Felix
@felixbc.bsky.social
Graphic designer and photographer, Victoria BC. 🇨🇦
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
Ah yes, the famous Homer, active between 1870 and 1930.
And that’s not the Iliad, at any speed.
And that’s not the Iliad, at any speed.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Ah yes, the famous Homer, active between 1870 and 1930.
And that’s not the Iliad, at any speed.
And that’s not the Iliad, at any speed.
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"the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude."
“I do understand: you want permission... You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it.”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude."
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Krugman: The Big Smirk open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Big Smirk
The cruelty is the point, party edition
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Krugman: The Big Smirk open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Wow. Just Wow. 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Wow. Just Wow. 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
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Love a day that turns sunny despite the forecast. Walk with doggo to the local park.
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Love a day that turns sunny despite the forecast. Walk with doggo to the local park.
Lunchtime drama. 🚲 After work rides are now in the dark, brrrr. Time to switch them up.
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Lunchtime drama. 🚲 After work rides are now in the dark, brrrr. Time to switch them up.
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Canada will remember.
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Canada will remember.
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.
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Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
(It wasn't until Jeff and Ann VanderMeer were working on their anthology The Weird that I learned that "onions" is a typo. Either Jeff or Ann mentioned to me that Barker asked them to fix the typo that had haunted the story in countless reprintings, incl in their own earlier antho The New Weird.)
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."
Good thread. Watching him lie fluently to the podcast dudes was surreal, but sure, authenticity.
1. Graham Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who’s running for the United States Senate in Maine. He’s trying to knock off Susan Collins. He’s presented himself as a common-man candidate who stands against oligarchy, genocide and the oppression of the little guy.
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good thread. Watching him lie fluently to the podcast dudes was surreal, but sure, authenticity.
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My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
We are living in hell.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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The whole East Wing is gone
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The whole East Wing is gone
The pouring rain this weekend let up and suddenly it was sunny. Bike ride ensues 🧡💙🍂 Surprisingly had the boardwalk at Swan lake to myself (walked that bit).
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The pouring rain this weekend let up and suddenly it was sunny. Bike ride ensues 🧡💙🍂 Surprisingly had the boardwalk at Swan lake to myself (walked that bit).
I saw these jewels just a few months ago (like about a million other people). I did wonder if they were fakes for safety. Based on my knowledge of security measures learned from action movies, they needed more lasers to protect them. Can I have the pretty pink one?
October 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I saw these jewels just a few months ago (like about a million other people). I did wonder if they were fakes for safety. Based on my knowledge of security measures learned from action movies, they needed more lasers to protect them. Can I have the pretty pink one?
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This whole exhibit sounds so well done, as Kara Walker continues to be so brilliant.
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument
The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This whole exhibit sounds so well done, as Kara Walker continues to be so brilliant.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
It’s not so much a boycott as it’s self preservation. We’re not stupid, and we are stubborn. 🇨🇦 Let’s go for 💯
President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.
Canadian Visits To U.S. By Car Fell 35% In September—9th Consecutive Month Of Drastic Declines
President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.
www.forbes.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s not so much a boycott as it’s self preservation. We’re not stupid, and we are stubborn. 🇨🇦 Let’s go for 💯
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’