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susan, festive edition
@susandixon.bsky.social
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Pathologically Canadian traveller, writer, song and dance gal
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[pfp alt text: photo of a smiling gal (me) with dark hair and blue eyes, wearing silver hoop earrings and a white turtleneck]
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#Vancouver sure is pretty at night this time of year
A streetscape, showing bright green lights illuminating trees, a few cars, and a couple of people walking on the sidewalk. The lights are reflected on the road, wet from recent rain. Yours truly, against the backdrop of the trees and lights. I am wearing a jacket with a faux fur collar, my hair is in a topknot, and I am wearing festively red lipstick. The Lights of Hope holiday light display on St. Paul's Hospital. The entire facade of the building is covered with brightly lit stars for charity.
December 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Canadian friends: The Mr. Dressup documentary premieres on CBC & CBC Gem tonight!

#CBC is essential. It preserves our cultural memory, tells our stories, and keeps our shared history accessible, not hidden behind paywalls nor owned by foreign tech and media conglomerates.

#ProtectTheCBC #Canada
Ad for Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe It shows a still of Ernie Coombs as Mr. Dressup, wearing a costume consisting of a black jacket with many arms and white-gloved hands, a white foulard, and a matching black hat. He stands next to his iconic Tickle Trunk, overflowing with bright costumes. Casey and Finnegan are sitting atop the open trunk lid. Text reads: December Watch List: Mr. Dressup Documentary Dec 3 8pm ET with the CBC and CBC Gem logos
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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post something random or risk a dreadful December
A photograph of a Venetian canal. The water is beautifully green, and in the foreground are two black gondolas tied off on blue and white striped poles. In the distance, a bride is posed on a small bridge, with her lovely white gown draped over the side.
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I mean...
An Instagram ad for Your Mama's Kitchen, hosted by Michele Norris. It shows a photo of a smiling Al Roker in a snazzy pinstripe suit, superimposed over a picture of a casserole dish containing the food he will discuss. Text reads: Al Roker's family recipe for Sweet Potato Poon
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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You've just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The replica of the statue of David in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, photographed from below so as to really capture his beauty. Behind him is a tall brick building.
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Is this Rick Schroder? 😂
Still from the above video clip, showing a little boy with very straight blonde hair, eating fried chicken
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Share a ‘90’s movie you think deserves more love.
Poster for the movie Dogfight, showing a photo of River Phoenix and Lili Taylor from the film. Text in a handwriting-style font reads: The rules of the dogfight were simple: Everyone puts in fifty bucks, And the guy with the ugliest "date" wins. Dogfight A love story
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Three of the fiercest queens from RuPaul's Drag Race UK, photographed looking directly to camera: A’Whora, with a platinum blonde updo and icy blue eye makeup to match her incredible frock Tayce, in cascading black hair, wearing a white gown festooned with feathers and beads Joe Black, clad in black leather with a matching chapeau, with epic red lips
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Wilma Flintstone, a cartoon character with red hair, wearing a white dress with a white choker necklace, holds her horn-shaped telephone to her ear. She looks peeved. Helena Bonham Carter as Marla Singer in Fight Club. She has a spiral phone cord wrapped around her neck like a choker necklace, and holds the receiver of a landline telephone to her ear. She looks intrigued.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Anyway, here's Wonderwall
Pope Leo holds a microphone with a crowd of mostly men in suits behind him
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I could teach you, but I'd have to charge 😘
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The Innocence Test Baddie (51) you're the most fun, but my mom would for sure let me hang out with you still. you've managed to find that sweet spot we all look for — teach us your ways.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Looking through the photos I took on my recent Mediterranean adventure, and this one taken in Valetta, Malta feels especially poignant
A worn poster - uppercase black text on a plain white background - on an even more worn wooden door, on an even more worn pale ochre-coloured stone wall, with an excerpt of a poem by Suheir Hammad. I WILL DANCE AND RESIST AND DANCE AND PERSIST AND DANCE
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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weekend plans
Stock photo of a woman wearing a champagne-coloured cocktail dress and matching strappy high-heeled shoes, partly submerged inside an enormous martini glass. Her arms are raised and her head is cast back in bliss. She is literally a party in a glass.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Fall is falling in #Vancouver
#saltingthevibes #thirstmasking
A tall tree photographed from below with some green and some yellow leaves. In the background are trees that are almost bare, and some have red and gold leaves. Yours truly wearing a black chapeau and a sky blue N95 respirator that coordinates with my blue pleather jacket. In the background are trees that have lost their leaves, and far behind the waters of False Creek can be seen. The same park that is behind me in the previous photo. There is green grass strewn with leaves, some benches, and you can see across False Creek to the buildings on the other side. A cacophony of mostly maple leaves, carpeting the ground in shades of gold, bronze, and deep red.
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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I call dibs on writing the Lifetime holiday movie with this storyline

