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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 58m

someone described Canberra as "a hot version of Ottawa with even more fascist architecture"

(apparently a similar amount of fuck all as Ottawa as well)

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 1h

Big accounts are alien sorcerers from the planet Zeist?

I knew it!

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

the thing they don't tell you is that once you're past 10k you only get more followers by beheading a larger account holder in single combat.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 2h

feck and bollocks and so forth, where's that whole wad of text I wrote back in summer?

Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 2h

Yis will all be thrilled, thrilled I tell you, to learn that the shirt named after my granny is made from Italian fabric.

The, uh, coat or whatever it is named after me is possibly also made from Italian fabric.

Here endeth the lesson.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

The cost of fabric will depend on what you're buying.

— Chinese-made shirt fabric will cost you about $3 or $4 per yard.
— Portuguese fabric will cost about $5 or $6 yard.
— Turkish fabric is $8 or $9.
— Italian fabric can be higher.

To make a shirt, you need 1.75 yards.

Some finish shirt fabric in a swatch book.

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Ashley @bookjunkie007.bsky.social · 2h

I was aware of a version of this cost markup thread from multiple ethical sustainable Canadian fashion brands’ social media posts. I have still had people telling me that it was “unreasonable” to expect people to pay $198 CAD for an ethical pair of pants when a mid-level pair of pants costs $90 CAD.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 3h

I think William S Burroughs had this dream once.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 9h

If people fancy seeing the sort of fantasy stuff I'm doing for Warhammer, my novella "On the Shoulders of Giants" has its paperback preorder starting next Saturday. If you don't know Warhammer, you don't particularly need to. Just the story of a man with a gun who lives on top of an ogre.

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west end girl (in a dead end world) @koanside.bsky.social · 5h

I started binging Portlandia a week or two before the Portland protests began and it's awesome to see they haven't lost that spirit the way it feels like Vancouver mostly has. gem.cbc.ca/portlandia/s01

(also, I 🤍 bagpipes!)

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 6h

tis a faint bit chilly out, so tis.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Had to move today's Worcester Public Library + Worcester Cinema screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social to the main area of the building because the Banx Room wasn't big enough!

Stop by between 2 and 4 pm for postcard writing screenprinting, and more w/ @massaabb.bsky.social!

#BannedBooksWeek

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 1d

“Bike lanes create cyclists because they largely eliminate the risk of being crushed by careless or aggressive suv drivers.” - @dlknowles.bsky.social

Seems like a reasonable ask to our elected municipal reps here in #TOpoli

E-bikes are #SustainableUrbanVehicle
🚲 #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 1d

The e-cargo bike in question is from North Vancouver’s pilot lending program, which makes a variety of electric bicycles available for residents to borrow at for free from a branch of their local library. We were honoured to learn it was inspired by a chapter of our book ‘Building the Cycling City’!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 9h

Sure, but if he’d stuck around for the PhD, nobody would be listening to him now. Checkmate

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Rob Shum @robshum.bsky.social · 9h

Chag Sameach to all my fellow rootless culinary-cosmopolitans out there.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 12h

Did not know this about Old Bay

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James Hodden @jameshodden.bsky.social · 9h

See for example Brexit. And watch the "left" not realise that pointing out that this is nonsense and is going to do catastrophic damage to everyone's quality of life isn't enough.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 9h

We've had at least two generations of mass media pundits revving each other up about how bad everything is: the immigrants, the gays, the government, the terrorists, creating whole fictions.

Then people elected these folks to solve all these outrageous fictional problems.

This is the result.

pamwalkerstl.bsky.social @pamwalkerstl.bsky.social · 9h

When you run into one liar a day, they are the liar. When everyone you talk to in a day lies, you're the liar.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 9h

Even better, the guy who wants to share the Gospel of Our Lord and Saviour D. Trump didn't come to the desk.

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 9h

Someone gave me a potted history of the local First Nation dialects and how the trade dialects evolved.

That was an insanely cool high point of the day.

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 10h

reskeeting in the vain hope of just one order this weekend 🤣

ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1d

family health emergencies mean I've had to pull out from trading at tomorrow's Partizan in Newark. That's a big hit to cashflow so I've just put a 10% off code on the shop to grab some orders instead - use PARTIZAN10 at Checkout to qualify. I'll ship out existing show pre-orders on Monday!

homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

media.tenor.com

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 9h

Future me must consider acquiring such a thing

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spacedentist.bsky.social @spacedentist.bsky.social · 4d

The magic of Media can turn a 12 year old child into
- a Black Man when a police bullet happens to show up in their back
- a Woman and/or Prostitute when a police's hand is found on her throat

3 frames of a well suited Giancarlo Esposito saying:
"I can't lash out"
"Like some raging entitled maniac."
"That's a white man's luxury"

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 5d

I also just want to say that America has a long history of lying about how violent and dangerous Black men are to fit agendas. Jay, Aaron, Paul, et al are pretty directly engaged in white supremacy bullshit.

They just called a pacifist Black man a dangerous predator because they don't like him

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Gavin B @ghostflaneur.bsky.social · 9h

Smart

Cycle Fun Montreal @cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social · 9h

Bike basket also carries the bike lock.

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 9h

The fact that Trump, a complete self obsessed narcissist, is currently experiencing distress for the fact he may experience consequences -for the first time - in the afterlife for the pain he's caused others, is funny to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 11h

The Iona Institute isn't based on Iona, and isn't an institute. It doesn't pay tax as the authorities accept the claim that it isn't political😶. It has 3 columnists in the Irish press. Its foreign donors include weird organisations with Latin names and a pro Russia donor who served time for bribery.

Wikipedia screenshot.

Iona is closely linked with Agenda Europe; a secretive network of European ultra-conservative organisations which oppose LGBT rights, abortion, contraception, assisted reproduction technologies, surrogacy, euthanasia and divorce.[78][79]

The activity of the group was exposed in a leak to the television channel Arte in 2017; a cache of documents revealed that Agenda Europe was founded in a "strictly confidential" meeting in London in January 2013; that it held annual "summits" and that it has a common manifesto called Restoring the Natural Order: an Agenda for Europe.

The first summit was held in Fürstenried Castle, outside Munich in 2014. David Quinn attended and gave a talk on opposition to same-sex marriage.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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