Morgan is a national treasure and if you don’t follow her whisper videos you should. She is like the narrator in my head.

Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨@efairhurst.bsky.social · last wk.

Yes…exactly

The Birthday Experience Friday: www.elysiantheater.com/shows/birthd...

Resurrecting an essential chapter of Canuxploitation history, MAPLE SYRUP PIX, VOL. 1 features two classic sex comedies from Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond that helped define Québec’s “Maple Syrup Porno” movement. Preorder now: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 2mo ago

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.

Don't worry, those new AI data centres will solve it for us, right?

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Land is warming 1.75× faster than the ocean. Heat records are being smashed by larger margins than ever before. Four times as many new heat records occurred in recent years because of human-caused climate change. This is acceleration. We must respond with equal urgency. #HeatCrisis

Tonight @whammyanalog.bsky.social Canadian Glam mystery grab bag screening! Do not miss! www.whammyanalog.com/events/uh-oh...

The new Austin Powers sequel is a commercial for Verizon that looks like AI.

For many good reasons, Canadians are more inclined to look on today’s United States not with envy but with a mix of defiance and pity. Michael Harris writes. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

As Trump Slags Canadians, the American Dream Fades | The Tyee

Citizens here hold more faith in their nation. Global partners are lining up.

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The Birthday Experience is such a fun variety show! Next one is Friday Aug 7th @chaki.bsky.social and Brett Davis are our special guests and before that come to the closing of my art show next door at 6:30 pm. Elysian Theater, Los Angeles Info here: www.elysiantheater.com/shows/birthd...

This piece is incredibly validating for my recent dealings with them over a cheque they "accidentally" sent me then demanded back months later with penalties, so many hours wasted on the phone, along with gaslighting.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Y’know America always goes on and on about the land of the free etc but in Canada (where I’m from) you can’t be arrested for clapping

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

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World on fire and the billionaires want all of the water to destroy more of the earth and cause more fires.

Dang they really got a category for everything

After my dad finished watching hockey on the one TV we'd all watch Tommy Hunter which was on after I told a Canadian friend that hockey outlasted Tommy Hunter but that friend corrected me and said that hockey's gone too.

CHEK News@cheknews.ca · 3mo ago

Tommy Hunter, a fixture in Canadian living rooms for decades with his long-running CBC TV show, has died. He was 89. https://cheknews.ca/canadian-country-star-tommy-hunter-dies-1333966/

Wish I could be there! There's a chapter on Metal Messiah in the free Cold Glitter PDF Supplement, download here: feralhouse.com/cold-glitter/

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Cold Glitter: The Untold Story of Canadian Glam uncovers a forgotten yet fascinating chapter on glam rock music and culture…from Canada. Multi-disciplinary artist Robert Dayton taps his Canadian roots...

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Canadian International Pictures@cipictures.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re excited to announce our new 4K restoration of METAL MESSIAH – the little-seen dystopian rock opera debut of director Tibor Takács (THE GATE) – will premiere at @fantasiafestival.com on July 25th, and Takács will be there! More details here: fantasiafestival.com/en/film/meta...

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The Canadian Romantic Oh Canada

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What would an art show at The Elysian, an LA comedy theatre often described as "daring and unpredictable" with lots of clowning, look like? Come find out Friday July 10! The Shop at the Elysian presents its first art show featuring the work of Robert Dayton. www.elysiantheater.com/shows/robert...

Far more people are excited about Mel Brooks turning 100 than USA turning 250.

I am delighted that the new issue of my Three Stooges zine (100+ pages of art, essays, poetry, fiction, and more about The Three Stooges, written by a host of brilliant contributors) was covered by the Criterion books newsletter: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Will Sloan@willsloanesq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The world's greatest Three Stooges fanzine returns. THE JOURNAL OF STOOGEOLOGICAL STUDIES VOL. 2 is available. Art! Comics! Poetry! Essays! Fiction! Buy it: United States - www.amazon.com/Journal-Stoo... Canada - www.amazon.ca/Journal-Stoo... United Kingdom - www.amazon.co.uk/Journal-Stoo...

On the bright side, today is the best day of the year for avoiding vampires.

Share and make the call.

I just found out that Trump is only 80. So, he really is a direct product of the atomic bomb.

Today is the last day to join our friends at CAG in telling the city government that we don't want an AI data centre in Mount Pleasant! #vanpoli #vancouver #NoAI

Canadian Animation Guild - IATSE Local 938@cag938.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CAG AI Data Centre Response Committee: We have until this Friday (June 12) to tell the City of Vancouver how we feel about the Mt Pleasant AI Data Centre! Comment period on the Planner Report for the 111 E 5th Ave rezoning app about to close!

Doing some shows in the coming weeks in Ontario and Quebec with some fellow (if I may say in all humility) Canadian underground DIY legends: theworldprovider.net/site/shows/

Whammy is doing a FUNdraiser for their exciting move, check it out! Lots of neat perks too, including custom art commissions by me.

Whammy!@whammyanalog.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re moving!!!! ko-fi.com/post/Why-we-...

Email your Member of Parliament to act now with people-first rules that actually protect our digital future. openmedia.org/AI4Canadians... @openmedia.org

Stop Canada’s “Buy Now, Regret Later” AI Future

Canada can’t afford a “buy now, regret later” AI strategy. 🚫🤖 Urge your MP to push our leaders to act now with people-first rules that actually protect our digital future. 🇨🇦 Send your message now 👉 h...

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I guess one can move to Csnada, get a job at a data centre (which the country will be jam packed with), get cancer by 70 -and hey, free health care!

Kimberly Parker@thatkimparker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you’re also furious about AI data centres being built in the middle of Vancouver you can tell the City exactly what you think by writing an objection to the rezoning application here www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5