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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Obviously I meant Girl Guides I was very tired last night sorry to do an America on the tl

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KangaRod @kangarod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that has been interesting for me realizing after getting involved in Safer Streets advocacy is the number of people who’s opinion fundamentally amounts to “as long as nobody ever makes a mistake anywhere; we’ll have a totally safe system.” Yet don’t realize it.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Winnipeg friends, do you know a Girl Scout I can buy some thin mints from? I have a Need.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can't adequately assess information without context and provenance. You simply cannot.

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🇨🇦Jackie Corrigan🇨🇦 @jackiecorrigan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Online booking for flu and COVID-19 vaccine appointments at Public Health immunization clinics is now open. #Covid manitoba.ca/respiratoryv...

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Province of Manitoba | Vaccine-Preventable Respiratory Illnesses

Province of Manitoba

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Local pals, fyi (the exposure site is Crossways/Young United/1JC, etc) (it's also never a bad idea to get a Twinrix vax series for HepA+B if you haven't before)

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is true I don't make the rules

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Literally CBC's Your World Tonight had a story about how quiet this Atlantic storm season has been with no hurricanes yet reported, but didn't mention the massive hurricane that's growing in the Pacific? That is an absolutely wild editorial choice.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Alt text: an Insta screenshot with a graphic that contains the same info as the quote post text plus the header "It's time to stop paying for bullshit rent increases" with red arrows and a yellow squiggle.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As we look toward a civic election and a significant el niňo winter, I would love to hear how candidates plan to act on climate change adaptation. I would especially love to hear their plan for snow-clearing during a guaranteed TERRIBLE freeze-thaw cycle winter so people can actually bus and bike.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Would my 20 year-old self approve of my choices? Tonight my friend was reading a Zizek joke and I remembered that poor kid went on a date with a theatre major guy who drove the wrong way down one ways multiple times to see The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. I have given her a different life, thank god

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No one ever gets me a massive green orb

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

supremacists of any kind are not necessarily stupid, they've just allowed a rancid idea to twist their minds and whatever intelligence they have becomes in service of it

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The thing about AI discourse is that a lot of times people aren't arguing about the technology, they're demonstrating which of the following things they think are more complicated: computers, the human brain, a field of potatoes. I saw someone call the brain "a wet computer."

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 22/09/2023

One of my favorite uncelebrated Frank O'Hara poems. "Spleen," from 1954

Text:

SPLEEN

I know so much
about things, I accept
so much, it's like
vomiting. And I am
nourished by the
shabbiness of my
knowing so much
about others and what
they do, and accepting
so much that I hate
as if I didn't know
what it is, to me.
And what it is to
them I know, and hate.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love this thread. A thing that always comes up when I work with students is the importance of understanding and defining the terms of your research question. What do we want to grow? Who should efficiency serve? Whose time matters? How do we shore up trust? Who gets included in "we?"

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m obsessed with embroidery. Can I interest anyone in blackwork?

Blackwork crow is judging you. You know what you did.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh this is so cool!! The shine!!!

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is how I feel listening to CBC. This morning, a local piece on the importance of teens learning AI for future work+the premier's push to ban it in schools, this evening, a piece blaming AI for Canada's international benchmark academic test scores falling+the guy who claims AI might kill us all

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Academics should not be using general-purpose AI tools (including ones provided by your institution as "closed-loop" for anything proprietary, confidential, sensitive or even just scoopable.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Canadian book industry friends, is there an easy-ish way to figure out which bookstores use a particular Canadian distributor of European titles so I can special order a book?

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Students have Returned

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nooooo they did another bad David Kestenbaum AI segment that has made me so grumpy

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Canadian book industry friends, is there an easy-ish way to figure out which bookstores use a particular Canadian distributor of European titles so I can special order a book?

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

While we're talking maps, local pals, what app are we using for buses these days? I tried the Transit app after the service switch last year and was dismayed that it doesn't cache the trip and I have to re-enter every time I re-open app?? Am I missing something?? That seems absolutely disqualifying

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New It Could Happen Here @iwriteok.bsky.social reads an investigative report by French author and researcher, Stephanie Lamy, about the community of race scientists who went after Jason Arday. linktr.ee/ICHHpod

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A funny thing about being a queer lady in your late 30s is coming to the startling realization that you can have a 15 minute conversation about women's sports despite not actually following any sport ever

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pulled up the Blind library website to search a book my colleague recommended, and lord help me, this, from the results, did make me laugh

Screenshot of a search result from the CELA website: "Teach Yourself VISUALLY Flash CS4 Professional
By Keith Butters. 2009
Electronic braille (Contracted), Braille (Contracted), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), ePub (Zip), Word (Zip), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip)
Computers and internet
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
As the industry standard for creating lively Web animations, Flash allows you" [text cuts off]

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I would love it if I didn't have to struggle through three+ post failures attempts every time I try to post a goofy little image joke on this darn website

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My glasses STILL haven't come and I am about to fully crash out about it, but while I wait I've started watching Poker Face and it's pretty fun

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Few things give me Big Feelings on the scale of the Voyager records. I think it is such a beautiful hopeful thing

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Amy @amylibrarian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thank you for modeling this, @mattmakel.bsky.social! Your candor is admirable. Librarian perspective: I frequently meet with scholars who (wrongly) think they're searching the full text. This leads to longer conversations about indexing, paywalls/open access, digitization/PDFs/OCR, etc.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm always sorry to learn about an artist whose work is so my thing only at the news of their death. If you have particular favourite works by Yayoi Kusama, I'd love to know them.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

May there be some tenderness.

Full moon. Bright. Partially obscured by dark clouds. Early morning.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My new glasses still haven't come yet so I haven't read a book or embroidered anything in over a week and I am so grumpy and disregulated

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Age verification and privacy cannot coexist. It's one or the other.

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Laura Brady @laurab7.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canadian pals: your donation to the Imagination Library goes to the Canadian branch automatically. I donated in memory of the Queen herself, Dolly Parton. imaginationlibrary.com

imaginationlibrary.com

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Casey Plett @caseyplett.com · 25/08/2026

We could counter by naming it Lake "Take Off, Buddy!" just a free idea idk

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 25/08/2026

just a reminder the recipient of the Shawinigan Handshake was an anti-poverty protester named Bill Clennett because Clennett was heckling him

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Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thinking again of that Toni Morrison quote (which seems to never not be relevant):

"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've signed onto an open letter of authors (and publishers) who support the striking workers of the Cleveland Public Library system. If you're an author or publisher and want to sign on too, there's information about how to do so! Tell your friends, etc. tinyurl.com/cplsolidarity

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Tonight: Torn Curtain. I haven't been able to get myself to watch most of Hitchcock's spy/war movies, but this one has Julie Andrews, so I think we'll be all right.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I switched to Duck Duck Go on Firefox for mobile search when I got a new phone three years ago, and despite the half-dozen at least people I've seen claiming it's better than google, I just actually don't think it is, and I'm so annoyed about it

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you’re a person who says things like “librarians are magical”, you should also be a person who says things like “library worker labor should be fairly compensated and supported”.

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