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Robin Marwick

@electricland.bsky.social
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Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. If you tell me a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable, you’ll get a lecture. 🇨🇦 She/her. linktr.ee/rmarwick

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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 17h
The weather was absolutely gorgeous and we have *almost* seen the last of the mosquitoes! (More of a problem for me than Bunty.)
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you! It was!
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 17h
It was! Bunty says to tell you she added SO many burrs to her collection and then I kept stealing them.
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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.
Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Happy #TerrierTuesday from Bunty, who had some glorious walks in the woods this Thanksgiving weekend.
Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, trotting away from the camera on a broad path covered in russet pine needles. She’s in a wood that’s still mostly green, with a few maples starting to show some colour. Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, running towards the camera in a green and gold woodBunty, a young Airedale terrier, to the left of a wide path that’s mostly fallen leaves. Pines, cedars, oaks and birches grow on either side of the path.
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dash! Happy birthday!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'
Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
so many people (especially men) gleefully disclosing things you couldn’t drag out of me with wild horses if i were stupid and feckless enough to do it in the first place
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Suck it, other book collectors.
ABEBooks listing for a copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for $43.33, labeled “hardcover, signed.”
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bizarre timing but a possible progressive pickup here on Toronto council. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/09/f...
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Frances Nunziata dropping out of Toronto municipal election race: sources
Long-time Toronto councillor Frances Nunziata will be withdrawing from the municipal election race, two sources tell CityNews.
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.
There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight. 

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Okay, so. Way back when, in the before times, I made a post about a similar phenomenon on the hellsite. Remember all those cute ring doorbell ads? The ones shoung pet rescues or heartwarming stories? Those serve to affectively prime us to accept surveillance as reasonable through their cuteness.
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Laura Bundesen @laurabundesen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My latest kinusaiga brain made entirely of batik fabrics. I’ll be posting this and at least six other new pieces on my website next week. Join my Inner Circke to get an email when they drop laurabundesen.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?id... #SciArt #FiberArt
A framed Kinusaiga (tucked fabric) brain using batik fabrics in every color of the rainbow with a background out of the same fabrics all completed in an abstract pattern
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nonono, you misunderstand, he’s saying “some of *them* must die”
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Kenna Alexander @kennaalexander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Indigenous artists! Help us make a cool game. Let them know I sent you. Share where you can! Wado! www.montecookgames.com/call-for-ind...
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Call for Indigenous Artists for Between Earth & Sky: the Roleplaying Game! - Monte Cook Games
Celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. Dreamwalking, sea-singing, and crow communication. Dangerous gods, difficult choices, and sweet romances. This […]
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my God
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What in the world is that alignment?!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026
this is what hypertext was made for
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ancient Quebecois curse
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the most widely cited and esteemed scholars I know published his first book (which changed the field) when he was 50 and by then had long been employed by a university. This was in the 1980s.
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(accomplished music)
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Definitely!
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/elec...
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(wretched music) (gleaming music)
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes. “If you defund and deplatform anti-racists then that will force their movement underground, and then they will be truly dangerous!” is never, ever an argument you will hear from the right-wing media. Because they know very well that defunding and deplatforming *actually works*.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is "fantaspionage" the next big thing? Can we MAKE it the next big thing? @mcflycahill90.bsky.social (Audition for the Fox) speaks with @premeemohamed.com (Wickhills) about genre, weird cities, and who is the having the worst time in a story:
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“What Kind of Person Would a City Like Wickhills Produce?”: A Conversation With Premee Mohamed - Reactor
On crafting the perfect spy story, and building a magical city.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A sale or two at my shop would be a colossal help. This helps support me as a fabric artist, unofficial town sorcerer, and human being. I'd love for you to check out my Jeremy Creatures. Each one is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Here's a lovely photo of a plethora of hand-sewn fabric art creatures. There's a watermelon creature with a red face, eight black seed-like eyes, and a wide mouth with five sharp teeth. There's a white ghost trinket bag covered with purple embroidered flowers. She has a gray face, sparkly black eyes and a little frown. There's a strawberry creature with three bulbous green eyes. There's a watermelon ghost, and a black creature with sharp teeth wearing a bulbous eye earring. There's a large purple creature with many yellow eyes and an open mouth, with a little green creature popping her head out. All the creatures are sitting on green fur and there's a galaxy print fabric in the background.
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
not to worry, (spoiler for future book) Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen makes that very clear
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Terrier sighted!
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Schrödinger's Zoo: Now Featuring Dogs @dropbydroppress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, A Deerhound, 1826
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, A Deerhound, 1826
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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let's talk about Versailles.
Renderings show an ornate and gilded interior that departs from the simplicity of the original White House and echoes the look of the ballroom at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, a look he has said was inspired by the Palace of Versailles in France. 

Source: https://archive.is/NIWLl
WaPo
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(rolls eyes Canadianly)
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Jasper Fox @redfuchs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
a picture of a cat with the caption "deep down we all want to BITE someone as hard as possible. 100% real jaw power. 5-8 seconds just once"
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This event last night was unbelievable. Truly can’t believe how many people came out and just how passionate and energized people are here. Dublin and the people here are officially the greatest.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What I see: Man can't see distress on own child's face and care about him, needs robot to tell him he's Bad Actually.
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
You can't beat these hand-drawn Enterprise cutaways by Bruce Morser, packed with beautifully detailed pencil illustrations. [1/2]
Full sheet of a USS Enterprise-A cutaway by Bruce Morser. The style is pencil line art, colour shaded and rich with little details like a plan of the bridge, warp field outlines, a shuttle, and even a portrait of Captain Kirk. It includes the AMT/ERTL and Star Trek logos, plus the name and registry of the ship.Detail of the USS Enterprise-A cutaway poster by Bruce Morser. This one shows the bridge and starboard view of the ship.Detail of the USS Enterprise-A cutaway poster by Bruce Morser, showing main engineering and a shuttle.Detail of the USS Enterprise-A cutaway poster by Bruce Morser with his portrait of Shatner's Kirk, from the late-era movies.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
is it good business to fire paying customers who cost nothing? I am just a simple country book reviewer
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh Rocky. Sending snuggles and best wishes.
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Little Mr Rockafella (Rocky) @littlemrrockafella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A little bit despondent for #TerrierTuesday this week (sorry folks) but here I am keeping mum company while she waits to hear about having an operation. We hope everyone is well 🐾 #BTPosse
A brown border terrier dog lying on a bed next to a foot. He is keeping his human company.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I sincerely believe part of my job is leaving the house and having experiences, hopefully so my writing isn’t boring.
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh no, it doesn’t at all, but if they’re mostly college-aged dumbasses who work with other college-aged dumbasses, it’s at least slightly more understandable
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy #TerrierTuesday from the Most Interesting Dog in the World. “I don’t often chase balls…but when I do, I chase Chuck-Its.”
Bunty, a young Airedale terrier, lounging in a pose reminiscent of the Dos Equis Guy, leaning on one elbow. She’s in a screened-in verandah with a battered green floor, ratty green and white rug, and white furniture. There’s a chewie between her front paws and a ball beside her.
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