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from the zine

Fierce Pigeon Interview

I caught up with the pigeon who's taking Spunkton by storm for being "fierce" (stylish and confident).

What does a typical day look like for you?
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Is there anything you're really interested in lately?
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[digital art of a pigeon walking]

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first tell probably should have been when Carney renamed the Labour Minister the “Jobs and Families” Minister tbh

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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another political illustration I created

Black and white image. In the background is Godzilla with the torso of Mark Carney. In the midground are dockyards, a train, and an airport. In the foreground are striking workers. Red background.

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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyway, i don’t think we should be using people’s contribution to the economy to determine their value.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026

Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If I was just a little more condescending, I'd start a web series where I sit down with someone who thinks cigarettes are inherently harmful, put a pack of them on the table, and then we sit and wait for it to do something harmful on it's own. 30 minutes of uncomfortable silence. "Any moment now..."

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

CANADA: YOU HAVE A QUARTER OF A MILLION UNHOUSED PEOPLE AND YOU'RE INVESTING TENS OF BILLIONS TO HOUSE _COMPUTERS_? WHAT THE FUCK WENT WRONG WITH YOU, CANADA

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Referring to the harm as being caused by LLMs, when it is caused by people, actually serves to exonerate the people as if they did not make explicit decisions.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yep. Liberals and conservatives are both right wing capitalists. The only real difference is Liberals pretend to be nicer about it while stabbing you in the back. Conservatives stab you in the gut and then spit on your face. Either way you get stabbed.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy.

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ford walked away from an offer to restore travel lanes and keep bike lanes. The RFP makes clear that the province is still targeting EVERY SINGLE METRE of Bloor, Yonge, and University. This wasn't just a ploy to remove bike lanes in Etobicoke. It's an attempt to gut Toronto's entire cycling network.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every wildfire season we hear the same story. But there's a part that's not being told. For millennia, Indigenous nations used fire to prevent catastrophic fires. Then the U.S. spent nearly a century suppressing it.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026

It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 03/09/2026

Technically... It's Still Summer

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 01/09/2026

I don't know if anyone outside of Canada has been following the saga of the island that appeared then disappeared but there has been a big development. It has re-appeared. And that's the top story on CBC News right now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Screenshot of main cbcnews.ca page: Lost island in northern B.C. lake — that appeared then disappeared — located, B.C. Hydro says
Newly formed island found along shore of Williston Reservoir after drifting for 30 kilometres
41 minutes ago
An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir
Used bookstores navigate 'suspicious' bulk orders amid AI book-shredding fears
Canadian booksellers worry buyers are scanning, destroying books to train AI
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To shelve or not to shelve: How the American alcohol response varies widely by province
'That choice to not shelve product, that's been a very powerful symbolic message,' says tariffs expert
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Élections Québec to mail voter information in French only for 1st time in a provincial election
Élections Québec will send voters information documents in French only for the first time in a general election to comply with changes to Quebec's language laws, the agency said in a news release on Tuesday.
Canada -Montreal |
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Schools in Edmonton and across Canada cancel international field trips
Boards are calling off trips due to trade war, unrest, 'evolving global context'
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 01/09/2026

I really enjoyed yelling at how susceptible we all are to wanting to feel like someone is standing up for us, even when that person is defunding healthcare and education, centralizing power and undermining other governing bodies, failing to hit their own housing targets, and racking up scandals.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's rare that they are so explicit in their reasoning. Usually it's the stuff you see in this piece - it costs too much, it won't be used anyway, we have other priorities right now, etc. But the reality is, the only argument against public seating is "we don't want the unhoused to be loitering."

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A lack of seating areas (and public toilets!) is a direct result of hating the unhoused. We live with hostile architecture because leaders refuse to address the homelessness & toxic drug supply. They'd rather just make public spaces less safe & welcoming for everyone. It's bullshit.

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Globe editorial: Big-city life demands a place to sit

Lots of public benches can help make city a place to linger and enjoy, not just pass through

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

GNU Dolly Parton, you truly did leave the world much better than you found it

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/08/2026

That means *we have to set the strong social expectation first.* You must vaccinate to enroll. And then tell the story with it: to protect each other, and ourselves. The science is for people who want to understand how we know, not persuading people who reject the premise

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Carolyn 🇨🇦 @carolynp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Meme from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Doug Ford. Legolas: I’m gonna rip out all the bike lanes. Gimli: Christ alive you’re the worst.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/08/2026

Carney doesn't deserve this credit. He was fully prepared to increase integration with a corrupt, authoritarian regime, at the behest of a Canadian business community with its head up its ass. He only balked when late terms became obviously politically unpalatable.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Orange kitty Benne posing like an odalisque

Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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squirrelgarden.bsky.social @squirrelgarden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Dignity • Science • Integrity • Krill"

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

please

Many people try to misrepresent
"We should make it better and safer for people to bike"
with
"Every person must ride a bike for every situation, everywhere, every single time"
Could we please stop this childish game?
ROVÉLO CREATIVE

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The emergence of Bailey, who grows sunflowers for shade:

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance anymore."

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I was trying to figure out why cavemen sometimes do and sometimes don't drop prepositions. Anyone have a theory? COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/me PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Single-panel SMBC comic update. A caveman with a long beard, a spear and a yellow animal skin on one shoulder speaks to the viewer, saying "Me caveman. Me only have one pronoun refer self. Me not use articles. Me not mark plurals. Me not have copula, subject-verb agreement, or infinitival 'to.' it normal grammar. contain features present in mandarin, russian, latin." The caption below the panel reads "Never hire a linguist to write caveman dialog."

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I love bike share. What an amazing idea. You take a bike wherever and whenever you want. And leave it wherever you want. It’s not the fastest or most fitted bike to you. But it’s incredible flexibility. Bike to transit and not worry about theft. Go for a run and bike back. See rain, take a bike.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

but hey, look what it got us bsky.app/profile/aaro...

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well yes, we caved but hey, look at what it got us bsky.app/profile/cast...

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Well yes, we caved on the Gordie Howe Bridge but hey, look at what it got us

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/07/2026

Sometimes when reading to my kid, a character would do something and she would ask "is that good or bad" and I would explain that's not really the right question. It's a story, they did something. it will affect the story. LLMs are bad at saying "that's not really how to think about it"

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 20/07/2026

This cartoon from @hausofdecline.bsky.social is not about Mark Carney but it’s kind of about Mark Carney 😬

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