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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 7h

Happy vacuum your vents and radiators day to all who celebrate!

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 10h

Memory and Exams I had a lovely time talking with Emma Crowe, ABC NSW, about memory techniques for exams. Short and fun! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Does cramming the night before even work? - ABC listen

Were you a crammer in high school? Did you stay up all night the day before English Paper 1 was dude?

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 23h

River Cartwright is consistently the least interesting part of Slow Horses.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing like calling to book an appointment and hearing you are #102 in line. Yes, that is in fact triple digits. Woo! Thankfully, they have a call-back service.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This night was fucking magical. Musicians using all their skill and humour and grace to pull an amazing show out of their butts in the face of a disastrous day. And the audience absolutely loving and embracing them for it. Unforgettable. AI could fucking never. #concerts #Maro

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Maro at the Mod Club

A concert that could have gone dramatically wrong turned into a magical night

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HENSLOW: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. FENNYMAN: So what do we do? H: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. F: How? H: I don’t know. It’s a mystery. #theatre

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It’s Not a Mystery, It’s the Stage Manager

Looking for an organizational force of nature? Hire a stage manager

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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It’s Not a Mystery, It’s the Stage Manager

Looking for an organizational force of nature? Hire a stage manager

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m not going to read this idiotic article, but I would bet cash-y money they don’t A) ever define what they mean by “pain”, or B) mean physical pain, despite the phrasing. So this is all going to be “hurt feelings” bullshit. An LLM HAS NO FEELINGS. It is playing madlibs with you, you moron.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whoever it was at Ikea that decided to make the backs of bookcases out of cardboard in order to save a couple of bucks should absolutely rot in hell. Or else come to my house twice a year to help me tape the fuckers back together and put the books back up when the shelves all collapse.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This month it turns out they’re tearing up College at Yonge! Woo! I have walked to St George and the guy driving the replacement bus on the Spadina short-turn assures me the streetcar is running from here. I am dubious…

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hush was such a great episode with so many great moments. But also: they GOT AWAY WITH SOME SHIT because it wasn't spoken aloud. I remember when this aired. WAS THAT A JERK-OFF JOKE? DID THEY JUST DO A JERK-OFF JOKE ON **BUFFY**? I would love to see what it looked like in the script!

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apparently my reaction to massive anxiety today is going to be knocking things off my to-do list. At least it's productive...

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The customer service experience I hate most in the entire world is when there is no way to opt out of speaking back to the recorded voice. I will never, ever understand people who pay money to have this experience.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Are they... going to translate it into "Olde" English? Because Old English disappeared, like, 500 years before Shakespeare was born.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I missed my usual Rosh Hashona cooking extravaganza because of adventures in asbestos remediation. The house wasn't fit to have family round. But the weather has turned somewhat and I'm craving chicken soup, and my giant stock pot was out for the jam-making anyway. So I'm making a batch just for me.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm a huge fan of both You're Dead to Me and Untitled History Podcast, so this episode was always going to be an absolute treat. And then @gregjenner.bsky.social said something that set my brain on fire. It collided with a couple of other thinky-thoughts I'd been having, and I had to write about it.

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Are Celebrities the New Fairy Folk?

Looking at the way humans tell stories to define the boundaries of our society

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The "cozy" phenomenon feels like something really recent, but my absolute favourites from the genre date back to the 90s. If you haven't read these yet, I recommend them so, so highly. They have been my comfort reads for 30 years. #BookSky #scifi #bookrecs #cozy

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The Best Cozy SciFi You’ve Never Heard Of

If you’ve run out of cozy fantasy and you’re looking for something new to read, I have recommendations for you!

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Experimental campfire cooking time! I read somewhere that instead of roasting marshmallows over a campfire you should roast cookie dough. This seemed fucking genius to me, and today is my first campfire since. So here we go!

Photo of a tube of frozen, store-bought Pilsbury chocolate chip cookie dough. Unopened, sitting on the lid of a cooler.

Photo of a glob of chocolate chip cookie dough - roughly one inch in diameter - mashed onto the end of a pointed stick.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is completely impossible to explain what it was that was so funny on Just a Minute, because it’s all so context dependent. But I took a sip of water at the exact wrong time and came closer to spraying liquid out of my nose than I have since I was in grade school.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Preach. What other people choose to wear on their bodies is NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS. Jesus Christ. You are welcome to have an opinion about it and you are equally welcome to keep that opinion BEHIND YOUR FUCKING TEETH. Learn to behave in public like a fucking adult or stay home.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This video is amazing - it like the theory of everything g that is wrong with the world right now but from a design perspective. And it empowering! Absolutely worth your time.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

THIIIIIISSS…. The lack of colour in the world is destroying my soul. I have to get the functional fixes in the house done first (yesterday was asbestos remediation - woo!) but then watch out!

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ME AGE 11: pirates were cool, they found treasure and swore and had eyepatches and parrots ME AGE 41: pirates were cool, they were multiracial, distributed resources and responsibility, got drunk all the time, and turned the boomerang back against mercantilist empire, often killing the English

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fact. I have a piano, but it is not my childhood piano (my brother got that one) and I will always be a little bit sad about that.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You don't have to give your TV the internet. Plug in a dumb $40 Roku (or whatever) dongle instead and stream through that. Plug your TV into a power bar (bonus points if it has surge protection) and use that as the on/off switch. It can't spy on you if it has no power.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me last night: early night tonight! I need to catch up on some sleep. My brain: or what if, and I’m just spitballing here, we lie here and plot out the whole arc of a spec script A-plot instead? Now’s a good time, right?

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

trans people deserve EVERYTHING everybody else gets and more. romantic love. romantic angst. mistakes. reconciliations. dreams. happiness. fucking up. respect. marriage. jobs. success. failure. kids. choices. divorce. learning. growing. messing up. still being loved

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The current Kia commercial I keep being subjected to: In a world of beige cars, WE have made… a beige car! That *lets you drive like as asshole*! Don’t you want one?

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In trying to get the smell of cat pee out of an old rug, I have somehow transferred it into the rest of the house. So that's fun. #caturday

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A big ask, no pressure & I know people have better things to do but if about 15-20 people buy this from Blackwell's in the next few hours it's likely I'd have the number 1 & 2 books in their chart & that might be enough to finally persuade an American publisher to get my books out over there...

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So… that flyby was the air show and not the crazy downstairs neighbour, right?

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS: RUIN THE FUCK OUT OF THIS ANTI-AI PETITION. this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PETITION and it needs you to verify an email and that's it. do this right now please. thaaaaanks.

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stitchingandbaking.bsky.social @stitchingandbaking.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AUSTEN FANS WAKE UP, HE’S READING EMMA!

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 02/09/2026

2/ Instead of more corporate welfare, it’s time for a windfall tax on the big oil giants that are set to make $100 billion in profits this year because of Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hard to believe right now, but the sun doesn’t actually set for another hour and a half…

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Katherine Arcus @katherinearcus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Um… guys? The sky is not a good colour…

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