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Everlearner
@jimcliffe.bsky.social
Retired electron wrangler. Astronomer, artist, ham radio operator, and occasional cat herder. Living with the love of my life and blessed beyond anything I have any right to expect.
Victoria, B.C. Call sign VE7HAR.
So brave... So proud... So scared to show their faces. Cowards need mass movements to support them. Exposure makes them run like cockroaches.
November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We're going to need a bigger drill!

xkcd.com/3171
Geologic Core Sample
xkcd.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Rotten apples don’t fall far from the tree.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
After many years of observation, I've decided that the amount of sound a cat produces has no relationship to the amount of barf produced. 😒
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Neo-nazi's, white supremacists, and other assorted haters met in Vancouver recently. The CBC and the Canadian Anti Hate Network observed it and have identified participants. Unsuprisingly, a lot of them train in combat sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Practicing with watercolours and watercolour pencils. It's a learning thing, but I like how the feathery image worked.
#watercolour #practice #art
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
We Canadians measure like this always!
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/metri...
imgs.xkcd.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Hey folks: Be careful out there tonight. I bought a razor blade and it had a Snickers in it.
October 31, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Admiration! 😀
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Working from reference photos in practice for the next drypoint.
#drypoint #trace
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Something unexpected happened at the @meidascanada.ca town hall in Victoria.
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Danger Mango threatened to take over Canada by military or economic force. People are calling the latest blast from the White House a tantrum I don't think so. When will we admit that the US is waging economic war on us?

#tarrifs #DJT #Canada #economicwarfare
Trump TERMINATES All Trade Talks With Canada Over A TV Commercial
YouTube video by Guard The Leaf
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm disturbed by how logical this sounds...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Signal
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Signal
www.smbc-comics.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I learned lots from this run. Most important, if you're going to file the plate edges smooth, don't do it where you'll be printing! The little plastic bits get everywhere.

Drypoint on 4"x5" acrylic plate, printed on 6"x9" stock.

#drypoint #printmaking #lazycat
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The Obsolete Man (BEST)
YouTube video by MIndMattersMost
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)
Cause for concern
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
OK, it's a promotion from Nanaimo for health care workers. But it's still fun!
#nanaimo #vancouverisland #gilbertandsullivan

youtu.be/9k7OUowPPMQ?...
I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Harvest Moon from our balcony in Victoria. Take with Canon EF 100-400mm IS II USM lens. Not as clear as using a dedicated telescope, but it's what I had at hand.

#astrophoto #moon #Luna
October 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So when *does* it become treason?
Last week Alberta quislings were in Washington to further the break up of our nation. Meanwhile Danielle Smith is setting up a fight over a pipeline that no-one is trying to build.
It is about stoking the base and driving rage against Canada.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-maga-p...
The MAGA Pipeline to Breakup Canada
MAGA Alberta’s latest attempt to sow division came in the form of a two-pronged assault.
charlieangus.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Not the only example from 1970...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson...
October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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History has many painful lessons.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Happy October!
October 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian residential school.This a haunted dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2.
The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates.
We remember
#orangeshirtday
September 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM