west end girl (in a dead end world)
@koanside.bsky.social
into avoiding plagues, writing, arting, music, high+low culture, flora+fauna, AuDHD wrangling, disability rights, intersectional feminism (she/her) 🖖😷
pro-landback settler on unceded Coast Salish territories
no political darlings
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pro-landback settler on unceded Coast Salish territories
no political darlings
🟥🟪🟦🌈
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Don't believe the hype about the Canada Disability Benefit;
Canada continues to legislate poverty for disabled people at provincial & federal levels while making support programs as inaccessible & underfunded as they can get away with.
Even under UN censure. As long as most voters believe the con.
Canada continues to legislate poverty for disabled people at provincial & federal levels while making support programs as inaccessible & underfunded as they can get away with.
Even under UN censure. As long as most voters believe the con.
Poverty and health are directly linked
It is very hard to cope with chronic illness when you can’t afford to have your basic needs met
It’s not a personal failing. It’s the result of a hyper capitalistic & ableist society
We need to stop blaming the individuals and start demanding social reform
It is very hard to cope with chronic illness when you can’t afford to have your basic needs met
It’s not a personal failing. It’s the result of a hyper capitalistic & ableist society
We need to stop blaming the individuals and start demanding social reform
Once more, with reeling
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this female peregrine falcon shake
The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨
This video is NOT in slow motion!
Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶
The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨
This video is NOT in slow motion!
Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶
February 8, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this female peregrine falcon shake
The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨
This video is NOT in slow motion!
Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶
The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨
This video is NOT in slow motion!
Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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The herons are starting to gather for Stanley Park nesting season
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
The herons are starting to gather for Stanley Park nesting season
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A bonus shot from this morning! A tōrea pango (variable oystercatcher) too pretty to ignore. 🪶🇳🇿
January 8, 2026 at 3:47 AM
A bonus shot from this morning! A tōrea pango (variable oystercatcher) too pretty to ignore. 🪶🇳🇿
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UNDRIP was always intended by colonizer-occupiers to be nothing more than nice words and a photo op.
Eby has finally said the quiet part out loud, proving the hypocrisy.
Will the SCC find that Constitutional s. 35 Aboriginal and treaty rights bar the provinces from reversing UNDRIP implementation?
Eby has finally said the quiet part out loud, proving the hypocrisy.
Will the SCC find that Constitutional s. 35 Aboriginal and treaty rights bar the provinces from reversing UNDRIP implementation?
B.C. seeks to challenge landmark court ruling over mineral rights and DRIPA | CBC News
British Columbia has applied to the Supreme Court of Canada to hear an appeal against a landmark court ruling that found the province's mineral claims regime was "inconsistent" with the United Nations...
www.cbc.ca
February 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
UNDRIP was always intended by colonizer-occupiers to be nothing more than nice words and a photo op.
Eby has finally said the quiet part out loud, proving the hypocrisy.
Will the SCC find that Constitutional s. 35 Aboriginal and treaty rights bar the provinces from reversing UNDRIP implementation?
Eby has finally said the quiet part out loud, proving the hypocrisy.
Will the SCC find that Constitutional s. 35 Aboriginal and treaty rights bar the provinces from reversing UNDRIP implementation?
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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”, Chief Seattle.
February 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”, Chief Seattle.
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The current state of social media is as follows:
A website full of nazis openly supporting genocide is roasting a website full of libs (==) silently supporting genocide
A website full of nazis openly supporting genocide is roasting a website full of libs (==) silently supporting genocide
Bluesky is getting absolutely roasted on Twitter for their treatment of Palestinians which is really ruining their snarky meme campaign to get people over here and couldn’t happen to a worse company
February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
The current state of social media is as follows:
A website full of nazis openly supporting genocide is roasting a website full of libs (==) silently supporting genocide
A website full of nazis openly supporting genocide is roasting a website full of libs (==) silently supporting genocide
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Literally the only thing this website has over twitter now is that bsky doesnt allow and encourage the creation of CSAM. The bar to clear is currently sitting in the seventh layer of hell.
