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Cara Donnelly

@caraquilts.bsky.social
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Artist and crafter, chronic illness, and so many other things.

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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm calling them beet fritters but honestly, fridge and pantry met and made a yummy. Peasant food and so delicious. Mine are gluten free, but as much pureed beets as flour and el dente type texture with a crispy shell. Nothing was stained in the making either!
Fried red flat patties on a blue plateOne of the bites showing the middle which shows the inside having pulled away from the crust
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just because I get so annoyed with misinfo on Canadian healthcare. 6 weeks from referral to appointment for a non emergency CT-A neck. Again, I will pay only parking. I can also now self refer for mammograms.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It has been pointed out since I did not marry in the Church, I am not divorced according to the church and can in fact remarry. Which is such loophole logic. My marriage was blessed by a Catholic priest, done by a retired Catholic priest but was to a Southern Baptist and technically secular
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone was offended I call myself a mutt, a European one, when speaking about my ethnic background. Which is slightly different than my socioethnic identification. You can take a tour of northern Europe, west to east on my genetic breakdown. I don't hit 50% anything.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm having a zoom watch party. It's in the best of taste. And I do not care.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Walks away from social media again. Kiddo's bio dad was in a frat. That's all I'm saying on that. Fucking fuckers fucked
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mwahahha. I enjoy figuring things out. I'm giving a 85% chance I have a fabulous (justice) day Friday. And because a "to be spoken to" has become a 'to take a plea" for a different court case end of October, I'm betting someone knows they're toast. I will be there to watch.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Easiest and dumbest recipe I've made recently? Roast beets in oil after chopping tail/top off. Use a paper towel and rub off most of the peel once cooled. Poach freezer burned tilapia in water with soy sauce. Seasoning, bit more oil & all into the food processor forever. Heat. Dollop of sour cream
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Black people do not hang themselves from trees. The fact that there have been multiple ones recently that initially are attempted to be classified as suicides speaks to the deep internal rot. Also Nolan Wells had no water in his lungs. That child did not drown.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've lived in my place for 5 years now. The last year has been the only real time I've had neighbour problems. And last night? Some fucker from floors above came banging on my balcony door at 10pm! Dudes off his rocker and I've had exactly one interaction with him prior.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Is it the Bible or a Socialist Quote?
YouTube video by Danny Killea
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think one reason, and a grim one, that energy-limiting diseases get so little attention (aside from Covid denialism) is that it’s hard to capitalize on those of us with them. We are mostly very poor because our working ability is limited, we have little buying power and thus,little lobbying power.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quilting has always been political
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For 🇺🇲. My city, London🇨🇦, has about 500 000 people. 25% immigrants 2 major post secondary institutions, major regional medical/trauma centers, manufacturing. We produced insane amounts of booze. Pot shops everywhere. Drugs & homeless We recorded our fourth homicide. Of the year. It's the guns.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
X-Men never "became woke" you just grew up to be a bad person.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Omg I am both an awesome mom and a complete fool. Lol 23 needed me at her appointment and both when the resident but also I offered to leave the room, kiddo refused. I know everything already, & before I could even say it " yeah yeah, no judgement". She wanted me to hold her hand during an exam🥺😭❤️
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People who did not deal with a pandemic died at higher rates, got long term disabilities from infections, but even more so, they showed themselves to be antisocial, illiterate selfish pricks. Why would anyone want to reproduce with that? They endanger you children. It's purposefully choosing abuse
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An fyi, large amounts of scar tissue makes an internal ultrasound so much more painful. Anyone who's never had their organs moved around really should always be quiet about things.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
omg. My new phone only used 61% over the day. I was having to charge the last one twice a day.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hehehe my neighbour wants to go get gas over at the reserve, which means I get like half priced pot! I live by 3 different Nations and as teen it was one of those excuses to go for a drive that was completely unnecessary. Getting gas 20-30 minutes away.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It was chilly. So now I have peach crisp for breakfast. I really do appreciate being raised in an ingredient household. It is far easier and cheaper to throw a crisp together (topping was in the fridge already, one larger bowl, many smaller crisps) than most convenience foods. So I do.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In swo you can access reports from decades ago through Connect my health, out of Hamilton, for free. And unlike pocket health the actual reports not just images Get your imaging especially. And read the blasted things. Many doctors at best skim the impression line, ignoring everything else written.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mwahahha . I've been forced to be flat on my back for days and oh boy have I got a plan for Monday's dr appointment. 15 years and he's about to meet the me I don't like coming out to play. There are printouts. There are timelines, diagnostics, legal and professional standards, charts. No give at all
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 17/09/2026
Over the last two weeks in Europe, I heard lots of solidarity around Trump's threats against Canada — and painfully little recognition that the American president is an existential threat to Europe, too. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: On his latest trip abroad, Carney needs to warn Europe: Trump is coming for you next
During my own recent Euro trip, I kept meeting people terrified by the U.S. president's autocratic turn yet blithe to the threat he poses to them.
