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John Cooney (Irish, b.1957)
"Hanging Washing, Belfast," n.d.
Watercolor 2
6.5 x 20 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Hot wings
Rufous Backed Kingfisher
Native to maritime SE Asia

“The Lovejoy Trap is […] also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary “for the children.” It leapfrogs right over any discussion of the facts because it feels like life or death.”

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...

YouTube video by Drunk Bunny Archive Green Day @Bonehead's Basement, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 10/6/92

Yep, Green Day played 2 gigs in Victoria, BC, in fact they wrote half of Dookie in Victoria, and Billie Joe married a lady from this city, but ya think they could pull a gig at Lucky bar? Doubtful...

Photograph of two young girls in dresses playing, swinging on a rope hanging from a lamppost in a street bathed with gentle sunlight

Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt

I saw Thomas King finally admitted he’s not Native. We were going to do a story on him for the old podcast - he was cited in a court case, his books used in schools - so it mattered. But also it would just be so ugly. This is the best way for him to do it.

The cops run municipal government and by and large the public is fine with this. THAT is the root problem.

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery?

Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!!

Here are 5 other things to know:

Periodic reminder that direct action is a fundamental form of protest.

It is the original form of protest.

To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.

Truly surreal listening to B.C. forest minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social on CBC this morning, celebrating the fact that Western Forest Products (one of the biggest destroyers of non-renewable old-growth forests here) is building hundreds of Starbucks stores in Japan out of western red cedar.
#bcpoli

Elena Katsyura (Russian Artist, born 1973)
"Slice of Citrus", 2013.
Oil on Gesso Board, 15.3 × 15.3 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Sign the Petition Reject VicPD's budget increase & fund community programs, services, & supports!

Another way to make your voice heard: Let City Council know you want them to reject VicPDs proposed 14% budget increase, including hiring 25 more officers. Put that money into the community supports and services that actually keep people safe! www.change.org/p/reject-vic... #yyj #DefundVicPD

We're celebrating in Canada too

It hasn't sunk in to folks yet how truly remarkable it is that Mamdani won. It's absolutely incredible.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

A whole lot of conservative Jews are finding out in real time that the far right supported Zionism because they want to push out all the Jews from the US to Israel, not because they genuinely supported the Jewish people.

The marina was dark and for boating RS

The head of a black cat smoking a cigarette floating in space over a burning City the cat's eyes or yellow the insides of its ears are red

Aleksandra Waliszewska, 2023

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Monochrome photograph of two white woman sitting smoking and drinking at a table in an interior room with many objects

Althea Gyles (right) with Constance Markiewicz c.1898. Gyles, Irish poet and artist, friend of Oscar Wilde. Markiewicz was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament #womensart

My fluffy white cat Francie curled up in a ball. Placed in the center of the white circle her body forms is a round piece of paper decorated with marker to look like a green human iris. It makes Francie look like a big hairy eyeball.

I don't like to dress cats up in clothes, but for Halloween I do put stealth costumes on Francie when she's sleeping.

"Open Borders"
Seen in Sydney

As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide Despite repression and retaliation, the Gaza genocide has pushed an unprecedented wave of artists across the entertainment industry to back the cultural boycott of Israel.

Despite repression and retaliation, the Gaza genocide has pushed an unprecedented wave of artists across the entertainment industry to back the cultural boycott of Israel.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/as-s...

#Palestine #Israel

A colorful vintage tile floor pattern from hexagon tiles.

A little something wavy from @larjguy.bsky.social

Members of Steel Pulse, The Clash and Sex Pistols demonstrating outside National Front Leader Martin Webster’s house in 1977

Photo by Caroline Coon

#punk #punks #punkrock #PunksAgainstRacism #steelepulse #TheClash #sexpistols #NaziPunksFuckOff #punkrockhistory