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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 01/10/2026

Summoned by the gonging, Professor Crutchfeld stepped into the clearing. The little caterpillars had done well this time in their offering.

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 29/09/2026

it’s really underappreciated how utterly sane and reasonable canadian courts are, especially when the case involves a question of human rights

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 29/09/2026

Key Parts of Canada’s Drug Laws Found Unconstitutional as Judge throws out Charges Against Founders of Vancouver ‘Compassion Club’ DULF co-founders won’t go to jail as Supreme Court judge rules CSDA violates members’ “right to life and security” pressprogress.ca/key-parts-of...

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Key Parts of Canada’s Drug Laws Found Unconstitutional as Judge throws out Charges Against Founders of Vancouver ‘Compassion Club’

Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) co-founders won’t go to jail as Supreme Court judge rules CSDA violates members’ “right to life and security”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

It will certainly show what our ancestors would be thinking if they were alive today. People have often speculated about this. Would they approve of modern society, they ask, would they marvel at present-day achievements? And of course this misses a fundamental point. What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?”

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

“But there are causes worth dying for,” said Butterfly.
“No, there aren’t! Because you’ve only got one life but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner!”
“Good grief, how can you live with a philosophy like that?”
Rincewind took a deep breath.
“Continuously!”

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh. mygod. 🧵, still in progress we're all rooting for the self-governing collective of LHR-PDX

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨 SNAP ELECTION OFFICIALLY CALLED FOR OCTOBER 24 🚨 Conservatives and CentreBC will be holding a joint press conference soon Other further right members of the Conservative caucus have been told they won’t be able to run with them. THE POLITICS ARE POLITICKING MORE THAN THEY’VE EVER POLITICKED

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perhaps if the world is perfect and beautiful, we'll get Brodie splitting the right wing vote with candidates from CPBC *and* CentreBC, and we could even elect an NDP MLA off of that! (Only if the world is perfect and beautiful, of course)

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Like, let's be real, if we've got even one other right wing candidate in our riding, especially one with party backing, she's just not gonna get the votes she needs. Now, as a leftist, am I happy about having a right wing MLA? Absolutely not, but it's very easy to be a better MLA than Brodie.

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Honestly, I think the funniest thing about a snap provincial election being called, at least for the residents of Vancouver-Quilchena, is that we just did a whole fucking recall campaign for Dallas Brodie, and now we're getting rid of her anyways, with no additional work on our end lol.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

"emma frost thinks miss piggy is the most magnificent creature alive" completely tracks actually, this is perfect

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the police seize drugs now. this is wildly stupid

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When I was thirteen, my marching band did a medley of three Macklemore songs (Thrift Shop, Can't Hold Us, and Same Love), and it was genuinely a good time! They were fun songs to play!

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Mikey Says Hey! @erlking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is very, very important to sign, but PLEASE note: they email you after you've signed it, and you need to click the link in the email to verify your signature for it to be recorded!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job!

Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Be sure to follow @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social ‬if you enjoyed this comic!

In the early days of the movement when machines were found destroyed, people would joke "Ned Ludd is back!

The secret union ran with it, now they were the Luddites. I don't think people recognize how fucking FUNNY it is a massively popular social movement named themselves after a joke. FUN FACT!: There's recorded instances of the police actually searching for 'Ned Ludd', criminal leader of the Luddites, in Sherwood forest. Some even claimed to have glimpsed him. Cops were really smart back then.

In Ludd's sights was Enoch Taylor of Marsden, West Yorkshire. The Taylors built machines for the textile mills that abused their workers. Luckily, the Taylors also made Sledgehammers.

"Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them!" I sweat this stuff writes itself.

William Horsfall, a Marsden factory owner, once boasted that he would love to "ride up to my saddle in luddite blood!", Horsfall was later assassinated by Luddites, during an altercation in which he reportedly received a "groin injury". In history's greatest L, a rich guy talked shit about murdering Luddites, until they shot him in the dick to death.