February 6, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Literally the only thing this website has over twitter now is that bsky doesnt allow and encourage the creation of CSAM. The bar to clear is currently sitting in the seventh layer of hell.
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February 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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i took 10 years off art because working while disabled didn’t afford me the extra energy or desire to make art.
not sure what exactly i would’ve personally gotten out of prompting a plagiarism machine during that time…
it’s getting an order fulfilled, not making something myself.
not sure what exactly i would’ve personally gotten out of prompting a plagiarism machine during that time…
it’s getting an order fulfilled, not making something myself.
no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.
![the stupid 'talent is a gatekeeping mechanism' thread that's going around, three posts reading:
tired of having these arguments so i'm gonna lay out the STARK reality of AI for some of you privileged fucks:
1. "talent" is a gatekeeping mechanism that has created a culture of professionalism that is no less of an ivory tower than academia, a moralized proxy for access to time, training, money.
2. being poor means having to make hard choices like:
[a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional)
[b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself)
[c] not doing it at all, or
[d] using AI.
“just don’t use AI” is a luxury position. when people moralize choices made under scarcity, they’re pretending the menu is the same for everyone. it fucking isn’t.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dei7f7zh74xr3hoghei6ke3d/bafkreig5uei5qn5bkwhgniorhoyesfs73ovo76xwfk2yxprmtnbde4cvp4@jpeg)
February 7, 2026 at 3:23 AM
i took 10 years off art because working while disabled didn’t afford me the extra energy or desire to make art.
not sure what exactly i would’ve personally gotten out of prompting a plagiarism machine during that time…
it’s getting an order fulfilled, not making something myself.
not sure what exactly i would’ve personally gotten out of prompting a plagiarism machine during that time…
it’s getting an order fulfilled, not making something myself.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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Olympians are masking up with N95s because they know a covid infection can derail their chances of competing.
They know it could derail their careers.
They know it could disable them.
They’re practicing self care and community care.
Give them a gold medal in public health!
They know it could derail their careers.
They know it could disable them.
They’re practicing self care and community care.
Give them a gold medal in public health!
February 7, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Olympians are masking up with N95s because they know a covid infection can derail their chances of competing.
They know it could derail their careers.
They know it could disable them.
They’re practicing self care and community care.
Give them a gold medal in public health!
They know it could derail their careers.
They know it could disable them.
They’re practicing self care and community care.
Give them a gold medal in public health!
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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it also looks like shorter work weeks, universal free/low-cost childcare, rent caps, walkable cities/accessible and reliable public transport, free education and healthcare...essentially, eliminating the conditions that keep people exhausted, in debt, financially insecure and time-poor.
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 AM
it also looks like shorter work weeks, universal free/low-cost childcare, rent caps, walkable cities/accessible and reliable public transport, free education and healthcare...essentially, eliminating the conditions that keep people exhausted, in debt, financially insecure and time-poor.
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Alpha males: "Mountains tremble at my approach! The mightiest beasts of the land cower before my visage! God himself, fears my wrath!"
Also alpha males: "No crust on my grilled cheese, mommy!"
Also alpha males: "No crust on my grilled cheese, mommy!"
February 6, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Alpha males: "Mountains tremble at my approach! The mightiest beasts of the land cower before my visage! God himself, fears my wrath!"
Also alpha males: "No crust on my grilled cheese, mommy!"
Also alpha males: "No crust on my grilled cheese, mommy!"
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February 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing,
but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.
but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing,
but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.
but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.
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Just FIFA events? ICE has an office in Vancouver. they’re active here and we have no idea how other than their own vague statement.
they’re HERE.
@seanorr.bsky.social
And Pete
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
they’re HERE.
@seanorr.bsky.social
And Pete
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
February 6, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Just FIFA events? ICE has an office in Vancouver. they’re active here and we have no idea how other than their own vague statement.
they’re HERE.
@seanorr.bsky.social
And Pete
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
they’re HERE.
@seanorr.bsky.social
And Pete
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
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Charlie Mingus - Blues & Roots (Full Album)
YouTube video by Bitches Brew
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM