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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 5h

politicians started complaining and DULF was busted one week before the Coroner's Death Panel recommended that the government expand the response to ensure nonprescription access to regulated drugs

as DULF had done

and the government rejected it in the middle of the press conference

Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 5h

Judge: “The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening… It seems like these two [gestures to defendants Nyx and Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly is not fine.”

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 4h

my own private mercury retrograde

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan, who created a poster that had 0% to do with the plot of The Thing but was also 10000% perfect for the tone of The Thing.

Drew Struzan's illustration for the poster of The Thing.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 2d

T!!!

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new TiaCorine album slaaaaaps

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 4d

I’m between joys right now.

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DJ DEI CONSULTANT @enoch.kim · 4d

Who the fuck made the decision to soundtrack this with sophie show yourself you are responsible for these tears

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4d

I hope to god the reporter and their editor are prepared to go to jail to protect their source here, because the regime will absolutely want to make an example of this man. Like all fascists, they know neighbors helping each other wins every time.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 4d

smaug era (treating my seasonal depression by nesting super hard)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 5d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Canadian Animation Guild - IATSE Local 938 @cag938.bsky.social · 8d

CAG is in the news! 🔴

pressprogress.ca/vancouvers-f...

Vancouver’s Film and TV Industry is Facing One of its ‘Toughest Slowdowns’. Animators and Visual Effects Workers Are Unionizing to Take Back Control.

Canadian animators and visual effects workers aren’t giving up during turbulent times, they’re organizing their workplaces and unionizing

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 6d

I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 7d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 6d

Now it's a day later and the APTN and CBC Indigenous news sites still have no story about, or even mention in another story of Israel abducting, in international waters, a First Nations person who has Canadian citizenship.

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 7d

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 6d

go birds!!

Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 6d

"Start spreading the news, bitches!"

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christopher linoleum @scribblechris.bsky.social · 8d

I'm quoted in this piece! It's about how and why animation workers have been forming so many unions in Vancouver the last few years ☺️

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 10d

Vancouver’s film and TV industry is facing one of its ‘toughest slowdowns’ ever. Animators and visual effects workers are unionizing to take back control:

“It’s time to level the playing field for the workers ... so they can have more of a say, more control and a democratization of their workplace”

Vancouver’s Film and TV Industry is Facing One of its ‘Toughest Slowdowns’. Animators and Visual Effects Workers Are Unionizing to Take Back Control.

Canadian animators and visual effects workers aren’t giving up during turbulent times, they’re organizing their workplaces and unionizing

pressprogress.ca

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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 8d

🔴 In two years of war, over 223 Palestinian journalists have been killed in #Gaza in the deadliest period in the history of journalism. As journalists, unionists and, ultimately, humans, we cannot accept that reporters are killed amid indifference, be that in Gaza or elsewhere.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 8d

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 8d

me at the beginning of the episode: I am Seven

me at the end of the episode: oh god oh fuck I'm the doctor

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 8d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 8d

grateful for Scott Thompson's cameo as a hedonistic alien ambassador for taking the edge off a Voyager episode that otherwise hit a bit too close to home rn 🥲

Scott Thompson in a cameo as ambassador Tomim on an episode of Voyager. He's got a large, bulbous forehead and an aggressively receding hairline. he's smiling a bit and looking offscreen while saying "[Voyager] promotes a more stimulating environment."

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 8d

Currently at the ICE facility in portland, OR. Some far right agitators have posted plans online to attack the mutual aid stations and take over the area at 7:00.

Sign says “ANTIFO Anti Federal Occupation”

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EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 9d

Nearly a decade of organizing in Vancouver's animation and VFX industries is transforming wages and working conditions for the workers behind shows like Star Trek: Lower Decks, even amid a historic slowdown in film and TV.

I spoke to workers + organizers about it for @pressprogress.ca

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 10d

Vancouver’s film and TV industry is facing one of its ‘toughest slowdowns’ ever. Animators and visual effects workers are unionizing to take back control:

“It’s time to level the playing field for the workers ... so they can have more of a say, more control and a democratization of their workplace”

Vancouver’s Film and TV Industry is Facing One of its ‘Toughest Slowdowns’. Animators and Visual Effects Workers Are Unionizing to Take Back Control.

Canadian animators and visual effects workers aren’t giving up during turbulent times, they’re organizing their workplaces and unionizing

pressprogress.ca

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 10d

Vancouver’s film and TV industry is facing one of its ‘toughest slowdowns’ ever. Animators and visual effects workers are unionizing to take back control:

“It’s time to level the playing field for the workers ... so they can have more of a say, more control and a democratization of their workplace”

Vancouver’s Film and TV Industry is Facing One of its ‘Toughest Slowdowns’. Animators and Visual Effects Workers Are Unionizing to Take Back Control.

Canadian animators and visual effects workers aren’t giving up during turbulent times, they’re organizing their workplaces and unionizing

pressprogress.ca

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