@eritskes.bsky.social
Writer, editor, taker of pictures. Dad of four.
Living on Unceded Quw'utsun lands (Vancouver Island).
Living on Unceded Quw'utsun lands (Vancouver Island).
More than 100 killed or wounded in just the latest "wave" of attacks...
How in the world can anyone call this a ceasefire with a straight face?!
How in the world can anyone call this a ceasefire with a straight face?!
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli attacks also wounded 77 people, fuelling panic across the war-ravaged enclave.
Israel kills at least 28 Palestinians in wave of Gaza ‘ceasefire’ attacks
Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli attacks also wounded 77 people, fuelling panic across the war-ravaged enclave.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
More than 100 killed or wounded in just the latest "wave" of attacks...
How in the world can anyone call this a ceasefire with a straight face?!
How in the world can anyone call this a ceasefire with a straight face?!
This Hoekstra guy is a blowhard and a bully. So, it makes sense that he works for the tangerine terror.
Instead of airing more ads, let's kick him out of Canada and see if he and his boss get the message we're sending that way....
#cdnpoli
Instead of airing more ads, let's kick him out of Canada and see if he and his boss get the message we're sending that way....
#cdnpoli
The initial ad prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend trade negotiations with Canada.
globalnews.ca/news/1153333...
globalnews.ca/news/1153333...
U.S. envoy warns Canada to ‘seriously consider’ avoiding anti-tariff ads | Globalnews.ca
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra took aim at the Ontario government-funded ad campaign that aired in the U.S., saying the timing of the ads amounted to political interference.
globalnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This Hoekstra guy is a blowhard and a bully. So, it makes sense that he works for the tangerine terror.
Instead of airing more ads, let's kick him out of Canada and see if he and his boss get the message we're sending that way....
#cdnpoli
Instead of airing more ads, let's kick him out of Canada and see if he and his boss get the message we're sending that way....
#cdnpoli
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
As a constituent, I have similar question for these four counselors:
#northcowichan
www.sixmountains.ca/article/7ef7...
#northcowichan
www.sixmountains.ca/article/7ef7...
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
As a constituent, I have similar question for these four counselors:
#northcowichan
www.sixmountains.ca/article/7ef7...
#northcowichan
www.sixmountains.ca/article/7ef7...
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Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yet again we’re being warned that if we ask billionaires to pay their fair share of tax they might leave. So it’s definitely worth trying.
The ancients had intricate forms of torture to break your mind. Today, we use the @telussupport.bsky.social AI bot to drive people mad and break their mind and spirit....
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The ancients had intricate forms of torture to break your mind. Today, we use the @telussupport.bsky.social AI bot to drive people mad and break their mind and spirit....
I was having a tough day and this absolutely, instantly had a smile on my face as I watched it. Brilliantly fun & talented.
In the age of AI garbage, the joy, creativity & talent in this video is so incredible.
Losers "prompting" AI music will never, ever understand.
Losers "prompting" AI music will never, ever understand.
Disco-Daddy Funk Band Covers Alice In Chains On The Spot (Ft. The Free Label)
YouTube video by Musora
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November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I was having a tough day and this absolutely, instantly had a smile on my face as I watched it. Brilliantly fun & talented.
Some thoughts on Quw'utsun resurgence and food sovereignty.
My reflections on the Island Indigenous Food Gathering that I had the honor of witnessing and photographing this past month.
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#cowichanvalley #quwutsun
My reflections on the Island Indigenous Food Gathering that I had the honor of witnessing and photographing this past month.
www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
#cowichanvalley #quwutsun
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Some thoughts on Quw'utsun resurgence and food sovereignty.
My reflections on the Island Indigenous Food Gathering that I had the honor of witnessing and photographing this past month.
www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
#cowichanvalley #quwutsun
My reflections on the Island Indigenous Food Gathering that I had the honor of witnessing and photographing this past month.
www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
#cowichanvalley #quwutsun
Quw'utsun youth learning how to fish for salmon with traditional spears.
#cowichanvalley #cowichanriver #quwutsun
#cowichanvalley #cowichanriver #quwutsun
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Quw'utsun youth learning how to fish for salmon with traditional spears.
#cowichanvalley #cowichanriver #quwutsun
#cowichanvalley #cowichanriver #quwutsun
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Remembrance Day is EXACTLY the day to be loudly and unashamedly against creating a military war machine
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Remembrance Day is EXACTLY the day to be loudly and unashamedly against creating a military war machine
No idea who this guy is, but after reading this short blurb I'm ok if he is the one we're going to have to sacrifice....
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
No idea who this guy is, but after reading this short blurb I'm ok if he is the one we're going to have to sacrifice....
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Hamas condemns Israel’s “daily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.
Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount
Hamas condemns Israel’s “daily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hamas condemns Israel’s “daily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.
Local Duncan MMA gym owner attending a neo-nazi event this summer.... 👀
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Local Duncan MMA gym owner attending a neo-nazi event this summer.... 👀
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
And Canada is intently focused on moving closer to American models rather than European ones.... #cdnpoli
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
And Canada is intently focused on moving closer to American models rather than European ones.... #cdnpoli
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For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
Loving and Protecting Us — Interrupting Criminalization
A resource for people interested in and working to develop abolitionist crisis response rooted in transformative justice. This offering aims to help demystify a few things about how we develop, think ...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them.
Read it here:
Read it here:
Got a couple days away in beautiful Sooke. So many beautiful places to experience on the Island.
#vancouverisland #experiencevancouverisland
#vancouverisland #experiencevancouverisland
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Got a couple days away in beautiful Sooke. So many beautiful places to experience on the Island.
#vancouverisland #experiencevancouverisland
#vancouverisland #experiencevancouverisland
I obviously don't know them all, but with his shameless and endless fan-boying for the police and Bitcoin, Sim has to be a top candidate for worst mayor in Canada?
Here's my interview and podcast with Ken Sim on the 2026 Vancouver budget, a breakdown of the cuts and increases, and what he says to people who think he gives the VPD a blank cheque.
'I'm proud of this one': Mayor Ken Sim talks budget with $50 million more for police amid property tax freeze | CBC News
In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze, and $50 million more for police, balanced by major cuts to arts, culture, community ...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I obviously don't know them all, but with his shameless and endless fan-boying for the police and Bitcoin, Sim has to be a top candidate for worst mayor in Canada?
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“Nothing has improved in Gaza… Medicine is still blocked. Even food has not changed.
“We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.”
Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
“We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.”
Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
‘Truce is just a name’: Israel has killed more than 220 Gazans since start of ceasefire, Palestinians say
Next phase of peace plan not moving forward, with remains of seven Israeli hostages still unaccounted for
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“Nothing has improved in Gaza… Medicine is still blocked. Even food has not changed.
“We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.”
Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
“We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.”
Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Wait, hold up, Zohran is the son of THAT Mamdani?!?! How am I just hearing about this now???
For real, dude's got some serious vibes and knows how to work the internet. Hope he can get some of the work done too, definitely going to be watching how it all plays out.
For real, dude's got some serious vibes and knows how to work the internet. Hope he can get some of the work done too, definitely going to be watching how it all plays out.
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Wait, hold up, Zohran is the son of THAT Mamdani?!?! How am I just hearing about this now???
For real, dude's got some serious vibes and knows how to work the internet. Hope he can get some of the work done too, definitely going to be watching how it all plays out.
For real, dude's got some serious vibes and knows how to work the internet. Hope he can get some of the work done too, definitely going to be watching how it all plays out.
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
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O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!