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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 2h

Halfway through and absolutely queasy with dread

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 23h

Tucked into bed reading Jamaica Inn to usher in Spooky Season

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trying in vain to shoehorn this into Metric's Help I'm Alive

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

I had to explain this to a prof this week re: Google scholar and tried to think of a gentle way to say "it's only going to get worse" but mostly just ended up staring into the distance for a while

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not as trendy, but I've used LibraryThing for 2 decades and liked it

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Right! And before the Beats (to be v. general about it), poetry and being a poet had a different relationship to establishment values and aesthetics (and patronage, and the welfare state). Now art-making generally is left-coded, but maybe novels and film are a tad more respectable ie remunerative?

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So you get a handful of people working in the mode of canonical poets that aren't terribly exciting or notable, but to want to embrace the low-capital pursuit of poetry suggests a leftist-alignment, or at least a willingness to cosplay in its trappings

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Genuinely, I think that poetry, like social revolution, dance, and other forms of disruption, is a thing that the right and some centrist liberals can only bring themselves to value once it's safely enclosed by the establishment. Experiencing or creating their emergent forms is left-coded.

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

annoyed as fuck that I'm having to send DMC (the freakin' textile craft supply company, yes) an email about their wretched Harry Potter-themed spotlight collections but here we are. no company is above this shit, it seems.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It appeals to my magpie eye 💖

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got a package from UPS on second delivery attempt yesterday. It did not come in the scheduled delivery window either of the days they tried. Why even HAVE the window!

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Between that and eliminating the email address requirement, chat is HOPPING this term. I'm very pleased.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We literally changed the name of ours to Chat with a Human because of the bot factor

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pink and gold! Flakie jelly!

My hand wearing a vivid pink jelly nail polish full of gold flakes and a little fine green glitter. I'm holding my periwinkle travel mug and you can see out of focus sun-dappled greenery behind.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're paying the tariffs on Canadian orders! I think through this week, maybe longer? The exchange rate is still criminal but if you hit the free shipping window it can feel worth it if you squint really hard haha

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh no this has officially slain me

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Boston before Winnipeg?? That is NOT RIGHT

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The texture on the one I tried tonight is LOVELY. I was torn on ordering but after searching the Canadian beauty market for 2-ingredient polish thinner and failing, I figured I'd make one big order with a bunch of thinner and polish and be done. Timing on upping my nail game couldn't have been worse

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Any standout favourites? I feverishly picked a varied array so I could see what I like but boy, it was tough to narrow it down. I think I'm most excited for Midnight Spark

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gosh, this genuinely makes me feel quite emotional. To have leadership like that, instead of the semi veiled contempt we get here.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is exactly while, while I'm more lax about it other times, I ALWAYS wear a mask at the desk. People sit so close! I don't want their cruddy little coughs!

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My emotional support fancy nail polish came today so it's over for you bitches

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Correct. And according to this person bsky.app/profile/nigh...

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Clever! Harlow&co sells KBS stuff in Canada—I'll have to see if they're into bringing these guys in for us

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oooooh. Might have to revisit this 😍

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Changing mine to Winnipeg Mayoral Ballot

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every year, I expect ALA to at least mention the critical importance of people in communities getting involved in library governance. Every year, it does not.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That curve in your catseye is gorgeous! I know magnetics are too much fuss for me personally but oh, this kind of look is so nice

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I went to see C in 2016, she was living in Sunnyside Gardens which was all pedestrianized for Halloween and it was WONDERFUL. A mess of kids at dusk wandering the blocks of rowhouse apartments, which got very into the spirit of things

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

If you've ever wondered why your vote seems to accomplish so little, I think you can blame the near-abolition of small p politics by Big P politicians of every stripe.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to *make* them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

From the Magna Carta to the Constitution to the Emancipation Proclamation to 19th Amendment, voting rights (what you might call "Big P" Politics) were always downstream of protests, riots, petitions, mass movements, strikes and good, old fashioned community organizing (that is, "small p" politics).

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Point: sitcom cat Counterpoint: teenage mutant ninja cat

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Totally. Plants can scream! Sentience is definitely not a neatly delineated concept. And, as anyone who's had a pest infestation can attest, it can make you do some weird thinking about your capacity for harm toward other forms of life www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions

Screenshot of article which reads: Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy.
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popu-
lar frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is
a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, “fixing” polar-
ization will not restore American democratic health.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think about this episode... a lot hahaha

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw it when I was browsing Lit Hub this morning and got all excited. The cover is SO beautiful!!

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ancient boombox that I listen to the CBC on while I cook has started emitting static crackle even when turned off. Happy first day of October; the ghosts are trying to escape the machine.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's the nitty gritty! If it sounds fun, shoot me a dm and I'll send you my email address and the referral info learnedleague.com/thorsten/wha...

learnedleague.com

What is LearnedLeague?

The Greatest Trivia League in All the Land.

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you'd like a referral, let me know! I rarely get to use them and I'm always happy to bring in more fun nerds who are into its admittedly specific flavour of nerdiness

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Marika @marikapea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Annie, are you a trivia game person? Feel like you would absolutely slay at Learned League if it's your kinda thing (there was a recent-ish question about Muybridge, is what made me think of it specifically)

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

I haven't heard that. They're seasonal—just in the fall—but should still be around.

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