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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyone get a photo of that hail? I think it was about dime-sized or bigger but I couldn’t get my camera to work properly before it melted. #hamont

My hand holding a small bit of ice. It’s dark and not very clear, sorry.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll … I don’t think I took this one.

It’s from Minecraft, I don’t know what else to say. The green texture is grass, the blue is sky, there’s a weird window maybe that’s floating on the middle of the screen — it looks like three wood pallets — and above that is, I don’t know, it looks like a computer chip after I’ve stepped on it a few times. If I asked my kid what’s happening here I’d get a totally different description, I’m sure.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s the number for the Trans Lifeline in the US — they’ve said this isn’t true. www.facebook.com/share/1CV3qj...

A graphic with a torn paper background in purple and white, displaying the large text “HELP US CORRECT MISINFORMATION” in bold white and yellow letters. Below it, there’s a screenshot of a tweet from that reads, “As Trump shuts down the suicide hotline, Canada has broadcasted their national hotline which now has a toll-free American version: 1-877-330-6366.” A red “FALSE” stamp is placed over the tweet. In the bottom right corner, there’s a megaphone graphic emitting yellow sound lines, and white and yellow X marks decorate the background.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The city wants to put a pedestrian bridge across the Linc linking McQueston Park to Limeridge mall — that’s cool, great idea, but branding it a gateway feature “to let people know "they've entered Hamilton”? Where do they think the city begins? 😂 #hamont www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

But the "premise" of the project — and the funding — provide a "huge opportunity" to create a sense of place, character and gateway feature to the city, Salvucci said.

The "highly visible" feature could serve to let people know "they've entered Hamilton," she added.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pretty sure I saw well over a hundred monarchs outside the main building at the RBG today, it was absolutely wild. Literally you’d walk up to a bush and dozens would fly up before landing on another branch. #hamont #burlon

Three or four monarchs on a bush with purple flowers.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You’re in good company — I think MapQuest was at #5 when I downloaded it the other day.

MapQuest app is at #2 on apple App Store.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's going to be okay, Canada. We got this.

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton (1950-2011)

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Prime has a two-hour feature called Watch Rocky Sleep. It’s just soothing music from the Project Hail Mary soundtrack while Rocky sleeps.

A photo of my tv screen. A rock-spider-alien in a rocky tunnel with a spaceship-like round door at the back.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I see I'm not the only one thinking this man has been in charge for way too long

Screenshot of Google Search. I entered "how long has ford" and google suggested:

• how long has ford
• how long has ford been premier
• how long has ford been around
• how long has ford been premier of ontario
• how long has ford been in power
• how long has ford been in business
• how long has ford been sponsored geelong
• how long has ford been making cars

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Probably just don't swim in the lake this weekend...

Screenshot: headlines from the Toronto Star on Apple News, all 15h ago:

Stay out of the water at two Toronto public beaches
Stay out of the water at four Niagara public beaches
Stay out of the water at two Halton public beaches
Stay out of the water at nine York Region public beaches
Stay out of the water at four Durham public beaches

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

lol remember this billboard that the city put up during covid? No one ever remembers the paramedics. 🤪

Billboard, drawn by a child. It’s actually pretty sweet. It says: thank you first responders, and then there are drawings with the labels: doctor, nurse, fireman/woman, police.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“Old English” 😳 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

members of society. Margaret Rennix, Harvard's assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me shed spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in Old English. The culprit: Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. (The student used ChatGPT to "translate" the book into easier language.) Not long ago, a Harvard sociology

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Highlights from a very long but very interesting FB post about the vast size of the Canadian boreal forest. I knew it was big but I didn’t appreciate how big. You can read the whole entire thing at: www.facebook.com/share/p/14fM...

From Hudson Valley Weather Facebook page…

Canada's boreal forest: ~1.3 billion acres (about 520 million hectares or 2 million square miles). It stretches from the Yukon to Newfoundland in an almost continuous belt.

Largest U.S. forest (Tongass National Forest, Alaska): 16.7 million acres.

Largest forest in the contiguous U.S. (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest): about 6.3 million acres.

A AIl U.S. National Forests combined: about 193

From Hudson Valley Weather Facebook post…

Canada's boreal forest is roughly 78 times larger than the Tongass, the largest forest in the United States.

It's roughly 7 times larger than all 154 U.S.
National Forests combined.

It represents one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth, with vast areas that have no roads and are inaccessible except by aircraft or winter roads.

Less than 9% of Canada's population lives within this region, and less than 1% of the boreal forest itself is developed.

Most of the boreal is remote, roadless, and inaccessible, making large-scale forest management and wildfire suppression fundamentally different from managing forests near populated areas in the U.S.

In ecosystems like the boreal forest, wildfire is one of nature's primary management tools and has shaped these forests for thousands of years. While forest management absolutely has an important role near communities, roads, and other developed areas, applying that approach across more than a billion acres of largely roadless wilderness simply isn’t practical.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy inhaler day to everyone who celebrates.