Also WTF this is horrible
Photo taken from above, showing a woman wearing jeans and a navy-coloured sweater, walking on a grassy field amid beautiful evergreen trees. Text on the image reads: A proposed power line for data centres threatens a Christmas tree farm in Maryland (NBC peacock-shaped logo) NBC NEWS
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Probably the first time in my life I have felt angst over a budget being passed
Screenshot from a CBC story, showing a photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney, wearing a dark suit as he speaks during Question Period, with smiling Members of Parliament behind him. Text reads: Carney government wins crucial confidence vote on budget Liberal government’s budget passes 170 to 168
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Ah yes, just like that lovely old song says
Verse from The Christmas Song, edited to: And so I'm offering this simple phrase To kids from [redacted] Although it's been said many times, many ways Merry Christmas to you
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Can anyone explain this helicopter operation in the west end of #Vancouver this morning? I am baffled.
A yellow helicopter hovers next to a glass high-rise building, with a large white crate suspended from a tether A yellow helicopter hovers next to a glass high-rise building, with a large white crate suspended from a tether A yellow helicopter hovers amid buildings of various heights. In the background is a low mountain and part of English Bay is visible.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Barcelona was already bedecked last week!
A decorative sign hung across a street, with trees with autumn-coloured leaves in the background. The sign says 'bones festes' (happy holidays in Catalan) Simple silver star decorations suspended from a wire. In the background is an ornate building. The sky is filled with impressive rain clouds. Sparkling Christmas decorations hang amidst the branches of leafy green trees, with Modernisme buildings in the background. The photo was taken through a window of La Pedrera, and is framed by flowers and two old-fashioned globe lamps in the foreground.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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When I got back to Vancouver the other night, I was delighted by my neighbour's seasonal decor
Photograph of an apartment door with a selection of teeny pumpkins, painted in a variety of colours and motifs, arranged in two groupings on the carpet
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Dispatches from Barcelona
Photo from the Call in Barcelona, the ancient Jewish quarter of the city. It shows a narrow lane between two buildings, with a small bridge with gothic arched windows above the street, connecting two stone buildings. An interior courtyard with tables and chairs, and orange lanterns that resemble sea creatures or flowers suspended above. A stone beneath the main synagogue of Barcelona with an inscription in Roman numerals of XIIX - the number 18 (chai) - which signifies Jewish people were there. A stained glass window in shades of blue and pink and white and gold, making up a star of David. It is made of broken glass segments, showing that even broken things can be restored and made whole.
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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#HappyHalloween from the Mediterranean
A perfectly eerie moon, glowing through voluminous clouds Three black cats on a long red tiled strip down a narrow lane in Bulgheri, Tuscany The same lane showing the black cats, and wee white ghost decorations suspended above
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Buongiorno from Florence
Copy of Michelangelo's David in Firenze A beautiful Aperol spritz Trees and the tower of a medieval-looking tower, beneath a somewhat ominous sky
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#saltingthevibes on a motorcoach, on the way to taste some amazing wines in Tuscany
#wearamask
Yours truly on a motorcoach, wearing a sky blue Kind N95 respirator
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Venetian adventures continue
Yours truly, smiling in the rain in a square in Venice Photo of buildings along a Venetian canal. In the distance, a bride is posed with the skirts of her white gown carefully arranged over the edge of a small bridge. The green waters of a canal with a bridge and buildings
October 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM