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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, "reading is about how to be you"? No. I know how to be me already, reading is about what it's like to be someone else. Other people's books aren't about me and my perspective. That's what's great about them. What a weird take.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Maybe Mary Beard is just revealing that she didn't enjoy any of the books up for the Booker. But her hatred of people loving reading sounds like the 19th century concerns about women being morally ruined by reading novels.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is our oral tradition, it's what shaped us as a species. Human language shared with others to communicate about the human experience is what matters. And if you don't love empathizing with the imaginative experience of another human being, I think you're missing something crucial.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love reading. I love writing books. And beautiful prose. But the power isn't the text. It's the mental process a reader applies to convert symbols into words they hear in their heads. And when those concepts translate into meaning, and a reader adds their own empathy and imagination.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Worshipping the written word is a function of white supremacy culture. Some cultures developed written language. Most did not. We use it as a gauge for how sophisticated a culture is, and that's really sticking our thumb on the scale.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is anything more late stage patriarchal capitalism than dismissing love as undermining, thoughtless, trite self-improvement? I'm baffled. Mary Beard thinks loving reading isn't respectful enough of the written word. One must only worship it and not love it, I guess. www.youtube.com/shorts/bV5mm...

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To develop a coping mechanism as a person with ADHD, first you must invent the universe.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I didn’t take issue with the number of women you blame for men’s choices. Hold men accountable for their own behaviour. That’s the bare minimum.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stop blaming women for men's choices. Men are full grown adults, they are making themselves like this.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You're about to find a doorway to Narnia next.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Of the many calls to action to be found in this AI bizarro world, the one that keeps getting my attention is the apparent need and desire from so many people for a private, shame- and judgement-free space to ask questions.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Librarians: we have been hard at work designing and offering information literacy programs for the last 40 years. And here we are. Were we doing it wrong? Did we achieve something, and the timeline would have been much worse without our work? It's hard to fathom.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the pandemic and forward a few years, everything needed to be online, and for a hot second that seemed to be working pretty well. But in the last couple of years, the preference of undergraduate students to sit down with a real person in a real place to get help has skyrocketed.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was I in a meeting where we unironically re-invented the concept of the reference desk? Yes I was. And it made sense, too. It felt fresh and responsive to the needs of the moment. It didn't feel retro, it felt futuristic. What is even happening?

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lately I have been in multiple meetings where we appear to be reinventing library services and approaches we jettisoned 20 years ago. That's not shade: more than half the time I'm the one doing the re-inventing. I can't believe the words coming out of my mouth half the time, but things have changed.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spin the wheel, which will you get? Catharsis, grief, or trauma? What a fun weekend game.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m a one-issue London municipal voter, and that issue is narrowing Wharncliffe.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yet another argument for canadacat.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thank you for helping me with this! I really appreciate it!

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you! The other fun thing is trying to work out what sort of food they had. It's SHOCKING to discover how little modern fruits and vegetables would have been around. Almost none of them.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Right, they could make rope or string, but not cloth so much, right?

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was knitting a dishcloth and I thought about how knitting needles are basically strips of bone or shaped bird bones or something. I am, of course, working on a story set during the winter in the last glacial maximum.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I know there's no evidence of ice age people knitting, but it really seems like a reasonable ice age technology. And it wouldn't necessarily leave easy evidence, would it.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And since reproductive organs don't even appear until it's time to use them, even the concept of reproduction wouldn't be available to you. You would be unaware of both birth and death for your species. That's amazing. We're seeing another creature's mysterious creation and afterlife.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is like living your life in one town where no one is born, but just arrive after some sort of long dream state. And eventually the elders get an urge to wander and never return. So you'd never know what happens next.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote a thread the other day about eels' life cycle, 'cause it's a wild story. Fun stuff! But did you know that I also did a map? And that you can own it? It's true! I drew a map of the eels' life cycle, from their perspective, and you can order one for your wall! #eels #maps etsy.me/3Nvk5jK

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Eel Life Cycle Map - Etsy

This Wall Decor item by SurprisedEelMaps has 15 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Hialeah, FL. Listed on Jun 15, 2026

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is stunning! I love the way you've laid it out as a journey rather than a back and forth. It tells such an evocative story!

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The convention of Americans referring to "the South" in international contexts: that's odd, isn't it? Doesn't every place have a south?

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nice to get this Treaty 6 #landback preview. The future is Indigenous.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AND they stay dry when it rains! I don't know what they're complaining about.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Come on, Alex, that man is literally trapped. He's going to have to sleep curled up on that massive, overwhelming barricade tonight. There's no way out for him. How's he supposed to live like this? Have you no sense of decency, sir?

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I thought I'd already posted an update on this, but in case I didn't...

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's not a euphemism, though. It's not an indication about a specific sex act. Queer books without any penetrative sex acts can be spicy. It's a heat rating and a vibe.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This lane is so narrow that a trailer was running up onto the curb the whole way up Wharncliffe. In the first 6 weeks of living here, cars gave hit two houses within view of that bit of road.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A thought that is brand new to me: are there not rules about how wide a lane has to be? Is it legal, or wise, for a lane to incorporate the curb?

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Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have you ever wanted to visually compare the size of your favorite extinct animals? Now you can, as I'm launching an interactive size comparison tool on my website. Give it a try and let me know what you think: www.skeletaldrawing.com/compare/

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Who "called out" the problem other than Shawn? It seems like the cyclist didn't think their speed was a problem at all. Do you think the cyclist hitting a pedestrian was an injury done to the CYCLIST somehow?

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm burning through my longstanding interests in archaic and ancient humans writing these stories. What else are interests for but to use everything you learn as backdrop for stories about queer 11-year-olds?

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Write what you know, they say. What if someone cloned Neanderthals and pygmy mammoths in modern day Vancouver? Check. Neanderthal twins living in Chemainus chasing Sasquatch sightings? Drafting it. Kid living in a winter house on the mammoth steppe during the last glacial maximum? On it.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My protagonist is only the reader I'm writing for directly. I shape stories to present their perspective and experience as respectfully and authentically as I can. I write middle grade, so I'm aiming to write a middle grade experience rather than narrating as an adult at middle grade kids, you know?

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Shawn already said what he said and posted what he posted. You weren't involved in either case. What's your contribution meant to accomplish?

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🇨🇦LisaFellarinaAntifa📎 @lisaantifafella.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can sign until November! Let’s get that number up!

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It seems my skin heals 2-3x faster than normal, and I only know this because of the repeated shocked outbursts from doctors and nurses. Yesterday, the nurse said I should be studied, because my injury was hours old but looked days old. Maybe I'm a Time Lord.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you were ever looking for a stupid way to waste a whole weekend, try throwing yourself down some stairs on a Saturday morning, that'll do the trick.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I didn't think I needed medical attention until Saturday evening when I was pressured to get some by loving, intelligent people. Apparently I would have got stitches in my head if I'd gone in that morning, but my skin knits together really fast. So no stitches.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The second floor pony wall that is somehow structurally necessary is a fantasy element I've included here for free.

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Rochelle 🇨🇦 @mazar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On Saturday morning at 4am, I fell down some stairs and bashed my head into the corner of a pony wall. With a bleeding head injury and a massive bruise in a straight line down my upper arm, I was briefly worried that the pony wall might be structurally important and I may have hurt my house.

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