Mills were being stormed by hundreds or sometimes thousands of protestors, the movement was GROWING. A spectre haunted England - the spirit of Ned Ludd. To the rich the answer was clear- kill all the luddites you can before people figure out they have a point. In 1812 Parliament found the time to pass an 'emergency measure": the Frame Breaking Act which made smashing machines punishable by death. The tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to deal with Luddites in mills and factories across the country. This was a sizable amount considering Britain was CURRENTLY FIGHTING NAPOLEON.

Parliament happily went to war against British Luddites when they were supposed to be fighting actual wars. In 1813 17 luddites were hanged in a day, with more than 14 sentenced to be transported to Australia which was even worse than that. Historians view this as the point major Luddite activity started to die down.

A portrait of goofy, crown wearing Ned Ludd, covered in weaponry used upon him in a 1700s art style.

"But here's the problem: they couldn't kill Ned. You can't kill people's ability to question how the benefits of automation have been distributed. He's still out there. And One day he'll be BACK."

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Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!

I bet you're wondering: "how did Harry trick Iron Circus into letting him write a pro-luddite story for their anthology about technology?" Well, I'll tell you. Because the Luddites weren't against technology! They were for a world where this technology improved people's lives. A new machine replacing thousands of jobs should be a good thing!

A world where people are freed to do more and better! Instead, it's mostly good for whoever saved money firing all those workers. The Luddites simply observe earlier than most that it doesn't have to be this way. We didn't even make the work holding the world together less back breaking, we just exported that work somewhere else. This is the capitalist version of progress: people doing shitty jobs for no money. But elsewhere where you don't see it.

When people question the way technology is being used - feel their opportunities and autonomy getting smaller - the world luddite gets dusted off for reuse. When the used states took Microsoft to court for being a monopoly and illegally crushing their competition, Microsoft's lead attorney John Warren called it: "Not really an antitrust case but a return of the luddites, 19th century reactionaries who... went around smashing machines with sledgehammers." Microsoft lost incidentally.

But the sentiment is clear: criticism of the future modern tech giants are building, even their crimes, is opposing progress itself. But the reality is people are still being looted by factory-masters. The industrial revolution massively increased productivity, but the profit from doing so went directly to the hands of the Owners. Take the same measurements of the 20th century's innovations and what do you get? The extremely simple truth - that it doesn't have to be this way - is terrifying if you benefit from the way things are now. An old ghost starts to feel close at hand.

So have a little sympathy for the owners of the world. It's a scary time for them too. They're really panicking. (listed is several headlines of Union-targeting actions by multi-billionaires and their accessories)

Companies the world over have spent hundreds of millions trying to stop unionization efforts. Soon it might even be cheaper to just pay people more. Amazon even tried to ban words like 'injustice', 'compensation', and yes, 'UNION', from their internal apps. They must be vigilant - the old ghost cannot be killed. Only kept at bay.

Looming over Elon Musk, who the writer of this alt text truly hates, Ludd brandishes his sledgehammer with glowing red eyes. Elon looks like he doesn't know what to do without hundreds of thousands of people willing to get hurt for his money or acknowledgement.

"--We used to shoot these people in the dick."

Thank you for reading this comic! Be sure to always take your scheduled breaks. Do not let some 50+ year old slug tell you that you aren't "a team player" because you are not letting them take just a little more. Each break and benefit you get to take is written in blood, and you're only pissing off those who came before you and making someone who isn't paying you smile by doing extra.

Want to read more of Failure to Launch? we've got that here: https://store.ironcircus.com/products/failure-to-launch

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

They had axes, too. But the thing glared at them and asked:
“Where’s . . . My . . . Cow?”
They backed away.
“Is that my cow?” the creature demanded, stepping forward unsteadily. It shook its head sadly.
“It goes Baaaa!” it wept. “It is . . . a sheep . . .”
Then it fell to its knees, clenched its teeth, turned its face upwards, like a man tortured beyond his wits, beseeching the gods of fortune and the tempest, and screamed:
“No! That! Is!! Not!!! My!!! Cow!!!!!”

