Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Pati

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12d

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

7 150 520

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · 12d

Back in the day this show would have already sold out. The new tech is weird. #rush #fiftysomethingtour #rush4evr

Reposted by Pati

Cloak and Dagger Games - Hob's Barrow out now! @cloakanddaggerg.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you enjoyed Hob's Barrow please consider posting a quick little review on Steam, it really helps keep us afloat! 💜🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow on Steam

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the s...

store.steampowered.com

3 20 59

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Sep 6

I mean… best guess is yes?

2

Reposted by Pati

The Terry Pratchett Estate @terrypratchett.bsky.social · Sep 5

Step into the world of Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men with @rhi.bsky.social & @gabriellekent.bsky.social (Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch) and Marieke Nijkamp (Splinter and Ash series) on the Remember Reading? podcast.

Listen here: www.harpercollins.com/pages/rememb...

5 32 140

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ok this is ironic because yesterday I opened my egg carton of large eggs and was like ‘wow, these are bigger than normal.’ Depends on the chickens?

1 2

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Aug 31

Everyone wants their very own Tupac back, I guess.

1

Reposted by Pati

Wolfgang Whyte 𓃦 @wolfgangwhyte.bsky.social · Aug 3

Not exactly Mists of Avalon, nor a Bocklin fresco… just a tiny island on the north wing of Rabbit Blanket Lake, south of Wawa, Ontario 🇨🇦

#stunday #bluesky #photography #landscape #nature #photo #minimal #minimalism #minimalart #minimalist #Canada #Ontario

4 7 110

Reposted by Pati

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

160 3.2K 9.8K

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Jul 26

This guy wanted treats, but when I did not provide, he left to bother someone else!

1

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Jul 26

This!

Althaea Sebastiani @althaeasebastiani.bsky.social · Jul 26

Saying you're an animist is a political statement.

Animism speaks to your relationships with other living humans just as much as it does with spirits.

Your relationships with other living humans more clearly demonstrates your animism than anything else.

#WitchSky #PaganSky

1

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Jul 23

Well I thought all the drugs would make him invincible. RIP Ozzy.🦇 Safe journey. You had a good run. 🦇

Reposted by Pati

Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · Jul 3

✨ GAME DEVS: WE ARE NOT COOKED, FUCKED, OR JOEVER✨
We literally *are* the means of production. It benefits the millionaire execs to have us believe that it is *we* who needs *them*. But they generate nothing without us. The sooner we all start saying it, believing it, the stronger we can be.

7 120 520

Reposted by Pati

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · Jul 13

Vaccines don't cause Autism.

And what the fuck is wrong with being Autistic anyway?

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Jul 13

My recent piece...

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. But the Lie That They Do Is Still Going Strong thewalrus.ca/vaccines-don... via @thewalrus.ca

If you're thinking about writing a thriller featuring an evil scientist, might I suggest selecting Andrew Wakefield as the central antagonist.

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. But the Lie That They Do Is Still Going Strong | The Walrus

How one fraudulent paper fuelled decades of misinformation

thewalrus.ca

1 8

Reposted by Pati

The Chris TiHorror Picture Show🫦 @ironiciconic.bsky.social · Jun 23

Remember that when you are looking for work, in #gamedev or otherwise, you are not powerless. Companies need you, even if they like to pretend that they don't. Every step in the hiring process is a negotiation between two parties and each party brings something of value to the table. You have value.

2 3 16

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Jun 25

My home! The beauty!

Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hey #Canada! 🇨🇦❤️

Got your #summer plans made?

If you’re staying in Canada, #traveling around our big beautiful country, I’ve been posting user videos from across Canada that showcase its beauty. #CanadaStaycation

Check out #VICTORIA, #BC

1 2

Reposted by Pati

Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · Jun 12

I just found out that Public Display posted my piece online!

"We hold fast to the future to fight for each other and all life, but also to fight for the way we celebrate each other and life...expressing ourselves in truth, joy, and connectivity."

publicdisplay.art/article/Quee...

Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · Jun 6

I have a little essay in the new issue of Public Display about queer time and queer imagination! it's an adaption of an essay I wrote last year, but this version bends itself in another direction I've been working towards. in print only but if you see it I hope you enjoy it! happy Pride, everyone! 💖

an open magazine on a desk next to a vintage typewriter, with a bold headline in the center that says "queering time" and a subheading that says "the creativity of dreamspace as a way around, through, and beyond apocalypse"

several copies of Public Display magazine are spread out across a table next to a vintage typewriter. the cover is a painting of two reclining Renaissance-like figures by Andy Delapp

6 11

Reposted by Pati

Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · Jun 6

I have a little essay in the new issue of Public Display about queer time and queer imagination! it's an adaption of an essay I wrote last year, but this version bends itself in another direction I've been working towards. in print only but if you see it I hope you enjoy it! happy Pride, everyone! 💖

2 3 15

Reposted by Pati

Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · Jun 16

Had a couple of folk say they wanted to make comics but couldn’t draw well enough. So PSA: if you make the thing, you get better at the drawing (and the writing) in the process of making the thing. And then the next one is a bit better, and so on and so forth. Making “crap” stuff is allowed.

4 190 640

Reposted by Pati

Fae Johnstone @faejohnstone.bsky.social · Jun 4

The Manitoba legislature has passed Bill 43, adding gender expression to the provincial human rights code.

In this doom and gloom climate, it's important to mark victories like this, to remember that despite the rise of the far right, we can still organize and win for 🏳️‍🌈 people.

18 510 1.5K

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Jun 6

Looking at condos in #YYJ and one says that the building has a "nice courtyard and yoga deck." Yoga Deck? It doesn't get more #PNW than that.

A picture of someone's hand holding a silver ring with a skull sprouting two leaves.

2

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · Jun 2

I love the start of a painting. I never know where it will take me.

A wooden easel holding a stretched canvas. The paint on the canvas is patchy with muted colours in blues, greys and lavender, plus iron oxide. It depicts a rough impression of mountains and the sea.

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · May 31

Ok #YYJ I give up. I am donating my #VintageClothing collection to charity because I cannot get dealers to answer my emails. #SuzyPerette #ThierryMugler and #LilliAnn are just a few of the labels I am moving along. Not gonna tell you where they are tho. Happy Hunting!

A sepia image of a seated woman in a polka dot 1950s dress with a fabric flower.

2

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · May 31

The peonies are really giving this year. #pnwPeony #flowers #gardenLove

4

Pati @labelleepoque.bsky.social · May 27

#TinyThings #TinyWitchyThings #WitchSky #Witchski #Miniatures #CanadianWitch 🍁

2 16