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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 1d

#keepportlandweird #artinaction #creativeresistance
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Andy Elrick @andyelrick.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a little late to party, but fully back on my Ezra stuff.
Please forgive me for invoking Baudrillard, I promise I'm not that pretentious IRL.

Pleasure as always to work with @dennycarter.bsky.social.

Ezra Klein Is Mourning The End Of The Civilacrum

Klein wants a simulation of politics without conflict. Ascendant fascism won't allow that.

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 20d

I’m just going to leave this here:
(The Montreal Star, Feb 4, 1939)

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 22d

And yet she persisted

#anntelnaes #politicalart #politicalcartoon #makingisconnecting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Censoring the satirists

ABC suspends "indefinitely" Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 25d

Creative action beats despair

#creativeprocess #artblog #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #lyndabarry #makingisconnecting

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Back to basics

Small, quick gestures spark creative action

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 10

For all fans of baseball and civil rights…

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Jackie: First of "Firsts"

No. 1 of limited edition set of baseball cards

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lessons from a wasp invasion

#artblog #artwriting #creativeprocess
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When more is more

Sheer volume of objects turns up the visual volume

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 9

A series of “Firsts”!

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Jackie Robinson started it all

A series of paintings... and an unique set of baseball cards

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 1

More ‘improper ideology’ art, please!
#smithsonian #usauthoritarianism #improperideology

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On hope and progress

Time for a modern-day Salon des Refusés

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 25

Another tussle with the Inner Critic

#artblog #creativeprocess #makingIsConnecting #innercritic #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Picture imperfect

Another tussle with the Inner Critic

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 22

Canada can play a peacekeeping role as Blue States begin their ‘soft secession’
#fightfascism #never51st #canadaproud

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I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.

Once they win elections, it's already too late.

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 19

Good day, eh! Here’s my latest #artblog on Making Stuff and Writing About It:

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Inspired by hosers and hobs

It started with a Canadian camping classic

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is no time to play it safe

#JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes #MakingIsConnecting #artblog #politicalart

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This is no time to play it safe

Silly satire and kidding around builds resilience

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 9

Flaw in the fantasy: Trump is still alive in 2028. Not with those cankles.

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Beverly (@beverly143)

Brilliant

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The art of abundance
#artblog #forage #vancouverartist #fibreartist

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The art of overabundance

It's no way to work a community-garden plot

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 28

US-linked corporate sponsors dropping Vancouver Pride? Whatever shall we do?!
#MakingIsConnecting #pride2025 #makersgonnamake #goodtrouble

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Makers gonna make (good trouble)

Forecast is for fresh, rambunctious Pride parades

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nuff said. 🇨🇦

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 24

Assignment: Illustrate the conspiracy-plagued White House culture. Till Lauer (for The New Yorker) nails it.
#politicalart #artmatters

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ground murals on Arbutus Greenway: another sign that this city is getting better, not worse (screengrab source: r/vancouver.

#makingisconnecting #vancouverart #summerinthecity
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