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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦
@carlynyandle.bsky.social
Sharing the creative process and social power of hand-making — and writing about it weekly here 👇
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Artwork/about: carlynyandle.weebly.com
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"MY PRECIOUS" . . .

... "Gollum, Gollum" !

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December 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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A big congratulations to Aaron Williams (Halifax's own!) on winning the Edna Staebler Award for The Last Logging Show. 👏 #canlit #booksky

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Laurier names Aaron Williams winner of prestigious 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
WATERLOO — Wilfrid Laurier University has named author Aaron Williams the winner of its 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for his book The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the E...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A garish, aspirational portrait for POTUS
#artwriting #creativeprocess

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November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In which I over-use the verb “suck”:
#fakebook #MakingIsConnecting

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Bub-bye Fakebook
Instagram is tougher for artists to quit
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November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.

Streets for people.

HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Outside looking in…
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Charles Demers, the multi-talented author, comedian and speech-writer for BC’s Premier, spread his joyous ways my way when he signed my copy of “The Eh Team” at his Vancouver book launch last night.
#charlesdemers #EhCanada #Canadianisms #ElbowsUp #CBCTheDebaters
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Will open my studio during the Eastside Culture Crawl in Vancouver BC #235 Mergatroid Building 975 Vernon Dr. Nov 20-21 5-10pm Nov22-23 11-6pm. Lots to see in our building #eastsideculturecrawl2025 #embroidery #handembroidery #madeinyvr #madeinbc
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Another stunner by cartoonist Steve Brodner:

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November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It’s sweater weather — and I’m wearing granny squares.

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November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I LOVE THIS!

Timeline cleanse!

Ron Sexsmith with music students, featuring Toronto the good 💕

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"Sunny" featuring Ron Sexsmith with Melanie Doane and the students of Doane Music School
YouTube video by Doane Music School
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October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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We’re in a world of… 💩
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Another #Antifa headquarters we toured this last month: Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery near the Belgian border. Most of the nearly 1,000 graves of Canadian soldiers here lost their lives in the fight to clear the north bank of the Scheldt estuary of invading Nazi German forces.
#fightfascism
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Joy-Ann Reid’s fearless, informative analysis must be shared:

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Donald Trump is weaponizing The American Dream against us
God forbid anyone but one of his cronies buy property to leave a legacy for their families.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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I'm a little late to party, but fully back on my Ezra stuff.
Please forgive me for invoking Baudrillard, I promise I'm not that pretentious IRL.

Pleasure as always to work with @dennycarter.bsky.social.
Ezra Klein Is Mourning The End Of The Civilacrum
Klein wants a simulation of politics without conflict. Ascendant fascism won't allow that.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m just going to leave this here:
(The Montreal Star, Feb 4, 1939)
September 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM