Kathleen Bee
@kathleenbee.bsky.social
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Kathleen Bee
@kathleenbee.bsky.social
· Feb 18
2025 Canadian comic festivals featuring creators & some small publishers which are free or admission by donation, a 🧵
I couldn't find this specific list anywhere, so I made my own! Please let me know of any that I've missed, and I'll add them to the thread - thanks!
I couldn't find this specific list anywhere, so I made my own! Please let me know of any that I've missed, and I'll add them to the thread - thanks!
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Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.
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Every level of government is jumping through increasingly complicated and ridiculous hoops to try to keep the for-profit housing industry going instead of just acknowledging it's not viable. We need public housing if we want affordable housing. That's just how it is now. But no one ever admits it.
Vancouver unveils sweeping rescue plan as housing project cancellations loom | Urbanized
City of Vancouver staff have released a sweeping set of measures to shore up development viability and preserve the housing pipeline.
dailyhive.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Every level of government is jumping through increasingly complicated and ridiculous hoops to try to keep the for-profit housing industry going instead of just acknowledging it's not viable. We need public housing if we want affordable housing. That's just how it is now. But no one ever admits it.
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Call me crazy, but maybe society shouldn't continually reward the least scrupled amongst us with money, power and influence simply because they're unafraid to be terrible.
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Call me crazy, but maybe society shouldn't continually reward the least scrupled amongst us with money, power and influence simply because they're unafraid to be terrible.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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It's fun that each finger has a little symbolic job: cool/not cool, that thing there, your driving is poor, I'm not available for dates, and (while drinking tea) I'm so fancy.
October 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's fun that each finger has a little symbolic job: cool/not cool, that thing there, your driving is poor, I'm not available for dates, and (while drinking tea) I'm so fancy.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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Not gonna lie, pretty proud of this one.
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Not gonna lie, pretty proud of this one.
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Time Magazine quoting a @thebeaverton.com article about the US shooting a "patriot missile" at Parliament Hill like it's something Pete Hoekstra actually said might be my favourite moment of the week. Congrats, @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social, you very serious reporter! www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...
'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News
In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Time Magazine quoting a @thebeaverton.com article about the US shooting a "patriot missile" at Parliament Hill like it's something Pete Hoekstra actually said might be my favourite moment of the week. Congrats, @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social, you very serious reporter! www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...
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Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Wicker Man (1973), Rosemary's Baby (1968), there must be others old ones - anyone?
Heretic (2024) is completely faith-based, with no supernatural elements (that I remember)
Heretic (2024) is completely faith-based, with no supernatural elements (that I remember)
The Exorcist (1973) would like a word
Not to trot out the “people will tweet anything” meme, but…
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Wicker Man (1973), Rosemary's Baby (1968), there must be others old ones - anyone?
Heretic (2024) is completely faith-based, with no supernatural elements (that I remember)
Heretic (2024) is completely faith-based, with no supernatural elements (that I remember)
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"You'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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This is all fine and don't worry AI will definitely serve the betterment of humanity rather than the corporations and billionaires who own the algorithms
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is all fine and don't worry AI will definitely serve the betterment of humanity rather than the corporations and billionaires who own the algorithms
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Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Scathing social satire hidden in a horror or action movie
- Comedy horror, the weirder the better
- No exposition, no idea where this is going
- Movies that would be screened by Dumpster Raccoon Cinema
- Anything by Guillermo del Toro
- Scathing social satire hidden in a horror or action movie
- Comedy horror, the weirder the better
- No exposition, no idea where this is going
- Movies that would be screened by Dumpster Raccoon Cinema
- Anything by Guillermo del Toro
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Scathing social satire hidden in a horror or action movie
- Comedy horror, the weirder the better
- No exposition, no idea where this is going
- Movies that would be screened by Dumpster Raccoon Cinema
- Anything by Guillermo del Toro
- Scathing social satire hidden in a horror or action movie
- Comedy horror, the weirder the better
- No exposition, no idea where this is going
- Movies that would be screened by Dumpster Raccoon Cinema
- Anything by Guillermo del Toro
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we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
we have a president who only does good things when everyone calls him a pedophile. our mission for the next 3 years is clear.
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Imagine this fellah 1000s of times bigger and out of focus.
Im not saying i know anything, but, you know… 🤷🏻♂️
Im not saying i know anything, but, you know… 🤷🏻♂️
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Imagine this fellah 1000s of times bigger and out of focus.
Im not saying i know anything, but, you know… 🤷🏻♂️
Im not saying i know anything, but, you know… 🤷🏻♂️
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