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why yes, I *am* from a city in Southern Ontario. (Despite having lived the majority of my life in BC now)

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This immediately clocked me based on my hometown lmao

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m @mjjii.com · 03/09/2026

i don’t want money. i want people to see my silly drawings and read my silly stories

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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m @mjjii.com · 31/08/2026

read my zine for free mjjii.com/nervous you won’t regret it. probably

They Put a Hat on Me,
Pardner
Pardner. My dearest pardner. I write to you with a great sadness in my heart.
I was resting my eyes, ever so briefly. Minding my own business. I felt a pressure upon me. A terrible and oppressive pressure.
The pressure was an awful object. The long-limbed creature who lives in my home placed it so close to my precious head.

[drawing of a crying cat with a cowboy hat on his head]

I Have Never Eaten in My Life
Greetings dear reader. My name is Rusty. I am eight months old and have never eaten in my life.
There is food here. So much food. Only the creature with bizarre-looking paws may unlock it.

[drawing of a crying kitten]

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Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

normal shoujo 💫 kianamaiart.store

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The fully animated and colored ‘Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl’ pilot by @kianamai.bsky.social will release next Friday, September 4th.

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also get to fuck with your "government of England" bullshit. If you want people to take your opinions on international politics seriously, maybe you should actually learn how other countries work, and what their governments actually look like.

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As if Canadian citizens aren't *already* critical of our government and the decisions and actions it's taking both nationally and internationally. But when the nation we share a border with, who's in fact incredibly dependent on *our* exports, starts threatening our existence? Yeah that's a problem

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dude, people aren't mad at you for pointing out that other countries have also done horrible shit. We're mad at you for calling us a fucking "vassal state" of the US as if that's *ever* been the fucking case, and implying that our disdain for the US is purely self-protective.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

if only a nearly-decade-younger version of me had made a comic I still love with advice that applied to this exact situation

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

queen of hearts 💔

a stylized 3d render of dolly parton playing the banjo. the queen herself.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I feel like this must have been done at some point, response poems are a storied tradition, but anyway I wrote "Margaret, Bringing Fresh Flowers" today and thought I'd share

Uncle Gerard, do you remember how,
when I was a kid, you found me crying
and I told you it didn't seem fair how all the nice leaves
had to die in the winter when I loved them so much;
and you told me, well, it gets worse from here,
and besides, it's not really the leaves,
you're a smart kid, they'll be back next spring,
but in the meantime you're right of course,
all kinds of things are going to die
and die and die and die and die and die,
your whole life, and it doesn't get easier,
it gets harder, because eventually you realize
all those dead hands go down pointing a finger at you,
and that's actually why you're sad, see,
because in a sense you're next,
even if it takes a while for next to get here?
And do you remember
how I said, Jesus Uncle Gerry,
can't a person be sad for a tree sometimes,
just sad about a tree?
Well, anyway,
you were probably right,
and you know this already,
because I tell you this every time I come here
but I suspect it's harder to remember things
where you are now
so I'm telling you again,
just in case.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 23/08/2026

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

boy howdy this storm

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A Hobbyist Bear @thehobbyistbear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Same story, different perspectives methinks.

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

nirvanna the band the show the fanart

a stylized (semi-cubist) render of the main characters matt and jay of nirvanna the band the show

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Jhonen V @jhnenvee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Good luck.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.

Threads post "And then for no reason, no reason at all, they made us all learn how to play the recorder"

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Pat Stares At FOREVER @patstaresat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This being the only image I can see is just fucking magical

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Here’s my video on Ken Sim’s plebiscite announcement today. I asked the mayor for a *specific law* that he wanted changed and strengthened if this passed, and I encourage you to watch for his answer.

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Concert in the Egg

a stylized 3d render/study of a painting attributed to a follower of Hieronymous Bosch. it depicts a large egg with a bunch of people inside, some playing instruments, some apparently arguing, some just standing around.

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Jacob Zelman @zelmannnn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Heads up, the alt text for the third image is incorrect. It's the same text as the first image.

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