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I had no idea this was a Vancouver thing!

Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 13h ago

When you wear denim jeans with a denim jacket and denim shirt, you create a very unique look. This look is known as The Canadian Tuxedo....but why? It all began in the 1950s in Vancouver. This is the story. 📸 Wikicommons (Erky-Nagy Tibor) 🧵 1/7

Or as Del Toro put it variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Guillermo del Toro: Saying ‘Art Is Not Important’ Is ‘Always the Prelude to Fascism’

Guillermo del Toro says claiming that 'art is not important' is a 'prelude to fascism.'

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The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

The 👏 House 👏 Hippo 👏 is 👏 real! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tijc...

House Hippo Commercial

YouTube video by Bruce

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Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2d ago

When the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes. This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians. 🧵 1/10

Yellow here too in New West! Sure we have three season - rain, construction, and smoke - but they often overlap.

Alex McRoberts@alex.mcroberts.me · yesterday

That captures it fairly well. Wildfire smoke over North Vancouver. Smoky clouds and an orange hue of the sun. Not much of a smoky “taste” in the air yet, thankfully. Time to close the doors and windows.

I should be clear that the architecture of Bluesky makes it the social media place I most like to be. I'm not on social media to be an influencer or instigator; I want to hang out with folks and have an enjoyable time. This place delivers on that. I hope it continues to do so for a long time.

I have no desire to ever engage with right wing folks. I have done my best to delete them out of my life - including any I'm related to. So Bluesky may invite folks from the right, but I will continue to block them. I love my liberal bubble 😀

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

NOT exclusively an American thing. Just ask the Canadian relatives I won't talk to because they are transphobes. I've also never understood why we shouldn't cut off family we disagree with. Of what benefit is it to anyone to keep having awkward Christmas dinners?

Humor Satire Memes@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

Lettuce is fine up here in Canadia. But I am on week four of Ozempic, so 🤷

Sorrowscopes@sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Aquarius: Your family will experience one final, posthumous disappointment when they learn that Guinness does not certify a record for longest episode of explosive diarrhea.

30 seconds ago I had never heard of this person. Now I think they're a hero!

Cassidy Hettesheimer@cassidyhett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

I would like to address some of the criticism I'm seeing about Rand Paul vs Anthony Fauci I'm seeing articles, posts & memes saying that Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist, and therefor not a "real" doctor. Wrong. Ophthalmologist are medical doctors who specialize in eyeball stuff. 1/4

Quote with a ridiculous movie you think people should watch.

Lyndon@iamlyndon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Quote with a ridiculous movie you think people should watch.

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.

Chaplains will no longer be delivering prayers at Canadian Armed Forces public ceremonies. A new "spiritual reflections" policy reflects the military's commitment to the state's duty of religious neutrality. www.bchumanist.ca/caf_spiritua...

Humanist groups applaud modernization of Armed Forces ceremony policy

A new policy ensures spiritual reflections at military ceremonies uphold principles of religious neutrality.

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I would love to see public transit be the default and cars used only as really needed. But even the best transit in the world is awful. Why? People, weather and distance. So if some smarter than me folks could get to work on those, that would be great!

Drained, Chester sat down and waited for the police to arrive. Staring at Alan’s still-warm body laying among the empty shells, he felt no remorse. There were two sacred rules. You didn’t touch another man’s wife, or another man’s nuts. His ears perked up as the sound of sirens rose in the distance.

When I was young I (and my friends) used to make fun of Boy George and Culture Club. Us punk kids didn't think they were cool. I stopped because it was mean. Maybe it wasn't mean enough?

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last wk.

Just amazing how this headline gets worse with every line

Vancouver Village's Plan has been officially DEFEATED It fails by a 10-1 margin, with only OneCity councillor Lucy Maloney in favour Ken Sim, who proposed the plan three years ago, says "no home owner should feel city hall is deciding the future of their property without their voice being heard"

here's my story on vancouver's big building being approved and the not so little reason why some councillors were opposed www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Libertarian ass wipe loses his business. Oh well 🙄

si oppington@stillwellgray.ca · last wk.

looks like he separated from being in business

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that this phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

THIS IS GOOD MESSAGING AND NOT ANTISEMITIC. Criticizing Netanyahu is not antisemitic. Lumping all Jews together like we’re a fucking monolith is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Mamdani: "When I make criticisms of PM Netanyahu, they are criticisms of PM Netanyahu. And what I shared were not even frankly personal assessments, they were objective facts ... it's a city where everyone needs to know that their belonging to it is not conditional on how they feel about the mayor."

"It has been a truly humiliating few weeks for Elon Musk and his followers, and it’s only going to get worse. If I weren’t laughing so much, I would almost feel sorry for them."

You Will Never See Elon Musk's The Odyssey

The humiliation of the Tesla Weirdo is complete.

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I'm also fine with selectively buying from other countries as needed. (Let me have my Scotish single malt!)

Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦@blackpanther25.bsky.social · 2w ago

𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 #CanadaSky🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli🍁

We need to see this kind of heroism in every neighborhood in the country. Wherever and whenever those Nazis show up.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 2w ago

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

Marcel Marceau

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

And here's yet another great reason for alt text. I shouldn't have to reverse image search this to find out what the films are.

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s the best fourth wall break in cinema? Some starters:

Actual professor of genetics Adam Rutherford says 'no he hasn't'. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ to harvest its organs

‘This technology gives us a path to reverse aging,’ says 48-year-old tech entrepreneur

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