odds of success are uncertain
National response:
17% Don't know
24% Avoid
59% Defend
Liberal responses
16% Don't know
11% Avoid
73% Defend
Conservative responses
16% Don't know
47% Avoid
38% Defend
NDP responses
14% Don't know
8% Avoid
78% Defend
Block Quebecois responses
23% Don't know
31% Avoid
46% Defend

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Kay dublya @kaydublya.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The canadian liberals are really just cons of a different flavour at this point the ndp are centrists with a weak-willed leftward leaning I honestly don’t know how these outfits can even begin to help themselves; there’s simply no trusted party for even a mildly progressive voter rn

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Lydia Elder 🇨🇦🍉 @lydiaelder.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As a Canadian I get this. Our “Liberal” party now are the conservatives of 10 years ago & our “Conservative” party are simply Maple MAGA… and our only real left-of-centre party (the “New Democratic Party” or NDP) literally imploded this last election. The names means nothing anymore. 💔

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

why wasn't it bigger news that healthcare covers dental now in canada?? It's called the CDCP and it was expanded to cover everyone from kids/seniors in fucking SUMMER I guess??? if you're canadian, sign up for it, I did, and now all my dental is covered. I might cry. Thank you NDP 🥹

a screenshot from a document that says "PLAN PAYS: 100%" and a coverage start date of January 28th, 2026.

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Not unless Lewis/the NDP can offer some substantive _economic plans_ to support/explain his policy plans. I'm not doubting that he's capable of it, but the NDP never seems to understand that ppl want to hear *how* the things we want are going to be paid for.

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smh85.bsky.social @smh85.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I agree that NDP need to figure what they are, and start fighting for it. Take a lesson from Mamdani, get out talk to people, and actually listen to them. Recognize that there is a whole voting block that is not represented

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Red - Bitter in Glitter @attemptingcosplay.bsky.social · 10/08/2019

Funny how the choice of the colour of my clothes apparently makes the difference between Julian, Valerius and Muriel 🤣 uquiz.com/1pqS0q/who-are-you-most-l…

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I have 50 billion fictional husbands @birbycakes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

you know what. I miss Nadia too. Muriel and Nadia were my fav romances in The Arcana fr...

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Alexia Mohabir 🌸 @woeandgrow.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Portrait sketch studies of some characters from #TheArcana #sketches #sketchbook #fanart

Cropped photo of two pencil portrait sketches of Asra from The Arcana

Cropped photo of two pencil portrait sketches of Julian from The Arcana

Cropped photo of a pencil portrait sketch of Nadia from The Arcana

Cropped photo of a pencil portrait sketch of Muriel from The Arcana

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Oh man, Bluesky allows posting your own gifs now. Fucking. Gamechanger.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

the year is 2050. you ask AI how to wear a suit. the computer spits out info framed as objective facts, even though these are totally made up rules invented by an asian guy in 2025 while he was sitting on a toilet

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I can't answer this question because I actually know something about the history of men's tailoring. The people who wore and made suits came from diverse backgrounds and held diverse views. However, many were pro-immigrant and pro-labor because they were non-Anglo immigrant workers themselves.

I tweeted: "an easy way to dress better in a coat-and-tie is to imagine yourself shopping a store staffed with sales associates like this. would these people recommend blueberry suits? contrast buttonholes? fun monograms? orange colored shoes? fun socks? lululemon ABC chinos? dress sneakers?"

Someone named "Lux Imperii" quote-tweets me, adding: "Astonishing failure to grasp irony.

“Imagine yourself shopping in a store staffed with sales associates like these”

Indeed.

Yes, what sorts of recommendations might these gentlemen make?
What views might they express?
What values might they have?
What tastes?

Wild."

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We should have a Bluesky main character of the day that everyone is nice to, just pick someone and shower them with appreciation.

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GATCHIPON @gatchipon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Gyaru Kneesocks 🩷⭐️ #PantyAndStocking #Newパンスト #NewPSG #Kneesocks

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A lot of things about society suck a whole lot but one of them is that some single person will get filmed being a dickhead and then we’ll spend a full week hyperfixating on them. It’s like the entire internet has pathological rumination.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

these are the two "fashion" outfits men know

Mads Mikkelsenin a gray checked suit, black cardigan, and striped dress shirt.

Mads Mikkelsen in an olive green field jacket, blue jeans, and tan work boots.

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tamm - NEW COMIC ON ITCH RIGHT NOW @tammdraws.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 11,1945

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER

NANCY-DO YOU STILL
CALL SLUGGO
"FUDGEY WUDGEY"

OH, DEAR...
WHERE DID YOU LEARN THAT ?

YOU SHOULDN'T LEAVE YOUR DIARY LYING AROUND

ABBA DABBA ZINGA BIX

W-WHERE DID YOU LEARN THAT??

YOU SHOULDN'T LEAVE YOUR BOOK OF LODGE SECRETS LYING AROUND EITHER

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Vincent @honeyroxket.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Posting this here for those who need it 🌻 [music used; Le Carrousel by James Quinn 💛]

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Vincent @honeyroxket.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Animated someone cupping the mountain man a while ago, posting it here too 🐻💛 - [Character: Muriel from The Arcana]

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Yoneyama Mai 米山舞 @yoneyamamai.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

SSS 2019

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Yoneyama Mai 米山舞 @yoneyamamai.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

SHE WILL　2019

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Yoneyama Mai 米山舞 @yoneyamamai.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

SHE WAS　2019

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Techno Gothic or something look I dunno

Digital painting, a spiky gothic cathedral retro fitted with industrial gubbins

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

(The author is here: bsky.app/profile/andr... )

bsky.app

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/12/2024

oh fucking hell yes

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Isabel Zaw-Tun @izzyzaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT *NOT* TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

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Tubbo @tubbo.tv · 17/11/2024

Thoughts on Arcane without spoilers: I really love the story of the show but the amount of jumping between the different story lines I am finding particularly hard to follow and remember sometime I feel like the show is fighting for my attention even when I have already committed to watch it!

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AzulCrescent @azulcrescent.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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Yoneyama Mai 米山舞 @yoneyamamai.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

00:00:00:00 2019

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Bug Enthusiast 🐝❤️ @idolomantises.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Maybe its just me but if i had a show and someone redesigned my character whether for fun or critique, i'd feel flattered that they'd care enough to do it. Saying you're "fixing" or being flat out cruel to the creators is gross, but i think we can live with artists critiquing each other.

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Bug Enthusiast 🐝❤️ @idolomantises.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Angel's Dilemma

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MichaelCreeper_ @michaelcreeper.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Minecraft Mob Story - Ender Saint Made with @blockbench.bsky.social www.artstation.com/artwork/bgV3qk #Minecraft #MobStory #pixelart

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Tea @teachiisan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Liminal Space #Minecraft

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 24/11/2024

The "do audiobooks count as reading" debate seems to hinge on the idea that reading is an inherently virtuous act. It is not. There are some very bad books and reading them can make you dumb and mean.

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Ben Lyman @benrunsalot.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m convinced the “do audiobooks count as reading?” argument all derives from those mid-90s summer reading pizza challenges. Folks - we’re all in our 30s and 40s now. It’s no longer a competition. Go buy your favorite pie with your adult money and let people enjoy books however they want.

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Pileus Media @pileusmedia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

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