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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦
@carlynyandle.bsky.social
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Sharing the creative process and social power of hand-making — and writing about it weekly here 👇
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This more humane morning traffic:

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#futurecities #abundance #artandlife
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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A garish, aspirational portrait for POTUS
#artwriting #creativeprocess

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November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Charles Demers, the multi-talented author, comedian and speech-writer for BC’s Premier, spread his joyous ways my way when he signed my copy of “The Eh Team” at his Vancouver book launch last night.
#charlesdemers #EhCanada #Canadianisms #ElbowsUp #CBCTheDebaters
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Another stunner by cartoonist Steve Brodner:

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November 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It’s sweater weather — and I’m wearing granny squares.

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November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Another #Antifa headquarters we toured this last month: Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery near the Belgian border. Most of the nearly 1,000 graves of Canadian soldiers here lost their lives in the fight to clear the north bank of the Scheldt estuary of invading Nazi German forces.
#fightfascism
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Learning to resist
#MakingIsConnecting
#artblog #resist #JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes

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October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I’m just going to leave this here:
(The Montreal Star, Feb 4, 1939)
September 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Nuff said. 🇨🇦
July 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Assignment: Illustrate the conspiracy-plagued White House culture. Till Lauer (for The New Yorker) nails it.
#politicalart #artmatters
July 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Ground murals on Arbutus Greenway: another sign that this city is getting better, not worse (screengrab source: r/vancouver.

#makingisconnecting #vancouverart #summerinthecity
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Mural painters bring summery colour and pattern to the bike and walk Greenway on the Arbutus Corridor
July 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Nice, easy Sunday morning start at #VancouverFolkFestival #summerinthecity
July 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The Felon-in-Chief is perfectly captured by Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press

#politicalart #artmatters
July 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Vancouverites are very flaggy this year
#canadaproud #no51ststate #truenorthstrongandfree #Vancouver #canpoli
June 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Another strike by the brilliant Bruce 🇨🇦
June 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Nice bit of social activism
#taxtherich

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June 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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A little AI-sloppy but still on point
#protestart #makeartnotwar #whatadicktator
June 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My challenge piece for Global Mend in Public Day today: mangled Glerups felt bootie

In Vancouver: Main & 21st parklet, 12-2ish
Other events designed to take on fast fashion: #mendinpublicday

#repairingiscaring 🧵🪡🧶
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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My new favourite in Michael Moore’s public call for POTUS portraits:

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#joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #weaving #handmaking #craftivism #makersgonnamake #makingisconnecting #trumpportrait
Loom-woven wall hanging or rug depicting Donald Trump with fringe as hair. Created by Little Tree as posted in Michael Moore’s Substack gallery of public portraits of Trump.
April 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Honkin’ good time today (Saturday) at the Tesla dealership

in #Vancouver #canada
#elonmusk #canadastrong #teslatakedown #deplorean #swastikar
March 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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How to suppress married women (and other Americans who took their spouse’s last name) from voting:

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#project2025 #uspoli #trump
March 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Fresh art appropriate for these times by @stevebrodner

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#protestart #politicalcartoon #drawing #stevebrodner #uscoup
February 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Even this Murdoch rag won’t spread the lie:

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February 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Steve Brodner nails it again

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#uscoup #politicalcartoon #politicalart
February 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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We have every right to needle at injustice. This fits with my feels at the moment:
Chaotic knots of yarn, thread and other detritus on linen in an embroidery hoop
February 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM