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Paydroe

@mandofeovg.bsky.social

🐀🏳️‍🌈

June 1, 2024 at 7:14 PM

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Landon Hoyt

@landonhoyt.bsky.social

The VPD Chief just said that the police are the only accountable organization in the DTES and that all other agencies getting funding from the province are not accountable. This is total BS.

November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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NPR

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Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

n.pr

October 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM

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Art by Emily K

@museum.of.emilyk.art

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM

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Genderflux Superfluid

@rewhan.bsky.social

...its wild we have a Labour Dispute Mediator in our province popular enough to have Fan Art.

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 24d

when another labour dispute in British Columbia is solved

(illustration by Indiana Joel)

October 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Scoob

@scoobydouchebag.bsky.social

You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown

October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Mary Gillis

@marygillis.bsky.social

Actually, Frankenstein is the name of the fuckboy.

October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM

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Abigail Larson

@abigaillarson.com

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM

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Sista 𓅓

@sista.bsky.social

Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥

Garden gnome throwing a molotov painting
Artist Jay kell

October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦

@thehobo.bsky.social

#photography
#SRO
#DTES

August 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM

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rahaeli

@rahaeli.bsky.social

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

October 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM

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Times Colonist

@timescolonist.bsky.social

Nearly 80 hectares of traditional territory returned to Snuneymuxw First Nation

The land is being added to the nation’s reserve land base, which is the lowest per capita in the province.

dlvr.it

October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM

Katrina Acaster

@seams-unusual.bsky.social

It might have a 15 foot hem. I have not measured it. Happy Hallowe’en!

October 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM

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Garth Mullins

@garthmullins.bsky.social

We started DULF because we knew nobody was coming to save us, so we had to save ourselves. It worked. But right wing politicians made themselves famous off scapegoating us. The government de-funded us. The cops raided us. But our day in court is here. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...