From Accuweather: Hamilton, Ontario 25°c. Current air quality today 173 AQI Very Unhealthy

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My son would like you all to know that our cat caught a mouse.

Black cat stretched out on cardboard with her chin resting on a pink computer mouse.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If it makes you feel any better, it's just a photoshop job. Or I guess AI, nowadays. This is the original. But yes, the shame of the Trump era is going to last a long time, regardless.

The original photo, originally released by the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Gathered around Trump and a map of Ukraine, it featured U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Halloween in July. Total disregard for Christmas in July.

Throw pillow at ikea featuring a jack-o-lantern.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It frustrates me that different cities have different rules. Shouldn’t driving laws be standardized?

From toronto.ca website: BIKE BOX
Bike boxes are used at intersections to designate a space for cyclists to wait in front of cars at the red light. At red lights, the drivers must stop at the stop line, behind the bike box. A bike box means right hand turns on red lights are not permitted.

From hamilton.ca website: If turns are permitted "on red" at the intersection, you may advance into the bike box to make a turn if the bike box is not
occupied by a cyclist.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Is my cat actively trying to kill me?

Wooden stairs with a small back mat by the door. There is a black cat on the mat but she is hard to see.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Brown Cheshire Cat perched in a tree looking down at Alice. The cat is saying “we’re all mad here” and Alice responds “at me?”

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I don’t know this denomination, someone tell me how to feel about it.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The city can be so noisy sometimes. This is one minute in my backyard.

List from Merlin app. There’s a photo of the bird beside each name.

American robin
Mourning dove
Blue jay
Northern mockingbird
Northern cardinal
Chimney swift
House sparrow

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Well I'd hate for you to play alone...

Screenshot from game. Background is purple. In yellow, it says "SCORE 120669", then there's a button that says "PAUSE".

On the next line, it says: Time 374.2s - Pieces 89 - Lv 6

Then, on the third and most important line, its says "BEST 120669 - TAMARA". Which could be any Tamara, but then why would I be bragging?

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It's not really in the middle.

Road fatalities per billion vehicle-kilometres, 2021. Taken from the OECD Road Safety Annual Report 2023

Starts at Norway, just under 2, then it's: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Finland, Netherlands, Austria, Japan, France, Isreal, Slovenia, New Zealand, Korea, US, Poland, and then Czechia at just under 10.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

What’s this thing in the sky? Should we be concerned?

Where to start. OK Trump is in the middle. Wearing Jesus robes. He’s got a glowing orb in his hand and he’s healing a sick man in front of him. The sick man is in a hospital bed, and around him are a nurse, a military guy, some people praying. In the background is a flag, an eagle, Statue of Liberty, some army plane things, and then circled in yellow are figures in the sky that… I don’t know what they are. They’ve got horns or something. I don’t know. I think they’re supposed to be military people, but the AI didn’t get them quite right.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Guess I don’t get to read my book tonight.

Close up of black cat lying on an orange couch. You can see the hint of a book under her chin. I’m

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Search your camera roll for hell

Screenshot of post from branmacmuffin.bsky.social. Black and white movie. Ebeneezer Scrooge leaning out window. Text is “you, boy. What fresh hell is this.”

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

How does Merlin know it’s a mockingbird if it’s just imitating other birds?

Screenshot. Top says 7 Mar - Hamilton, ON. Then there’s a sound wave graph with grey lines. Then it lists five birds with photos of redbone/ Northern Mockingbird (with an orange circle half filled in, which apparently means “uncommon”), Merlin (with a red circle filled in, which means “rare” even though we hear Merlins all the time), Northern Cardinal, European Sterling, House Sparrow.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Services Ontario? I hate lazy scammers.

Screenshot of scam text.

Services Ontario:
Following a review of the 2025 drivers license renewal fees, an overpayment has been identified.

And then partially cut off, For details, See: link that obviously you should not go to.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The last time I put my windshield wipers up before a storm, the ice was so heavy that the wipers bent under the weight — they didn’t touch the glass and I couldn’t clear my windows at all. It took days before they thawed and flattened enough to be useable again. Consider this a PSA.

A snow-covered car with windshield wipers up in the air.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I don’t know, maybe if you sat closer to the tv…

Black cat with her front paws over a sound bar, a couple centimetres from our tv. We have the Minecraft aquarium playing. She wants to eat those blocky, blocky fishes.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

These are pretty good seats. Kind of high though. I haven’t made myself look straight down yet.

Looking down from the first row of the balcony to a still-empty theatre. There’s a large “& Juliet” on the stage.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

StoryGraph Wrap Up 2025! I think my favourite was North Woods by Daniel Mason. I also really enjoyed: The Fox Wife (Choo), Annihilation (Vandermeer), The Tainted Cup (Bennett), The Only Good Indians (Jones), Bunny (Awad), Mistborn (Sanderson), and Scythe (Shusterman).

