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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 13h

I hear we may be getting close to a countdown to Israel violating the ceasefire!

Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 13h

#yvr
All while the city’s tumbling embarrassment of a mayor moves to freeze property taxes and cut public services. At least we get to vote him out next year.

Rafferty Baker @rafferty.bsky.social · 2d

47 VPD officers were paid more than $100K in OT last year, including 7 constables who more than doubled their possible $140K salaries. One sergeant raked in $239K in OT on top of possible $158K salary.

Meanwhile, the force went $6.5M over its $400M+ budget.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News

A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...

www.cbc.ca

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 14h

Distressing blunder in allowing the yankees to experience happiness yesterday. The bullpen day doesn’t have me all that confident that it won’t happen again in game 4, but we shall hope for better things.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 4d

Alejandro!

Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 10d

Alejandro.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 6d

There are small victories everywhere if you are willing to see them.

evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 6d

whenever ur feeling down about yourself just know ur not the boomer writing a thinkpiece thanking AI for letting him get off on his desires for virgins

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 6d

Baseball is full of names that I would pause over if I came across them in a novel. Jackson Jobe? Dillon Dingler? These are definitely not real people?
Peak alliteration around the turn of the millennium I guess.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 8d

Nobody believed in me—I say, having absolutely marinated in playoff baseball—but the pumpkin soup was delicious.

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Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social · 9d

Today is #TruthandReconciliation day today.

People often talk as if residential schools are a thing of the past. They aren’t.

They are still causing damage to this day. People who deny that they happened are still causing damage to this day.

Survivors are still alive to this day.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 8d

apropos of nothing, wikipedia is a more objective and informative source about the gaza genocide than any major news outlet i can think of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...

The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. The genocidal acts include mass killings, starvation, the infliction of serious bodily and mental harm, and preventing births.
Other acts include blockade, destroying civilian infrastructure, destroying healthcare facilities, killing healthcare workers and aid-seekers, causing mass forced displacement, committing sexual violence, and destroying educational, religious, and cultural sites. 10 The genocide has been recognised by a United Nations special committeel111 and commission of inquiry,[12] humanitarian and human rights organizations, [131 and international law experts 141[15) including multiple genocide studies 16) and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. (17[18]

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 8d

'Reconciliation isn't just about the Indigenous people and the government and the churches. It's about every Canadian. We all have to work at this if we want it to work. We have to put an effort into it,' says Two-Spirit Elder Charlotte Nolin.

Watch more: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 8d

Today in Canada it is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day.

It is a time to acknowledge the historical and ongoing colonisation of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 9d

#yvr
Pretty nice in Vancouver after/between the rain.

Photo of a rain-wet street surface of exposed brick and pavement leading up through the trees and cars to the sunny sky in the distance.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 10d

Alejandro.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 11d

A very merry Saturday to you, from the somewhat distressed/distressing face in the floor.

Photo. Splashes of water on the floor form a somewhat horrifying face, or maybe a comedic one.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 11d

Eddie Nketiah out there delivering nostalgic treats and delights unlooked for.

Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 14d

Blue Jays not so much backing into the playoffs as stretching out on the sand and waiting for the playoffs to wash over their prone bodies. Don’t love it!

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 17d

JUSTINIAN, to Belisarius: "You're still trying to replace the province of Italia. I told you we can't do it. But we can rebuild it in the aggregate."

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 17d

#booksky #reading
I have now read the millennial beet-centric horror novel. There were things I perhaps wished it was more of and others I wished it was less of, but I definitely did enjoy it. There are as many beets as you’d imagine, maybe even more than that.

Photo of the book Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield. The pink cover shows a woman’s face in black with white beets, roots and leaves included, over the eyes. A mysterious hand, scarcely seen but for a protruding thumb, holds the book up against a dark blue surface.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 17d

This coffee was an unprovoked act of aggression. I did nothing to deserve this.

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · 18d

All set up for @bellpressbooks.bsky.social at @wordvancouver.bsky.social and the day looks promising!

Photo of Bell Press table at Word Vancouver. Books on table include Off the Map, an anthology of Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues.

Photo of Bell Press table at Word Vancouver, looking up the stairs toward the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 27

I hate making angry phone calls, I hate engaging with these ghouls, I’m sure you do too, but: it’s a beautiful day to call Gillibrand’s office, especially if you’re one of her constituents, and express your outrage at her hideous Islamophobia and outright lies.
NYC office: (212) 688-6262

Defector @defector.com · Jun 27

Kirsten Gillibrand has a racist meltdown over Zohran Mamdani on public radio: defector.com/kirsten-gill...

Kirsten Gillibrand Has A Racist Meltdown Over Zohran Mamdani On Public Radio | Defector

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral primary has led to a lot of vile reactions from across the political spectrum. That’d be expected from any Republican, but plenty of liberals are…

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you haven’t read this one yet, then you’re in for a treat. Such a fun read full of violently gorgeous writing. It oozes (highly complementary).

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Jun 24

Coming to the UK this October, August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN!

"a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social‬
"furious and staggeringly beautiful." ‪@amalelmohtar.com‬
"It’s a battle cry of a book.” @alixeharrow.bsky.social‬

Preorder geni.us/metalfhe

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · Jun 18

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · Jun 18

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

With plenty of moving testimonials and charming talking heads, Heightened Scrutiny draws damning lines between the “just asking questions” opinion pieces published in respected mainstream media publications like The Atlantic and the New York Times and the legal arguments made in our judicial system. The damaging rhetoric in these outlets is directly and immediately echoed by lawyers, judges, and “experts” brought into court—and because of how clicky transphobic stories have historically been, this vicious cycle has recently ramped up. Add in the targeted bigotry of the increasingly radical right, and the legal, cultural, and medical fight for acceptance now waged by trans folks has gotten all the tougher as public awareness has grown.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 18

"Not for you."

Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity.

This is the society the West will defend at all costs.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Mostly living in cities, towns, and villages within Israel’s internationally recognised borders, many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date.

For Samar al-Rashed, a 29-year-old single mother living in a mostly Jewish apartment complex near Acre, the reality of that exclusion came on Friday night. Samar was at home with her five-year-old daughter, Jihan. As sirens pierced the air, warning of incoming missiles, she grabbed her daughter and rushed for the building’s shelter.

“I didn’t have time to pack anything,” she recalled. “Just water, our phones, and my daughter’s hand in mine.”

The panicking mother tried to ease her daughter’s fear, while hiding her own, gently encouraging her in soft-spoken Arabic to keep up with her rushed steps towards the shelter, as other neighbours climbed down the stairs, too.

But at the shelter door, she said, an Israeli resident, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked their entry – and shut it in their faces.

“I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”

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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) @a-devon.bsky.social · Jun 18

“Remember me,” I plead once again, though I know my banking app will not.

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