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Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · 4d

Found out that my rabbit needs to have another $500+ tooth surgery sooo... I have to take commissions and get some digital sales asap... 😵‍💫

Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm Vanessa, disabled comic creator, writer, illustrator, merch designer, & #dnd game master.

🎨Portfolio quietsnooze.net
🎸Webcomic radiosilencecomic.com
📙Patreon patreon.com/quietsnooze
🎲Official DnD Merch ko-fi.com/quietsnooze/...
☕Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/quietsnooze
📦Shop snooze-labs.com

Books RADIO SILENCE, PROFICIENCIES, and EXPERTISE as well as DnD dice, Radio Silence patches and acrylic charms and candles

Comic page of a rock band on stage playing instruments from webcomic Radio Silence

Official DnD merchandise of the dragon hoard dice bags and gelatinous cube dice bags

Cat and Damien by the fire
Damien: Do I want to know what’s in this?
Cat: Squirrel.
Damien: Yep, I did not want to know.

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 1d

Come on, little critter! Show yourself! If you hide too long, people will think they've been sucked into a British murder mystery show!

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 2d

Not a red fox, right? They can be pretty yelpy, spooky and go on for a while.

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 2d

They need to tweak the grammar set-up; thanks to you I've been watching Tomato, and the phrase 'red-headed non-binary' has been floating in my head for two weeks now since watching a previous Shadows of Doubt video from him. Make it write 'non-binary red-head' or something!

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 2d

They now crave the Vienna sausages and such, for balance.

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 2d

Greg is the pseudonym she uses when when's off doing her own things

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know enough about them to be saying this applies to them! It might not! But so many people say things like 'Cringe is Dead! Chase your Bliss', but then pull out a manifesto on geo-politics when anyone asks them why they do something rather than just saying 'I dunno, I wanted to'.

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 2d

It is notable how to too many people, the idea that any sort of expression of disappointment in what you produce publicly is taken as a searing condemnation. And if you're doing something because it makes you happy, why is the explanation never just that?

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 4d

She spent the time practising, and just really want to show off her new tricks!

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 5d

I went to collage for that! ...just in time for a jobs-slump that would have forced me to move to Alberta, but I did collage for it!

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 6d

Why would you remove it and Streisand Effect yourself like this? Baffling decisionmaking here.

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Anniversary!

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 8d

Oh good, I was briefly wondering how you had managed to type that

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 9d

This picture proves that poodles really do have souls, since this specific dog is clearly 'filled' by the void where one should be!

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats!

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 9d

Got a new shirt from @aurahack.ca and needed to let Ascari get the first wear. To bad she started fighting over which of her is the chronologically first one, but she can both share. At at least briefly.

Two plush catgirls placed in the neck-hole of a white t-shirt with a picture of a little truck on it.

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Windy & Wallflower @windywallflower.bsky.social · 10d

They are always the CHEAPEST and MOST RELIABLE SHIPPING OPTION IN CANADA. I CANNOTTT stress this enough.

Over the course of over 10 years running both W&W and before this we've lost a grand total of maybe 10? packages? out of thOUSANDS.

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Windy & Wallflower @windywallflower.bsky.social · 10d

ALL of our small books, pins, stickers, patches, tiny items that fit into 'big parcel letter mail' with STAMPS will actually start to cost YOU all sHIPPING. if we're forced to switch away from Canpost.

We can ONLY offer free shipping across Canada BECAUSE of Canada Post's exceptions.

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 10d

i’m not on threads but i did come across these posts about the Canada Post strike from someone on there that i felt worth sharing… mostly because i wanted to make a similar thread on this but haven’t had a chance to do the price comparisons. 1/

threads post from user angelolexie

Welcome to my Canada Post crash-out.
Letters are urgent business.
Canada Post offers 2-4 day delivery for letters.
Bank cards, drivers licenses, voting cards, medical appointments, cancer biopsy results, abnormal cervical screenings, blood tests, jury duty, court dates, university transcripts, parking tickets, passports, and legal documents are all mailed through Canada Post.
Letters are not flyers.
They are not Burger King coupons.

Darsara @darsara.bsky.social · 12d

CON: No drawing
PRO: Marriage
A tough balance
(And congrats!)

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 13d

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It's All Greek! from The Storefront

Written and Drawn by Meredith McClaren So in April of 2022 I went to Greece. I've never been to Greece. And I didn't know much about it. The closest I've probably ever come to studying anything Gree...

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 13d

Sept 27th is World Tourism Day!

And wouldn't you know it?
I have a whole book about my 2022 trip to Greece.

A photo from a harbor in Crete. A city sits at the base of hills and distant mountains. The moon is rising in a still light sky. And a little illustration of myself walks along the sidewalk.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 15d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 16d

genuinely, who cares? public services aren't businesses. it provides services that should be accessible to the entire population. it should not be expected to make that profitable.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

screenshot from the article: "Canada Post is now facing an existential crisis," Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound said in a statement on Thursday. "Since 2018, the corporation has accumulated more than $5 billion in losses. In 2024 alone, it lost over $1 billion, and in 2025, it is already on track to lose close to $1.5 billion."

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15d

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...