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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar

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Canadian elbows-up philobiblian, structural grammarist, writer, freelance editor, fibre artist, musician, in the most beautiful valley in Canada. She/her usually; will use any pronoun. BS expert, politico, insouciant, indomitable, indefatigable since 1887.

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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 15/09/2026
Not many people know this, but in Southern Saskatchewan you can find commercial marshmallow farms. the marshmallows are then sent to refineries where they’re processed and packaged for sale. Thank a mallow farmer next time you’re around a campfire having s’mores!
Photograph of what appear to be enormous puffy marshmallows standing in a field.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 13/09/2026
Hey, Winnipeg, you’ve been grand! Got some hardware out on the Red. we’ll be back next year!
Photograph of a bronze medal and a silver medal attached to bright orange lanyards. The medals are from the Manitoba Paddling Association and are awarded for Dragon Boat Racing.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 30/01/2026
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A bird perches on a concrete traffic boulevard beside cracked asphalt under a misty and fiery orange sky.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 19/12/2025
Meet Lazlo Strange. He is new to our family as of today. He smells weird but he hasn’t stopped purring.
Photograph of a small black catPhoto of a small black cat. A red curtain hangs in the background. Photo of a small black cat with amber eyes.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 18/12/2025
In Saskatchewan we have highway cameras so you can see road conditions. Sometimes they’re very helpful. Sometimes we have blizzards.
Photo from a highway camera showing only a lens covered in ice. Photo from a highway camera showing nothing.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 17/12/2025
They were both badly bruised; nearly the whole nail was blackened. I thought I’d lose the nail. Guess which toenail got THE LAMP? (Yes, I do chalk it up to improved circulation because the lamp is warm, more than wavelength healing.)
A photo of the author’s gross toenails.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 08/12/2025
I love photos of old equipment! Here’s some old harrows!
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 07/12/2025
Yaasss, friend. The Portly Purrs club is VERY exclusive.
A fat Grey cat.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 23/11/2025
Toad in a hole with onion gravy for brunch.
A pan of “toad in the hole” - Yorkshire pudding with sausages. Pot of onion gravy on a black stovetop.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 22/11/2025
WAITASECOND THAT’S AN OPTION‽
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 24/10/2025
I’ve had this in my browser tabs for *years*.
Photo of a building with a red roof. The yellow sand serif sign affixed to the roof reads, in all caps, “WAFFLE SQUARF”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 15/10/2025
Screen cap of a social media post from Reddit which is a photograph of a book shop window. Above the books a black sign with large white sans serif typeface reads: “Fuck social media. Marry books. Kill AI”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 07/10/2025
WHYYYYYYYY
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 05/10/2025
If you’re in #YQR, head down to Darke Hall before nine. There’s a farmers market on and this amazing lady is selling gorgeous rings made from spoons (I have a weakness).
Card for Enduring Elegance, a jewelry maker from Regina, SK. ENDURINGRINGS@icloud.com
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 21/09/2025
Oh yes. I bought seeds six years ago and have been harvesting seed ever since. These are red and orange and gold and yellow and they grow tall and bushy. These ones are scraggly AF because they got ruined by hail…that window is about 2.5’ off the ground.
Scraggly marigolds
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 19/09/2025
Check out the date stamp on this soothsayer’s TL:
Screen cap of a Bsky post from @sharonk.bsky.social which reads: “a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 16/09/2025
Walk, but with panache.
Photograph of a walk sign with a rainbow effect from the reflective material.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 14/09/2025
Happy #Caturday from this perfect Hallowe’en purr machine, Pod (not my cat)!
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 05/09/2025
Yes I’m in the bath. Yes this is the soon to be mortal wound. Please send ice cream bars. Stat. #Deathwatch25
Photograph of a pointy finger with a minuscule cut in the nail.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 04/09/2025
I don’t think so!
Photograph of a human finger wrapped in a turquoise bandage. The finger is not dismembered.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 01/09/2025
I want to keep all the floof of the skirt. The back has an elastic on the top “rail” and there’s no seam in the back so I think putting one in might be in “might as well take it apart” territory.
Photograph of the back of a red sundress on a red dress form.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 01/09/2025
Sewists! I bought a linen and polyester sundress that’s a size or two too big (it was on SUPER SALE). I want to alter it in the bodice/bust to be less…just less. What’s going to be the best? A couple of pleats in the sides? Darts? IT HAS POCKETS.
Photograph of a red sundress on a red dress form in front of a messy white dresser. A tiny black sombrero is hung on a black lampshade behind the dress form.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 21/08/2025
My keychain exploded recently, somehow without my noticing, and the back of it and the emergency key went walkabout. I’m going to start posting these photos on milk cartons….
Photo of an emergency key and the back plastic of a key fob for a car, laid on a wooden surface.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 15/08/2025
AssACTly
Screen cap from Reddit of social media exchange: first post by @50 FirstTates: “ ‘My intrusive thoughts won’ all I did was eat a donut??that’s not an intrusive thought. If my intrusive thoughts won I’d be on the news.”

The reply from @MeganAmanda8 says “people need to stop using “intrusive” when I think what they mean is “impulsive”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 05/08/2025
Someday we’ll find it…the
Photo of a flyer that says “Costco Connection” in white sans serif font against a dark blue background.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 06/07/2025
I’m posting a memes made by me.
Photograph of a laundry basket and several dirty towels thrown on the floor near the laundry basket. Text overlay says “TEENAGERS: MISSING THE LAUNDRY BASKET SINCE 1802”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 27/06/2025
SURE IS And a lot of it.
Grass full of hailstones
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 27/06/2025
This was the start of it. Back when the hailstones were only the size of golf balls. As you can hear.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 27/06/2025
Here’s some of the hail. If I could fit my whole garden in the coffin, I would.
Hailstones from the storm todayHailstones piled up in a pine coffinHailstones litter the lawn
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 27/06/2025
The meadow will recover. Unfortunately so will the godsdamned elms.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 27/06/2025
It hailed for ten minutes straight. I’ve never seen hail like this before. Yes, those are broken windows. Sound on for full effect.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 26/06/2025
Welp. Fuck the garden, I guess.
What was once a verdant garden, pummelled by hail and flattened. What was once beans about to bloom, pummelled and ruined by hail. Garden flattened by hail.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 24/06/2025
The proof of the pudding is in the taste, as they say: the garden, lawn, and meadow. Peas are under the green shade cloth, but only barely (I have pods), radish and cabbage under the netting.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 09/06/2025
#YQR bleeps! Come to the School Board office tomorrow, Tuesday, 10 June at 4ish to play some music to show the school board trustees that “Let’s Go Band!” isn’t just a beginning band song! (folks may wish to attend the following meeting at 5:30, but without instruments)
Poster image featuring brass instruments which reads: “Band Geeks Assemble! Regina Public Schools need to face the music (literally). Join Us Tuesday, June 10th 4:45pm - 5:15pm 1600 4th Avenue, for a short celebration of band outside the board office before the board of trustees meeting. Bring your horn and make some noise!"
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 01/06/2025
This is what a little bit of subcutaneous bleeding does to a gal.
Photo of an incision site from a minor surgery showing some stitches and bruising.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 29/05/2025
If you see this, post a witch?
Photograph of the author against a mint green wall; their long, wavy blonde hair is fallen over their face. One eye, visible above spectacles, is visible.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 25/05/2025
Now these are the curls I’ve always wanted. #RagCurls FTW
Selfie of the author in semi-profile. Visible is their shoulder and upper arm and a tumble of blonde spiral curls.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 19/05/2025
This fuckin guy. Spits out every second seed. Ima have some awesome things growing outside this window, I tell you what.
Photograph of ansaßt chickadee sitting on a window bird feeder, spitting out seeds onto the ground.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 18/05/2025
Do the thing or don’t?
Photograph of an old fashioned style black telephone with a brass headset, on a desk next to a pad of paper and pen.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 15/05/2025
Wow.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 03/05/2025
It me IRL
Reddit post featuring two photographs of a panda making an odd face. Caption reads: “I can’t. Just learned about this panda that grimaces when he breaks bamboo because he had no panda teachers and noticed humans making that face every time they broke some bamboo for him.”
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 29/04/2025
Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw if this isn’t 100% true.
Meme featuring a photograph of Bender from “The Breakfast Club”. Caption reads “Generation X: the only generation that became 30 at age 10 and is still 30 at age 50.”
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 24/04/2025
I’d add “actual” before “experts but this sentiment is, as the yoots no longer say, on fleek.
Screen cap of a social post from @clmazin which reads: “One of the hallmarks of the dangerously stupid is the consistent belief they’ve found great solutions that experts somehow missed.”
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 24/04/2025
This quotation, writ by a Regency-period publisher, is just as poignant now as it was in the early 1800s. #EatTheRich
Screen cap of a Gisnep puzzle solution - a quotation from Leigh Hunt that reads “the same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 18/04/2025
I don’t remember this book in the set, but I wish I had it now, I tell you what.
Replica cover of a Sesame Street book with a picture of The Count on it. He is saying “There’s nothing to count!” in front of a blue background. There is a yellow frame around the blue background. It features a title bar. In the title bar at the top left is a street sign saying “None Below Zero” instead of “Sesame Street”. Top right is a street sign saying “Nada Volume STFU”. The title reads “Counting all the Fucks I give”, subtitle: Featuring - “Not a Single One!”. Below the subtitle is a white bar with dark ochre outline. Text says “Starring the number 0 and the letters F*U*C*K*S”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 10/04/2025
Photograph of green grass covered in spiderweb/like grey snow mold
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 09/04/2025
Sign 2 Item 3 is *chef’s kiss*
Two “Hands Off” protestors who have painted themselves orange and are wearing sunglasses carry signs titled “Orange Fever”. The first sign reads” Symptoms include: Xenophobia; Senseless Cruelty; Swelling of the [Ego(it’s cut off)]; Antidote: Facts”. The second sign reads “Symptoms include: Racism; Transphobia; Unpleasant Musk; Antidote: Facts”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 09/04/2025
@effinbirds.com this post is priceless. I think I’ve found my newest tattoo...
Drawing of a black-and-yellow-bellied spotted bird on a pale bluish grey background (from @effinbirds) beside text that reads “I appear to have overestimated the fuck out of your intelligence”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 07/04/2025
*snooorrrrrrttt*
Sign from US anti-47 Protest marches that reads “oligargle deez nutz”.
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Millicent (cenobyte) Bystander, Snark Czar @cenobyte.ca · 04/04/2025
Effin Birds image with a drawing of an orange breasted pigeon looking bird and the phrase “This here is some real fucked up dystopian shit”.
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