Hey, so what in the hell is this shit? After tumbler ridge, they want to strap a chatbot to our kid’s public education??? lts.sd23.bc.ca/documents/a8...

Almost finished 🤓 The lines are still skinny! Although I’m sketching with a blackwing now

Pencils!!! My youngest is officially in elementary school! Also, if we’re an associate EU member does that mean Schengen 👀👀👀👀

Add to the fire sale. There’s also a petition against this which I recommend signing www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around wha...

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Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 3w ago

FBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’

Selling Vancouver International to hedge fund assholes really pisses me off. That’s such nice airport and they are going to cut out everything nice for a fucking dollar

Death and Delirium commission inks Making progresssss

I think post apocalyptic currency might include wing’s soy sauce packets

Canadian tech alternatives to bring your data back across the border. engageq.notion.site/unplug-full

Unplug America | Notion

Canadian tech alternatives to bring your data back across the border. by Tod and Jocelyn Maffin • see their projects • support their work

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It was 20 years ago that I first heard of the devastating health impacts and cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan, home of the Mikisew Cree First Nation downstream from oil sands tailings "ponds”. 🧵 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...

Alberta exempts Suncor's tailings pond dump from review, angering downstream communities

The oil giant won't need an environmental impact assessment before treating and dumping millions of litres of oilsand tailings into the Athabasca River.

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I might have to add “the devil wears sketchers?” To the lexicon

The recent attacks on the artist app Cara, built specifically as a place to protect art from AI scraping, suggest a deliberate disregard for the principle of consent, says Cara founder Jingna Zhang. Story on @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

Artists Built A Site To Escape AI. Scrapers Are Coming For It Anyway

Cara was set up specifically for artists who do not consent to having their work used to train AI models. Those principles seem to have made it a target for attacks.

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Recently found out a local play place does coffee with infinite refills. So we’re setting up shop!

if you're Canadian, there is a petition active right now to have him removed and sent back to the US for signaling his obvious allegiances here. There's already a quarter million signatures. Get him out of our country, we don't have time for this bullshit rn www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 3w ago

The U.S. ambassador to Canada reposted this

today is Jack Kirby’s birthday. i just put the original art for the Gigantic Beer label i made some months back up on store store.fareldal.com/product/kirb...

Mixed media: pen and ink, photoshop, tortilla

Marley Zarcone@kittycoffee.bsky.social · 3w ago

I know shits crazy but why is my husband scanning a tortilla

Smoke cleared up just in time!

Local news talking about me (and my dog) making my new comic! Thanks @castanetkamloops.net !! www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...

Kamloops comic book artist pens fourth issue, travels B.C. conventions

A Kamloops comic book creator has self-published the fourth issue of his original series, and he's taken his creations to comic fans across the province.

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Also, if you’re Canadian or interested in Canadian hot topics 🔥 Front Burner had a great interview with Vass Bednar this morning about tech’s position on our tariff war, and how shitty a deal CUSMA is for tech independence from the US. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

What Big Tech wants out of the trade war

Podcast Episode · Front Burner · August 27 · 30m

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One lesson you learn from being a parent during the summer is if they’re not busy, they’re hungry. Like throwing calories in a basketball hoop

We’re not changing it.

Hey comics people, friends & colleagues. As of today, our friend @artyomtopilin.bsky.social is under house arrest in his home town of Tolyatti due to ongoing FSB investigation. We don't have much details yet, but his computer and phone were taken by the police, so communication with him is hindered.

Got one of those giant foot massage machines for my birthday and it is now an essential addition to my drawing space

I know shits crazy but why is my husband scanning a tortilla

Aeon Flux

In 2014, James Stokoe contributed cover to IDW's ROGUE TROOPER series. Really, really wish we could have gotten a whole series with his interiors. We're full Rogue Trooper fanatics now thanks to our recent episode with Duncan Jones. Listen🔗🧵⬇️

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Also if you have a blossoming artist in your life, do not go through their sketchbooks unless you’re invited to!

Sen@dresdencodak.com · last mo.

Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.