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Against the Logic of the Guillotine Fetishizing the guillotine is like fetishizing the state: it means celebrating an instrument of murder that will always be used chiefly against us.

Anyway just read this Crimethinc essay about why guillotine imagery is bad actually crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/a...

A black granite memorial plaque features a circular arrangement of names in white text, bordered by silver rivets. At the top center is an emblem of a bee with gears. The text reads "in memoriam" followed by two columns of names: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. At the bottom: "6 DÉCEMBRE 1989".

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

I hate this for us

[me, trapped in Lalande 21185 observational simulation hell #43233, circa common era one million] [glowing six-eyed lizard creature, i call him "pat"] so it's like every species has this petroleum gap they have to get over [me] oh i know exactly what you mean [pat] like you shoot up to industrial civilization status because of fossil fuels, and then there's like this timer running, can you use the free energy of the fossil fuels to transition to a better energy source before you either run out or wreck your climate [me] we did the climate thing [pat] yeah we were totally blindsided. we had a series of glacier formations trapping giant methane bubbles so we were off to feedback loop city before we even noticed the carbon ppm was rising [me] we actually saw it coming. we had like 100 years between us figuring out that carbon was affecting our climate and the system first going nonlinear [pat] oh damn how did you allocate your resources during that time [me] *slowly takes a deep breath* [me] *deep breath*

Woof

“It has been heartbreaking to see legacy Jewish institutions stoke the flames of Islamophobia… motivated by perverse logic that they can only secure safety of Jewish Americans at the expense of our Muslim brothers & sisters, as if dignity were a zero-sum game.”

www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

A black and white image with illustrations of skeletons and ghosts sharing coffee. The text reads: Little Ghosts Books presents ... Spooky pop-up market, saturday and sunday, december 6th and 7th, from 12 - 4 pm, 930 dundas St. W, meet local crafters and support small spooky artists.

This Sunday, we're going to be at the Little Ghosts spooky pop-up market from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, slinging our creepy wares!

a holiday card with a design of two bells, a ribbon and sprigs of pine

a large white sticker that says "Oops! You could have paid an artist!!! but you generated some shit instead!! try again!" with a small cat character

Glady Day Lit Holiday Markets December 6th 2025 12-7pm and December 7th 2025 12-7pm. more than 40 vendors over 2 days! 32 Lisgar St, Toronto, On, M6JOC7

hey y'all I'll be selling at Glad Days' Holiday Market this Sunday! 12-7pm, 32 Lisgar street, see you there 🔔🌲 got some new holiday cards + antiAI stickers for your fellow anti-AI warriors 🫵

a golden trophy that depicts a Earth being held by many hands reaching up from below. the world’s oceans are roiling and the hands look desperate, their flesh tattered towards the wrist. on the side of it is a label that says “FIFA PEACE PRIZE 2025”

Fifa boss: did you finish sculpting our peace trophy

Trophy designer: sure did boss, the world’s boiling oceans are a warning of the curse that is contained within it and the corruption of man is evident in the torn flesh of the hands, just like you asked

Fifa boss: this is perfect

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow'd Hall, by Jack de Quidt 2 track album

happy bandcamp friday! as a special release today, here's the theme for @badbucket.bsky.social and my "Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow'd Hall" notquitereal.bandcamp.com/album/the-be...

Poster for Mask Chain Workshop. Three fake polaroid images of different stages of making decorate a pink background. Other text reads "with orbwitch!" and "dec 18th 7pm-9pm". A location pin sits next to heckhole studio, junction, Toronto.

My next mask chain making workshop is coming up in Toronto!!

8 spots only. $40 everything included.

www.eventbrite.ca/e/masked-eve...

Illegal American eel fishing is big business in Canada. Ottawa just voted against protections | The Narwhal Federal fisheries department also announced American eel will not be listed as a species at risk, despite illegal fishing pressures

Canada's most lucrative fishery — and a global black market — rely on American eel. But Canada was among the countries who voted against global trade restrictions on the eel last week, and won't list it under the Species At Risk Act, @moiradonovan.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/american-eel...

On the TTC, With Nowhere to Go | The Local With rising homelessness, decreased mental health support, and fewer public spaces than ever, the TTC and its workers are being asked to fill gaps in a dissolving social safety net.

With rising homelessness, decreased mental health support, and fewer public spaces than ever, the TTC is being asked to fill gaps in a dissolving social safety net. @curiouslana.bsky.social on how transit work became more like social work. thelocal.to/ttc-mental-h...

Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree

So…I mentioned last week that Arcadia is my favourite play, and it also so happens that my mom survived breast cancer in that era and, well, I’m having some feelings (by which I mean I’m a big sobbing mess.)

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Allison O’Toole: Review & Video Call | Toronto Comic Arts F Are you looking to break into comics? Hoping to get published? Don’t miss this chance to hone your work with comics editor Allison O’Toole! Allison will read and give feedback on your comic outline, p...

Want to support @torontocomics.bsky.social and get feedback on a comic pitch or script?? I'm offering to review your work and chat with you about it on a video call! There are also lots of other amazing prizes, like signed books and original art!! www.torontocomics.com/product-page...

Penguin Classics cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot. cover image is a painting of the death of caesar

ok, this is my favorite so far:

A fancy pigeon strutting with a top hat on his little head, painted in acrylic over a maroon background

I was right he did need a top hat.

"Taken together, these results suggest that optimizing persuasiveness may come at some cost to truthfulness" 🤔

"I'm havin a breakdown," says one crudely-drawn stick figure to another. "You'll be OK," says the second. The first stick figure exclaims, "AGGHHH", and collapses. His head and outstretched arms and legs spell out the letters O-K.

You’ll Be OK

Zdarsky poster for CAPTAIN AMERICA - sponsored by Bay Street Video and Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Video

YOU ASKED FOR IT FOR SEVEN YEARS --- IT'S FINALLY HERE!

DUMPSTER RACCOON CINEMA proudly presents the long-rumored DIRECTOR’S CUT of 1990s beloved cult classic bomb, CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990) – with SPECIAL GUEST (and POSTER ARTIST!) comic superstar writer CHIP ZDARSKY! revuecinema.ca/films/dumpst...

Oil Pastel
"Two Women"

Every day a fresh hell

Sunniest days are the coldest this time of year. Pretty, at the least.

The Time I Spent On A Commercial Whaling Ship Totally Changed My Perspective On The World

While I'm appreciating Internet comedy, this remains by far the funniest thing Clickhole has ever done:

clickhole.com/the-time-i-s...

a gothic script elegantly reads we shall be monsters, behind the text is a grainy woodcut image in green, black, and purple of an absolutely shredded man with among beautiful hair and he is nude but his nudity is artfully hidden. a surprised expression on his face as he lies in a pile of bones. this image is from an early edition of mary shelley's frankenstein portraying the monster.

Feeling lonely? Never be alone again.

Make your perfect companion from the remnants of the dead fill them with vitality, and contend with what you've created.

We Shall Be Monsters is a solo game of creation, obsession, and playing god to assuage your loneliness.

goodluckpress.co/products/we-...

*observing a salamander being cold and damp* this creature, to me, represents fire

"Enough ink has been spilled in the quarreling over feminism, now practically over, and perhaps we should say no more about it." -- Simone de Beauvoir, wrongly

Everyone remembers "one is not born, but rather becomes a woman," but the actual opening of "The Second Sex" -- published in 1949, turned out to be the first book of feminism's second wave -- makes me laugh every time.