Victoria Ward
@hotspurstudio.bsky.social
I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.
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Beaumont Quay, Essex, October 2025, just me, the British landscape and my Canadian hunting toque. #UK #landscape
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I feel seen.
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I feel seen.
My life is really just Britbox. youtube.com/shorts/Qvli_...
pitching cosy British crime dramas in 2025
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
My life is really just Britbox. youtube.com/shorts/Qvli_...
"There was Siousxie on all the motorcycle jackets and then Debbie was everywhere. Debbie was too good looking, people missed how great she is," says Chrissie Hynde "she has dignity". open.spotify.com/show/7oLOg0r...
Debbie Harry • Shirley Manson
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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"There was Siousxie on all the motorcycle jackets and then Debbie was everywhere. Debbie was too good looking, people missed how great she is," says Chrissie Hynde "she has dignity". open.spotify.com/show/7oLOg0r...
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Following Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Germany intensified further. This shop had 'On holiday in Dachau' painted onto the front, referring to the owners' arrest and deportation to the concentration camp.
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Following Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Germany intensified further. This shop had 'On holiday in Dachau' painted onto the front, referring to the owners' arrest and deportation to the concentration camp.
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
Learn more via #TheHolocaustExplained buff.ly/COGS9AJ
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The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, which killed all 29 men aboard, became the most well-known wreck to ever occur on the Great Lakes. https://to.pbs.org/3JSX4VX
'The Gales of November' explores the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy and the legend it inspired
This week marks 50 years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank while crossing Lake Superior. The shipwreck, which killed all 29 men aboard, became the most well-known wreck to ever occur on the Great La...
to.pbs.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, which killed all 29 men aboard, became the most well-known wreck to ever occur on the Great Lakes. https://to.pbs.org/3JSX4VX
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So much of Cymru/Wales's heritage lost in a single theft..
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans
Two men have been charged with burglary, but
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So much of Cymru/Wales's heritage lost in a single theft..
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
...Items from Llanwrthwrl, Powys, Capel Isaf, Carmarthenshire, Heyope, Powys, & the spectacular Early Bronze Age gold lunula from Llanllyfni, Gwynedd.
😞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Progressives celebrating Joyce Carol Oates insulting Elon Musk is exactly what is wrong with the left these days. Musk posts stuff that all hyper tech bros do, their software, their businesses, their love of tech. Social media is about monetization to a lot of people & NOT puppies & friends.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Progressives celebrating Joyce Carol Oates insulting Elon Musk is exactly what is wrong with the left these days. Musk posts stuff that all hyper tech bros do, their software, their businesses, their love of tech. Social media is about monetization to a lot of people & NOT puppies & friends.
i LOVE this band!!! open.spotify.com/album/287QQ9...
Romance
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November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
i LOVE this band!!! open.spotify.com/album/287QQ9...
Finally seeing a recognition that using the term Anthropocene is not good science. aeon.co/essays/decla...
Declared dead last year, the Anthropocene is very much alive | Aeon Essays
As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it’s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway?
aeon.co
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Finally seeing a recognition that using the term Anthropocene is not good science. aeon.co/essays/decla...
I watched Poilievre in the House of Commons, he was bullying and had the smug stance of a cruel frat boy. This is his leadership.
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I watched Poilievre in the House of Commons, he was bullying and had the smug stance of a cruel frat boy. This is his leadership.
OMG I loved this article @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story
From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?
www.newyorker.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
OMG I loved this article @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
You can put as many cool actors as you want in a movie and make it look awesome, but if it is about gambling I'm BORED. #BalladofaSmallPlayer #Netflix
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
You can put as many cool actors as you want in a movie and make it look awesome, but if it is about gambling I'm BORED. #BalladofaSmallPlayer #Netflix
Beaumont Quay, Essex, October 2025, just me, the British landscape and my Canadian hunting toque. #UK #landscape
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Beaumont Quay, Essex, October 2025, just me, the British landscape and my Canadian hunting toque. #UK #landscape
Reposted by Victoria Ward
Reposted by Victoria Ward
Remember payphones?
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Remember payphones?
This is a great interview. #KenBurns podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Ken Burns on the future of PBS, the new age of media, and why documentaries will outlast TikTok
Podcast Episode · Mixed Signals from Semafor Media · 10/31/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is a great interview. #KenBurns podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Travel tips! Never buy the London visitor card which supposedly acts like an Oyster card. It is a total rip off. Also, never use a VISA on the tube, get an international money account with something like WISE. VISA tube rides were a fortune comparatively. Oh, #London why are you so grifty?
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Travel tips! Never buy the London visitor card which supposedly acts like an Oyster card. It is a total rip off. Also, never use a VISA on the tube, get an international money account with something like WISE. VISA tube rides were a fortune comparatively. Oh, #London why are you so grifty?
Great article on how exhaustingly complex the perils of energy transitioning during climate change. We've left it all too late and also been unable to comprehend the ever expanding complications of how we will mitigate the climate crisis. Lots of great info here.
Extreme weather threatens the extraction of critical minerals required to produce clean energy. The consequences of these disruptions will spiral across the global economy
go.nature.com/4hEbwxq
go.nature.com/4hEbwxq
Climate change is devastating mining of minerals needed to fight it
Extreme weather threatens the extraction of critical minerals required to produce clean energy.
go.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Great article on how exhaustingly complex the perils of energy transitioning during climate change. We've left it all too late and also been unable to comprehend the ever expanding complications of how we will mitigate the climate crisis. Lots of great info here.
I have been travelling and not paying attention to the news for a month. American news is so depressing. 42 million people possibly going without groceries this month. WTAF?
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I have been travelling and not paying attention to the news for a month. American news is so depressing. 42 million people possibly going without groceries this month. WTAF?
Brilliant series @bluejays.com you've lifted our hearts. Thank you!!!
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Brilliant series @bluejays.com you've lifted our hearts. Thank you!!!
Unpopular opinion, the chatter around Katy and Justin is really sexist. If you hate them why are you posting about them?
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Unpopular opinion, the chatter around Katy and Justin is really sexist. If you hate them why are you posting about them?
Madrid is making me fall in love with Europe again.
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Madrid is making me fall in love with Europe again.
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.