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Sygnin
@sygnin.com

If you're in Canada, pls buy local art where you can. It's just. So. Needlessly difficult right now.

Saba 🏳️‍🌈 Kofi tiers ✨@ace-of-dragons.bsky.social

times are tough for artists across the board, but they're about to get tougher for Canadian physical media artists please support us Canadian artists where you can— especially the physical media artists who are gonna be hit hard by this 🫶🏻 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

ctvnews.ca‘I had a good cry’: New U.S. tariffs hit Canadian artists where it hurtsLorette Luzajic hardly makes a fortune from her art, but sales to American buyers have long let the Toronto-based artist eke out a modest living. Her mixed-media pieces and paintings have sold in 40 c...

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Sygnin
@sygnin.com

I am trying so hard to not worry my ass off about how things are going, but I am also pretty sure things will get worse before they get better. It didn't have to be like this. It doesn't have to. Yet no one has what it takes to stop it from getting worse and worse.

TheCheesenOne
@thecheesenone.bsky.social

I am from Europe, but even here it truly feels like you can only buy from your own country at this point unless you want to pay fees and double the item price in shipping on top. Or suddenly some third secret tax on top. horrid.

Sygnin
@sygnin.com

Yeaaahhh… the new regulations are really quite baffling to me. I thought it was about protecting EU members from unfair external competition… but it seems real dumb that no one thought oops maybe this is bad for our own small businesses? Is like every govt these days is just hopeless 🤦‍♀️