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Lan

@strangetrails.bsky.social
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Wayfarin' stranger and leader of the Rainy Day Boys. 31 circles around the sun. I make art infrequently, I sculpt polymer clay dragons. But mostly I post dog pics. Icon by elidoscope! Pacific Coast Canadian. They/Them.

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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lu @coffinvows.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
harriet and lucius <3
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Aliiwa @aliiwa.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The first Breakfast sketches of the year! #art
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I just love the way you draw faces, so expressive and distinct
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conner fawcett @badbucket.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I helped with some early costume and ship concepts for this!
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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Finally got an update out. Admittedly things aren't really good and Im overtly stressed but what can you do. I appreciate everyone's help so far. gofund.me/de5a32f95
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Donate to Chris Needs Your Help for Medical Care, organized by Chris Chant
Hello, I am Chris Chant, best known under the moniker "Hades". I've been dealing wi… Chris Chant needs your support for Chris Needs Your Help for Medical Care
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I could not, you have an admirably strong constitution! 😭 I keep the soulless provincial government job for the benefits and the pension, but damn if I don't hate the days I come home too burnt out to sculpt
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NanaimoNewsNOW @nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
West Coast General Hospital's intensive care unit in Port Alberni is closed indefinitely due to staffing shortages. Most affected patients are expected to the transferred to #Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
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Port Alberni’s ICU closed indefinitely, patients diverted to Nanaimo
PORT ALBERNI - Island Health cites staff shortages for what it calls a temporary closure of the West Coast Gen...
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Reminds me of every attempt I've ever made at taking one of those panoramic photography shots!
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
😭😭😭 I feel that. Currently watching a silent playthru of Silksong
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Same!!!! I want to explore the cool lore and worldbuilding and storytelling of the dark souls/Bloodborne/Elden ring worlds but. I am BAD. At games. So I guess I'll just watch YouTube summaries 😮‍💨
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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
partner
sketches of a ballet dancersketch of a ballet dancer
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Amaretti* not amaretto dammit
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Oh no I love macarons 😭 and amaretto and wedding cookies.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is also my favourite lighting, it makes everything feel like it's out of a dream!!!
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Progress update on my dog-like dragon sculpting!
Close up of a dragon figurine I am carving, with a combination texture of scales and fur
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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I tabled a petition from Canadians fed up with chronic CRA service failures—especially seniors, rural residents & those without internet. They’re calling for restored in-person help, more staff, fixed tech issues & faster service. Canadians deserve accessible, reliable CRA support.
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MP Johns presents petition calling on government to address chronic CRA service failures
YouTube video by Gord Johns
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Wow that's NONSENSE?! Everything you describe sounds very in line with a potential autoimmune issue, what a terrible PCP. Are you able to switch your doctor at all? (I'm assuming probably not for insurance nonsense reasons but omg)
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is a terrible direction! No data centres - they don't make any jobs anyways, only take them away.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I just gave up and walked away to other things, I will try again in a few hours when I'm less annoyed haha
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I'm starting a small insect commission today. If you'd like a little painting (approx 5 x7"- $150 Cdn) shoot me a DM to get started.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Yes!!! Just loads endlessly then times out, but is fine on my phone app. So annoying.
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Cythrin ⬇️ ↙️ ⬅️ ➕ [ 🐾 ] @cythrin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 18/10/2025
I’ve mentioned this before, but on time we had a troll influx, a lot of them posted AI, so I saw a lot of their posts while doing @aimod.social labeling. Lots of accounts with nasty replies to “blocked post” abandoned their accounts within weeks and even days. The non-blocked ones kept trolling.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is the most important development in the fight for a liveable planet in DECADES, and it comes out at just the right time to enable us to put spotlight and pressure on climate obstruction at the COP30 in Brazil. BRAVO TIMMONS AND CSSN COLLEAGUES!!!!! 🤩🌍🤩
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Aghast at Father's insinuation that they may need a bath
Two dogs, one borzoi and one lab cross, lay snuggled together on a leopard print blanket,  facing the same direction. They look at their dad offscreen to the right, who has just told them they're stinky and need baths. They are both giving him bombastic side-eye of horror at this heinous idea. The borzoi especially looks distressed.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Our investigative folks at the Fifth Estate having been trying for months to get the province to talk about a leak of thousands of Interior Health employees’ personal information, and who was responsible. The response from Health Minister Josie Osborne is not exactly inspirational.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Please cherish the "ears flop every direction like a fancy hat" stage, it comes and goes all too quickly!