StoryGraph Wrap-Up 2025 @procrastamara

First Book: The Will of the Many
Last Book: Krampus the Yule Lord
Longest: 11/22/63
Shortest: Murder by Memory

Bar Graph entitled Top Genres:
Mystery: 16
Science Fiction: 11
Thriller: 11
Horror: 10
Literary: 9

Top Authors
Lemony Snicket 😂
Jeff Vandermeer
Stephen Graham Jones

5-Star Reads:
The Tainted Bup (by Robert Jackson Bennett)
The Bad Beginning (by Lemony Snicket)
North Woods (by Daniel Mason)

Average Rating: 3.82 stars

Here goes...

The Will of the Many by Islington, James
The Fox Wife by Choo, Yangsze
Annihilation by VanderMeer, Jeff
Authority by VanderMeer, Jeff
Prairie Lotus by Park, Linda Sue
The Tainted Cup by Bennett, Robert Jackson
The Only Good Indians by Jones, Stephen Graham
Speak Up!: A Graphic Novel by Burgess, Rebecca
The Silent Patient by Michaelides, Alex
The Bad Beginning by Snicket, Lemony
Wool Omnibus by Howey, Hugh
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
The Starless Sea by Morgenstern, Erin
11/22/63 by King, Stephen
A Kind of Spark by McNicoll, Elle
The Reptile Room by Snicket, Lemony
North Woods by Mason, Daniel
Murder by Memory by Waite, Olivia
The Wide Window by Snicket, Lemony
Strange Houses by Uketsu
Children of Time by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
The Word is Murder by Horowitz, Anthony
The Haunting of Hill House by Jackson, Shirley
What My Bones Know by Foo, Stephanie
Bunny by Awad, Mona
All the Birds in the Sky by Anders, Charlie Jane
The Plot by Korelitz, Jean Hanff
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by Green, John
The Trees by Everett, Percival
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Sanderson, Brandon
The God of the Woods by Moore, Liz
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Green, Hank
The Witch Elm by French, Tana
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Jones, Stephen Graham
Scythe by Shusterman, Neal
The Silent Companions by Purcell, Laura
Starling House by Harrow, Alix E.
The Heiress by Hawkins, Rachel
The Bell Jar by Plath, Sylvia
Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E.
The Winter People by McMahon, Jennifer
The Bletchley Riddle by Sepetys, Ruta
Marble Hall Murders by Horowitz, Anthony
Shades of Grey by Fforde, Jasper
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

LEGO did a freakishly good job on the Game Boy, I keep mixing them up.

Two Game Boys, one is old and dingy and the other one is made of LEGO.

The back of two Game Boys, one is old and dingy, the other is made of LEGO. They both have the same Mario cartridge (except same as before — old and dingy vs LEGO).

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Knitters, please help me. My brain is just not computing these instructions. What three stitches are on the DPN? Where is the decrease happening? Ktbl - knit through back loop SSP - slip slip purl #knit #knitsky

2. Rnd 1: {Ktbl, ssp, ktbl onto DPN, wrap working yarn around 3 sts on DPN 3 times, slip 3 sts from DPN to right needle, K2} 16 (16, 18, 18, 20) times, K to BORM.
16 (16, 18, 18, 20) sts dec'd, 98 (98, 108, 108, 118) total sts.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I need to get my kid his own Apple Music account.

Your Top Artists of 2025

1. Don’t Mine at Night
Image from Minecraft game
Brad Knauber
378 minutes

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

broke: removing speeding cameras because they catch too many people woke: gearing speeding fines to personal income bespoke: speeding fines based on vehicle size and subsequent potential for catastrophic injury

Infograph showing danger of vehicle size to children

The higher the bonnet, the bigger the blind spot: More high-fronted SUVs would mean more children drivers don't see

Silhouette of RAM TRX. 9 year old child (1.36m) and 4.5 year old child (1.1m) cannot be seen.

Silhouette of Land Rover Defender: 4.5 year old child (1.1m) CAN be seen

Silhouette of VW Golf: 4.5 year old child (1.1m) CAN be seen

Analysis based on children of average European height standing to the centre of vehicle fronts. Drivers are of average European adult height.

Vehicle assessment and modelling by Summerskill / Loughborough University

And then some L ogos for SDCA (2025), CleanCities, and T&E

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

She’s sad because the TV is off and she wants to watch birds on YouTube.

Black cat sitting on wood platform in front of a tv, looking down sadly. The tv shows her reflection.

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The demonic part costs extra.

Screenshot from article:

What is Text With Jesus?

Text With Jesus offers users an interactive
experience with a religious deity. In other words, users can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.)

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Tamara @procrastamara.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Can’t find a screenshot of the actual post, just this explanation of what happened, sorry.

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