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At Toronto’s TIFF, Dame Helen Mirren responds to the question, “What in Canadian culture is worth defending and fighting for?” En français with English subtitles. (Video: @_rozann_/Instagram)
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Take notes, ladies ✍️
YouTube video by Lyndsey
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Laughs uproariously. "ACEs typically stop being counted at 4+ as high risk in studies" I found an assignment that broke me. It...uh maybe explains why I 'break' therapists. A timeline, reduced to "provable" facts, categorized and ranked in severity or risk. And only ones I understood at 25(?)
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When I "hear" another voice in my daughter's messages I respond with the full clinical answer now. It's been remarkably effective in proving my point in I can tell the difference between her, my mother, and ai written shit.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My ethnicities in a grocery cart. $8; the universe smiled on the very broke descendant of farmers and peasants. Who doesn't love the fall flush of root veg? I'm allergic to onion so no comments on passing on the also $2.99 10lbs bag of them. And 4.54kg doesn't have the same ring so still 10lbs bags.
10 pound bags of carrots, beets, and potatoes.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hamilton has a system for accessing medical records in SWO. Most documents that went through the servers, computer reports type things. I now have more proof. But one of the dumbest? My jaw doesn't catch. So much is from my literal jaw not connected except by connective tissue.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My poor body. Last day has seen 164 bpm and then wakes up to 51bpm, likely lower as 51 was after when i moved around to grab the oximeter. Lol wake up your heart isn't doing enough! Lay down your heart is doing too much! Moody bjtch.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Christ. The child dug out this photo. Me at 18 with baby daddy
Black and white photo booth picture of a white couple
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OMG my little bit is now 23! And she looked in the camera for me! We had a painting party and used one of her photos for inspiration.
Selfie, mother and daughter. Our paintings of a road at sunrise, my daughter took the inspiration photo.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026
Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I didn't see it but merlin tells me a new bird was close this morning! That is the type of excitement I can handle right now 😁
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Medical reasons and lack of executive function reliability means I have to use Gemini to help as an assistant and organizer. I've been training it and setting up boundaries etc so in less than optimal shape I have control of information and something trained to communicate with me how I think.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When you do what cops etc do & insist that your feelings be in front of anything institutional or systemic because you're a person too, totally just a cog in someone else's wheel so don't make me sads about it. 🪞 Oh I'm a good American because I didn't vote for him so people can't be made at usians
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The internet, where to be hyper verbal when your mind stops letting words come out of your mouth but doesn't shut down the hamster wheel inside.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The perfect temp today. Wear a sweater or a tshirt. Light cardigans are perfect
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Lolz I figured out how to prove I am a vanished twin. Family lore isn't proof. The reason I have two different mutations on the same gene but my mother was negative is because one each came from each embryo. Hehehehe I can prove the chimerism now. Oh I get to have fun rubbing that in a few faces
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I know enough people like me to wonder if millennials will end up being who genx thought they were. We're coming for the systemic failures and policy choices. Our traumas become everyone's problem when the system fails.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tornado warning. Seriously this year has been stupid. I shutter at the coming winter if the patterns hold
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've lost 11 lbs in 9 days. Kinda want to know why but sure it's nothing. I'm sweating through my clothes, a thing I do not do ever, but yeah I just need to drink more. Dysautonomia is a trip. And possibly caused by the dadadada compressed spinal cord. That was all in my head until the last MRI
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Both my parents hometowns are on the map. I live down past where the two highways on the right meet about an hour. Want to guess how I feel about it?
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No permanent spinal cord damage is good news. Except the word yet was also used. And note permanent. Not no damage. We don't have the low back assessment yet. I'm not super thrilled with all this. Kinda want to go back to it's all in my head. That was theoretically fixable. 😐 This is manageable.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The internet and social media vs books pop access and literacy on the rise of superstition/conspiracy, knowledge multiplication, and societal change with commentary. The "ooooh I want to read something like that" ideas I have doing other things.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I have unlocked a new, unknown level of AuDHD. I will be elaborating. At length.
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Cara Donnelly @caraquilts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nights are getting low enough at night I have to start working for the houseplants to come back inside. Last night was perilously close to 10°C. Ones in water in glass vessels or sitting on the concrete directly are not happy. Root rot in glass and cool soil in pots. Do I gamble with tonight?
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sewer construction probably needed on Sussex Blvd. Probably need to rip up the entire street.
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