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hoping that Canada adopts something similar to the Irish Artists Income project going around!!! Artists deserve not to be poor, but this world feels increasingly hostile to us 😩
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I'm not allowed to have baths until all my surgery incisions have healed completely, only lukewarm temperature showers, and we are moving into PEAK RAINY WINDOW BATH SEASON. I feel personally victimized.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What a tasteless post in the face of all Public Service workers who you refuse to pay fair wages.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
And BC Public Service Members run this province, which they can't do while you and your cabinet ignore and shut out vital Public Service workers because you don't value the ACTUAL workers as much as you seem to value a photo op. PAY PUBLIC SERVICE WORKERS.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
'A human cost to the inaction': BCGEU workers speak out on toll of weeks-long strike | CBC News
For some B.C. General Employees' Union members taking part in job action, the weeks-long pickets and lost wages are making it hard to make ends meet.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
After the super out of touch Instagram post from the laughable BC Finance Minister our resolve is stronger than ever 😤
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Please, if you follow me and you are a resident of British Columbia, consider emailing your MLA to bring the government back to the table for the BCGEU negotiations. We are entering our 7th week on strike, asking for a wage that matches inflation! Support frontline workers! publicworkers.bcgeu.ca
publicworkers.bcgeu.ca
Support B.C.’s Public Sector Workers
From housing to wildfires, B.C. depends on frontline workers. But many are living paycheque to paycheque and considering leaving. A fair deal for workers is how we strengthen public services — send a ...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Paramedics also made my dad walk into an ambulance when he had a crushed vertebrae and wouldn't listen to him about his pain levels even when he told them. :( I'm so sorry, that should never have been allowed. I'm glad it didn't further endanger him!!!
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There are no sick days when you are picketing; if you stay home sick, you will not receive the strike stipend for that day from the union. So my husband is out marching sick in the pouring rain on Thanksgiving Sunday.
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"Build-up (friend or foe)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025 (private collection)
A vintage map of Eastern Ontario with the city of Ottawa & the US border along the St Lawrence River, on which there's a painting of a pile of green, plastic toy soldiers.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Happy to call you my MP, Mr Johns! If only our provincial government could get on the right side of workers in this province, now 😔
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Yama @neonandash.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
doodle from last week | #Art | #OC | #TheNameless |
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Yama @neonandash.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
and another Dusk tonight 💜✨ | #Art | #OC | #TheNameless |
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Justice for all of us who dream of a career in paleontology out of reach 😔
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I love the tar pits fossils especially because even the medium itself that is cleaned off is kept and studied as it's full of microfossils! Soooo cool!
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Both my husband and I are part of the GEU, it's been a very stressful time 🥲
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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
On Friday in Victoria, I stood with BCGEU members & Pres. Paul Finch on the picket line. As a former member, I know strong unions mean fairness, safety & respect. The path forward is a fair deal at the table. Proud to stand with you. #BCGEU #Solidarity #cdnpoli
Photos of Gord with workers on the picket line.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
All this pipeline noise just feels like a convenient media sound clip to avoid confronting his government's shameful treatment of Public Service workers. He fleeced me for my vote, too. Public Service Workers deserve fair wages!
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
You'll also apparently continue to ignore the BC Public Service workers who have been on strike for 7 weeks and without a contract for longer. What about those real jobs? PAY YOUR WORKERS FAIR WAGES.
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Lan @strangetrails.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Please, if you follow me and you are a resident of British Columbia, consider emailing your MLA to bring the government back to the table for the BCGEU negotiations. We are entering our 7th week on strike, asking for a wage that matches inflation! Support frontline workers! publicworkers.bcgeu.ca
publicworkers.bcgeu.ca
Support B.C.’s Public Sector Workers
From housing to wildfires, B.C. depends on frontline workers. But many are living paycheque to paycheque and considering leaving. A fair deal for workers is how we strengthen public services — send a ...
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