Victoria Ward
@hotspurstudio.bsky.social
I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.
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Go ahead, visit Scotland in autumn. @eleanormorton.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/jTSiu...
tourguide welcomes you to autumn in Scotland #craigthetourguide
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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October 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Go ahead, visit Scotland in autumn. @eleanormorton.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/jTSiu...
This is totally amazing. She's great. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature | CBC News
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."
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October 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
This is totally amazing. She's great. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Someone I thought I knew blocked me today. Maybe they thought I was being disingenuous when I asked if they could explain something about Epstein files etc. I haven't followed that story. It was an a honest question. They told me I should go read about it & blocked me. I blocked them? Right? Wrong?
October 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Someone I thought I knew blocked me today. Maybe they thought I was being disingenuous when I asked if they could explain something about Epstein files etc. I haven't followed that story. It was an a honest question. They told me I should go read about it & blocked me. I blocked them? Right? Wrong?
Hands down the most depressing article you could possibly read. Kushner's entire life has been funded by daddies. He has tons of influence, no ethics, no morals & thinks the rest of us can suck it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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October 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Hands down the most depressing article you could possibly read. Kushner's entire life has been funded by daddies. He has tons of influence, no ethics, no morals & thinks the rest of us can suck it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Spending this fall deleting some social media accounts, first up Linked In. I spent years on there looking for work, never got any, then tried to get traction about our exhibitions. Nope. Then all the arts accounts began touting the greatness of #AI. Hard pass.
October 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Spending this fall deleting some social media accounts, first up Linked In. I spent years on there looking for work, never got any, then tried to get traction about our exhibitions. Nope. Then all the arts accounts began touting the greatness of #AI. Hard pass.
Swoon. @theresthistory.bsky.social Tom Holland knows I exist. Sort of. Well, it's enough for me.
October 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Swoon. @theresthistory.bsky.social Tom Holland knows I exist. Sort of. Well, it's enough for me.
"Art is a different kind of "search engine", it does not proceed by indexing but by inquiring." Pope Leo XIV
October 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"Art is a different kind of "search engine", it does not proceed by indexing but by inquiring." Pope Leo XIV
The art world is pushing back as fiercely as the tech world against @Pontifex 's defense of artists in the age of #AI. I find this really disturbing. It makes me think we've completely lost the plot in the art world. #MagnificaHumanitas
October 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
The art world is pushing back as fiercely as the tech world against @Pontifex 's defense of artists in the age of #AI. I find this really disturbing. It makes me think we've completely lost the plot in the art world. #MagnificaHumanitas
I wish Sweden and the rest of Europe who seem to embrace us Canadians with genuine love would knock it off with the prizes for Carney. We do not need any provocation to what is already a really horrible trades situation.
October 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I wish Sweden and the rest of Europe who seem to embrace us Canadians with genuine love would knock it off with the prizes for Carney. We do not need any provocation to what is already a really horrible trades situation.
Listening to this I am reminded that my passion for history is really a passion for patterns. Aesthetic, cosmic, ecological, political... patterns that play out in poetic journeys, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic. @theresthistory.bsky.social youtu.be/KDxnZYBDldk?...
Why the French Revolution Turned Violent, With Simon Schama
YouTube video by The Rest Is History
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October 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Listening to this I am reminded that my passion for history is really a passion for patterns. Aesthetic, cosmic, ecological, political... patterns that play out in poetic journeys, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic. @theresthistory.bsky.social youtu.be/KDxnZYBDldk?...
Thinking on it, the scariest aspect of this movie which would not have been noticed by the audiences at the time was how normalized people treat water shortages, extreme heat, nothing working properly, people killing themselves...
This movie is really freaky - weather patterns go nuts, ice at the poles melt... 1961 🥺 @tcmtv.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
The 1961 film that was eerily prescient
Released in 1961, the cult British sci-fi film The Day the Earth Caught Fire offers a stark warning that resonates with a heating planet today, writes Gregory Wakeman.
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October 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Thinking on it, the scariest aspect of this movie which would not have been noticed by the audiences at the time was how normalized people treat water shortages, extreme heat, nothing working properly, people killing themselves...
Reposted by Victoria Ward
'As our planet plunges into its sixth mass extinction, #biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate.'
news.mongabay.com/2020/10/with...
news.mongabay.com/2020/10/with...
With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s rainforest mega-gardeners go hungry
The rainforest of Lopé National Park in central Gabon is one of the last safe havens for the endangered forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). But in a new study in Science, researchers warn that eleph...
news.mongabay.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM
'As our planet plunges into its sixth mass extinction, #biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate.'
news.mongabay.com/2020/10/with...
news.mongabay.com/2020/10/with...
