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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖

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Senior Editor at the Georgia Straight they/them | 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇦 perpetually exhausted immigrant on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ lands

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Nov 13

I think it's time to actually introduce myself!

I'm V, a journalist originally from the UK and now living in so-called Vancouver, BC.

I write a twice-weekly newsletter for the Georgia Straight covering local events and culture. You can subscribe here:

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Georgia Straight

Get the best of Vancouver’s arts, events, entertainment, music, and culture direct to your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday morning.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 19h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18h

A throughline with any famous pedophile or rapist you can think of is that people knew, and people talked about it, and nothing happened for YEARS -- time they spent amassing more victims.

How might things have been different if society hated teenage girls a little bit less? /end

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18h

The headline of his crimes was abuse of infants, but that obscures the huge amount of young teens he abused over a decade or more.

Police did nothing for years. How many more women and girls were harmed, because they did not believe the brave women and girls telling their stories?

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18h

I knew several teenage girls that he abused, many of whom were groomed to see his actions as a sign of love or favoritism and lashed out at anyone suggesting they were being harmed.

I knew several people who reported him to Crimestoppers and were ignored.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18h

The paedophile ex-lead singer of Lostprophets has been killed in prison, after getting arrested in 2013.

People knew of parts of his terrible behaviour years earlier, but the police refused to investigate tips from predominantly women and teenage girls.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 2d

Alas, tickets were sold out

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 2d

I went when I was 18 and loved it! The problem is I don't think there are enough tickets left for where I am in the queue given demand 🫠

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 2d

I completely blanked on Ghibli Museum tickets being an absolute nightmare to buy. 90 seconds after ticket sales opened and i was number 36,000 in the queue like it's a Taylor Swift concert

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe go more dark fantasy than horror with something like Pan's Labyrinth, Gremlins, or Curse of the Were-Rabbit (though obv more funny than scary). Or one of the old Hammer horrors!

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 3d

Worcestershire, Slough, Middlesborough, Portsmouth, Reading...

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 6d

I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience

Please share widely! 🧪 🍄‍🟫 🌲

A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...

A help-wanted poster seeking volunteer mushroom collectors in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

The poster provided some background info about the research project and study system and how folks can contribute if they are interested.

REQUEST | Calling all mycophiles, naturalists, and citizen scientists in CA, OR, WA, and BC!

Going for a hike in the woods or a walk in your neighborhood park?
• Please keep your eyes peeled for the purple mushrooms of L.a-o!
• Collect the mushrooms* if you are able to access them safely.
• If you can, please take a photo of the mushrooms and the tree(s) you find them under.
*If you find a mushroom that is clearly rotten or moldy, please don't collect it.

"I collected some purple mushrooms. What should I do now?"
1. Please keep the mushroom fresh:
• Store in paper, not plastic.
• Keep cool/ refrigerate, but do not freeze.
• Store mushrooms away from light.
2. Email me to arrange pick-up, delivery, or shipment* of your sample.
* will cover packing and shipping expenses!

"What's in it for those who contribute to this work?"
• You will receive acknowledgement in presentations and publications stemming from this research.
• You will receive copies of journal publications from this research (data available upon request).
• You are invited to attend presentations of this research and to visit the lab at Stanford University.

Page 2 of the help-wanted poster includes reference photos of the study organism and a map of where this species has been observed. All images and the map are sourced from iNaturalist.

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 8d

If you wanna listen to a horny straight pop song Carly Rae Jepsen is right there

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 8d

stumbled across real lyrics to an actual new Taylor Swift song and boy, that's a bold strategy, Cotton. let's see if it pays off.

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 10d

mangaka with a cold, call him Gunji Ito

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 13d

Opinion so far on Hades II: just let me fish

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 17d

Twitch's Subtember should logically be followed by Toptober

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 18d

I'm less gender diverse, more gender averse

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 19d

Tepid take: more video games should have a built in randomizer. Cassette Beasts does and it slaps!

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 19d

I have forgotten to take photos of so many baked goods (including cupcakes and my own birthday cake!) but here is a Mexican hot chocolate cookie I made for a friend's birthday and realized I hadn't taken a photo after I'd had a bite

A chewy brownie cookie flavored with cinnamon and chili, topped with flaky sea salt and chocolate chunks

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 25d

I am once again thinking about this monumental video esssy today. A worthwhile watch, if you haven't already seen it: youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 26d

I think we should bring back lyricposting. No more thoughts, just whatever song you're really into rn

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · 28d

The uniquely disconcerting feeling of being woken up by the fire alarm going off 😵‍💫

V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Sep 11

That's bogus, I'm so sorry to hear it :(

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ShortCake_Cafe🆖 @shortcakecafe.newgrounds.com · Sep 9

Rest in Peace, Haru Urara

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V. S. Wells 🌈🫖 @vsmw.bsky.social · Sep 9

Marcy's position she has argued herself into is most plant produce is second-hand, because the plant was using it first. (Which makes baked beans third-hand?)

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