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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖

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Senior Editor at the Georgia Straight they/them | 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇦 perpetually exhausted immigrant on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ lands

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Nov 13

I think it's time to actually introduce myself!

I'm V, a journalist originally from the UK and now living in so-called Vancouver, BC.

I write a twice-weekly newsletter for the Georgia Straight covering local events and culture. You can subscribe here:

newsletter.straight.com/subscribe/?u...

Georgia Straight

Get the best of Vancouver’s arts, events, entertainment, music, and culture direct to your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday morning.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 2d

There is no reason for KyoAni to have popped off as hard as they did with CITY

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 2d

at least cricket, which has matches that stretch for several days, has the decency to schedule tea breaks

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 5d

2025 is protein in everything and joy in nothing. There are no more little treats, there are only GAINS and MACROS and ozempic ads on Spotify and COFFEE THAT WILL DESTROY YOU IN THE PURSUIT OF SICK DELTS

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 7d

a trans person when they misgender someone: oops sorry bud

a cis person when they misgender someone: I am so sorry. It was thoughtless and unwarranted and a mistake is no excuse. I have taken the time to reflect on my actions and will be more mindful. I will send you this apology every single time

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 7d

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 11d

ADHD tax is taking off your bracelet to make Thanksgiving dinner, cleaning the house, remembering a week later you're not wearing a bracelet, and having simply no idea where it could be. Another toll paid to the trinket goblin.

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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 13d

Come work with me! Xtra is bringing on five early-career BIPOC journalists for a paid editorial project on LGBTQ2S+ people and work. Applications are due later this month.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 13d

We're looking for early-career BIPOC journalists *based in Canada* to work on an editorial package about LGBTQ2S+ people and work in the coming months. Learn how to apply here: xtramagazine.com/ken-popert-m... #CdnMediaJobs

Ken Popert Media Fellowship | Xtra Magazine

The Ken Popert Media Fellowship program was developed to fund innovative journalism projects that bring new voices to Xtra and provide an opportunity for journalists to learn about LGBTQ2S+ media and…

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 14d

That's coward talk

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 16d

I know:
- mine
- my fiancee's
- my parents' landline
- my old mobile
- maybe my dad's mobile
- one friend from when I was 10
- OH EIGHT HUNDRED DOUBLE-OH TEN SIXTY SIX

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 16d

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 18d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18d

A throughline with any famous pedophile or rapist you can think of is that people knew, and people talked about it, and nothing happened for YEARS -- time they spent amassing more victims.

How might things have been different if society hated teenage girls a little bit less? /end

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18d

The headline of his crimes was abuse of infants, but that obscures the huge amount of young teens he abused over a decade or more.

Police did nothing for years. How many more women and girls were harmed, because they did not believe the brave women and girls telling their stories?

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18d

I knew several teenage girls that he abused, many of whom were groomed to see his actions as a sign of love or favoritism and lashed out at anyone suggesting they were being harmed.

I knew several people who reported him to Crimestoppers and were ignored.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18d

The paedophile ex-lead singer of Lostprophets has been killed in prison, after getting arrested in 2013.

People knew of parts of his terrible behaviour years earlier, but the police refused to investigate tips from predominantly women and teenage girls.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 20d

Alas, tickets were sold out

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 20d

I went when I was 18 and loved it! The problem is I don't think there are enough tickets left for where I am in the queue given demand 🫠

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 20d

I completely blanked on Ghibli Museum tickets being an absolute nightmare to buy. 90 seconds after ticket sales opened and i was number 36,000 in the queue like it's a Taylor Swift concert

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 20d

Maybe go more dark fantasy than horror with something like Pan's Labyrinth, Gremlins, or Curse of the Were-Rabbit (though obv more funny than scary). Or one of the old Hammer horrors!

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 21d

Worcestershire, Slough, Middlesborough, Portsmouth, Reading...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 24d

I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience

Please share widely! 🧪 🍄‍🟫 🌲

A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...

A help-wanted poster seeking volunteer mushroom collectors in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

The poster provided some background info about the research project and study system and how folks can contribute if they are interested.

REQUEST | Calling all mycophiles, naturalists, and citizen scientists in CA, OR, WA, and BC!

Going for a hike in the woods or a walk in your neighborhood park?
• Please keep your eyes peeled for the purple mushrooms of L.a-o!
• Collect the mushrooms* if you are able to access them safely.
• If you can, please take a photo of the mushrooms and the tree(s) you find them under.
*If you find a mushroom that is clearly rotten or moldy, please don't collect it.

"I collected some purple mushrooms. What should I do now?"
1. Please keep the mushroom fresh:
• Store in paper, not plastic.
• Keep cool/ refrigerate, but do not freeze.
• Store mushrooms away from light.
2. Email me to arrange pick-up, delivery, or shipment* of your sample.
* will cover packing and shipping expenses!

"What's in it for those who contribute to this work?"
• You will receive acknowledgement in presentations and publications stemming from this research.
• You will receive copies of journal publications from this research (data available upon request).
• You are invited to attend presentations of this research and to visit the lab at Stanford University.

Page 2 of the help-wanted poster includes reference photos of the study organism and a map of where this species has been observed. All images and the map are sourced from iNaturalist.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 26d

If you wanna listen to a horny straight pop song Carly Rae Jepsen is right there

Scary Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26d

stumbled across real lyrics to an actual new Taylor Swift song and boy, that's a bold strategy, Cotton. let's see if it pays off.

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 28d

mangaka with a cold, call him Gunji Ito

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Sep 28

Opinion so far on Hades II: just let me fish

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Sep 24

Twitch's Subtember should logically be followed by Toptober

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Sep 24

I'm less gender diverse, more gender averse