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Want to get outside, meet new people, and grow something good? 🌱 Green Thumbs is a free drop-in gardening program at Crouch Library where you can learn, connect, and help care for our community garden. Tuesdays from 3:30–4:30pm!

"All attempts to fast-track to the Ring of Fire will fail" "Ontario is trying to legislate us out of the conversation. That won’t work” "If you pass Bill 5, you can say goodbye nature" First Nations demand the Ontario gov't revoke Bill 5. It's the most powerful stand off I've seen at Queens Park

‼️ 105,000. That's how many emails Ontarians have sent through our online action to Scrap Bill 5. Since Bill 5 was introduced, First Nations leaders have been sounding the alarm. The bill gives Ford’s Cabinet the power to override Ontario laws any where they want. 🧵

Mug collab with my friend and studio mate @3_cats_pottery on IG ! Check out her work! :) She threw these lovely 3” tall and 3.5” diameter mugs and I decorated them.

comms are open ✦ dm to claim a slot! all prices in usd ~1.5 month turnaround, rts are appreciated 🫀

Weather permitted, I'll be drawing people + pet portraits to fundraise for Palestine in downtown #ldnont tomorrow, Thursday June 5th 5-8pm during ACT (Art Crawl Thursdays) on Dundas Place - between Clarence & Richmond 🖍️🍉

learn your history, besties

I deleted Goodreads and shifted over to Fable if anyone wants to be book friends... :) fable.co/monica-46370...

Studies of different materials! Learnt a lot but i'm so beat now lol

This Indigenous History Month, we’re highlighting powerful stories by Indigenous authors. Explore our spotlight to find a story that moves you, teaches you, and stays with you. 📖🧡 buff.ly/xjdHzob

Playing around with Wire hair Terrier shapes; don't look at that scary one, you didn't see him.

LOOK MA, NO HANDS is an INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! I feel sick with gratitude!!!

hey bluesky I'm trying out pixelfed as a federated alternative to instagram. pixelfed.social/textyouback let's be friends ! :)

I've gotten into birding recently and also drawing birds again

Wrote about my love of phone calls (and disdain for long email threads) in the Globe and Mail! www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I usually draw hegemonic/equal/standard faces, but I secretly like these types of faces🫣

Writers. Stamp collectors. Astronomers. Embroiders. What do they all have in common? Their clubs will be at Join the Club! 🤩 Meet your people. Find your passion. 📍 Saturday, May 24, 10am-1pm 📅 Central Library

If you’re on Instagram you should come and hang out with me and daniel sarah karasik at 7:30pm EST on IG Live. We’re gonna talk about Disobedience (@bookhugpress.bsky.social), and disobedience more generally

Thank you to our 2024-25 Writer-in-Residence, Saeed Teebi! Learn about this year’s program from Saeed and two participating writers! buff.ly/lAzKHmD

My first book is out today! I wrote it mostly with voice to text at a time when it was hard for me to use my hands. Years-long labour of love!

Beguiling Influence 🐚🦪🌊 My warlock Garth often shapeshifts into a siren-like woman he calls Ingrid to charm people <3

Join us for an afternoon author visit at the Library! 📚 The Friends of the Library are hosting local writer Jim Freedman with his new book Carpet of Tears. Reception and book signing to follow! 📅 Saturday, May 24, 2-4pm 📍 Central Library

This is gonna be fun!

Mental health support, no appointment needed. CMHA case workers at Central Library are helping Londoners find housing, stability & hope. Plus, the Library offers mood-lifting reads, calming spaces & light therapy lamps. 💚 Support continues through 2027: buff.ly/E5tCLGJ

My boy, Vivi 🥰🥰🥰 Easiest and breeziest commission I've ever done btw, cannot recc Nathan enough!!!

process

I will be taking a break from painting Pet portraits in June. I will still accept new requests until then so reach out now.

Well, my birthday snuck up on me and I’m now 29 today! Here’s a little teapet I made in the new year and forgot to post, its unglazed so it can “drink” and take on the aroma and patina of Gongfu tea

My piece today on Substack loloverruled.substack.com/p/im-not-sad...

Apple Core birb🍎 #avian #bird #birdwatching #animal #illustration #digitalart #wildlife #drawing

wwf.ca/endangered-s...

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Happy World Bird Migration Day! 🕊️🐦🐤🦅🦆

Join me this weekend for the Canadian Art Hop!✨⭐ For details visit 👉https://www.londontourism.ca/events/canadian-art-hop #forestcityarts #ldnont #londonont

TORONTO! JUNE 3! Come hang out with me and so many other incredible Canadian writers!

Learning a new language? Try our free digital resources! 🌍 Mango Languages: 70+ languages 🗣 Pronunciator: 160+ languages including ASL 📝 EBSCO LearningExpress: TOEFL, TOEIC, and IELTS prep Start now: buff.ly/Ibp7EEY

Sharing where we have been in our Speaker Series: Voice of Queer Elders so far and what stories are yet to come! We are so thankful to all who have joined this series. Our community is stronger when we are together!

TRUST

wip vs final

Dr. Tarek Loubani recounts being targeted and shot by Israeli forces while treating peaceful protestors during the Great March of Return protests and how Israeli forces deliberately target Palestinian medical infrastructure and prohibit medicine and medical practitioners from entering Gaza.

boy’s night! a speculative drawing of a bachelor party of tyrannosaurus rex practicing and bonding through gentle face holds to ready themselves for another season of competitive and territorial face biting (from 2021)