This movie is really freaky - weather patterns go nuts, ice at the poles melt... 1961 🥺 @tcmtv.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
The 1961 film that was eerily prescient
Released in 1961, the cult British sci-fi film The Day the Earth Caught Fire offers a stark warning that resonates with a heating planet today, writes Gregory Wakeman.
www.bbc.com
October 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
This movie is really freaky - weather patterns go nuts, ice at the poles melt... 1961 🥺 @tcmtv.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Total must. Don't care if it's good or not. youtu.be/SzopCeFAWF0?...
ELSINORE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters November
YouTube video by Focus Features
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September 30, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Total must. Don't care if it's good or not. youtu.be/SzopCeFAWF0?...
Honest question: why does anyone care who Geddy Lee votes for? He's allowed to vote for anyone he likes and endorse them too. Isn't there some Venn diagram about democracy, free speech etc. where this all works?
September 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Honest question: why does anyone care who Geddy Lee votes for? He's allowed to vote for anyone he likes and endorse them too. Isn't there some Venn diagram about democracy, free speech etc. where this all works?
The biggest users of #AI are one person start ups usually a hobby that is using it for admin instead of hiring someone. They pay about $20 a month for it. (Patrick Boyle) Will this fund a trillion dollar investment?
September 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The biggest users of #AI are one person start ups usually a hobby that is using it for admin instead of hiring someone. They pay about $20 a month for it. (Patrick Boyle) Will this fund a trillion dollar investment?
"The average CEO of every major company uses #AI for about an hour and half a week" Patrick Boyle And yet the industry is being supported by the biggest investment in history.
September 30, 2026 at 2:49 PM
"The average CEO of every major company uses #AI for about an hour and half a week" Patrick Boyle And yet the industry is being supported by the biggest investment in history.
I just took a long look at the research Mitacs funds, who they are (just provinces & feds) and all the AI stuff they promote. I think more people should take a look before writing all this off as "Carney helping his buddies" or "pushing AI over human resources"
AI that builds Canada strong for all: that’s our mission.
We’re supporting 10,000 AI-related internships for young Canadians — to empower them to use this technology safely and confidently.
We’re supporting 10,000 AI-related internships for young Canadians — to empower them to use this technology safely and confidently.
September 30, 2026 at 1:33 PM
I just took a long look at the research Mitacs funds, who they are (just provinces & feds) and all the AI stuff they promote. I think more people should take a look before writing all this off as "Carney helping his buddies" or "pushing AI over human resources"
He collects to return the work to the public domain. ♥️ www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Thomas Kaplan’s 18th Rembrandt is St John on Patmos
The owner of the Leiden Collection is revealed to have bought the painting for $18 million at auction at Sotheby’s in December 2025.
www.artnews.com
September 29, 2026 at 1:21 AM
He collects to return the work to the public domain. ♥️ www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Reposted by Victoria Ward
The worse climate change gets the less insurable everything is going to be. By the end of the century I doubt any property insurance will be available unless it's nationalized.
Aviva boss warns more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
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September 29, 2026 at 12:58 AM
The worse climate change gets the less insurable everything is going to be. By the end of the century I doubt any property insurance will be available unless it's nationalized.
It is always amazing to me that current contemporary art culture that derides landscape work and ignores artists like George Bellows or Munch continues to fall all over this dude. His impact has made the public hate us. www.artnews.com/feature/marc...
What Made Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades So Revolutionary?
When does something become a work of art? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), anything—indeed, everything—could be art if an artist deemed it so.
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September 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
It is always amazing to me that current contemporary art culture that derides landscape work and ignores artists like George Bellows or Munch continues to fall all over this dude. His impact has made the public hate us. www.artnews.com/feature/marc...
I hope that woman suing Cornell university bankrupts every single person involved including the university. She obviously can't get justice so hopefully financial revenge wins the day.
September 28, 2026 at 1:32 PM
I hope that woman suing Cornell university bankrupts every single person involved including the university. She obviously can't get justice so hopefully financial revenge wins the day.
Note to Canadian voters who want Carney to fix everything.
September 26, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Note to Canadian voters who want Carney to fix everything.
"terror is a manifestation of virtue" series on the French Revolution totally 🤯. open.spotify.com/episode/59DM...
708. The Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2)
The Rest Is History · Episode
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September 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM
"terror is a manifestation of virtue" series on the French Revolution totally 🤯. open.spotify.com/episode/59DM...
I am not sure I am in love with all this scare mongering however I do agree with Rae & others that in fact our world is working on a completely different axis now. But for me it's billionaires vs. everyone else & the US gov't loves the billionaires. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBT...
Why Canada's former UN ambassador says Trump has crossed the line | Power & Politics
YouTube video by CBC News
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September 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
I am not sure I am in love with all this scare mongering however I do agree with Rae & others that in fact our world is working on a completely different axis now. But for me it's billionaires vs. everyone else & the US gov't loves the billionaires. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBT...