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Stephanie Smith
@spkr118.bsky.social
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Housing justice; community service; union activism; civic issues w/VanGreens; director, CHFBC/CLT. Superannuated punk. Canucks ride or die. 🏳️‍🌈 🐸 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
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Gracie has opinions.
Gracie, a very fluffy cat with tortie colours and polydactyl murder paws, lying on an armchair and staring directly into the camera
September 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Bob Vylan: “Don’t act like today is the last day of your life - act like it’s the first”
June 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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FEEEEEEEE I am sad, but I will be happy soon when full-bellied puppies come to visit
A sad, sad video still of the Denali Puppy Cam, with a small sign that says "Feeding Time 11:45 16:45" and no puppies in sight
June 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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go go go go go go go
image shows vote total for Carleton at 9:15 pm PDT LIB Bruce Fanjoy 11,529 CON Pierre Poilievre 9,801
April 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Let's goooooooo
image clipped from the CBC Votes website showing early results from Carleton riding: LIB Bruce Fanjoy 4,985, CON Pierre Poilivre 3,251
April 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Was that final net, knox gelatin, or soap?
Black and white image of Joe Keithley of D.O.A. and moshers at a York Theatre, Vancouver, gig in 1985. Keithley is holding a mic stand, foot on the monitor, looking into the pit. Moshers have their hands in the air. A very young woman with short dark hair, partially shaved, is looking up at the stage and smiling (that's me)
March 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Missed the game, saw Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets. He never misses - one quietly genius song after another. And he made everybody cry.
March 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Perry, meet baby Gracie, who for extra floof loves to sleep upside down
this is a photograph of a kitten named Gracie, an exceptionally floofy tricolour kitten, who is sound asleep upside down between the cushions on a green couch. her front paws are tucked in front of her. her rear paws are blurred but she has six beans on each paw.
March 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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That's a beautiful ratio. He's just locked his account.
screencap of the interactions with the tweet OP references - 10K replies, 10K retweets, 4.8K likes
January 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Just got hit with this :)
January 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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every Canucks fan's DMs tonight
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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:)
January 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Thank you! She’s Gracie. This was the day she moved in, a year and a bit ago. Any excuse to post kitten pics, sorry :)
This is a picture of an impossibly cute kitten. She is two months old and she weighs 2 lbs. She is sitting on upholstered furniture at a 3/4 angle to the camera, sound asleep with her eyes closed tight. She has gremlin ears with white floof and tabby/calico colouring.
January 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I hope to accomplish many things in 2025, but it’ll be hard to surpass finally getting around to putting up this shelf for my cat
Closely cropped image of a cat looking down on the photographer from a shelf mounted above a door frame. You can see her face and one of her paws. There are dried flowers hanging from a sage green wall. Closely cropped image of the same cat looking down on the photographer from a shelf mounted above a door frame. She is stretched out contentedly along the shelf. Her eyes are half-closed, and her six-beaned paw dangles off the side. A third image of the same cat looking down on the photographer from a shelf mounted over a door frame. You can see only her head looking quizzically downward from the edge of the shelf she is sitting on, with the door frame and ceiling in the background
January 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Photo archive just offered up this crap Blackberry photo of NYE nine years ago at the Smilin' Buddha/SBC, NoMeansNo Clones the Ramones on stage

That floor was a skateboard halfpipe and people kept spilling drinks so everyone skidded all over it, it was hilarious and perfect
blurry photo from the back of a small club; the audience is perched on a skateboard halfpipe that doubles as a floor, a band is on stage at the end. there are punk rockers here
January 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Alex Burrows, Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin celebrate Burrows' goal in the third period against the San Jose Sharks in Game Four of the Western Conference Finals during the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs
December 24, 2024 at 4:55 AM
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The fracked gas industry was all in on this motion - exploiting their connections to Sim and Montague and astroturfing ads through “Debunk Inc.” Stuff like this kept coming through my insta stories
An instagram ad reading: Debunk Inc Sponsored If we removed fossil fuels in BC, we would need 5X MORE electricity to handle Vancouver's energy demand. Source: Canada Energy Regulator Sign our letter and tell the City of Vancouver you oppose the ban on natural gas.
November 28, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Oh, she looks like my cat Gracie! (last night/the day she moved in)
Picture of a sleepy young cat in profile, reclining, eyes closed, in the crook of my arm. She is Gracie, a medium-haired tabby/Maine Coon/not sure what else cross, with dark brown, light brown, and white markings Photo of the same cat as a tiny kitten, at eight weeks old. She is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed tight. She has huge gremlin ears with white tufts. There is a blanket on the couch, and socks that she had been nesting in
November 27, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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when @nhlcanucks.com slides into your DMs
November 24, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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In the pit @ D.O.A.
Black and white image of Joe Keithley of D.O.A. and moshers at a York Theatre, Vancouver, gig in 1985. Keithley is holding a mic stand, foot on the monitor, looking into the pit. Moshers have their hands in the air. A very young woman with short dark hair, partially shaved, is looking up at the stage and smiling (that's me)
November 24, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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me in my echo chamber

it's all memes and sleep dep tonight
A black and white image of art rock ensemble The Residents: four people in top hats, white tie and tails, holding walking sticks, their heads covered in eyeball helmets
November 19, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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The perfect 90s album meme says we can't include Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains, but I think that of the four, only Nirvana made a perfect album (shots fired? let's goooooo).

And someone beat me to The Battle of Los Angeles, so I'm going to go with a CanCon dark horse:
the cover of Rheostatics' 1992 album "Whale Music"
November 19, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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ok, let's do this
screenshot of the holding page for this year's Glastonbury ticket sale, showing one hour until the sale begins
November 17, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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It’s a long weekend, I say. Finally going to get caught up on sleep, I say.

Kitten, since 7 am:
Blurry still of a tiny marauding furball kitten in mid air, launching herself from rumpled bedding at me
November 12, 2023 at 6:31 PM
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reconnecting with my twitter mutuals
A still from Star Wars: Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Han Solo, mid-escape from the Death Star
July 4, 2023 at 2:38 AM