Gavin B
@ghostflaneur.bsky.social
Leabharlannaí
Ireland, Canada, Etc.
MLIS and migraines
Ireland, Canada, Etc.
MLIS and migraines
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This is precisely the sort of journalism we need much more of. The Pacific North West -Vancouver has traditionally, historically and clearly currently had a serious problem with white chauvinist nationalism, often hidden within “wellness and outdoor culture.” For those of us familiar it’s palpable!
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is precisely the sort of journalism we need much more of. The Pacific North West -Vancouver has traditionally, historically and clearly currently had a serious problem with white chauvinist nationalism, often hidden within “wellness and outdoor culture.” For those of us familiar it’s palpable!
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Fascists tried to have a conference in Vancouver. It was infiltrated. Now, they’ve been identified.
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
🧵👇
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Fascists tried to have a conference in Vancouver. It was infiltrated. Now, they’ve been identified.
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You should hire me to help you communicate your research to the public because I love doing that and I daresay I'm not bad at it, either.
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You should hire me to help you communicate your research to the public because I love doing that and I daresay I'm not bad at it, either.
King and Conqueror
Game of Thrones (and that second Vikings spin off) done right, without all the feckin' zombies.
You're William the Bastard! But the family are really bleedin' annoying.
Game of Thrones (and that second Vikings spin off) done right, without all the feckin' zombies.
You're William the Bastard! But the family are really bleedin' annoying.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
King and Conqueror
Game of Thrones (and that second Vikings spin off) done right, without all the feckin' zombies.
You're William the Bastard! But the family are really bleedin' annoying.
Game of Thrones (and that second Vikings spin off) done right, without all the feckin' zombies.
You're William the Bastard! But the family are really bleedin' annoying.
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scene report Vancouver
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
scene report Vancouver
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5 things to do for sanity and self preservation this week
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
5 things to do for sanity and self preservation this week
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
1. Purge your kids' toys now. Someone might need a low-cost gift
2. Try a new hairstyle you can do yourself
3. Plan a book swap with your family
4. Get some cough drops and epsom salts. It's wintry bath time.
5. Play a full album w/ no skips
have the old Queen of the Damned film on in the background.
Pretty (very pretty) cast, but this is the most TV-movie looking stuff known to mankind.
Pretty (very pretty) cast, but this is the most TV-movie looking stuff known to mankind.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
have the old Queen of the Damned film on in the background.
Pretty (very pretty) cast, but this is the most TV-movie looking stuff known to mankind.
Pretty (very pretty) cast, but this is the most TV-movie looking stuff known to mankind.
So, uh, lemme see
London-Irish, Hackney - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
Pakistani folk, Leeds - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus
Ancient Anglo-Saxon Peasant, Bromley - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
What am I missing here?
London-Irish, Hackney - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
Pakistani folk, Leeds - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus
Ancient Anglo-Saxon Peasant, Bromley - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
What am I missing here?
Babe wake up the anti-immigrant fash are now angling to deport the Irish
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So, uh, lemme see
London-Irish, Hackney - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
Pakistani folk, Leeds - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus
Ancient Anglo-Saxon Peasant, Bromley - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
What am I missing here?
London-Irish, Hackney - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
Pakistani folk, Leeds - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus
Ancient Anglo-Saxon Peasant, Bromley - drink tea, eat chips, complain about the bus.
What am I missing here?
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next up: insufficiently reverential Liverpudlians
Babe wake up the anti-immigrant fash are now angling to deport the Irish
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
next up: insufficiently reverential Liverpudlians
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but the question remain, who does Tim Davie will regenerate as?
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
but the question remain, who does Tim Davie will regenerate as?
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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"it's a tool"
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"it's a tool"
Happy Berlin wall falling day.
A good excuse for an Atomic Blonde or Goodbye Lenin rewatch?
A good excuse for an Atomic Blonde or Goodbye Lenin rewatch?
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Happy Berlin wall falling day.
A good excuse for an Atomic Blonde or Goodbye Lenin rewatch?
A good excuse for an Atomic Blonde or Goodbye Lenin rewatch?
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this is not good. people.com/2-dead-milli... and it's only gonna get worse from here (thanks to government incompetence)
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
this is not good. people.com/2-dead-milli... and it's only gonna get worse from here (thanks to government incompetence)
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A little family history and important to remember that It wasn't until 1947, after the war ended, that Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act (1923) was abolished. Until that time, Chinese Canadians were marginalized and not allowed to vote.
*Joseph Hong was my grandmother's brother.
*Joseph Hong was my grandmother's brother.
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A little family history and important to remember that It wasn't until 1947, after the war ended, that Canada’s Chinese Exclusion Act (1923) was abolished. Until that time, Chinese Canadians were marginalized and not allowed to vote.
*Joseph Hong was my grandmother's brother.
*Joseph Hong was my grandmother's brother.
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First game of day 3! Help some of these fine folks roll a 20 in support of the Canadian Cancer Society!
In 15 minutes - Dungeons & Dragons 5e! with @conkliodd.bsky.social @aramvartian.com @etherealashie.bsky.social @taggianto.bsky.social Zach
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#andreasadventurers2025
Watch live: twitch.tv/PlaidDogEvents
Donate: andreasadventurers.ca
Your donations have in-game effects!
#andreasadventurers2025
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
First game of day 3! Help some of these fine folks roll a 20 in support of the Canadian Cancer Society!
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And I also really want to recommend that you watch Tracey Deer’s ‘Beans’ about a Kanien'kehá:ka twelve year old who is in Oka during the crisis of 1993. It’s an incredible film.
youtu.be/nPeZPsHcee4
youtu.be/nPeZPsHcee4
Trailer | BEANS from Writer/Director Tracey Deer (2020) | CFC
YouTube video by Canadian Film Centre
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
And I also really want to recommend that you watch Tracey Deer’s ‘Beans’ about a Kanien'kehá:ka twelve year old who is in Oka during the crisis of 1993. It’s an incredible film.
youtu.be/nPeZPsHcee4
youtu.be/nPeZPsHcee4
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In case you missed it, I wrote a thing to hopefully help folks not land in the wrong place. Since then, it’s been agent/editor approved more than once. Hah.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
Too Many Sharks: A Warning About "Agents"
No, seriously
gabinoiglesias.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In case you missed it, I wrote a thing to hopefully help folks not land in the wrong place. Since then, it’s been agent/editor approved more than once. Hah.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...
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One thing you can do to help is contribute to food banks. I volunteer at one and these SNAP cut backs have doubled the number of people coming in. We have to provide food for double the people and it runs out pretty quickly.
How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts
In New Jersey, a single mother struggled to figure out how to feed her two young sons with $50.
Because of the government shutdown, the Trump administration initially sought to stop supplying benefits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
In New Jersey, a single mother struggled to figure out how to feed her two young sons with $50.
Because of the government shutdown, the Trump administration initially sought to stop supplying benefits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
One thing you can do to help is contribute to food banks. I volunteer at one and these SNAP cut backs have doubled the number of people coming in. We have to provide food for double the people and it runs out pretty quickly.
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The trucko fucko buckos became clucko fucko buckos, so what new Canadian fucko bucko variant will be next?
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The trucko fucko buckos became clucko fucko buckos, so what new Canadian fucko bucko variant will be next?
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What customers do they think want this?
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
What customers do they think want this?
Ghost hunting tonight.
As one does.
As one does.
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Ghost hunting tonight.
As one does.
As one does.