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Shivaun
@shivaunish.bsky.social
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A sweet girl graduate of library school. I like movies, zines & professional wrestling.
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Shivaun @shivaunish.bsky.social · Nov 18
A friend already wrote me the best bio
Handwritten limerick: There once was a girl named Shivaun Who really enjoyed Breaking Dawn She also wrote some cool zines and was really keen To share hilarious thoughts all day long! (Thanks Twitter & Shivaun)
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renay.bsky.social
As we approach the end of the year, it's a great time to record things you love! Not just for the Hugo Awards, but in general. The rec sheet is a handy resource for nomination, but also at its heart a rec resource in a loud, busy media environment.
The Hugo Awards (2026)
docs.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
shivaunish.bsky.social
At long last, Laurence Olivier For Diet Coke is real 🫠 m.youtube.com/watch?v=yooW...
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
shivaunish.bsky.social
Did a speedrun of Zine Dump which was great and then I got a lamp for $2 at a rummage sale so I am feeling very hashtag blessed
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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greatworm.ca
ZINE DUMP is a new #zinefair in Toronto, happening NOW! #zines #DIYzines
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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francesmeh.reviews
now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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funeralbeat.bsky.social
SERIOUSLY?
Alternative girl looking over her shoulder at the viewer with disgust. She is reading a zine. She wears a leather jacket with a broken chain patch on the sleeve, and the words WORMS on the back with a large earthworm patch. She has bleached hair with black roots and an eyebrow ring and a nose piercing. The text above her reads, “Ew, you don’t read zines??” The zine has the writing: “Why farts are the call of the worker” with a farting cartoon butt.
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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yixura.bsky.social
just once id like the commentary to say a male wrestler is 'one of the best, irrespective of gender' lol
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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jeeyon.bsky.social
A friend showed me this screenshot and I started cackling, I was staining my tongue three different colors with OtterPops in 1998 are you fucking kidding me
A meme showing an example of a TikTok trend through two screenshots, one of a swingset captioned "Summer, 1998" and the other of a pot of jam on the stove captioned "Where sweets are baked, not bought." Under both screenshots is someone commenting "loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s"
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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funeralbeat.bsky.social
THIS WEEKEND!!!! ZINES 4EVR
funeralbeat.bsky.social Jenn Woodall @funeralbeat.bsky.social · 27d
Poster for ZINEDUMP, a new Toronto zine fair! I'm one of the organizers for the event, and we are having our inaugural event on November 9th! We hope to see you there!
For updates, please check our website or follow our instagram at zinedump.fyi
A poster for Zinedump, a new Toronto zine fair. The poster features a woman levitating above a star drawn on the earth in chalk. She is wearing a goat skull and holding a zine, which is emitting orange smoke. 3 small Toronto associated animals are gathered around in worship - A raccoon, a rat and a skunk. The information on the poster is as follows: November 9th, 12pm to 5pm Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil Street 12 - 1pm - Masks mandatory 1pm - 5pm - Masks encouraged 60+ vendors and programming More updates coming!
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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mike.tig.as
me explaining daylight saving time to the cat
tuxedo cat swatting a man’s nose (cat paw somewhat motion blurred). the man is recoiling/wincing.
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
"Person who brought a burned out lightbulb to the store, just to make sure they buy the correct replacement bulb"

x.com/dailyportalz...
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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darrylayo.bsky.social
Every day, David Fincher looks at the computer and sighs heavily because he made The Social Network too early
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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birdofvictory.bsky.social
paul, this is a tweet about silicon valley failing to recognize scifi as being social critique and assuming they were prescriptions for what future society should look like rather than amplifications of social issues present at time of writing.

hope this helps!
pfrazee.com Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 12d
"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
November 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
“Eating candy corn feels like eating wax”

Yes! Good! Exactly! Do you know how many scented candles I’ve had that I’ve desperately wanted to eat?
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
shivaunish.bsky.social
Allez Cuisine!
I am holding aloft a bell pepper, wearing a colourful jacket, frilly black shirt & leather gloves Chairman Kaga (host of Iron Chef Japan) in a truly opulent jacket-cape bites into a bell pepper
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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dafrgama.bsky.social
Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo
J’ai stole le Joconde et maintenant elle est ma femme
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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jillkrajewski.bsky.social
celebrating halloween at the baseball party vs. celebrating baseball at the halloween party
Katie Dippold Tbt to Halloween when I dressed as the babadook but my friend's house had more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe david sanchez Tbt to Halloween when I went to my friend's house for a grown ups drinking wine party but there was more of a babadook vibe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters
photo of six pumpkins carved into glowing jack-o'-lanterns, in front of a brick wall. a large pumpkin has the cow tools cow carved into it and another large pumpkin has the barn. in front of them are 4 small pumpkins, each carved with one of the cow tools on them. the lump pumpkin has no stem and the prongler pumpkin is laid sideways so that the stem lines up and forms the bottom half of the prongler, it's top half carved into the pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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sportsandsuffering.bsky.social
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282) a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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clareblackwood.bsky.social
Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
Ford government walks back on plan to consider changes to renters’ right to ‘security of tenure’
The Ford government says it won’t be moving forward with consultations to modify the law that protects tenants’ right to remain in their unit.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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theflytrapmedia.com
We're celebrating a year of @theflytrapmedia.com with a daily paywall drop on some classic Flytrap articles! We read, we read, we all scream for reading (books, and other things).
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
shivaunish.bsky.social
“A surprise and very wet adventure, it sounds like”
peripateticmeg.bsky.social Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 17d
“Sending you warm mental cuddles”
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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nicterhorst.com
If you are in Ontario please be aware of this. Please sign this. Please keep an eye on this

This is so so so awful. Rent is already crazy unaffordable WITH controls, and we've already lost a bunch of them
qpmutualaid.bsky.social QuyetPawz - Mutual Aid @qpmutualaid.bsky.social · 19d
For Canadians living in Ontario...

Doug Ford, the Premier, is planning to shred tenant protections.

Do fill this out as it'll email Ford, your MPP, Associate Minister of Municipal Affairs & Housing, and the Attorney General for you!

acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...

#Canada #Ontario #Tenant
Doug Ford Moves to End Rent Control
Doug Ford announced proposed changes to the LTB that would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario.
acorncanada.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
shivaunish.bsky.social
My uncle Jon gave me my first Tarot reading (& deck but that was much later!)
One time when I stayed over, he offered me a “Tiger’s Milk smoothie” which was probably fine if overly healthful to my preteen tastebuds but he also had a cat named Tiger
Jon in a denim shirt & his usual neckerchief points out tarot cards to 6-year old me. I think we’re looking at the Wheel of Fortune (Rider-Waite-Smith)
October 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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averyedison.com
every friend I’ve caught up with since coming back to Toronto has talked about rent control and auto-month-to-month being the only reason they’re still able to live here. this proposed change will functionally make homeless every long-term tenant in the city. absolute insanity
goldsbie.bsky.social Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 20d
At a press conference this afternoon, Attorney General Doug Downey said they want to move away from requiring "evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight":
Reporter: With respect to what we were told this morning about the government consulting on “alternative options” essentially that could allow landlords to end leases — I think this is a question best for the Attorney General? Just wondering what you are looking at there. Attorney General Doug Downey: Well, we've heard from stakeholders that these evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight, may not be the appropriate — other jurisdictions, when we did a scan across the country, do different things. But we weren't confident that we had the answer, and we only want to move with confidence. So we're going to go back out and talk to landlords and tenants and organizations and see if there's a better way for the people of Ontario to unlock that housing that isn't happening now. Reporter: But that's housing that people are in. They're tenants, right? It's hard to see a world in which, if you're giving landlords more power to end leases, that they're not gonna want to get in a tenant that will pay more. So is this not inevitably gonna end up with higher rents, more people getting kicked out of their rentals? Downey: We're gonna consult widely on it. What we do know is there are a lot of landlords that are not putting their units on the market. We need to get those units. I'm convinced if we get the right balance, we'll unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units, and those will be places that people that currently don't have a place to be will be able to rent. Reporter: So, sorry, you're saying that if landlords, there are some landlords that if there are more flexible types of agreements that they would be willing to rent currently unrented spaces? Downey: I’ve been told that repeatedly, for years, that some landlords are not entering the market because they don't have confidence in it.
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM